Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Over $2500 after Paypal fees. Not bad.
I can't wait for Kung-Fu Jesus's LP of FFXIII-2.
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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread: Green Hills and Laughing Iizukas
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I can't wait for Kung-Fu Jesus's LP of FFXIII-2.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
How much was whatever they were gonna buy? I always thought that profiting from livecasting video games was illegal.
hush now young regulus.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
I think it was implied that best case scenario of "get everything we want" was about $400 and they said they did not think they'd even reach that goal.
They hit over $1000 long before they even started the stream.
The leftover money has gone to buying KFJ a copy of FF13-2 to make a LP with, and assembling "THE GIGA-QUAD", which is their grand plan to Let's Play Four Swords Adventures. It sounds like they even want to capture the Gameboy output, which probably means
I think they vowed on stream that the money would only go towards videos they wanted to produce. I know KFJ specifically said he put in a rule that the money could never be used for alcohol.
Brilliant.
Shadow Hog
Member
Forget Eggman running down the building - this lumbering behemoth is much funnier.
Aaron Strife
Banned
oh my god :lol
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
oh my god...
Well, I needed a pick-me-up since I'll be running on 1 hour of sleep all day, and this is it. LOL.
Fan-freaking-tastic! :lol. Gotta love these mods.
Well with SA's three month rule it'd suck if it wasn't a blind run or if he had to wait three months to play the game.
holy shit
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
The ending was the best part. Oh wow.
AND THE MUSICCCC!!!!! I put it on repeat when I drive home from school.
Azure Dream
Member
"Engage high-speed mode!"
*tucks head and limbs into body, left with a perfectly round ball*
*tucks head and limbs into body, left with a perfectly round ball*
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
That stage makes me feel so happy. Especially when you're grinding down the rail from the top of the clock tower; it makes me exclaim, "wow!" every time.
Well, I don't put it on repeat, but it's one of the first themes I try to listen to when I get into the car on my way to or from school. :3
Oh God... :lolKokonoe said:
I am loving all of these mods. They're helping me get through my week.
Hot Coldman
Banned
This is why we need PC versions.
I don't listen the WHOLE way. That's what city escape is for!
It's like there's a wheel coming out of his butt when he's running lol. Wow.
You know what? I want an exclusive platformer with just Classic Robotnik. It would be so awesome.
Shadow Hog
Member
Sure, and his super form could be Breakdancing Eggman. Hell, I'd play it.
Christopher
Member
So I'm playing Sonic Unleashed that I bought against my better judgement just to say that I've play all the mainline Sonic games.
Thoughts:
- The intro was pretty amazing I loved the great set up and start off to the game, really hypes you up.
- The hubs are okay...they feel a bit closrophobic where as in Sonic Adventure you really had enough room to bounce around.
- what happened to double tapping x to home attack a different button wtf?
- The Sonic gameplay is pretty awesome although coming from generations I keep trying to do tricks when coming out of rings
- I tried to go into it with an open mind but god the Warehog levels are AWFUL...oh my god why not make it optional like Sonic Adventure, and you can choose if you want to be tourted or not...so awful.
- Chip and the Saturday morning cartoon vibe of the game...it feels so kiddy and while I don't mind it seems like it aimed for 5 year olds.
Thoughts:
- The intro was pretty amazing I loved the great set up and start off to the game, really hypes you up.
- The hubs are okay...they feel a bit closrophobic where as in Sonic Adventure you really had enough room to bounce around.
- what happened to double tapping x to home attack a different button wtf?
- The Sonic gameplay is pretty awesome although coming from generations I keep trying to do tricks when coming out of rings
- I tried to go into it with an open mind but god the Warehog levels are AWFUL...oh my god why not make it optional like Sonic Adventure, and you can choose if you want to be tourted or not...so awful.
- Chip and the Saturday morning cartoon vibe of the game...it feels so kiddy and while I don't mind it seems like it aimed for 5 year olds.
I can agree with that last point to an extent. Concerning the writing and overall tone, Colors seemed to find a good balance (like it did in every other way ). Unleashed was a bit too kiddy at times and still too dramatic at others, and Generations was either nostalgia jokes or just ugh (like watching an episode of Johnny Test after they started doing them in Flash, right down to calling out their own clichés, and not in an interesting way; see cutscene after Egg Dragoon) and only once being somewhere inbetween (bonus scene).
Whatever comes next I hope they look more closely at Colors and its improvements to the formula instead of just ignoring it and only looking at Generations.
). Unleashed was a bit too kiddy at times and still too dramatic at others, and Generations was either nostalgia jokes or just ugh (like watching an episode of Johnny Test after they started doing them in Flash, right down to calling out their own clichés, and not in an interesting way; see cutscene after Egg Dragoon) and only once being somewhere inbetween (bonus scene).Whatever comes next I hope they look more closely at Colors and its improvements to the formula instead of just ignoring it and only looking at Generations.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Fact: Colors' story was worse thanks to
1) Baldy McNose Hair
2) The BBBB
3) Other fucking shit jokes
Even chip was funnier. If it weren't for the PA announcements, I'd put the writing in colors even lower than SA2/06
1) Baldy McNose Hair
2) The BBBB
3) Other fucking shit jokes
Even chip was funnier. If it weren't for the PA announcements, I'd put the writing in colors even lower than SA2/06
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Eh, I dunno. Colors' writing reminded me a bit of AoStH. Which, I mean, hey, newsflash: AoStH really wasn't that good. At least, I never thought so as a kid. I appreciate it a bit more now that I'm older, but that is most likely just nostalgia speaking. When it was current, I always thought the jokes were really dumb and the animation was super low budget.
