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Sonic Generations |OT| What Sonic can learn from Sonic

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Professor Beef

Banned
Dark Schala said:
If you're planning on making it more like the Pokemon Community Thread with info regarding the comics, cartoons, OVA, music, games, etc. I'll help out with that when I have time.

But it's still good if it's like the Zelda Thread (with random facts about Zelda thrown into the OP) or the Final Fantasy Thread (vanilla). It doesn't really seem matter because we can always add to it later (plus I doubt people check the OP after the thread moves on from the first few pages, lol). Most of the people posting in the community threads will know about those things anyway now that I think about it.
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Well I wanted to add discussion about the cartoons, too. Because really, who didn't like them? An all-encompassing Sonic thread is what I'm looking to make
minus the creepy, seamy underbelly of the fandom
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JonCha

Member
Perhaps we could post the chronology to this point? Checked out Wikipedia earlier and they actually have a quick run down, and it seems pretty accurate.

Also, re the title: Sonic Generations Community Thread |OT| Ready? Go!
 
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Professor Beef

Banned
JonCha said:
Perhaps we could post the chronology to this point? Checked out Wikipedia earlier and they actually have a quick run down, and it seems pretty accurate.

Also, re the title: Sonic Generations Community Thread |OT| Ready? Go!
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I was thinking: |OT| YOU are Sonic's friend this time

Or something along that line.
 
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Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
I think someone was adamant about using "Yo dawg, I heard you like Sonic" when we were picking thread titles for this thread. :lol

Edit: Yeah, agreed with keeping "friends" out of the title. :O

Edit, from that old thread:
Aaron Strife said:
Sonic Generations |OT| You teach me and I'll teach you
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And at the time we didn't even know this was going to be the case, lol.
 
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Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Kulock said:
We could also perhaps quote some of the odd "poetry" on the Japanese box covers. One of my favorites was from the Japanese Sonic and Knuckles box art.

Sonic the Hedgehog Community |OT| Don't Make the Sun Laugh at You.
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The Sonic 2 one was... interesting: "Don't just sit there and waste your precious time. When you want to do something, do it right away. Do it when you can. It's the only way to live a life without regrets."

Aha, I leave thread naming to other people since they're wittier. :p

Sonic Community |OT| Hey, Sonic has a few genes named after him (seriously; I learned about the family a few years ago in my genetics labs when we were breeding fruit flies. @_@)

Sonic Community |OT| Everybody's Super Sonic Racing
Sonic Community |OT| Just Let the Speed Mend It
Sonic Community |OT| Every Day is Sonic 2sday!

EloquentM said:
what have the impressions of generations for the 3ds been so far?
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Meh. Classic era levels are essentially ripped from older maps. Dreamcast era levels are awful. Modern era levels are great, but they still seem quite similar to the respective DS games they came from. The rival races were kind of meh. The bosses were alright, but I think they should have taken less than 8 hits to defeat. The final boss is much better than the HD version because you don't have people talking at you, and your objective is clearer. Also, play this part in 3D. It's great. You can finish the game in 2-3 hours.

But Classic Sonic has really great physics, better than the HD version's because his spindash isn't overpowered. Modern Sonic, imo, plays a bit like Rush.

The meat of the game lies in the Missions (which you can unlock via streetpass/online play), online play, and unlockables. I think they're better than the main game sometimes from what I've played. It's too bad it takes five play coins to unlock a mission, though!
 
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Professor Beef

Banned
I'm working on the skeleton of the OP right now, so if anyone with good artistic sense (read: photoshop/gimp) is available, send me a PM and we can work on this. If you have Steam/AIM/MSN/Skype, then communication will go a lot faster.

|OT| Feeling the sunshine, forgetting the rain
|OT| Not a tornado or car in sight
|OT| Iizuka: *laughs*
|OT| Good enough to be ANYONE'S faker
|OT| In my day, there were only 6 emeralds
|OT| Only 50% of this thread is playable
 
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EloquentM

aka Mannny
Dark Schala said:
The Sonic 2 one was... interesting: "Don't just sit there and waste your precious time. When you want to do something, do it right away. Do it when you can. It's the only way to live a life without regrets."

Aha, I leave thread naming to other people since they're wittier. :p

Sonic Community |OT| Hey, Sonic has a few genes named after him (seriously; I learned about the family a few years ago in my genetics labs when we were breeding fruit flies. @_@)

Sonic Community |OT| Everybody's Super Sonic Racing
Sonic Community |OT| Just Let the Speed Mend It
Sonic Community |OT| Every Day is Sonic 2sday!


