Sonic Generations (360, PS3, 3DS) - Holiday 2011

[Police Girl]

Fun glitch in the demo I noticed, During the corkscrew at the end of the level, if you charge your spindash you will continue to roll fowards in the spindash revving pose. You start to slow down but you can finish the level in that spindash revving pose, afterwards you just run off.

[Flame]

So, apparently the demo was hacked a little more and they found the elemental shields from Sonic 3, fully functional.

http://www.sonicretro.org/2011/06/elemental-shields-how-do-they-work/

That's pretty awesome actually.

Yknow, im wondering honestly, if Sega isnt just letting us find this stuff? Including it on purpose? No need to include it in a demo otherwise...

[Align]

It can be quite hard to selectively exclude code and content without breaking everything.

[OBJECTION MAN]

Depends on how they coded it. The way my current 2D engine is coming out, just about every file completely removable. Just don't reference anything you removed and you're fine. That said, as a hobby dev I have more time to do these things. When you're in a rush you tend to cut lots of corners.

[Flame]

[Phi]

Chemical Plant (officially) confirmed and first look at Metal Sonic

[Protoman Blues]

Well that makes PB happy!

[Gaia]

Classic metal looks cuter than ever. 

Glad he's getting the proper treatment than being a grunt/steroid overdosed villan than he was in Heroes (he had a grunt role in rivals, yep).

[Rin]

Okay... one question.
Is it true this [parasitic bomb] is coming to PC? I heard something... but, I dunno.

If it is... then I sure as heck am going to get it... if it's good like Sonic Colors is.

Gaia: I liked Neo-Metal Sonic. : P

But yeah, this pleases me.

[Flame]

ALL LIVING THINGS KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER!

I loved Metal as the Heroes villain. It was pretty epic IMO.

Also, damn [tornado fang]ing straight hes in this. A throwback time travel sonic game with classic sonic- and No metal? that would have been [tornado fang]'d up

[Gotham Ranger]

Awesome! Metal Sonic can be lame and crash into a wall in THREE DEE

[STM]

http://www.sonicretro.org/2011/07/famitsu-grants-first-look-at-chemical-plant-metal-sonic-in-generations/

[Police Girl]

[tornado fang], that looks amazing.

Intresting to know its kinda like a mix of it and Eggmanland, hopefully we get to see more levels blending with other levels in the series.

[Phi]

I eagerly await the trailer for that. Going by those scans alone, the level design looks much more extreme than City Escape. I love it.

[irgpie]

Oh, so Metal Sonic's bit in the game is a race after all. I didn't think they'd completely ignore CD. Though I'm sure some fans will still [sonic slicer] for an actual Stardust Speedway regardless.

[Flame]

Well, to be fair, it WOULD be cooler if it was done in Stardust speedway. But im not complaining given they are still giving us a Metal Sonic race regardless.

Wonder how Modern Sonic's will be? I mean, will they even fight the same bosses?

Posted on: July 16, 2011, 02:34:52 PMActually, are we certain the race DOESNT take place in stardust speedway..? I mean for one, look at that lamppost. Thats a S.S. lamppost. Unless they somehow meld certain parts in with the plant.

[STM]

It is Stardust Speedway Zone. It's a boss-only stage.

For now.

[Protoman Blues]

Sweeeeet

[Flame]

well that makes things much better. im guessing they did that due to fan demand for stardust speedway Vs metal Sonic. I wonder if any others will be like that

http://www.3dsbuzz.com/first-screens-of-exclusive-nintendo-3ds-sonic-generations-special-stage-revealed/

but its the 3ds version so nobody cares.

[Police Girl]

Influenced heavily by Sonic The Hedgehog 2 from the Sega Genesis

No, thats heroes. Get it right.

Anywho, that looks bleh, I hated Heroes' special stages. Dimps doesn't really seem to care about actual decent special stage mechanics (Unless the full tube is a decoration and its still just half pipe AND when you go to the top you actually fall down if you stay up there too long, THEN MAYBE it could be good.) and instead they only give a crap about WOOO THREE DEE WOWWW! [/rant]

Not like it really matters since I don't have to play that Dimpsonic game.

[STM]

I don't know if they did it due to fan demand since it was a pretty iconic race in an of itself. Easily the most memorable part of Sonic CD for most people. The only question is which soundtrack they'll use for the race. Very heated debate right there. But even then, whoever doesn't win shouldn't fret thanks to custom soundtrack support.

The 3DS version is getting buried pretty hard, mainly because it looks like last year's Sonic Colors DS (but not as blocky), looks quite dull (Advance Sonic vs. Rush Sonic), and lastly... because it's on 3DS, which people aren't too keen on right now. To the people who were calling it this generation's Virtual Boy, you may not be too far off from the truth there.

[Ephidiel]

well considering that the 3DS version will be the same as every handheld DS Sonic before with slight CRAPhic tweaks its not wonder nobody cares

[Rayl]

To be fair? I had a double take on that screenshot because at first glance i thought it WAS Stardust Speedway. 

[Hypershell]

(Advance Sonic vs. Rush Sonic)

That's the part that bugs me.  It's one thing to take sidescrolling versus sorta-kinda-3D (the Colors mentality tends to shift to sidescrolling ANYWAY, and I see Generations makes heavy use of that), it's quite another to just take sidescrolling with or without a boost gauge.

*sighs*  I miss Tails...

To the people who were calling it this generation's Virtual Boy, you may not be too far off from the truth there.

No, I'd say it's this generation's DS.
Seriously, the original DS wasn't really that popular; the Lite was when it took off.

[Protoman Blues]

I don't know if they did it due to fan demand since it was a pretty iconic race in an of itself. Easily the most memorable part of Sonic CD for most people. The only question is which soundtrack they'll use for the race. Very heated debate right there. But even then, whoever doesn't win shouldn't fret thanks to custom soundtrack support.

I like both the US & Japan version, so I'm good either way!