Sonic the Hedgehog 4

http://kotaku.com/5463913/project-needlemouse-is-sonic-4-episode-i

though i am excited this will still suck massive balls

thoughts?

im hoping this will be a launch title for sega's new console, the ringedge.

I had given up on sonic games not sucking balls, but this does look like something I'd enjoy playing.

If it's in the same territory as the originals, then colour me excited.

we dont have too much to go on from that video, but i'd say sonics motion looks just wrong like those 2d mario games for the ds, and also sonic has a homing attack, just like he did in sonic 3!

I'm ok with the homo attack

definitely getting this

I'll bet they got this idea from the success of New SMB Wii

Is this coming out for Sega CD?

Into it.

  On 2/4/2010 at 3:25 PM, Fishtank said:

definitely getting this

I'll bet they got this idea from the success of New SMB Wii

I thought this exact same thing when I read the OP.

And it's just as fuckin well. To be honest, if they were to just accurately remake all the old SNES and Sega classics in the 2D/pseudo3D style I'd be all in. Imagine playing Super Metroid but with updated graphics and stuff?

I hope this is the beginning of a huge landslide, and I think for once the industry's constant resorting to cheap cash-grab game fads might actually have a good effect.

Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, The Lost Vikings, I mean to even try to come up with even a partial list would be stupid because there are SOOO many good games out there that could do with a graphical makeover.

  On 2/4/2010 at 4:29 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

  On 2/4/2010 at 3:25 PM, Fishtank said:

definitely getting this

I'll bet they got this idea from the success of New SMB Wii

I thought this exact same thing when I read the OP.

 

 

And it's just as fuckin well. To be honest, if they were to just accurately remake all the old SNES and Sega classics in the 2D/pseudo3D style I'd be all in. Imagine playing Super Metroid but with updated graphics and stuff?

 

 

I hope this is the beginning of a huge landslide, and I think for once the industry's constant resorting to cheap cash-grab game fads might actually have a good effect.

 

Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, The Lost Vikings, I mean to even try to come up with even a partial list would be stupid because there are SOOO many good games out there that could do with a graphical makeover.

did you see Mega Man 2.5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6KMAm_228s

this is an independent project but I would like to see games like this

  On 2/4/2010 at 4:42 PM, Fishtank said:

  On 2/4/2010 at 4:29 PM, thehauntingsoul said:

  On 2/4/2010 at 3:25 PM, Fishtank said:

definitely getting this

I'll bet they got this idea from the success of New SMB Wii

I thought this exact same thing when I read the OP.

 

 

And it's just as fuckin well. To be honest, if they were to just accurately remake all the old SNES and Sega classics in the 2D/pseudo3D style I'd be all in. Imagine playing Super Metroid but with updated graphics and stuff?

 

 

I hope this is the beginning of a huge landslide, and I think for once the industry's constant resorting to cheap cash-grab game fads might actually have a good effect.

 

Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, The Lost Vikings, I mean to even try to come up with even a partial list would be stupid because there are SOOO many good games out there that could do with a graphical makeover.

did you see Mega Man 2.5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6KMAm_228s

this is an independent project but I would like to see games like this

No but I saw the Mega Man for PSP or whatever where they remade the original in 3D. I was never a huge fan of those games though. Too difficult, too much trial and error.

Technically, this should be considered 2.5D, like the remake of Bionic Commando: ReArmed, Ultimate Ghosts N' Goblins - I think the visuals look good, but I'm a bit worried that this is appearing on WiiWare as well - does that mean that either the game is basically SD resolution on ALL three platforms (360, PS3 and Wii), or is it HD on 360/PS3, and SD on Wii?

MegaMan 9 worked on 360/PS3 due to the visuals being 8-bit to begin with - but making high-quality visuals and then limiting the resolution on platforms that can support HD is just backwards thinking, IMO.

Doesn't look too good, would prefer hand animation like "Wario Land: Shake it" for the sprites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZcrTHFN9ew

I can't really see much of a difference between this and the other recent 2D Sonic games that came out on the Game Boy Advance, apart from the fact that Sega are cashing in on our nostalgia by calling it Sonic 4 and putting together a hilariously over-dramatic Hollywood trailer featuring tribal drumming and crescendoing orchestra stabs.

One thing... And one thing that I never liked about the 3D sonic games either... is that his legs don't move as quickly when he's in 3D.

He also seems to float a bit.

i feel bad for ulililia i don't think he has any of the current gen consoles, but maybe he will have had enough book sales to buy a wii. we can only hope.

did anyone here actually read his book?

all I wanna know is WHO'S making the soundtrack?

  On 2/4/2010 at 6:13 PM, vasio said:

Doesn't look too good, would prefer hand animation like "Wario Land: Shake it" for the sprites.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZcrTHFN9ew

like the cut scene from Sonic CD

that was epic

as long as theres no story bowlshit this should be good.

  On 2/4/2010 at 10:47 PM, Glass Plate said:

i feel bad for ulililia i don't think he has any of the current gen consoles

i think that's a good thing honestly, keep him untainted away from the cookie cutter influence of banal FPS war games

He wouldn't play them anyway, adult themes and such.

There's a new paragraph up on his website, apparently his book might be going into actual bookstores later in the year, which suggests it's sold well enough for them to think doing that's not a fucking stupid idea.

the question is, did anyone read his book.

  On 2/5/2010 at 1:37 AM, messiaen said:

the question is, did anyone read his book.

i read the cover.