Why, SEGA? WHY?

[taco]

Okay, so in the first game, Shadow was riding around like a badass on his motorcycle, but now they've changed his vehicle to a big ugly ass tank. Pretty much any other character that had a motorcycle or anything but what resembled a car: their vehicle was changed. I find this a HUGE flaw in this game, as many vehicles were changed to big, bulky, ugly cars. How about you?

[EternalShinobi]

It was stated the reason for them doing this was to get the vehicle transformations to look smooth. It was probably too much of a hassle to get a motorcycle to trans into a boat/plane without it looking all awkward.

[taco]

Well that's a terrible excuse. They could have just done what they did with Football Manager and have an orb or something around the vehicle while transforming.

[DarthNocturnal]

Originally posted by PrimeSonic:

Another stated reason was that for the sake of balance, the hit-boxes on the vehicles needed to be roughly the same for all racers.

In the first game, you had large vehicles (like Eggman's) that could catch two item boxes at the same time and small motorcycles (like Shadow's) that could slip in between them if you weren't paying attention.

Weren't motorcycles also able to gain boosts with wheelies, to a somewhat-less-then balanced extent? I don't recall it being like Mario Kart Wii wheelies, but still, Shadow and Alex Kidd were both pretty good characters from what I recall.

[JP32]

and you could boost through whole track, making it impossible to anyone catch-up with you.

Like remember rolling glith in this game before they patched it? Something like that but you not limited to some areas and tracks

[EvathCebor]

"Okay, so in the first game, Shadow was riding around like a badass on his motorcycle"

Shadow was cheated. Now it's over. It's a great thing.

[jetjet (new proper computer)]

Like it changed anything. Shadow still runs like a cheater due to the high speed and boost and very used on boost tracks, flat ones.

Amazing changes.

[taco]

Originally posted by Jetty:

Like it changed anything. Shadow still runs like a cheater due to the high speed and boost and very used on boost tracks, flat ones.

Amazing changes.

Are you kidding? He goes so much slower now.

[jetjet (new proper computer)]

Originally posted by FS๖ۣۜTacotruckman87™:

Originally posted by Jetty:

Like it changed anything. Shadow still runs like a cheater due to the high speed and boost and very used on boost tracks, flat ones.

Amazing changes.

Are you kidding? He goes so much slower now.

People may not see it, but i have 103% completion of this game on ps3, managing to get on Adder's Lair 84 on the leaderboards with Vyse despite glitched times.
I have such hatred towards these characters on multiplayer online because of advantages.

And Adder's Lair is amazing and godlike broken track to have fun on. So many risk, danger boosts, stunts and the feel of EXTREME speed at the last part of the track on the lava.
I swear to god, how many times i noclipped through rocks just by being way too fast.

[taco]

Did the noclipping happen on PS3 or PC?

[jetjet (new proper computer)]

Originally posted by FS๖ۣۜTacotruckman87™:

Did the noclipping happen on PS3 or PC?

Oh it's ps3, i still need to play it on pc like many other games in my library.

[Seraphic/8X]

Knuckles get's the sweet bike now! :)

[[AuFur]Nitro]

though the motorbike was cool, (RIP Dark Rider) Shadow is no where need slow now.
I beat the whole world tour using Shadow and Amy. any big long turns and straights and shadow will knock it out the park.

[taco]

Originally posted by Samus Aran:

Knuckles get's the sweet bike now! :)

He had that in the original too. In the Wii version, at least.

[Draconic Creature]

Shadow? Slow? You really haven't played him at all, he's pretty much one of my favorite characters when I play, he is pretty damn fast, has really good handling and the boost is awesome.

And I actually prefer his default mod if you haven't noticed by now, I just really like it, it works perfectly.

[Rockhead Gaz]

Originally posted by Draconic creature:

Shadow? Slow? You really haven't played him at all, he's pretty much one of my favorite characters when I play, he is pretty damn fast, has really good handling and the boost is awesome.

Agreed. Shadow's tank is a beast.