SONIC HYPE PRE-THREAD

REMINDER, IN LESS THAN 10 HOURS, SONIC WILL SAVE THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY AND WIN GOTY 2017

SEGA WILL BE AT SXSW TODAY AT 5PM CT WITH NEW THINGS FOR MANIA AND PROJECT 2017

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Nice to see I'm not the only one on here hyped as fuck. I really hope Mania gets it's release date dropped, it's weird to be an impatient fucker over a Sonic game for once.

I'm scared but excited

I just have this sinking feeling that mania is going to get delayed again.

>mania delayed
>Sonic generations 2.0

eh

>geting hyped for a sonic game

>2017
No not after Lost World and Boom

Modern Sonic is dead to me, cautiously optimistic about Mania.

>implying boom even counts

>Being excited for sonic generations 2

Think they'll show anything about the movie?

>Sonic
>GOTY ever
Still looking forward to Mania.

I am extremely afraid for project 2017.

They'll show artwork. That's it. Calling it now.

timeanddate.com/countdown/launch?iso=20170316T17&p0=24&msg=Gotta Go Fast: The Official Panel of Sonic the Hedgehog&font=cursive&csz=1

I just want them to confirm whether or not Project Sonic 2017 will have noticeable differences between the PS4 and Xbone versions and the Switch

If not then I'm buying both it and Mania for Switch

Will they reveal the release date for Sonic Mania?

Hopefully, it's almost Spring after all & they still keep saying that season is the release window.

this has me concerned. With the performance problems the switch has with zelda (a first party game) I can't imagine the switch version will be the same as the ps4/xbox version.
I'm assuming they'll do what they did for generations and have a console version and a handheld version as it's own separate thing

Same. I'm betting a fall release (Gotta dump Mania onto the Xbox Scorpio as well), but I'll be damn surprised if it actually drops before the end of May.

DREAMCAST 2 CONFIRMED

Silver spinoff W H E N?

>tfw it's not being streamed and I literally got my work schedule changed so I can watch it.
twitter.com/RubyEclipse/status/842175301685776384

The replies indicate he's trying to find a way to stream it in some way. Let's hope he can find a good way.

>Delayed again
What do you mean by again? It was never delayed a first time.

Damn i forgot, thanks for reminding user!

>(Gotta dump Mania onto the Xbox Scorpio)

I don't know how releasing it on it's original date somehow prevents this from happening.

You'd see 5 more Shadow the Hedgehog sequels before Sonic Team would even consider touching Silver with a 10 foot stick

I assumed there was a stream too. Not stream worthy?

This is a shame since silver himself wasn't really a problem. He was just an average character stuck in a half-finished game.

BIG

BLUE

BALLS

Fuck off whitehead

i don't get it

>tfw I'll miss it

Why wouldn't I be excited about a followup to the by far and away best Sonic game? Yes, the lack of additional words like "3D" or "modern" was intentional.

This, sonic was never good.

*gets so mad I start shaking* You two... f*ck off now, your NOT welcome in Sonic threads.

A reminder that Spring hasn't even started yet and when it does it lasts until late June.

But it literally isn't even the best (modern) Sonic. Lackluster boost stages compared to Unleashed's boost stages, terribly unfun loose approximation of classic Sonic, and some of the worst bosses this side of 06.

Sure, it's a more /consistent/ package than a lot of Sonic games but that doesn't make it a beacon of brilliance

>Lackluster boost stages compared to Unleashed's boost stages
Generations added platforming to the 3D sections, (You) double nigger.

Is Mania coming out for the Switch?

>Platforming in the janky boost controls
>Fun
Come on. At least Unleashed knew that the boost controls were too tanky and shitty to handle proper platforming so they compensated in other areas of the day stages' design

Even if you are going to be a "muh genesis sonic was never good" fag, you cannot say Generations is the best because half of it is an objectively worse version of classic gameplay.

Yes it is, it's also coming out on PC, PS4 & Xbox One.
youtube.com/watch?v=LQ1SbHLXlH8

Guys, you can foret abouz it right now, the Switch is a 7th generatiom console, there is no way it can run a PS4 game.

It's a 3D platformer, you dip. Unleashed 3D sections were nothing but orgasmic Temple Run.

Radical. I definitely want to have the option to play it portable

At first this enraged me, but then I remembered that this is SEGA, and then I thought I was stupid to expect anything else.

Well if we're looking at it objectively as a 3D platformer, then all of the boost games fail to the Adventures (flawed and glitchy as they are) on the merit of the dire controls and turn circle at slower speeds. The boost games might ride off the success of a platformer series (Sonic, obviously) but they're good for entirely different reasons to the traditional platformer. The platforming is literally the weakest element of the boost formula, so until they fix the controls and the turn circle, more of it is NOT a good thing.

Capcom didn't even port their NES collection to the Switch. How sad is that.

Zelda wasn't optimized very well for switch. Obviously that doesn't give the game a pass or anything, but you should look at stuff like Fast RMX's constant 60 FPS to benchmark the system by. As long as Sega puts any effort into it at all, it should run pretty smooth.

I don't know what you're talking about, fast paced platforming worked out fine. It's not like the game halts you to werehog pace.

Licensing is a bitch.

>fast paced platforming
I'm not even entirely sure what sections you mean, could you specify? Most of the real platforming of Generations, to my recollection, fell into the Colors trap of turning to 2D and slowing you to a snails pace. It wasn't nearly as bad or overbearing as how Colors did it, but that's basically where the bulk of the platforming is as far as I remember.

