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Sonic Forces Review Thread
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Disagree, I just think the degree of difficulty is beyond what Sonic Team -- especially in its present form -- will ever be able to handle.
If Sega insists on making a 3D Sonic game, they should bring in external talent to make it work.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's bad, I meant that a few months ago I would have bet for a very different situation.
Literally, there are no surprises. Nearly all of the new level gimmicks are QTE based
Except Generations was a good game and all they had to do was make that again
And then they didn't
Nah, it's just that Sonic Team is a incompetent developer who can't do anything right.
Sonic Team can't even get Sonic to work in fucking 2D. Just because they're a bunch of fuckups, doesn't mean that "SONIC CAN NEVER EVR WORK IN 3D EVER".
Also, two of the three level designers have never ever worked on a Sonic game before....except for vocal tracks.
Or just buy Yakuza 0 and Kiwami.
I'm not feeling confident in this Sonic game. That Japanese PS4 demo turned me off of the game.
People like to pretend Adventure 1 was such a great/compelling game when it wasn't. It was press forward to play and the platforming was all lost. A lot of times you were watching Sonic just blaze through everything.
Nah, it's just that Sonic Team is a incompetent developer who can't do anything right.
Sonic Team can't even get Sonic to work in fucking 2D. Just because they're a bunch of fuckups, doesn't mean that "SONIC CAN NEVER EVR WORK IN 3D EVER".
That is outstandingly bad.
But they never have.
I guess its back to generations and its mods for me when I need 3d sonic.
This is the truth.Nah, it's just that Sonic Team is a incompetent developer who can't do anything right.
Sonic Team can't even get Sonic to work in fucking 2D. Just because they're a bunch of fuckups, doesn't mean that "SONIC CAN NEVER EVR WORK IN 3D EVER".
Heres some behind scene stuff:
They should have went full focus on the Avatar system. There's a market there.
Nah, it's just that Sonic Team is a incompetent developer who can't do anything right.
Sonic Team can't even get Sonic to work in fucking 2D. Just because they're a bunch of fuckups, doesn't mean that "SONIC CAN NEVER EVR WORK IN 3D EVER".
It doesn't actually do that in the final game.
For those outside of the impressions/spoiler thread, the context behind this game ending up the way it was most likely came from an internal misfire (scrapped prototype post Generations and Lost World) and needing to scrap together a game out of asset reuse and anything salvagable, as well as injecting Classic Sonic back in for almost no reason. Essentially, ST had 2 years to make the game, since at the point of the reveal trailer almost none of it existed.
Even the CG reveal trailer looks to be a retooled City Escape from Generations. (Now known as Park Avenue)
Even the CG reveal trailer looks to be a retooled City Escape from Generations. (Now known as Park Avenue)
Seems like youre the one revising things here. Adventure had bunches of hidden paths and secrets to explore. Holding forward doing nothing would get you killed easily.
At this point I think that Sega should only let Sonic fans handle the franchise.
Hell, I bet some of them would even do it for free!
Hell, I bet some of them would even do it for free!
I think that prototype for the open world Sonic game was really promising.
The problem is they keep trying to keep small scale stages - like a 2D Sonic game or a Mario game. In 3D, Sonic needs to have LOADS of directions, LOADS of freedom and movement options to choose from. He can't just have 2-3 interconnecting linear paths and a couple of moves like in these games.
Opening it up to a huge map that interconnects with itself and has puzzles at different "levels" would really help, i think.
How can you make Colors and Generations and then come out with this? I know what it is. Sega. Sonic Team has the skill and talent, Sega just fucks them.
If history is to go by, they will probably work on the next game with the Forces staff being promoted.
It's optional, but that doesn't mean it doesn't influence how people approach the game or how things are designed. All of this can heavily impact someone's experience with a game, for better or worse.
No?
That's not what that game is at all. Glitchy collision detection, floaty controls (that were ok at the time but don't hold up now), typically questionable DC/PS2-era 3D camera work, probably too much ambition with all the different gameplay styles, and graphics that have aged about as well as you'd expect. Those are the lasting problems with SA1. Most of those were not really problems when it came out, but it's been 18 years now.
There are areas in that game (parts of Sky Deck for example) that are as open as official 3D Sonic has ever been, and a fair bit of platforming as well. You're probably thinking of a different game
God dammit Sonic Team. All you had to do was make Sonic Colours 2. Hell, even Sonic Generations 2 would have been okay. That was all you had to do and you fucked it up.
I also love that every thread about 3D sonic games turns into people trying to argue that Sonic Adventure was a good game.
I also love that every thread about 3D sonic games turns into people trying to argue that Sonic Adventure was a good game.
I'm skeptical that it was developed so recently because it's clear it was downported to the Switch which wouldn't have been the case if it began development after they knew what Switch was.
Maybe I haven't seen enough of this game, but it doesn't even seem "funny and entertaining" bad. It just looks dull and lifeless. I hope it's at least cheesy as hell so we can have some fun with it.
Knack 2 is pretty cool, i got it free with the psn store glitch tho so ehm..... Yeah that might be why i thought it was enjoyable enough.
Anyway i can see Forces score lower than Knack 2, Knack 2 is at 69.
I will still play Forces tho still deciding wether to get it on launch or a bit later on sale, probs the latter.
I have actually played SA1 in the past few months and this is emphatically false. SA1 has some major problems, but not only is it not "press forward to play", but it's probably the closest the 3D Sonic series ever came to being a "standard" platformer.
There are times when you just sit back and watch a setpiece, but hell, that was true in the classic Sonic games too. It's true in Mania, even.
That's bad, but I'm pretty sure that's something that was fixed.Nah, it's just that Sonic Team is a incompetent developer who can't do anything right.
Sonic Team can't even get Sonic to work in fucking 2D. Just because they're a bunch of fuckups, doesn't mean that "SONIC CAN NEVER EVR WORK IN 3D EVER".