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[Sciz]

My cousins on one side of the family had a Genesis and an NES and an SNES, so our visits largely boiled down to plugging in SMW, Kirby's Adventure, or S3&K, all of which blew my mind. An eight hour drive doesn't make for a whole lot of visits though, so it wasn't until a few years later when an older cousin on the other side of the family gave me his Genesis with Sonic 1, 2, and Spinball that I got to put any real time into the series. Lots of fond memories of playing Sonic 2's MP mode with my sisters, and of being the first of us to get past that wretched Labyrinth boss. Picked up what was by then a "Mega Hit Series" edition of Sonic 3 in stores a while later, and bought S&K from some online dealer shortly thereafter.

That was the end point of my home console ownership until the Wii though, so in the years that followed I was all over Sonic R, CD, SA1, and Heroes for having PC editions. Installing Heroes on a PC with an actual GPU after playing it on an old-ass off the shelf system for a while was another mind blowing moment as I encountered shaders for the first time where there hadn't been any before.

So it's not that I ever really stopped playing the series, just that its availability to me has always been patchy, which had the upside of letting me dodge most of last decade's sketchier titles.

Read Sonic #260. Really good issue with a decent amount of world building. I love the designs of the new characters; they fit more with Sonic than most of the characters in the comic do.

In a weird inversion of recent trends, subscribers got this one up to a week early and the digital edition is late. *grumble grumble*

 

[PhantomOfTheKnight]

In a weird inversion of recent trends, subscribers got this one up to a week early and the digital edition is late. *grumble grumble*

I didn't know it was delayed until I noticed that it wasn't added to my library, so I just went to the Toys R' Us across the street from where I work and read it there. There used to be a Barnes and Noble in the opposite direction but it closed down.

 

[Shadow Hog]

(There are IRCs we use, yes. There is a SonicGAF room, technically, but... it's not exactly ours any more :V)

What do you mean by that? Outside of DBean and, like, one other person who learned of the chatroom through me instead of GAF proper (I have no idea what name she wants to be called by in this case), everyone there's from SonicGAF. It's just fairly empty most of the time!

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Thank god even mediocre Sonic games always had good music.

for fuck's sake, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE

 

[Shadow Hog]

for fuck's sake, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE

Pre-empting Beef swooping in with the obvious choice with this one instead

 

[AniHawk]

for fuck's sake, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In25KcrOvdM

 

[Sixfortyfive]

for fuck's sake, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE JUST DONE

Of course. :V

 

[Professor Beef]

Y'all lucky I'm at work :V

 

[Hot Coldman]

What do you mean by that? Outside of DBean and, like, one other person who learned of the chatroom through me instead of GAF proper (I have no idea what name she wants to be called by in this case), everyone there's from SonicGAF. It's just fairly empty most of the time!

Eh, nosh said he wanted to rename it. I guess it's still technically a chatroom used primarily by SonicGAF. (And he's still technically SonicGAF whether he likes it or not.)

 

[Lightning Lord]

What do you mean by that? Outside of DBean and, like, one other person who learned of the chatroom through me instead of GAF proper (I have no idea what name she wants to be called by in this case), everyone there's from SonicGAF. It's just fairly empty most of the time!

Eh, nosh said he wanted to rename it. I guess it's still technically a chatroom used primarily by SonicGAF. (And he's still technically SonicGAF whether he likes it or not.)

First I've heard about qq more wanting to rename the chatroom, although it is technically his so he's free to do whatever he wants with it. The problem is, like ShadowHog pointed, is that it's empty more often than not but it does have random spikes in activity. I'm usually in there, although not so much lately but that's mostly due to work. I am generally in the chat when I'm off, though.

 

[PKrockin]

First I've heard of that too, and I hang around there all the time.

 

[Professor Beef]

SonicGAF until I die mofuckaaaaaa

 

[Dark Schala]

I was thinking of going into SonicGAF during E3 too. I haven't been in the chat for a very long time. Bean has told me that it's usually empty in there and no one talks as much as they used to last year when most of us were in there. I haven't been in there much due to various factors including school (and I busted my butt at school for good reason). He did say, however, that there were points where there's increased activity but apparently for the most part lately it's been quiet.

