This is one of those vids that u thought was cool when you were younger and see it in your recommended like 5 years later and the coolness still stands to this day. Due to me experiencing this I will now say the words you would expect to see on a video like this. *Inhales* anyone watching in 2020?
a decade ago we thought this stuff looked too good to be realtime. Nowadays we could get something like this running 4K on the right specs. Kinda wild. Amazing work, from 10 years later. ;)
personally i think that it doesn't look appealing anymore, i mean it looks great but it's not a really interesting concept to develop a whole game from. maybe in 2010 it would've been a good idea
This is exaclty what I have ever dreamed of in a Sonic game and my vision of the best (Sonic) game ever. I have been thinking about making this in Unity. Maybe some day it will exist in this world.
kneeman I know, and I have played those with some enjoyment, but that is imo nowhere near this in terms of quality, gameplay, sound and graphics. I really liked the levels of Sonic generations, but it felt more like a collection of levels, rather than a full Sonic game. This video is where my dream sonic game lies. Reimagined in perfect 3d.
@AnimaticAnimatic if this person could do it for free 13 years ago it shouldn't be hard for a company that could release multiple other Sonic games, including the origins game, still have it the same way instead of improving the visuals like this
@@EdgyHedgy123 I don't care, if they could make Generations and all the other ones we've had in between, then this is simple. Stop defending their laziness
It’s funny how back then the attitude to retro games seemed to be that pixel art was dated and game’s had to be remade in 3D or 2.5D to appeal to a modern audience, but now it’s totally shifted and people love pixel art and just accept it. This is a really cool relic of its time and super well made.
I love how well you differentiate between the foreground and background terrain. A lot of newer titles/remakes make the two look way too similiar. Loving these graphical updates you make!
This should be crowd funded. I think everyone would love for a Sonic 3 and Knuckles 3D remake. Come on BlobVanDam, put it to Kickstarter. People will pay for this!
Given that Sega owns the rights to Sonic the Hedgehog, that wouldn't be legal, and would get shut down instantly. I do have a playable demo of my own platformer like this that I would like to get on Kickstarter some time in the future though.
La verdad debieron hacer así los gráficos en primer lugar. Pero el juego decidió ser para móviles y luego de eso se les ocurrieron pasarlo a consolas cosa que fue una mala idea. Al menos el episodio II mejoraron un poco.
I didn't originally see this on UA-cam, but maybe on some filesharing thing years ago. The way it ends abruptly I thought I maybe had an incomplete file, but was unable to find any info about it. Your awesome DKC2 video popped up in my recommended videos then I saw that you had also made this. Excellent work.
I know I'm 9 years old late..but man, if there was 2.5D remakes of the first sonic games, they would be neat to play (if, of course, physic is like original games)
Timdeuces Yeah :P. It would just be like a 3D game interpretating a different instruction set. Just like most Game Maker games interpretate GML syntax, PC Harry Potter games (From first to third game) do interpretate their complex cutscene system, and so on.
You don't have to treat me like this, *****. I do know what an emulator is, I use it for testing my romhacks and homebrew programs I write for Sega Genesis and Sega CD. I understand it's hard to believe, but, leave alone how much the base emu needs to tweaked to work with a hardcoded 3D renderer, nothing avoids it to acomplish such a goal. So how may it be done? Let the emu read and process all Motorola 68000 code just as usual (main engine, game physics), but remove original VDP renderer and replace it with other 3D-based, which display image under some certain criteria, for example, monitors, springs, spikes, Sonic himself, etc 3D models, based on their positions, frame number, etc data represented in Sega Genesis Work-RAM, at Sonic engine's "Objects RAM" reserved space.
Michael Averton I can't even begin to imagine what Flying Battery, Lava Reef, or Death Egg would look like with this kind of visuals. Especially Lava Reef actually, the second act with its crystals and atmosphere would be mind blowing.
Michael Averton They could go with the _Mega Man: Powered Up_ route and add a few new characters to play as, like CD Sonic (peel-out) and Modern Sonic (boost instead of spindash, h. attack instead of insta-shield).
And then we got Generations a year later, which actually HAD Mushroom Hill in the 3DS version.
I swear, this guy is some kind of psychic.
Or I'm a time traveller....
@@BlobVanDam ARE YOU!?
Too bad they didn’t do his A Link To The Past HD Remake... yet.
@@oreogod3943 i hope
@SEGA LOVER 95 shut
9 years later and it still looks incredible
This comment is 9 months ago and still looks underrated
@@calvingaming2897 this reply is 6 days ago and still looks underrated
@@PiggyPooPro True
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Better than anything Sonic Team will give us. lmao
You knew about Sonic Generations all along didn't you?
+Gommo64 I know all.
+The Batman If I do another video like this, I'll definitely include the bonus level!
Do Hydrocity, MY GOD do that.
