Scarletdark Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Ok guys 1.5 hours left till this thing comes out and I have nothing better to do than wait eagerly till the alpha releases (I hope it releases). I'm pretty sure everyone in the fanbase knows what Sonic2HD is by now but if not this could help. I've been dieing to play a much more developed version of this game and am so glad that it didn't just turn into vaporware. Although, I love a ton of the games that come from the sonic community (time twisted, SFR, Eggman hates furries, axiom, sorry if I didn't name yours their are a ton) I've really been waiting for this one. Hope It's as amazing as I'm hyping it to be... Countdown website: http://www.s2hd.sonicretro.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ espeed Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Edit 3: What a friggin' disappointment. I expected a release. And all we got was an alpha announcment. What the fuck. They're pulling a Sonic 4 on us with this. This is just... my god. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Ah, another good reason to hate a countdown. All of a sudden it's like Sonic Retro just had a DDOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apricity Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I could have waited all year for this considering they've already said it will be released this year , I don't see the point in this other than to show the project is still in progress although we knew that anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckboy Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Well the few couple of seconds of gameplay they showed at least looked very pretty. Still though, a countdown for a trailer that showed barely anything? What was the point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felik Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Well the few couple of seconds of gameplay they showed at least looked very pretty.Still though, a countdown for a trailer that showed barely anything? What was the point? This point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luksamuk Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I thought no one would ever finish it. Ow. I just love this sweetie too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kessler12 Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I didn't know they were still working on this. Its been a while retro... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I thought no one would ever finish it.Ow. I just love this sweetie too much. Well, since it took, them over 2 years just to get some subset of Emerald Hill Zone's tiles done (enough for a 15 second video), I'd say the odds are pretty well stacked against them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djawed Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I gotta be honest. I stayed up all night for this. Knowing sonicretro and their general reaction towards SEGA's products and PR job with sonic 4, I was sure that it was going to blow us(or at least me) away like they have always done in the past. Fucking pricks, that's all I got to say. A countdown huh, for this shit? As someone else said at the retro forums. This was not countdown worthy, at all. Anyway, what has been shown does not impress me either. Sonic fan remix on the other hand, that was some impressive stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckboy Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 haha you stayed up all night for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djawed Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I'm more of a night person anyway, since I work at noons and evenings. But I did stay up longer than I normally do. I guess expecting what they planned to deliver wasn't a good idea . I just thought that sonicretro wasn't the place to go all sonic 4 with it's own community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perfect Chaos Zero Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 The point of the countdown is pretty obvious is it not? Look at all of you. All of you are now talking about this, thinking about this and discussing this game. Therefore, mission accomplished. You've all been advertrolled. That was their goal and they succeeded. Evil as their goals may or may not be, you can't say there was no reason or point to the countdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djawed Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 PCZ, I gotta say "if" their goal was taking an example of SEGA's rage inducing pr job, I kinda find that hard to believe. This is not a profitable game. Their not aiming for profit or anything. They just simply want to fulfill a dream that is never going to be fulfilled officialy. Of course it's nice to get a lot of attention in doing so and feel proud about it. But i'm sure it's not "bad attention" they were aiming for. I don't get how bad attention is a better thing than good attention, how a playable demo or a longer footage would have been a worse thing? But what they ended up giving was just dissapointing after the way they hyped it up as one of sonicretro's project that is gonna blow away the community. As i've read at sonicretro. The countdown was indeed going to offer a demo, as you can see in one of the pictures saying alpha release I know making a big deal out of this is kinda stupid. But to put it simply. When your among a community that loves sonic, and promise beautiful things about the said character ending up with so little, it's gonna get some people upset. There are some fans that don't really care about official products and rather look forward to what fans have to offer. I am one of those. I'd rather play sonic time twisted or sonic fan remix than anything sonicteam has delivered the last decade. I support all you guys who intentionally or unintentionally still satisfy the forgotten fanbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSF Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 The point of the countdown is pretty obvious is it not? Look at all of you. All of you are now talking about this, thinking about this and discussing this game. Therefore, mission accomplished. You've all been advertrolled. That was their goal and they succeeded. Evil as their goals may or may not be, you can't say there was no reason or point to the countdown. incoming: just_as_planned.jpg Even though I liked the first screenies and general concept of this project at first, I quickly forgot about it. So in the end, I don't care. Playing Gen/MD Sonic 2 in whatever form you can = problem solved. (Yeah, it looks pretty and all that, but it's the same levels and same bosses, so pretty much same game in the end, even with the extras they mention. What's that thing most people love to say? Err, 'pretty graphics alone don't make a game'?) Déjà vu anyone? Coming up in two weeks: Concept art of a badnik. *storms off* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 The point of the countdown is pretty obvious is it not? Look at all of you. All of you are now talking about this, thinking about this and discussing this game. Therefore, mission accomplished. You've all been advertrolled. That was their goal and they succeeded. Evil as their goals may or may not be, you can't say there was no reason or point to the countdown. Oh, you should see the backlash this is getting over at Retro. Tweaker is threatening to cut off their hosting and kick them out of the community project forum. It's hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 This project is going to get shut down by the end of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarletdark Posted January 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 This project is going to get shut down by the end of the month. Are you serious? Rumor? Reliable resources? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USC Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 When fan projects get large amount of publicity, they tend to get cease and desist letters from companies. Like that Chrono Trigger 3D remake from years ago. That said, SEGA tends to be kinda lax about that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 well it looks ok, but I don't think enough people give a shit for it to have such an epic teaser trailer. it's like putting a 3 inch penis in a man-thong, it's alright but it won't do well with all the attention it's gonna get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarletdark Posted January 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 ^^Lol yeah. I am kinda disappointed that their was no alpha release, but whatever I'm sure they'll release it soon enough. I just hate the fact (as mentioned), that they made an epic countdown website only to point to . It's kinda anti-climactic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Rush Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 I predict that this project will be finished in 2028. Apparently it takes 2 years to make a full zone, 1 year per act. That would mean 20 acts, it began in 2008, so add 20 to 2008, and there, 2028. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djawed Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 That's a pretty darn good estimation right there. Wouldn't sonic be dead by then? I mean the official products Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Am I the only one who thinks this looks kinda... ugly? Sonic's forehead looks huge and it looks like the background is made of play-doh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Yeah some of the graphics seem a little off to me. For some reason Sonic's colours seem a little too dark to me. Especially his skin tone. Something else is bothering me about them but I can't quite place my finger on it, but its there. Still looks decent though overall, I like the pieces of that artwork shown in the trailer. What I don't like though is the trailer itself, I haven't payed much attention to the Sonic community as a whole the last few months, but to tease a teaser is a trend I fucking hate so much right now with the games industry as a whole. Edit: I think I know what is bothering me about the graphics, especially looking at the screenshots - everything feels so FLAT. I mean yes, it is 2D, but it just feels like some depth is missing, or -something- is missing from the graphics at least. I can appreciate the work going into it though, I just feel like its still not quite what it should be with a community driven team (which has a lot more people attached to it than your average fangame). I'll still give it a whirl though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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