The graphical leap from 06 to Unleashed is very impressive

>>714169326 (OP)
Unleashed and 06 still aren't surpassed for cinematics, man.
HOW HAVE THEY STILL NOT BEATEN THE UNLEASHED INTRO???

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>>714169326 (OP)
Nearly killing a franchise with a horribly unfinished piece of shit is great motivation to actually put budget into a game, yeah. That'll happen. I bet even Frontiers' budget is like half of Unleashed's.

>>714169326 (OP)
Now that the dust has settled, can we agree she's actually really hot. I can't be the only one.

>>714169326 (OP)
I wish we kept calling it Sonic Next Gen instead of Sonic 06

>>714170038
Sega Sammy generally don't have high budget. Yakuza is also clearly restrained by budget shit. Only some of the cutscenes are fully animated and others use awkward still-frames with voice acting over it. Very cheap gesture-library implementations in the side-content.

You just get the impression that SEGA doesn't have nearly as much money to spend as something like Nintendo, and it makes sense when even their "popular" franchises only sell around 3-4 million per hit and Sonic is even bigger than Yakuza now. Frontiers was a fluke that made them decide to make Sonic "Global" it says on their website. That led to Shadow Generations and Sonic Racing Crossworlds, and Shadow Gens only sold 1.5m around the launch window. It really isn't a lot at the end of the day, and Sonic Superstars was also a flop.

Just recently they announced that Switch 2 ports have sold under their lowest sales estimates, so it isn't looking great for Sonic or just Sega in general. He's more popular than he's been in a while, but the popularity isn't growing.

PS3 version of 06 runs like absolute shit compared to the 360 version. It's full of slowdown.

they blurred the background in the bottom it looks better but its hardly a great example

>>714169326 (OP)
A lot of that comes from the lower render resolution and 30fps target instead of 60. But it's a huge improvement in art direction and implementation nonetheless.
>>714170770
Both versions drop frames like fuck, the PS3 version just has it even worse.

>>714170390
They should stop beating around the bush and make adventure 3 already, all the boomers will come out of the woodwork to support it, 5 million sales minimum. Alternatively, remake adventure 1 and 2 but keep Ian Flynn the fuck away from them.

I have to admit that Elise has a nice theme song
https://youtu.be/qpgf7Rs4f6g?si=vAyPl1Qekxts5cv1

>>714171209
I'm not up to speed on modern sonic autism. Who's Ian Flynn and what the fuck has he done?

It's hard to believe that Sega actually went there. This is darker than any of the previous 3D games. We didn't see Maria receive the bullet and fall dead to the ground
https://youtu.be/55O_3IAO06w?si=7RpYDEQZSryTBf1m

>>714171171
>30fps target instead of 60
late preview builds of the game for 360 had a 60fps cap but double buffered v-sync so any drops would lock to 30 and it usually ran at that. wonder how people would've felt if it released that way instead.
the state the PS3 version released in is still baffling. i guess they dropped v-sync for performance but surely they could've implemented their own 30fps cap??? it just looked and ran like ass almost constantly. the awful load times and no install option were also baffling.

>>714171786
he wrote the comic books for a long time and then became the game writer for recent games. all the writing he's done for the games is awful dogshit. he makes the characters reference the previous games and comics every chance he gets like an autistic child writing fan fiction.

>>714169326 (OP)
Too bad the human character models are somehow even uglier than the asset store ones in 06
Glad they don't really show up in the actual levels at least

>>714172168
I'm glad Ian Flynn has gotten to write for actual Sonic games, because now we get to see what it really looks like when the average western fan obsessed with "muh lore" and "muh continuity" will turn a Japanese game series into when given the chance. Like imagine if one of the lore-obsessed Zeldatubers somehow got to write a mainline Zelda game.

>>714169326 (OP)
The downgrade form Unleashed to everything after was also impressive.

>>714170250
I saw a review that said her colour scheme was the same a chicken's and now I can't unsee it.

>>714172719
Colors is a Wii game, and Generations looks really good overall. Lost World is the turning point in quality.

