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Ian Chatlog. He stuck around for quite a while!

That probably explains why my Dreamcast is dying, but it doesn't explain why it only happens with a very small handful of games (most notably SA2).

http://www.sagexpo.org/ I figured most you may or may not care (as this SAGE is centered primarily around fangaming and I figure most people here aren't too hot on that concept), but then I remembered the Ian Flynn live chat is on Thursday and I figured a couple of you may want to sit in on it. Basi...

All I have to contribute is the fact that I really like the english version of Angels with Burning Hearts because it's borderline nonsensical, at least to somebody who's never played the game. I mean, really, "The cradle's rocking with love" and "passing through the matrix of death and driving you i...

It's a game console for adults. Not just any stoner, beer-chugging, Homer Simpson idolizing trailer park adults - wine-drinking, Cuban cigar-smoking, business-section reading adults who spend their summers playing golf in Ireland. Oddly enough, according to the Nielsen rating system, so is the Wii!...

I really, really , REALLY hope this is true. Why would you want something like this to be true? This article is suggesting Sega is languishing on signing off on Sonic in brawl and time is running out. If it was true, it would be implying nothing good - it would be saying, "Yeah, uh, we want Sonic i...

Ninja Gaiden is also on my list of games to eventually pick up. Which is better, NG, or NG Black? (I'd be playing it on the 360, so take into account any compatibility problems of which you're aware.) Nobody's mentioned Escape from Butcher Bay. I guess people don't think too highly of it? (Never pl...

Couple of the main previews are up: http://uk.gamespot.com/wii/action/nightsjourneyofdreams/news.html?sid=6174475&om_act=convert&om_clk=newlyadded&tag=newlyadded;title;1 http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/803/803661p1.html IGN thinks the frame rate is choppy and Gamespot seem to think it's solid, so ta...

Having played it, I can say Sega still doesn't know how to emulate the Genesis sound hardware. There's a strange amount of garbage noise when certain sounds play at times, plus the pitch and tone on a lot of sounds is all over the place. Besides that... it's Sonic with a smoothing filter. Can't imag...

The fact that the video has no music doesn't mean anything. About a month before Sonic 2k6 hit shelves Sega released an "Environments" video that didn't contain music, either. (About a week later Sega added the video to it's japanese Sonic 2k6 site, but it contained music - nothing was changed, besi...

Timestones wrote:Actually, I think that's about as fast as NiGHTS was in the original game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0danX6sjcsg

Nope.

Looks a little too much like Sonic Rush to me in some regards. The bosses seem to follow the same patterns and concepts as bosses in the original Sonic Rush. The Dinosaur, for example, attacks (and is damaged) in a manner that is almost exactly like the first boss in the original Sonic Rush. Gamepla...

(go ahead and delete my post in what used to be the General E3 thread and is now the Mario & Sonic thread) NiGHTS looks pretty awful. The trailer feels like it's advertising a Disney movie and the gameplay footage is so... BORING. Even using the dash, NiGHTS moves REALLY slow and the levels are so b...

gr4yJ4Y wrote:I thought he looked like this:

Corey Feldman?

Not really, no. They had voices (jump grunts and the like), but there was no spoken dialog (or really, any dialog at all, unless you count the Narrator in Christmas NiGHTS).

^Thankfully, you only need to use Mario to fully beat the game(unless Nintendo changed requirements I didn't know about). My original point of usually not being forced to play as "Mario's shitty friends" is still valid. At the beginning of Super Mario 64, Yoshi witnesses Mario, Luigi, and Wario ent...

Anon wrote:I suppose that Luigi (and Waluigi by vague association) would count as well, but yeah, I think that's about it. Even if there are any more, they'd be limited to one game, so it's not really worth mentioning.

Don't forget Boshi from Super Mario RPG.

I never got a response for my Sonic 2k6 bitch letter.

Ritz wrote:Because Mario characters aren't Mario clones with different shoes and facial hair. Refer to my prior rant.

Sonic and Blaze actually do meet face to face after Kingdom Valley, and don't acknowledge each other. Oh yeah. I tend to block that part out as it's done of the more cringe-worthy cutscenes. Sonic : OMG ELISE YOU ARE DEAD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY Silver : Dude, we can time travel, remember? Sonic : Oh, ...

As always, I swoop in dispensing way more information than you ever asked for! In Sonic 2k6, Blaze plays more or less like Sonic and Shadow do with some key but ultimately frivilous changes. Double tapping the jump button does not initiate a homing attack; instead, Blaze does sort of a spinning uppe...

when I originally created NiGHTS

"Yuji Naka? I've never heard of a guy named Yuji Naka. Naoto Oshima? What? Who's THAT? Honestly, I have no idea who these people are. I've never met them or spoken to them in my entire life."

Don't worry. I'm sure they'll get plenty of coaching from Iizuka, as the Sonic Rivals team did. Especially considering Iizuka has a boner for Sonic RPGs. He's probably over at Bioware right now, face pressed up against the glass. "Hey guys I hear you're making a Sonic RPG I like Sonic RPGs I mean S...

I find it weird that they're bringing Silver back for yet another go. He felt totally disposable like most Sonicteam characters and I figured his tenture in the original Rivals would be the last we saw of him.