I have that game actually
Do lava reef bro
this looks amazing even after 13 years
Fr
THIS COMMENT WAS 13 DAYS AGO
This is one of those vids that u thought was cool when you were younger and see it in your recommended like 5 years later and the coolness still stands to this day.
Due to me experiencing this I will now say the words you would expect to see on a video like this. *Inhales* anyone watching in 2020?
no i wouldnt, those words are dead.
@@hyderzamanboi7830 yes but nobody said it already so I had to otherwise this wouldn't be a proper childhood video
Nope 2021
@@facingtheonlymusic7441 nice
@@FlickiesIsland1996 I’m still here!
12 years later and here we are getting ready for sonic superstars
I love how everybody came here after Superstars reveal trailer
Exactly 😂😂😂
I’m surprised that this this right here was made 14 fucking years ago and still to this day it looks incredible
my guy got sonic superstars early
12 years early…..
This looks better than sonic 4
É verdade '-'-👍🏻
Yeah no shit! Imagine every Sonic 3 & Knuckles stage reimagined with these visuals. Launch Base and Icecap would be AMAZING to play in this style!
Yea, because it was made with love
Yes
Booom!
Back in 2010, this looked so real.
Still today, it looks amazing
*Insert obligatory IKR here*
Tbh this looks extremely ugly to me. For 2010, it's impressive. But something about it makes it look so... dull.
Oh
Because of this video, generations was made.
:0
Hola mister mater
WHOA SERIOUSLY?!
The rays through the trees made me shed a tear. Thank you for recreating the magic.
+Wake N Bake That was indeed beautiful. Indeedly? That was it was very beautiful? I don't know. Grammar has been off all day.
you had it right the first time.
S¡rC00g¡69 Thanks.
The most accurate thing about this vid is 0:28
i find it funny how sonic fan content from around this time had a very particular style to it
Generations before generations was made
@ I’m more so saying just how the lighting looked the font used the artstyle etc
a decade ago we thought this stuff looked too good to be realtime.
Nowadays we could get something like this running 4K on the right specs.
Kinda wild. Amazing work, from 10 years later. ;)
i remember thinking this was an actual game back then
Sonic Superstars didn't bring me here. I was there when you first uploaded this my G.
12 years passed and this animation is still amazing. excellent work!
12 years. Dude, you're a total legend.
some graphic designer made this like 11 years ago and it still blows my mind
I'm glad people are still enjoying it after so long! Maybe some day I'll even get around to a follow up XD
I thought this was a fan game when I first saw this. Seven years later, I'm still disappointed its not a game.
Some day, someone will actually make a playable version of this
Yeah it’s called sonic generations on the 3ds.
@@enavictor3 good one
@@enavictor3 No
personally i think that it doesn't look appealing anymore, i mean it looks great but it's not a really interesting concept to develop a whole game from. maybe in 2010 it would've been a good idea
@@enavictor3 it's not even the same
This is all of a sudden getting views, but I watched this like 6 years ago.
sonic mania?
Possibly.
Me too XD
Wow I didn't know the UA-cam viewing community revolved around you!
Always wanted a Sonic game that looks like this video. It looks like Sonic Superstars may finally fulfill that.
This video was way ahead of its time and aged oh so nicely
@arandommonke yes it was idiot
When I first saw it I thought it was a real game I wanted the video to continue but that alone is incredible knowing that this video is old.
I remember watching this when it came out. This blew my mind and it still looks professional today.
this is better than the 3ds version of this stage in generations was!
Yeah SB your right!
Hi SB737
This is exaclty what I have ever dreamed of in a Sonic game and my vision of the best (Sonic) game ever.
I have been thinking about making this in Unity. Maybe some day it will exist in this world.
Sonic 4: Episodes I and II. It's pretty much a direct sequal of _Sonic 3 and Knuckles_. And it's 3D!
kneeman I know, and I have played those with some enjoyment, but that is imo nowhere near this in terms of quality, gameplay, sound and graphics. I really liked the levels of Sonic generations, but it felt more like a collection of levels, rather than a full Sonic game. This video is where my dream sonic game lies.
Reimagined in perfect 3d.
Christian de Kool True, but this game would probably take a lot of development and time before it would come out.
kneeman True
Unity isn't very good for 2.5D. But imagine the original trilogy in full 3D (and 1080p60). Not like Sonic Fan Remix (that looked putrid).
This is really good for being 8 years old.
Lmfao
I've never understood why it is so difficult for SEGA to just make a version that looks like this! I would buy it!
Remake all the music,coding,modeling...
Yeah,not difficult at all.
@AnimaticAnimatic if this person could do it for free 13 years ago it shouldn't be hard for a company that could release multiple other Sonic games, including the origins game, still have it the same way instead of improving the visuals like this
@@hihosh1 so,uh,that was an animation.
Read the description...
