Sonic the Hedgehog Demo - Impressions

[kingspoonian]

For anyone looking to download the Sonic demo, you may as well not bother...

Where to begin...

1) Widescreen only (for all of us 4:3 TV users, prepare for massive headaches)
2) Full of slowdown
3) Glitchy as hell (falling off walls, through platforms, doing the wrong attack in the wrong place)
4) Shoddy level design with no real defined path through.

It's a shame really :( I was expecting something much better.

[Swifty]

For anyone looking to download the Sonic demo, you may as well not bother...

Where to begin...

1) Widescreen only (for all of us 4:3 TV users, prepare for massive headaches)
2) Full of slowdown
3) Glitchy as hell (falling off walls, through platforms, doing the wrong attack in the wrong place)
4) Shoddy level design with no real defined path through.

It's a shame really :( I was expecting something much better.

1) my HDTV is prefect for widescreen :D
2) I didnt get any :brow:
3) only glitched once
4) I thought it was really well layed out :s

lol funny how to opinons can differ so much

[damien©]

I take it the Sonic demo is out then? :brow:

[linkofhyrule]

Times like these I wish the HD was bigger then 20GB.. I really want to play this but I don't have space thanks to dling the FEAR demo last night...

[damien©]

Nar I didn't like it....2D 4TW! :D

[kingspoonian]

1) my HDTV is prefect for widescreen :D

And HDTV owners are still the minority, it annoys me how developers don't seem to care about the majority that still use normal TV's. I don't like HD TV's. Sure, the games look better, but all SD stuff looks grainy and glitchy (on the ones I've seen).

2) I didnt get any :brow:

Whenever you attacked enemies, or destroyed boxes, there was slowdown. Increasingly so in big jumps. Not jerky slowdown, but still quite a dip in the frame rate.


3) only glitched once

"When you are near to rings, you can use the X button to do a lightspeed dash." *press X* *Sonic rolls off cliff and dies*


4) I thought it was really well layed out :s
I was getting lost all the way through. Too many platforms and levels with almost too much of a choice.


lol funny how to opinons can differ so much

Isn't it ;)

[glidem]

I thought it was quite impressive, although there was some minor framerate issues... Remember though a demo doesn't always reflect the final product!

I do agree though, give me some Sonic 2D goodness :)

[Fleeboi]

They should include all of the original 2d titles with this game to play, or get it on the XBLA Marketplace as an all-in-one edition, that would be awesome.

I might have a look at this game, still downloading the FEAR demo.

[JJBDude]

I would much prefer Sonic to be coming 2D to the Live Arcade but it seems we are stuck with this. I'm going to download it earlier but I don't know if I will play it long, especially if it's like kingspoonian described it to be.

[kingspoonian]

I would much prefer Sonic to be coming 2D to the Live Arcade but it seems we are stuck with this. I'm going to download it earlier but I don't know if I will play it long, especially if it's like kingspoonian described it to be.

Please, try it for yourself and tell me what you'd think. It'd be nice to have someone agree with me :P

Maybe I was being too harsh earlier. I was expecting great things from this, but all it's turned out to be is quite a let down.

[phatmuther]

i thought this was rubbish to be honest. another poor demo

[Raisedbyflames]

it was crap they need tostop making sonic as its crap

[mjmaskrey]

Didn't like it at all...worst control ever!!

And why, in a high speed game like this, would you have a camera pan like it's being moved by a snail!

Tis poop!

:)

[padds78]

Yeah i thought it was bad(N) Two bad demos in two days that sucks:s

[Blaze Lord]

all SD stuff looks grainy and glitchy (on the ones I've seen).

That's because of your service provider, most likely. I've heard satellite's better than cable in that regard.

[mjmaskrey]

Cable and satellite (standard) TV look decent on a HDTV...it's when you go terrestrial TV that it looks disgraceful.

It so sad when you see shops with nice new HDTV's with a crappy aerial in the back playing Neighbours...what a way to sell it :s

:)

[bingo83]

Nabbing the demo now, hopefully it will be finished so that I can nab a quick go at half time in the Liverpool game.

Just played it. Very poor :(

[Blaze Lord]

Cable and satellite (standard) TV look decent on a HDTV...it's when you go terrestrial TV that it looks disgraceful.


A lot of cable companies, around here anyways, do serious, serious compression. Macro blocking all over the place. Looks especially bad in HDTV.

[Volsky]

Hmm i might download it and give it a try, some mixed views. :unsure: Dunno wether that is good or not!

[WACCOE]

I wasn't impressed in the slightest. Camera panning was shocking, level design was too complicated - I was never actually sure where I was going. Think I lost 5 lives within about 3/4 minutes. :s

Meh - play's more like a Dreamcast game. :unsure:

[JMWolves]

i wasnt impressed eva,kept fallin off the edges :(

[Dcontrol]

It wasn't the best. I downloaded it played it for about 3 minutes and then deleted it because I thought it was rubbish. The controls aren't the best and the gameplay is even worse. Don't you just love falling off that edge? It gets a (N) from me.

[TBS Trojan]

reminded me a lot of the sonic games on the gamecube, but did i see shadow in a jeep? bad idea Sega, just give em a gun.

[leeeee35]

I thought the demo was oright,its only for kids mostly.

[AK.]

personally i think it sucked and i will not be buyin this

[Joe]

yeah it's pretty dissapointing, i thought it was going to be much better than this :(

[rvdavemagee]

Nice graphics but the gameplay is so lame.

[linkofhyrule]

T'was alright but meh, it seemed like they had a big open place for no reason, I didn't like it too much. Also jumping was hard to control.. I fell in the abyss for no reason a couple times.

I will rent it sometime, though.

[glidem]

Remember this is early code and there are niggles within the demo that they are very aware of.

You have to be very careful not to be too critical of these early demonstrations as it might put publishers/developers off letting you see an early glimpse.

[leeeee35]

personally i think it sucked and i will not be buyin this
Everyone to there own.:)

[Tobes]

Sorry to bring up this dead thread.

But I wondered why everyone was so disapointed and kept refering to the Dreamcast games.

It just anoyed me a bit because personally I thought the Sonic games for the dreamcast were excelent. So much so that about 2 months ago I borrowed a friends dreamcast and went and played them all again. Fair enough I will say that the locking on system needs to be tuned up.

But all I saw coming from this thread was "it sucked", "rubbish" etc.

Then with the people complaining about the levels being to open. I really don't know what you want for a game really. I would recommend you go play liner games like Halo and I can never ever remember Sonic for the mega drive being liner. Fair enough you go forwards and you can get to the finish. But you have ground levels and sky levels as well. If your like me who likes to get all the rings then you will explore to the max.

I'm not saying that I think you should change your mind. I just like it when I hear WHY people don't like it and not comments like (sorry AJ) "personally i think it sucked and i will not be buyin this".

[phatmuther]

the sonic adventure games were excellent, but this just feels really different, in a very bad way. Of course it could always change, but for now, it is a no buy.