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Retrospectives on speedy video games! Errant Signal talks about Burnout Paradise, while Super Bunnyhop looks at every first level of every main Sonic the Hedgehog game.
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Apparently (according to his twitter at least) it looks like Spoony is doing up a review of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". We shall see, I suppose.
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Mar 11, 2016 20:41
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Apparently (according to his twitter at least) it looks like Spoony is doing up a review of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". We shall see, I suppose. That game is messed up. O.o
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Mar 11, 2016 20:42
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Apparently (according to his twitter at least) it looks like Spoony is doing up a review of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". We shall see, I suppose. I'll believe it when I see it. Till then his one review a year quota has already been filled. poparena posted:Retrospectives on speedy video games! Errant Signal talks about Burnout Paradise, while Super Bunnyhop looks at every first level of every main Sonic the Hedgehog game. That was a really interesting take on Paradise. I didn't hate the game or anything but it just felt so lacking without a crash mode and that's what made 3 and 4 so goddamn good. They were basically puzzle games and it was amazing to play with friends, trying to work out the best strategy for the highest amount of damage. The thing where you cause as much damage down a highway was alright but nothing special in comparison.
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Mar 11, 2016 20:58
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My teen years had many edgy adult moments thanks to Harlan Ellison's grouchy old man voice. You have not lived until you've heard a recording of him read that short story about Jack the Ripper. He put in some kind of electric reverb effect every time he says "vagina," as I recall.
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Mar 11, 2016 21:00
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Apparently (according to his twitter at least) it looks like Spoony is doing up a review of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". We shall see, I suppose. Wait. Let me tell you how long we've had to wait since Spoony last put out an actual review. Approximately 30,672,000 seconds elapsed between the Massacre at Central High Review and the City Hunter review. If you were to print the word 'wait' on every tweet, wrestling vlog, live-stream, and Counter Monkey episode between those times, it would not equal one one billionth the dread of wait that falls upon us in this micro instant. For us. Wait. Wait. poparena posted:Super Bunnyhop looks at every first level of every main Sonic the Hedgehog game.
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Mar 11, 2016 23:39
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MrSlam posted:Watching Phelous's Patreon video of Countryside Bears right now An extra layer of hilarious on that review is that he rightfully criticizes Dingo pictures-- a company with multiple voice actors and animators-- for not being able to do different voices for each character, nor being able to do lip synching properly. And at the exact same time, he's doing unique voices for each of the characters, and doing post-production lip synching. By himself. CHILD MURDERER!
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Mar 12, 2016 00:49
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SPOILER ALERT
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Also Aurini's channel is back now because FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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Mar 12, 2016 06:48
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DStecks posted:Also Aurini's channel is back now because FREEDOM OF SPEECH Where's The gently caress U #WTFU
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Mar 12, 2016 06:53
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Jsor posted:Where's The gently caress U #WTFU YouTube does it again !
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Mar 12, 2016 07:26
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DStecks posted:Also Aurini's channel is back now because FREEDOM OF SPEECH #WTFU What The gently caress, yoUtube? ...that's how that hashtag goes, right?
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Mar 12, 2016 07:54
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Angry Joe's reaction to the Civil War trailer is up. Totally worth it for his reaction to the Spidey reveal.
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Mar 12, 2016 08:44
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Who the gently caress cares about reaction videos? It's lovely second-hand marketing at best. This is the only good one Cyron posted:I would love if it turn out TFA review is just him saying someone did star wars right and poo poo all over this new fad of liking the prequels and defending Lucas. Yeah it's real awful when people have opinions independent of nerd orthodoxy. How dare they like the prequels.
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Mar 12, 2016 10:26
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Who the gently caress cares about reaction videos? It's lovely second-hand marketing at best. How many times do I have to remind people of Phelous's best video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvwWTFxfUaA
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Mar 12, 2016 11:06
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:
Dude the prequels are bad movies. Like em all you want, but they are awful and not because of poo poo like Jar Jar.
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Mar 12, 2016 11:55
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My 11-year-old self thought Phantom Menace was awesome and the original trilogy was stuffy and boring, so clearly that's the truth 
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Mar 12, 2016 12:47
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Asuron posted:Dude the prequels are bad movies. Like em all you want, but they are awful and not because of poo poo like Jar Jar. Jar Jar is no more annoying than anyone from the OT, just like how the dialogue and acting are no worse than in the OT.
