MykonosFan posted:I got to chill and have a few dinners with Mike a few months back. He fields questions about Sonic on his FB every day so naturally he's a bit more tired of those discussions, but man get him talking about the cartoon a little and his eyes light up and he just constantly assures of how funny it's gonna be and what a joy it is to work on. The man loves to work so 52 episodes on a big cartoon network is obviously a boon but he shows this great enthusiasm when mentioning the cartoon. He just gets this different air about him you don't quite see when he talks about his other Eggman roles. Based on what we have seen, I don't think the cartoon is going to change children's programming but I think it's going to surprise a fair amount of cartoon lovers (and kids are definitely going to eat it up). I'm certain I'm going to love it, at least. Sounds like a great conversation  reminds me of Teen Titans GO!, a funny sorta spinoff of the Teen Titans cartoon from a decade ago, and every time the voice actors show up and talk at comic con they all just have great stories about how the new cartoon is so much fun and how much they love hanging out and recording together. Cartoons are great.
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MykonosFan posted:I got to chill and have a few dinners with Mike a few months back. He fields questions about Sonic on his FB every day so naturally he's a bit more tired of those discussions, but man get him talking about the cartoon a little and his eyes light up and he just constantly assures of how funny it's gonna be and what a joy it is to work on. The man loves to work so 52 episodes on a big cartoon network is obviously a boon but he shows this great enthusiasm when mentioning the cartoon. He just gets this different air about him you don't quite see when he talks about his other Eggman roles. Based on what we have seen, I don't think the cartoon is going to change children's programming but I think it's going to surprise a fair amount of cartoon lovers (and kids are definitely going to eat it up). I'm certain I'm going to love it, at least.
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Aug 26, 2014 19:11
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That's good to hear. Personality is really the only big advantage Sonic had over Mario since the beginning. It's good to have a series where he can really be the endearingly smug dick he was always meant to be.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:39
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Trailer for the 3DS version has leaked. Looks like we're sticking to the time honoured tradition of pre-rendered cutscenes, because no way is that being rendered for 3DS hardware. Also all hail Shadow.
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Aug 29, 2014 13:30
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Two new trailers out of Sonic Boom (the event) for Sonic Boom (the games) as well as Sonic Boom (the cartoon). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0oqTr3iGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYlEF0sLoJ0
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Oct 5, 2014 20:32
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"Give me back my robot!" "Or what?" "...that's a fair question." I'm going to love every second of this dumb show
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Oct 5, 2014 20:56
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The TV show looks funny but that new character is the worst
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Oct 5, 2014 21:04
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Yeah, Sticks looks pretty darn awful, but going from these summaries, it seems Eggman and Amy are going to save the show http://www.sonicstadium.org/2014/10/four-new-sonic-boom-episode-plots-revealed/ 1. Tails makes a translator that read people’s minds. (This episode is probably entitled ‘Translate this’ which was also announced at Sonic Boom) 2. The cast find and read Amy’s “fan fiction” of the cast. 3. Amy and Eggman play a pretty puppy MMO together without letting everyone else know. Sonic catches Eggman at Amy’s house. Amy and Eggman end up going to PuppyCon to the reluctance of Sonic, who will be going as well.” 4. When Eggman is made homeless, Eggman comes to live with Sonic and friends by crashing on their couch for a few weeks. Episode is entitled An Evil Genius Crashes on the Couch for a Few Weeks Amy and Eggman dragging Sonic to a WoW/Brony con is the kinda poo poo I never knew I needed.
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Oct 5, 2014 21:12
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Ok, I'm loving sold on the show.
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Oct 5, 2014 21:24
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This sounds like the best show on the planet.
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Oct 5, 2014 22:43
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Somebody make a gif of that part with Sonic casually sliding along the ground.
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Oct 5, 2014 22:45
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I smell a whole bunch of awesome gifs incoming; this looks amazing, like Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog for a whole new generation. The game trailer shows Sonic kicking Shadow really hard in the face, so I guess it can't be all bad.
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Oct 5, 2014 23:23
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Amy and Eggman dragging Sonic to a WoW/Brony con is the kinda poo poo I never knew I needed. You and me both, brother
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Oct 5, 2014 23:45
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This show sounds stupid in all the right ways. Personality is the one thing that Sonic's always had up on Mario and it looks like that's coming into the forefront, even for his usually annoying friends.
