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Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Wii/PS3/360; downloadable episodic release - [Update: $15?]
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SCULLIBUNDO
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Wrath2X said:Shall I alert Dragona?
She's already coming like Urukai rushing across the plains.
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HeresSomeWeapons
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So when does the next Nintendo Power come out? It mentions Sonic 4 on the cover.
Gattsu25 said:
What don't you get?
Forgot to mention that post 6632 was supposed to represent all of NeoGAF like how the 3 or 4 posts happy about Super Sonic represented all of NeoGAF.
The more a guy thinks about it the more ridiculous it seems to be happy the Super Sonic is in there. It's Sonic 4...it would be insanity if there were no Chaos Emeralds or Super Sonic.
Wrath2X said:
Hey I was just doing what these pro-Sonic 4 people were doing just on the opposite end.
Super Sonic! This game is saved! Hallelujah!
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Super Sonic! This game is going to blow!
vs.
Middle of the road guy like most of us who doesn't give a damn about Super Sonic at this point. The game has hundreds of other issues.
HeresSomeWeapons
Member
Iknos said:
I think the point here is that your joke was obviously not very good. The fact that you've spent 3 posts now trying to explain it doesn't help it any.
riceandbeans
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Iknos said:
Fixed.
goldenpp72
Member
I kind of expect sonic 4 to rip off all the sonic 3 and knuckles conventions personally. In each episode your emeralds 'die' and you can reget 7 more for hyper sonic, SUPER DUPER sonic, and however far they go with episodes. Same for introducing more chars per episode and having them backtrack.
Perhaps that's too ambitious to ask from the likes of sonic 4.
Perhaps that's too ambitious to ask from the likes of sonic 4.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Dani said:
Sorry. Yea. that is a little harsh. I just couldn't come up with a good medaphor at the time.
Game Informer interviewed Izuka who gave some new info on the game. Highlights include..
What about Tails and Knuckles you ask? "Fans will be very pleased with the cast in episode 2."
Episode 1 is a prologue.
Moves include: Spin Dash, Rolling Attack, homing attack and a new move yet unknown.
About homing attack: "I wanted the user to enjoy an easy-to-play feeling by the attack sequence that this [homing attack] allows, and find the fun routes in the air."
Classic special stages make a return.
Hornet Badnik. (Forget his name. Not Buzzbomber) Shown in screen shots.
Other screenshot shows Sonic smash though a wall that becomes a bunch of checkered bricks.
Another screenshot shows Sonic grabbing a handrail which goes across a wire. (Very Advance)XP
No floaty LBP physics. Classic Sonic Gameplay, classic Sonic speed. Says Izuka.
Not 3-D, but all CG pre-render.
Gamers will get classic "try again" ending if not successful at getting all emeralds. If you get all emeralds, you get cliffhanger ending for episode 2.
"If Sonic 4's return to form (there they go again.:lol ) is the Sonic experience you have been waiting 16 years for, then we strongly encourage you to try this."
Anticitizen One
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Alittle disappointed that Tails, Knucles, Metal Sonic and Amy/Princess Sally won't be in this game. Contray to popular belief they wer NOT the problem with the decline in quality of the series.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Anticitizen One said:
If you read my above post, it sounds like some will in episode 2.
Don't like the homing attack talk, I don't like that at all.
By "cast" he better mean Tails, Knuckles, and Metal Sonic only.
New attack? Meh.
Sonic...grabbing a goddamn handrail? Unless we're talking about the type of grabbing like in Flying Battery...fuck that shit.
I wonder how you get to the special stages.
Episode 2 better come soon after... And we also need info on shields people.
That's all...until next time!
By "cast" he better mean Tails, Knuckles, and Metal Sonic only.
New attack? Meh.
Sonic...grabbing a goddamn handrail? Unless we're talking about the type of grabbing like in Flying Battery...fuck that shit.
I wonder how you get to the special stages.
Episode 2 better come soon after... And we also need info on shields people.
That's all...until next time!
AwakenedCloud
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Don't really care about achievements, but this is stupid. I don't want to grind for lives in a Sonic game.
Azure Dream
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Wrath2X said:
What? It's Episode I, what do you want?
