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Ah, that makes some sense. Not sure I agree with you, but I see where it's coming from now.

 

Interesting that you picked GoW instead of Halo though. ;)

 

Heh, yea, we all see how relevant Halo is now that it's not the Xbox's poster child :P

 

 

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Yea, that's how the whole game feels save for the Modern Sonic 06 level. The multiple paths are made in the same vein as the classic Sonic games. I'd even say it's more varied in the paths than the old games, which makes sense considering they have more memory to work with. It's neither on-rails, nor linear.

 

Although I can't say the classic games always had entirely separate paths through levels.

 

They didn't. Example from Sonic 1: Marble Zone.

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Ah, that makes some sense. Not sure I agree with you, but I see where it's coming from now.

 

Interesting that you picked GoW instead of Halo though. ;)

Heh, yea, we all see how relevant Halo is now that it's not the Xbox's poster child :P

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I'm not sure if you bought Generations yet HH but if you are going to get it, get it on the PC. It's the only platform with 60fps and that actually does improve response rates.

 

Also I don't really find any issue with this game mostly because playing a good sonic game requires you to put your brain to the side and work primarily on muscle reflexes. It's the whole zen thing. As a matter of fact when i do play Sonic games the plot meh who cares, the level design and multiple pathways don't really look at it. All I focus on is get max rings and get to the end faster and improve times. It's really not a heady experience, it's more in the classic vein where you just immerse yourself into a goal. But at the same time are able to pull out of that world. Can't really explain it but you overthink a sonic game and you have the internet you'll end up with a legion of sonic weirdos. Here's a clue go to deviantart put your first name followed by the hedgehog. 90% of the most common names are not safe unfortunately.

 

Sonic fans are weird but the game is enjoyable and honestly I think generations while not perfect is pretty good. Thing is they hit the peak with Sonic 3 and Knuckles it's harder to hit that twice. Colours was okay. Generations is pretty good if you turn omochao off and seriously turn omochao off it just is an annoying little thing that won't shut up with 'hints'.

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Admittedly I only played the demo, but I felt that the game required almost no player input. My experience playing was not meaningfully different than my experience watching videos of other people playing. There was almost nothing I had to actually do. I prefer my games to require more active involvement than that.

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I don't get it HH, it's a steamworks title... so wouldn't it be better to buy it via some digital distro site. I know GMG had it for 15 and I'm sure they'll have it for that price soon enough. I mean I understand collecting games but boxes that have no value after you redeem the code? Unless you've bandwidth restrictions - it's 8.9GB and not the 11GB that steam says.

 

As for Batman I bought the collector's ed for the PS3 back in October cause I got for about £30 and that's nice for a game plus batman figure and artbook and the batman figure looks nice in my living room (in his Gotham enclosure). I'll be buying the PC GoTY edition in the future at a steam sale :). That way I'd have still paid under 40 for 2 copies of a game.

 

@Ethan the demo was a bit shitty in terms of difficulty, there's a few things to note it's not the hardest of levels, there's stuff to collect that unlocks art and skills. Getting the 5 red stars in planet wisp is a pain. I'm definitely in no hurry to finish the game and want to finish S ranking each level step by step rather than just brush through the game and of course getting to a good spot on the online leaderboards XD. Oh and there's lives which means you might need to replay some levels just to get a lot of lives, maybe it's my ocd to make sure that I do have 10 lives to spare (in case some day I'm tired and/or my wife plays and loses a fair few lives)

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I don't get it HH, it's a steamworks title... so wouldn't it be better to buy it via some digital distro site. I know GMG had it for 15 and I'm sure they'll have it for that price soon enough. I mean I understand collecting games but boxes that have no value after you redeem the code? Unless you've bandwidth restrictions - it's 8.9GB and not the 11GB that steam says.

 

I'd not checked GMG or anywhere (and it's £18 there now) so unless 'soon enough' is within a couple of weeks then I'm not too bothered (since I'll only get around to playing it after Arkham City anyway). And, yeah, I do like having a disc copy of my games.

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Oh and there's lives which means you might need to replay some levels just to get a lot of lives, maybe it's my ocd to make sure that I do have 10 lives to spare (in case some day I'm tired and/or my wife plays and loses a fair few lives)

 

A game over screen prompts you to try again, puts you at the start of the level and gives you 5 lives. Not much of a penalty.

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I also like having disc copies, because I don't trust the digital copy I "purchased" to not just evaporate into nothingness some day. I'll still buy digital copies, but only if they're really cheap (either in absolute terms or if they're significantly cheaper than the disc version).

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But with disc copies of Steamworks titles you get the best of both worlds. Lose the disc? You've still got it registered on Steam and can download it. Steam flakes out? You still have the disc version. :D

 

And if I lose them or they break then I would feel entirely justified in pirating a replacement copy. Also I've never lost or broken a game disc.

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Oh, and I don't have a clue what the plot is because I started skipping cutscenes as soon as I realized Sonic's dumb modern friends was in it.

 

Boy, it's almost as if this game is meant to capture the entire Sonic franchise, as if it were showing both...generations. What a shocker.

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