This was a super cool video! First, the differences between the console versions were really interesting; then, the comparison with the 3DS version was very appreciated; and finally, the love letter to Sonic Generations as a whole was pretty touching! Awesome job with it c:
this game was one of my first sonic games and it is the game that made me a fan the game that made me want to play every game you can just feel the passion of the developers in the game especially in the credits it is just a magical feeling you really feel the developers proud of the 20 years of the franchise at the time and it will always be my favorite sonic game
This was an amazing video! Its the geeky stuff i love getting to know all the versions of Sonic Generations and all of its technical insights! The Passion & Work behind Unleashed & Gens from sonic team is GOATED. They're really unappreciated. I personally really liked the 3ds version of sonic gens, i replayed it and 100% it twice lol its really underrated! Keep up the great work!
Dimps did NOT make Sonic Unleashed for PS2 and Wii. It had like 2 people from Dimps who worked on level design, and that's it. Otherwise, it was entirely in house.
@crestofhonor2349 Dimps is listed because some of their people worked on it. But it's only level design. You can look at the credits yourself and see who and who doesn't work at Dimps. It's only for level design
This is a beautiful video about Sonic Generations! I appreciate your effort pointing out everything you could, and the editing was great too. I just think Sonic Generations made many people happy 🦔
21:14 small correction: the remix doesn't "reveal" that the part was reused from endless mine because jun confirmed the similarity is purely coincidental. Rather Cash Cash pointed out the similarity by pitch shifting the vocals to the endless mine melody as a reference. Another detail from the song is that at points it uses sonic 1 snares as percussion, and in the soundtrack version they also use the ring sound as percussion (which was removed to not confuse players i assume lol)
ok someone did more research than i did on this, who would of thought it was a coincidence, the sonic series had a history of reusing melodies like toot toot sonic warrior and believe in myself having their’s reused from levels in 8-bit sonic 1 and 2
@@dshaynietheawesome I don't know about that "i wanna fly high" one (I assume you mean Believe In Myself) but the You Can Do Anything /Green Hiss one is more than a coincidence as both songs are composed by Masafumi Ogata
This game just felt like a love letter to the series. It really felt like they were giving back to you as a fan for sticking with them all this time. It treated every game in the series with reverence and importance
4:14 those glitches weren't patched out of the PC release. They just became more harder to do likely because of the boost to 60fps. M-Speed now requires more directional input (up-left and up-right) to work and QSS even on the console versions didn't multiply your speed like it did in Unleashed, Gen's QSS is mostly used for retaining speed in speedruns.
@@dshaynietheawesomeTo be clear, SEGA have a lot of classic games in their Yakuza/Like the Dragon releases including relatively modern games like Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown (this was the latest VF till recently). I think they still do it in part due to it being something they did for a long time and also because they are arcade versions with no additional modes.
Fun Fact:when I was six I played generations on the 360 and on the level the sonic becomes a rocket and it shouts “ROCKET!” I always shouted out too “ROCKET”
@@dshaynietheawesome I looked up gameplay of both 360 and ps3 and theres instances of delayed and instant music. No idea if its a console specific thing or how the game is being played or something
Great video. It's cool how you bothered to get all the equipment to get most of the footage yourself from the different versions of the games. Lots of cool info and great comparisons! The audio at times is a bit louder than you ,thats the only thing that stood out I think. Oh also, is your 3ds modded to record footage from it or did you emulate it? Again, great job!
@@DonAsirobi both the steam and 3ds versions were recorded on my gaming desktop computer while the console versions I had my laptop setup with my elgato capture card and HDMI splitter connected to my xbox360 and ps3 superslip systems
Nice video, but can you work on the audio mixing, please. I’d say you should either up your commentary volume channel or lower the music background and gameplay volume, ‘cause in some cases it’s a bit hard to hear you due to the background gameplay or music being too loud.
This is a very small touch, but I like how well the music transitioned from in-game to becoming the background music of your commentary. Edit: here’s the timestamp 7:24
Actually Sega still actively includes old games in their releases. The Yakuza series have had a tradition of including old Sega arcade games inside them to play and entirely for free, not as DLC. It's been pretty cool seeing these old arcade games come to light again through the Yakuza games. Also would be cool to show the Xbox 360 version through an Xbox Series S or X as they get both a boosted frame rate and resolution
He did, on a series X. All games that get a quality boost on Series S are rendered at 1440p, since it's the highest that the console can display at. This is actually true for all games on Series S.
The issues with Sonic 1's emulation on Xbox Series had to do with the FPS Boost feature, which if I recall correctly might have been patched, or if not can be solved by simply disabling it in the system settings. Also nice Project ReRainbow shoutout hehe
You know, I have my gripes with Generations, and I absolutely hated dealing with some parts like the Colors Act 2 level, but sometimes I get a refresher like this and remember why I loved this game so much as a kid. This game really was a great time, and hopefully I never truly forget that.
