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Xbox 360 Live demo availability thread
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SaggyMonkey
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Can anyone get a reversal to work in the Smackdown demo? I just keep getting owned. fighting games suck where you're just tapping the button and hoping you can eventually get a move in.
Gyrian Seed
Member
Just tried the Sonic demo, wasn't as bad as I expected. I did fall to my death more times than I'm comfortable with. After getting used to them better, the controls aren't too terrible, but it feels like it just boils down to pressing the homing attack button at the right time. It's almost as if you were not even steering Sonic, just pressing a single button to a rythm. Not so good.
The FMV that plays from the title screen is terrible, though. The more of a storyline they try to have, the more ludicrous it all seems.
The FMV that plays from the title screen is terrible, though. The more of a storyline they try to have, the more ludicrous it all seems.
About the Sonic demo.. anyone think it could be the E3 or even pre-E3 build of the demo? Some things felt way too glitchy and incomplete such as animations. Also the fact that it's that same old jungle level we keep seeing could be more possible evidnce.
Hmm... I'm really hoping this is the case, since I was looking forward to the game. Especially since they brought back town exploration feature from Sonic Adventure 1.
Hmm... I'm really hoping this is the case, since I was looking forward to the game. Especially since they brought back town exploration feature from Sonic Adventure 1.
TekunoRobby
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It is the Sonic demo from E3 except its missing a chunk of the playable level, a whole other level, and the ability to play as Silver the Hedgehog.MegaTen said:
yeah sonic sucked balls. Yeah I went there, how hard can it be to make the game just the slightest bit intuitive? I mean sonic adventure 2 came out 5 years ago, 5! I'd expect in that length of time they could have figured out a way to remove all the cheap glitchy deaths from this franchise. It took me 3 attempts to get through this 1 stage becuase the first 2 times I kept homing myself off a cliff becuase the game has no collision detection to prevent that. Also the wind chutes and rails made me worry about even pushing any buttons for fear that I wouldn't land back on them and again, fall to my death. Also the camera is atrocious. Sega should hand this franchise over to a developer that can clean this shit up. Also what was the deal with the music ? it sounded like bad rap.
ZombieSupaStar
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SaggyMonkey said:
basically left trigger for strikes right trigger for grapples
if you mash the buttons i think it penalize you (ie 1 shot at it, or your screwed) you can counter twice in grapples though once when they try the lock up and then once before they do the move within the lockup
just takes timing and all moves are different.
gjb-sensei
Nintendo invented the pixel...
I agree, the Sonic the Hedgehog demo is pretty bad, but the WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 demo rules!
MegaTen said:
On the demo's attract screen it says the build is from August. Not saying it's the most current code, but I would assume they'd make a demo with at least some fixes since E3.
The demo does not bode well for the retail release. It sucks. Hard.
gjb-sensei
Nintendo invented the pixel...
Sega should take a page from Nintendo's book (New Super Mario Bros.). Either that, or just let Nintendo develop the next 3D Sonic title because Sonic in 3D will never be as good as Sonic in 2D if they keep this up.
Uno Ill Nino
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I kinda liked the Sonic demo. The controls were kinda iffy with the whole "accidently running off the edge of the earth" thing, but the music and "feel" were all there if you ask me. I was humming the music for like a half-hour after playing it. I actually got kinda excited for the full version until I remembered you gotta play as his stupid shitty pals for half the game.
I spent a bit of time with the Sonic demo today. It took me a while to get the controls down but once I did it was very enjoyable. It actually plays very smooth, there is a feel to the control scheme, a certain timing. I also liked the multiple paths. I have finished the demo using three different paths so far and I think I my son found another in a cave? It's definately not perfect but with a few tweaks it could be great.
With some major tweaks it might be playable - it's so broken now that it's hard to tell if there's a "great" game lying underneath all the control/camera/intuition problems. It honestly felt like a tech demo, which was weird because other than the wind surfing, there were no gameplay elements that weren't in several previous Sonic games.FinFan said:
McBacon said:
For real, I got all excited when the thread was bumped...
And my opinion about the Sonic demo: I began to warm up to it, when I realised that the demo only really sucks because its so early and buggy - beyond that, it looks great, and it's a good start - after messing around a bit, you can see that there are so many ways to go through the level...
I'm sure the mods disagree, but this thread should die and we should be allowed to make a new topic every week or two whenever they release a new demo.
They don't make the sales bitches keep all of their NPD monthly numbers running in one long continuous thread. Media Create numbers are allowed to be posted every week, in their own thread. We should be allowed to make a new topic every week about the newly released demo. Its ridiculous to have to keep one single running thread and trying to track it down every week, and then filter through several pages to see if your demo has been discussed or not.
They don't make the sales bitches keep all of their NPD monthly numbers running in one long continuous thread. Media Create numbers are allowed to be posted every week, in their own thread. We should be allowed to make a new topic every week about the newly released demo. Its ridiculous to have to keep one single running thread and trying to track it down every week, and then filter through several pages to see if your demo has been discussed or not.
Discussion threads for each individual demo are generally made anyways. This thread is just a nice little resource for demo-related stuffs, when it pops up unexpectedly in my User CP, that usually means a new demo is available, a far more convenient solution than just hoping I'll notice one of those individual threads.
When I searched for "Sonic demo" this looked like the most active topic on the matter, and I figured "oh, all the chatter got rolled into that topic." There was a specific thread about the Sonic demo, but it had been locked - which I thought was the mods saying "go to the demo thread."
I misinterpreted the purpose of the thread, and probably missed the specific thread about the Sonic demo - lesson learned. No need to change any rules/procedures.
I misinterpreted the purpose of the thread, and probably missed the specific thread about the Sonic demo - lesson learned. No need to change any rules/procedures.
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Kung Fu Jedi
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Pug said:
Gamespot said it wouldn't be until November. Hopefully the Oct. date is right, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Spider_Jerusalem
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It's official, by Ubisoft. But yes, what Ubi says and when MS decides to put it online could not match.Kung Fu Jedi said:
Ubisoft PR:
Xenon
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Kevtones said:Sonic demo sucks
spokkX said:
Kevin ... said:
^ This was pretty much my opinion until I put some time into the demo. I couldn't understand how the controls could be SO bad. But then I stopped trying to roam around and just concentrated on going forward and speeding through the level, big difference. It seems to me it less about moving the stick then it is about hitting the right buttons. Of course the homing attack is key but so is using the X button to speed through a line of rings which just makes the game so much easier to control. When I did it right I got the ol' sonic 2d rush of speeding through the level. For instance at one point there was a line of rings followed by a group of robots. At first I was running through the rings, jumping and homing to kill the robots which would slo me down. But when I hit X before the rings I would zip through them and use the slide attack through the bots without skipping a beat. Shit I think I actually gained speed =)
Also, the amount of freedom the level gives you considering the speed is amazing. I must have played through it 20 times and never went the exact same route.
Don't write this demo off so quick!