AwakenedCloud said:
Then don't. Keep your pride in exchange for the 25 points.
If it saves lives, you'll probably eventually accumulate that over time anyway.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
AwakenedCloud said:
Then don't. Achievements are pointless endeavors.
JINX!:lol
SCULLIBUNDO
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And people wondered why others were getting their panties in a twist over the inclusion of the homing attack.
goldenpp72
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Wrath2X said:
Whatever will we do waiting for the story of sonic 4 episode 2! Im on the edge of my seat.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Oh, and release date no longer says July, but "summer".
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Have you ever thought that since they're going with the classic theme. the story will play out without words? Just like in Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles?
RobbieNick said:
I would love to assume that the game will play out that way, but considering what they've done to the style and gameplay, it's fair game to assume they won't be traditional about story, either. At best, I expect a lot of still 2D cut outs blabbing text at one another needlessly between acts, at worst... well, I suppose as long as it manages to avoid being Sonic '06, it still won't have the worst story in the series.
RobbieNick
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omg rite said:
The pendulum swings so easy around here.
DryEyeRelief
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RobbieNick said:
The advance and rush games used words, and that is what appears to be classic sonic in Sega's definition.
Diablohead
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:lolSanjuro Tsubaki said:
Luckydude23
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:lol :lol
SecretBonusPoint
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That completely horizontal grab wire looks really interactive and fun! As does "air paths" of homing attacking!
Sonic Advance 4 completely confirmed.
Sonic Advance 4 completely confirmed.
So do we know how its going to be handled? In that i mean, will everytime we want to play will i have to say, load up episode 1 if i feel like playing one level, and than episode 3 if i want to play another, or will each episode just tack on to the first, so that its one big file? Hope its like that.
SecretBonusPoint said:
The grab wire doesn't strike me as something awful to have, as there have been things like that implemented in the older Sonic games.
The useless homing attack friendly enemy bridges though? Yeah, fuck that noise, there's absolutely no goddamn reason for that shit to be in any Sonic game.
SecretBonusPoint
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I think what I hate about it most is the lazyness of it. In the classics, each level had it's gimmicks, and they made sense. Wires and and such forth in Launch Base Zone made sense, but in Emerald Hill Zone 2.0? Not so much. I also just don't be trust that they won't be used as obstacles but just ways to keep that BREAK NECK SPEED up.
The fact that everything from this game is going to be something entirely recycled just makes it feel more like a fan effort than anything.
The fact that everything from this game is going to be something entirely recycled just makes it feel more like a fan effort than anything.
RobbieNick said:
Since the director basically confirms that we can expect to see Tails/Knuckles playable in subsequent episodes, how much do people want to bet that they'll replicate the functionality of the Sonic&Knuckles/Sonic 3 lock on stuff? If you own Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II you can retroactively play and Knuckles or Tails in Episode I?
That would be neat, and add value to owning all the episodes.
Depending on when this interview was done, it could mean that they're aware of the reception that the alpha footage got?
Maybe that's being too hopeful.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
Some more info...
While Sonic 4 will have shields, Episode 1 will only include the one hit shield. Just enough to help get your rings to the end of the stage.
Izuka says the reason they went episodic is that the game is too big to smaller hard drives (Wii and iPhone likely?) to fit in all at once and he didn't see players paying $60 for a 2-D Sonic game on disc. (Hellllooo. New Super Mario Bros Wii anyone?!!)
While Sonic 4 will have shields, Episode 1 will only include the one hit shield. Just enough to help get your rings to the end of the stage.
Izuka says the reason they went episodic is that the game is too big to smaller hard drives (Wii and iPhone likely?) to fit in all at once and he didn't see players paying $60 for a 2-D Sonic game on disc. (Hellllooo. New Super Mario Bros Wii anyone?!!)
So after the lead programmer/designer/director/head of Sonic Team ran off to Square-Enix after he finished Sonic Unleashed, does that mean that Takashi Iizuka picked up the Sonic Team torch? Makes me wonder what the rest of Sonic Team is up to(from Black Knight and Unleashed to a downloadable game with programming aid from Dimps).RobbieNick said:
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