Apparently it was so fricking smooth it couldn't even run on the Saturn and when they downgraded it, it just looked like Bug. So yes, if it was a PC game it could've done decently.
With how much flak Sonic 3D Blast and even Adventure get from YouTube essayists, it’d be a miracle if Xtreme got away unscathed. It probably would’ve done down as the bubsy 3D of the series, not only for how it probably plays but how it looks.
It probably would have played kinda like Nights, but faster. I guess that could work.
There's a Japanese Sonic arcade game that's isometric I thought seemed ok. I have a feeling Sonic in an isometric view might actually work fairly well, if you HAVE to use 3d graphics.
>I have a feeling Sonic in an isometric view might actually work fairly well, if you HAVE to use 3d graphics.
You do know about Sonic 3D Blast don't you? It was an isometric game released in 1996 for Genesis and Saturn.
Learning about X-treme's development made me lose all respect for Sega Technical Institute. It was a good thing that this project was killed and the studio was closed afterwards. Fanboys should learn the story of this game and stop looking at it through the "but what if" lenses.
>SONIC the Hedgehog- goes fast >Miles "TAILS" Prower- two tails, also a pun on miles per hour. >KNUCKLES the Echidna- spiked knuckles. >TIARA BOOBOWSKI- ???
>Sonic, a fifteen(?)-year old whose special talent is his namesake, was in a relationship with Boobowski, whose special talent is her namesake.
The jokes just write themselves, folks.
Take it from me, "had a smoking addiction" is often code for "used to get REALLY fricked up hardcore before meeting Jesus" - the drugs, the sex, you name it - I can only wish that this "Breaker" character was just a HEARTbreaker and that nothing else is broken about Tiara, but I will send a prayer to her tonight in the hopes she get saved, God Bless.
Seems she picked up bad habits when her father was missing.
3 years ago
Anonymous
Her last blog entry.
So, in case this isn't obvious, the wiki claim was off. "Breaker" isn't Tiara's "ex" - he's a stand-in for Sonic, because X-Treme never happened. There are even references on her profile hinting she has a grudge with hedgehogs. Breaker IS Tiara's current boyfriend, as written by Chris Senn. This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe Senn's ownership of the Boobowskis is why they can't appear in the IDW comics, as Ian Flynn didn't get into the exact legal issues and Sega doesn't want to take any chances after Ken Penders? Who knows.
So just to reiterate
Take it from me, "had a smoking addiction" is often code for "used to get REALLY fricked up hardcore before meeting Jesus" - the drugs, the sex, you name it - I can only wish that this "Breaker" character was just a HEARTbreaker and that nothing else is broken about Tiara, but I will send a prayer to her tonight in the hopes she get saved, God Bless.
What do you think her ex-boyfriend "Breaker" was? I'd like to think he was a human per [...]
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It was run by Chris Senn himself, so I'd rank it higher than her supposed Archie background cameos.
"Breaker" is her actual boyfriend in this X-Treme-less universe.
3 years ago
Anonymous
One more thing: according to one of the profile comments, Breaker appeared earlier in the blog. Here's the kicker: there's another character named "Vader" in these earlier blog entries. If Breaker's supposed to be the Sonic replacement, then I'd love to know who VADER is supposed to be, considering it's apparently not Robotnik.
That's all the storytime for now.
Her last blog entry.
So, in case this isn't obvious, the wiki claim was off. "Breaker" isn't Tiara's "ex" - he's a stand-in for Sonic, because X-Treme never happened. There are even references on her profile hinting she has a grudge with hedgehogs. Breaker IS Tiara's current boyfriend, as written by Chris Senn. This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe Senn's ownership of the Boobowskis is why they can't appear in the IDW comics, as Ian Flynn didn't get into the exact legal issues and Sega doesn't want to take any chances after Ken Penders? Who knows.
So just to reiterate [...] [...] [...] "Breaker" is her actual boyfriend in this X-Treme-less universe.
