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New 2D, HD Sonic Game Coming In 2010
Anonymouse writes "Sonic the Hedgehog is going back to his roots, but with a fresh coat of HD paint. 'An all-new 2D side-scrolling High Definition Sonic game is coming with a 2010 release date, according to a new teaser trailer from Sega.' Sega's Ken Ballough had this to say: 'Old-school Sonic fans have long asked to see Sonic return to a more 2D style of gameplay. Many liked the daytime stages in Unleashed but wanted to see a game that plays purely similar to the early games of the Genesis. Project Needlemouse is that critical first step that brings Sonic back to his 2D roots.'"
$60 for a 2d sidescroller that lasts all 12 or less hours, because its "Sonic"
About time Sonic came to Linux!
A chance at a _good_ sonic game since the genesis.
Before you get your hopes up, I would like to direct your attention to what is called the Sonic Cycle.
It would be nice to buy a new sonic game that doesn,t suck. Some of the best times I had growing up was playing Sonic and Knuckles with my dad. It would be cool to be able to do that with my children.
I always thought Sonic's transition to 3d was much less graceful than say, Mario's. Maybe it was the high speed and the weird feel of the Dreamcast controller that made me feel like I was influencing Sonic's motions, not controlling them.
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-Every character except Sonic, Tales, and Knuckles
-Clumsy, overbearing storyline
-Rail grinding
-Furries
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This is Sega making a Sonic game in the 21st century. You just KNOW they're going to find some way to fuck it up. It's company policy.
subtitle it, etc. who cares......
I don't mind the product tie-ins.....
If they let fans down with this one, it'll be the end of the brand, for sure. Sega cannot afford that. After all the recent letdowns, this looks promising seeing as (they say) they're looking to emulate the "old skool" Sonic feel. Play control is a must, and creativity as well. True to the Sonic Cycle, my hopes are up, but I'm not going to pass solid judgment until I know a lot more.
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http://kotaku.com/5325967/sega-fixing-sonic-is-going-to-take-time idiot children and ignorant parents have long doomed sonic to faggotry.
from http://www.needlemouse.com/
You've found our Needlemouse project! Congratulations!
You may think you're looking at a sample of the upcoming Sega game, which according to recent speculation is called Project Needlemouse. What you've stumbled on is actually a fan-created game that weâ(TM)ve been calling Needlemouse: The Emerald Hills since we began working on it a few months ago.
oh well.
Trine is a "2d" side-scroller, but makes beautiful use of pixel & vertex shaders, along with fun gameplay.
I haven't remembered a SEGA game being fun in ages (aka Dreamcast days)
I don't think this will work out exactly the best because you just know some higher up douche is going to pressure them into adding something complex, flashy, and "modern." It's like developers aren't allowed to make simple, awesome games anymore unless they're making them in flash online or something. They'll probably end up giving him a rail gun or letting him pull out a laptop and blog in the middle of a level or something idiotic like that. I want my damn simple sonic, damn it!
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Well if there is a sonic cycle or not, I still got my hopes up. Why? Because I am a positive person. Like it or not but they made good Sonic games. They were on Genesis but there were there. So they should be able to make a good Sonic game again. After 10 years of sucky Sonic games (with an exceptions of Sonic Adventure) they had enough time to think about it.
When it's released, I'll look for reviews and screens, and if it's released for the PC, I'll probably buy it.
There has been a load of 2d sonics, but they were only released on the handheld consoles, needless to say they were quite good.
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One of the interesting factors I've found with Sonic is any time Sega uses the word "Adventure" in any sonic game, the quality goes towards the crapper.
For example, Sonic Rush was pretty good. although it added another friend, but Sonic Rush Adventure was a useless grindfest that made you play stages over and over and over. nowhere near the first Rush.
Also in original games, the word Adventure is almost never found. It's nowhere on Sonic 1 or 2 either on the box art of the manuals. It's on Sonic CD's box art but thats probably why the boss battles were so easy, and it's on Sonic 3's book and Sonic and Knuckes's book and box art, but they both sucked on their own unless you locked on (more like Glued on when it came to my copy) Sonic 3 and S&K.
Considering that the first trailer for this 2D game already says adventure in it, I'm not keeping my hopes up.
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Am I the only one who doesn't get the appeal of the Sonic games? Especially the 2D ones? It all starts out well enough, but you get moving so fast there is no way to react to what's coming up next. Sure, I could grind through a level and lose rings until I remember where everything is. Now it's like a memorization chore. Sonic was supposed to be Sega's answer to Mario, so they thought they'd have to show off how the Genesis could scroll things at a million miles per hour -what fun! Wow, it dazzles me! FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.
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What kind of crappy trailer was that? Text on a website would've sufficed. I mean, if you got nothin' to show...
Also, apparently I have the complete opposite reaction than a lot of you. The 2D Sonic games are really boring and dated, yet the original Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast was by far one of the best games of its time. Seeing as it's the only 3D Sonic game I've played though, I can't really vouche for anything further.
