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Heran Bago posted:Anyone got a list of the announcements for each month? Can’t even blame the pandemic, as i don’t think we even got an announcement in February.
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Takoluka posted:Sticks is the most canon, and she knows you're trying to get rid of her. Sega should put Sticks in the main Sonic series  Also Tangle and Whisper since they're coming to that mobile game.
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Jun 30, 2020 19:38
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Those characters suck poo poo compared to Bunnie Rabbot.
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Jun 30, 2020 19:43
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I wonder why the games never included the staple comic characters in any way. I don't mean all of them like Hershey or the skunk or the mammoth (though I will still argue he was cool as hell), but Sally, Rotor, Bunnie and Antoine seem to get the A-OK from Sega for the comic, and were the only ones allowed to survive the Penders Purge (rip Scourge). Is it just too messy legally to cross them over with the games for some reason? I'm also curious why those specifically got to be carried over.
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Jun 30, 2020 22:34
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The Archie comics were basically marketing for the games and also were never released in Japan (or Europe, right?). Nobody at Sonic Team really knew or cared much about the comic-original characters. The freedom fighters were in Sonic Spinball though, which was developed entirely by Americans. Of course, that was probably because of the TV show rather than the comics.
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Jun 30, 2020 22:46
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Sega of Japan and Sega of America didn’t really work in tandem back then. They were at odds sometimes as well. I believe it’s SoA that convinced Japan to do a Streets of Rage sequel, for instance.
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Jun 30, 2020 22:52
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from what I hear SoJ and SoA hate each other's guts to this day because they both blame each other for loving up the Saturn
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Jun 30, 2020 22:57
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I’m sure it was mostly SoA’s doing that we got stuff like Mania, Wonder Boy remakes, Streets of Rage 4 and that upcoming Alex Kidd remake. SoJ just seems to care about Yakuza and lovely 3D Sonic games these days. Yakuza rules at least.
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Jun 30, 2020 23:00
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Dabir posted:from what I hear SoJ and SoA hate each other's guts to this day because they both blame each other for loving up the Saturn The current SoA is pretty much unrelated to the old one so I’m pretty sure there’s no bad blood now. SoJ calls the shots now.
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Jun 30, 2020 23:03
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Has there been anything about a sequel to Sonic Mania? I know Sega is generally dumb but I can't imagine them not wanting a follow up.
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Jun 30, 2020 23:03
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Groovelord Neato posted:Has there been anything about a sequel to Sonic Mania? I know Sega is generally dumb but I can't imagine them not wanting a follow up. No and it doesn’t seem like it’s happening in the mean time due to all the key people working on other projects.
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Jun 30, 2020 23:09
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Sonic Team is dumb as bricks and will never capitalize on the success and reception of mania. Too bad, it would be cool to have a run of “classic” style games alongside the modern ones.
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Jun 30, 2020 23:21
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That sucks. They make a good game after over two decades and just shrug.
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Sonic fans can't seem to decide what Sonic games they want, so I'm sure Sonic Team struggles to even consider what direction to take things in. What do people want more? Adventure 3? A Rush successor? Mania 2? Sonic and the Black Knight sequel? Chao Garden Mobile Game? There's a huge number of people who unironically Big the Cat fishing. It's tough.
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Jul 1, 2020 00:34
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Mania 2 is the only acceptable answer there.
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Mania was good. Forces wasn't so good, but people liked it, and that always happens anyway so it's not a big deal to me. I'm fine with Forces setting a framework for the IDW series to continue from, and the comics have been consistently good, unlike the Archie series that eventually became good, but was too plagued with problems for the story or characters to realistically appear in anything else. The IDW series is actually being published in Japan, so I could more easily see Tangle and Whisper show up in later, mainline titles than any of the defunct SatAM/Archie crew. Time's arrow and all that. Or maybe they'll only show up in spin-off and mobile games. It's something, and I don't think they'd have been cleared to show up if SoJ saw any problems with it.
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Takoluka posted:Sonic fans can't seem to decide what Sonic games they want, so I'm sure Sonic Team struggles to even consider what direction to take things in. Yes to all.
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Takoluka posted:Sonic fans can't seem to decide what Sonic games they want, so I'm sure Sonic Team struggles to even consider what direction to take things in. Mania 2. That's literally all I want.
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Jul 1, 2020 09:39
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dont put the SATAM cast in, but do put in Amy's Sonic the Comic look It's so good
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Also put in their version of Super Sonic which separated from Sonic and was a murderous psychopath.
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Skeletome posted:dont put the SATAM cast in, but do put in Amy's Sonic the Comic look The reason her hair ended up like that was because when Amy was introduced to the comic, they only had this concept art from Sonic CD to base the character on and they misinterpreted her head turning round as the way her hair should be.  A big part of Sonic the Comic was taking mistakes or non-canon stuff and forging it into pure gold.
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Takoluka posted:Sonic fans can't seem to decide what Sonic games they want, so I'm sure Sonic Team struggles to even consider what direction to take things in. I think people want a good Sonic game, there is one game among these that would be a sequel to a good sonic game.
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That's a huge endorsement for Sonic and the Black Knight 2!
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Jul 1, 2020 17:36
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Hogama posted:That's a huge endorsement for Sonic and the Black Knight 2! 
