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When a fan made game (Sonic Utopia) looks so much better by keepings its recognisable art style rather than mismatch of realistic environments with cartoon character.
When a fan made game (Sonic Utopia) looks so much better by keepings its recognisable art style rather than mismatch of realistic environments with cartoon character. from gaming
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this looks terrible.
I can hear the music
Concept is great but field of view is terrible
Yeah na, the flashing ground texture is hard on the eyes
Yeah this definitely hurts my eyes
Would be mind blowing if this came out on the Saturn back in the day.
This video should have a seizure warning.
This would have blown my little mind in 1996
gonna say chief, this shit looks trash
This does not look better than Frontiers. Shut up.
The grass needs a bit of a gradient between the light and dark colors and/or have the colors thicker so it strobes less so its less of an epilepsy issue.
And then they advertise it on Reddit
Gotta say you’re coping hard. If you want an actual comparison use sonic mania (it started as fan made) or project06.
Not sure I’d go with that exact execution, but I’m on board in principle.
Nope, this definitely does not look better. Makes me nauseous, and I don’t typically suffer from motion sickness inducing things.
This… looks bad
Ok but you can’t deny the first level of Sonic Adventure 2 was cool as fuck
Bruh this looks worse honestly
I think frontiers and this both highlight the issues of just planting Sonic in open world is. For one, no navigation makes the game difficult to know where to go. There is no hand rails. Remember the old SA games where you would just fly off and die in a chasm. I see this happening all the time. Miss a lot of rails. You need better control of your speed imo for open world to work.
First off, this is old as s***. Second, when you say keeping its recognizable art style, are you referring to Sonic 1 from 1991? Basically every Sonic game after the Genesis has had a different art style. And most of them had weird giant animal characters in New York City.
Looks so much better? Don’t get me wrong this ain’t complete dogshit, but it doesn’t at all look better.
The environments aren’t the problem of sonic games it’s always been about the weird gameplay decisions and cringe
Sonic Adventures was a fucking delight. Don’t you ever bad mouth that game again!
I would take modern sonic over this mess lol. The 2D environment of SEGA sonic games were amazing and used design philosophies very well. Here we have someones arguably great deal of effort to convert that to 3D but unfortunately does not pass quality control. Whether its the green bands giving me a headache or the FOV making sonic seem like an ant, this is a great example of how 2D does not always translate well to 3D. The amount of visual noise present in this is insane.
Honestly just the demo for this game is in my favorite games of all time list, and im not even a sonic fan.
Man people be really shitting on everything, who the fuck is annoyed by the looks of the new game?!
TBH, I dig the artstyle of Sonic ’06, etc. I feel like the anachronistic placement of Sonic and his friends into an otherwise regular ass world is apart of his identity at this point.
I agree that it’s weird seeing Sonic running around an otherwise photorealistic environment, but I’d choose it over this. For starters this is so bland, just the same few simple textures repeating endlessly. Plus these textures were created for a 2D environment where Sonic moved much slower, having them fly at the camera makes the ground look like it’s flashing, which is hard on the eyes.
Green Hill Zone from Sonic 1 may be the widely recognizable level, but I doubt even classic Sonic purists will say it’s where the franchise peaked aesthetically. So why copy that game’s art style when Sonic had evolved significantly for the better even by just Sonic 2?
Eh this is cool but sonic adventure 1 and 2 already did it better
Green Hill zone is literally a secret level on sonic adventure 2 already
I liked what we had in Sonic Adventures 2 better
What? The first sonic game that actually looks good in years and you’re complaining and saying “fan did it better”?
“New”Graphics aren’t even impressive to me. Having a STYLE is what is impressive. Sure sometimes it fits for the game’s aesthetic, but for Sonic, the environments have always been super bright, and vibrant. Frontiers almost looks generic unreal engine environments with Sonic Assets
I like the concept generally, but disagree completely that this looks better. This looks like a fun game that could have come out 20 years ago, but not even close to better than the recently released gameplay. It isn’t the environment that is the problem there in my opinion, it is the overall jank in the movement and combat and everything else. It’s like your looking at a game from the 2020s with the mechanics of a 20 year old game
Why is everyone so desperate for a 3D sonic? It works perfectly in 2D.
This is just roboblast 2 with extra steps
When the level just opened up and there was dufferent ramps leading fod now where my heart raced. The next second I thought, this is what 3d sonic could have looked like and played like? I feel cheated.
Epitome of newer games don’t just need ultra realistic graphics but better ui and art direction
I never liked the “realistic environments” and human NPC characters in the 3D sonic games just never fit in this looks awesome
Sonic’s 3D gameplay should honestly take a cue from racing games like Burnout Paradise or Forza Horizon. Use the triggers to accelerate and be able to drift around turns. I mean he’s basically just a car as a humanoid character model.
this looks nice
Looks like ass
This looks terrible. I can’t even look at it for very long.
Literally every sonic 3d game has a different art style. What are you on about? It’s just the way they wanna make the game look and feel
This is a great proof of concept, but I feel like there’s a better middle ground to find between this and the more realistic style environments.
If it were me I might look to LoZ Wind Waker for some inspiration on style.