Meh. Classic era levels are essentially ripped from older maps. Dreamcast era levels are awful. Modern era levels are great, but they still seem quite similar to the respective DS games they came from. The rival races were kind of meh. The bosses were alright, but I think they should have taken less than 8 hits to defeat. The final boss is much better than the HD version because you don't have people talking at you, and your objective is clearer. Also, play this part in 3D. It's great. You can finish the game in 2-3 hours.

But Classic Sonic has really great physics, better than the HD version's because his spindash isn't overpowered. Modern Sonic, imo, plays a bit like Rush.

The meat of the game lies in the Missions (which you can unlock via streetpass/online play), online play, and unlockables. I think they're better than the main game sometimes from what I've played. It's too bad it takes five play coins to unlock a mission, though!
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Thank you very much, I'm gonna consider getting it for christmas!
 
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Lijik

Member
Dark Schala said:
The meat of the game lies in the Missions (which you can unlock via streetpass/online play), online play, and unlockables. I think they're better than the main game sometimes from what I've played. It's too bad it takes five play coins to unlock a mission, though!
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This is reasonable to me, I'm more annoyed that you can only accrue 10 coins a day.
I went out for a walk the other day and took my 3DS with me since I had intended to be out for about an hour. I wound up hitting the quota within 10-15 minutes
 
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Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
Lijik said:
This is reasonable to me, I'm more annoyed that you can only accrue 10 coins a day.
I went out for a walk the other day and took my 3DS with me since I had intended to be out for about an hour. I wound up hitting the quota within 10-15 minutes
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Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at. I didn't take my 3DS around with me often before this since I didn't have a lot of games for it, so I didn't have a lot of coins. So it's taking me a bit to unlock all the missions as a result. I walk for quite a while every day, so I hit the stupid per diem cap really quickly. It's dumb. :/
 
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ShadiWulf

Member
Professor Beef said:
I'm working on the skeleton of the OP right now, so if anyone with good artistic sense (read: photoshop/gimp) is available, send me a PM and we can work on this. If you have Steam/AIM/MSN/Skype, then communication will go a lot faster.

|OT| Feeling the sunshine, forgetting the rain
|OT| Not a tornado or car in sight
|OT| Iizuka: *laughs*
|OT| Good enough to be ANYONE'S faker
|OT| In my day, there were only 6 emeralds
|OT| Only 50% of this thread is playable
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I honestly think that should be the title, Iizuka-san is the face of Sonic after all! XD and will be for a long time coming, he isn't going anywhere.

If no one sends you a PM you can contact me, I don't mind helping out.
 
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Teknoman

Member
Find myself actually kinda having fun with 3DS Generations even after Classic getting the homing attack. Actually works ok with the spindash in the classic zones. Havent messed around in Dreamcast yet.

EDIT: Peaked into Emerald Coast Act 1...damn the background looks sparse. Sucks that they really managed to fill out the backgrounds in the first 3 zones with all sorts of images and effects, and then bam.
 
Yoshi

Yoshi

Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
I actually don't think classic Sonic with homing attack plays all too bad. In fact, it's like a 2D version of Dreamcast-Sonic, which is fitting, considering you get the homing attack when entering Dreamcast era. So far I'm impressed with the progress Dimps made from the Gamescom demo. Sonic Generations on 3DS plays nice and doesn't feel like a cheap flash game anymore. Nevertheless, it's so obviously rushed it hurts. This game could've used at least half a year ore in the oven.
 
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PeakPointMatrix

Member
|OT| Powered by Blast Processing
|OT| A place for Shitty Friends to hang
|OT| Unlike Sonic we don't chuckle
|OT| We'll Chaos your Control
|OT| The bane of Ruby Eclipse's existence
|OT| Oh yeah, this is happenin'!
|OT| Just a thread that loves Adventure!
|OT| We argue about Hedgehog Physics here
|OT| We've earned 20 years of momentum and counting!
 
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qq more

Member
|OT| THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOMING SHOT
|OT| GET A LOAD OF THIS
|OT| HOW ABOUT A CHANGE OF PACE
|OT| YOU'RE TOO SLOW
|OT| COME ON STEP IT UP
|OT| IT'S NO USE! TAKE THIS!
|OT| THAT TORNADO IS CARRYING A WOAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
|OT| Classic is better
|OT| Modern is better
|OT| Fuck you
|OT| Fuck off asshole
|OT| fuck
|OT| shit
|OT| kjfsksjd
|OT| I ran out of ideas
|OT| Please don't post awful fanart/fanfiction or I'LL MURDER YOU AND YOUR FUCKING PUPPY :>
|OT| The one above is too huge
|OT| Have a great future
|OT| No shitty friends allowed.
 
