/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2022293
Care to elaborate a bit on this, OP? I'm not familiar with this. Looks like Sonic Mode 7: The Game. You have my interest.

>>2022305
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPk2rGgg7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePIWmjV4bg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIP6GlmyXuI

>>2022305
http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_X-treme

How does this seriously look playable in any way?

>>2022313
>>2022312
Thank you kindly.

>>2022313
>Tiara Boobowski, Sonic's love interest in Sonic X-treme.
>Boobowski

>>2022323
The earlier gameplay stuff didn't, but further into development it looked very promising.

>>2022323
Some levels look fucking amazing.

>>2022437
it's only a few levels that they literally put together in one week

>>2022338
>Sonic
>love interest

>>2022440
That only makes it sound more impressive.

>>2022293
We won't have it because it never existed as a game. They made demos of 4 or 5 different engines (not even counting the Nights one) split on 3-4 different platforms. Executives only saw demos which weren't up to date and ordered the otherwise finely progressing engines to be halted; development rebooted on different engines due to executive meddling, and so on. Plus Sega themselves had no clue on what hardware to use anyway (they tried getting a new console out already by 1995 using NVidia hardware).

>>2022463
They could all be pieced together

>>2022446

>>2022471
How exactly would you piece it together when you have one engine running on PC on an Nvidia NV1 card, while another engine is running on a Saturn?

>>2022475
No wonder they scrapped this character.

>>2022475
Looks pretty one sided to me, but it's cute. This could've worked as an ironic couple, kind of like Jessica Rabbit.

>>2022485
Port all the content from Saturn and Nvidia to PC.

>>2022495
Pauline didn't look like that until 1994, 3 years after Sonic was released.

>>2022510
Is this better.

>>2022293

We're getting Sonic Boom.

According to wikipedia, Chris Senn is the main level designer for it, so it's as close as we'll ever get without a leak.

I'm pretty sure Sonic Boom will kill any desire anyone still has to play this thing.

>>2022601
Shut up, they're nothing alike.

>>2022623
They are perfectly alike, they are both shit.

>>2022601
nice troll. almost had me

>>2022557
Close enough, but this is how she looked in the JPN art.

>>2022293
I'll never get the appeal of Sonic X-treme.
Looks like a very shit game to me.
Then again, people like that shitty Sonic Robo Blast game and this looks similar to me.

>>2022674
I don't regret the fact that we got Nights instead of Sonic Xtreme. Fuck Sonic fanboys and revisionists who won't let that game go. It's almost as bad as the people still obsessed with RE1.5 when everyone involved in the game's production said it was going to be shit.

>>2022293
Assemblergames just found some new beta desks they are trying to dump I think.

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?54194-Sonic-X-treme-Point-of-View-Info-help-required

>>2022701
lol disks*

>>2022701
>Assemblergames

huehuehue

>>2022475
>>2022496
>This is supposed to be Madonna

>>2022312
those later versions (the "Team C" engine in particular) look pretty impressive for a saturn game

>>2022685
I love NiGHTS and don't care much for Sonic, but X-Treme looked very promising and interesting, though clearly very rough and experimental.
I'd love for it to be recovered and polished, one day.

you guys don't know Andrew75? i'm so disappointed...

>>2022685
>instead
well, they were two separate projects made by different teams in different locations

It's not like Sonic Xtreme would have meant no Nights

>>2022908
I know about ASAX, it looks very good so far, but it's not the real thing. Plus it looks like he's using higher res textures now instead of those blocky Saturn textures, which is disappointing.

>>2022305
>there are actually people one this board who don't know about Sonic X-treme

I mean I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but I thought that game's "crash & burn" was fairly common knowledge

I'm sorry did you just say WAUGHMP WAUGHMP?

>>2022293
I can't understand the appeal of this game at all. it just looks like a jumbled up mess of platforms that doesn't really look like anything and also looks like a pain in the ass to navigate.

Sonic in 3D what I've wanted for a long time, and Sega's execution of it has never been good. As much as i want to see a point to it, Sonic Xtreme is the last possible way that I could ever see it happen and actually be good.

>>2022460
Here's a somewhat logical 3d environment. Let's fuck it up with a fisheye lens!

>>2023515
Fuck you, the fisheye is great.

>>2023518
If you like not being able to see shit, especially when you pick up speed.

It would be sonic 2 gg all over again.

>>2023524
You can see things just fine.

>>2023541
Only in front of you, and that's when Sonic isn't directly in your way as you move forward. When moving left and right you only get a few blocks worth of distance ahead of you to tell what's coming in time. It wouldn't work well at all given any kind of high-speed motion going left or right. I know that Sonic isn't as much about speed as the common perception these days would make you believe, but this camera setup would just make it a pain to navigate levels.

>>2023607
You're not cutting off any of your vision by adding fisheye, dipshit. It only gives it that unique rounded look. If anything, you can see MORE of what's in front of you, since it gets wrapped around more.

>>2023712
By in front I mean to the side you're going.
I even made a shitty diagram.

>>2023435

this

>>2023464

>>2023781
I appreciate your diagram, but while I may agree in theory, the actual execution based on screenshots has more in common with your non-fisheye example. The camera is zoomed too far inward. Your example would require the left and right ends of the level track to be visible, while the xtreme screenshots I've seen have the camera too zoomed in for that to work out. As a result, what should be gained in the fisheye effect is lost, and what's left over is the bizarre distortion of level geometry.

>>2022312
Wow sonic X-TREME actually looks awesome in the videos (at least the MAc/PC version)

Do want to X-PERIENCE this game someday.

>>2024037
Lel.

Anyway, I'm sincerely hoping we get to play it some day. Saturn was the first game console that was actually mine and I love it dearly. I'm also a huge Sonic fanboy, so it has always stung that I was never able to play this.

>>2022601
He worked so hard to make Sonic Xtreme that he put his body to it's limits and a nurse told him he only had 6 months to live, so he had to drop out from the project

>>2024696
I remember reading awhile back that someone (supposedly who you're referring to) wanted to complete the game.

This was some time ago. Evidently it never came to pass.

I hope he hadn't died and reason got to him before then.

I would think that this game just suffered from the same kind of troubles that a lot of other games probably had to go through.

But Sega takes mismanagement to an entirely new fucking level.

They couldn't have shit the bed more thoroughly in the mid to late 90's if they had tried.

I think AXSX is the closer we will get but as far as I remember it was aiming to be quite faithful. Also it had input from Chris Senn didn't it? It's strange AXSX is only mentioned once in this thread. I didn't know about the hi-rez textures, I'd rather have ones equal to the ones in the Saturn.

Also, Sonic Lost Word took uncommented inspiration from Sonic X-Treme. In X-Treme not only you had the fish eye lens, but some slopes you could go changed the rotation of the entire level. I think it would've been a fine game and very interesting if released.

>>2024810
Forgot the pic sorry

>>2022312

jesus christ it looks so nausiating.

>>2022475

better than Amy

>>2024935
Sonic carrying along and taking to a love pillow would be better than Amy.

I'll put it next to my Mega Flygon and playable Ridley.