I'm pretty sure Act 1 on the DS up through Mushroom Hill (all the Genesis era) is an exact layout replica of the corresponding Genesis level...a fine curiosity, but I far prefer at least something being remixed or trickled in like Mania does. Have fun with Shadow, heard it's real good!
i intended this video to drop before the game did but took me a week and a half longer to finish editing but i can confirm the game is one of the more fun experiences i’ve had with a sonic game in a long time
The level design of Unleashed and Generations can NEVER be topped nowadays. Everyone keeps saying how Frontiers and Shadow Generations' level design is "peak" and "improves" from generations. They don't know squat. The level design in Unleashed and Generations feels like a rollercoaster of twists and turns.
Have you played Shadow Generations? Frontiers I can agree because half of it's level design is just pulled from older sonic games including SA2, Unleashed, and Gens. Shadow gens has legitimately incredible level design and truly 3D stages all the way through. It is up there and surpasses Unleashed and Sonic Gens. I grew up with Gens and Unleashed and I do think Shadow Gens does surpass those two in certain ways
@@crestofhonor2349 Yes I have played Shadow Generations but to me, everything almost felt like square platforms in a grid instead of making them spread out most of the time. And Unleashed/Generations had curves, twists, hills, tight corners that felt like a rollercoaster to burst through speed. I'm sorry, but I felt nothing could top those two.
I like the level design on forces when you play the stages where Eggman won because the environment really shows how he has taken over the world I love it
I have to say, great video, I've never seen someone detail the differences between each version of Sonic Generations so well, I didn't even know about the difference in pop-in of the scene mentioned at 6:50 of the video, the PC version is definitely the best in terms of overall quality, but I think the PS3 version is better than the Xbox 360 version. (except if run on Xbox One or Xbox Series S/X, in which case it's much better) The resolution is exactly the same, the graphics too and the frame rate isn't that different between the two. two. as people think (in fact, they improved a lot on the Generations PS3 port compared to Sonic 2006 and Sonic Unleashed), but the PS3 version has higher quality cutscenes (the Xbox 360 version has heavily compressed scenes at 480p, which is extremely pixelated on high-resolution screens due to the space limit on DVDs compared to PS3 Blu-Rays), fewer problems overall and the online leaderboard still works to this day. The 3DS version is also a lot of fun, I think it was a miss opportunity of not to make this version with the Sonics levels for the handheld consoles but I still had a lot of fun with this version, I think it's a good "Pocket Game" for the series.
I have played Sonic 1 on the series x boost and it played exactly how it did without the boost, I think the slowdown was tied to 4K because I don't have a 4K TV
Hey, your videos are pretty good, but I think the audio mixing with the background music and the commentary could do with some tweaking. The music is louder than your voice and it sometimes makes harder to hear what you're saying at times.
It feel good to play again sonic generations after a lot of years and some flops (looking at you sonic forces) that makes me apreciate the game, and the 3ds version has some good levels and objectly a better final boss and the classic way to get chaos emeralds through special stages
The strange thing is that the HD version, better than 3DS,are in 7th generation of console, while the 3DS version is in the 8th generations of consoles, the generation of ps4
@@dshaynietheawesome Yeah but you are still using a modern PC to play the game, are you playing on 2011 specs? It doesn't look like you mention the specs at all in the video. Of course a modern computer will run this game better than an Xbox 360 and load things faster, but that's not a version disparity, that's just having a faster machine. The Xbox 360 version has 5 times faster load times than the PS3 version when played on a Series X, but that's because of the hardware, not because the Xbox version is 500% more optimized. You see what I mean?
Good video, although I don’t think QSS was ever useful in Generations. Due to slight engine differences from Unleashed to Generations, QSS is practically useless or doesn’t even work. Also, I recommend lowering the background music a bit more. It's honestly hard to hear what you're saying at certain points because of it.
I have SG on my XONE and i think that game plays through emulation but the QSS doesn’t work in generations. tilting the analog stick up, holding down the B-button and using quickstep doesn’t really do anything compared to unleashed where sonic speeds up at a rapid pace
Also PSnow doesn't exist anymore, the service shut down a few years ago and several games including all the Sonic games got delisted and cannot be played anymore
My experience with the Sonic 1 Series X slow down is that it happens randomly. Most of the time it plays at its normal speed but runs slower other times. I don’t know what causes it, it just happens.
BTW you can just disable HDCP in the PS3 settings. You can't watch movies on it if you do, but nothing prevents you from both running and capturing games. No need for the splitter
backwards compatibility on xbox one and xbox series x as well as ps4/ps5 via psnow is covered in this video but sonic x shadow generations is not the topic of today’s video
yo do you want my copy of the 360 version of Generations? you’ve got a bit more than a few scratches there haha. my copy in very good condition i just don’t have a case for it. i don’t give a flip about payment i just don’t play it enough to justify it collecting dust in my limited physical game collection. i live in the US and can probably fit in in an envelope
thank you for the offer but a U.S 360 game won’t run on a pal console, even so over the span of the playthrough eventually my copy just kinda stopped crashing no idea why 🤷♂️
Loading time could also depend on the conditions of your disc. I don’t remember my copy of generations on the 360 loading that slow. Um Also PlayStation now no longer exists, you can play Sonic generations on the ps4 and ps5 and modern Xbox consoles via Sonic x shadow generations
Good video but there is one glaring omission, you didn't bring up the massive amount of very noticeable input lag on the PS3 version. I pre-ordered the 360 version, beat it 100% when it was new, then a few years later bought it on Steam, and played about halfway. Just recently I started playing the PS3 version, and wanted to complete it before the remaster came out. I finally got the Platinum Trophy, which was unnecessarily frustrating, I'm glad to finally be done with it. The PS3 version was shockingly bad, because of how sluggish Sonic feels due to the high input latency. Its extremely obvious, and if you do a web search, other people bring it up as well. Did you not feel how laggy it was?
