Recent happenings of pertinence to Sonic fans.
Rlan
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by Rlan » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:14 pm
Ngangbius
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by Ngangbius » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:27 pm
Wow! Mario & Sonic at the Olympics looks dumb and bizzare!
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by Segaholic2 » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:00 pm
Preemptively nominating Mario & Sonic for GOTY 2k7.
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by Yami CJMErl » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:03 pm
Holy crap, they already started it?!
*was caught COMPLETELY off-guard*
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by FlashTHD » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:06 pm
Aaaaahahahaha holy christ. That's all I need to see of Mario & Sonic for the rest of my life.
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by James McGeachie » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:07 pm
Nights and SRA both look utterly embarassingly shit and like neither development team has a fucking clue what they're doing.
Mario and Sonic on the other hand...well so far it's looking fairly decent, visually at least. The style is nice and it feels like there's some effort going into the presentation. Really can't say a lot yet though until we have any idea how it plays.
As a whole though, so far Sega's Nintendo showings are spectacularly shit/mediocre, wooh!
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by Opa-Opa » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:50 am
It doesn't look very different from the other olympics games...
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by Esrever » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:56 am
Sigh! Sonic and Mario finally cross over... by being pasted into a bunch of bland real-world Olympic facilities to play lame-ass mini-games.
What makes this a Mario or Sonic game exactly, outside of the character models? Five bucks says this title was originally being developed as a regular Olympics game without using either license.
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by One Classy Bloke » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:09 am
Oh god there are jaggies everywhere! They could at least make it look good.
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by Frieza2000 » Tue Jul 10, 2007 8:57 am
This is the first time I've seen this year's Olympic mascots. Their ubiquitous Carebear/Teletubby facades make this already jarring concept seem like a bad trip.
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by Ngangbius » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:25 am
I don't know man. The Beijing mascots are not nearly as ill-concieved as Izzy.
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by M.C.Dillinger » Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:52 pm
^Sam The Eagle
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by Ngangbius » Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:39 pm
Heh, you can tell he was created by a Disney animator as he would fit in with The Three Caballeros. I don't see anything really bad about his design except for the concept was a bit cliche.
The Beijing mascots are called the
Fuwa , and I think they are the best looking Olympic mascots so far.
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by Yami CJMErl » Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:23 pm
They vaguely remind me of some sort of elemental panda bears...I guess it's cool (one for each Olympic Ring and all), but it also screams "CAPTAIN PLANET!" to me. -__-;;
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by Esrever » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:06 pm
M.C.Dillinger wrote:
^Sam The Eagle
So, what country were the Olympics being held in that year?
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by G.Silver » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:07 pm
What was the mascot when it was in Canada? A bottle of maple syrup?
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by Segaholic2 » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:49 pm
It was a beaver, obviously.
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by Shadow Hog » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:05 pm
Ngangbius wrote: The Beijing mascots are called the
Fuwa , and I think they are the best looking Olympic mascots so far.
Although, to be frank, they all look freakishly like the Blue Badger from <i>Phoenix Wright</i>.
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by Hybrid » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:27 pm
The first two screenshots did exactly what I hoped this game wouldn't do: Pit Mario and Sonic against each other in contests only one of them should win. There's just no fucking way Mario should be competing against Sonic in a race.
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by Dasher » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:46 pm
Hell, Bowser and Eggman are in it too, so theyre going to stand a chance aswell heh.
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by cjmcray » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:16 pm
That stadium is generic as butt.
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by Locit » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:18 pm
I'm sure it's real-world accurate.
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by Opa-Opa » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:59 pm
Rlan wrote:
Somewhat ironic.
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by Yami CJMErl » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:39 pm
*hits himself for not noticing it earlier*
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by Radrappy » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:20 am
I was hoping so hard that the stadiums would at least be located in the mushroom kingdom or GHZ. color me severely disappointed
EDIT: Has anyone else noticed that the audience is made up entirely of Chao and Toads? Now that's totally cool.