Sonic Generations 3DS Officially Dated in North America

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1. The game’s looking alright, but it seriously needs some more exposure. Hopefully within the three weeks in between the releases of both versions, we’ll see more of it.

2. Well we just have to wait and see what transpires then.

3. Okay, gotta pay this off asap, lol. Between this, Generations PS3, Mario 3D Land, and Assassin’s Creed, I’ve got alotta money in GameStop’s bank.

4. That’s-a-mah birthday!

5. @Milo…day after mine lol… Tis Sonic’s 20th and its my 30th…Sheesh I’m old LOL. Nah..screw it…age means nothing these days…

6. Seriously… what’s the problem with this game?

7. 2 days after my b-day! gonna get this for sure!… after i get my driver’s license that day to, weird 😮 might as well drive there by myself to buy a sonic game for the first time :).

8. Hmm… it might turn out not to suck THAT much…

9. T, i appreciate your preview and all, but i respectfully disagree with you.
   While the game is not perfect, it does look fantastic for what it is: a HANDHELD Sonic game. It was built for a different kind of people who wants to get a fun, little experience on the go (not saying that the 3DS version lacks content, after all it has streetpass, missions, online multiplayer and more.) like the Rush series. While the level design could use some work, we still haven’t seen the rest of the zones, so i think we can’t judge the game by the first levels (Green Hill looks kinda linear and easy in BOTH versions of the game, but that’s because it’s the first level. Mushroom Hill is the third level and it looks kinda empty, sure, but CE is half-way through the game and it doesn’t look so epic either.)
   Anyway, November is going to be the best month for my 3DS with Mario 3D Land and Generations.

10. Sega of America officially confirmed the 22nd for NA, and same goes for Sega of Europe on the 25th.

11. I’d rather they polish the game more instead of it release it too soon. (*Thinks back to Sonic 2006*.) Yeah, big mistake. But it’s SEGA and mistakes is pretty much all they do.

12. @Chocoburger: SEGA only publishes. SonicTeam, their Sonic division, and occasionally Dimps make the Sonic games.

13. @Chocoburger
    But the 3DS version is nothing but a cheap knock-off of its console counterpart (a.k.a the GOOD version), so it’s no loss for those who have a 360/PS3/PC.

14. Hell yeah!

15. @QuietGuy
    Shut up.

16. @A
    U mad?

17. It’s not a cheap knock-off. The sole purpose of Sonic Generations 3DS was to celebrate the HANDHELD Sonic games. They’re seperate games.

18. While I disagree that Generations 3DS celebrates mainly handheld Sonic games, I don’t think it’ll be bad. I think it’ll be quite fun, though I must say NO 3DS game to date is worth 40 bucks. For Sonic and for Mario 3D Land, I am making an exception, lol.
    Definitely getting this AND Generations for PS3, two blasts from the past, awesome way to celebrate Sonic’s 20th.

19. @IK3Viin
    Celebrate the handheld games, MY ASS. The only handheld games it’ll celebrate will be the Sonic Rush series. Does Generation 3DS celebrate the Game Gear titles as well as the Sonic Advance GBA series? No, it doesn’t.
    Sorry, but a cheap knockoff’s a cheap knockoff.

20. @DoctorEggman
    …Uhhhhh… Dead or Alive Dimensions, Super Street Fighter 4, Ocarina of Time, De Blob 2, Pac Man and Galaga, Starfox 64 3D, Rayman Origins, Pilotwings, Paper Mario, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Mario Kart 7, Paper Mario, Kid Icarus, Kingdom Hearts 3D, and maybe Contra… XD

21. @ QuietGuy: It may not have game gear or advance levels but maybe Iizuka was refereing to the fact that Sonic has portable games and they want to celebrate it by having a handheld game. Plus I’ve come to think that maybe Iizuka was misquoted.

22. also it was almost a dead give away when Sonic Heroes special stage was going to be included in what was suppose to be a handheld levels spree bar the console levels.

23. * dang it I should proof read before i post I meant classic levels not console levels

24. @QuietGuy
    Sorry for being so blunt. The 3DS version is not a knockoff, because it has features the console versions don’t, and vice versa. (multiplayer mode, different levels, etc). If a game was a knockoff, it would be Sonic Colors DS for having the same areas as the Wii version.

25. @Timothy
    But it still doesn’t make sense not to have Sonic Triple Trouble and Sonic Chaos be brought back for the new generation on the 3DS. Iizuka’s just want to fuck with the classic fanbase as usual.

26. @QuietGuy: I personally would have loved to try a Sonic Triple Trouble or Chaos level, never had a game gear. I hope Sonic Triple Trouble makes it to the US eShop cuz I would buy it. Also remember that it was Iizuka himself that brought back the team chaotix but retooled them so they basically weren’t like their Knuckles Chaotix selves. I find it odd though that the console version has small references to advance stages ( looking at you Sky Sanctuary). MAYBE and this is far fetched but Maybe the Modern Boss is an advance Boss ( I can still dream right)plus there is still the possibility of multiplayer.

27. @Stephan: lol, what about those games?

