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On another note, has there been any word yet as to when the Sonic Prime cartoon is coming back?
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Dabir posted:On this week's episode of Castle Superbeast, Pat said that they could totally get away with making more of these exploring the world the comics are establishing, and I completely agree. They've finally got something cohesive, consistent, unified and well written nailed down and people really like it, they could use that. Two specific things I'd like to see from smaller projects like this, if they decide to do more. First is giving some notable landmarks and places worth remembering, because the IDW comic has had a severe lack of those outside of Restoration HQ, some Eggman bases, Central City, and like, Angel Island. Second is more stories that don't need Sonic himself front and center, which I believe I've brought up before as being a nice quality of Sonic Universe that is sorely missed.
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Larryb posted:On another note, has there been any word yet as to when the Sonic Prime cartoon is coming back? Hopefully soon: I really enjoyed the first few episodes and, if they follow the story-telling pattern they've set up thus far, Rouge is up next for an alternate universe where an iteration of her is the focal point character. I wonder what theme they're gonna go with for that? TriffTshngo posted:Two specific things I'd like to see from smaller projects like this, if they decide to do more. First is giving some notable landmarks and places worth remembering, because the IDW comic has had a severe lack of those outside of Restoration HQ, some Eggman bases, Central City, and like, Angel Island. Second is more stories that don't need Sonic himself front and center, which I believe I've brought up before as being a nice quality of Sonic Universe that is sorely missed. Definitely agreed on the landmarks. Two things I'm hoping they lean into more are: -The idea of Sonic's world as a sort of points of light style adventure world. That is that the points of civilization are relatively self-contained and surrounded by large swathes of adventure-filled wilderness and ancient ruins. It's a world aesthetic I always felt was present in the games up until Sonic Adventure 2, when we started to lean more towards Sonic's world being closer to our own, and the series has kind of ping-ponged back and forth between the two setups ever since. -Bringing in some of the more abstract, fantastical locations we've seen in games like Sonic 1, CD and Chaotix. Y'know, like the bright, neon future-cities and tiny planets and the like. I dunno, I just like the idea of Sonic's world as being more distinct and fantastical than our own and I've never been as big of a fan of the more "realistic" aesthetic that games like Adventure 2, Shadow or 06 went with. While these games do have some fantastical locations of their own (ie the space colony ARK) they always felt a bit more grounded in a generic, modern urban look.
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Larryb posted:On another note, has there been any word yet as to when the Sonic Prime cartoon is coming back?
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Apr 6, 2023 03:41
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the murder mystery game credits jun senou and tony harnell for music but I don't think I heard anything that sounded like a riff on their work at all. did anybody else?
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VostokProgram posted:the murder mystery game credits jun senou and tony harnell for music but I don't think I heard anything that sounded like a riff on their work at all. did anybody else? I’m pretty sure it uses a bit of the SA1 version of “It Doesn’t Matter” at one point.
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Apr 6, 2023 13:39
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Big should be Sonic’s Tom Bombadil.
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Apr 6, 2023 13:44
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Except for his appearance in the bad game sonic heroes, he pretty much is. Lives in the woods, extremely powerful, has nothing to do with the plot
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Apr 6, 2023 16:27
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KingKalamari posted:Hopefully soon: I really enjoyed the first few episodes and, if they follow the story-telling pattern they've set up thus far, Rouge is up next for an alternate universe where an iteration of her is the focal point character. I wonder what theme they're gonna go with for that? Given the pattern so far of each AU having something to do with an aspect of its respective focal character I assume Rouge’s world will likely involve either spies, thieves/treasure hunters, or explorers
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Apr 6, 2023 16:43
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SA1/2 still understood it was in the sonic universe with absurd exaggerated stuff like loop de loops in San Francisco/military base and having a giant haunted canyon w pumpkin head rock structures everywhere.
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ChaseSP posted:SA1/2 still understood it was in the sonic universe with absurd exaggerated stuff like loop de loops in San Francisco/military base and having a giant haunted canyon w pumpkin head rock structures everywhere. SA1 I would definitely agree with, SA2 always felt like it was sort of on the periphery for me in a way that's hard to quantify (All of this is heavily vibes-based, after all and those are the most subjective of qualities). I think it's a combination of the higher presence of generic military bases, the introduction of textures with more muted "realistic" color palettes for some of the backgrounds and the slow drift away from the early 90s design sensibilities that defined the 2D platformers, but SA2 always felt to me like the point where the more "realistic" world aesthetic started to become more prominent, before reaching its apex with Shadow and Sonic 06
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Apr 6, 2023 19:36
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06 i get but shadow has a similar cartoony energy as heroes with stuff like the cyberspace, circus, and haunted castle levels
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Examining it I think I'm just not a fan of when the game environments have too much grey in them?
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Some kind of vid leaked from what I'm guessing is an investor's presentation of things in development. The Sonic Frontiers footage may be from an older development build, who knows. Otherwise, Persona 3 remake footage and new Jet Set Radio teaser. https://twitter.com/AVtoGAMEnoYAMI/status/1644990912328798208?t=--ejKDjjLP3qz4mGuntiXg
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the p3 clip is for pachinko until proven otherwise
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Oxxidation posted:the p3 clip is for pachinko until proven otherwise Now now, it could be footage for an event for the Persona 5 gacha.
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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1647948236735545344
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https://twitter.com/keithjohnstack/status/1647948020799897602/photo/1
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Apr 17, 2023 14:38
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I think the Rovio acquisition makes some sense. I’m not all for big corporate mergers, but Sega did well pulling Atlus out of the brink. They’re not like Microsoft, buying and mismanaging just about every publisher and developer they get.