really? I didn’t notice any input lag at all a game like sonic generations has to be responsive to be played well and between every version i’ve played I’ve never noticed s difference
@@dshaynietheawesome Yeah, I'm not alone, I don't know if I can post links, but if you do a web search, other people complain about it as well. I don't notice input lag in other games, even on PS3, but Sonic Generations is extremely laggy. My PS3 is set to 1080p output, so I'll try playing it at 480p to see if it helps. My TV is LG CX, and I don't have that motion smoothing (soap opera effect) turned on.
@@Chocoburger tell me is it possible the input delay is coming from the controller? because i had that once with my dualshock3 and fixed it by opening it up and cleaning out dust and hair but it wasn't specific to sonic generations
@@dshaynietheawesome I used two controllers, a DualShock 3, and a fresh controller from Retro Fighters called the Defender. Other people have complained about the lag even 13 years ago, some people are more sensitive than others to lag. For me, Sonic Generations PS3 is perhaps the laggiest game I can think of. Try the game again and focus as hard as you can, press Jump and try to see the difference between button press and on screen action.
good question, i imagine a potential ds version would look identical to sonic rush, rush adventure and colours on the ds but with with generations levels and probably make sonic’s moveset the same as generations 3ds, but classic sonic that would of been interesting to see. the potential psp version well i can honestly see it being really similar to the version we got on 3ds just with no bottom screen, the assets are low poly enough. and im not sure if this was confirmed but rumor was sonic colours started life as the wii port of sonic generations and as development went on they ended up turning it into it’s own game so i reckon if generations did come out on wii it’s gameplay would be the same as colours but i don’t know what they’d do about levels because of limitations maybe thats why it became sonic colours.
@dshaynietheawesome Somebody got ahold of a prototype of the psp version, but it was unfortunately corrupted beyond belief, however somebody managed to dump some of the assets which showed the 3ds version of mushroom hill.
I so hope Sonic Team bring the 3DS levels to Sonic X Shadow Generations, I would love to see Casino Night, Mushroom Hill, Emerald Coast, Water Palace and Tropical Resort brought back if not hopefully we can see other levels from Sonic past from the Mega Drive to present, there are just so many good levels to bring back, this game could easily be a cash cow for Sega !
In regards to the time eater stuff. the "team up attacks" on pc console are to get the... achievement. You know. "Don't take damage and defeat the final boss"... woooooooo achievements...
I'm really disappointed and annoyed that the 3DS version doesn't do all the handheld levels and instead choses random stages that dont really make sense for sonic. Why do you race Metal on Casino Night and Silver in Colors???
I have Sonic Generations on a PS3 it looks and works surprisilly good on it I believe it's better than even Xbox 360 version, but can't say that because I don't have it on Xbox 360, but a console where I really wan't to get Sonic Generations is Nintendo 3DS because it's my favourite handheld console that I still have and play sometimes in my opinion Sonic Generations 2D game on a 3DS looks good with a classic pixel and 3D graphics and I really wan't to try Sonic Generatoons on a handheld mode! Sonic X Shadow Generations is really amazing remaster it looks almost same like on a PS3, but a little better and there's Shadow's game in that game too what's so awesome because I've never had Shadoe the Hedgehog game that I've always wanted, but now I can play as Shadow at the first time after Sonic Forces it's the best time to play Sonic games where is Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog turns into 20 years old in the next year 2025! Can't wait i'm so excited for Sonic 3 movie what's the best movie of the year and Sonic X Shadow Generations is the best game of the year only because it's Fearless year of Shadow! I'm the Ultimate lifeform Shadow the Hedgehog! Chaos control! I am All of Me
well sonic generations was in development for over two years, released in 2011 and the wii u released at the end of 2012 so that just wasn’t gonna happen
@@dshaynietheawesome hello fellow australian sonic fan I only play on switch the mega drive is not in sonic x shadow I REPEAT THE MEGA DRIVE IS NOT IN SONICxSHADOW
@@graysonproductions6227 S was the second model of xboxone which was slimed and more power efficient and added the ability to watch 4K media the X was the third model with a more powerful gpu and was essentially the pro version that could play games in 4K
hey bro cool video but u cant really make an objective assessment about the performance of the pc version because it's all subjective to what hardware you use to run the game. the xbox 360 and ps3 will always perform the same to each person who owns one because the hardware is constant; because the hardware varies, there's no real "difference" in performance that you can compare it to. so like, maybe you have better loading screens on *your* pc, but someone else with potentially slower memory reading speeds might have times similar to the console versions. overall, rest of the assessments outside of that are good.