We'll see if it is actually faithful to the original Sonic or if it ends up being more like the crap, Sonic Rush on the DS. Excluding the frustrating boss fights, the game was completely 2D. The sense of speed was present, but the stages were poorly designed with all sorts of traps, obstacles and falls to constantly trip up a player. The game was constant trial and error trying to figure how to get past sections. But even worse, pacing was awful. The game encouraged, even required high speeds but then would throw obstacles in your way that would disrupt movement and usually kill you. The rest of the game wasn't much better; having to replay stages and the embarrassingly bad story in particular. The game got better ratings that it deserved, I think mainly because people were turned on by more traditional gameplay and every other Sonic game excluding the originals was so atrocious.
It could be argued that Sonic, the original, didn't quite have the personality and charm of the Super Mario Bros series. It could also be argued that it didn't quite have the depth of those games. But for what it did it was great. The sense of speed could be exhilarating; there haven't been many platform games with that sense of speed. And every stage was well designed, with the appropriate pace for each stage established right at the start.
While I'd like Sega to hark back to the original as much as possible, I also want to see some level of evolution. Unfortunately, given Sega's history with the Sonic series I don't expect anything good outside of them just remaking the original.
I will get this out of the way now, I am a Sega fanboy. I have been since the Genesis, and will continue to be until I die.
Sonic Adventure is hailed as the 3d sonic game of all sonic games. It is a good game, but Sonic Adventure 2 is above and beyond SA1. I mean, come on. Big the Cat was thrown in faster than the Werehog levels were thrown in, but everybody seems to dumb down that fact.
Also, a few people said that there was no sight of Super Sonic in the 3D games. What game are you playing where he doesn't show up? The only 3D sonic game I have not played through to completion has been Sonic Heroes, and so far, Super Sonic is in every single one. Learn to play and beat the game before you utter out false information. In order to use Super sonic, you have to beat everything else in the game. For SA1, you have to go through and complete every single storyline, and then a new one will open up that will be Super Sonic where you face off against the boss one final time. I hope you remember the cut scene from the beginning of the game (you know, before you hit start) where the city gets buries in water, but for some odd reason, that scene never surfaces again after you beat the game. Wrong. That is the beginning cutscene of the Super Sonic level.
Also, even though the Werehog stages were added in to lengthen the game and slow down the pace as has been confirmed (google is your friend, do a search and find out for yourself), the stages are fun. There are lots of offshoot stories that are played in games that are harked as awesome (come on, Mario with a water gun and you are complaining about the Werehog?!? OMGWFTBBQ). Some people will say, "It is a dumbed down God of War clone". Unfortunate for those people, God of War is only a beefed up clone of other beat em ups. One of the most notable 3D beat em ups, which was also one of the very first ones, is Die Hard Arcade. Die Hard Arcade was also known as Dynamite Deka in Japan for the gaming buffs out there (which should be all of the people trying to go back to the 10 years since a good Sonic game). Dynamite Deka was a 3D beat em up with boss battles and action event button press cut scenes. So, really, for 3D beat em ups, Sega is very well known their 3D beat em ups and has been fine tuning them for a very long time, so adding this in was no big deal for Sega. The Werehog stages were actually very fun to play. You could do it streets of rage style and just pound on 1 button the entire time, or you could throw out some complexity and pull off some combos. It paid homage to the games of old that Sega is well known for.
Also, the people claiming that after the Genesis there were no good sonic games. and then you will add (except for sonic adventure). You are skipping alot of good games. Not every single game has to be a fast paced 2D platformer. If that is the case, write off all new CastleVania games, Zelda games, Mario Games, Metroid games, shall I continue to list them? Games that were known for stellar 2D gameplay transitioned to 3D and while many of the games were not all that great (CastleVania 64, Super Mario Sunshine, etc) they were still held up high. Sonic was not held up high because of your already biased opinion of the company itself. You already had it in for Sega.
Seriously. Why does Sonic need to be 2D? Sonic 2 for Genesis is not the best Sonic game out there. Obviously you know little to nothing about good Sonic games when you spout off that nonsense. Play some games and then come back to talk Sonic. Sonic CD was by far better than Sonic 2. It was also a 2D fast paced platformer as well. What? You didn't play it, but claim you know about Sonic and which game was better. Wow. FAIL.
I also see that nobody is mentioning Sonic Heroes. Why? Sonic Heroes was released on PS2, XBox, GameCube, and PC. With it released on all of those consoles, you had to have heard of it, but you strangely left it off. Sonic Heroes was also a very good game as well. They got rid of Big the Cat and stuck with a
Face it, those old games weren't that great. Take of your nostalgia glasses and realize they were ok for being on a a system that came out 19 years ago. When you were 10 years old they seemed pretty ok. You have to realize a entire game consisting of holding down the right directional pad for an hour to win is hardly the stuff of the ages.
Holy awesome. This just made my day. 2D sonic 3
For some reason when I opened the link and the trailer started loading up, I started feeling sick to my stomach and just closed that tab. I'll just wait to see it when it comes out. I don't want this to be drawn out any longer than it has to. Yes, it does sound too good to be true. I just don't have any strength left to hold out hope for another good Sonic game. Please make it as good as Sonic CD.
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I don't think sega can mess this up because, hello their working hard as hell to f'ing make us games 2 enjoy through the future. Yeah i under stand that sega should make a game going back 2 his roots and you know i can't wait to see what it looks like.