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Whizzing Wizard posted:Only a week to figure out which Final Fantasy character to name your child after As if I hadn't already decided on "Sonic & Knuckles"
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i find it really funny that they had some story about how they were going after "higher review scores" with the next sonic game and apparently the answer to that is "open world"
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Jun 1, 2022 17:14
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Vermain posted:IGN is showing off sonic frontiers gameplay and it sure looks like A Thing
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Jun 1, 2022 17:16
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like, i ain't no game designer or nothin', but it seems to me like the obvious corollary to having grinding rails and jumping balloons as a core gameplay element in an open world game is having a world design that makes them seem naturalistic, like horizon-esque leafy skyscrapers with the steel girders exposed having a bunch of generic-looking old timey ruins with metal crazy straws spiraling around them clashes in a way that makes it feel like those were the assets you got in the $40 pack off the unity store and you're god drat going to use them
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Jun 1, 2022 17:17
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Sonic Frontiers looks like a barren, lifeless tech demo for an open-world Sonic game, kind of like the initial gameplay demo for Breath of the Wild from 2014, except that the style of world and gameplay on display here don't seem to fit the IP at all
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It's just so weird to see the grinding rails floating in the air, not attached to anything, in the middle of this realistic environment. It looks like a tech demo or like a test level pieced together from premade assets that you'd use to test out the player character's movement or something like that Open-world Sonic is fine but I don't know why you wouldn't go for a more cartoony aesthetic where having weird platforming level architecture might be less jarring
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Harrow posted:It looks like a tech demo or like a test level pieced together from premade assets that you'd use to test out the player character's movement or something like that This could describe every 3D Sonic game
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Harrow posted:It's just so weird to see the grinding rails floating in the air, not attached to anything, in the middle of this realistic environment. It looks like a tech demo or like a test level pieced together from premade assets that you'd use to test out the player character's movement or something like that that's what my thought was, too, but the fact that they didn't preface the preview with any kind of "this is just our alpha testing site pls no flame!!!" disclaimer is some really dire poo poo i'm guessing all the staff from sonic 2006 either moved on from sega or suffered collective amnesia because i seriously thought they'd finally weaned themselves off the idea of putting a loving cartoon hedgehog in photorealistic environments but here we are
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Harrow posted:It's just so weird to see the grinding rails floating in the air, not attached to anything, in the middle of this realistic environment. It looks like a tech demo or like a test level pieced together from premade assets that you'd use to test out the player character's movement or something like that same thought, the choice to go for a quasi-realistic SF/fantasy aesthetic is just baffling
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Jun 1, 2022 17:22
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What could be more sonic than a green hill zone....
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diablo immortal is the perfect punishment for the fiends who keep making lovely games like d2 be a thing
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Help Im Alive posted:What could be more sonic than a green hill zone.... needs more alternating bands of bright and dark green running through the grass
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External Organs posted:Apparently Diablo Immortal is pay to win. American and Western European audiences are the only markets that dislike "pay to win". I remember hearing this many, many years ago on a Giantbomb podcast and I don't think anything has changed The game just isn't for us
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Draga posted:Pokemon trailer is out I'm not really interested in playing Pokemon RN but I do want to see the designs of pompadour/ducktail duck's evolutions
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i find it really funny that they had some story about how they were going after "higher review scores" with the next sonic game and apparently the answer to that is "open world"
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Vermain posted:IGN is showing off sonic frontiers gameplay and it sure looks like A Thing The pop-up really makes me cry on the inside as a QA tech
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I'm not real optimistic about UbiSonic based on what I've seen Feel like the Sonic games started actually getting good around Generations but I think it was literally just that game (and maybe Colors?) and the series quickly returned to baseline lol Also loved all the fun remixing of tracks that was done for the Modern/Classic stages the daytime stages from Unleased were sorta a prototype for the Modern Sonic stuff in Generations and the game is a marked improvement over previous... efforts from the era but jesus christ is that game stuffed to the brim with boring filler You have to go all the way to Mania (which wasn't actually developed by Sega) to get something good again
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Monkey Fracas posted:You have to go all the way to Mania (which wasn't actually developed by Sega) to get something good again it's one of those rare times where the fans seem to actually understand the core appeal of the games (cartoony, fast-moving, stage-based platforming action) better than the developers do
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New co-worker telling me about the Kingdom Hearts saga, and me having to keep feigning ignorance
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very creepy when the NPCs in Forza 5 start calling you by your real name even though you don't input it anywhere
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Yeah, fun way to discover Microsoft is just throwing that info around willy nilly
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Help Im Alive posted:very creepy when the NPCs in Forza 5 start calling you by your real name even though you don't input it anywhere i still remember the "fun" of discovering how much microsoft was mining me for info when i made a joke about sbarros in IRC one time and almost immediately got a youtube recommendation for a video about sbarros after
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Vermain posted:it's one of those rare times where the fans seem to actually understand the core appeal of the games (cartoony, fast-moving, stage-based platforming action) better than the developers do A set of tight 2.5D levels with super crisp Ratchet+Clank style graphics, how is this so loving hard?
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Shinjobi posted:I should have a gosh darn baby in my dang arms by this time next week. I hope that's a fun game. Congrats! We’re expecting our second by the end of the month. It is a fun game, although the first few levels aren’t really representative of how much fun the later levels are. Enjoy parenthood!
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New Pokemon professor reminds me so drat much of Your Dad from Fallout 3 it's like he's still haunting you for the choices you made even now he's gonna start showing up in other games.
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Just get the version with the cavewoman professor instead
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Waffleman_ posted:Just get the version with the cavewoman professor instead Hahaha you considered for a second the idea that I wouldn't
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No yeah, my fate was sealed the moment I saw her because I'm extremely predictable.
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Vermain posted:it's one of those rare times where the fans seem to actually understand the core appeal of the games (cartoony, fast-moving, stage-based platforming action) better than the developers do to be fair sonic games are made by newer teams often doing weird experiments, which is pretty cool they get to use a big mascot like Sonic for. sure, sonic games vary wildly in quality and often are nothing like what you "want" a new sonic game to be, but hey i like theyll try all this weird stuff even though it mostly doesnt work so good
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cavewoman is cool but Arceus kind of killed the old style for me, if they're as slow as SwSh I think I'll just skip em.
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They look like they're actually adopting the Arceus style for these, at least partially.
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Shinjobi posted:I should have a gosh darn baby in my dang arms by this time next week. I hope that's a fun game. congratulations!!
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Shinjobi posted:I should have a gosh darn baby in my dang arms by this time next week. I hope that's a fun game. The early levels are cute but it gets pretty rough around midgame
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Feldegast42 posted:The early levels are cute but it gets pretty rough around midgame I'd say I prefer the midgame. Newborns are cute and all, but nothing beats coming home and playing games with my son. Either way Shinjobi, congratulations! Enjoy the ride.
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proud to be a gaymer
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They shouldn't have made it a GaaS though, new content keeps coming out while you're still getting to grips with the mechanics they've already set up
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precision posted:proud to be a gaymer I'm top right
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