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Apr 17, 2023 14:50
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Microsoft actually doesn't seem to have been that bad about that in the Nadella era.
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Apr 17, 2023 14:55
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Taking back that tweet about Rovio, because there's far more important news today: https://twitter.com/fowltown/status/1647963174442786821
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Electric Phantasm posted:Taking back that tweet about Rovio, because there's far more important news today: Oh nice, I guess that Knuckles miniseries announced a long while back is still happening then. I assume we have no other information as of yet?
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Apr 17, 2023 15:24
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Absolutely missed opportunity not to call it "& Knuckles". For shame.
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Larryb posted:Oh nice, I guess that Knuckles miniseries announced a long while back is still happening then. I assume we have no other information as of yet? https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1647967842174918660
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Neat, remind me who Wade is again?
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Twerk from Home posted:Absolutely missed opportunity not to call it "& Knuckles". For shame. They commissioned Sonic 3, and Knuckles.
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Larryb posted:Neat, remind me who Wade is again? he's the dumb comic relief cop
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Ah right, now they just need to give Tails a cop sidekick and the set will be complete
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they needed to balance out knuckles’s coolness by paring him up with a loser dork
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Ken Penders’ attorney’s phone has rang.
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holefoods posted:Ken Penders’ attorney’s phone has rang. Camera zooms out to reveal that it is also Ken Penders.
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MikeJF posted:Microsoft actually doesn't seem to have been that bad about that in the Nadella era. Nah, they’ve been pretty bad about managing their studios. I’m not gonna derail this to be about the Activision merger, but Halo’s been a mess, their Fable and Perfect Dark reboots couldn’t even lift off the ground. Bethesda seems to be mostly alright with the games they’ve published since, but Redfall is clearly gonna be dead on arrival. A majority of the Microsoft studios games they’ve published in the last few years have been pretty mediocre at best. Minecraft seems to be their one thing that seems to succeed no matter what and I can’t really attribute its success to anything Microsoft has done other than throw lots of money at the developer.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Camera zooms out to reveal that it is also Ken Penders. In the style of the end of MGS games, where Penders' is the one side of the phone call you hear: "Yes. I understand. The lawsuit will be underway. I will sue the piss out of SEGA. Thank you, Mr. Penders" *not james bond music sting*
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Detective No. 27 posted:Nah, they’ve been pretty bad about managing their studios. I’m not gonna derail this to be about the Activision merger, but Halo’s been a mess, their Fable and Perfect Dark reboots couldn’t even lift off the ground. Bethesda seems to be mostly alright with the games they’ve published since, but Redfall is clearly gonna be dead on arrival. A majority of the Microsoft studios games they’ve published in the last few years have been pretty mediocre at best. Minecraft seems to be their one thing that seems to succeed no matter what and I can’t really attribute its success to anything Microsoft has done other than throw lots of money at the developer. Oh, yeah, the fully integrated studios are already hosed up, I was talking about that they're being relatively hands-off with new acquisitions these days.
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What has Rovio done recently to merit that? Angry Birds is like a decade old, and the last movie was what, five years ago? I can’t remember the last time I heard about Angry Birds besides this year when the original was being taken off the storefronts because people kept buying the one and done game instead of diving into the microtransaction-drowned sequels. 2019?
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Pants Donkey posted:What has Rovio done recently to merit that? Angry Birds is like a decade old, and the last movie was what, five years ago? I can’t remember the last time I heard about Angry Birds besides this year when the original was being taken off the storefronts because people kept buying the one and done game instead of diving into the microtransaction-drowned sequels. 2019? The whole thing where the original got taken down because the micro transaction version was more profitable was a couple months ago. I can’t think of anything major with them recently either. Angry Birds’s popularity seemed to go in decline since the second movie came out. As far as I know, they don’t really got much outside of the Angry Birds franchise. Sega’s been really good for Atlus since they bought them. They went from basically only being able to release a game to a single console/handheld to now giving their games worldwide releases across all platforms and PC. I’m guessing Sega sees potential with Rovio and their mobile division. Or maybe I think the acquisition makes sense because I associate little video game birds with Sega.
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Apparently Angry Birds still gets installed in things like the entertainment systems on planes to keep kids busy, and there's plenty of merch kicking around still. There's probably a lot of revenue trickling in from various sources even if it isn't the biggest thing on earth anymore, with plenty more to be made. They may also have other projects on the go that Sega are interested in, or they think they'd complement Hardlight in making mobile spin-offs of their existing franchises.
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It's likely that the acquisition is not just about the direct IP acquisition of Angry Birds (though that is certainly a factor) and just as much about acquiring Rovio's technology and platforms and historical knowledge and expertise of the market and target audiences. Sega likely has aggressive growth plans for mobile and are looking to Rovio to help with streamlining the creation and deployment and strategic project development of all that stuff, without having to build all that from the ground up on their own. https://www.rovio.com/articles/beacon-by-rovio-the-games-platform/
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Electric Phantasm posted:Taking back that tweet about Rovio, because there's far more important news today: That's the hat he wears in the OVA right? If so that's super cool (the OVA rules).
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Silver Vision posted:That's the hat he wears in the OVA right? If so that's super cool (the OVA rules). Yup, it’s also appeared in the Archie comics, a few of the mobile games, and that Steam exclusive game they put out for April Fools this year
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