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Which game do you play the most in Sonic Mega Collection?

  • Sonic 1

    Votes: 28 4.5%

  • Sonic 2

    Votes: 112 18.1%

  • Sonic 3 and Knuckles

    Votes: 245 39.5%

  • Sonic 3D Blast

    Votes: 23 3.7%

  • Sonic Spinball

    Votes: 24 3.9%

  • Dr. Robotnik's Meanbean Machine

    Votes: 89 14.4%

  • they're all good in my opinion

    Votes: 99 16.0%
  • Total voters
    620
I've seen a lot of people saying that the soundtrack in frontiers is bad, but I found a lot of the songs, specially the ones in the cyberspace levels to be pretty good
 
SSj_Ness said:
Sorry to break up the Frontiers talk but I recently tried the PC version of Generations for the first time. I only played 1 stage for each version of Sonic but it's pretty good so far. I just wonder if it stays good? People seem to like this one.

I've actually played Generations before but it was the 3DS version, and it's basically it's own game like the DS version of Colors was (which is a very good and overlooked game, nobody talks about it). It was pretty crappy.
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I've tried modding the 3DS game, but model swaps caused it to crash. Texture edits are fine. Modding those games was, and remains, very limited.
 
SSj_Ness said:
Sorry to break up the Frontiers talk but I recently tried the PC version of Generations for the first time. I only played 1 stage for each version of Sonic but it's pretty good so far. I just wonder if it stays good? People seem to like this one.
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It's consistently good and you'll enjoy it. Some stages are different from the 3DS version, but it's not a real big deal since you're playing on PC and because of that there are stages you can mod in. There is even a mod for the Jungle Joyride Day stage from Unleashed. I'd recommend to finish the game first and then mod shit into it after.
 
I don’t know why everyone’s saying the PC version of Frontiers runs well. The first level kept completely freezing for several seconds at a time for me, everything looks grainy, some obstacles are invisible for about 10-20 seconds before finally rendering, and I’m clipping through objects. And I don’t see a frame counter, but it feels inconsistent. My PC can play other modern games fine, so that’s not the issue. It’s bad enough that I’m convinced the glitchy aesthetic is there to mask how glitchy the game really is.
 
Becomemysoulreaver12 said:
I've seen a lot of people saying that the soundtrack in frontiers is bad, but I found a lot of the songs, specially the ones in the cyberspace levels to be pretty good
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They're different but I really like them. Similar to the rest of the soundtrack, it isn't very Sonicy but they set a good tone and atmosphere.

So far I'm really enjoying it, on the second island now. It definitely plays better than it looks, and it is a lot of fun to zip around the open world while trying to maintain as much speed as possible. I also, surprisingly enough, find myself really enjoying the combat. It isn't deep but everything you can do is very flashy and satisfying, and all the enemies are fun to figure out.

My only real complaint so far is that the cyberspace levels feel like shit. Sonic is really fluid in the open world but it feels like he goes full brick mode in those.
 
Shard said:
I wonder if Generations is to blame for this classic/modern split. They started catering to the fans of the older stuff, which I’ll forgive for an anniversary game, and now they seem unable to stop. Now every new game needs Green Hill, Chemical Plant, and Sky Sanctuary, lest the classic fans get pissed they weren’t jerked off this five-year cycle
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If the devs put in any of these three levels in that next Sonic game, they deserved to be tarred and feathered irl.
 
Shard said:
I wonder if Generations is to blame for this classic/modern split. They started catering to the fans of the older stuff, which I’ll forgive for an anniversary game, and now they seem unable to stop. Now every new game needs Green Hill, Chemical Plant, and Sky Sanctuary, lest the classic fans get pissed they weren’t jerked off this five-year cycle
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I really don't believe classic sonic fans are to blame for this. Any sonic fan that only likes the classics wouldn't be playing the recent entries, let alone care.

I think it's more believable that Sonic team just refuses to make entirely new assets and would much rather reuse the ones they made from Generations.
 
Two Dollars said:
I don’t know why everyone’s saying the PC version of Frontiers runs well. The first level kept completely freezing for several seconds at a time for me, everything looks grainy, some obstacles are invisible for about 10-20 seconds before finally rendering, and I’m clipping through objects. And I don’t see a frame counter, but it feels inconsistent. My PC can play other modern games fine, so that’s not the issue. It’s bad enough that I’m convinced the glitchy aesthetic is there to mask how glitchy the game really is.
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I found that the high shadows cause a lot of problems for some reason, I was having a lot of stuttering and some framedrops, then I dropped the shadows to low, which look pretty much the same for some reason, but all my problems stopped.
 