it’s a 2011 game, if you have any gaming pc from the past 8 or 9 years it’s gonna play as well as it can, we aren’t counting low end laptops or anything here
@ I mean ok I guess but I think at least to specify that performance is much more variable because pc hardware is much more inconsistent than console hardware is an important note to make, you might say “it takes 2 seconds to load a stage” doesn’t really apply, like yeah I’d expect the game to have a low bar for performance but still, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Kind of the issue when comparing PC versions to console to performance, you can’t. There’s no one unified personal computer to objectively compare to
Fun fact, the Sonic Generations remaster has all of the weird quirks the original console versions did. Terrible texture resolution. Low res shadows. Low res reflections. The same pop in, in stages at least, sometimes where it never was in the original(idk about cutscenes, I skipped them all). The remaster is actually worse than the original PC port. I wouldn't recommend the remaster if you just want Gens
@@MusuemBucket Also the Switch version is capped at 31 fps, which makes no sense. It doesn't divide by the Switch's own refresh rate, and the refresh rate of any standard monitor. So it causes minor stuttering. You gotta look for it, but it shouldn't be there. Doesn't help the original PC port ran at 60, so this should be 60 as well
@@xonact8855 it’s the Nintendo switch, you can’t have high expectations for a 7 year old toaster handheld. And even then, it still ran great and looked great like the pc version, besides the frame rate difference
do you go to beyblade events in melbourne? bc i saw ur steam user was chaotic wunderbread and they compete in the beyblade tournaments so idk if its just a coincidence or if thats u lmao
This was a super cool video! First, the differences between the console versions were really interesting; then, the comparison with the 3DS version was very appreciated; and finally, the love letter to Sonic Generations as a whole was pretty touching! Awesome job with it c:
this game was one of my first sonic games and it is the game that made me a fan the game that made me want to play every game you can just feel the passion of the developers in the game especially in the credits it is just a magical feeling you really feel the developers proud of the 20 years of the franchise at the time and it will always be my favorite sonic game
My first Sonic game was Sonic adventure 😭 I feel old
I will always hate how they removed sonic 1 after the console games
Now there’s only 29,999 ways to play Sonic 1
@@thecoolbroscoolman4672 Fr fr, lol
Sonic1Forever
fr to force ppl to buy trash origins
Despite removing Sonic 1, they still introduce Greenhill
This was an amazing video!
Its the geeky stuff i love getting to know all the versions of Sonic Generations and all of its technical insights!
The Passion & Work behind Unleashed & Gens from sonic team is GOATED. They're really unappreciated.
I personally really liked the 3ds version of sonic gens, i replayed it and 100% it twice lol its really underrated!
Keep up the great work!
Dimps did NOT make Sonic Unleashed for PS2 and Wii. It had like 2 people from Dimps who worked on level design, and that's it. Otherwise, it was entirely in house.
Can you find a source for that? Why even list Dimps as the developer then
@crestofhonor2349 Dimps is listed because some of their people worked on it. But it's only level design. You can look at the credits yourself and see who and who doesn't work at Dimps. It's only for level design
This is a beautiful video about Sonic Generations! I appreciate your effort pointing out everything you could, and the editing was great too. I just think Sonic Generations made many people happy 🦔
21:14 small correction: the remix doesn't "reveal" that the part was reused from endless mine because jun confirmed the similarity is purely coincidental. Rather Cash Cash pointed out the similarity by pitch shifting the vocals to the endless mine melody as a reference. Another detail from the song is that at points it uses sonic 1 snares as percussion, and in the soundtrack version they also use the ring sound as percussion (which was removed to not confuse players i assume lol)
ok someone did more research than i did on this, who would of thought it was a coincidence, the sonic series had a history of reusing melodies like toot toot sonic warrior and believe in myself having their’s reused from levels in 8-bit sonic 1 and 2
@@dshaynietheawesome I don't know about that "i wanna fly high" one (I assume you mean Believe In Myself) but the You Can Do Anything /Green Hiss one is more than a coincidence as both songs are composed by Masafumi Ogata
I miss you so much man I love your videos especially the wii u one
This game just felt like a love letter to the series. It really felt like they were giving back to you as a fan for sticking with them all this time. It treated every game in the series with reverence and importance
and doubles as an incredible entry point like it was for me
4:14 those glitches weren't patched out of the PC release. They just became more harder to do likely because of the boost to 60fps.
M-Speed now requires more directional input (up-left and up-right) to work and QSS even on the console versions didn't multiply your speed like it did in Unleashed, Gen's QSS is mostly used for retaining speed in speedruns.
fps giveith and fps taketh
i like how you almost said the M word
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@@dshaynietheawesome sorry i wasn't talking to you but the guy who made the comment
@@some_body_else3636 i was more
curious what you were talking about
In Yakuza Lost Judgement, you can play Sonic the Fighters in the arcade, so SEGA is still doing it in their games, just not in SxSG.