@@EdgyHedgy123 I don't care, if they could make Generations and all the other ones we've had in between, then this is simple. Stop defending their laziness
@@hihosh1 wtv you say then
Watching this video again years later and it's STILL impressive...
2010: No
2011: No
2012: *Oh no*
2013: Oh.... No
2014: no
2015: no
2016: no 😈
2017: no
2018: no
2019: no....
2020: Oh Yeah
You KNOW this is good when it looks better than sonic 4's graphics, and what makes it better is that this is made by a fan! (probably) 1 person!
ikr
yeah, but it's fake
7 years later and it STILL looks amazing.
Here after the superstars announcement. When dreams become reality XD
What son of a bitch time traveler played sonic superstars in the stone age
I love this comment 😭🤣
It’s funny how back then the attitude to retro games seemed to be that pixel art was dated and game’s had to be remade in 3D or 2.5D to appeal to a modern audience, but now it’s totally shifted and people love pixel art and just accept it. This is a really cool relic of its time and super well made.
One of the videos I watched when I was younger
10 years ago?! Man i remember watching this when it only had a few months
I never knew I needed this in my life...
That sunlight through the trees tho.. very impressive.
looks like better 2d physics than with classic sonic in forces.
Animeist72 No shit. Sonic forces can't replicate the exact 2D physics of classic sonic with the havok engine.
It was made frame by frame based on S&K footage, there's no 3D physics engine
Chill out. The gameplay is not even real its an animation. Stop hating on him.
Animeist72 Forces classic physics look floaty compared to Gens
10 years and this is incredible
This is what graphics will look like in 2013
@wAcO tAcO hey i know you
Insane that it took this long to get a proper 3D, Classic Sonic led game with Superstars on the way. Like, damn.
I feel like my brain rotting faster then ever when reading these comment.
SEGA HIRE THIS MAN
No one:
Absolutely nobody:
UA-cam 2010: Nope
UA-cam 2020: Let's recommend it 10 years later cuz why not??
2019 and this is still impressive...Also it looks better than sonic forces...
I love how well you differentiate between the foreground and background terrain. A lot of newer titles/remakes make the two look way too similiar. Loving these graphical updates you make!
HE PREDICTED SONIC GENERATIONS ON 3DS
No he predicted sonic 4
@@Robertishappy184 not even close bruv, sonic 4 doesn't even have mushroom hill
@@SquadleDudeYT so does sonic generations
@@Robertishappy184 sonic generations 3ds has mushroom hill, research before you answer dummy.
@@Robertishappy184 lol looser
This should be crowd funded. I think everyone would love for a Sonic 3 and Knuckles 3D remake. Come on BlobVanDam, put it to Kickstarter. People will pay for this!
Given that Sega owns the rights to Sonic the Hedgehog, that wouldn't be legal, and would get shut down instantly.
I do have a playable demo of my own platformer like this that I would like to get on Kickstarter some time in the future though.
Needs to re upload, youtube had crappy HD compression 12 years ago.
I can not believe that was before 10 year's before sonic generation
William and anass 2005 pro ᴛᴍ that came out in 2011
this came out 1 year before generations
@@frazza5503
Bruh
Pls kill me;-;
It's a crime this video only goes up to 360p
All this year's and this video makes me play this version...
🗿
Generations wasnt even out yet.... damn...
And unleashed was 1-2 years old that year
Better than Sonic 4
I see
La verdad debieron hacer así los gráficos en primer lugar.
Pero el juego decidió ser para móviles y luego de eso se les ocurrieron pasarlo a consolas cosa que fue una mala idea.
Al menos el episodio II mejoraron un poco.
Of course!!!
It doesn't take much to be better than Sonic 4
Everything is better than Sonic 4
who ever made this should be hired by sega by now.
HOW THE FUCK DID THIS LEGEND MAKE THIS 10 YEARS AGO
Edit: aw damn it's an animation. Still impressive tho!
Dude people are still commenting this day.
@@mymomschannel9452 UA-cam Recommended's being weird lately. At one point it gave me the original Minecraft: Pocket Edition trailer from 10 years ago!
Randomly recommended me this. Damn I remember watching this many many years ago, still impressive animation to this day!
same here xD
Jasmine Palmer I was recommended this literally a hour ago, what weird coincidence :D
Jasmine Palmer Same.
Jasmine Palmer Ikr. Same. I remember watching this when I was like 9.
Still can’t believe it’s been 10 years already since this video came out
Before everyone starts flooding in from recommendations. This isn't a game at all. It's an animation.
Thank you Blob, very cool!
What sonic 4 wish it could be
Yee
MAde 9 years ago and looks better than 99% of the UE4 fan-remakes on UA-cam.
It is an animation, not something made in a game engine
Quite literally “this is what sonic will look like in 2010”
im still watching this since 2010... 8 years holy shit.