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Mar 12, 2016 13:11
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Jar Jar is no more annoying than anyone from the OT, just like how the dialogue and acting are no worse than in the OT. This is somewhat true which is why the OT is so much better than the prequels because in the OT there are other things happening aside from people talking.
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Mar 12, 2016 13:25
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Jar Jar is no more annoying than anyone from the OT, just like how the dialogue and acting are no worse than in the OT. Yes he is, and yes it is. There's an hour long video from the guys you already linked to that explain why the movie fails at and uses pretty clear examples on why that's the case. I was even like you, I would defend the prequels because I thought they were decent movies, but when you have something like that break it down and provide excellent analysis on why they're bad, not just as a successor to the films that came before but as a film in general and you come out thinking they're good "just because I say so", you're basically going out of your way to deny the truth because you like something alot. But I've seen you post about this poo poo over and over again and I know nothing anyone says will ever sway you because you seem determined to block your ears to what people say and just do weird, wrong comparisons to the OT as if that somehow validates what you say about the prequels, so this will be the last time I argue with you about it.
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Mar 12, 2016 13:57
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Asuron posted:Dude the prequels are bad movies. Like em all you want, but they are awful and not because of poo poo like Jar Jar. Harry S. Plinkett
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Mar 12, 2016 14:10
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all you star wars watching nerds need to get into lockers, chumps.
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Mar 12, 2016 14:30
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Asuron posted:Yes he is, and yes it is. There's an hour long video from the guys you already linked to that explain why the movie fails at and uses pretty clear examples on why that's the case. The Plinkett reviews? They're funny, but they're the definition of missing the forest for the trees. I used to like them too, until I realised that there is something deeply wrong about hating a movie for over a decade and never moving on. There is a class of people who seriously consider the prequels some kind of evil. They're decent movies, but somehow they're is a special case where the normal methods of judging movies are suspended. The OT is goofy and weird? Awesome. The PT is goofy and weird? Worst movies ever. The OT has bad acting and dialogue? Cheesy goodness. The PT has bas acting and dialogue? The director failed at his job. The OT has unreal, obviously artificial special effects? Classic sci-fi. The PT has unreal, obviously artificial special effects? Lucas is a soulless hack. It's completely insane, and the sooner people stop trying to normalise decades-long obsessions over movies, the better. Asuron posted:But I've seen you post about this poo poo over and over again and I know nothing anyone says will ever sway you because you seem determined to block your ears to what people say and just do weird, wrong comparisons to the OT as if that somehow validates what you say about the prequels, so this will be the last time I argue with you about it. You must be really insecure about your ability to reason. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Mar 13, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 14:30
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Asuron posted:Yes he is, and yes it is. There's an hour long video from the guys you already linked to that explain why the movie fails at and uses pretty clear examples on why that's the case. C3PO is at least as annoying as Jar Jar. The Plinket reviews are entertaining but they aren't some holy gospel of truth. Lots of what they said was kinda dumb or just opinion. Like the whole insistence that movies need a clear protagonist, utter nonsense. The whole "Lets have people describe the characters from memory" bit is at best disingenuous. The original series is just 'too big' for such a comparison to be in any way useful. Even before I'd ever seen the original series I knew the main characters from it. They've been a part of the pop culture landscape for decades. Of course you can come up with more random adjectives describing them than for characters from a movie that has been out for way less time and had way less pop culture penetration and the people being questioned have probably seen way fewer times. The prequels suck, but then so did the original series and in a lot of the same ways. Outside of episode 2 being probably the worst of the lot of them the prequels weren't significantly worse than the older ones. Hell episode 3 was probably more entertaining than the episode 5.
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Mar 12, 2016 14:35
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watho posted:This is somewhat true which is why the OT is so much better than the prequels because in the OT there are other things happening aside from people talking. Agreed. The Prequels should have had more action scenes, perhaps involving a four armed robot that has four lightsabers, or ninja flips everywhere, or a gladiatorial combat arena, or a racing scene.