I had not idea, thats a pretty awesome fact
@@dshaynietheawesomeTo be clear, SEGA have a lot of classic games in their Yakuza/Like the Dragon releases including relatively modern games like Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown (this was the latest VF till recently).
I think they still do it in part due to it being something they did for a long time and also because they are arcade versions with no additional modes.
Sonic the Fighters is also playable in Like A Dragon Gaiden : The Man Who Erased his Name.
Fun Fact:when I was six I played generations on the 360 and on the level the sonic becomes a rocket and it shouts “ROCKET!” I always shouted out too “ROCKET”
7:22 no way that has to be your copy because i don't remember any console version doing that
every copy of sonic generations may be personalized
as in both my ps3 and 360 versions and nobody elses?
@@dshaynietheawesome I looked up gameplay of both 360 and ps3 and theres instances of delayed and instant music. No idea if its a console specific thing or how the game is being played or something
Great video. It's cool how you bothered to get all the equipment to get most of the footage yourself from the different versions of the games. Lots of cool info and great comparisons!
The audio at times is a bit louder than you ,thats the only thing that stood out I think.
Oh also, is your 3ds modded to record footage from it or did you emulate it?
Again, great job!
@@DonAsirobi i dumped my own game card and save files to use on emulation for 3ds footage
@@dshaynietheawesome Ah cool.
@@DonAsirobi both the steam and 3ds versions were recorded on my gaming desktop computer while the console versions I had my laptop setup with my elgato capture card and HDMI splitter connected to my xbox360 and ps3 superslip systems
@@dshaynietheawesome Looks great, might get a capture card myself
The thumbnail on this video is peak
Nice video, but can you work on the audio mixing, please. I’d say you should either up your commentary volume channel or lower the music background and gameplay volume, ‘cause in some cases it’s a bit hard to hear you due to the background gameplay or music being too loud.
Just think of the bad audio mixing as a Sonic Adventure 2 reference.
@@hrrrrghOtacon Man the reference was very well placed that I didn't even notice it.
9:30 you can play the whole of doom 2 in doom eternal i think thats the most recent example. More games should allow this
"hey, listen" 19:54
"Find the computer room!"
-Vector
This is a very small touch, but I like how well the music transitioned from in-game to becoming the background music of your commentary.
Edit: here’s the timestamp 7:24
Actually Sega still actively includes old games in their releases. The Yakuza series have had a tradition of including old Sega arcade games inside them to play and entirely for free, not as DLC. It's been pretty cool seeing these old arcade games come to light again through the Yakuza games. Also would be cool to show the Xbox 360 version through an Xbox Series S or X as they get both a boosted frame rate and resolution
He did, on a series X. All games that get a quality boost on Series S are rendered at 1440p, since it's the highest that the console can display at. This is actually true for all games on Series S.
The issues with Sonic 1's emulation on Xbox Series had to do with the FPS Boost feature, which if I recall correctly might have been patched, or if not can be solved by simply disabling it in the system settings.
Also nice Project ReRainbow shoutout hehe
3:21
this also happens in the Switch re-release
You know, I have my gripes with Generations, and I absolutely hated dealing with some parts like the Colors Act 2 level, but sometimes I get a refresher like this and remember why I loved this game so much as a kid. This game really was a great time, and hopefully I never truly forget that.
I'm pretty sure Act 1 on the DS up through Mushroom Hill (all the Genesis era) is an exact layout replica of the corresponding Genesis level...a fine curiosity, but I far prefer at least something being remixed or trickled in like Mania does. Have fun with Shadow, heard it's real good!
i intended this video to drop before the game did but took me a week and a half longer to finish editing
but i can confirm the game is one of the more fun experiences i’ve had with a sonic game in a long time
8:24 it is on the PC version but because the 2011 PC version isn't finished, it just doesn't play the cutscene without the mod (as usual)
also at 10:24 its only when the fps patch is enabled that it plays poorly.
wait what? the pc version isn’t finished?!
@@stanzacosmi it was
The level design of Unleashed and Generations can NEVER be topped nowadays.
Everyone keeps saying how Frontiers and Shadow Generations' level design is "peak" and "improves" from generations.
They don't know squat.
The level design in Unleashed and Generations feels like a rollercoaster of twists and turns.
Have you played Shadow Generations? Frontiers I can agree because half of it's level design is just pulled from older sonic games including SA2, Unleashed, and Gens. Shadow gens has legitimately incredible level design and truly 3D stages all the way through. It is up there and surpasses Unleashed and Sonic Gens. I grew up with Gens and Unleashed and I do think Shadow Gens does surpass those two in certain ways
@@crestofhonor2349 Yes I have played Shadow Generations but to me, everything almost felt like square platforms in a grid instead of making them spread out most of the time. And Unleashed/Generations had curves, twists, hills, tight corners that felt like a rollercoaster to burst through speed.
I'm sorry, but I felt nothing could top those two.