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I was honestly NOT expecting the user score to be this high. Maybe Sonic Team ARE onto something after all.....
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
I really don't believe classic sonic fans are to blame for this. Any sonic fan that only likes the classics wouldn't be playing the recent entries, let alone care.

I think it's more believable that Sonic team just refuses to make entirely new assets and would much rather reuse the ones they made from Generations.
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Oh no, I don’t blame the fans. I blame Sega for being so lazy as to use the same things over and over again.
Vyse Inglebard said:
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I was honestly NOT expecting the user score to be this high. Maybe Sonic Team ARE onto something after all.....
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I already thought a 7 was ridiculous, but a 9? What’s so good about this game that it makes everyone sing high praise? Is it somehow so good in some aspects that everyone is willing to ignore constant pop-in, the same shitty gameplay since Colors, the same recycled levels since Generations, the same shitty combat from Unleashed, and the bleak, gray overworld? I don’t understand what someone could think looks good about this
 
Shard said:
Oh no, I don’t blame the fans. I blame Sega for being so lazy as to use the same things over and over again.
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That was the one thing that bordered on really pissing me off. I did not spoiler myself before getting into Frontiers, never opened a spoiler here, avoided /v/ like the plague and still recognized a lot of cyberspace level layouts. The only assets are "freshened up" from Green Hill, Chemical Plant, Sky Sanctuary and Speed Highway. That's it. Especially when Sky Rail was suffering to the palette swap, I was really disappointed to say the least.
Shard said:
I already thought a 7 was ridiculous, but a 9? What’s so good about this game that it makes everyone sing high praise? Is it somehow so good in some aspects that everyone is willing to ignore constant pop-in, the same shitty gameplay since Colors, the same recycled levels since Generations, the same shitty combat from Unleashed, and the bleak, gray overworld? I don’t understand what someone could think looks good about this
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The overworld could've been worse. But if you're fed shit with scraps for more than an entire decade, this game will seem like a gourmet meal to you. Book recommendation sperging: Selco Begovic is pretty popular in survivalist/prepper circles and is a very interesting read. If you're into a slav doomer/S.T.A.L.K.E.R./Balkan Wars vibe, you definitely should give this one a glance.
From my personal opinion: They did a lot of experimentation and throw many things on a wall to see what sticks. But it was generally a serviceable game that I personally enjoyed, "6-7/10" would be the most reasonable rating. 9/10 is a fucking stupid rating due to the bugs and at times the massive jank and 5/10 is just being contrarian and >muh Sonic Cycle. It's an ok game. Finished it, will write a review later when I feel like it.
 
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Played about 10 hours so far, on the third island now, and I'm really liking it. Once I got used to the controls it feels smooth and natural in a way that no Sonic game has since SA2. The core gameplay loop of running around the island finding memory tokens and gears is fun and rewards the player for poking around rather than just running straight from point A to point B. It reminds me more of Banjo-Kazooie than any of the other 3D Sonics tbh. The cyberspace stages all being ports/remakes of levels from older games is a bit disappointing, but they're just one small part of the game, not the main course so I can forgive it. If the rest of the game is this good then this is gonna end up being one of my favorite games this year.

The writing, as I predicted, is better than the last few games but not amazing. There are way more cutscenes than any previous game (except maybe Shadow the Hedgehog) and there are thankfully moments where the characters get to be actual characters and not just exposition delivery boys. There are no groundbreaking developments or wow moments so far but I feel like somebody who's never been exposed to Sonic before would come away with a pretty solid idea of who these characters are, which is more than I can say for Lost World or Forces for sure.

And I like that Sonic actually acknowledges that Knuckles is the guardian of the master emerald and questions why he isn't on Angel Island, that whole aspect of him seems to have been quietly forgotten about ever since the Adventure era. Probably because the writers were tired of finding excuses to get him off the island.
 
Prinz Scheißenherz said:
From my personal opinion: They did a lot of experimentation and throw many things on a wall to see what sticks. But it was generally a serviceable game that I personally enjoyed, "6-7/10" would be the most reasonable rating. 9/10 is a fucking stupid rating due to the bugs and at times the massive jank and 5/10 is just being contrarian and >muh Sonic Cycle. It's an ok game. Finished it, will write a review later when I feel like it.
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This. For what it is, Frontiers seems like a good time and some of that jank can let you do some cool stuff (from one stream I saw someone use a tree to send themselves flying across the island).

This game is definitely being overhyped, though. It does not deserve a user score that high. It's not a masterpiece, but I wouldn't call it a steaming pile of shit either.
 
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