>tfw DIMPS will come back to make another shitty cash grab on the Switch

Dragon Ball Super - Future Trunks arc has got you covered

No I mean the Disney collection is coming out for PS4, Xbone and PC, but not Switch. They obviously don't have any licensing issues.

You guys are really giving Sega a lot of credit here to assume they're going to be pouring any kind of budget into getting the best out of PS4/XBone. Sonic hasn't had a budget since Unleashed. Chances are it'll literally be the same engine as Unleashed but with the simplified lighting of Generations (and the lighting is nearly all pre-baked anyway so it's not particularly performance heavy). I'm confident the Switch will run it considering my toaster doesn't have a hard time with it.

>Chances are it'll literally be the same engine as Unleashed but with the simplified lighting of Generations
So, perfection then? Because that new engine is perfect already. No further need for experimentation

There was a rumor Sonic Team switched to Unreal 4 and dropped Hedgehog for the 2017 project. Hedgehog was a nice engine but you could tell by Lost World it was getting dated. I would not be surprised at all if one of the announcements was that it was an Unreal 4 game.

Sure, I've got no beef with the Unleashed engine. My point is, despite the Switch being underpowered as fuck, it SHOULD be able to run a 9 year old engine. I would imagine the reason we didn't get any Hedgehog Engine games on the Wii U due to its non-conventional architecture which devs didn't want to bother learning, NOT because it was too underpowered for it.

Basically, in theory we've got nothing to worry about.

>tfw have to work though the event

kinda happy honestly, literally all I want to know about mania going in is what I've seen so far. Hell I felt like an idiot for spoiling GHZ act 2 to myself.

Sonic Rush fucking sucks, I have no idea why anybody likes it. The cutscenes are annoying, the level design is shit, and the art style is absolutely putrid. The only decent thing about it is the Jet Set Radio esque music.

>delayed again

It came out at the same time as Shadow The Hedgehog and a mere year before Sonic 2006. Realistically, it should be nothing more than a 7/10 with some neat music, but during the era it was a beacon of hope that Sega could just make normal, non-offensive Sonic games.

It's kind of like Sonic Colors. Sonic Colors is average standard unexciting Sonic in distilled form, but at the time of its release it was heralded as the second coming just because people wanted things like the Werehog to fuck right off.

Opinions of a Sonic game are very relative to the games that come out around it. Sonic Advance 3 for example isn't necessarily a terrible game, but hot off the heels of Advance 1 and 2 which were awesome, it seems like a piece of shit comparatively.

>not getting hyped for Mania
Do you even like vidya?

Unleashed was too heavy on the car controls, it based itself too much on drifting and sidestepping. Generations toned that down and based itself more on manual jumps. Granted the jump is kinda ass, but still.

That arc went to shit the moment FT first went back to the future. Suddenly Black and Zamasu lose most of their personality, shit starts getting more retarded then usual, it's a mess.

Sonic advance 3 has the worst level design I've ever seen in a sonic game, it has nothing to do with advance 1 or 2

>SONIC HYPE

The cycle begins anew.

The cycle doesn't affect me because I enjoy all Sonic games.

Sonic Cycle literally hasn't even been relevant since Sonic Unleashed

I don't see how this cycle relates to Mania, or Lost World, or Generations, or Colors.

This image hasn't been relevant since 2008.

>Lost World
As in you were never excited for it? Because that's bullshit.

Nothing about this image is relevant to mania.
>showed knuckles and tails since the very first announcement
>developed by a team that have completely proven they know what they are doing
We know exactly what we are getting with Mania.

See you at the end of the cycle to start anew, we will see our friends that didnt make it before our memories are wiped clean.

The cycle hasn't been a thing since pic related

Not that user but yes I thought Lost World looked shit since early days. I was confused as fuck as to why they would add a run button, why they would rip off Mario so blatantly and don't even get me started on the Deadly Six.

No Sonic game has really been a disappointment since Sonic 4, because every Sonic game that looked good in pre-release actually turned out good (Generations, Colors), and every game that looked bad in pre-release actually turned out bad (Lost World, Boom).

Cap me.

>paying for roms
Call me when Capcbro stops being lazy cunts and give their rereleases the Taxman and Stealth treatment.

Got the original image?

chris chan better be in the new game

I don't get why this is a meme. It's literally never been applicable for any Sonic game besides Unleashed.

>Capcbro
It fillers that too?

What, Capcunt?

I liked Lost World. 7/10 but that's not an insult. If nothing else I'm glad they at least tried something new. If autists didn't sperg about it I think 2017 would be a cool refinement of it instead of the inevitable generations rehash it's gonna be.

I think it was cuck.

cap c u c k

I thought only the consolewar insults were filtered.

I coined "Nintendope" for that reason. They can't touch me.

THUNDER

Oh look, it's Unleashedfag. Everyone laugh.

I just go with console cultist. Doesn't matter if you fight for sony, nintendo or PC you're still a faggot.

BOOST SONIC IS SHIT FOR LEVEL DESIGN

inb4 sonic mania is early 2018 release

Watch.

Remember Sonic Lost World?

Dope can be both a positive and negative word though. Like I say things I find cool are dope all the time so that comes off as a more positive thing to me.

When directed at a person, it is always negative.

It'd suck, but I'd be fine with it. I'd rather the game be complete and good.

>Lost Word
>>Gameplay looks to be the same old

I fucking wish

It's pretty much a death sentence if it does happen.