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They coulda had a Sonic Mania 2 (or equivalent) ready for the 30th anniversary but alas.
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Oxyclean posted:I can't tell if this post is serious. I think the point is more that the Sonic fanbase is badly, badly fractured and as a result it's really hard to please one group without disappointing another. There are fans out there who weren't even born when Sonic & Knuckles came out, and genuinely don't give a poo poo about Sonic Mania. I know it's hosed up, I know they're wrong, I know his name is ROBOTNIK, goddamn it, but they're still out there, giving Sega their money. Just personally speaking I grew up in a Nintendo household, so 2D Sonic gameplay holds little nostalgia appeal to me. I think I would genuinely be happiest if Sega one day learned to actually iterate on the few times it got 3D Sonic close to right and somehow released a great new Sonic Adventure or something, with tight gameplay and an engaging story. It likely won't happen, but it's nice to dream.
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Yeah it's wild thinking there were 23 years between good games and how many people were born and became fans of the bad ones in the interim. I guess it's like the Star Wars prequels in a way. I too would like a good 3D Sonic but some dude working in the Doom engine did better than Sega has thus far.
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Fred is on posted:I think the point is more that the Sonic fanbase is badly, badly fractured and as a result it's really hard to please one group without disappointing another. There are fans out there who weren't even born when Sonic & Knuckles came out, and genuinely don't give a poo poo about Sonic Mania. I know it's hosed up, I know they're wrong, I know his name is ROBOTNIK, goddamn it, but they're still out there, giving Sega their money. Like, I feel like there's probably even more division among 3D sonic fans of how you do one of those games right. Beyond the inclusion of Chao, Adventure Field vs. Not? Just Sonic, or multiple playable characters? What sort of styles of game mode to include? (A lot of people seem to hate treasure hunt, but would it be an SA game without?) SA style Sonic or Boost style Sonic? Meanwhile 2D sonic kinda has one formula to imitate: S3&K. Hogama posted:That's a huge endorsement for Sonic and the Black Knight 2!
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Oxyclean posted:...was Black Knight legitimately good or something? I heard so little about it and it seemed like a gimmick game I was under the impression it was one of the trash games? no, amazing music though
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Jul 1, 2020 18:24
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everything about sonic and the black knight waa good except the gameplay
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Jul 1, 2020 18:28
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Sega already released Sonic Adventure 3 in 2006. They should make the sequel people REALLY want: Sonic Heroes 2.
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Jul 1, 2020 18:47
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They did, it was the teamup levels in Forces. But seriously, I like the style Heroes had going on and would be happy to see another take on it.
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Oxyclean posted:...was Black Knight legitimately good or something? I heard so little about it and it seemed like a gimmick game I was under the impression it was one of the trash games? Black Knight and Secret Rings are trash garbage and anyone that says they like those games is absolutely lying The music was good but most Sonic music is good so edit: Just... loving, why would the jump button work like that WHY
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Jul 1, 2020 22:29
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Secret Rings is terrible but it's honestly almost fun once you have all the abilities I said almost
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Macaluso posted:The music was good but most Sonic music is good so I for one did not appreciate hearing "make believe's reborn" more frequently than the ring collection noise
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Jul 1, 2020 22:56
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The thing is Sonic Team never seems to stick with anything. Every new game has gotta play different than the last or otherwise have new gimmicks in it that gently caress it up. I would describe all the 3D Sonic efforts as wildly scattershot. Sonic Generations and Sonic Colors? Sonic Team finally found their groove! Nope, Lost World.
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Jul 1, 2020 23:18
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Give us Lost World 2.
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man nurse posted:The thing is Sonic Team never seems to stick with anything. Every new game has gotta play different than the last or otherwise have new gimmicks in it that gently caress it up. I would describe all the 3D Sonic efforts as wildly scattershot. Sonic Generations and Sonic Colors? Sonic Team finally found their groove! Nope, Lost World. This is how the big mainline Mario games play out and it works well. Hell, the New Super Mario series keeps the standard formula and seems to be less well-received than the ones that mix it up. That said, Mario pretty much nailed the formula out of the gate with SM64 and since then has only really needed to build on it.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Give us Lost World 2. I mean Lost World could have been good, if more time was spent on every aspect of it. Like many Sonic games, so. I dunno, I don't hate the style but it just seems extremely shallow uprezzing of old Sonic Level aesthetics
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Party Boat posted:The reason her hair ended up like that was because when Amy was introduced to the comic, they only had this concept art from Sonic CD to base the character on and they misinterpreted her head turning round as the way her hair should be. Other random STC memories: watching all the artists slowly come to a consensus on what Sonics spines look like from the front then Sonic3D came out and hosed it all up again. Teratrain posted:This is how the big mainline Mario games play out and it works well. Hell, the New Super Mario series keeps the standard formula and seems to be less well-received than the ones that mix it up. Its weird because it was a trend I did not like but I didn't really notice it was happening at the time because the games were really good. Also Odyssey came out and kind of united the 2 styles so it all turned out good in the end. Also NewSMB is the mario kart of platformers in that they all play basically the same and a new one comes out for every new console because they sell well consistently. They are fine but its kinda sad classic 2D mario shows such a lack of ambition these days.
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