Professor Beef
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I miss my Gamecube controller.
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Sonic the Hedgehog Community Thread |OT3 & Knuckles|
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me too. That is the best controller. It was a huge improvement over the N64, which to me seemed to be for 3 armed aliens or something...as in aliens with 3 arms.
Nintendo announced a Smash-branded Gamecube controller and adapter awhile back.
They know what's up.
Yep, for tournament play at least, where wireless controllers are a nuisance and most competitive players are already used to playing Melee all the time.
Professor Beef
Banned
I thought Seattle was cold? The sun is out and shining bright right now. The Bay Area is colder than this. :|
On topic, Amy sucks.
On topic, Amy sucks.
Amy did suck in Adventure 1
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Oh yeah, if you guys didn't know, the Sonic Amateur Games Expo has been going on. I wrote a bunch of stuff for it.
Day 2: Havok Harbor, Sonic Adventure Emerald, Sonic Mega Drive, Spark the Electric Jester
Day 4: Blue Spheres Madness, Sonic MAX, Sonic vs. Darkness, Tails' Nightmare 3, Sonic the Hedgehog 3D
Day 6: SonicGDK, Sonic World, Sonic Black Ace, Sonic Game Land
Quite a lot of stand-out games, I feel. Havok Harbor, Sonic Mega Drive, Sonic vs. Darkness and Sonic World are all particularly interesting for various reasons. Another writer, Louis Balzani, also handled the other days:
Day 1: Sonic Edge of Darkness, Sonic Souls, Sonic 4 Remastered, Sonic Overture
Day 3: Bingo the Multiva, Sonic Dynamo, Sonic: Blue Blur, Sonic Quickstep Challenge
Day 5: Sonic Generations Fangame, Sonic World Remix, Sonic Time Twisted, Sonic Speed Fighters, Sega Brawlers Megamix, Digimon Heroic Battle Spirit
Day 2: Havok Harbor, Sonic Adventure Emerald, Sonic Mega Drive, Spark the Electric Jester
Day 4: Blue Spheres Madness, Sonic MAX, Sonic vs. Darkness, Tails' Nightmare 3, Sonic the Hedgehog 3D
Day 6: SonicGDK, Sonic World, Sonic Black Ace, Sonic Game Land
Quite a lot of stand-out games, I feel. Havok Harbor, Sonic Mega Drive, Sonic vs. Darkness and Sonic World are all particularly interesting for various reasons. Another writer, Louis Balzani, also handled the other days:
Day 1: Sonic Edge of Darkness, Sonic Souls, Sonic 4 Remastered, Sonic Overture
Day 3: Bingo the Multiva, Sonic Dynamo, Sonic: Blue Blur, Sonic Quickstep Challenge
Day 5: Sonic Generations Fangame, Sonic World Remix, Sonic Time Twisted, Sonic Speed Fighters, Sega Brawlers Megamix, Digimon Heroic Battle Spirit
You don't understand how hype I would be if there were multiple reasons to have kept my GCN controllers for this long.
I got 4. In decent condition.
Yes i have some as well....uh it makes me remember playing Paper Mario Thousand Year door and Mario Kart Double Dash.
lol anyway. I am kind of on a racing game buzz. Sonic Riders is still kind of fun, though it could do without reusing the enviroments twice, but slightly different. Sonic Transformed...ehhh the more i play it, the more i begin to dislike it, espically compared to Mario Kart 8.
oh just arcade style racing games and cartoony racers X3. I hate simulator racers.
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Also while we're on the subject of racing games and reviews of mine, I produced a video review for Mario Kart 8 and it took me FOREVER to finish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fp-tM1-Dj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fp-tM1-Dj8
Amazing review. Especially the use of animation.
Yeah, I love MK8, but it seems that it was made in a vacuum were not even past Mario Kart games (like MKDS, which is the high point thus far for the series) existed, and didn't even bother to try to live up to those games. Outside of graphics, Sonic Transformed still has it beat in almost everything I can think of.
Yeah, I love MK8, but it seems that it was made in a vacuum were not even past Mario Kart games (like MKDS, which is the high point thus far for the series) existed, and didn't even bother to try to live up to those games. Outside of graphics, Sonic Transformed still has it beat in almost everything I can think of.