@@crestofhonor2349 I have. Floofypuppy is 100% right.
mfw generations is better than generations
I like the level design on forces when you play the stages where Eggman won because the environment really shows how he has taken over the world I love it
I recommend banding the music in Premiere or just turning it down. The music is a bit too loud and can make the dialogue hard to hear.
I have to say, great video, I've never seen someone detail the differences between each version of Sonic Generations so well, I didn't even know about the difference in pop-in of the scene mentioned at 6:50 of the video, the PC version is definitely the best in terms of overall quality, but I think the PS3 version is better than the Xbox 360 version. (except if run on Xbox One or Xbox Series S/X, in which case it's much better)
The resolution is exactly the same, the graphics too and the frame rate isn't that different between the two. two. as people think (in fact, they improved a lot on the Generations PS3 port compared to Sonic 2006 and Sonic Unleashed), but the PS3 version has higher quality cutscenes (the Xbox 360 version has heavily compressed scenes at 480p, which is extremely pixelated on high-resolution screens due to the space limit on DVDs compared to PS3 Blu-Rays), fewer problems overall and the online leaderboard still works to this day.
The 3DS version is also a lot of fun, I think it was a miss opportunity of not to make this version with the Sonics levels for the handheld consoles but I still had a lot of fun with this version, I think it's a good "Pocket Game" for the series.
So there is no mega drive in sonic x shadow generations just like the pc version and no promo to origins
24:57 My God, I still have nightmares just mastering the timing of that lightspeed dash 💀
I never noticed the music only playing after you get control of Sonic and now I'm mindblown lmao it's so obvious
I have played Sonic 1 on the series x boost and it played exactly how it did without the boost, I think the slowdown was tied to 4K because I don't have a 4K TV
When someone runs its good to watch them meet their destination.
6:07, thank god I have been having this issue and didn’t know how to fix it 🙏
Casino Night DLC was once made separately downloadable for PS3, but only for the Japan version.
can you link the mods you mentioned in the description pls pretty pls with a cherry on top
Hey, your videos are pretty good, but I think the audio mixing with the background music and the commentary could do with some tweaking. The music is louder than your voice and it sometimes makes harder to hear what you're saying at times.
even though the voiceover audio is boosted and the background music is extremely low
@@dshaynietheawesomebruh do you have ears? it’s so loud
It feel good to play again sonic generations after a lot of years and some flops (looking at you sonic forces) that makes me apreciate the game, and the 3ds version has some good levels and objectly a better final boss and the classic way to get chaos emeralds through special stages
19:00 i like how he goes from happy to boring🗿
The strange thing is that the HD version, better than 3DS,are in 7th generation of console, while the 3DS version is in the 8th generations of consoles, the generation of ps4
I had the 3DS version of this game.
"The load times are instant on PC" "The game doesn't lag on PC"
That's because you are using a 2024 PC 😂😂
this video was written and recorded before sonic x shadow generations even released
@@dshaynietheawesome Yeah but you are still using a modern PC to play the game, are you playing on 2011 specs? It doesn't look like you mention the specs at all in the video. Of course a modern computer will run this game better than an Xbox 360 and load things faster, but that's not a version disparity, that's just having a faster machine. The Xbox 360 version has 5 times faster load times than the PS3 version when played on a Series X, but that's because of the hardware, not because the Xbox version is 500% more optimized. You see what I mean?
That looks like a homing shot 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥
Wasn't PSNow taken away like months ago
Months? Isn't It Like Years?
PS+ streaming is basically the same as PSNow, but I don’t think Generations is on PS+.
@@hrrrrghOtacon No It Isn't. I Know It Because I Had Gens On PsNow. And It Took It From Me >:(
Good video, although I don’t think QSS was ever useful in Generations. Due to slight engine differences from Unleashed to Generations, QSS is practically useless or doesn’t even work.
Also, I recommend lowering the background music a bit more. It's honestly hard to hear what you're saying at certain points because of it.
I have SG on my XONE and i think that game plays through emulation but the QSS doesn’t work in generations. tilting the analog stick up, holding down the B-button and using quickstep doesn’t really do anything compared to unleashed where sonic speeds up at a rapid pace
Also PSnow doesn't exist anymore, the service shut down a few years ago and several games including all the Sonic games got delisted and cannot be played anymore
My experience with the Sonic 1 Series X slow down is that it happens randomly. Most of the time it plays at its normal speed but runs slower other times. I don’t know what causes it, it just happens.
ah thank you for clarifying, the footage i was provided doesn’t go beyond green hill act 1
I noticed they included the cutscene in the 2024 version 8:21
it is not
At points I had difficulties hearing what was being said over the music
Gens 3DS is incredibly underrated
BTW you can just disable HDCP in the PS3 settings. You can't watch movies on it if you do, but nothing prevents you from both running and capturing games. No need for the splitter
the ps3 cannot disable it like ps4 or ps5
What about next gen ports?
