One of the Best in the Series (Welcome, New Fans)

[mdesaleah]

By far this is still the game with the most content with replay value, best story, and best ranking system thats actually difficult and requires mastering. There's a reason this was the best selling third party game on Gamecube and still has a fan following today.

If its not the favorite for you, then its most likely in top 5 for sure.

One of those, hard to learn and fun to master games.

Edit: http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_Adventure_2_-_The_Truth_of_50_Years_Ago...

Some backstory the main game leaves vague and translated from a Japanese only guide.

Already knew about this, but since it never got officially translated it might be new information you haven’t seen.

How To Make Your Own Levels: Feel free to check out this tutorial for how to make your own SA2 level: https://gamebanana.com/tuts/15179 (not my guide)

Making a basic level only takes about 20 minutes, and you won't need to know how to code. However, for more advanced features such as rails or automated loops, you will need to know how to code to add those in, until new tools come out.

All you'll need is blender, a sonic adventure 2 add-on for blender, and a program called 'SATools,' and all of the links you need are included in the tutorial. You can either follow the steps or watch the indepth video.

Edit: Official Shadow Generations Shorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZK8bse3Quo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fwSuA7nbI

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/JA8vP5Z.png heres an obscure Japanese only one page comic that ends up adding some nice added context

Edit: really good explanation of how the ranking positively influenced the level design

https://m.youtube.com/watch?index=2238&list=LLqCNit03-7g5g4vJbdKZnCA&v=mlz-K3tRVxQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLrvh4Fgi4&ab_channel=Eldarin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqB9tZrR6DQ&ab_channel=Acruxicon

[ErMun]

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

Sonic Racing Cross Worlds announced.

Extremely vague teaser, but considering the name and how Shadow drives through a movie-style ring even though he's the normal game design....it could be a crossover racing game? Maybe something that mixes different canons?

Who knows, but its a new racing game.

passive hype

[mdesaleah]

Originalmente postado por ErMun:

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

Sonic Racing Cross Worlds announced.

Extremely vague teaser, but considering the name and how Shadow drives through a movie-style ring even though he's the normal game design....it could be a crossover racing game? Maybe something that mixes different canons?

Who knows, but its a new racing game.

passive hype

Teaser will probably come out separately.

Its only around 10 seconds long. But I think there can be a lot of theories from the name and how they show it.

[mdesaleah]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5wnYM11pQ

[GrimAtrament]

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5wnYM11pQ

woo another sonic in a car game.... can we please have riders back? XD

sorry just really really not a fan of the "lets put sonic in a car." sega keeps trying to make happen.

[mdesaleah]

Originalmente postado por GrimAtrament:

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV5wnYM11pQ

woo another sonic in a car game.... can we please have riders back? XD

sorry just really really not a fan of the "lets put sonic in a car." sega keeps trying to make happen.

They arent trying to make it happen. It already happened.

And it paid off twice with All Stars Racing, and All Stars Racing Transformed. Team Sonic Racing also looks decent, but it being more experimental puts it below the other two as I dont think its team mechanics really paid off.

If this is more like the previous two (and it seems likely to be the same devs as those three), then itll be fine.

(and who knows Cross Worlds could mean it actually does have Riders characters and stages in it, if its a crossover game)

[mdesaleah]

The font looks similar to both IDW and Prime?

More mysteries on what "cross worlds" means. And the dev might not be the All Stars Racing devs? Its HardLight, so the mobile team?

[mdesaleah]

Oh wait, the top left, hidden behind a blanked theres a Riders Extreme Gear........

Its really hard to tell.

Maybe you can drive them? Wouldnt be the first time theyve allowed multiple vehicles like the boats and the planes in Transformed.

[NBOX21]

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

Originalmente postado por GrimAtrament:

woo another sonic in a car game.... can we please have riders back? XD

sorry just really really not a fan of the "lets put sonic in a car." sega keeps trying to make happen.

They arent trying to make it happen. It already happened.

And it paid off twice with All Stars Racing, and All Stars Racing Transformed. Team Sonic Racing also looks decent, but it being more experimental puts it below the other two as I dont think its team mechanics really paid off.

If this is more like the previous two (and it seems likely to be the same devs as those three), then itll be fine.