One more thing: according to one of the profile comments, Breaker appeared earlier in the blog. Here's the kicker: there's another character named "Vader" in these earlier blog entries. If Breaker's supposed to be the Sonic replacement, then I'd love to know who VADER is supposed to be, considering it's apparently not Robotnik.
That's all the storytime for now.
What the frick is it with ex Sonic creative staff being weird as frick with their Sonic OCs? This stuff is giving me Penders vibes, and seeing as this ran from 2006 to 2008, he was doing this shit over a decade after Sonic X-Treme was cancelled. It's weird to think that the deviantart stereotype Sonic fans get also applies to people who have literally worked on the series before
I don't know if Sonic X-Treme would've been good, but it almost certainly would've been better than 3D Blast. I think the biggest reason X-Treme went down the way it did, besides Naka being a massive baby, was because it lacked focus - they had all these concepts they realistically didn't have enough time to put in the game, and kept changing elements like the basic plot until near the end (didn't they decide on Tiara's final design mere weeks before cancellation?). It wouldn't have saved the Saturn im the west, but if it had been a success in its own right, Naka might've reconsidered finishing Sonic Adventure on Saturn just to compete with it, which might've meant the Dreamcast redesign wouldn't have happened (or at least, would've happened later). A combination of that and the Saturn being hell to develop for was what doomed the game. The worst part of the story is that Sega's PC division had the opportunity to salvage and streamline the original team's work after cancellation, which is honestly probably exactly what X-Treme needed and would've been a tighter version, but they rejected it because they were too damn busy with already-dated PC ports that'd become irrelevant in a few short years.
I think it would have been bad but Sega could probably have learned a lot from making it and wound up with less of a mess when they did do their big 3D debut.
judging from the pieces of it that have surfaced, no it wouldn't. Even if it had been out early enough to be one of the first 3d platformers it would have confused and annoyed more people than it pleased.
Recommend me some Saturn games
Sonic Xtreme
radiant silvergun is fun for the first level
Symphony of the Night, the most keyed version of the game
it was a gimped port of the PSX that tried to bandaid over the blemishes with added content.
The shooter ones
>weird fisheye shit
They had no roadmap for this and they knew it. It would've been shit.
Apparently it was so fricking smooth it couldn't even run on the Saturn and when they downgraded it, it just looked like Bug. So yes, if it was a PC game it could've done decently.
There's no way this would've been a good game. I feel like it would've probably just been pretty visuals with almost no substance.
No sonic game is good.
t. ign
yeah
With how much flak Sonic 3D Blast and even Adventure get from YouTube essayists, it’d be a miracle if Xtreme got away unscathed. It probably would’ve done down as the bubsy 3D of the series, not only for how it probably plays but how it looks.
It probably would have played kinda like Nights, but faster. I guess that could work.
There's a Japanese Sonic arcade game that's isometric I thought seemed ok. I have a feeling Sonic in an isometric view might actually work fairly well, if you HAVE to use 3d graphics.
>I have a feeling Sonic in an isometric view might actually work fairly well, if you HAVE to use 3d graphics.
You do know about Sonic 3D Blast don't you? It was an isometric game released in 1996 for Genesis and Saturn.
Yeah but I don't count it because the gameplay is about find the flickies rather than going fast.
>There's a Japanese Sonic arcade game that's isometric I thought seemed ok.
SegaSonic the Hedgehog?
That's the one.
Learning about X-treme's development made me lose all respect for Sega Technical Institute. It was a good thing that this project was killed and the studio was closed afterwards. Fanboys should learn the story of this game and stop looking at it through the "but what if" lenses.
It was a broken tech demo not even running on the Saturn. What do you think?
>SONIC the Hedgehog- goes fast
>Miles "TAILS" Prower- two tails, also a pun on miles per hour.
>KNUCKLES the Echidna- spiked knuckles.
>TIARA BOOBOWSKI- ???
She looks like she fricks human men
>Sonic, a fifteen(?)-year old whose special talent is his namesake, was in a relationship with Boobowski, whose special talent is her namesake.
