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Mix the Old With the New in Sonic Generations

Everyone's favorite hedgehog turns twenty.

Nov. 4 2011

Posted by: Steve

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Sonic Generations

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This looks lame and dumb :(

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Happy birthday ^^

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Kinda interested in this game.

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I actually may pick this one up. I mean I haven't bought a Sonic game since Sonic Adventure 2, and I love the little blue guy. I may just get it.

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@xhavoc86: It's not.

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@xhavoc86: Thanks for your riveting input.

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That music is pretty catchy.

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@krabboss: I don't know, I've seen a friend play it and it doesn't seem very interesting or challenging at all.

@ds8k: You're absolutely welcomed! :)

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From what I've heard the PC version runs great, and seeing it with full Steam support (achievements, leaderboards, cloud support, stats and controller support) is awesome.

Interested in checking out the 3DS version too, kind of hoping it plays like Sonic Rush, that was a great Sonic game.

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Bought the game at midnight (it was piggybacking off of Uncharted 3), beat it yesterday and loved every second of it. Any Sonic fan should be happy with Sonic Generations.

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Just picked it up yesterday. I absolutely love it.

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@xhavoc86: Your knee-jerk impression from a single trailer is incorrect, shocker!

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kele?

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@Sikboy1029 said:

@xhavoc86: Your knee-jerk impression from a single trailer is incorrect, shocker!

The quick look was yesterday and I've seen people play the game already, I'm unimpressed. Lame game is lame.

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man this game is great fun!so nice to take a break from shooting people and enjoy the colourful world of sonic with no silly gimmick

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i never realized there was a design difference between "classic" sonic and whatever sonic is there now. They look the same to me, one is kinda taller for some reason I guess.

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@xhavoc86 said:

@krabboss: I don't know, I've seen a friend play it and it doesn't seem very interesting or challenging at all.

@ds8k: You're absolutely welcomed! :)

You're allowed to say, "I don't think I want to play that", but making any assumptions about how the game plays beyond that seems a little hasty. Think of a game like Uncharted; Uncharted is another heavily-scripted "cinematic experience" that, if played correctly, looks like parts of the game are so easy that they would play themselves. But in practice, that's definitely not the case at all - Uncharted is just really good at giving you control when it matters and provides a guiding hand when something tricky comes up. 
 
That example applies to Sonic Generations. It may look easy, sure, but watching somebody perfectly thread a needle a hundred times in a row isn't going to look that hard until you try it for yourself.
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@BlazeHedgehog:

Damn right. The levels, especially the Modern versions, get really tricky after the "Genesis Era" is completed.

This is the internet, where hyperbole is the norm for describing anything. Instead of saying "I don't like this game", or "this doesn't seem interesting", people say stuff like "OMG THIS GAME LOOKS HORRIBLE." You know what a HORRIBLE game looks like? Try games like Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, or Duke Nukem Forever. THOSE are horrible games.

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This actually seems kinda interesting. I liked Sonic Unleashed...... well, only a couple of the fast stages, really. I might pick this up when it gets a good 20 or 30 dollar price drop. Sonic has had it rough and I'm not sure it was ever a really GOOD game, but I just like seeing a little blue guy run really fast around loops with pretty colors in the background. Is there anything wrong with that?

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Still like the music but that's about it.

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That's Kele's "Tenderoni", which is not in the soundtrack at all, for the record.

For the record, if you're on the fence about this game, say this to yourself: "Hey, I remember liking those Sonic games. I wouldn't mind playing a new one.". If that is true, the by all means, buy Sonic Generations.

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When ever was Sonic relevant?

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@xhavoc86 said:

This looks lame and dumb :(

That's quite the constructive comment you got going on there, kiddo :P

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@Eyz said:

@xhavoc86 said:

This looks lame and dumb :(

That's quite the constructive comment you got going on there, kiddo :P

Well I'm glad someone agrees!