The Definitive Development History of The Hedgehog Engine

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Learn about the Hedgehog Engine. The game that powers some of Sonic the Hedgehogs biggest hits like Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Generations, Sonic Colors and others you might not expect.
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  • @GameFactsSpecial
    @GameFactsSpecial7 күн бұрын

    LIKE! SUBSCRIBE! and I promise more cool Sonic Deep Cut videos :) :)

  • @shadowopsairman1583

    @shadowopsairman1583

    7 күн бұрын

    Sonic Sucked Since SA2 via gameplay, and graphics, physics, it only got worse with boost.

  • @RoshiBro08

    @RoshiBro08

    6 күн бұрын

    ​@@shadowopsairman1583💀

  • @BBWahoo

    @BBWahoo

    5 күн бұрын

    Amy Backshots

  • @LobotomyTC
    @LobotomyTC7 күн бұрын

    As a Hedgehog Engine modder, I can tell you with complete confidence that SEGA has given us several well wishes and votes of confidence over the years, and have an understanding that what they've got here is a somewhat unique community that they can use to gauge the quality of their own software. In a way, the modding community is a sort of sanity check to those poor Sonic Team developers who live out of their offices and focus only on the project. There are enough mods out there, that they can compare gameplay features and stage designs directly to the mods that come out, to see if they've passed a certain barrier of quality in their retail project. Morio Kishimoto has talked about this in an interview before, calling us 'rivals' to surpass and create expectations to exceed and subvert. I think that's an extremely fun and honorable way of looking at it. There's also the unspoken pact in which they know we'll stop buying their games if they stop letting us do this. All these decades, and they're still the Anti-Nintendo.

  • @lizardheisei1984

    @lizardheisei1984

    6 күн бұрын

    Heh, after all, sega does what nintendon't ⣯⣭⡍⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣉⣩⣭⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⣩⣭⠉⣭⣭ ⡿⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣋⡀⠈⠿⠞⠉⠿⠟ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣄⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣝⢦⡀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁ ⡇⠘⢍⠐⠤⣀⡀⠈⣙⣿⣿⣉⣉⠇⡺⣽⣿⣿⣿⠿⠐⠂⣈⠝⠀ ⡇⣠⡎⠅⠀⠈⠹⠠⠙⠫⣤⣀⣤⡺⣾⣿⣿⠻⠸⠀⠰⢜⡳⢀⠀ ⡟⡫⠄⠀⠒⠧⠣⡿⠦⣾⠀⠀⣸⣷⣌⡓⢻⢤⣀⢵⣤⡘⠊⠂⡢ ⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⣇⢀⣴⡿⡿⢿⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠉⠊⠁⠚⠒ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡿⠶⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣷⢹⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡆⢹⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⢬⣿⠷⣾⣿⡿⠃⠇⡀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠸⢀⣀⠐⢹⡒⠂⢈⡬⠁⣾⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣾⣷⣶⣦⠈⢿⣿⣸⣿⣿⡀⠀⢻⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀ ⡇⠀⠀⠐⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⠼⠟⠛⠿⠛⠃⠦⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

  • @coatlessali

    @coatlessali

    6 күн бұрын

    Could you provide a link to that interview?

  • @CanaldoZenny
    @CanaldoZenny7 күн бұрын

    With how much time and effort they put developing the HE, it is a mystery how Sega never licensed it to other studios. It seems like it had a lot of benefits for weaker hardware in a time where teal time ray tracing was out of the question.

  • @Sneeakie

    @Sneeakie

    7 күн бұрын

    I remember they did intend to make it licensed but I don't know exactly why they kept it.

  • @Chibiknux
    @Chibiknux7 күн бұрын

    1:22 almost 2 decades later, its been 16 years

  • @MuminjonGuru
    @MuminjonGuru6 күн бұрын

    Sonic Adventure and the Hedgehog Engine were pivotal moments in Sonic’s evolution. I hope that with new stuff coming, this is gonna be an era of Sonic the Hedgehog.

  • @LotteYansson
    @LotteYansson6 күн бұрын

    Mario & Sonic Rio 2016 running on the Hedgehog Engine 2 make it the true first HE2 game to release??????

  • @Mahdi12
    @Mahdi125 күн бұрын

    It's pretty impressive for a 2008 game to look this gorgeous and go into more depths on details like shadows and lighting. It astounds me.

