Need for Sonic Underground Rivals (PSP)

Wooduck51 · Post by **Wooduck51** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:53 pm

Has GG! had any dreams about this game yet? He seems to have a thing for visions, seeing as he accurately foresaw Shadow.

FlashTHD · Post by **FlashTHD** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:10 pm

Wooduck51 wrote:Has GG! had any dreams about this game yet? He seems to have a thing for visions, seeing as he accurately foresaw Shadow.

Dash · Post by **Dash** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:11 pm

SegaSonic wrote: Maybe Silver is as fast as Knuckles, he just seems kinda slow in StH, maybe he hates running, why run when you can blow everything away with pyschic powers?

I played a demo of Sonic Rivals at PAX. Honkey the Hegehog there runs at about the same speed as Sonic and Shadow and I think Knuckles did too. They're all basically skins.

And oh yeah, it was awful. I believe I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Wooduck51 · Post by **Wooduck51** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:40 pm

FlashTHD wrote:
Wooduck51 wrote:Has GG! had any dreams about this game yet? He seems to have a thing for visions, seeing as he accurately foresaw Shadow.

You did realize I said that somewhat jokingly, or at least not seriously enough to actually bother him as to whether or not he had such a dream.

bolt7 · Post by **bolt7** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:53 pm

Sorry to quote an old old post but,

Dead Eyes Eggman makes his PSP debut! Man this game looks like ass.

Classic Eggman makes his PSP debut imo. He looks more like he does in the origional games, compared to SA and Heroes. He does look shit though, being as flat as a pancake n'all.

Hybrid · Post by **Hybrid** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:26 am

FlashTHD wrote:
Hybrid wrote:I'm hoping this game has no storyline to speak of so that Silver can feasibly appear without having to still actually exist in the timeline.
Too late by a couple months.

How so? I haven't been paying much attention to this game, understandably.

FlashTHD · Post by **FlashTHD** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:20 pm

Hybrid wrote:
FlashTHD wrote:
Hybrid wrote:I'm hoping this game has no storyline to speak of so that Silver can feasibly appear without having to still actually exist in the timeline.
Too late by a couple months.
How so? I haven't been paying much attention to this game, understandably.

http://news.sonicstadium.org/story/195/

First of all, the story that concerns Sonic the hedgehog involves Sonic going on a mission to save his good friends Amy Rose and Miles "Tails" Prower, who by some as of yet unconfirmed mysterious power/character have been turned into cards. The information points to the nefarious Dr Eggman being behind this deed but nothing more has been confirmed.

Knuckles the Echidna's profile says that he also has had something important to him get the card treatment, more precisely, the master emerald. As anyone's guess, Knuckles goes off to save his precious charge and gets involved in a race with Sonic and the other competitors.

Shadow is drawn into the fray after he recieves a strange transmission from Dr Eggman, taking him to a strange land area. He then finds something very strange and must race to Dr Eggman to get the full truth about this enigmatic thing that he discovers.

Silver the hedgehog is also summoned from a strange place to find someone he apparently doesn't have a clue about. The quest to find this person involves him having to resort to finding Dr Eggman in order to get some clues that will lead him to the person he is trying to look for.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:22 pm

That's all frankly, moonic.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:32 pm

"moonic"?

Sniffnoy · Post by **Sniffnoy** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:21 pm

It belongs on the moon.

Hybrid · Post by **Hybrid** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:33 am

What the fuck sort of story is that.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:42 am

One that references the Master Emerald, for once.

That's about the best I can say for it, though.

Sniffnoy · Post by **Sniffnoy** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:11 am

You know what this game really needs? Jet the Hawk and Fang the Sniper chasing after an ancient treasure that has been turned into... no, not one card, but *two* cards! How's that for something different!

...what the fuck sort of sense is this story supposed to make?

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:49 am

Perhaps it's some kind of attempt to remain playful and light hearted to appease those complaining about the series getting dark while including a complicated story to appease the fans of the storyline. They either need to start paying their writers or stop paying them. I'm not sure where they stand on that right now, but whatever the case it's time they toggled the payment status of whoever's been responsible for these last few years of embarrassment.

Forza Johnman · Post by **Forza Johnman** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:35 pm

Wasn't the original story something about Sonic and Knuckles talking about their past rivalry and then Shadow got involved and they start racing and Dr Eggman started putting traps in the way.

It was for that brief time when Silver was a mere glint in the developers eye.

Sniffnoy · Post by **Sniffnoy** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:43 pm

But it's just stupid - if you're going to do a small game like this, especially one that's intended for multiplayer, you don't really need a story. The story Forza metions would work just fine if you threw Silver in as well.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:50 pm

First of all, the story that concerns Sonic the hedgehog involves Sonic going on a mission to save his good friends Amy Rose and Miles "Tails" Prower, who by some as of yet unconfirmed mysterious power/character have been turned into cards

"Amy, I had this crazy dream where there were two Sonics..."

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:31 pm

Wow, now you really know Silver doesnt die in StH.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:26 pm

Why do I have a feeling this game will feature some silly YGO-like card mini game?

FlashTHD · Post by **FlashTHD** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:35 pm

But it's just stupid - if you're going to do a small game like this, especially one that's intended for multiplayer, you don't really need a story.

Sonic Battle didn't need a story and oh, look what happened there.

Like this plot actually affects any of you people who aren't going to play it! Shit, I need to not post anything like that here again.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:55 pm

Ngangbius wrote:Why do I have a feeling this game will feature some silly YGO-like card mini game?

Maybe because of my avatar?

why do I have a feeling this new enemy looks like a Magician or Joker?

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:15 pm

SegaSonic wrote:Wow, now you really know Silver doesnt die in StH.

Not entirely. Sounds like Rivals might pre-date Sonic 2k6, plot-wise. It doesn't take a genius to piece it together:

The quest to find this person involves him having to resort to finding Dr Eggman in order to get some clues that will lead him to the person he is trying to look for.

"I finally found him, the Iblis Trigger."

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:42 pm

So that means Sonic may recognize who Silver is in StH?

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:46 pm

I don't know. Silver may never actually have direct contact with Sonic in Rivals. There are a lot of ways you can play off, "Shoot! I just missed him!"

Or, hell, Rivals could just be non-continuity. Like Sonic Battle. There's a lot of shit in Sonic Battle that apparently contradicts events in Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog, at least according to it's Wikipedia article.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:49 pm

Yeah, starting on Heroes they screwed the storyline.