Sonic Generations General Discussion

[Chaosmaster8753]

Been watching 3DS videos and dreading what I'm seeing. The level design seems way too straightforward and very un-DIMPS like.

Sucks that they're doing it like that. Although, I'm hearing the Time Eater boss is apparently better then the console version.

[max_cady]

You mean, there's actually a non-random way to beat Time Eater?

[ezodagrom]

Casino Night Pinball DLC announced for PC version:

Here’s festive treat for all our Sonic fans that bought Sonic Generations via Steam! The Casino Night Pinball DLC for Steam will be on sale from 26th December 2011.

This gives players a pinball mini game, set in the Casino Night stage, to enjoy alongside the main game. It would certainly make a perfect little stocking filler for Christmas!

The Casino Night Pinball DLC will cost USD $1.59, GBP £0.99, EUR €1.59, AUD $2.99.

http://blogs.sega.com/2011/12/07/sonic-generations-casino-night-pinball-dlc-steam

[Emmett The Crab]

I'm part way through Sonic generations, XBOX 360, and the Shadow Rival battle has me baffled.  I know you're supposed to boost and hit rocks into him, then supposedly he slows down and you boost into him, but sod far he's never slowed enough for me to catch him.I played in the same match for like half an hour, then I gave up and turned it off. 

[Pao]

All rival battles are terrible, except Metal Sonic.

[max_cady]

To put it bluntly, yes. At least with Metal Sonic, Omochao actually gives some advice that actually works.
With Shadow, I raced around that stage for 20 minutes just to figure out how to beat him.

And I'm still not sure. You're supossed to make sure his ring count stays low and then your supossed to grab those orbs in order to attack him till his ring count drops to zero and then he dies with one hit...

At least, I think so...

Silver, on the other hand, wasn't as broken, but the final portion of that battle was tough because he only has a very small window of opportunity, if you miss it, you basically have to go back and fight him again.

Now for the actual bosses, Egg Dragoon was a cheap one. The window of opportunity is very limited.
Perfect Chaos was basically a mini-stage.

[Emmett The Crab]

Yeah, the problem with that strategy is he keeps collecting more rings.  It's really frustrating, but I assume he has a chaos emerald.

Metal Sonic was a fun rival stage though.

[Barry the Nomad]

I found all the rival battles to be a lot of fun! Don't see how they're terrible.

All three are running battles, but each is very different. Compare that to Sonic Advance 2, with each running battle being very samey. Metal is a classic 2D running fight, with the occasional obstacles. Not a race like the Sonic CD battle (as there is no end goal).

Sonic and Shadow is the most like a race, with moving goals that lead to power ups. Once you get a hang of boosting and maintaining a boost, it's a rather fun fight. Once you get super powered it's a piece of cake to kill Shadow. Just boost the rings out of him.

Silver is like Metal's fight, but in full 3D. More, bigger, obstacles and very satisfying hits.

[ezodagrom]

Sonic Generations is available on Steam as a daily deal for only $10.19/10.19€/£6.79. The deal lasts until tomorrow.

[ezodagrom]

For those who have the PC version of Generations, someone mentioned a possible fix for the random stuttering in the Steam forums, so I tried it and it seems to have worked.
If anyone here has this issue where the game randomly stutters (sometimes the controls don't respond properly when this happens), disabling vsync in the game options and using the tool d3doverrider to force vsync (and if you want, triple buffering as well) seems to fix this.

http://www.mediafire.com/?w96mbhvve2hy5xa

How to use it:
- Open the tool (it starts minimized, click the green X icon in the taskbar).
- Click the + symbol in the lower left corner.
- Add SonicGenerations.exe to the list (steam\steamapps\common\sonic generations\SonicGenerations.exe).
- Select SonicGenerations.exe in the list.
- Set the detection level to medium.
- Set vsync to on, and, if you want, triple buffering as well (if I'm not mistaken, triple buffering reduces input lag, but the d3doverrider vsync seems to be enough to stop the random stuttering).
- Click the arrow pointing down in the top right corner to hide the tool in the taskbar.

Don't forget to turn vsync off in the game configuration tool. Also, the tool needs to be running in the background for the forced vsync and triple buffering to work.

[max_cady]

I was actually impressed that my 2-year old Toshiba laptop can run the PC version of Sonic Generations.

There's a bit of a slowdown and stuttering with Modern Sonic's boost but everything else is just right.

[ezodagrom]

Latest video from the Sonic Retro guys that are importing Sonic Unleashed stages to Generations PC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-mS3tiWeCM

[ezodagrom]

From the guys that are porting Unleashed stages to Generations PC:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDh-0FtE3T4[/youtube]

[Pao]

I had hoped they'd tweak/improve the gameplay, camera, controls, and animations instead of concentrating on just adding levels from Unleashed or Adventures.

At least they should show Classic Sonic some love...

[semmie]

many of us played sonic generations on ps3 or the xbox360. i dont knw if it is on the wii cause i dont do nintendo. anyways we all had our complains.

some of us said that sonic just aint the classic. and some miss the epicness.  most of us liked it in the overall however

nonetheless. playing sonic generations was a good experience. but there wwas a sonic generations that was actually better then that of the consoles. and that my sega hill billy boys is that of the 3ds.
some of u guys dont even know man.

that game is the real deal. if you loved sonic and knuckles play mushroom hill
if u loves sonic 1 play green hill
if u loved sonic rush. there is a level of that.
ok ok ok but thats not all cause having similar levels would be repetetive right??

but the physics my friendly friends  daamn homeys. its the physics like they should v been on sonic 4 ep 1 n 2.  pay attention guys check on utube how mushroom hill has been put. the pinball effct is back

and this is why i think injustice has been done to the makers of the sonic generations of the 3ds. they are the underated they are the underdogs. they are a possible talent to become the best. but we just keep playing games on consoles and sometimes neglect the gems.
i understand if some didnt play it cause they got the vita fallieta. but if u have the 3ds and have mario 3d and didnt buy your sega sonic.

then shame on u.

especially knowing that this is probably the best sonic game in a while.

a question to this topic
for those that played all the sonic gens on all consoles and handheld
what wasur opinion on the 3ds version. do u agree with me or disagree?
and why.

to my opinion this gets the closest to the sega megadrive sonics