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Really? Then I should go scan that article they ran about Sonic 1 in 2007, just to see if your head pops!

Dr. BUGMAN wrote:

Senbei wrote:Seeing Sonic on a Nintendo Power cover is all kinds of unholy, especially his 90's design.

I know; it's like seeing the universe implode on itself.

He was on their cover around the time SA2:B was released.

Aaaaaany second now on that deafening implosion, right?

Now imagine that in the voice of Knuckles as you scoop up Central City bombs in the Shadow game.

No, I don't know why that came to mind either.

Hop on the logic train, people. Yes, it's quite logical to purchase a half-shitty game with the chesire-cat-grin PR promise that the next game won't be as shitty. Fixed. To be more precise, compare to Sonic Unleashed, which this is structurally a sequel of: one half people jizz over more than the o...

Substitution broken image letters! Terrifying!

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So are the forums chugging like molasses for anybody else today, or what?

Wow, near-unanimous optimism? That's a refreshing change of pace. Am I in the right Green Hill Zone? Wait, nevermind, there's Flash. Good to know some things never change. At least not since that time you maintained that 2k6 might not suck until it was finally released. You're never going to forgiv...

Or, here's a thought! If they had any fucking clue what they were doing, they'd stop trying to segregate their fans and wouldn't need marketing to play the smoke-and-mirrors act every single release.

Every mainstream news article I've come across focuses on Sony bringing out the handkerchief and pointing the finger at those dastardly hackers, but not a word was said about Sony's massive privacy violations, described for instance in the article Ritz linked to. What's up with that? Media flunkies...

Didn't they make Sonic 3 in the states, except in an office isolated from most of the american STI staff?

Casino Park wasn't tremendously offensive, in spite of the mega-buggy pinball physics, but Bingo Highway was ruthless alright. It was fun if you could avoid getting screwed by the physics but that's tough. In fact, if you want to see the stage at the height of its' terror, look up the Super Hard mod...

I liked the last level part of Spinball, it was fun, despite the fact it was too easy to die We must have been playing different games there... :-/ It IS easy to die in The Showdown. In the center room at the bottom, if you fall into one of the outlanes without hitting the three switches above it, ...

No disrespect to anyone who's had money tied up in PSN or anything, but as far as i'm concerned, couldn't have happened to nicer assholes. I eagerly await the real explanation for this "security breach".

New info that clarifies why Naka quit Sega after Sonic 1's release: http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=234&title=Developer%27s%20Den:%20Sega%20Technical%20Institute Yuji Naka's departure from Japan has been an issue of controversy over the past two decades. It was speculated that he left bec...

Or simply forget Sonic 06's plot ever happened and the conundrum fixes itself.

Neo wrote:When Passepartout blacked out

Ok now i'm really afraid of what Gibbon does with him.

And when exactly was he in Germany?

To be fair, you don't see most other large publishers distributing literal beta versions of a product for any reason. I believe this a unique case (perhaps).

as I was coming up a list I realized I only had representation from the first two eras of the three promised. What the fuck stages would they include from the post SA era and who the hell wants to play them? Why would anyone want to play stages from the generally recognized "era of terrible games"?...

Even if I personally dislike the Unleashed day/ Colors game mechanics, it's always better to at least release a functional action game, than be the laughing stock of the gaming industry. Languishing in mediocrity with polarizing reception to every release isn't any better. Well, yeah. They've done ...

Crisis wrote:All SEGA have to do to win back the fans is make an unambiguously awesome game.

Just like that, huh.

Really, even though people are generally being conservative in their criticism here, I find it kind of depressing that, once again, when Sega tries to do something to please the fans, all anyone seems to want to do is nitpick it. Again, this fanbase can't be pleased. To be blunt, "Please the fans" ...

On the bright side, Gummi- Sonic is gone for good. You think THAT'S bad? Perspective time. (actually a pretty decent magazine) At the time I thought Uekawa's SA1 promo art was weird, but a really slick kind of weird. I like it and I especially respect it for the fact that it was a major shakeup fro...

You should know by now that this fanbase is literally impossible to please. To be more specific, this argument over which design is better is an ouroboros that never goes anywhere.* Having the Sonic fanbase be totally pleased is impossible and should never be attempted. (Unfortunately, depending on...

Radrappy wrote:Seriously. I really thought we'd all be on the same page.

I imagine this is a frequent comment made by other narcicists.

I on the other hand held out some slight hope that it wouldn't come down to shallow bullshit like this, but I guess that was asking too much.