New 2D Sonic game

[Warbie]

Project Needlemouse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGkC...howthread.php?t=98615&feature=player_embedded

Let the cycle begin once again \o/

But it's going to be 2D, so it must be good. Right?

 

[VictimOfScience]

But it's going to be 2D, so it must be good. Right?

Ugh...let's hope so. I am THROUGH getting too excited for anything Sonic-related.

 

[Darkside55]

I'd just like to point out that that kid in the comic wouldn't be curled up in the fetal position had he not played Sonic Unleashed on the Wii. Unleashed on the Wii is horrid. Unleashed on PS3/360 is amazing.

 

[Murray]

My money is on that it's gonna suck just like all the other sonic games released after Sonic Adventure 2.

EDIT:

Another version:

 

[kupocake]

Well, no 2D sonic game has ever been that bad. If you don't count Spinball. Or Chaotix. Oh and CD isn't great. You heard me.

However, from initial renders of the token tropic-style level, the idea is '2D gameplay', NOT 'true 2D game'. When I heard news about the project this morning (The 'Game' shop radio station announces stuff like this with a typical level of incomprehensible optimism), I'd thought they would have had the sense to make a digital-painting, cel-art styled Sonic. Instead, it's all gone Donkey Kong... Country. To me, this is the first indication we're getting something less in tune with the spirit of the Mega Drive games, a Sonic game made for the 3D-animated cartoon world that decent Sonic games pre-date.

Irritating sidekick characters and terrible voice acting (or just, voice acting at all) are inevitable, because SEGA are Dreamworks to Nintendo's Pixar, and we all know it. You just know that nothing more than '2D Sonic' ever got through to the company, and calling your project 'Needlemouse' to nudge-wink their fans into believing you actually care about the series' heritage won't fool anyone.

 

[jet_porkins]

I miss the SEGA intro.

 

[Captain M4d]

They don't need to add anything new. I just want freakin' Sonic.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Oh and CD isn't great. You heard me.

I'll string him up. Darkside you know what to do.

Game better rockzorz. Also platforms?

 

[kupocake]

No seriously.

Anyone who doesn't think that is an eyesore has had their eyes burnt away*. (Also: Amy Rose totally reinforced the uncomfortable gender dysphoria that you already felt as a result of playing as Tails round your friend's house. Or at least that's how I remember this scene).

Anyone who thinks this was easy to control, and totally based on familiar physical laws is officially my new Jesus.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPC8W672mXc
And anyone who remembers 'that totally cool Sonic CD Music' just shot their family for the lie they found themselves living.

Rest of game: "Eh". There was never any reason to use the 'Future' posts (goodbye one third of game) and the bosses were awful even by Sonic's low standards. Seeking stuff in the Past added some depth to the game, but the machines were never ingeniously hidden and it was no more fun than the Emerald hunting from the 8-bit games.

Edit: Can we start using the phrase 'Creamed the Rabbit' to express positive views about newly announced Sonic titles?

* Edit 2: Can you imagine if every level had looked as good as the first? It even looked good across timezones.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I know you didn't just hate on the music.

 

[Murray]

Oh and CD isn't great. You heard me.

Finally someone I agree with.

 

[bam23]

Hopefully this time they won't put enemies in cheap places that take advantage of the fact that you're going too fast to react in time.

 

[lefty]

Why the **** is sonic a hedgehog. Hedgehogs aren't even fast.

 

[Darkside55]

My money is on that it's gonna suck just like all the other sonic games released after Sonic Adventure 2.

Unleashed was a great game, idjit. Play through Eggman Land in Unleashed and come back and say, "Oh, it sucks." You'd be full of crap and you'd know it. Unleashed is goddamned AMAZING.

Also, Secret Rings was OK.

Oh and CD isn't great. You heard me.

I'll string him up. Darkside you know what to do.

Yeah man, let's get this gu--

And anyone who remembers 'that totally cool Sonic CD Music' just shot their family for the lie they found themselves living.

THERE IS NO LEVEL IN HELL RESERVED FOR AS FOUL A SLANDERER AS YOU

YOU SHOULD BE BRANDED AND BANISHED FROM ALL CIVILIZATION FOR THE TERRIBLE OPINIONS YOU HAVE

AND YOU WILL WALK THIS EARTH WITH NO REST, AND FIND NO SOLACE AMONG MAN OR BEASTS, AND THE GROUND WILL NOT YIELD TO YOU A HARVEST, NOR SHALL THE TREES BEAR FRUIT, AND FOR YOU THE RICH SPRING WILL BE LIKE BURNING PITCH; AND THOU SHALT FEEL THE SCORN AND HATE OF ALL LIVING THINGS, AND FROM THE VERY EARTH ITSELF

YOU WILL LIVE OUT ETERNITY WISHING THAT YOU COULD DIE, BUT DEATH WILL NEVER COME FOR YOU, NOR WILL ANY AFTERLIFE OR EMPTY VOID HAVE YOU; YOU WILL BE BLIGHTED WITH ALL DISEASES AND AFFLICTIONS AND YOUR PAIN SHALL BE WITHOUT CESSATION

THERE IS NO TONGUE FOULER THAN THE ONE THAT SPEAKS ILL OF SONIC BOOM

 

[kupocake]

He was originally going to be a rabbit. A fast rabbit with stretchy ears that could grab things. (One of the reasons behind the stretchy werehog limbs mechanic in Unleashed)

Supposedly, but he was also a needle-mouse remember. Or is that just a retarded hedgehog?

THERE IS NO TONGUE FOULER THAN THE ONE THAT SPEAKS ILL OF SONIC BOOM

The ladies from two-girls one cup have nothing on me.

 

[Kyorisu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPC8W672mXc

Replace the music and it's quite good.

/edit angelfire sucks. New link, requires click-age but works at least.

http://www.angelfire.com/film/blackdawnstudios7

*Note there is an improved version of this video but I cannot find a copy online.

 

[Murray]

Unleashed was a great game, faget. Play through Eggman Land in Unleashed and come back and say, "Oh, it sucks." You'd be full of crap and you'd know it. Unleashed is goddamned AMAZING.

I'm gonna say I disagree there. I've watched quite a bit of this game and while it's better than most of the latest Sonic games I still consider it shit.

WAREHOGAN

QUICKTIMAN

MINIGAMAN

...ugh...