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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread: Green Hills and Laughing Iizukas
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Professor Beef
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I like what I've played of AssCreed3. But I'm going to send myself to an early grave completing some of these optional challenges. If I never see another Grenadier, it'll be too soon.
Seven Force
Banned
I really don't get what people see in SA2's soundtrack. City Escape aside, the only themes I like are Knuckles and Rouge's stage themes. (The latter moreso than the former)
I've always thought that there was a lot wider variety of musical styles at play in SA1, and I find a lot of the melodies in SA1 tracks to be a lot catchier. To each their own, though!
I've always thought that there was a lot wider variety of musical styles at play in SA1, and I find a lot of the melodies in SA1 tracks to be a lot catchier. To each their own, though!
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Sonic Adventure has the better character themes but Sonic Adventure 2 has the Knuckles raps so it's a tie.
This list is objectively correct. People are free to disagree with it, but they must do so knowing that they are factually wrong.
This list is objectively correct. People are free to disagree with it, but they must do so knowing that they are factually wrong.
I can remember most of SA2's soundtrack while I can't remember a single one of SA1's that isn't Open Your Heart. Hell, I remember more Heroes songs than SA1's. Thus SA2's and Heroes' soundtracks are better.
(I'm glad that my replaying SA2 triggered this discussion.)
Also, played Sonic CD today. Got the "bad ending? or something. I don't think I know how to play that game other than it being relatively easy.
(I'm glad that my replaying SA2 triggered this discussion.)
Also, played Sonic CD today. Got the "bad ending? or something. I don't think I know how to play that game other than it being relatively easy.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You guys. Style Savvy: Trendsetters is surprisingly good.
I want to see if the ending is worth my boredom.
You can find maps of each Act here at Zone:0 (click the banners to be taken to a stage).
This. I don't want to do any more optional stuff (outside of recruitment to my castle or my Brotherhood, I guess). I don't want to even go for the 100% synch anymore.
I want to see if the ending is worth my boredom.
Cheese can be good, though.
To get the good ending either you have to find all of the Time Stones or you go back to the past and destroy the generators and get a Good Future in each act. You have to do it as you play the game, though. It won't work in Time Attack.
You can find maps of each Act here at Zone:0 (click the banners to be taken to a stage).
Hot Coldman
Banned
I'm surprised anyone replied to that comment. I had drank barely anything but apparently it was enough to make me make a post that badly spelt. :lol
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I suspected but I didn't want to say anything.
I promise I won't get sauced today. My parents have some wine and some liqueur sitting around for today but knowing them we'll probably have to finish the bottle of wine. Which means I might have to drink more than I feel like.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Well, I'm off round to a friend's house, where the aim is absolutely to get rat-arsed, so I can't say I have the same ambitions. :lol
In preparation for this, I have to go do a bunch of shit, but I just want to play XCOM all day.
In preparation for this, I have to go do a bunch of shit, but I just want to play XCOM all day.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
What're plannin' on drinkin'? Play XCOM while drinking! that oughta be fun and strategic.
Man, I wish I had vodka (prolly a Smirnoff; I'm in the mood) or rum to drink tonight instead of that silly white wine they bought. I don't like white wine at all.
Man, I wish I had vodka (prolly a Smirnoff; I'm in the mood) or rum to drink tonight instead of that silly white wine they bought. I don't like white wine at all.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I'm probably drinking vodka, funnily enough. We should have a fair bit of it, so why not. I can usually handle vodka surprisingly well, so I might as well- beats drinking beer all night and watching everyone else get drunk around me.
I suppose it's not the ideal drink if you're having a night in with the parents, though.
We should have a fair bit of it, so why not. I can usually handle vodka surprisingly well, so I might as well- beats drinking beer all night and watching everyone else get drunk around me.I suppose it's not the ideal drink if you're having a night in with the parents, though.
Professor Beef
Banned
I'm in far too deep to stop going for 100% mission completion. If you haven't prayed for me in my foolish attempt to 100% SA1, then do it now.
Wild Canyon is full of quotables.
Time to reacquaint yourself and give each and every one of these a full listen to.
Sonic Adventure - E101 Beta mk II
Sonic Adventure - Twinkle Park (Twinkle Cart)
Sonic Adventure - Tikal
Sonic Adventure - Station Square
Sonic Adventure - Speed Highway (At Dawn)
Sonic Adventure - Lost World (Tricky Maze)
Sonic Adventure - Sky Deck
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Happy new year from the future, SonicGAF! 2013 feels pretty good so far, physics are certainly better than 06.
Nocturnowl
Member
Really good? lets not go nuts, the fact that the first stage is considered by far away the best kind of says it all for SA2.
If I was having trouble deciding then it was Colours challenge mode that tipped the scales, it's a fun 2-3 hours.
Hotline Miami does have a soundtrack I might send to the honourable mentions without even playing it but due to the whole licensed part of half the soundtrack i'm thinking I wouldn't bring it out of the HM spot anyway because those are the random rules i've inflicted upon myself.
It's odd, while I acknowledge the superiority of SA1's diverse soundtrack I just like SA2's more, I blame metal harbour.
