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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread: Green Hills and Laughing Iizukas
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There are many songs to pick from in this series, so I struggle every time this topic comes up. Planet Wisp: Act 2 is my current favorite, but I'd probably have a different answer if I were to be asked a few days later. From the Genesis games, I'd go with Lava Reef Act 1.
I dunno about the best, but good, yes
DJ EGGMAN GET'UM
I don't think that's the greatest, I was making a joke.
Actually, this is my top 5 list.
1. Supporting Me
2. Open Your Heart
3. Doomsday Zone
4. Big Arm
5. Live & Learn
Actually, this is my top 5 list.
1. Supporting Me
2. Open Your Heart
3. Doomsday Zone
4. Big Arm
5. Live & Learn
I wish Alpha 3 Saturn was released in America.
Azure Dream
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I'm pretty sure that's just for show. If you stand around without moving, they won't fire. I think you have to intentionally walk around back and forth in that tiny area for them to have enough time to attack you.
Oh okay. I immediately spindash the hell out of there because I didn't want to take any chances.
Posting this because it's awesome.
Psychic Force 2012 (Burning Storm)
Best song from a game I've never played.
Psychic Force 2012 (Burning Storm)
Best song from a game I've never played.
Shadow Hog
Member
I dunno about you, but I remember the Saturn for all three Panzer Dragoons, Clockwork Knight 2, NiGHTS, Mega Man 8 and X4, Street Fighter Collection (Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold), Daytona USA, Virtua Cop, Virtua Fighter 2 Daytona USA, Sega Rally, Shining the Holy Ark, Magic Knight Rayearth, Guardian Heroes, Radiant Silvergun, Tomb Raider, Astal, Powerslave, Rayman... Sonic R was only a small part of it.
Plus I played it first on the superior PC version anyway.
Plus I played it first on the superior PC version anyway.
Seven Force
Banned
About the only Saturn Sonic game I have fond memories of was Sonic Jam. All of my other Saturn memories are Capcom's CPS2 ports, Sega's arcade ports, and Guardian Heroes.
And Saturn Bomberman. Man, that was a fun game.
And Saturn Bomberman. Man, that was a fun game.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
Best 2D Bomberman game ever.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
...In speaking of fan songs. That fan game After The Sequel revealed some of the soundtrack.
http://soundcloud.com/falk-2/tea-with-ellie-for-cyan-city
http://soundcloud.com/tunners/ghosts-with-guitars-moonlight
http://soundcloud.com/falk-2/tea-with-ellie-for-cyan-city
http://soundcloud.com/tunners/ghosts-with-guitars-moonlight
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
What I linked to wasn't a fan song, it's from an official, Sega-approved album.
http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(album)
Hot Coldman
Banned
Oh, I figured it was a Pac-Man Fever style thing. My bad.
I just couldn't resist an opportunity to link to the Modern Moran song again. It's my Nocturne.
Shadow Hog
Member
Never heard it before. At work, can't listen. Does it involve him telling those morans to get a brain?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Someone on Gaming Side said that 2D games are moribund (dying) and they're not successful because no one wants to play 2D games (this was more directed to RPGs, but...). Anyone feel similarly in here? The platforming genre has a bunch of 2D games so I have to wonder how others feel about it.
This isn't just in terms of perspective, but the general aesthetics too.
Anyway, did anyone pick up the latest Sonic Universe? The ASR: Transformed issue. Debating on whether I should read it now or wait until I finish ASR:T.
This isn't just in terms of perspective, but the general aesthetics too.
Anyway, did anyone pick up the latest Sonic Universe? The ASR: Transformed issue. Debating on whether I should read it now or wait until I finish ASR:T.
This question is too hard to answer.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Retail platformers that aren't Mario or Sonic seem to be dead, at least :/ There are 2D platformers alive and well on DD services though.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
"People didn't stop painting just because somebody figured out how to sculpt."
tiggerkiddo
Member
I hope 2D platformers don't die out. I enjoy them a lot more than 3D platformers. Even if a series started out on 2D and then progressed to 3D, I'll always want to stick with the 2D ones.
Professor Beef
Banned
I wish motion controls would go somewhere. 
I wish motion controls would go somewhere.
At least Nintendo is phasing them out with the Wii U!
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Don't the Wiipads include Wiimote functionality or something? Not that anyone will care, but still.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I wish motion controls would go somewhere.
I'm with you.
It has a sensor bar built into it or something.
Hot Coldman
Banned
No, it's a guy singing incredibly badly over the Sonic Heroes theme with awful lyrics
The comments section is a hoot
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I like that. Profound.
I personally wouldn't want them to be phased out either, regardless of what markets say or whatever nonsense people like to spout out (and I feel like they've been very successful this gen and returned with quite a force). 3D platformers and I didn't get along very well, and depending on the platformer design, they still don't get along well with me (ex: having to force myself through Super Mario Galaxy equipped with Gravol), so I certainly hope 2D platformers don't go away at all.
I will do that this weekend when my exam week
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
I honestly think its harder to sell a 3D platformer than a 2D one. There will always be a market for 2D platformers; the downloadable market. When was the last time you guys saw a 3D platformer released exclusively as a download?
2D platforming has been far healthier this generation than in the last, even if we exclude Nintendo entirely. The genre's not going anywhere.
I picked it and StH #241 up recently, just haven't written them up yet. You might as well go ahead and read it, it's very light on plot.
Wow, Psychic Force 1 + 2 are among my favourite games, props for mentioning them!
Shadow Hog
Member
Y'know, as sad as it is that I can admit this, I think I actually recognize this artist. Kathy-Lu, correct? She used to frequent Sonic HQ around the same time I did.Billiechu said:
Never did figure out the duck/platypus, though.
Spazzykoneko. Maybe she goes by a different name there?
Shadow Hog
Member
No, SpazzyKoneko is somebody else entirely who I've never had any interaction with. I think I recognize her style in that image, now that you mention it.
But the character is definitely Kathy-Lu.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Did they also mention that you can play as Eggman the same way?
http://youtu.be/YGebZNZ2QEI
Also it sounds like this isn't just some kind of weird engine function for cutscenes or whatever, they might've actually been intended to be playable at one point:
Perhaps you were intended to play as Tikal during flashbacks. As for Eggman, uh... maybe at the start of Gamma's story?
http://youtu.be/YGebZNZ2QEI
Also it sounds like this isn't just some kind of weird engine function for cutscenes or whatever, they might've actually been intended to be playable at one point:
Perhaps you were intended to play as Tikal during flashbacks. As for Eggman, uh... maybe at the start of Gamma's story?
He would've been more broken than Chaos and Gamma.
Azure Dream
Member
I think you can play him with GameShark codes?
That would've been cool, fed into the cinematic style of the game neatly.
That would've been cool, fed into the cinematic style of the game neatly.
Shadow Hog
Member
All I can think while watching that:
Really? I recalled him being a joke in Battle but then again it's been almost a decade since I last played it. My memory on the last bits of the game is really hazy.
Plus you can just make a new mech for him specifically for multiplayer!
Even pointer controls?! Wiimote/Move >>>>> Dual Analogs for FPSes!I wish motion controls would go somewhere.
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