  • @AvenueBrawl
    @AvenueBrawl7 күн бұрын

    Why are none of these recent videos getting as much popularity as the others?! These are one of my biggest inspirations for game dev, and I don’t know why the last 2 videos haven’t had as much reach as the others

  • @GameFactsSpecial

    @GameFactsSpecial

    7 күн бұрын

    This one should do better. I just released it. :) Thanks for the comment!

  • @alirezasaeednia4118
    @alirezasaeednia41186 күн бұрын

    So glad someone actually made a video about this,been seeing hashimoto’s video in regard to he on soah city for years and wondering why this doesn’t peak anyone’s interey. Good video btw

  • @IsmayaEN
    @IsmayaEN6 күн бұрын

    Hedgehog Engine is a next gen Blast Processing.. But at the time, the console wasn't ready for Blast Processing

  • @somesketchydragon5189
    @somesketchydragon51896 күн бұрын

    As much as I like Unreal, it's sad that they're shelving the Hedgehog Engine. Unleashed, Generations and even Forces have some fantastic visuals. Why do I remember reading that PSO2 also used HE1?

  • @drummatik2412
    @drummatik24125 күн бұрын

    You missed the fact that Phantasy Star Online 2 used the hedgehog engine. That game made proper use of the engine’s global illumination

  • @GameFactsSpecial

    @GameFactsSpecial

    5 күн бұрын

    Good call!

  • @MegaManNeo
    @MegaManNeo6 күн бұрын

    Interesting stuff. I always found the Hedgehog Engine as used in Sonic Unleashed (at least the PS3/360 versions) to do better than whatever SEGA came up with afterwards. Frontiers felt like the first Sonic game in a while where things were good again.

  • @sonicthomasgamer
    @sonicthomasgamer4 күн бұрын

    Sonic Frontiers had a problem with ambient lighting, it had the basic on and off lighting, Sonic doesn’t look like he’s in the world (touching grass) For example his gloves and socks were bright white while standing on grass (not how the lighting should be for this game) There’s some mods to make it more like Unleashed Improved Ambient lighting And Subsurface scattering fix (Fixes his body having bright orange parts of light leaking through his ears arms and stomach)

  • @chaphidoesstuff
    @chaphidoesstuff7 күн бұрын

    awesome

  • @HedgeOnStage
    @HedgeOnStage6 күн бұрын

    I played the video on 1.25x and it sounded a tad more natural to me. The speech is a bit slow, only criticism Great research and composition ~

  • @user-vt6dd4kz5t
    @user-vt6dd4kz5t4 күн бұрын

    13:00 i hope not...that engine is still useful for future sonic games or other games in general and it can still delivers high quality visuals! Just look at shadow generations for god sake! 1:10 aaand...as for this i..kinda disagree for the most part i think we can all agree on that only 06 and forces these mainline sonic games have the most bad reputation for the most part games like sonic unleashed, generations, colors, even frontiers and Balck knight recently..(for some reason this game getting some praise too) etc...really have some good reputation and impact on them...and let's not even talk about sonic adventure 1,2...these games are too beloved actually left a huge impact infact.

  • @silveramyknux241
    @silveramyknux2413 күн бұрын

    2:17 Then why does Sega still rush 3D and even 2D Sonic games now? /j But still though, Sonic games still gets rushed often.

  • @TroboTicTac
    @TroboTicTac6 күн бұрын

    What is an X thread? Do you mean Twitter or something?

  • @TroboTicTac
    @TroboTicTac6 күн бұрын

    10:23 yet somehow Forces looks way worse

  • @solidusgadget

    @solidusgadget

    6 күн бұрын

    How? Unleashed environments might be pretty but they lack in quality and art direction.

  • @Preteristboy

    @Preteristboy

    6 күн бұрын

    That has less to do with the engine itself and more to do with the art direction they wanted for the game. In the engine tests they did for HE2, they put Sonic game models in digital recreations of SEGA headquarters, and they look so realistic. It was as if they were physically there in the real world SEGA HQ. The pictures should be on the Japanese Sonic Channel website.

  • @thedead073

    @thedead073

    5 күн бұрын

    10:31 can you honestly say Sonic Unleashed has anything that looks this good?

  • @Indomavel2112

    @Indomavel2112

    5 күн бұрын

    ​@@thedead073Yeah, the entirety of the game.

  • @thedead073

    @thedead073

    5 күн бұрын

    @@Indomavel2112 Im not about to argue against dilusion. Nice bait tho

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