A lot of Colors' humor is pretty similar if you really stop and look at it, and once I realized this fact, I came to appreciate the tangential nostalgia it imparted. Cubot and Orbot follow in a long line of comic-relief duos like Scratch and Grounder, Rocksteady and Bebop, Bulk and Skull, so on and so forth. All it was missing was Eggman calling his lackeys "Dumbots".
It's why I was so let down by Generations, because Generations dedicates all of this energy to what essentially boils down to them repeating the same sentence over and over again: "Stop the bad guy because he's making bad things happen!"
They would've been better off not bothering with a story at all.
TheCongressman1
Member
Thaaaank you. Glad other people see it, too.
Sonic Generations in 8 minutes. The animation is so bad it's funny, but it's supposed to be bad. It's become his thing.
Colors' writing was hit and miss for me. PA announcements were gold though.
Colors' writing was hit and miss for me. PA announcements were gold though.
The individual lines in Colors were generally not much to write home about, sure, but it had a fun light hearted premise that also managed to avoid being completely generic. That's really my main issue with Generations, sure the writing isn't so kiddy, but there's really not much soul there at all, and what is there is so sparse and disconnected, and worst of all outright bland.
What really mattered was the tone the whole adventure set, and that combined with the PA made things pretty enjoyable. Generations can't even lay claim to having a tone, because it's so devoid of personality that it might as well be a mid 90's forgotten Sonic fangame made with the pre games factory engine. I'd rate Colors writting over 06 easily because it isn't so fundamental and ingrained to the entire product, that's also ignoring the fact that it's better, even if it's not what everyone wants.
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I'd still take Colors and mayyybe even 06 writting over what we got in Generations, which as balnd and empty as the colorless world the game was based in.
Christopher
Member
What was wrong with Sonic Adventure 2?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Oh you guys; I liked Colours' writing. I'm not into Sonic games for Serious Business and Undertones, so the humour and light-heartedness--even while silly--is appreciated. As I've noted before in the Generations thread, I had a problem with Generations' writing being rather barebones in comparison... even with the same writers involved.
As for Chip, well... let's not forget that much of the audience for Sonic games are kids. A few of the kids I tutored liked Chip since they reminded them of various characters they see in CG films. I don't really see the problem with him. His behaviour made me smile in a "well, that's a little cute" sort of way. I really enjoyed how stylized the characters were in Unleashed as opposed to photorealistic/approaching photorealistic like how the previous games tried to do it. It gave the world a little bit of flavour.
As for Chip, well... let's not forget that much of the audience for Sonic games are kids. A few of the kids I tutored liked Chip since they reminded them of various characters they see in CG films. I don't really see the problem with him. His behaviour made me smile in a "well, that's a little cute" sort of way. I really enjoyed how stylized the characters were in Unleashed as opposed to photorealistic/approaching photorealistic like how the previous games tried to do it. It gave the world a little bit of flavour.
When you put it that way, I can't help but to think that it's downright adorable. :3Sega1991 said:
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Having trouble keeping the beat, are we?
That challenge was a pain. Worst thing ever, and obviously Vector would be involved.
Professor Beef
Banned
think I somehow got an S on that challenge. *flex*
06? Ehhh, I wouldn't go that far...
I'd pick really embarrassing kiddy cutscenes over melodramatic fanfic-esque cutscenes.
TheCongressman1
Member
Something really interesting going on over Sonic Retro. A video of what looks like the prototype of Sonic 1 has surfaced.
Watch.
Although this was met with immediate skepticism, it appears that Yuji Naka thinks that it's the real deal:
They are trying to get a rom dump at the moment. Hopefully something good will come of this.
Source.
Watch.
Although this was met with immediate skepticism, it appears that Yuji Naka thinks that it's the real deal:
Ashthedragon said:
Andrew75 said:
They are trying to get a rom dump at the moment. Hopefully something good will come of this.
Source.
Shadow Hog
Member
Fake or not, I find Sonic's SMB1-esque standing sprite kind of fascinating.
TheCongressman1
Member
TheCongressman1
Member
This is from Naka himself, so I assume they could do that. And even if this isn't the real deal, it's obviously close enough to it for Naka.
Seven Force
Banned
Not totally convinced on the validity of the video but Naka chiming in on it is kinda neat.
Edit: Holy shit is that Generations mod glorious
Edit: Holy shit is that Generations mod glorious
Shadow Hog
Member
The foreground scrolling was in Sonic 1, though. Star Light Zone had scaffolding pass by in the foreground - I remember this clearly, and a Google Image search corroborated that.
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