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Mar 12, 2016 14:54
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The Plinkett reviews? They're funny, but they're the definition of missing the forest for the trees. I used to like them too, until I realised that there is something deeply wrong about hating a movie for over a decade and never moving on. No one is obsessively hating the prequels. Most people just sorta acknowledge that they were bad movies and don't think about them anymore. The whole reason people bring them up at all is becuase of idiots like you who hold out some insane torch for the movies years after the rest of the culture has made judgment and loving moved on. This is the loving same as the people who insist Transformers is a super amazing series that's super deep or the idiots who keep trying for a Firefly revival. No one else cares but you and everyone else is just irritated by your obsessive need to promote them.
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Mar 12, 2016 15:00
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Terrible Opinions posted:No one is obsessively hating the prequels. Msot people just sorta acknowledge that was a bad movie and don't think about it anymore. The whole reason people bring them up at all is becuase of idiots like you who hold out some insane torch for the movies years after the rest of the culture has made judgment and loving moved on. This is the loving same as the people who insist Transformers is a super amazing series that's super deep or the idiots who keep trying for a Firefly revival. No one else cares but you and everyone else is just irritated by your obsessive need to promote them. Ah yes, this is exactly the weird nerd orthodoxy I'm talking about. You're literally calling people idiots for saying that a movie isn't the Devil. "If only those people shut up about the prequels, we wouldn't need to hate them." Why is it necessary to make "idiots" shut up about prequels? That seems like obsession. I'd like to see the peer review process on this thing. How has "culture" moved on when a major corporation feels the need to make a movie for people who didn't like the prequels? When TFA came out, there were goons talking about how it was necessary to fix the "damage" left by the prequels. Damage to whom? The franchise? People are still in fact obsessed with the movies. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 15:06
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Ah yes, this is exactly the weird nerd orthodoxy I'm talking about. You're literally calling people idiots for saying that a movie isn't the Devil. "If only those people shut up about the prequels we didn't need to hate them." Why is it necessary to make "idiots" shut up about prequels? That seems like obsession. I'd like to see the peer review process on this thing. BravestOfTheLamps posted:How has "culture" moved on when a major corporation feels the need to make a movie for people who didn't like the prequels? When TFA came out, there were goons talking about how it was necessary to fix the "damage" left by the prequels. Damage to whom? The franchise? People are still in fact obsessed with the movies. Terrible Opinions fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 15:18
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Terrible Opinions posted:It wasn't the devil, this isn't something like Troll 2, Master of Disguise, or loving Birdemic. They're just normal bad movies which the most annoying part. It'd be like people obsessively defending some aggressively mediocre 80s action movie like Deathwish 3 and 4 or Rocky 3. They're just kinda known to be bad but not in a way that's funny or interesting. What is fascinating is how the things people hate in the PT are exactly the things they love in the OT. quote:A major corporation released TFA because Star Wars movies are a license to print movie. Hell Star Wars will print money in any media. The prequels made mountains of money. People are talking about the new movie fixing "Damage" because the last one wasn't very good and it's nice that the bad movie doesn't doom further movies to be bad. Return to the Rocky example. No one was accused of being obsessive about Rocky 3 or Rocky 4 being bad when they said they were pleasantly surprised that Rocky 6 was actually good. None of you obsessive prequel defenders came out of the woodwork to go "Oh know people are still obsessing about Rocky 4 being bad to this day. There must be something wrong with them to state a movie I irrationally love is bad". It's cause Rocky 4 doesn't have the same sort of obsessive nerd wierdos who love it as the prequels apparently do.  Every word you post proves my point about obsessive nerd orthodoxies more and more. You have an entire fictional biography for me where I've obsessively defended the prequels for years and years, and forced poor nerds to debate Star Wars.This is the first time I've ever defended the prequels. e: Andrast posted:You are doing literally the same thing except with bad Patrick Rothfuss books in their thread. This is because defending Rothfuss books tends to demand a very unthinking and non-critical mindset that makes people look dumb. I don't actually think people are worse for liking Rothfuss, it's a bit of comic hyperbole. The "idiot" part comes from non-critical thinking. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 15:21
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Ah yes, this is exactly the weird nerd orthodoxy I'm talking about. You're literally calling people idiots for saying that a movie isn't the Devil. You are/were doing literally the same thing except with bad Patrick Rothfuss books in their thread.
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Mar 12, 2016 15:23
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GUYS THE PREQUELS ARE GOOD OK, FOR VAGUE AND ILL-DEFINED REASONS I'LL NEVER EXPLAIN. THE PLINKETT REVIEWS GO INTO PUNISHING DETAIL ABOUT HOW I'M WRONG? WOW, WHAT A WEIRDO, WHO THE HELL STILL CARES ABOUT THE PREQUELS, CERTAINLY NOT ME, THE PERSON INSTIGATING A DERAIL OVER THEM.