28. @iKevin
    “The sole purpose of Sonic Generations 3DS was to celebrate the HANDHELD Sonic games.”
    Absolutely 100% wrong and fabricated statement that you concocted in your head. That’s your fault for being an idiot. Nowhere in any statement was it ever said that the 3DS versions’ sole purpose, or even primary purpose was to celebrate the handheld history. Only that it would celebrate it in some fashion.
    @QuietGuy
    “But it still doesn’t make sense not to have Sonic Triple Trouble and Sonic Chaos be brought back for the new generation on the 3DS.”
    Sure, it makes no sense to not focus on a few nondescript levels that only the slightest fraction of the fanbase has experienced. No sense at all.
    Disregarding the vast majority of people that would pick it up and be all “What is this Great Turqoise shit? I wish they would have put Casino Night Zone in instead.”
    You know. Zones from games that people actually played.

29. @Doctor Eggman
    …They’ll all be awesome and probably worth 40 bucks… XD

30. @x
    Alright, so the Game Gear games were overlooked by a majority of the fanbase. Sure, most of the younger Sonic fans wouldn’t know where the fuck Robotnik Winter or Sunset Park originated from. And Casino Night plus Mushroom Hill fits more at home with the 3DS version than its HD counterparts (where they’ve could’ve been actual levels for DLC).
    Happy now?
    @Timothy
    Sonic Triple Trouble is already available on the 3DS EShop.
    @A
    Yes, I know the multipler mode and different levels but the classic gameplay has EVEN WORSE physics than those of S4 with copy/paste level layouts and the modern gameplay is literally just “boost-to-win” (very dissapointing compared to the more complex sections starting with Sky Sanctuary in the HD version).
    THAT’S why I called it a cheap knock-off.

31. @QuietGuy
    I do not really agree with the fact that you are calling this version a cheap knock off, although if they had more time it could have been better, but it is pretty good to warrant a purchase at this point. But I do completely agree with you when it comes to the sense that they skipped Sonic’s handheld games, like I would have loved to see the train chase in Sunset Hill from Sonic Triple Trouble or the Bridge Zone and the Jungle Zone form Sonic the Hedgehog. plus I believe it would have matched better with the graphics style as well (the enhanced 2.5 D view would make the experience of those older handheld games would have looked very cool). They also skipped over the well known Sonic Advance series (although emerald coast bares resemblance to the first stage in sonic advance), and I do not know what they are going to do with the Rush series. But they could have done a lot more with the handheld games.

32. @AM
    You can thank Iizuka who thinks two classic stages from the console games (which should’ve been DLC) are better than having levels from handhelds like the Game Gear and the Game Boy Advance which would’ve made more sense to include on a modern handheld like the 3DS.
    Plus with Dimps (who’ve fucked up what could’ve been a proper sequel to S3K) on the development team, things has taken a turn for the worst.

33. The game’s not so much a cheap knock-off more than it is a inferior cash-in on the console version solely to appeal to their Nintendo consumers. Apparently this “celebration of the handheld history” (quoted by Iizuka himself) is supposed to compensating for a console port of Generations to the Wii, because the Wii doesn’t do ESH DEE (which they pretty much should had done anyway in the first place without Dimps’s help, even if the Wii port wouldn’t be in ESH DEE).
    Hell, even Iizuka himself disagreed with Nintendo Power about the 3DS version being superior to the HD version.

34. I’m getting a 3DS, but not Sonic Generations 3DS. *Goes home pouting* Classic homing attack indeed…

35. @Stephan
    There’s also Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle (coming out in December).

36. @Ananze
    None of this would’ve happen if Iizuka just said “You know, instead of bringing more console stages into the 3DS, let’s just remake the best levels from Sonic’s 20 years of handheld history. WITHOUT the help of Dimps.”
    So the Wii’s not in HD, big deal. They’re still able to make the damn game. Remember Sonic Colors? They’ve pushed the graphics to the limit to make them comparable to the 360/PS3. 480p doesn’t mean the game is shit, but the Nintendo fans could’ve had a fun experience like the 360/PS3 owners will.

37. @QuietGuy92
    Requoting my original post:
    Apparently this “celebration of the handheld history” (quoted by Iizuka himself) is supposed to compensating for a console port of Generations to the Wii, because the Wii doesn’t do ESH DEE (which they pretty much should had done anyway in the first place without Dimps’s help, even if the Wii port wouldn’t be in ESH DEE).

38. @Stephan, well if you like the price and make that much money, awesome, but I can find much better value for that much money on nearly all of those games. I especially don’t think the ports and remakes and cheap cash-ins are worth that 40 dollar pricetag.

39. Also, alotta those games aren’t even out, lol. And listing Paper Mario twice doesn’t count. 😛
    I think the MOST a 3DS game should be is 30 bucks, and DS games by now should be 20 at most. I could understand a higher price for a much more powerful new system like Vita, but for something that more or less mimics graphics on PSP (from the DS era! Last gen stuff) and iPhone with a noticably lower rssolution, I find 40 bucks for each game hard to swallow. Like I’m wasting money when I could be buying better stuff elsewhere. Sorry for my mini rant thingie, but yeah. ^^;

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