backwards compatibility on xbox one and xbox series x as well as ps4/ps5 via psnow is covered in this video but sonic x shadow generations is not the topic of today’s video
Vector caused me so much pain in the 100%
yo do you want my copy of the 360 version of Generations? you’ve got a bit more than a few scratches there haha. my copy in very good condition i just don’t have a case for it. i don’t give a flip about payment i just don’t play it enough to justify it collecting dust in my limited physical game collection. i live in the US and can probably fit in in an envelope
thank you for the offer but a U.S 360 game won’t run on a pal console, even so over the span of the playthrough eventually my copy just kinda stopped crashing no idea why 🤷♂️
@@dshaynietheawesome ahhhh ok! thank u for the video this was very entertaining to watch :)
Qss isn’t in any version of Gens
Should I get the 3ds version? (I have the new one)
if you’ve never played the 3ds version i’d always recommend giving it a try just
for how different of an experience it is
@@Woomy-grylls2048 3DS version is just an okay game and SG is really great, but SXSG is the way to go for sure now
@@TheDogIn2020I already played sonic x shadow generations that’s why I’m asking
@@dshaynietheawesomealright man thank you 😄
@@dshaynietheawesomebtw great video
I LOVE SONIC GENERATIONS!
My dude, the music drowns out your voice throughout the whole video!
Loading time could also depend on the conditions of your disc. I don’t remember my copy of generations on the 360 loading that slow. Um Also PlayStation now no longer exists, you can play Sonic generations on the ps4 and ps5 and modern Xbox consoles via Sonic x shadow generations
Good video but there is one glaring omission, you didn't bring up the massive amount of very noticeable input lag on the PS3 version.
I pre-ordered the 360 version, beat it 100% when it was new, then a few years later bought it on Steam, and played about halfway. Just recently I started playing the PS3 version, and wanted to complete it before the remaster came out. I finally got the Platinum Trophy, which was unnecessarily frustrating, I'm glad to finally be done with it.
The PS3 version was shockingly bad, because of how sluggish Sonic feels due to the high input latency.
Its extremely obvious, and if you do a web search, other people bring it up as well. Did you not feel how laggy it was?
really? I didn’t notice any input lag at all
a game like sonic generations has to be responsive to be played well and between every version i’ve played I’ve never noticed s difference
@@dshaynietheawesome Yeah, I'm not alone, I don't know if I can post links, but if you do a web search, other people complain about it as well.
I don't notice input lag in other games, even on PS3, but Sonic Generations is extremely laggy. My PS3 is set to 1080p output, so I'll try playing it at 480p to see if it helps.
My TV is LG CX, and I don't have that motion smoothing (soap opera effect) turned on.
@@Chocoburger tell me is it possible the input delay is coming from the controller? because i had that once with my dualshock3 and fixed it by opening it up and cleaning out dust and hair but it wasn't specific to sonic generations
@@dshaynietheawesome I used two controllers, a DualShock 3, and a fresh controller from Retro Fighters called the Defender. Other people have complained about the lag even 13 years ago, some people are more sensitive than others to lag. For me, Sonic Generations PS3 is perhaps the laggiest game I can think of.
Try the game again and focus as hard as you can, press Jump and try to see the difference between button press and on screen action.
Hasen't PS Now been cancelled ?
i have no idea, never used it
@dshaynietheawesome Np, great video btw ^^
Yea it's been done since 2021
This Makes Me Wonder What The Canceled DS, Wii And PSP Versions Would Have Looked Like
good question, i imagine a potential ds version would look identical to sonic rush, rush adventure and colours on the ds but with with generations levels and probably make sonic’s moveset the same as generations 3ds, but classic sonic that would of been interesting to see.
the potential psp version well i can honestly see it being really similar to the version we got on 3ds just with no bottom screen, the assets are low poly enough.
and im not sure if this was confirmed but rumor was sonic colours started life as the wii port of sonic generations and as development went on they ended up turning it into it’s own game so i reckon if generations did come out on wii it’s gameplay would be the same as colours but i don’t know what they’d do about levels because of limitations maybe thats why it became sonic colours.
@dshaynietheawesome Somebody got ahold of a prototype of the psp version, but it was unfortunately corrupted beyond belief, however somebody managed to dump some of the assets which showed the 3ds version of mushroom hill.
I so hope Sonic Team bring the 3DS levels to Sonic X Shadow Generations, I would love to see Casino Night, Mushroom Hill, Emerald Coast, Water Palace and Tropical Resort brought back if not hopefully we can see other levels from Sonic past from the Mega Drive to present, there are just so many good levels to bring back, this game could easily be a cash cow for Sega !
Sonic x shadow generations has already released on October 25
it is already released and i doubt they are going to return them in dlc
In regards to the time eater stuff. the "team up attacks" on pc console are to get the... achievement. You know. "Don't take damage and defeat the final boss"... woooooooo achievements...
seriously
The music is so loud I can barely hear you
16:08 'What Da Fugxagon™'
I'm really disappointed and annoyed that the 3DS version doesn't do all the handheld levels and instead choses random stages that dont really make sense for sonic.
Why do you race Metal on Casino Night and Silver in Colors???