Well Syn Sophia did make some incredible wrasslin' games back in their AKI days, I imagine that they may well have such power to make such a concept work better than i'd imagine it to.
Still one more day to put this shoddy year behind me, 2013 is the year of redemption, it will be my Sonic Colours style revival, mark my words!
Christopher
Member
Sonic Adventure 1's soundtrack is genesis tier godlike - what an amazing soundtrack top to bottom and I LOVE my cheesy songs.
Sonic Adventure 2 also had a great soundtrack some off the top of my head:
Sonic Adventure 2 also had a great soundtrack some off the top of my head:
- City Escape
- Mission Street
- Final Chase
- Final Rush
- Route 101
- Metal Harbor
- Eternal Engine
- Hidden Base
GIVE UP THE EMERALD OR DIE I DONT LOVE YOU
Best boss theme of the entire game, hands down. E102's campaign was amazinggggg.
Sonic R controls so weird. I can't make a turn very well if I'm running so fast.
What did you think of Generations' remake of that level? Curious.
I don't know what you're talking about. 06's physics are so flawless thatwoahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *falls through floor*
Meccanical
Member
Probably the only time a Sonic game had anything resembling a good story.
Such a bittersweet tale.
A video game stream I regularly watch started a Sonic 2006 race yesterday, it was pretty damn funny watch 4 people run up against IT'S NO USE and losing all their lives one after the other.
Real talk: Gamma is the best Sonic character.
Nocturnowl
Member
Classic: Classic Sonic's take on City Escape is a treat, it takes the concept of the killer truck and runs with it creating an ever present threat that will barrel through from the background itself to try and take you out, escaping from its wrath in these sections in particular is much more tense as you desperately try to scramble up the scaffold as it's gradually taken out from beneath you.
Throw in the skateboard powerup that reminds me of the few odder powerups seen in some of the Game Gear entries and the dare I say catchier take on the fan favourite stage theme and you have a very good level.
Modern: Now for the opposite, Modern Sonic's take is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin, it's a modern City Escape, you start off boarding down the streets, now with a few more pathways to take but really there's nothing much to this. Upon getting back on foot you're presented with the level designers day off, the 3D sections consist of bland and empty park areas that don't even try to present much interesting level design, it's far more concerned with having a few areas from the original stage now in HD, look here's the wall you run down! here's the area you land in after the boarding section but revamped a bit! the big staircase to the truck section! oh and speaking of which there's the final homage to the truck itself, now functioning a bit more like the various laser blasting chaser bots from Unleashed and Colours but for much longer than it really needs to, while the first time the truck suddenly sprouts rockets and blazes after you across the side of a building is an unexpected treat it's also unfortunately a true hold boost to win moment that's entirely sizzle and no steak.
Which is a good way to describe the stage, it's mostly flash with little substance and aside from perhaps the intentionally simple Green Hill Zone stage it's what i'd consider the weakest modern stage by a fair distance.
I'd say the original SA2 stage is actually a bit more fun since it doesn't feel as bloated with the more automated sections, even the brief 2D platforming section of modern city escape manages to feel more fiddly than the rest of Generations.
Shadow Hog
Member
Truefax: I fell through the floor for the first time in SA2 yesterday. Was Eggman in Lost Colony; at the top of a very large vertical shaft where you ride a platform that automatically takes you up, I got onto the platform and went to the left to investigate an animal I saw (not like I've got any chao, yet, to give it to, but still). Next thing I know, I'm caught on the railing on the edge of the platform. And then I'm suddenly halfway into the floor, and can't jump out. And then I'm suddenly falling very, very far down.
Fortunately, I was able to land on the platform that brings you up that shaft (it had apparently reset its position) and just rode it up again, taking the unwanted opportunity to clean up whatever targets I'd missed on the first go around. Still got an A.
Incredible song, probably my favorite in the game.
I must be the only person who absolutely doesn't like this.
Otherwise, pretty good soundtrack. I think SA1 and SA2 are on par for me, music-wise anyway. Overall I think SA2 is a better game.
The Xtortionist
Member
I'd add Final Egg 2 to that list as well. That song almost invalidates SA2's soundtrack by itself, for me. Oh, and Hot Shelter 2 helps me get my groove on.
I may or may not be streaming Sonic Adventure 1 today. Depends on how I feel like in the next 5 minutes.
I'm either desensitized by it at this point or just plain out don't care for it. The VA itself wasn't that bad either, outside of one or two casting decisions that... I don't particularly care for. But I would have gone nuts had there been even one more "tee hee Nisa is flat" joke, which is pretty much EVERYTHING they do with her. If I liked that kinda humor in video games, I'd have to re-evalutate my opinion of every moe pandering shitty anime released in the past 5 years.
I got that, but I'm unsure on.. how to time travel, or something? There were times when I went fast for long stretches and never got the warping to work, other times where I just went a short distance and it worked... And that's of course without counting the really confusing color arrangements at times. I only time traveled 3 times and they were all by accident.
I'll reacquaint myself when I replay SA1, thank you very much!
