Team Sonic Racing: Sonic Racing 3: Sonic Drift 5: But It's Got the R From Sonic R

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#50

i remain extremely skeptical that this game is anything but mediocre. still, i want it to be good. i really really really want it to be good.

eurogamer has the most positive take so far, but actually reading the review, nothing sounds particularly great.

DF PS4 analysis is out as well. pretty disappointing results for base PS4 - it targets but can’t hold 60 FPS, particularly when you use the team supers (which is often). 4-player splitscreen is 30 but dips to 20 often. ps4 pro has a nice res bump but still has framedrops. best option is to turn off supersampling and play at 1080p on the pro, which is close to a solid 60. boo. i imagine my pc can brute force this thing regardless but after the performance issues in their last two sonic racers, this is pretty fucking irritating.

i have to try this thing out, still. i want to see how the online ghost stuff works here.

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#51

reviews of the game led me to discover that they were actually going to have a story mode in the old sonic and sega racing games but didn’t have enough time and man what a missed opportunity

#52

it has never really looked as good as the last one to me

I do want to try it but it’s been cooking for a while and I don’t know that I like Big the Cat enough

also arcade racers are a weakness for eurogamer, they recommended onrush for chrissakes

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#53

OnRush was pretty cool…until there wasn’t more of a game there. I am glad it was a PSPlus thing I could play for a week.

#54

it was a doomed idea from the start to think people would rather drive as big the cat, icky the iguana, darius the armadillo and the rest of the dumb gang instead of golden axe from golden axe and giant egg from billy hatcher and the giant egg

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#55

Yeah and the transforming aspects were cool and well implemented.

I don’t care about story modes. I’d rather they spent time on more tracks.

#56

The new one seems to be slower in overall game speed.

#57

every seventh tier sonic character is more popular than the bonanza bros or opa opa it’s not fair but that’s the truth

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#58

there was an interview recently with some M2 guys and Reiko Kodama, who is the producer at Sega for the current Switch Sega Ages line, and she expressed shock that Alex Kidd, Sonic and Outrun sold super well in Europe

Sega doesn’t know what people who like Sega actually like

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#59

Skeptical as well, Eurogamer tends to hype anything Sumo Digital and Codemasters put out.

#60

Th real question then is:
wait for PC/steam version, or buy for xb1 or ps4?




Don’t judge or @ me, i have been playing sanic kart2 on and off for almost a decade now, and am ready to take anything, as long as its not that italian mad hatter and his weirdo-friends. So basically, as long as i haven’t driven big the cat in this new vidyagem, i will not believe any review or ytube persona telling me anything (aside from resident @Persona, ok)

I am not ready for handing my sanic-racing-badge in, is what i tell y’all.

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#61

Racing across the ruins of an ancient, vidyagame-loving civilization

is what the OST to this must be called.

#62

So, how does Big the Cat drift?
Kinda… like a… big cat, I suppose?





50km in:

On a scale from “Racing across ruins from an ancient civilization” to “Spotify Playlist: Partysongs 90ies” , this is… the latter, so far.

Kinda like Lukewarm Trundling, instead of Awesome Racing™.
i have to try all the characters and do more racing on the new traxxx, will report back when i have wrapped my head around what’s going on in this game.

so, if y’ask: buy/shortlist/watch/avoid?
… hmmmmm. watch, and see.

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#63

i am so, so extremely tempted to buy this. i already have a very good idea that i’ll play it for a few days, lament buying it, and then play it a few times in like 2025 and then put it down forever

but, but, but new kart game! fuck.

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#64

i’ve been playing transformed a bunch the last few days instead of buying this. transformed is pretty great! it has tedious progression, some jank collision, and a few other irritants, but overall it’s an extremely good game!

sadly my desire to buy new sanic only grows

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#65

a new day, a new shot at glory:

blue/reddish evening skies yesterday made me give it a second shot, and i start to get a liiittle bit more comfortable driving in this game. The addition of a third team in the story mode does help, and i started to pay more attention to my AI-team members. I still haven’t a clue what the wisps stand for, so i am handing them out left and right to tails and knuckles, since they are too slow for sonnick.

What Team Sonic made me realize again, almost a decade later:
Idk whether SEGA has realized that they’ve made a brilliant design decision in transformed, i.e. developing tracks that offer huge replayability-potential by offering different ways how to go about your racing, sometimes forcing you to go airborne or showboat your way around, wheverer you feel more confident when driving as a character - and then adding three, sometimes unique, transformations that are specific to each character and manage to pander to those very vocal sega-fans at the same time. and then add wonderful themepark-ride-esque track-designs. And a brilliant soundtrack.

I feel like i need more time with TSR to figure out how it fares, but i slowly feel like even though i didn’t want to, i cannot help myself still comparing it with transformed, it’s like you have listened to that gem of an album for a decade, and the artist finally follows up on it, and even though you take anything you can get, you feel that it’ll never be able to step out of that huge shadow of that otherworldly masterpiece.

Transformed has been too gooooooooooooooood

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#66

FWIW, I hear this game really shines in multiplayer, due to the team combo aspects. Kinda like Double-Dash.

#67

gotta try that as well then!

tonight, i even started trying to influence the positions of my members by driving looking backwards (and that’s a thing i absolutely avoid/don’t do in other games, eyes on th road ahead) - boosting tails to second place by virtue of a speed-boost/slipstream is fun.

it grows on me, bu-

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#68

the jim sterling video about this game highlighted a couple very annoying quirks with online - the post-game point-tallying and voting takes ages, and the matchmaker (at least for now) is having issues connecting to populated games, often dumping you in an empty room which is never joined by anyone else

the latter will surely be patched(?), but the former is a major turn-off

#69

Some good referencing in these

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