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Party Boat: Nov 1, 2007; where did that other dog come from

who is he

Nodosaur posted:

The "make something successful" thing is just a way of politely saying "I hope they can make something good" without giving his actual thoughts on it, whatever they may be.

It does have the side bonus of clearly distancing yourself from the project, which is useful should it turn out to be a huge flaming pile of shite.

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Pants Donkey: Nov 13, 2011

There has been like, no excitement or press for Team Racing. I liked the Sega All-Stars racing games, so I had high hopes for this.

Delaying the game half a year to improve it seemed like a good sign, but the lack of buzz has me concerned :ohdear:

# ? May 13, 2019 17:24

Hitlersaurus Christ: Oct 14, 2005

Nodosaur posted:

... What the hell? He's just saying that he and Sonic Team have no involvement with the movie and that it's all Paramount's responsibility to make it a success. Which is true. He has nothing to do with it. Seriously, why are people in this fandom so eager to twist his words into that of a supervillain's?

It's always been that way. Angry geeks need a villain to hate and blame for what they don't like about their chosen franchise.

Pants Donkey posted:

There has been like, no excitement or press for Team Racing. I liked the Sega All-Stars racing games, so I had high hopes for this.

Delaying the game half a year to improve it seemed like a good sign, but the lack of buzz has me concerned

It's a solid racing game, but there's not really much about it to talk about aside from the music. It looks better now than when I played it, and when I played it it was fun. I see it having disappointing sales but quality-wise I wouldn't worry!

# ? May 13, 2019 17:37

Veotax: May 16, 2006

Buml0r posted:

Ok, I've been holding back, but since STC has been mentioned a couple of times this page:

I've just launched a fortnightly podcast about the British Sonic comics. The idea is not to be all "so as you know, in issue #84..." but to try and cover everything in the magazine (yes, including the Mark Millar Streets of Rage comics etc), and paint a picture of what it was like to be there and read them at the time. I reckon a few of you here will enjoy it, other people seem to be.

Here go!

Or here go if you don't like apples

I listened to this on my commute today, it's really good! I loved how informative it was about British comics in general, I only ever read StC and The Beano so I don't know much about 2000AD and other comics of the time so it was great getting some context. The editing was entertaining as hell too, loved the music cutting in and out during the charts.

Keep it up, this is one staying on my playlist.

# ? May 13, 2019 18:14

Mr Phillby: Apr 8, 2009; ~TRAVIS~

Hitlersaurus Christ posted:

It's always been that way. Angry geeks need a villain to hate and blame for what they don't like about their chosen franchise.

See also that one american production assistant that got death threats for 'ruining silent hill' despite having zero control over any of the games he worked on.

# ? May 13, 2019 18:35

Rotten Red Rod: Mar 5, 2002

Similarly, the hatred at Ninja Theory for DMC when every single change to Dante was mandated by Capcom.

# ? May 13, 2019 18:47

Nodosaur: Dec 23, 2014

I mean, they were legitimately homophobic and disrespectful of the previous installments in the franchise. Iizuka has made some bad games, but that's a league of difference from that kind of poo poo.

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Kurieg: Jul 19, 2012; RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Similarly, the hatred at Ninja Theory for DMC when every single change to Dante was mandated by Capcom.

Who mandated the abortion via sniper rifle?

# ? May 13, 2019 19:06

MJeff: Jun 2, 2011; THE LIAR

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Similarly, the hatred at Ninja Theory for DMC when every single change to Dante was mandated by Capcom.

There was plenty about that game that deserved a whole heaping of flack that I doubt was mandated by Capcom. Off the top of my head, Vergil aborting somebody's baby with a sniper rifle or the main female character's backstory and character arc in the game being basically nothing except rape and abuse.

Like, I think Iizuka's an incompetent doofus but at least he's never gone quite that far off the deep end. Penders has probably wanted to at some point though.

# ? May 13, 2019 19:08

ACES CURE PLANES: Oct 21, 2010

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Similarly, the hatred at Ninja Theory for DMC when every single change to Dante was mandated by Capcom.

I didn't realize that the PowerPoint slides calling Japanese fashion trends gay was in fact mandated by the Japanese company. Mind-blowing.

# ? May 13, 2019 19:11

Rotten Red Rod: Mar 5, 2002

I don't know about the rest of that stuff, but from what I understand Capcom wanted to change Dante from influenced by Japanese fashion to influenced by American fashion. Anyway, didn't mean to detail the Sega thread with Capcom talk.

# ? May 13, 2019 19:30

Ventana: Mar 28, 2010; *Yosh intensifies*