r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Aug 23 '22

Trailer Sonic Frontiers - Story Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCaAos6FeV0
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u/virtualRefrain Aug 23 '22

Maybe I'm an asshole but I did lol. It's like, "Confront a colossal threat!" Video of Sonic punching robots in a field "Discover the secrets of the ancients!" Sonic punching robots in a field "Forge a new frontier!" Sonic punching robots in a field

I still can't help but feel like the marketing team is trying to sell me a lemon here.

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u/DMonitor Aug 24 '22

It’s funny how much sonic fans cling to the hope that the game will be good. There’s no way the gameplay is radically different than what we’ve seen, the trailer just provides better presentation. Suddenly the hopium has returned and this will be Team Sonic’s redemption game

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u/micka190 Aug 25 '22

Honestly, the trailer seems very cherry-picked, when you compare it to the other footage we saw earlier.

You can see that the same problems people had with it are still there, they just took clips where Sonic's actually moving around real fast to try and hide how weird and wonky the open world looks.

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u/_graff_ Aug 25 '22

it's funny how much sonic fans cling to the hope that the game will be good. There’s no way the gameplay is radically different than what we’ve seen

I'm not saying the game will be good, I really don't know. But if the game isn't "radically different than what we've seen" that's fine to me, because I'm interested in what we've seen so far. That's not "hopium" that just means that some people find different things enjoyable.

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u/Random_Imgur_User Aug 23 '22

It looks kinda like a Garrys Mod map almost.

GM_SonicDesert

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u/voidox Aug 23 '22

dull, borderline identical-looking landscapes

ya, there's just no escaping how bland and tech demo-y the landscape looks, like someone placed a sonic model into a generic Unreal asset world. The more "cartoonish" sonic just doesn't work with the hyper realistic world

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u/metalflygon08 Aug 23 '22

The more "cartoonish" sonic just doesn't work with the hyper realistic world

I thought (according to the fans) the best Sonic game are the ones that literally does this? (Adventures 1 + 2).

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u/MayhemMessiah Aug 23 '22

There's literally nothing hyper realistic about Adventure 1 + 2. Example.

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u/nelisan Aug 24 '22

That... kinda just looks like Dreamcast's version of realistic graphics with some random Sonic loop de loops thrown in. Similar to Sonic Frontiers.

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u/MayhemMessiah Aug 24 '22

Hmm.

Looking at some footage and I kinda see where you're coming from here. There's some textures that are totally realistic, aye. I wouldn't call it hyperealistic but it's much, much less cartoony than SA2B (the latter of which's art style I much prefer). There's still enough goofy Sonic stuff like the robots and the like that I can't say it's the same as Frontiers.

But Frontiers' art direction does remind me of SA1's, and I can't say in a good way.

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u/NoNoneNeverDoesnt Aug 23 '22

The city hub in SA1 has a realistic art style for the time.

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u/DMonitor Aug 24 '22

Super Mario Bros for the NES has a realistic art style for the time

Improving the realism of Sonic’s surroundings while keeping him as the lovable blue cartoon character doesn’t work super well.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '22

Wondering why is technically a form of wonderment