Last I spoke to qq was a few days ago when he'd requested to relinquish the Retron 5 thread, and he was in good spirits then. I'd said he was welcome to come back to the thread if he feels like returning to post on GAF one day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In25KcrOvdM

This is the kind of Nocturne that Beef should've been posting in the first place.

 

[BlackJace]

Yeah qq needs to come on back.

First sonic experience was Adventure 1, I believe.
I know the opening movie like the back of my hand. Will never forget it.

 

[Professor Beef]

I've just been too lazy to sign onto IRC. :V

 

[TheOGB]

I keep forgetting IRC is a thing, but I'm too scatterbrained to be that active in one anyway.

 

[PhantomOfTheKnight]

I have an IRC app right on my phone's homescreen, I just don't ever use it.

 

[Hot Coldman]

IRC is almost as dead as Marvel

Spoiler

not sure who these Marvel jokes are for exactly

 

[Dark Schala]

Beef because he's busy practicing for EVO.

 

[Professor Beef]

Don't make me post a Caterpie in here, Schala! >:|

 

[Dark Schala]

Let's predict how successful Beef'll be at Mahvel

 

[Hot Coldman]

Let's predict how successful Beef'll be at Mahvel

 

[Village]

He will win all the matches.

You gotta believe.

 

[Falk]

IRC is literally me/sega1991/qq half the time.

I rant to myself a lot in there.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Anyone here wanna play the "The Hedgehog" game? The rules are simple. Google your first name, followed by "The Hedgehog." You will find multiple pieces of very edgy fanart. Ready? GO!!!

 

[PhantomOfTheKnight]

Anyone here wanna play the "The Hedgehog" game? The rules are simple. Google your first name, followed by "The Hedgehog." You will find multiple pieces of very edgy fanart. Ready? GO!!!

I thought we already did that in IRC.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

yeah but nobody goes in IRC

 

[Dark Schala]

Nah, man. This thread is there for a reason.

Beef ain't no scrub.

I don't think.

I've never seen him play a fighting game.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Beef ain't no scrub.

I don't think.

I've never seen him play a fighting game.

Prepare to be amazed

 

[Tizoc]

IRC is almost as dead as Marvel

Spoiler

not sure who these Marvel jokes are for exactly

Nah Mahvel'll still be played for another oh 6-7 years before the next Mahvel comes out.

Let's predict how successful Beef'll be at Mahvel

He'll get Perfect KOed in his first match in EVO 2014 =V
He will then blame it on the Chao.

 

[Dark Schala]

You have until 11:59 PM PDT on May 17th (ie: Saturday going into Sunday) to get your speedruns in.

Prepare to be amazed

That video description, lol.

"This scrub RAGEQUIT!"

 

[Professor Beef]

Well he did!

 

[PhantomOfTheKnight]

Yo assholes go c Godzilla its actually gud n the humns dont suck n it i swur.

 

[Tizoc]

Yo assholes go c Godzilla its actually gud n the humns dont suck n it i swur.

I don't trust your spelling enough to believe you but I am def. gonna watch it come Monday or Tuesday.

 

[Tizoc]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

 

[Village]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

The game or the crew?

The game I thought was ok.

The crew I think should have a separate cart from knuckles in the next sanic transformed with a bunch of em in it.

Friggen scooby doo van.

 

[Tizoc]

The game or the crew?

The game I thought was ok.

The crew I think should have a separate cart from knuckles in the next sanic transformed with a bunch of em in it.

Friggen scooby doo van.

I meant the game and gameplay overall. It had some sweet graphics IMO but the gameplay hasn't managed to impress me.

 

[BlackJace]

Prepare to be amazed

Can't believe dissidia is one one of my favorite games ever. It's so damn good.

 

[Sciz]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

Lots of great content and ideas let down by uniformly terrible level design.

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Lots of great content and ideas let down by uniformly terrible level design.