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Mar 12, 2016 15:28
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DStecks posted:GUYS THE PREQUELS ARE GOOD OK, FOR VAGUE AND ILL-DEFINED REASONS I'LL NEVER EXPLAIN. THE PLINKETT REVIEWS GO INTO PUNISHING DETAIL ABOUT HOW I'M WRONG? WOW, WHAT A WEIRDO, WHO THE HELL STILL CARES ABOUT THE PREQUELS, CERTAINLY NOT ME, THE PERSON INSTIGATING A DERAIL OVER THEM. This is funny because this is what you said the last time I said that being obsessively angry about movies is bad (right in this thread in fact): BravestOfTheLamps posted:The last prequel movie was ten years ago and people are still angry. DStecks posted:Explaining how lovely movies are lovely, when people insist they are good with absolutely nothing to back that up but baseless assertions and a bald refusal to engage with any points which contradict them = angry I guess. You've certainly convinced me that you're not angry and obsessive about the prequels. And isn't it kind of weird to try to make appeals to authority and consensus in a thread about critical discussion?' e: "There is an hour-long video about how the movie is bad! No, you can't say that the movie is good, there's already an hour-long video!" BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 15:34
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:You've certainly convinced me that you're not angry and obsessive about the prequels. Being annoyed with the same derail yet a loving gain = angry and obsessive about the prequels, sure
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Mar 12, 2016 15:52
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Thanks to lamp bravery we can pretend we're the Star Wars thread for some reason. Kill me now.
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Mar 12, 2016 16:15
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DStecks posted:Being annoyed with the same derail yet a loving gain = angry and obsessive about the prequels, sure Nah, getting angry about a derail is fine. I'm angry about the derail, despite being a "prequel defender (I like 1 and 3 and hate 2 while loving the OT, but whatever), it's being super angry/insulting at people for daring to like to prequels that makes you kind of an rear end in a top hat sometimes. You've done it a few times. GUys, just accept you've got different opinions on movies and loving move on. It's what I've done (or tried, anyway). I wasn't the one who started the derail this time.
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Mar 12, 2016 16:24
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I didn't think Rocky 5 was that bad...
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Mar 12, 2016 16:48
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Shut the gently caress up about star wars.
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Mar 12, 2016 17:02
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MonsieurChoc posted:Nah, getting angry about a derail is fine. I'm angry about the derail, despite being a "prequel defender (I like 1 and 3 and hate 2 while loving the OT, but whatever), it's being super angry/insulting at people for daring to like to prequels that makes you kind of an rear end in a top hat sometimes. You've done it a few times. Over the years, I've just kind of accepted there's a weird goonsensus about certain issues it's best to avoid bringing up because people get really vitriolic really fast. At least this time it was Star Wars instead of Fallout, which is even worse. DON'T USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO START A FALLOUT DERAIL YOU FUCKS Arcsquad12 posted:Shut the gently caress up about star wars. Actual thread contribution: I thought the Super Bunnyhop video posted earlier about Sonic was good, and a great illustration of what a crazy rollercoaster ride of up and down quality that series is The Vosgian Beast fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 17:11
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Mad Lupine posted:I didn't think Rocky 5 was that bad... Rocky 2-4 all kinda go in a new and progressively sillier direction from 1 and they can be pretty fun. Dunno what 5 was trying to go for but it was always my least favorite. Before the meltdown Spoony and Brad had a video retrospective of the 6 that were out at the time.
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Mar 12, 2016 17:12
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Trojan Kaiju posted:Rocky 2-4 all kinda go in a new and progressively sillier direction from 1 and they can be pretty fun. Dunno what 5 was trying to go for but it was always my least favorite. Before the meltdown Spoony and Brad had a video retrospective of the 6 that were out at the time. I remember that video being hilarious. Man I miss old Spoony.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Actual thread contribution: I thought the Super Bunnyhop video posted earlier about Sonic was good, and a great illustration of what a crazy rollercoaster ride of up and down quality that series is Sonic Colors is legit good (but not great, Sonic is never Great). Although he did miss the portable gba/ds games, despite the mention of Sonic Rush (which I liked).
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