From TheGamer: "Sonic Origins has a few problems, but it's a neat little collection. That's what I thought when I reviewed it on PlayStation anyway. It turns out that PC players aren't having a good time at all. Graphical and performance issues have plagued this re-release of the Mega Drive games since launch, with modders having to come to the rescue. However, for one fan who was working on a huge unofficial patch, it's all just too much.
BetterOrigins, a massive mod that aimed to fix dozens of errors and bugs, has been put on hold. Creator Xanman says that digging through the game's files has brought him to one conclusion: the game is "absolute shit". Because of this, he's put BetterOrigins on an indefinite hiatus. He says he might come back to it one day, but for now, the message is clear: "screw this game.""
Gearing up for its launch later this month, Sega has shared some gameplay footage from Sonic Origins Plus. This expanded version of last year's compilation game has a bunch of new features, but the main pull here is its inclusion of all 12 Sonic games released for the Game Gear. However, it seems that their grand debut on modern hardware isn't going to be as great as fans had hoped.
vid in article was not there this video in the source section has clips of the audio issues
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This is the youtuber mentioned by the article
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It seems mono sound redone into stereo
Thankfully I'm no where near the Sega fan I once was. Looks like I'll be skipping this Origins collection as well. But hey they say third times the charm. Maybe with Sonic Origins ++ Sega will get its shit together. 😕
Sonic Origins Plus is what the original should have been (minus the audio issues)
The real Sonic Origins Plus should have included more games like Sonic Rush or Knuckles Chaotix
Hit movies, a great 3D game, a co-op sidescroller, a murder mystery visual novel. There is something for every Sonic fan right now.
We did have it good. The sonic og cartoons and sonic x, the sonic games (sonic 1-3 and Sonic adventure 1-2). We had it good. Also sonic shuffle a good party game for the DC. Spent countless hours playing that game single player or with siblings.
Oh look at that, we did have it good. This article is dumb.
Ahhh. Did you forget the 90’s? When Sonic was at it’s peak. Or were you too young or not alive to really understand that?
Sonic fans were eating good in the 90's and early 00's. There was plenty of Sonic content to go around.
SEGA is making some big changes to Sonic Origins with the expanded re-release, Sonic Origins Plus. Comprising a new playable character in Amy, Knuckles playable in Sonic CD, and a dozen newly added Game Gear games, it's a clear effort from the publisher to turn the retro collection's fortunes around. While it's catching a bit of flack for excluding the Master System versions, fans are largely quite excited for the changes.
However, Sonic Team hasn't been dealing with this on its own. Indie developer Headcannon — known for leading development on the acclaimed Sonic Mania — has confirmed its involvement in this new package.
That's excellent now bring that arcade game to consoles and I'm complete frfr
Kinda baffling why they didn't use the Master System versions of the games, not even sure why they felt the need to zoom in so much with the Game Gear versions, would've been nice if you could choose zoomed in or not.
I mean, Frontiers seemed to come out pretty solid. So there's that.
But it's sad that this amateur team is outdoing the main Sonic Team at this point.
Leave it to Sega to take something people love; 5 classic and great 2D Sonic the Hedgehog games, have the bright idea to put them in a collection in HD for current consoles, plus extras, and then decide they’ll rush the release by pushing it out before devs are ready, and ruin the release with strange out-of-place DLC-greed, souring the experience for everyone involved.
Classic Sega.
This could, and should, have been perfect, and yet they botched it.
What doesn’t make sense here is that Sega didn’t announce there would be an update that would try to correct all these bugs.. wtf sega