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Knew about Green Hill already from blurry pictures and some leaks, but it’s still kinda disappointing to have confirmation. I’d honestly be fine if it was just a lookalike a la Windy Hill or Emerald Hill but it seems like the exact same place as Generations. The city level looks neat though. Palmtree Panic posted:https://twitter.com/SEGAbits/status/1541786812615622658 Possible/probable spoilers based on leaks: The press release that leaked the basic plot mentioned Eggman’s AI that he tried to install in the ancient system was called SAGE, so I wonder if that character is supposed to be it, or part of the Starfall Islands ruins that it got hooked up to. In any case I like the design. It’s anime as hell but that’s right up my alley.
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Larryb posted:Kind of curious what role (if any) Eggman’s gonna play in this game as well (so far I believe Tails, Amy, and Knuckles have been confirmed as making an appearance but it seems like at the moment Sonic’s still the only playable character) Knuckles isn’t appearing as far as we know, he’s just in the prologue animation they’re making. Sonic, Tails, and Amy are the only ones said to have gone to the Starfall Islands and the files left in Origins only mention them and Big for the fishing system/minigame. That doesn’t mean he’s definitely not there, but it doesn’t look like it. Eggman’s role is that he developed an advanced AI and tries to upload it into some ancient computer system in the Starfall Islands ruins, but it goes berserk. Someone who played the demo at SGF said he seemed just as confused as Sonic in the cutscene they saw but that’s all we know.
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They should do an & Knuckles expansion DLC. Knuckles is more suited to open world exploration than Sonic.
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:Knuckles isn’t appearing as far as we know, he’s just in the prologue animation they’re making. Sonic, Tails, and Amy are the only ones said to have gone to the Starfall Islands and the files left in Origins only mention them and Big for the fishing system/minigame. That doesn’t mean he’s definitely not there, but it doesn’t look like it. Oh, I assumed the animation was evidence that Knuckles was involved in the game’s story somehow (otherwise why make the short about him specifically) Though the Big fishing stuff may be our first indication that Sonic might not be the only playable character in the game however (maybe after saving one of your friends they become playable and as such you can use their abilities to explore more of the island), we’ll see I guess Larryb fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:They should do an & Knuckles expansion DLC. Knuckles is more suited to open world exploration than Sonic. They should make the & Knuckles expansion and have it cover what Knuckles was doing during the events of the main game...Which means it's going to be a completely unrelated Bonzai Gardening sim.
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KingKalamari posted:They should make the & Knuckles expansion and have it cover what Knuckles was doing during the events of the main game...Which means it's going to be a completely unrelated Bonzai Gardening sim. is this supposed to be a bad thing?
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Khanstant posted:??????? how was anyone at any point supposed to get that this grassy hill area we've seen is an alien planet? if it's an alien planet, it is indistinguishable from any grassy generic videogame location set on earth. at best ill accept sonic is running around in the HZD post-apocalypse era.
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:The press release that leaked the basic plot mentioned Eggman’s AI that he tried to install in the ancient system was called SAGE, so I wonder if that character is supposed to be it, or part of the Starfall Islands ruins that it got hooked up to. I swear to god this better not be another Emerl situation.
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A Cup of Ramen posted:I swear to god this better not be another Emerl situation. Awakening some kind of power he ultimately can’t handle seems pretty on brand for Eggman to be fair
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Augus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjwfj0iwMA Embargo lifts tomorrow yeah? This looks bland as gently caress, so I'm interested to see more than just this tease of the full game experience.
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Augus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjwfj0iwMA I really like the narrators attempts to convince the viewer that the game is speedy, fast flowing whist showing us scenes of on rail gliding, stuttery and static combat and a general lack of flow and speed. Man the 3D games really do suck. They should just make more manias already. Surely it's a hell of a lot easier to build a 2D sonic than a 3D one?
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I'm playing the story mode in Origins, and I just got a thing where the game just took Hyper Sonic away. I got all the super emeralds, and then in lava reff 2, suddenly the transformation doesn't work anymore. I figured, whatever, the jump button doesn't work half the time in 1. It's fine. Next time I found a giant ring, it was jus ta normal one. And instead of giving me rings, it took me to the first Chaos Emerald stage. When I hit a red sphere right away to leave, it showed me that I only had the second emerald. And none of the super emeralds were there in hidden palace zone. This collection sucks. I swear it feels like only 2 works right. I don't know enough about CD to know if they screwed that up or not. But I'll assume it's fine too.
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Palmtree Panic posted:https://twitter.com/SEGAbits/status/1541786812615622658 I look forward to comic relief/assist mode activation character, Cope.
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Given the weird effects on her, and the general aesthetic of the enemies, I wonder if the whole island is a computer simulation Sonic is trapped in. So Sage would insist he ditch his friends since they aren’t real. …while not just saying that outright because gotta stretch that plot.