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BlazeHedgehog

Member
It's sort of weird how universally less expensive Sonic Generations is being for the PC. Casino Night is, what, 340 points on the Xbox 360? That's like $4, isn't it?
 
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Yuterald

Member
Just got my Platinum Trophy this afternoon (PS3 version). The infamous "Can't Touch This Trophy" wasn't THAT bad. It was still less painful than anything I did in Sonic 06. I also went beyond the 100% requirement and got S Ranks on every Challenge and Boss Stage (Normal and Hard variations). For some reason I expected the 'S Rank all Acts' trophy to require S Ranks on all challenge missions, but it's only for the standard 18 Acts. Oh well, still had fun going the extra mile.

My final impressions are pretty much the same as before. It's definitely the most sound Sonic Team title to date and the classic Sonic levels were really well done. Crisis City was my least favorite level, which is funny, because they basically did the stage justice by making it the least satisfying stage. My only other major problems (besides some performance issues and stuttering on the PS3 version) were the boss fights. In retrospect, ALL the boss fights are garbage. They were soooo much better in Colors. I felt like they progressively got worse too. The final boss segment just felt...bad. The boss fights just felt like they were made by another team, or at least the cronies at Sonic Team, I don't know. It's just not as consistent as the other portions of the games. Classic Sonic=Great. Modern Sonic=Good. Boss battles and Chaos Emerald Chases=BAD.

But whatever, still thoroughly enjoyed the game. I loved how your buddies informed you on where missing Red Star Rings were. I didn't have to resort to a guide for anything. Just an overall pleasant experience. I'd be down for a Generations 2 with Ice Cap Zone and some other cool stages.
 
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Dark Schala

Eloquent Princess
qq more said:
|OT| THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOMING SHOT
|OT| GET A LOAD OF THIS
|OT| HOW ABOUT A CHANGE OF PACE
|OT| YOU'RE TOO SLOW
|OT| IT'S NO USE! TAKE THIS!
|OT| No shitty friends allowed.
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I was honestly thinking of these when I was coming up with joke suggestions. :lol
 
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Hitlersaurus Christ

Banned
Sonic Community |OT| As you truly imagined it
Sonic Community |OT| Huelen memorial thread
Sonic Community |OT| We're not going to complain about THAT, are we? YES WE ARE
Sonic Community |OT| There's no shame in here! Well, maybe a little.
Sonic Community |OT| Hey Tails, you missed the BOTE!
Sonic Community |OT| HOW 2 POST SANIC CUMMUNITY THRED
Sonic Community |OT| Hopefully this one won't be cancelled
Sonic Community |OT| Special Edition for Sega CD32X
Sonic Community |OT| We remember SOAP shoes but wish we could forget
Sonic Community |OT| You were the shitty friend all along!
Sonic Community |OT| no furries allowed!

ok that last one is just wishful thinking
 
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Professor Beef

Banned
|OT| of Friends, Werehogs, and Chili Dogs

This is my final suggestion, since I'm all out of ideas and I still have to do more work on the OP itself.
 
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Azure Dream

Member
Sega1991 said:
It's also because that's what he does when you race him.

But I agree, it's silly.
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It's possibly trying to mimic Chaos Control, perhaps?


I've been cleaning up my missing Missions and Red Star Rings, and really taking my time to dig through all the levels, sometimes way slower than the devs intended, really gave me even more of an appreciation in the console level design. Pretty much every other 3D Sonic game, even if it had branching routes, really never took you that far from the main route, or did so interestingly anyway. I think Sonic Heroes came the closest, and so much of that game was disposable cookie-cutter content and re-pasted sequences that you hardly noticed. Even in levels I've been through several times, it's just jarring to take this extra little path you didn't notice, and see this huge, unique section of level you didn't know existed.

By the way, for anyone who complained about easy S-Ranks, have you S-Ranked the Doppleganger races? The requirements are a lot stricter, and you don't have any skills to help you out.
 
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TheOGB

Banned
Nocturnowl said:
Sonic Commun-I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS!
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I like this one :V

Sonic Community |OT| Be Cool, Be Wild, Be GROOVY (or some variation)
|OT| Back to the roots, and also this
|OT| Every time you post terrible fanart a baby hedgehog dies
|OT| Whoring a corpse for 14+ years (Arguably)
|OT| Faster than you can say "THAT TORNADO'S CARRYING A CAR!" (or another quote)
|OT| There are as many thread title ideas as there are shitty friends
 
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