What would an HD 2D Sonic look like?

Post by **aaron** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:04 pm

i loved after lava reef when everything got cold and dark and you went to the crystal palace... so awesome.

i have to bust these out again.

Post by **Droid party** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:02 pm

Zandengoff wrote:That one screenshot shows all that could be awesome if sega would get back in touch with thier audience. Makes me so so happy and so very sad all at the same time.

The trouble is that Sega are targeting young children. My 10 year old nephew loves the new sonic games because they target his demographic and pretty much alienate all others . If sega listened to the older fans by going back to their roots and made something that we all liked regardless of age, I know that the younger kids would like it also.

The reason I believe this to be true is that every time I take out my Mega drive and let him play the old sonic games he loves them almost as much as me, I bet he won't have the same affection for his sonic games when he hits his mid 20's.

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:26 pm

Good thing I featured this on the front page:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sega/200 ... in-hd.html

It's now on the front page of digg:
http://digg.com/gaming_news/If_Sonic_th ... In_HDh_PIC

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:53 pm

Racket, have you contacted the guy to let him know about all this? It seems like he's the type of person who doesn't realize how awesome something is that he created, and so he didn't make an effort to spread the word about it. I can't believe it got 500+ diggs.

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:05 pm

Mozgus wrote:Racket, have you contacted the guy to let him know about all this? It seems like he's the type of person who doesn't realize how awesome something is that he created, and so he didn't make an effort to spread the word about it. I can't believe it got 500+ diggs.

I looked for a way to contact him, but I don't see any email address, comments form, or anything....
Hopefully, he has stats on his site and see a bunch of links from me....
I'd love to talk to him, interview him, or at least convince him to make more

Post by **kinn** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:10 pm

racketboy wrote: I'd love to talk to him, interview him, or at least convince him to make more

This has to be done!

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:04 pm

It's got over 1,000 diggs now in just a couple hours.
Almost had 50,000 page views...

Post by **Droid party** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:54 pm

racketboy wrote:It's got over 1,000 diggs now in just a couple hours.
Almost had 50,000 page views...

Now it's nudging up towards 1500.

Post by **samratty** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:21 pm

Hmm... The idea is amazing of course but I'm not sure I really like the way it's done in this image (His similar Metroid image however I worship). I think it's overly detailed for a Sonic game, just because it's in HD doesn't mean you have to exploit every pixel. It's mainly the boss that I dislike, but as it's the mian focal point you can understand why it taints the rest of the image.
Not to be on too much of a downer tho, it is a really good image just a few things I would personally change. Personally I think the Metroid image is more infitting with it's style than this is to Sonic.

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:27 pm

samratty wrote:It's mainly the boss that I dislike, but as it's the mian focal point you can understand why it taints the rest of the image.

Well, that's exactly how it looks in the real game (just with less detail and polish)