Sonic Free Riders Discussion

[Sega Uranus]

Do not care who is put in as long as characters like Metal Sonic finally get put into the cast. Makes me mad though that they have some kind of generic robot instead of characters like Big, even Vanilla would have been alright.

But it is great to finally see a racing game in the main series, this is totally in the main series even though it is exclusive to a platform (even though previously outside of ports only SEGA made consoles had console exclusives), has different settings, music, control schemes and gimmicks the main series never had and was released about a month after the last main game in the series! IT IS PART OF THE MAIN SERIES I TELL YOU, AND I WILL KEEP BRINGING IT UP! 3D Blast is also part of the main series. /Barry

[fluffymoochicken]

Just saw this:

http://www.segabits.com/?p=5515

This should seriously be one of the articles at the top. xDDD

[Barry the Nomad]

Sanus is too right!

Actually, if we want to get into where the Riders series lies, it feels like it's in some alternate futuristic world. Sorta like how the Spider-Man series has that Spider-Man 2099 story running alongside the modern day series. Thankfully Free Riders pulls it back a bit, with more consistent character models (compared to 4 and Colors) and less futuristic tracks. While it still feels out of place, it's not as bad as the first two.

[Barry the Nomad]

http://kotaku.com/5686311/is-sonic-free ... -reviewers

Who turns down a free trip to SEGA?!?

Note to self: give EVERY SEGA game a poor review.

[Sega Uranus]

SEGA is really so unappreciated when it comes to that kind of stuff, the fact they would even consider something like that, to a guy who's review does not even effect the Metacritic average, to the site who really just openly commonly makes fun of the company and has shown their ignorance to them (claiming "Nights on Dreamcast was amazing" comes to mind) in general is amazing I think.

As for the joke I had, on an honest note I really do like the style of this game, I think it is a billion times better than the other Riders games, which had some of the worst styles in the series. In fact, Sonic Free Riders on an artistic level feels more like a "Normal" Sonic game to me than Unleashed or Colors.

[Barry the Nomad]

In fact, Sonic Free Riders on an artistic level feels more like a "Normal" Sonic game to me than Unleashed or Colors.

I'm going to have to agree with you on that Sanus. Gameplay-wise, Colors looks great and I can't wait to try it. But visually, it looks very unlike how I see a Sonic stage environment. Planet Wisp's industrial areas are the closest the game itself gets to looking like a Sonic environment as I imagine them to be.

Closest to perfect 3D Sonic that I've seen this generation has been SASASR's Death Egg and Whale Lagoon tracks. Free Riders doesn't copy any classic environments as SASASR did, however the Dolphin Resort, Frozen Forest and Metal City tracks have that Sonic feel.

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[Autosaver]

Wow, the guy seems frustrated. Crashing into walls every 5 seconds.

[Sega Uranus]

Wow, the guy seems frustrated. Crashing into walls every 5 seconds.

Walls are better than holes. Way better!

[Barry the Nomad]

Yeah, I've played as Sonic and had little wall smacking issues. But when I picked up Tails, I was hitting walls more frequently. I think it's Tails stats. He's a slippery little shit, but his flight ability makes up for that (when the track permits flight)

[Autosaver]

They should of made every character tight, due to the fact they knew people were bound to have issues with the controls.

[fluffymoochicken]

http://kotaku.com/5686311/is-sonic-free-riders-broken-or-is-it-the-reviewers

Why did you delete my post and replace it with one of your own? Afraid that people might read it? @_@ Oh well, here's the text of the article, for those who didn't click:

I still think Sonic Free Riders for Kinect is a broken game. And I'm not alone. But it sounds like there is a whole other camp out there who haven't really had any problems with the game. So what gives?

In my review of Sonic Free Riders I talked about how completely unplayable the game was for me, I even showed how completely unplayable it was. The menus didn't work (Yes, I know you swipe down at an angle, not across), Kinect lost me in mid-race. It was a mess.

