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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread: Green Hills and Laughing Iizukas
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Nocturnowl
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Don't lump me in with you contaminated husks, i'm as pure as the white snow and i'd add that there's been plenty of that today.
Meccanical
Member
I'm already aware of Beef's Nocturne ways... I keep linking Chimera to that stuff.
Thanks! I believe I've told Falk about this thread some times before IIRC, since you guys seemed pretty excited about his remixes. I've been actually using my entire summer break to get this thing finished, hopefully it won't be much longer(there's 1 month before I go back into exams, so I have plenty of motivationOh wow! Welcome, glad to have you here! I've been very impressed with the stuff you guys have been doing and I can't wait to see more.
Also, if you can, please tell Falk I love his stuff.
).Some times I just want to casually talk, but Retro seems to have dried out too many topics already and it doesn't seem like they can stand talking about the same stuff again. I think I prefer these kind of threads more.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Professor Beef
Banned
People keep asking for it, and who am I to say no to the people?
DICKS AHOY
Banned
I'd just like to say Dario that the Unleashed mod's you've given us a taste for so far have been excellent. Admittedly not terribly fond of the original game but playing it at 60fps and in a better game engine has made them worth playing through again.
Have you decided whether you'll go through with making night-time stages for classic Sonic? Or was that just a proof-of-concept thing in the last Dragon Road demo?
Have you decided whether you'll go through with making night-time stages for classic Sonic? Or was that just a proof-of-concept thing in the last Dragon Road demo?
It was just a proof of concept to fool around with. It was just beyond the scope of what I wanted to do, and reworking it into something playable(let alone enjoyable) would just take too much time that could be spent on better things.
Obviously everyone'll be able to do it on their own after we release our stuff. We just want to release this at a sensible time while it's still relevant. Even without doing the extra acts or DLC acts it's still taking us a long time to ensure the thing's polished and accurate enough.
The only thing I'm not happy about with the mod so far is the extra hardware requirements(due to Unleashed just pushing way more stuff into the screen at most times and Generations not handling it nicely), and some unstability here and there due to just how the game works. There's not much you can do about that, since the thing just crashes on its own even without any modifications at random times. Hopefully people won't mind much of that, but it's still going to be a few annoying reports to read through.
And for anyone wondering about the time taken well... no serious work actually started probably until the Dragon Road demo, so I'd say for 6-7 months of work just on our free time we're doing pretty alright.
tiggerkiddo
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Hello new person!
Shadow Hog
Member
Metroid Prime is still a friggin' awesome game you guys
Like, I knew this when I first played it in 2002, but replaying it through Trilogy, and oh my God it's still amazing even though I know everything that's coming
I really hope Nintendo and Retro do a Prime 4 for the Wii U, or at least a Prime-in-all-but-name game, because, well, wow has this held up well
Like, I knew this when I first played it in 2002, but replaying it through Trilogy, and oh my God it's still amazing even though I know everything that's coming
I really hope Nintendo and Retro do a Prime 4 for the Wii U, or at least a Prime-in-all-but-name game, because, well, wow has this held up well
Somehow I accurately guessed that we might have lurkers, like, what, a month ago? I'd actually assumed we didn't. Consider me pleasantly surprised.
Oh, yes, the plot's definitely the main attraction here. Frankly, I thought it was a compelling enough follow-up to the films to make the whole thing worth it, but that's me.
Hrmm, I actually vaguely know of Luckett - wasn't he the Waffle X guy? Never interacted with him, though. Sounds like I'm better off for it.
Sounds like me and the first time I didn't buy a Sonic game at launch. I think that was actually out of necessity at the time - I didn't have the funds for Heroes on day one - but then the impressions started coming out from hardcore fans, and they were not impressed, despite the hype having been blown through the roof. That led me to rent it instead, and, well, glad I did; saved me a considerable amount of money, because that game... wasn't good. I tried to tell myself "this has great ideas, but there are some things wrong with it"; hell, I think I even compiled them, ran them through Babelfish and e-mailed them to Sonic Team (they didn't reply, thankfully). But looking back on it, no. Just wasn't good.
Sanford Kong gets his revenge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWchCk2kIs
And unfortunately I couldn't find it immediately, so I ran into this >_>
This thread basically exists because every other Sonic thread on GAF consisted of some discussion of the actual topic on hand and then a bunch of us endlessly retreading the same general franchise discussions. We'll squeeze more pages out of anything.
This is... probably a good thing. A, it'll be miles better than the prior two Adventures, and B, the super minimalism of Generations didn't seem to suit him well.
Meccanical
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nuoh god
Yeah, I'm down, and it is much better than the alternative/what we've gotten before >_>
I'll try watching with my eyes closed
I also love that we don't have to deal with people shitting on Sonic fans (even though they're right that the majority of the fandom IS terrible) and creepy fanart.
Meccanical
Member
Get your warm fuzzy feeling out of here. It's contagious.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I think those Sonic Generations/Colors guys can be good if they're given space to write. They got a solid grasp on the characterization, self-aware with the history, have the ability to be actually funny. They just got to get out of the minimal, kid-oriented shit they've been stuck in.
Meccanical
Member
It helped that Gamma doesn't make silly faces.
Meccanical
Member
Speaking of silly.
Why did Sonic lie to himself.
Why did Sonic lie to himself.
Shadow Hog
Member
No, no, no. Speaking of silly, this Bounce Bracelet sound is perfect.
DICKS AHOY
Banned
Meccanical
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Meccanical
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The dialogue sounds natural and is occasionally funny now, so I'm glad they are here.
Classic Sonic almost doing a homing attack at the end was the kicker for me.