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Oct 6, 2014 00:56
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As chuckle-worthy as Eggman is, I can't get over how awful the rest of the show looks and the game looks like Sonic Heroes in the worst way. What was wrong with Generations? Why can't they just stick to that formula? Why is Sega determined to return us to the dreaded Sonic Cycle?
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Screaming Idiot posted:As chuckle-worthy as Eggman is, I can't get over how awful the rest of the show looks and the game looks like Sonic Heroes in the worst way. Because the alternative is being like Mario. Sure, all his games are good, because they were good the first time Nintendo made them.
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Shadowlyger posted:Because the alternative is being like Mario. Sure, all his games are good, because they were good the first time Nintendo made them. Do you want Sonic 2k6 to come back? Do you want Sonic 2k6 to come back?! For a brief, shining moment Sonic was good again, and then Lost World came out and despair once more settled across the land. Sonic Boom will be yet another awful Sonic game destined to lay in the pile with the likes of Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic Unleashed. Also regarding Sonic Unleashed: oh my god gently caress the werehog stages. I can't believe I wasted 15 bucks on this shitshow of a game and I will never again listen to goons. "The hedgehog stages are good!" THEY ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO WARRANT THE WEREHOG. It's like smacking my dick with a hammer, except I can't make money filming myself getting annoyed at a cartoon hedgehog-monster.
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I liked the werehog stages more than the hedgehog stages. 
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You are history's greatest monster.
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Reminder that this isn't being made by Sonic Team, who are instead working on a different Sonic game for 2015 that is unrelated to Sonic Boom. As for why they seem to have ditched the "Modern Sonic" formula used in Unleashed, Colors, and Generations, that's because creating those levels takes an absurd amount of time and resources, and when they're done they only have a single game that is short on content. It sucks because I enjoyed that gameplay a lot, and there isn't really anything else like it. Anyway the show looks rad and the game looks outstandingly mediocre. I really love Eggman's fading "Nooooo" at the end
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In some ways I actually likes Lost World more than Generations. It felt like a first gen product that could be amazing if they stick with that formula and refine it. My main complaints are no secret stage for getting the emeralds and that the wall running controls were a bit wonky.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Yeah, Sticks looks pretty darn awful, but going from these summaries, it seems Eggman and Amy are going to save the show The jokes in that weren't half bad! I sure hope they'll manage to make something neat out of this.
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Shadowlyger posted:Somebody make a gif of that part with Sonic casually sliding along the ground. Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I smell a whole bunch of awesome gifs incoming; this looks amazing, like Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog for a whole new generation. I literally just decided to give gif making a go again for the sake of this: 
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Jsor posted:In some ways I actually likes Lost World more than Generations. It felt like a first gen product that could be amazing if they stick with that formula and refine it. My main complaints are no secret stage for getting the emeralds and that the wall running controls were a bit wonky. That's exactly what I think about Lost World. It's got a lot of nice ideas that I'd love to see refined. The problem was that the game doesn't stick with any one for a decent length of time to really get their mileage out of them. Just like the storyline that couldn't seem to decide if it wanted to be serious or comical and ended up doing both poorly. It resulted in a really uneven experience. We can only hope that they're taking the lessons from this and really refining them instead of tossing it out and starting from scratch. Screaming Idiot posted:Do you want Sonic 2k6 to come back? Do you want Sonic 2k6 to come back?! Seriously, calm down. You're sounding like the archetypical videogame fan whining stereotype.
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As someone who was a kid when the Sonic/Mario cartoons were first on TV, this looks pretty good, Sonic X doesn't count as I was around 14 then and had little interest in Sonic at that point. 
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Geostomp posted:Seriously, calm down. You're sounding like the archetypical videogame fan whining stereotype. Relax, the hyperbole's there for comic reasons, although I mean it when I say the Sonic Boom franchise looks like a pile of hot garbage, Also, why the hell is Eggman still Eggman if he isn't egg-shaped anymore?
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Hold an egg and look at the old Eggman. Now turn the egg upside down, viola, sonic boom Eggman has arrived.
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If the show's good then it won't matter if the Boom game is terrible.
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The games both look fine, just nothing earth shattering.
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The only bad thing I can say about what we've seen of the show is that the mouth animations are really badly done. A lot of the voices don't seem to sync up with the mouth movements very well. I love how goofy the show is going though. Eggman living with Sonic & Co is gonna be pretty funny I imagine. That new character is really terrible though, and they picked the most annoying voice for her they could. That voice works for Suzie on the Rugrats and that's about it.