And I wasn't the only one with the issues. Hopping over to Metacritic I see that of the seven reviews listed (We don't use scores so we're not included), only Official Xbox Magazine and IGN gave the game a score above 70. Joystiq gave the game the lowest score, a 20, followed by GameTrailers, which gave it a 40. All of these reviews cite control issues for the low score.

But some readers in my review started talking about how they didn't have any issues with the game. So I went to Totilo and asked him to try playing it, to see what his experience was like. To my surprise he said that the game's controls worked for him. He still found elements of it frustrating, but Kinect appeared to track him in-game. Baffling.

Sega, too, seems baffled. So baffled that they offered to fly me to their studios to play the game with them to see what was going on. I politely declined, but suggested they poll reviewers to see if there was some commonality among those that had control issues.

That's what I'm going to do here, but with those of you who have the game. Normally I wouldn't be so interested in why a game did poorly, but it sounds like this could be a bigger issue with Kinect, something that could have an impact on gamers and future games, so let's see if there is something to this.

The article then goes on to detail the heights of reviewers and the distances from the Kinect at which the played the game. It seems pretty obvious that they taller the person was, the more likely it was to not read properly.

Perhaps the game was designed to be played by children? @_@ *shrugs*

[CrazyT]

Has anyone allready ripped sonic free riders tracks?

[Barry the Nomad]

http://kotaku.com/5686311/is-sonic-free-riders-broken-or-is-it-the-reviewers

Why did you delete my post and replace it with one of your own? Afraid that people might read it? @_@ Oh well, here's the text of the article, for those who didn't click:

I still think Sonic Free Riders for Kinect is a broken game. And I'm not alone. But it sounds like there is a whole other camp out there who haven't really had any problems with the game. So what gives?

In my review of Sonic Free Riders I talked about how completely unplayable the game was for me, I even showed how completely unplayable it was. The menus didn't work (Yes, I know you swipe down at an angle, not across), Kinect lost me in mid-race. It was a mess.

And I wasn't the only one with the issues. Hopping over to Metacritic I see that of the seven reviews listed (We don't use scores so we're not included), only Official Xbox Magazine and IGN gave the game a score above 70. Joystiq gave the game the lowest score, a 20, followed by GameTrailers, which gave it a 40. All of these reviews cite control issues for the low score.

But some readers in my review started talking about how they didn't have any issues with the game. So I went to Totilo and asked him to try playing it, to see what his experience was like. To my surprise he said that the game's controls worked for him. He still found elements of it frustrating, but Kinect appeared to track him in-game. Baffling.

Sega, too, seems baffled. So baffled that they offered to fly me to their studios to play the game with them to see what was going on. I politely declined, but suggested they poll reviewers to see if there was some commonality among those that had control issues.

That's what I'm going to do here, but with those of you who have the game. Normally I wouldn't be so interested in why a game did poorly, but it sounds like this could be a bigger issue with Kinect, something that could have an impact on gamers and future games, so let's see if there is something to this.

The article then goes on to detail the heights of reviewers and the distances from the Kinect at which the played the game. It seems pretty obvious that they taller the person was, the more likely it was to not read properly.

Perhaps the game was designed to be played by children? @_@ *shrugs*

Relax, I didn't touch your post. You posted it here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=338&start=750&p=22344&view=show#p22344
Accusation fail.

[fluffymoochicken]

Relax, I didn't touch your post. You posted it here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=338&start=750&p=22344&view=show#p22344

Oh, my apologies for the confusion then. @_@ I've been feeling rather disoriented today, so I must not have realized where I was posting it earlier.

Even so, it's a good article. It demonstrates how there are so many variables needed to have an optimum experience with Free Riders. I'm thinking that a few more months of testing would have been ideal, but what else is new with Sonic games?

[fernandeath]

Gamespot gave it a 4.5/10
It's growing worse and worse...