Sonic Gems Collection and Shadow - Early E3 Details

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Tue May 24, 2005 8:34 am

DOOM EYE KICKS ASS!!

CE · Post by CE » Tue May 24, 2005 9:28 am

CM August wrote:Their leader is named Black Doom the Dark Lord! Fucking hardcore.

Oh come on. This is the series that gave us such wonderful names as Knuckles, Big, and Dr. Kintobor. Black Doom isn't all that bad in comparison.

SegaSonic · Post by **SegaSonic** » Tue May 24, 2005 11:11 am

First, Now theres a New Staff and Director (so Stupid desicions are being made) and Second, the Name Kintobor was made by the fictional Comics.

Koosh Koosh! · Post by **Koosh Koosh!** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:12 pm

I'm pretty sure of all of Sonic is fictional.

Edit: Also, hay guys, I'M BEING HILARIOUS AND PRETENDING THIS GAME WILL NOT BE GAY. Aren't I hilarious? Lol! Sonic Heroes <3! Lol!

Just shut up.

Post by **Esrever** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:54 pm

HAR HAR LOOK AT ME, I'M OBSERVING HOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE BEHAVING, LOL LOL LOL

Koosh Koosh! · Post by **Koosh Koosh!** » Tue May 24, 2005 4:00 pm

touchÃƒÂ©, faggot

BUT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO PAY ATTENTION TO ME. I'm like some mentally ill grandfather at the back of the board, screaming for his pills.

Post by **Delphine** » Tue May 24, 2005 6:02 pm

Koosh Koosh! wrote:I am a stick ass and don't like fun.

Koosh Koosh! · Post by **Koosh Koosh!** » Tue May 24, 2005 8:14 pm

Damn right.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:23 pm

It's too much cinism for a single page.

-wyvern · Post by **-wyvern** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:19 pm

I would post a correction to that, but I can't spell cynicism either.

Spazz · Post by **Spazz** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:22 pm

You got it. =ÃƒÅ¾

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Wed May 25, 2005 7:20 pm

I think it looks pretty good. Really. ;_; You're all mean.

Frieza2000 · Post by **Frieza2000** » Mon May 30, 2005 10:02 am

A more detailed review of the Shadow demo by Sonic Cult:

In Westopolis, Shadow is joined by Sonic, who kind of follows you around (though it seems pretty easy to lose him) and reminds you not to kill humans. In the second stage I tried, it was Eggman (well, a flying monitor broadcasting Eggman's face), who followed you around pretty much telling you to destroy everything. But going with the whole theme of choosing whether Shadow is good or evil, you can kill whatever the hell you want. I think the type of enemy you kill determines whether you fill up your blue meter or red meter, which gives you a nice super powered Chaos form (making Shadow glow red or blue for a limited time). I guess the enemies are made up of humans, aliens, and robots. Some of the robots seem to be taken directly from Sonic Heroes, though now they drop their weapons when they die.

The gameplay was all right, but it still suffered from some of the loose controls that Sonic Heroes did. Not quite as bad, but still not nearly as tight as Sonic Adventure 2. The weapon thing worked out pretty well, though I still think Shadow looks fucking ridiculous holding these huge guns, many which are more than twice his size. It just looks kind of silly when he's holding them and then does the rolling-into-a-ball-thing to jump and the weapon is spinning around everywhere. The functionality was pretty good, though, and there was a decent bit of variety. And it seems you don't really have to use a weapon at all for most parts of the game, if you don't want to. Weapons are taken from defeated enemies. Just about every one dropped something, so there was always plenty to choose from. My favorite was one of the big-ass alien swords. You could swing it around and take out whatever's in your way. Baically, the G.U.N. army dropped realistic type weapons, the aliens dropped weird futuristic weapons, and Eggman's robots dropped big-ass lances and bazookas and the like.

I think there was some sort of goal ring that ended the stage. Like in previous 3D Sonic games, you receive a "grade" at the end depending on your performance. Again, the control could use some polish, but overall, it's looking pretty good.

When I played the game at the Nintendo booth, one of the Nintendo guys asked if I liked it. He said that the Sega guys kept coming over and asking what people thought of it. I pretty much just told him that I liked it but thought the controls could use some tightening. Yay for indirect feedback.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon May 30, 2005 1:44 pm

Oh come on. This is the series that gave us such wonderful names as Knuckles, Big, and Dr. Kintobor. Black Doom isn't all that bad in comparison.

Don't forget Battlecock.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Mon May 30, 2005 6:01 pm

I know you won't.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Mon May 30, 2005 7:04 pm

I just figured out...

The Suffering + Ratchet and Clank series + SA2
= Shadow the Hedgehog

Ancient · Post by **Ancient** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:24 pm

God knows what The Suffering is, but the Ratchet series and SA2 are light years beyond Shadow.

The more I hear about this game, the less I wish I knew.

DarkPrime · Post by **DarkPrime** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:30 pm

Ancient wrote:God knows what The Suffering is

I'm sure He does. :-P

Professor Machenstein · Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:05 pm

That Quacker Duk fellow seemed to like it. Then again, he's a Shadow fanatic.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:19 pm

Oh holy hell, it's back.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:52 pm

Holy hell, look at the site.

This guy wrote:If "Sonic Heroes" was roast beef with cheddar on a sesame seed bun, this game is filet mignon with a gun and a sideorder of "kick ass."

I was unaware there were people outside of Esrever that actually liked the game, much less came at the mention of it.

Professor Machenstein · Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:50 am

Esrever? You mean THAT Esrever, the one that went insane and decided from that point that all new Sonic games rock. Heh heh, one for my side... AHEM, yeah, I saw it happen too. Everyone did. It was like an explosion, the kind that shook the Earth, crumbled the largest mountains, wiped out civilizations like a freak sandstorm, and spawned new vegetation among every land in the aftermath. It was like thousands of ninjas flying in the air, slashing iron and spewing lasers from their supernatural opticals. Llamas jumping off cliffs in self-sacrafice. Radioactive meteorites crashing into the Earth and thus rising the now undead and enslaving the human populace, using the young as meat to feed to their man-eating pets.

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So yeah, that guy.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:13 am

YOUR CONTRIBUTION ARE HELPFUL!

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:37 am

You know if any one of us "popular" posters wrote that it would be comedy gold. STEP AWFFFF!!1

And I think Shadow The Hedgehog looks kickass.

Omni Hunter · Post by **Omni Hunter** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 9:06 am

Mmmmmmaybe... I'm still half and half. If it's possible to get through most of the game without the gun then I may just like it.

Machenstein wrote: The kind that shook the Earth, crumbled the largest mountains, wiped out civilizations

Couldn't it wipe out yours?