Sonic Origins Trailer, Prices, Animation, & Extras Officially Revealed [U]

Posted By: BenVSA

There was a brief fifteen minutes where I was excited knowing this was two months away… then I saw the graph… and the pricing…

I’m waiting for a sale/price drop. God. Dammit. Sega.

That is a really great trailer. Gave me goosebumps. Love the animations as well!

I'm a little dissapointed that they don't included the 3D overworld like in Sonic Jam. 

Posted By: Godot

Am I alone on this? Something that would have made this worthwhile for me is a playable Amy! Seems like the best time now, with all the main Genesis games here rebuilt, wasted opportunity.

Posted By: Nuzamaki90

$45 is a bit of an ask, I was excited and now I’m cautiously optimistic.

Posted By: Greatsong1

This is nice, I’m excited (mainly because of the animated content, the other extras, and Whiteheard & Thomley’s involvement in this then anything else).

I've got two questions at this stage... Will the Drop Dash be included, and what soundtrack will be included in S3K? 

3 minutes ago, Blue Blood said:

I've got two questions at this stage... Will the Drop Dash be included, and what soundtrack will be included in S3K? 

Some folk have been posting this clip from the trailer. Not a solid confirmation yet but possible drop dash. I'd be surprised if it isn't at least an unlockable.
 

3 minutes ago, PickleBrows said:

Some folk have been posting this clip from the trailer. Not a solid confirmation yet but possible drop dash. I'd be surprised if it isn't at least an unlockable.
 

 

That's pretty clear cut, honestly. It was already included in the AGES versions of S1/2, so it would be doubly surprising if it wasn't here. 

They couldn't even put Knuckles in CD. Very disappointed really. Great that 3K is getting the widescreen treatment... But I feel there are cheaper ways to play these. Essentially we're getting the mobile ports (which are free) with added features. $40 does not seem to be worth it. Plus the animations will be up on YouTube in a day

Posted By: Shard the Angel

Need more info on the medallions/coins system

On 4/20/2022 at 6:24 PM, Shard the Angel said:

Need more info on the medallions/coins system

We sure do, don’t we? Probably museum unlockables. Art and music and stuff.

Posted By: supersonic

Now if they had Knuckles Chaotix, SEGASonic the Hedgehog and a miniature 3D world like Sonic Jam as an unlockable, I'd say it'd be worth it....

Posted By: Metal

It’s interesting. There’s some inclusions I wasn’t expecting like the 4:3 mode and the mission mode. But still so much from other releases that don’t seem to be included. None of Sonic Jam’s difficulty or layout settings, no Mega Play mode for 1 & 2, and no Ring Saver mode. I’ll forgive the lack of 3D since manufacturers seem to have stopped supporting that, so that feature can stay on the 3DS. There’s also quite a bit we don’t know too, like are Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles available in their not locked-on states, is a stand alone Blue Sphere mode available like you’d get locking S&K on to Sonic 1, are Sonic’s moves like the Super Peel Out and Insta-Shield available in other games, and are both the Genesis and PC versions of the S3&K soundtracks available?

Depending on the presence or absence of some of these features that haven’t been revealed yet, while this collection may be the best official way to play each of these titles, they are certainly not the definitive way to play them nor the best unofficial. It’s the best port Sega has done in a long time, but there’s still more that can be improved.

Posted By: Viper

Uh digital only... it means 'forget it', to me.

Posted By: vanilla

“is a stand alone Blue Sphere mode available like you’d get locking S&K on to Sonic 1”

You can see a dedicated Blue Sphere option in the menus, in one of the above screenshots.

On 4/20/2022 at 5:06 PM, Godot said:

Am I alone on this? Something that would have made this worthwhile for me is a playable Amy! Seems like the best time now, with all the main Genesis games here rebuilt, wasted opportunity.

Amy has nothing going for her that would make people want to play as her though outside of simply being a fan favorite. Why would I ever chose to play as Amy over Sonic? All the other characters from Mania Plus for example give me reasons to play as them over Sonic; Tails can fly, Knuckles can glide and climb and has exclusive routes, Mighty has a ground-pound and a one-hit immunity from spikes, Ray can fly forever until the player runs into a wall. What does Amy have going for her outside of being a fan favorite?

On 4/20/2022 at 5:46 PM, John43 said:

They couldn't even put Knuckles in CD. Very disappointed really. Great that 3K is getting the widescreen treatment... But I feel there are cheaper ways to play these. Essentially we're getting the mobile ports (which are free) with added features. $40 does not seem to be worth it. Plus the animations will be up on YouTube in a day

I'm still pre-ordering this but I am bumbed that Knuckles isn't in CD, maybe they can add him in a future update or something though. I still think this is a better deal than last year's Mario 3D Allstars.

On 4/21/2022 at 12:19 AM, OtakuHedgehog said:

Amy has nothing going for her that would make people want to play as her though outside of simply being a fan favorite. Why would I ever chose to play as Amy over Sonic? All the other characters from Mania Plus for example give me reasons to play as them over Sonic; Tails can fly, Knuckles can glide and climb and has exclusive routes, Mighty has a ground-pound and a one-hit immunity from spikes, Ray can fly forever until the player runs into a wall. What does Amy have going for her outside of being a fan favorite?

Check out the Advance series, Amy is a fun character to play as in those. Her pico hammer is very versatile, from giving her jumps a bit of a boost to making her attacks more powerful. Her moveset is pretty varied in those games. Though, the issue with this would be her appearance would be the Sonic CD version, so she wouldn't have the pico hammer which most of her more unique movesets are based off of. Any game made pre-adventure wouldn't do Amy right, as most of her more special traits appear from Adventure onwards. Amy can be a fun character to play as, but Post-Adventure.

Posted By: Greatsong1

I love how Devolver Digital mocks Origins’ DLC method here, lol.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/04/sonics-stupid-dlc-practices-sliced-apart-by-devolver-digitals-trek-to-yomi

what if they do a special version of origins or have a $20 DLC pack that includes mania, the master system and game gear games, spinball, mean bean machine, 3D blast, and chaotix? might be stretching it/ it's probably really unrealistic. however i dont think it's a bad idea

Maybe Steam would do a big Sonic pack with the versions that are already there, but I don't think they'd reissue the same collection with that much extra content without calling it a new collection entirely. Even Mega Collection Plus didn't go that far.

I mean, I'd like to get a Sonic collection that literally has all the Sonic shit from the 90s. All five genesis platformers, Spinball and Mean Bean, 3D Blast, all the game gear games (both pico games?), SegaSonic, Fighters, R, and Jam's Sonic World. But it's not gonna happen. Not enough people give a shit about the vast majority of those games (and enough of them are frankly just not good) for it to be remotely viable. It's a pipe dream. We can't even get games that were already included on previous Sonic Collections.

The only way we'd get any sort of collection with an absolute comprehensive definitive catalog of everything before 1998 is if SEGA is absolutely convinced that there won't be any more avenues to sell optimized ROM files in the future. 

If anything, we'd be more likely to see a Sonic Game Gear collection as a separate entry, and we won't because as @Shaddy Zaphod said, no one outside of hardcore Sonic fans/collectors or the extremely curious type are going to put the money down for it. 

It stinks, but Sonic Origins isn't the place for every retro game to be added in anyway, as the focus is very much specifically the core 16-bit "Classic Suite" being remastered in widescreen and all that. 

Anyway, just now realizing that this is the trailer thread, so not sure why we're talking about this here.