New 2D Sonic game "Sonic the Hedgehog 4" announced for 2010

[luis90]

Its only from the makers of the original games + Dimps.

:/

Compare the amount of times you've heard "Sega doesn't listen to the userbase" compared to "Sonic team doesn't listen to the userbase" or anything like that. More often than not, usual forum goers don't know sega doesn't make the games.

 

[Autosaver]

Actually, some people rant that its the exact opposite of what you said.
Sega is Sonic Team...

Its not like people go like
"Hal Laboratory made SSBB"
They go
"Nintendo made SSBB"

 

[Bigboi]

Sonic Team is a first party developer, so it's more forgivable than you lead on.

 

[clairebun]

http://www.tssznews.com/2010/05/28/...ick-acts-shifted-to-iphoneipod-touch-release/

Gimmicks to only be in Ipod.

Blue Warrior, Bigboi. Any changed minds? :O

I... don't care? It isn't that I think this will turn out to be a bad game (honestly, I can't tell); I'm just not interested.

If this was "BREAKING NEWS! Staff has decided you can now play as Tails and Knuckles!" then I'd have to seriously consider.

 

[Autosaver]

Thought you were one of the people that didn't like the stupid gimmicks. (Train, score levels, etc)

 

[clairebun]

Stage gimmicks are fine, they're what give the game variety between levels. I don't think I would mind the trippy mine cart ride, but from what I've witnessed, the level it was showcased in goes on for far too long without any particular variation to spice things up.

All I was paying attention to was the mine cart level though, I didn't see any of the other videos.

 

[Autosaver]

Did I say train? I meant mine cart.

There was a Casino level where to win, you had to get x amount of score in x minutes.

 

[Bigboi]

Which would be a bit more acceptable if the level itself wasn't terrible.

 

[Virt]

Looky what I found on the internet.
That's right. Sonic 4 Sonic textures!

 

[XAlted]

Sonic doesn't use a model in this game though; he uses sprites, or was I mistaken....

 

[Virt]

Maybe this is the texture that they used to make the Sonic model to make the sprites. I have textures of one of the stages, too. Should I post those, too?

 

[Autosaver]

I'm sure you're correct(Xalted), as I remember its supposed to use a similar method like DKC. (or some DK game)

 

[Virt]

DKC. (or some DK game)

You mean that one for the Gameboy Color with Dixie Kong? Yeah, I think that's what they did in that game.

 

[K.S.]

From what the leaked footage showed me, it looked pretty clear Sonic was using a model. Something about how fluid the animation was... it just doesn't seem like it's using sprites.

 

[Autosaver]

I just searched on google and...

It does use 3D Pre-rendered sprites.
http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=116479

 

[Blacklightning]

From what the leaked footage showed me, it looked pretty clear Sonic was using a model. Something about how fluid the animation was... it just doesn't seem like it's using sprites.

That just means Sonic has an absolute shit-ton of frames. It's certaintly not unheard of in a sprite-based games. Besides that, it's actually claimed by official sources that all the sprites are prerendered anyway.

Honestly though, I have to question this kind of practice. Is there any actual benefit to it? Reduced filesize? Increased detail? I'm not seeing either of those. It sounds to me like they could've saved a lot of time and effort just shoving models into the game so that they'd still have the benefit of camera angles and tweening at their disposal. But what do I know.

 

[Autosaver]

It might be reduced file size. Doesn't the Wiiware service have a size limit?

 

[MechaS3K]

This just popped up in my iGoogle page. Funny, considering how some people think that Sonic doesn't have a chance.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Is Sonic's Last Chance - Wired

By giving this game — the umpteenth Sonic adventure — the name Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Sega is putting its stake in the ground. The meaning is clear: This is the return to form, as if all that messy stuff never happened. It had better feel that way, or else Sonic’s going to spin-dash into oblivion.

 

[Autosaver]

This is the return to form, as if all that messy stuff never happened

They already flooded the game with crappy music.(A couple tunes are nice, but overall... not pretty nor memorable) Score attack stages? Those look boring as crap. They also shoved a Mine Cart level and it looks so dumb.

 

[XAlted]

ONM said they removed the Mine Cart stage didn't they; or they at least hinted at it.

http://www.sonicstadium.org/news/onms-sonic-4-wiiware-preview