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Pants Donkey posted:Given the weird effects on her, and the general aesthetic of the enemies, I wonder if the whole island is a computer simulation Sonic is trapped in. So Sage would insist he ditch his friends since they aren’t real. This is apparently the general plot according to the wiki: quote:In Sonic Frontiers, Sonic, Tails and Amy embark on a journey to the Starfall Islands where an ancient civilization once existed and untold tragedies have transpired to investigate the disappearance of the Chaos Emeralds. However, things take a turn for the dramatic immediately; as they approach the islands, sudden trouble hits their plane, and they are all sucked into a wormhole. Sonic soon after finds himself separated from his friends, eventually awakening in a strange, digital world – Cyber Space. Out of curiosity, where did the extra detail of Eggman creating Sage come from? Larryb fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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Larryb posted:This is apparently the general plot according to the wiki: Interesting, there's a few bits of that I hadn't heard before, like him awakening in cyberspace or "untold tragedies" happening. My source for Eggman's involvement is a press release on Polygon that was quickly edited to remove the story details. It's the same one that revealed Ian Flynn was writing it. Here's a brief overview from when it came out.
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if nothing else frontiers’s story seems pretty promising based on what we’ve heard from Ian Flynn
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I did see a clarification, unsure if it's valid, that Flynn didn't actually write the overarching story, but he did write the scripts from the story he was given.
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I'm up to the end of Sonic 2 in Story Mode, with all the emeralds / time stones. First time in about 25 years getting Super Sonic in Sonic 2 "legit". Even with the technical improvements the latter special stages are still bullshit and require you to memorise the course, but they're ultimately not too bad - I only needed one or two retries at worst so even without coins I probably would have gotten Super Sonic by the end of the game. On to S3&K! I'm concerned I might need a map to find the big rings, when I was a kid I just used to load into Angel Island / Mushroom Hill and reset after getting an emerald so I could reuse the same ones over and over.
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sonic frontiers shaping up to be a day 1 purchase! nice!
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Am I the only one who gets Drakengard vibes from Sage?
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womb with a view posted:Sonic should exist only in a saturated late 90s/early 2000s version of San Francisco  Gotta go to work fast!
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Detective No. 27 posted:They should do an & Knuckles expansion DLC. Knuckles is more suited to open world exploration than Sonic. Honestly, Angel Island would be a great place for an open world game. If the core gameplay of Frontiers is any good at all, a remake of S3K in that style could be really cool.
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Origins removed the bug where you could jump off the bridge Knuckles destroys at the end of Angel Island Zone, opening a return ticket with Steam rn
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Detective No. 27 posted:They should do an & Knuckles expansion DLC. Knuckles is more suited to open world exploration than Sonic. Tails tho. He can even swim, and it'd probably be easier to design a world around flight/swim limits then trying to account for infinite climbing/gliding? Also various upgrades and gadgets would be a cool callback to Tails Adventure. In fact, make Tails Adventure 2 as a modern open world game.
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I am sort of curious why they’re making a tie-in short for the game specifically focused on Knuckles though, maybe he shows up later on and/or as mentioned they’re giving him his own DLC chapter like they did with Shadow in Forces
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The most important feature of Sonic 3, spin dashing on top of the wheels in Marble Garden still bounce you up in the spin dash animation minus the dust being kicked up is still in Origins.
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:Knew about Green Hill already from blurry pictures and some leaks, but it’s still kinda disappointing to have confirmation. I’d honestly be fine if it was just a lookalike a la Windy Hill or Emerald Hill but it seems like the exact same place as Generations. The city level looks neat though. Her color scheme reminds me of Infinite.
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Pants Donkey posted:The most important feature of Sonic 3, spin dashing on top of the wheels in Marble Garden still bounce you up in the spin dash animation minus the dust being kicked up is still in Origins. Yes Got seven emeralds and that new Super theme is very bad. I'd rather hear the S&K one looping every 12 seconds.
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Oxyclean posted:
Makes me think a knuckles game would just be an Assassins Creed and I’m already not interested
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I am okay with the Super Sonic theme. I’d have preferred the prototype one, of course.
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KingKalamari posted:
Sonic wearing a hat draws attention to me that Sonic is naked.
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Disco Pope posted:Sonic wearing a hat draws attention to me that Sonic is naked. The gloves and shoes didn't?
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Larryb posted:I am sort of curious why they’re making a tie-in short for the game specifically focused on Knuckles though, maybe he shows up later on and/or as mentioned they’re giving him his own DLC chapter like they did with Shadow in Forces I’m gonna guess based on the teaser clip that the master emerald will factor into the story somehow. poo poo, when was the last time Knuckles being the guardian of the master emerald was even mentioned in the 3D games? SA2?
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Augus posted:I’m gonna guess based on the teaser clip that the master emerald will factor into the story somehow. Rouge alludes to it at the end of Heroes when she says she’s going to “go hunt for someone else’s treasure” and Knuckles immediately chases after her but that’s about it as far as I recall. The last time the Master Emerald was mentioned at all to my knowledge was in Sonic Chronicles for the DS (and maybe his character bio in Generations)
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Also, I forgot the remade Sonic 2 HPZ doesn't actually use the HPZ music. I have to assume it was Sega saying no, but what an odd choice/restriction - like I can't imagine it's a rights thing since HPZ's music was in Sonic 2 originally, and they reused tilesets and art without issue.
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Pants Donkey posted:I am okay with the Super Sonic theme. I’d have preferred the prototype one, of course. It would be a lot better if it used the same sound fonts as the originals. Right now it sounds like a Sonic 4 track dropped into the game.
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