I'd be hard pressed to name a 3D Sonic game that didn't suck. Even in the best possible scenario, lateral movement at high speeds makes navigation difficult. The camera goes flying around and makes you nauseous. Tight confines with sharp corners are a pain to move through while wide open spaces are bland and boring.
The things that make Sonic good - the frenetic pace, the pinball-like twitch gameplay, the springboard puzzles and gimmicky boss fights - aren't smooth and fluid in a 3D setting.
The big exception to this is when Sonic is basically played like a racing game - you're functionally glued to the floor, every map is like a giant race-track, the camera is over-the-shoulder instead of free-floating. Even then, they never seem to top the original series.
I wouldn't know, apparently it's a modified Doom engine so maybe it's too taxing for graphing calculators. It just amuses me that to my (non-Sonic fan) eyes this looks miles better than what I've seen of any of the actual official 3D Sonic games
I'd be hard pressed to name a 3D Sonic game that didn't suck. Even in the best possible scenario, lateral movement at high speeds makes navigation difficult. The camera goes flying around and makes you nauseous. Tight confines with sharp corners are a pain to move through while wide open spaces are bland and boring.
The things that make Sonic good - the frenetic pace, the pinball-like twitch gameplay, the springboard puzzles and gimmicky boss fights - aren't smooth and fluid in a 3D setting.
The big exception to this is when Sonic is basically played like a racing game - you're functionally glued to the floor, every map is like a giant race-track, the camera is over-the-shoulder instead of free-floating. Even then, they never seem to top the original series.
I have never played a single Sonic game but that one Sonic fan game in the Doom engine that's been in development for like 20 years looks kind of neat to me
Oh shit, that does look good. But can you play it on a microwave display?
I wouldn't know, apparently it's a modified Doom engine so maybe it's too taxing for graphing calculators. It just amuses me that to my (non-Sonic fan) eyes this looks miles better than what I've seen of any of the actual official 3D Sonic games
Oh absolutely. And it seems like it plays better, too. Just a better game all in all.
Credit to the fans, and never let anyone tell you there will be no cool treats without Capitalism.
How can you code a fan game when no phone or computer under communism :kubrick-stare:
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