Saw this a long time ago and it was mindblowing... even nowadays it looks good
I didn't originally see this on UA-cam, but maybe on some filesharing thing years ago. The way it ends abruptly I thought I maybe had an incomplete file, but was unable to find any info about it. Your awesome DKC2 video popped up in my recommended videos then I saw that you had also made this. Excellent work.
Thanks! Glad you found your way here in the end. :D
Incredible!
Noob
7 years and this is still impressive
*SONIC TEAM*
Why can't you
JUST
FUCKING
DO
*THIS*
4matsy because this is an animation
12 years and it still looks awesome as hell.
this is what this game look like to all 90s kids back then.
It sure did. Now the spoiled brats hate on them.
this shit is dope, when the sunlight shined through on the screen i was like OMG this is fucking awesome
Lid Icarus e
Honest to god. When I was younger, I thought this was real
The light leaks are a very nice touch. I was surprised when it went across the screen and became "overexposed".
It feels like someone took actual gameplay, and reanimated using 3D! THAT'S how good it is!
Wait, i thought this was actual gameplay from a game he was developing
Wait, he DEVELOPS games? 😯
Yep that's what they did check the description
That's what they did.
10 years....wow
Its nostalgic
Holy shit this was posted 7 years ago and im barely seeing this gem now jesus.
thebdboy778 yeah
12 years later and this looks great!
This need to be an actual thing..
*(Man I never thought I'd be wishing someone else knew how to program)*
suddenly recommended to me after 7 years, but great video overall!
Damn, this is really faithful. UA-cam even thinks it's sonic and knuckles lol.
cool
now its sonic 1
I'd still love a full game of this. I know it's not going to happen, but this is so beautifully done.
i remember it took me a really long time to realize this wasnt actually a game
I wish it a was an official game!
This shit is 10x better than sonic 4.
🤝
UA-cam just recomend me a childhood video
Ohhh, that's nice. I liked the light spilling through the trees, that was a great touch.
Machine Lord Zero I agree... that, was pretty cool
Holy fuckin' shit, this would be an absolutely fantastic game.
*_GET ON THAT, SONIC TEAM!_*
UA-cam likes putting random videos made 8 years ago in my recommended.
I'm not complaining! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
BlobVanDam Yeah, you deserve getting more views because this animation is pretty impressive!
This makes me deeply uncomfortable and i can't even articulate why. It feels like a Wallace and Gromit claymation game.
my god the physics with how sonic moves are right on point on how it is in the actual game! i've never seen a animation so well at doing that!!
This is beautiful. Why is UA-cam only recommending me this now?!
@Starscream91 beautiful for 2010
I was a baby in 2010
@Starscream91 no I am 8
@Starscream91 no you are
The McGuinness Experiment Matt Counter x6
I know I'm 9 years old late..but man, if there was 2.5D remakes of the first sonic games, they would be neat to play (if, of course, physic is like original games)
This needs to be made into a game... Build it into an emulator!!!
Timdeuces
or that's what YOU think :P. An emulator may be edited so it reads 3D graphics, but reading the original game program :P
Timdeuces Yeah :P. It would just be like a 3D game interpretating a different instruction set. Just like most Game Maker games interpretate GML syntax, PC Harry Potter games (From first to third game) do interpretate their complex cutscene system, and so on.
HCKTROX I don't think you understand what an emulator is or does.
You don't have to treat me like this, *****. I do know what an emulator is, I use it for testing my romhacks and homebrew programs I write for Sega Genesis and Sega CD.
I understand it's hard to believe, but, leave alone how much the base emu needs to tweaked to work with a hardcoded 3D renderer, nothing avoids it to acomplish such a goal.
So how may it be done? Let the emu read and process all Motorola 68000 code just as usual (main engine, game physics), but remove original VDP renderer and replace it with other 3D-based, which display image under some certain criteria, for example, monitors, springs, spikes, Sonic himself, etc 3D models, based on their positions, frame number, etc data represented in Sega Genesis Work-RAM, at Sonic engine's "Objects RAM" reserved space.
Timdeuces And redo whole engine, all objects, all scene sequences, aaaalllllll
I was 12 years old when I've first watched this, I'm 24 begging for this to be real.
If only this was a real game.
I'd pay real money for it.
Michael Averton I'll pay my whole wallet.
Ducks are Cool *removes almost all money from my wallet*
same
Michael Averton I can't even begin to imagine what Flying Battery, Lava Reef, or Death Egg would look like with this kind of visuals. Especially Lava Reef actually, the second act with its crystals and atmosphere would be mind blowing.
Michael Averton They could go with the _Mega Man: Powered Up_ route and add a few new characters to play as, like CD Sonic (peel-out) and Modern Sonic (boost instead of spindash, h. attack instead of insta-shield).
MasterDisaster64 then I hope it will never happen.