Anyone else think Sonic Unleashed Looks Fucking Stupid?

[Phoenix Gamma]

I'm not sure if a 13 year old would be into that kinda stuff. Then again, when I was 13 there was already a pregnant girl at my school, so there's probably some kid out there that's into animals like that.

[Bahmo]

Playing the handheld 2-D games Dimps made and the dreaded Next-Gen Sonic for PS2 and XBox360 pretty-much killed Sonic for me. With something like Shadow the Hedgehog, it was a ridiculously stupid idea, and would still have been one even if it was a good game. However, I enjoyed the Genesis and Dreamcast Sonic games (at least the main ones; I'm naturally excluding stuff like 3-D Blast or Shuffle), so when they make a games around the same sort of good ideas as that, on far more powerful platforms, and they still end up loads worse, you get the feeling SEGA can't do anything right anymore.

I did actually enjoy Sonic Chronicles, but that game wasn't actually made by SEGA, and it wasn't a traditional Sonic game.

[Phoenix Gamma]

Originally Posted by Bahmo

you get the feeling SEGA can't do anything right anymore.

To be fair, SEGA still puts out decent stuff (Valkyria Chronicles has instilled a strong sense of console envy in me), it's just that the studios that work on the Sonic titles are usually really, really bad (namely, Sonic Team).

Originally Posted by Nick

I've always wondered if Sonic Xtreme would have set the stage for decent 3D Sonic games.

I seriously doubt it. If you've ever seen some of the final videos of the project, you'd see how disorienting the camera is (albeit cool) and how garbage the level design is in tandem to your newly downgraded peripheral vision. There are all sorts of things that would be hard to spot without knowing where everything is firsthand.

I actually kinda like the system used in the 3D Sonic platformers, it's just that SEGA can't fix shit. Homing works whenever the fuck it feels like working (maybe), collisions are usually garbage, and SEGA has this obsession with giving us gameplay we don't even WANT (if you ever played Adventure 2, you probably just beat the shooting/hunting stages so you could hurry up and go back to running).

They can't seem to understand that we just want to run (ex: shooting, hunting, driving, telekinetic floating, rubber-band werewolf combat) and even when they do, they screw THAT up (Secret Rings). Then the next Sonic game "will be the game that sets everything right".

It's like when you're telling a kid to stop picking their nose, and they say they're going to stop, but then they keep doing it.

EDIT: First major review's out. 5/10.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...me-review.html

[Nick]

Sonic Xtreme featured Sonic before they redesigned him into garbage, and that's rad.

[Jeff The Ninja]

Originally Posted by Phoenix Gamma

EDIT: First major review's out. 5/10.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...me-review.html

Thats all well and good, but the review doesnt say which system the game was reviewed on.

EDIT: Altough Sonic Xtreme has nice looking screenshots, i doubt the game would have been that great. Just the Fisheye lens thing.