The jokes just write themselves, folks.
>Boobowski, A TWENTY-YEAR OLD whose special talent is her namesake.
Forget to add that part.
Don't follow the manx hole, it gets dark.
Take it from me, "had a smoking addiction" is often code for "used to get REALLY fricked up hardcore before meeting Jesus" - the drugs, the sex, you name it - I can only wish that this "Breaker" character was just a HEARTbreaker and that nothing else is broken about Tiara, but I will send a prayer to her tonight in the hopes she get saved, God Bless.
Is that official? I wonder if X-Treme would've gone the edgier route considering the few games that followed it kinda did
>Breaker
What do you think her ex-boyfriend "Breaker" was? I'd like to think he was a human per
It was run by Chris Senn himself, so I'd rank it higher than her supposed Archie background cameos.
Presenting: a brief archive of Tiara's Myspace page! Here's her profile.
Her oldest entry available. Can't seem to have access to the earlier ones, so they may be lost (little help?).
How her father's rescue may have turned out, sans Sonic.
Seems she picked up bad habits when her father was missing.
Her last blog entry.
So, in case this isn't obvious, the wiki claim was off. "Breaker" isn't Tiara's "ex" - he's a stand-in for Sonic, because X-Treme never happened. There are even references on her profile hinting she has a grudge with hedgehogs. Breaker IS Tiara's current boyfriend, as written by Chris Senn. This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe Senn's ownership of the Boobowskis is why they can't appear in the IDW comics, as Ian Flynn didn't get into the exact legal issues and Sega doesn't want to take any chances after Ken Penders? Who knows.
So just to reiterate
"Breaker" is her actual boyfriend in this X-Treme-less universe.
One more thing: according to one of the profile comments, Breaker appeared earlier in the blog. Here's the kicker: there's another character named "Vader" in these earlier blog entries. If Breaker's supposed to be the Sonic replacement, then I'd love to know who VADER is supposed to be, considering it's apparently not Robotnik.
That's all the storytime for now.
What the frick is it with ex Sonic creative staff being weird as frick with their Sonic OCs? This stuff is giving me Penders vibes, and seeing as this ran from 2006 to 2008, he was doing this shit over a decade after Sonic X-Treme was cancelled. It's weird to think that the deviantart stereotype Sonic fans get also applies to people who have literally worked on the series before
I don't know if Sonic X-Treme would've been good, but it almost certainly would've been better than 3D Blast. I think the biggest reason X-Treme went down the way it did, besides Naka being a massive baby, was because it lacked focus - they had all these concepts they realistically didn't have enough time to put in the game, and kept changing elements like the basic plot until near the end (didn't they decide on Tiara's final design mere weeks before cancellation?). It wouldn't have saved the Saturn im the west, but if it had been a success in its own right, Naka might've reconsidered finishing Sonic Adventure on Saturn just to compete with it, which might've meant the Dreamcast redesign wouldn't have happened (or at least, would've happened later). A combination of that and the Saturn being hell to develop for was what doomed the game. The worst part of the story is that Sega's PC division had the opportunity to salvage and streamline the original team's work after cancellation, which is honestly probably exactly what X-Treme needed and would've been a tighter version, but they rejected it because they were too damn busy with already-dated PC ports that'd become irrelevant in a few short years.
The real tragedy was pic related.
>my dad works at nintendo
>dude trust me
>he doesn't know who drx is
My greatest gaming sorrow is that Chaotix wasn't good.
This, it was full of good ideas executed like shit
I think it would have been bad but Sega could probably have learned a lot from making it and wound up with less of a mess when they did do their big 3D debut.
Sorry to say but FRICK no. Sonic Adventure was a much better break into 3D.
judging from the pieces of it that have surfaced, no it wouldn't. Even if it had been out early enough to be one of the first 3d platformers it would have confused and annoyed more people than it pleased.
I'm sorry, it's just...I know a Tiara IRL so this thread is inexplicably hilarious to me.
there's just something innate about Sonic that breeds autistic insanity