I'm either desensitized by it at this point or just plain out don't care for it. The VA itself wasn't that bad either, outside of one or two casting decisions that... I don't particularly care for. But I would have gone nuts had there been even one more "tee hee Nisa is flat" joke, which is pretty much EVERYTHING they do with her. If I liked that kinda humor in video games, I'd have to re-evalutate my opinion of every moe pandering shitty anime released in the past 5 years.
I got that, but I'm unsure on.. how to time travel, or something? There were times when I went fast for long stretches and never got the warping to work, other times where I just went a short distance and it worked... And that's of course without counting the really confusing color arrangements at times. I only time traveled 3 times and they were all by accident.
I'll reacquaint myself when I replay SA1, thank you very much!
Shadow Hog
Member
It's not that hard to grasp. Just keep in mind the basics:
- You need to have passed a "Past" or "Future" sign, depending on which direction you want to go.
- You need to find an area that allows you to move at top speed for a good three-to-five seconds (I forget the exact timeframe). If you keep top speed for that long, you will time travel.
- If you slow down when the "Past" or "Future" sign near your life bar is flashing, the warp will be cancelled and the sign permanently lost (since the signs don't unflip). You can slow down any time it isn't flashing, however, without losing it.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Or you could look at the Zone:0 maps and see the best places to do the Time Warp again if you aren't too familiar with the levels.
are there robots in your world
what's the food and booze like
I don't know. Like, here's part of my list for the top spot:
-Dustforce (and I already gave away that I'm ranking this)
-Tales of Xillia 2
-Time Travelers
-Nayuta no Kiseki
-Darksiders II
-Gravity Rush
-Final Fantasy XIII-2
-Ragnarok Odyssey
-Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4
Relegated to Honourable Mentions:
-Beyond the Labyrinth
-Rhythm Thief & The Emperor’s Treasure
-Hotline Miami
-Dikembe Mutombo's 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World
I've knocked off:
-Genso Suikoden: The Woven Web of a Century
-Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
-Journey
-Persona 4: The Golden
-Persona 4 Arena
-Sound Shapes
-Assassin's Creed III
-Adventure Time: Hey Ice King; Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?
-Double Dragon Neon
-The Last Story
-Kid Icarus: Uprising
-Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Happy new year, Future Person.
are there robots in your world
what's the food and booze like
I think I'm going to do that. It really doesn't help that I haven't played Hotline Miami either, so I can't exactly talk about the soundtrack in the context of the game at all. And throw the whole licensed bit in there and you've got me struggling.
I don't know. Like, here's part of my list for the top spot:
-Dustforce (and I already gave away that I'm ranking this)
-Tales of Xillia 2
-Time Travelers
-Nayuta no Kiseki
-Darksiders II
-Gravity Rush
-Final Fantasy XIII-2
-Ragnarok Odyssey
-Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4
Relegated to Honourable Mentions:
-Beyond the Labyrinth
-Rhythm Thief & The Emperor’s Treasure
-Hotline Miami
-Dikembe Mutombo's 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World
I've knocked off:
-Genso Suikoden: The Woven Web of a Century
-Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
-Journey
-Persona 4: The Golden
-Persona 4 Arena
-Sound Shapes
-Assassin's Creed III
-Adventure Time: Hey Ice King; Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?
-Double Dragon Neon
-The Last Story
-Kid Icarus: Uprising
-Paper Mario: Sticker Star
This game has no wrasslin', and the dialogue isn't as cool as wrasslin'.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Food and drink are substandard but robots are plentiful and varied.
have they revived dinosaurs yet?
Box of Bunnies
Banned
The Dinosaur Revival Department was besieged by zombies so progress on that front has stalled. It was an isolated incident that has since been resolved, thankfully, but work was understandably delayed.
good because i want a pet dinosaur
Christopher
Member
I think sonic adventure one could use some tightening on its controls the story scenes Completely redone sonic adventure 2 style and a remaster of the soundtrack it's IMO one of the best sonic games ever
RobbieNick
Junior Member
You put Colors and Unleashed BELOW '06? Are you insane?
Meccanical
Member
Anth0ny is insane yes.
It's been known for a while that he loathes anything not resembling the Adventure style and pretends that he played Colors because apparently all you do in that game is HOLD FORWARD AND BOOST TO WIN
tiggerkiddo
Member
So I'm hearing a lot of whining about the recent arc in Archie Sonic...what's the problem?
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
happy new year from the EST time zone, everyone!
I'm not drunk. I'm kinda buzzed. Sooooo, success! (I still have to help empty this bottle. -_-)
I'm not drunk. I'm kinda buzzed. Sooooo, success! (I still have to help empty this bottle. -_-)
Seven Force
Banned
Happy new years, all!
Made a decision not to drink tonight. Not really feeling up for it.
Made a decision not to drink tonight. Not really feeling up for it.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
This wine is 9.5% and I drank it too fast.
It's easier when i drink rum or vodka cuz at least that stuff tastes okay. I'm backspacing a lot in this post so it doesn't bode well.
It's easier when i drink rum or vodka cuz at least that stuff tastes okay. I'm backspacing a lot in this post so it doesn't bode well.
Shadow Hog
Member
I like milk.
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