>>714169326 (OP)
its not graphics its artstyle

>>714169326 (OP)
Slobnic, the fattest thing alive

06 is such a legendary game. It was the first 360/PS3 game created by Sega in-house, and they fucked up badly.

>>714169326 (OP)
nobody cares about 3D sonic, for obvious reasons, so not really sure what you're trying to accomplish with this post

My copy looks weird

whenever ever someone streams a 3D sonic game it's always the chat shitting on it nonstop. your games are a literal joke. the only sonic games that ever get respect are the original 2D ones and their clones. put that in your dick and smoke it, fags

>>714171854
Not even the most graphic Sonic death.

>>714174284
you seem upset

Phantasy Star Universe and Sonic 06 were the first 360 games developed by Sega. The other games in this list were only published by Sega, not developed.

>>714174458
This made me feel uncomfortable as a kid.

>>714175265
Your mom fed you too much onion milk, if you can't appreciate cringekino as a child then when can you?

>>714175735
It's got nothing to do with cringe.

>>714174458
>death
Am I supposed to think Sonic got shot in the back of the head to be struggling like that?

>>714169326 (OP)
Soul
Souless

>>714174458
Shadow's reveal for Smash 6

>>714171854
Gamma was originally gonna shoot himself

>>714171854
>This is darker than any of the previous 3D games.
You didn't play GUN Fortress.

>>714171209
Iizuka said he wants to make Adventure 3 but won't unless Sega gives him a giant budget.

>>714172168
References are fine if subtle like how the Mephiles fight in Shadow Generations opens will Shadow dodging the same shot Mephiles used to kill Sonic.

>>714176084
It's deliberately ambitious to suit the games moral choice focus. Either Shadow beat Sonic from behind and is moving on or Sonic lost a fight and Shadow is rushing to avenge him.

>>714177569
*deliberately ambiguous

>>714169443
Probably decided to invest more in gameplay rather than a cinematic, however, this is untrue, after Unleashed the story and stakes haven's been as big or epic EVEN if in forces we were told Eggman took over the world you never truly felt that, it was just exposition, didn't feel different than other times, I mean, he had a giant space station in Sonic 2, and then a big ass fleet in Sonic Heroes and Unleashed, Sonic CD did a better job of showing a "bad future" than Forces did, hell, even 06 did.

so since we're talking about it now, I want to know was marias mom a whore who also had aids or was maria raped?

>>714170390
>so it isn't looking great for Sonic or just Sega in general.
The movies mostly do well in the States. Not so much everywhere else.

>>714173179
Lost World looked fine for Wii U. It's just a different art style, but it's crisp and runs at 60 fps.

>>714170257
That's what japs call it I think

I'm not even into that weird human hedgehog shipping they went for in 06 but this cinematic is probably the best in sonic games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46jFJC6mDf0

>>714179657
I shipped Sonic with Merlina in Black Knight.
And technically, Sonic with a human GF is concept material.

>>714179657
This ending on another games plot would have been pure kino

Sonic has sucked ever since Roger Craig Smith took over the role. Bring back Ryan Drummond.

>>714169326 (OP)
06 was literally an unfinished game they rushed out to make deadlines

>>714182819
Sonic was never good

>>714169326 (OP)
It really is impressive how Unleashed's graphics from 2008 still hold up today

Hows the Recomp for 06 Progressing?

>>714170390
Sonic games aren't going to sell because they don't appeal to anyone but Sonic fans. The average consumer today fully believes Sonic is a shitty meme franchise. I watched a stream of people playing Frontiers at launch and they were laughing the whole way through how the game was derpy and lame in a 'Sonic game' way.
Sega needs to get off its ass and convince the public Sonic games are good instead of more 7/10s only Sonic fans are willing to swallow

>Shadow Opening
>Sonic fails to stop something
>falls infront of Shadow
>he flies towards the screen to take care of it
>kids think "OMG WHY DID SHADOW H*CKIN KILL SONIC"?!
>Adults still think this
why?