I completely disagree with anyone saying that Sonic Transformed is better than Mario Kar 8. the only thing Sonic Transformed has Mario Kart 8 beat is single player. Everything else though, it is a curb stomp in favor of Mario Kart 8. Better tracks,superior multiplayer inspite the terrible battle modes which honestly i could careless about, a much better polished game. *Sonic Transformed online is a physics mess*, and smooth controls. Sonic Transformed would have been much better had it tried to just improve on the original, but instead it would rather try to "innovate" even though the boats and the planes controlled terribly.
PhantomOfTheKnight
Member
Thanks for reminding me how much they botched up Mario Kart 8's battle mode. God, that was such a dissapointment.
Nocturnowl
Member
Nice work, not much for me to dispute here, the single player offerings are still unusually slim pickings and I hadn't really picked up on how the time trial mode had stepped back from previous game.
Which is a shame as despite my issues with the item balance (mid pack mushroom madness, all race, every race!) it's the best playing entry in the series with the best track selection, it sort of is the best Mario Kart at its core but DS still feels more fully featured and complete.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Its the best lookin', best playing version of Mario Kart yet, with some of its best tracks...but good lord would it kill them to not rehash the same fuckin' GP/time trial modes for 20 years. Feature list so barebones they have to patch in basic online shit like W-L record(!) and saving prior kart customization(!!) instead of picking it individually every single time.
Professor Beef
Banned
but it has a new hat
I hate to go offtopic, but Genie is dead 
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-robin-williams-dies-20140811-story.html
Tizoc
Member
Speaking of kart racers, the Toy Story racing game on PSX was nice IMO.
Genie will forever live on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Op1TaXmCw
I hate to go offtopic, but Genie is deadhttp://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-robin-williams-dies-20140811-story.html
Genie will forever live on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Op1TaXmCw
I don't agree at all. The boats and planes controlled perfectly fine, and I don't see why Sonic's tracks would be inferior. And Transformed was an amazing improvement over the original; something Mario Kart hasn't really done for it's own series (outside of visuals) since the DS game.
the awful Burning Rangers track that is too narrow and where some crazy ass the ramp let's me pass when it felt like, that golden Axe track where you slam into the snake's head, the Billy Hatcher track, the original tracks where they doing don't even do anything with them unlike Mario Kart *though that might be a good thing for me*, and that Outrun track.
Professor Beef
Banned
Feels good to be home finally. Still can't believe Seattle was hotter than the Bay Area, wtf
Azure Dream
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD_PWU6K514
Unfortunate time for that shirt to show up. (Not the person talking, but still.)
From this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=873311
Unfortunate time for that shirt to show up. (Not the person talking, but still.)
From this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=873311
Seven Force
Banned
Holy shit, gaming side's in rare form today. Gotta love Gamescom megatons.
I went to Seattle in the fall of last year dressed for 50-60 degree weather. Man, did I ever fuck up there :lol.
I went to Seattle in the fall of last year dressed for 50-60 degree weather. Man, did I ever fuck up there :lol.
Tizoc
Member
I've avoid the Rise of the Tomb Raider thread for the sake of my sanity, but even I know that game won't be exclusive for long.
Uh.....I don't understand any of those complaints; unless you mean it's easy to fly off the track and need to be placed back in the race by the game, in which case that's something that happens just as much in Mario Kart as it does in Sonic. Just as how a wrongly placed drift will send your car flying off the edge in MK8, not slowing down fast enough on a turn will send your car do likewise in Sonic.
I think the returning track selection from All Stars was lame though; there were some great tracks in the original, and they picked some of the least good ones to return in Transformed.
Seven Force
Banned
I will never get the hate for Burning Depths aside from the boat sections (since the boat controls are kid of terrible). There's so many drift boost opportunities in the stage, it's ridiculous.
Rapscallion
Member
Going to play the Metal Gear franchise for the first time this week. Bought the legacy collection. Hadn't tried them before because I stray away from stealth based games.
Did I make a huge mistake, and will now be falling down a rabbit hole of ridiculousness?
Did I make a huge mistake, and will now be falling down a rabbit hole of ridiculousness?
