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He was never trying to crash into the Earth, he just wanted to get to a Hot Topic to piss on it
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DoctorWhat posted:Magnet dashing/ boost canceling is really fun, but it's clearly an edge case that was kept around during testing, rather than designed for. I've only just recently got Frontiers and been working through it. How do you do a homing cancel? But yeah, it's thrown me off how there was one chemical plant cyberspace level that really pushed me to find all the shortcuts and hidden paths to make the S rank, and then the next one I did I didn't even try and ended up with an S rank. Though gently caress one particular cyberspace level on the third island that has a bunch of shooter things that seem designed to trick you/make you go super slow?
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I'm just glad the Biolizard's story had a happy ending: It was an abomination against god and man who existence was pain and it got put out of its misery, but not before it got the chance to shove a space station up its rear end. That we could all achieve such wonders... Pants Donkey posted:The lesson Sega learned from the 00s was that people hate characters besides Sonic…despite the classic games introducing a new character with each game. Turns out people just don’t like playing characters that aren’t fun. I think the other, major factor that contributed to people getting sick of Sonic's friends back in the 00's was the games' weird insistence on making people play through them multiple times before they get the "true" ending. That set-up was all well and good in cases like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, which are set up to be a larger story told from multiple perspectives, but by the time Sonic Heroes rolled around that entire multi-perspective narrative had been completely dropped and all of the various "teams" kind of just played the same, but the player was still expected to go through and beat the same game multiple times with only minor variations before they could get a proper ending. Whether it was the needlessly convoluted branching story structure of Shadow the Hedgehog, or the Sonic/Shadow/Silver campaigns of 06 where large sections of content would be identical between characters, this whole "Replay the same game multiple times, but with minor variations" paradigm just stuck with the series as a sort of unspoken rule long after the devs had completely lost track of why SA1 originally had you do that, to the series' detriment. On a side-note: I've been revisiting the first two Adventure games recently and it's making me understand just how much Sonic 06 is a retread of concepts originally introduced in those games. Pretty much the entire level selection of 06 is just riffs on levels that appeared in Adventures 1 and 2. 06 honestly feels conceptually like Sonic Team was trying to do something akin to Sonic Generations, but only for Adventure 1 and 2, which is a really weird concept in hindsight since the game was only 5 years removed from SA2. Considering 06 was supposed to be a big reboot of the series that coincided with Sonic's 15th anniversary it's really weird they laser-focused in on only the Adventure games for nostalgia bait.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Sega has some cute calendar art apparently. You didn't post the calendar for January which is just the height of coolness: 
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Jan 30, 2023 22:12
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they’re taking up the whole stage but they only need the EDGE
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amigolupus posted:You didn't post the calendar for January which is just the height of coolness: The costumes are probably a reference to some Japanese thing, but all I can think of looking at this picture is that Shadow and Infinite have been cast as Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert in Les Mis.
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Jan 30, 2023 22:28
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Oxxidation posted:they’re taking up the whole stage but they only need the EDGE
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KingKalamari posted:The costumes are probably a reference to some Japanese thing, but all I can think of looking at this picture is that Shadow and Infinite have been cast as Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert in Les Mis. That's... actually a really good idea
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A set of silverware? You gotta be kidding me, guys! This is like stealing bread from a bakery, which is fine by me. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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https://twitter.com/ShinraToga/status/1619837241920196608 The Sonic fandom really is second to none
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i think shadow would either be a surprisingly good cook or just stoically chew through a box of dry pasta, no in-between
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Oxxidation posted:i think shadow would either be a surprisingly good cook or just stoically chew through a box of dry pasta, no in-between He breaks spaghetti into elbow noodle-sized pieces one at a time and was promptly banned from the kitchen
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Jan 31, 2023 03:05
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Shadow wondering why everyone isn’t just drinking soylent. You can hear him explaining to Sonic how much more efficient it is than cooking.
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Jan 31, 2023 03:29
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As a Hedgehog on the go Shadow only has time for microwaveable meals such as Hotpockets and those brownie packets you put in a mug and add water
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They're both wrong anyway, the correct way to prepare boxed mac and cheese is to dump everything into two cups of milk and cook it until it boils down to the desired consistency. No strainer, just plate and serve
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So this video just popped up on my queue and I feel like I need to talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORojqg2ZNY So the guy's core principle, that there's a really rewarding experience to be had by playing through Sonic 3 & Knuckles while trying to maximize your final score, seems fine enough...But then things almost immediately start getting weirdly elitist with him claiming everyone playing the game normally are playing on "mellow mode" and their opinions on the game are less valid? Also I don't think he needed to spend almost an hour explaining what is a pretty simple concept that I think most people will understand after the first 10 minutes? There's also this weird level of specificity and over-explanation of things?
