Do you think sonic unleashed will be good?

Kuronoa said:
To be honest, only like one or two recent games that wasn't a port/remake was bad, everything else was either average or really good since SA2. And yes I prefer both Sonic Riders over Mario Kart DD and Wii.

Not buying into the typical "New sonic sucks" mindset everyone gets, I am planning on playing the Wii version and when i get the system get the "true" version of the game on the 360/PS3.

If you think the game sucks, I managed to read impressions and reviews from hard to please fans over at Sonic Retro and they are calling the 360/PS3 version the best 3D sonic game since the Adventure titles. That is a huge improvement from them literally REFUSING TO EVEN PLAY IT BACK WHEN VIDEOS FIRST SHOWN UP.

Kuronoa said:
Yeah screw you guys I rented the Wii version and played a little of it. So far it is really fun. The warehog is fine if you don't mind beat em ups.

This isn't a screw up, this is the most fun 3d sonic since SA2 for me.

Hostile said:

The problem I see is no one wants a Sonic beat'em up.

Kuronoa said:
Do people actually play most of the Sonic games or just play the 3D platformers?
I can understand if someone played a few of console then handheld and hated them but if they play one or the other I am not listening to them.

Kuronoa said:
Okay, not to flame people's opinion or anything but these things still bug me about reception of the Sonic series.

Do people actually play most of the Sonic games or just play the 3D platformers?
I can understand if someone played a few of console then handheld and hated them but if they play one or the other I am not listening to them.

Also do they HAVE to play the games expecting gameplay like the Genesis games? Most of the series from the past changed a lot. I just cannot compare the new games to the old for almost anything. Rush gameplay is just fine and that is just what they done with Unleashed, but with changes to it here and there. The right direction since after Adventure 2.

I can see people hating the gameplay we have now but there are people out there that makes talking about this series so frustrating.

Everyone is too divided as to what they want in the series, so hard to please.
"No more 3D" "We want more 3D" "Sonic should be the only playable character" "Why is Sonic the only character? I want xxxx playable too!" "I want Shadow!" "No more Shadow!" "We want open areas!" "Hubs are boring, get us to the stages right away." "No homing attack!" "give us more fantasy levels" "Crush 40 please!" "Get Ryan Drummond to voice!" "No dialog at all please!"
among others...

tl;dr
This is a series that doesn't come with a free pass in good discussion.

opeth_syndrome said:
there hasnt been a good sonic game since sonic 3.

mitamaking said:
I predict it will be good in the Sonic Rush style stages and bad in the werehog stages.

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle is one of my favorite video games ever, and it has all just been downhill, on the consoles, the handheld games are still good.

the_prime_one said:
Short answer: No.

Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Kuronoa said:
Okay because nobody is doing it (I must be the only one playing a version right now) I'll give wii version impressions. It isn't a review though:

first off the wii version has a bad warehog -> sonic ratio of around 70 - 30. If you hate the warehog AVOID THE WII VERSION. People stated that the 360/PS3 game has enough sonic for every warehog and the stages are said to be better.

Now.

Sonic stages

THIS is what you wanted for a long time. This is worth the money alone. The twitch-arcade style gameplay and stages with MANY paths make it worth replaying. Level design is near perfect and better than anything I've played since Sonic Adventure 2. Some will say it is like a roller coster ride but thanks to some rather flexable level design if you mess up on something most of the time you will get an alt route, bottomless pits are half as much as we saw in the past.
Sonic gets more missions than stages though. But I heard the wii version is the one that suffers. There is more 3D than 2D and on the 360/PS3 I heard there is much more of a balance...
If your worried about the boosting and such, I haven't yet resorted to spamming the thing

Warehog stages
This is a deal breaker for most. I can understand. After what happened in the past. I can tell you right now, this is better than the shooting stages and the fishing. The stages has combat and platforming. Much of the stages have more platforming than combat so no worries. The combat itself is rather fun, while it is forced on you it is more fun than the forced action from Sonic Heroes.
Platforming isn't anything special, but it has a similar "N64 days" gameplay to it. You have swinging from and climbing poles, you can hang on enemies like in Ristar and avoiding spikes like the old Sonic games.
Problems is that camera can be "off" in a few spots, the combat (while has decent depth) can resort to button mashing and more bottomless pits than on the normal Sonic stages.

Controls are fine. I played with a GC controller. Sonic's stages do not suffer from control problems and the camera behaves itself. Even better you could turn around and not suffer from camera problems. How nice.
Warehog is button mash happy and you have to hold down the "x" button on the GC controller to do stuff. While it takes a stage or two to get used to it I found no problems at all. Actually it works just fine for me holding down the button and just jump right. So great.

I haven't beat the game yet so I don't know what the later stages bring for the Wii version.

Hostile said:

All I have to say is you must have a lot of money to spend if you're saying a Sonic game with 70/30 (your assessment on the Wii version) or 60/40 (Shane from 1UP's assessment on the 360/PS3 version) werehog/regular Sonic is worth $50. It's too bad they didn't just make it a $20 PSN/XBL/WiiWare game with just pure Sonic.

Caper_the_fox100 said:
Im so pissed off that Yuji Naka returned to sega now he's going to ruin future sonic games again >=(