Professor Beef
Banned
The plot is no more ridiculous than Sonic 06. You'll be fine.
don't think too hard about the plot
enjoy MGS 1-3 for what they are, three of the greatest games ever made.
especially 3. god damn what a game.
If you can put up with old-ass 8-bit game design, it's well worth hitting up Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 first before diving into the Solids.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Man Sonic Boom really looks to be the Noctunowl of this franchise
Even making small appearances in that Wii U 7 minute trailer made it look old and busted
I blame...Schala
Even making small appearances in that Wii U 7 minute trailer made it look old and busted
I blame...Schala
Nocturnowl
Member
Just the sort of blame game I'd expect from a gosh darn jungle badger.
But seeing its sorry state I'm almost ashamed at myself for giving Boom the benefit of the "lets see how this plays out" card for its initial reveal, I should've just embraced the jump to conclusions angle for once and dumped on it from the word go.
I had to go replay it and remind myself why I was never really keen on this one, actually I think for the most part its simply that the 30fps console peasantry seems to hit harder in this stage more than any other, most of the track is fine with a few sharp turns near requiring memorization to deal with which I can let slide seeing as its the second to last track and I'm rusty as hell. There are a number of irritating collision based issues within Transformed and I do recall that one ramp deciding to just stall me to a full stop once myself.
I guess it also doesn't help coming after the GOAT that is Adder's Lair.
But seeing its sorry state I'm almost ashamed at myself for giving Boom the benefit of the "lets see how this plays out" card for its initial reveal, I should've just embraced the jump to conclusions angle for once and dumped on it from the word go.
I had to go replay it and remind myself why I was never really keen on this one, actually I think for the most part its simply that the 30fps console peasantry seems to hit harder in this stage more than any other, most of the track is fine with a few sharp turns near requiring memorization to deal with which I can let slide seeing as its the second to last track and I'm rusty as hell. There are a number of irritating collision based issues within Transformed and I do recall that one ramp deciding to just stall me to a full stop once myself.
I guess it also doesn't help coming after the GOAT that is Adder's Lair.
Professor Beef
Banned
You should've known that giving Sonic Boom the slow burn treatment would lead to ruin, Owl.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Owl's logic was straight up phooey, make me talk like Banjo Kazooie
Shadow Hog
Member
Come now man, don't be absurd,
That's just not the bear or bird.
Who you're aping's plain to see;
none other than ol' Grunty.
That's just not the bear or bird.
Who you're aping's plain to see;
none other than ol' Grunty.
so anyway, because is am clearing out some Backloggery stuff. I am replaying Darkstalkers Ressurection. these games are actually relatively easy to get into for mid 90s fighting games. reminds me why i like Darkstalkers over Street Fighter.
Anyway, Jon Talbain should have been in Marvel 3. He is cooler than Hsien-ko in anyway. oh and B.B. Hood was the best Darkstalker In Marvel 2.
That Rioku guy i don't like though, he seems too bulky and he is dumb looking.
Anyway, Jon Talbain should have been in Marvel 3. He is cooler than Hsien-ko in anyway. oh and B.B. Hood was the best Darkstalker In Marvel 2.
That Rioku guy i don't like though, he seems too bulky and he is dumb looking.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I enjoyed Sonic getting damaged by wonky controls in a 20 second bit for a montage trailer. Even the trailer dudes couldn't play the game well
Nocturnowl
Member
I really should've, the slow burn never pans out, years of shitty wrasslin' booking supports this.
Getting some deja vu here, though for whatever reason I'm incapable of finding the original Grunty posts from one of the older threads.
My fruitless search has at least has been nostalgic, boy we were all a lot happier back in those days.
I respect the hell out of Darkstaker's visual direction even if I can't play it for toffee.
lol my stragedy in fighting games is mash buttons and hope i can achieve in doing the hyper combos. Honestly, Marvel vs.Capcom and Super Smash Bros are my favorite fighting games series just cause i can easily do hyper combos and lack of complicated move sets. Many fighting games have that problem of making it too complicated in doing cool moves. That is probably why i perfer the 3ds verison of Street Fighter 4 over the console verison.
this is a favorite of mine as well just because of how cute it is and it is fun for me.. I wonder who that Witch Darkstalker is supposed to be though.