I have Sonic Generations on a PS3 it looks and works surprisilly good on it I believe it's better than even Xbox 360 version, but can't say that because I don't have it on Xbox 360, but a console where I really wan't to get Sonic Generations is Nintendo 3DS because it's my favourite handheld console that I still have and play sometimes in my opinion Sonic Generations 2D game on a 3DS looks good with a classic pixel and 3D graphics and I really wan't to try Sonic Generatoons on a handheld mode! Sonic X Shadow Generations is really amazing remaster it looks almost same like on a PS3, but a little better and there's Shadow's game in that game too what's so awesome because I've never had Shadoe the Hedgehog game that I've always wanted, but now I can play as Shadow at the first time after Sonic Forces it's the best time to play Sonic games where is Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog turns into 20 years old in the next year 2025! Can't wait i'm so excited for Sonic 3 movie what's the best movie of the year and Sonic X Shadow Generations is the best game of the year only because it's Fearless year of Shadow! I'm the Ultimate lifeform Shadow the Hedgehog! Chaos control! I am All of Me
i never thought id say i want to play a sonic game but i am now
im sad that this one wasnt on wii u something more powerful than 3ds
well sonic generations was in development for over two years, released in 2011 and the wii u released at the end of 2012 so that just wasn’t gonna happen
@@dshaynietheawesome eh i dont blame sega it was a failed console too
3DS version is my go to!
this comes out after the game releases
written a month and a half before the game came out but ya know me, taking far too long to finish editing my videos 😅
@@dshaynietheawesome hello fellow australian sonic fan
I only play on switch
the mega drive is not in sonic x shadow
I REPEAT
THE MEGA DRIVE IS NOT IN SONICxSHADOW
Dude, can lower the music?
It gets so bad in 7:40, I can barely hear him 😭
I didn't even know there was a difference between a white and black X box 1. So apparently i own an X box 1 s
@@graysonproductions6227 S was the second model of xboxone which was slimed and more power efficient and added the ability to watch 4K media
the X was the third model with a more powerful gpu and was essentially the pro version that could play games in 4K
12:07 says the same people who made sonic 4
19:56 I heard that
Sonic 2 and 3 should have a 2 3d remake
hey bro cool video but u cant really make an objective assessment about the performance of the pc version because it's all subjective to what hardware you use to run the game. the xbox 360 and ps3 will always perform the same to each person who owns one because the hardware is constant; because the hardware varies, there's no real "difference" in performance that you can compare it to. so like, maybe you have better loading screens on *your* pc, but someone else with potentially slower memory reading speeds might have times similar to the console versions. overall, rest of the assessments outside of that are good.
it’s a 2011 game, if you have any gaming pc from the past 8 or 9 years it’s gonna play as well as it can, we aren’t counting low end laptops or anything here
@ I mean ok I guess but I think at least to specify that performance is much more variable because pc hardware is much more inconsistent than console hardware is an important note to make, you might say “it takes 2 seconds to load a stage” doesn’t really apply, like yeah I’d expect the game to have a low bar for performance but still, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Kind of the issue when comparing PC versions to console to performance, you can’t. There’s no one unified personal computer to objectively compare to
6:00 *laughs in xbox one controller*
Btw PS Now doesn't exist anymore, and Sonic Generations isn't available on PS Plus Premium for no reason
0:06 I saw what you did there
i envy unleashed wii/ps2 i could have gotten rush 3 before colors ds
"Soon", Huh? More Like 12 DAYS AGO!!!
this video was meant to come
out before then
Bro I got a sonic forces speed battle ad what
Fun fact, the Sonic Generations remaster has all of the weird quirks the original console versions did. Terrible texture resolution. Low res shadows. Low res reflections. The same pop in, in stages at least, sometimes where it never was in the original(idk about cutscenes, I skipped them all). The remaster is actually worse than the original PC port. I wouldn't recommend the remaster if you just want Gens
Yeah bro I have no idea where you got this from but I played the switch version and it looked and played well
@MusuemBucket I got it from playing the original and remaster back to back
@@MusuemBucket Also the Switch version is capped at 31 fps, which makes no sense. It doesn't divide by the Switch's own refresh rate, and the refresh rate of any standard monitor. So it causes minor stuttering. You gotta look for it, but it shouldn't be there. Doesn't help the original PC port ran at 60, so this should be 60 as well
@@xonact8855 it’s the Nintendo switch, you can’t have high expectations for a 7 year old toaster handheld. And even then, it still ran great and looked great like the pc version, besides the frame rate difference
1:15
@@classicsonic7100 ☝️
1:48 dusty ps3
it’s not as easy to wipe out of the grooves
@@dshaynietheawesomeSorry, I just like to point out dusty stuff
wheres ns lol
you know i like generations as a game but the impacts and domino effects it had on the franchise are just trash
most infamously, green hill
CLEAN YOUR PS3
@@Spider-Guy62 I DO!
but the dust keeps reappearing
@ I have the same problem.
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do you go to beyblade events in melbourne? bc i saw ur steam user was chaotic wunderbread and they compete in the beyblade tournaments so idk if its just a coincidence or if thats u lmao
thats not my user thats in my friends list
@@dshaynietheawesomeoh lmao 💀