(and who knows Cross Worlds could mean it actually does have Riders characters and stages in it, if its a crossover game)

Looks like it's not just a racing game, but a special racing game to see who's the fastest!

[Duckilous]

Interesting choice of Sega to only show the teaser trailer for the new Sonic Racing game and not include the launch trailer of Sonic 3 Movie DLC for Shadow Generations as well on The Game Awards. In fact, they just dropped that trailer while TGS was still on broadcast. https://youtu.be/Kk0cw0LtgdM Here's the store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2983600/SONIC_X_SHADOW_GENERATIONS_Sonic_the_Hedgehog_3_Movie_Pack/ Since I owned the Digital Deluxe edition, I was able to play the DLC immediately.
The Tokyo stage is fun to play, its BGM is a cool remix of Westopolis, and does have six collectable posters to find that you can view in the Collection Room which shows off some nice renders of the game's model of Movie Shadow...and that's pretty much about it.
There's only 1 Act which is three minutes long and 2 challenges.

I think the DLC is only worth half the price because although it's decent, it's too short for what it offers and you can't even use the Movie Shadow model as a skin outside the DLC stage which is unfortunate. Think of the DLC as just bonus content because that's what it is.

[mdesaleah]

^The DLC is what I expected. An Act thats there to tease the movie and cross promote. Having two challenges is already a bit more than expected even if its still not much.

$5 is probably due to Keanu voicing Shadow during it. Probably wasnt cheap to get him involved in the game too.

If this does well, they may consider making more DLC, or they could be busy with the next big new game.

[mdesaleah]

Originalmente postado por NBOX21:

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

They arent trying to make it happen. It already happened.

And it paid off twice with All Stars Racing, and All Stars Racing Transformed. Team Sonic Racing also looks decent, but it being more experimental puts it below the other two as I dont think its team mechanics really paid off.

If this is more like the previous two (and it seems likely to be the same devs as those three), then itll be fine.

(and who knows Cross Worlds could mean it actually does have Riders characters and stages in it, if its a crossover game)

Looks like it's not just a racing game, but a special racing game to see who's the fastest!

If its a crossover like I think it is, I would find it funny if they went all in on it.

Give a Chris's Mansion stage, Adventures of Robotnik as a driver, Underground music.

(probably just the more recent things if we're realistic since we don't know the full rights situation. So IDW, movie, Prime is what I'd expect. But that Riders board leaves things a little more open)

[ErMun]

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

Give a Chris's Mansion stage, Adventures of Robotnik as a driver, Underground music.

ayo what is this combo?

[mdesaleah]

Originalmente postado por ErMun:

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

Give a Chris's Mansion stage, Adventures of Robotnik as a driver, Underground music.

ayo what is this combo?

Its either that or a 3D model of Chris, and you dont want to see a 3D model of Chris lol

(realistically, if X does make it in then theyd pick Cosmo as a character, but its funny to tease)

[ErMun]

Originalmente postado por mdesaleah:

Originalmente postado por ErMun:

ayo what is this combo?

Its either that or a 3D model of Chris, and you dont want to see a 3D model of Chris lol

(realistically, if X does make it in then theyd pick Cosmo as a character, but its funny to tease)

nah, i'd like to see Chris. Maybe others guy would be funny to see as well.

[khaosklub]

I'm thinking cross worlds is basically all star racing transformed, but rebranded as sonic racing because of the team sonic racing and the popular mobile game.

I think it'll just be sonic racing against other sega sammy properties with a lot of DLC, with maybe the possibility of guest characters from other IPs.

or maybe it's a sonic racing game that crosses over with other sonic IP like boom, prime and the movie universe, and maybe having classic versions of the characters. maybe it'll have fang, mighty, ray, bark, bean, and trip or something.

and a final guess would be that it's just a typical sonic racing game like team sonic racing, but the plot involves crossing into different "world" or games, and you'll basically have sonic generations the racing game. instead of being in the current time/world like in sonic team racing with tracks based on prior levels, you'll be traveling to various points in the sonic timeline and racing in a couple stages based on levels from that game. like, maybe travel to sonic 1 and race in green hill, springyard and scrapbrain. then you go to sonic 2 and race in mystic caves, hilltop, and casino night, and so on with various mainline games, with other games as DLC or something. maybe we even get a toxic caves track.