Also the rubber band concept is a bad idea because invariably it means P2 is going to screw up a jump, or something. The only logical way to play that game is to just carry P2 everywhere, which makes the game a complete walk in the park because you are essentially invincible.

 

[Azure Dream]

Back a page, but I wanted to add:

The differences in the backgrounds of the S3&K stages between Sonic and Knuckles' scenarios, indicating that Knuckles' scenario occurs after Sonic's. (Death Egg's absence in Lava Reef, the fact that the island is floating in Knuckles' scenario, etc.)

Also, that island in the background of the final boss fight is slowly drifting downward, and it takes just a little under 10 minutes to disappear off the bottom of the screen. (And at 10 minutes you Time Over like normal.)

 

[Sciz]

Also the rubber band concept is a bad idea because invariably it means P2 is going to screw up a jump, or something. The only logical way to play that game is to just carry P2 everywhere, which makes the game a complete walk in the park because you are essentially invincible.

Not like there are a lot of badniks around to begin with.

The execution of the rubber band certainly could've been better, but I hate to write it off entirely. Every once in a while it does click, and for a brief moment the designer's vision comes to life and you go screaming up a wall or soaring through the air.

And then there's all the times P2 gets caught under a ledge, yeah. Order of Ecclesia's Magnes glyph is probably the better way to go about that sort of gameplay.

 

[Anth0ny]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

it's fucking bad

great soundtrack though

and vector is vector

 

[ViewtifulJC]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

kinda unfortunately awful, despite its great visuals and godlike soundtrack

 

[SpikedGunner]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

Pretty much what Sciz and Sega1991 have said...boy that final boss was pretty easy.

I'll replay it once in a while, but yea, the gameplay and level designs were pretty weak. Everything outside of that I enjoyed though.

 

[Hot Coldman]

I never understand what the canon explanation was for the connected rings.

 

[Shadow Hog]

I never understand what the canon explanation was for the connected rings.

Beyond "we have an idea for a mechanic to mix up the gameplay, since we kinda exhausted all our best stuff for Sonic 3&K, but we don't want to directly sully the Sonic franchise's name if it doesn't pan out, so let's arbitrarily give it to Knuckles"... I honestly don't remember. Maybe it has something to do with how all the enemies drop gray rings when defeated instead of -cky animals?

I know the Japanese plot is really bizarre shit, while the US plot is "hey, here's this amusement park; Eggman's trying to undermine it because he's a big mean poopyhead; stop him; also Chaos Rings I guess I dunno".

 

[Psxphile]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

My overall opinion is that it needs an overall remake. Gameplay was classic Sonic, marred by the tethering mechanic and stages that were huge but had very little substance or thought put into them. Rework those and maybe we might have a game worthy of being included with the pre-SA library.

Basically, I'm wondering what Taxman will tackle next after the inevitable S3&K port is done. The Chaotix special stages in 60fps, man...

 

[SpikedGunner]

Beyond "we have an idea for a mechanic to mix up the gameplay, since we kinda exhausted all our best stuff for Sonic 3&K, but we don't want to directly sully the Sonic franchise's name if it doesn't pan out, so let's arbitrarily give it to Knuckles"... I honestly don't remember. Maybe it has something to do with how all the enemies drop gray rings when defeated instead of -cky animals?

I know the Japanese plot is really bizarre shit, while the US plot is "hey, here's this amusement park; Eggman's trying to undermine it because he's a big mean poopyhead; stop him; also Chaos Rings I guess I dunno".

IT'S KNUCKLES' DUTY AS THE PARK SECURITY GUARD TO STOP HIM!

I think the Japanese story (which is basically after the events of S3&K) doesn't detail the reasons for the rubberband rings...though it does mention the grey rings being a part of an experiment. The Western version was just, Knuckles could use the rings to free the others captured.

 

[Dark Schala]

What're you guys overall opinion on Knuckles Chaotix?

Weird, awful level design. The ring idea could've been a neat thing, but it did run into a lot of problems.

It looks and sounds amazing. When I was a little girl, I used to be incredibly fascinated with going to the local Woolco with my parents and just looking at the 32X and Knuckles Chaotix in the glass case cuz I wanted one really badly.