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re: Lost World I really enjoyed the game when it came out and only really disliked two mandatory stages (the owl stage and the flying through the sky stage). Now that I've had more time to think about it, I've decided it's my favourite 3D Sonic game. First off, it's the tightest controls of any Sonic game ever. If you screw up, it is entirely your fault because you have so many tools at your disposal. As such, it has a beginner barrier to it because the controls really are pretty complex. Second, the design of the game is incredible. It's beautiful, the story is exactly what I want from a children's game and the levels are super fun. Check out how much you can gently caress with this game when you master the controls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_qZ2bCEJE The only bad thing really is that the control tutorials should have been mandatory, because they're too easy to miss and far too important to lose out on.
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Friendly Factory posted:re: Lost World That looks slow.
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My main issue with Lost World is that it felt like the level designers wanted to try something completely different in every single level, so the game feels more like a collection of demos than it does a cohesive collection of stages from one game. In Sonic 3 there are different things you're worrying about per-level, but the main theme of the game is go fast and try to take the high road. Lost World tries a bunch of different things at once and feels all over the place. One level you're confined to a snowball with weird controls, the next level you're on a minecart you can't control and if you haven't memorized the level layout you will die in one hit. Sometimes you get to play a normal-ish Sonic platforming level that's in 3D, sometimes it's 2D the whole level. Sometimes you're doing a Mach Speed section from Sonic 06 with better controls. It felt like a lovely take on Super Mario Galaxy, instead of the newest Sonic game after Generations. Not to mention the wet fart of a final boss fight. You beat the deadly six, then Eggman powers up his machine, Sonic goes Super, aaaaaand it died really fast. I didn't really like any of the boss fights in the game, for that matter. They were either mind-numbingly easy or they were the last fight with the red alien whose name I can't remember where you have to KNOW that you have to lock onto him at this very specific time except only in this fight can you lock on MORE than anywhere else in the game, and the game doesn't tell you anything about it. There were levels I enjoyed though, just not enough of them, and I did like the writing. Lost World just felt so disappointing after how much I liked Generations. I don't think it's a bad game, it's just incredibly mediocre.
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Xad posted:[...]It felt like a lovely take on Super Mario Galaxy, instead of the newest Sonic game after Generations.[...] This. THIS. This sums up my feelings about Lost World better than I ever could have. Also, gently caress the Deadly Six. Their fun and wacky ska theme does nothing to change how annoying and boring they were as antagonists. What was so wrong with Eggman being the boss of every level? If there was something Sonic Unleashed did right, it was the fights with Eggman -- the Egg Beetle's one of the best fights in the franchise.
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Since this is basically a general Sonic thread, cross-posting this from the Mega Man thread: Another crossover event happening in the comics, supposed to be a lot bigger in scope than the last one.
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Kelp Plankton posted:Since this is basically a general Sonic thread, cross-posting this from the Mega Man thread: Yessssss. I was a huge fan of the previous crossover. It was such a fun read, being a huge nerd about Mega Man and Sonic stuff. It was pretty well-written too, made me want to keep reading the Sonic/Mega Man archie comics.
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They need to make the Megaman & Sonic crossover into a game, making sure to include plenty of cutscenes with Wiley and Robotnik bro-in out. I've never actually read the crossover comics, are Robotnik and Wiley BFFs the whole time or do they do what always happens when villains team up where eventually they want to be the #1 of the team and then they fight and then the good guys take advantage of the distraction. Cause I hope it's the former
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Macaluso posted:They need to make the Megaman & Sonic crossover into a game, making sure to include plenty of cutscenes with Wiley and Robotnik bro-in out. They're pretty friendly up until the last couple of issues, when it turns to homicidal pranks. Eggman and Wily had the best crossover villain dynamic I'd ever seen. So mad that Skull Egg Zone isn't a real level. 
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Macaluso posted:They need to make the Megaman & Sonic crossover into a game, making sure to include plenty of cutscenes with Wiley and Robotnik bro-in out. They bro it the hell up for most of the crossover, until Eggman has Metal Sonic throw Dr Light out of the Wily Egg, which pisses Wily off. They still manage to work together well enough to accomplish their goal, right up until Sonic and Megaman BOTH go Super.
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