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KingKalamari posted:So this video just popped up on my queue and I feel like I need to talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORojqg2ZNY Pretty standard video essay fair Try watching a four or five hour essay and take a drink every time they repeat something (Don't, actually, the hospital bill isn't worth it)
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Feb 1, 2023 23:39
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The only good video essay is that one about how the story of SA2 rules
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Vinylshadow posted:Pretty standard video essay fair I remember Hbomberguy in his Sherlock video saying he tries to trim his script to be less repetitive, and then during his Season 4 rant he goes on and on rephrasing the same two reasons why he thinks the first episode of that season is badly executed.
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100 issues into Archie Sonic, by the way. I have no idea what's going on. The story keeps rushing itself into dumb setups like "Let's force Sonic to go to school as punishment for not preventing the king from being crippled" and "Let's make Knuckles overdosed on Chaos energy because of reasons and then he joins the Dark Legion because why?", and it's all so boring and I can't follow it.
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:The only good video essay is that one about how the story of SA2 rules Running Shine has a really good one on SA1 that gave me a much greater appreciation for it
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:The only good video essay is that one about how the story of SA2 rules Is there an essay about which animes the 3D Sonics take their inspirations from? I've seen a bunch of people say Princess Mononoke was an influence on SA1, and Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation recently accused 06 of trying to rip off Final Fantasy 10 and Frontiers of ripping off Attack On Titan.
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Delphisage posted:Is there an essay about which animes the 3D Sonics take their inspirations from? I've seen a bunch of people say Princess Mononoke was an influence on SA1, and Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation recently accused 06 of trying to rip off Final Fantasy 10 and Frontiers of ripping off Attack On Titan. No clue, but they’ve cited the obvious stuff like DBZ before. Aside from Super Sonic, Shadow’s concept art mentions Vegeta and the leaked internal script document for 06 says “basically, think Trunks from Dragon Ball” at the end of Silver’s bio. In an interview before Forces the producer said Infinite was created because he wanted a villain like that character from a certain anime, but wouldn’t give any details other than that. Dio, maybe…?
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:No clue, but they’ve cited the obvious stuff like DBZ before. Aside from Super Sonic, Shadow’s concept art mentions Vegeta and the leaked internal script document for 06 says “basically, think Trunks from Dragon Ball” at the end of Silver’s bio. In an interview before Forces the producer said Infinite was created because he wanted a villain like that character from a certain anime, but wouldn’t give any details other than that. Dio, maybe…? Everyone and their dad knows about the Dragon Ball influence. Infinite's whole thing is that he's a chuunibyou, isn't he? Plus his backstory is apparently a deadringer for Coldsteel the Hedgeheg. What characters have villains with chuuni affects?
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I haven't read One Punch Man in ages, but isn't there a villain whose backstory is that he was super weak and got humiliated so he became obsessed with his own power
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Delphisage posted:Everyone and their dad knows about the Dragon Ball influence. I don’t know what you think a chuuni is but it’s not that, lol Infinite’s deal was that he was a bad guy who lost to Shadow, threw a fit, and joined Eggman to get more power. His backstory seems to have been made after the rest of the script too, since in the original it seems like he’s just another Eggman creation. His actual main character archetype is more like an edgy supreme overpowered villain guy.
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:The only good video essay is that one about how the story of SA2 rules I'm still waiting years later for a Part 2 of that video. He's not coming back 
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It gets the master emerald to the shrine at the end of the game... But I'm not sure if they actually use it?
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Dabir posted:It gets the master emerald to the shrine at the end of the game... But I'm not sure if they actually use it? They successfully use it to stop the emeralds but it doesn’t matter since the Biolizard proceeds to chaos control itself into space and fuse with the ARK
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Delphisage posted:and Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation recently accused 06 of trying to rip off Final Fantasy 10 and Frontiers of ripping off Attack On Titan. yahtzee as a general rule doesn't have any clue what he's talking about
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He moved to America a few years ago to get married
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:No clue, but they’ve cited the obvious stuff like DBZ before. Aside from Super Sonic, Shadow’s concept art mentions Vegeta and the leaked internal script document for 06 says “basically, think Trunks from Dragon Ball” at the end of Silver’s bio. In an interview before Forces the producer said Infinite was created because he wanted a villain like that character from a certain anime, but wouldn’t give any details other than that. Dio, maybe…? Never played a game with Silver in it, but I appreciate that Sonic Team was as creative as I was when I was twelve.
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