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- Mon Oct 06, 2014 9:46 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
I think I saw more Sonic characters sitting on couches during that one-minute trailer than I have in the entire history of the franchise.
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:19 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic Adventure Album
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42214
Re: New Sonic Adventure Album
I have a soft spot for unrepentantly cheeseball over-the-top guitars blazing riff rock. So I kind of like the old vocal themes... especially after the fact, as a now-safely-gone historical curiosity. If anything, every Crush 40 song post SA1 felt like a step backwards... less crunch, less distortion...
- Mon Sep 08, 2014 4:06 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic Adventure Album
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42214
Re: New Sonic Adventure Album
Yeah... I've wanted a vocal-free version of Tails' SA1 theme for ages!
- Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:16 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Sonic 1 and 2 getting Sonic CD style remakes
- Replies: 100
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Re: Sonic 1 and 2 getting Sonic CD style remakes
I always assumed the reason they replaced some tracks for the PC version was because those tracks all featured prominent audio samples and thus couldn't be recreated very well in general MIDI. (Launch Base, Carnival Night, Knuckles theme, and the credits music all had vocal samples, and Ice Cap had ...
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:37 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
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- Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:26 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
But have they actually SAID the story and characters are being rebooted? Or are fans just assuming that because of things like the examples you mentioned? I don't think making Amy interested in archaeology or introducing yet another set of magic rocks (to accompany the chaos emeralds, super emeralds...
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 3:37 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
- Replies: 121
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Re: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
I still think it's dumb to make a separate character out of an outfit that is not meant to be fought in. But if the plan is to give all the characters alternate skins based on famous costumes, regardless of how silly or impractical, these are probably as logical a choice for Samus as any. I do, howe...
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:16 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
I don't think "Boom" is a reboot in any fundamental narrative sense. I don't think it was intended (or allowed?) to be? It's not starting the story over. It's just taking where we were right at the end of Lost World and then branching off. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure when Boom starts, we'l...
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:12 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: What are you playing today?
- Replies: 655
- Views: 257463
Re: What are you playing today?
Aw, Pop, I never even saw your comment until now! I probably have the attitude you refer to because I'm a cartoonist. I get attached to great game characters as much as (or more than) the gameplay mechanics they are first associated with. I think of them like I think of animation or comics character...
- Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:19 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
Yeah, they're pretty OK! I like how they have meshed a very Western style of cartooning with something that still looks like Sonic. SatAM always looked strange to me, because Sally and the Freedom Fighters' character felt like a totally different style than that of Sonic and Tails -- really, they ju...
- Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:38 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
- Replies: 121
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Re: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
I wonder how many characters we are getting in total? They've announced 36 so far. Brawl had 35... although Zelda/Sheik and the two Samus' counted as two characters in that game instead of four. Of the 36 announced so far, three -- Lucinia, Luigi and Toon Link -- are "clones" or "semi-clones" or wha...
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:20 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
Just to echo Pop, I was 10/11 for 1992/1993, and I was, like, HYPER aware of all the different versions of Sonic and had STRONG OPINIONS about all of them! Japanese airbrush art Sonic was my favourite, too. (We got the euro Sonic 1 manual in Canada because it had french in it.) Of course, it didn't ...
- Wed Jul 09, 2014 8:57 pm
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- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
On the subject of "retro" Sonic merchandise, I saw this today at Walmart.
It's a children's shirt. It was right next to another shirt with green-eyed Sonic.
It's a children's shirt. It was right next to another shirt with green-eyed Sonic.
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:07 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
- Replies: 121
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Re: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
I'm kind of astonished they convinced Namco Bandai to let them use the classic Pacman instead of the modern redesign. Those guys are very dedicated to that relaunch.
It does sort of look weird to see the modern Sonic running around with such a retro Pacman and Megaman, though!
It does sort of look weird to see the modern Sonic running around with such a retro Pacman and Megaman, though!
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 3:49 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: coming to theaters near you
- Replies: 47
- Views: 42952
Re: coming to theaters near you
Yeah! I polled my readers really thoroughly on this affair and the two best movies we could come up with were Casper and Stuart Little. (And Stuart doesn't really count, since he's a book character rather than an existing cartoon character.) There are definitely some films that are worse than others...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:00 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
- Views: 343473
Re: New Sonic game for 2015
Yeah. They're clearly shooting for the LEGO/Skylanders audience. If that's the agenda... well, this does look a lot like those games, so maybe kids will dig it? I liked Skylanders Swap Force a lot. But I liked it because it was slick and hyper polished and felt like the product of billions of toy do...
- Wed Jun 11, 2014 9:54 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: What are you playing today?
- Replies: 655
- Views: 257463
Re: What are you playing today?
I think you might see DLC for Mario Kart, but I don't think it's going to be connected to the toys. I think it's just going to be straight up regular DLC... or at least, that will be an option. There's space on the menu screens for more cups and at least one more row of characters, and I think event...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:51 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
- Views: 343473
Re: New Sonic game for 2015
Yes! I did it! After all these years, finally, I too can help ruin Sonic for everyone!
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:50 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Cuphead
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9201
Re: Cuphead
I am trying to figure out of the lack of sound effects will make it harder to play!
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:49 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: coming to theaters near you
- Replies: 47
- Views: 42952
Re: coming to theaters near you
Question! Has there, in fact, EVER been a good movie in the "classic cartoon character brought into the real world with CG" genre? I am trying to think of one and it is definitely a struggle.
- Sat Jun 07, 2014 4:20 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: What are you playing today?
- Replies: 655
- Views: 257463
Re: What are you playing today?
For what it's worth, I also am really enjoying Mario Kart 8, and I hated 7 so much that I stopped halfway through 150cc and sold it. Mechanically, it's very similar to 8, and the track design is great, but I found the items to be way more unforgivingly cheap and frequent and the AI catchup to be too...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 3:49 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
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Re: New Sonic game for 2015
God, Tails Adventure! Now there's a slow-paced spinoff franchise I wouldn't mind seeing resurrected. I have to admit, the one unbridled grin this latest round of previews got out of me was when they mentioned Tails using a submarine and a remote-controlled Robot.
- Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:28 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: New Sonic game for 2015
- Replies: 398
- Views: 343473
Re: New Sonic game for 2015
Here's a interview that features some more footage from the speed stage and the Sonic/Knuckles adventure level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaY7XPc0VQA#t=28 I think the Wii U version looks reasonably slick, but the footage is definitely as reminiscent of combat driven 3D platformers like Jak, Ra...
- Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:27 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
- Replies: 121
- Views: 88414
Re: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
All right, all right. Thank you for the pedantry, guys. But Fox and Falcon are different and you darn well know why. That was the only way they could include those franchises. There are a billion other ways to include Metroid, which is a game about cool people and monsters shooting each other and no...
- Sat Apr 12, 2014 6:41 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
- Replies: 121
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Re: We few, we happy, we Smash Bros. in arms.
I think you guys are maybe missing my point. Clone characters are a quick way of expanding the roster while working within time and development limitations. They have problems, sure. But Zero Suit Samus isn't a clone character. Zero Suit Samus is a fully-realized, built-from-the-ground-up, completel...