"Nooooo don't turn to the dark side Sonic, you still have time to fix this."
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Seriously, I'll just take the natural sounding dialog from native-English speakers at this point. I don't ask for much with Sonic.
Also, the current batch are of VAs have my favorite Sonic and Tails voices.
Also, the current batch are of VAs have my favorite Sonic and Tails voices.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
I'm just glad we don't have a lot of in-fighting in this thread.
I like to pointedly say in the FF threads that the Sonic and FF (and KH) fanbases are remarkably similar, but sheesh, if we fought as much as the people in the FF threads fought, I wouldn't like this thread as much.
If you feel like bringing whatever you want to talk about up, just do it. I know the thread runs cycles rather often, but eh, that's the point of a community thread... and maybe there's something new that people want to discuss in terms of the topic at hand.
Generations felt like it was supposed to have more and had so much potential, but then it was rushed towards the end. His writing was almost wasted on it outside of some of the wittier lines (ex: the "your future's going to be great" line which I'm sure was tongue-in-cheek).
I like to pointedly say in the FF threads that the Sonic and FF (and KH) fanbases are remarkably similar, but sheesh, if we fought as much as the people in the FF threads fought, I wouldn't like this thread as much.
Well, whenever Falk starts up anything new, I'll always be up to hear it. He's very creative. And blah, I'm so envious. I wish it could be summer all the time here.Thanks! I believe I've told Falk about this thread some times before IIRC, since you guys seemed pretty excited about his remixes. I've been actually using my entire summer break to get this thing finished, hopefully it won't be much longer(there's 1 month before I go back into exams, so I have plenty of motivation
Some times I just want to casually talk, but Retro seems to have dried out too many topics already and it doesn't seem like they can stand talking about the same stuff again. I think I prefer these kind of threads more.
If you feel like bringing whatever you want to talk about up, just do it. I know the thread runs cycles rather often, but eh, that's the point of a community thread... and maybe there's something new that people want to discuss in terms of the topic at hand.
Still, I'm impressed with the level of work you've all gotten done in that timeframe--compositions, porting levels in, analyzing what works and what probably won't, seeing if Generations will be stable with it, etc. The PC version of the game was incredibly beneficial, and fans could make all the DLC they want for it in terms of mods.
Really? Damn, you went above and beyond. Even I don't think I'd send something conveying my annoyance to SE or some other company explaining my dissatisfaction with the series, especially given that I doubt they'd give a shit considering how their PR events go.
I completely agree with that, actually, even if I don't like the Adventure-style games (and I say this while I love Unleashed, lol). Because the Adventure games emphasize the narrative, he has far more room for a better script. Though I don't know whether or not Sega / the game's director has the final say in the storyboard or what happens, even if it's completely absurd. Well, they likely do considering how Generations turned out.
Generations felt like it was supposed to have more and had so much potential, but then it was rushed towards the end. His writing was almost wasted on it outside of some of the wittier lines (ex: the "your future's going to be great" line which I'm sure was tongue-in-cheek).
That's really why I was supporting a community thread in the first place. I got tired of some of gaming side's shit.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Gotta give the kid some hope to cling to when he hits the dark days of Adventure-06.
tiggerkiddo
Member
The creepies are out there, ready to strike with their fan characters and awful fanfics rife with shipping...=/
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
is shadow more likeable yet
Because I stopped posting in there partially because of that reason.
Are you talking about the lightning returns thread?
Because I stopped posting in there partially because of that reason.
There's shipping discussions going on in that thread? Oh god...
I always hated shipping discussion, they're just so damn annoying, pointless and stupid.
EDIT: or am I reading this wrong? I hope I am
tiggerkiddo
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I was talking about how this thread would get one of the creepy Sonic fans, probably just to troll us.
That LR thread exists for our amusement.
That LR thread exists for our amusement.
Agreed. Griffith unfortunately got the boot right when he hit his stride, but then again WOOOOOAAAAAAUUGGHHH, HUUHYEAAAHHHHHHH, ELIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSEEE
my god, what a horrible string of quotes to use o_o
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Oh good, the modding community has made the character that just about single-handedly killed my interest in the franchise for almost a decade playable in a game that I like
BlazeHedgehog
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Really doubt they got patched. I mean, I only finished BTTF nine months ago, and even by those standards it was already almost a year old at that point. Telltale is a very fast moving company and does not often look back on fixing old releases. They won't even let other people do it, from what I've heard - they specifically request fans do not reverse-engineer their tech.
Well I also kind of worry about the name "BlazeHedgehog" around these parts because more than even Sega1991 I feel like it would make my opinions easy to type cast by those who don't know me. Sonic fans are not viewed well outside of this thread.
Correct!
Honestly I probably shouldn't paint too negative of a picture of him - he just had a bit of a chip on his shoulder and almost seemed to enjoy being angry at things. And when I was supposed to do something for him and didn't, well, he had plenty to enjoy being angry at.
I've heard he's mellowed out but I think it was just last year I heard he got banned from SomethingAwful for whining at Pokecapn in one of his Sonic LP threads.
Professor Beef
Banned
I always liked Shadow's aesthetic, but that whole brood brood brood "I'm a badass" shtick got old fast. He always moved really cool thanks to those rollerblades, and that's what I liked.
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Shadow the Hedgehog should've been a roller derby game.
Yeah, please let's not make it that. This is the one community I am actually OK with.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Unleashed had the best writing. That is all.
What's up with where his arms join to his body? Is Pacman supposed to be a robot or toy or something?
If you met your past self would you say "you are going to have a fucking terrible future"?
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