Sonic Forces Will Be Xbox One X Enhanced

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1. I believe that forces will be fantastic

2. “First Sonic game to run at 4K”

   I have a recommended queue of Sonic Generations mod videos on Youtube that suggests otherwise. XP

   1. Those are unofficial though. This is the first official support of 4K in a Sonic game, hence why it’s *more* noteworthy.

      Still don’t know what to make of Forces though.

      1. That is incorrect. The official release of Sonic Generations on PC plays at 4K WITHOUT mods. My GTX 1080 is equally ready for 4K Sonic Forces as well!

3. I believe that this game will be amazing on Switch and Xbox One X with the high graphics.

   1. And I believe they will all have terrible frame rates, we’ve already seen the framerate tank on Switch and 4K plus 60 FPS plus Sonic Team is a recipe for disaster

      1. Believe it or not, the Switch is slower than the Wii U while undocked which explains the frame rate drops everyone is reporting. The Xbox One X, on the other hand, has the mighty graphical performance of a desktop Radeon RX 480. Putting that into perspective, on PC, the RX 480 can blast through Sonic Generations at 4K at 120 fps+ like it was chomping through chili dog hash. You can expect blisteringly fast performance of the same caliber with Sonic Forces.

4. Good to know, but do I really need to spend an additional $500 on a console with little to no first party game support?

   lolmicrosoft. Delaying and canceling games left and right. Such a bad investment and waste of money.

   1. Exclusives need to die.
      You don’t see me buying a Disney blueray player just so i can watch disney movies nor buying a chromebook so i can use youtube. The practice it’s just so unfriendly.

      1. @Tinman

         Agreed, let us hope Nintendo goes out of the console bussiness someday and becomes a third party publisher.

         1. I would rather Nintendo not going third-party, since they are really the only ones offering a decent portable console gaming experience with Switch (what with Sony, unfortunately, having given up on that segment after the Vita). If anything, at this point, it is stationary home console game exclusives that I do not really see a point of, considering most of them can be done on the PC and offer the same experience.

      2. I’m not the biggest fan of consoles in general. Even tho I do have a standard PS4. I just wish Sony and Nintendo would jump in on the PC platform and provide us with digital platforms similar to Steam, Origin, uPlay and the Windows Store. I believe that is the future.

         1. Disney doesn’t have it’s own brand of DVD player, but they are pushing out their own exclusive streaming service.

   2. Well, yes, but they did learn from there financial crisis and there mistakes. Heh. Xbox one X is ok, but I’m not interested to spend that kind of money on a console.

5. You know, I used to abbreviate Xbox One as XBO. Which means the Xbox One X becomes XBOX.

   Crafty sons of bitches.

   1. XBONEX

      1. XbOX?
         Xb1X?
         XB OX?

         Eh lets just stick with XBOX. lol

6. I just wanna let you know, that Sonic Mania ruins at native 4K on ps4 pro. So forces isn’t the first 4K game, which is incredibly funny considering its just pixels.

7. “Still, whether the game will be a good one is the key question right now. And that has yet to be answered.”

   So far its looking promising, at least as good as Generations and way better than Unleashed and Colors, I believe the hype will rise some more after they show more brand new stages.

   Can’t wait for Gamescon!

   1. Unless it actually starts looking like Generations and not Color/Lost World wearing that game’s skin it’s gonna generate nothing but anti-hype beyond the niche base who simply don’t give a shit what it plays like. It can’t even fall back on having Classic Sonic for hype as they haven’t improved it over Generations which is going to be apparent to everyone due to Mania.

      1. I would rather have a new “formula” than the return of the Boost and Classic gameplay but I hope they get the most out of it in Forces, is too soon to tell since they have only shown two stages so far.

         1. They already did a new formula and everyone said sonic was dead. Granted, a lot of that was because of Boom… Which isn’t even the same main series.

            The boost formula was the last one people liked and people said that they dislike how the post formula was finally progressing and then suddenly ditched. If anything this could at least to be the last boost. But I don’t think it looks anything like sonic colors. Maybe sonic generations because boost sonic and classic sonic are there. But so far that’s kind of it. And that doesn’t really define sonic generations as much as the actual representation of generations did through many stages of sonic history. If anything, this having a custom character and a new story makes the inclusion of classic sonic feel like they are treating classic sonic as an individual character and not just piggybacking off of modern sonic by being his past self.

            At the very least we can say that weather forces ends of being good or bad, it’s at least interesting in concept and a lot more so then people are recognizing. You could say that they are playing it safe, but bringing classic sonic back and letting us make up a character, bringing back a villain from lost world, making shadow bad again and bringing back chaos, making yet a new villain that is not eggman, making him edgy during a time when everyone is annoyingly over using the word, and even having dimensions and the villain already having won, to me seems like as far away from safe as they could play it at the moment. If he very mixed response to the game so far isn’t a sign of that.

         2. @Axx

            I wouldn’t call Sonic Lost World a new formula but rather a Mario Galaxy rip-off.

            And while I like the Boost formula I would hope Sonic Team would keep pursuing an adaptation of the Sonic Genesis/CD/Mania gameplay in the 3D world, something they were getting close to with the Adventure games but lacking more physics based gameplay, mechanics, etc.

8. Wait, isn’t also going to be on the PS4 Pro?

   1. Yeah, it will probably have benefits.

9. Problem: People complain about 4K 60 fps Forces being sickeningly exclusive to Xbox One X.

   Solution: Buy the PC version and set resolution and refresh rate to 4K 60 HZ. Exclusivity syndrome averted.

10. 4K my ass. Nothing but marketing bullshit from Microsoft, considering the games in “4K” are checkerboxed. But hey more power the better, even though PC will most likely be the superior version.

11. I believe that Sonic Forces will do well. SEGA and Sonic Team has said that they were (finally) pushing for quality over quantity for both Forces and Sonic Mania. Since Mania is doinig a great job at “Making Sonic Great Again,” I think Forces will do good to.

    By the way, my nickname is NOT an OC.

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