fast

>>37903 Love me some cutest bun!

>>37905 What's your opinion on the phrase "Gotta Go Fast?"

>>37906 I'm excited for Crossworlds, happy she made it to 3rd most popular! Maybe she'll start to appear more.

>>37907 >>37908 Would be nice.

That's it! I'm drawing this cutie!

>>37909 How do you feel about the game? I think the main sentiment is to pass on it, but I think it'll do well if it has a 40-50 dollar price point. I'd pay 40 for it. But if the Zero Gear control even like Zero Gravity, I'll be happy

>>37911 I don't play racing games like those. I'm good at them but I really don't enjoy them for some reason. I'd prefer a real Sonic game or maybe even one like Sonic R where the characters are on foot. But vehicle racing puts me off.

>>37912 That's fair. It's too bad they won't try something like Sonic R again on non-mobile titles, but you gotta make money ig.

Tails!

>>37914 Welcome Tailsbro, been a minute since I've seen you. How have you been?

>>37907 I used to hate it because it's American and it came from 4kids and it doesn't make sense or represent the series or Sonic's character well. But I don't care anymore. It's a catchy marketing phrase that does its job I guess, it's not as big of a deal as I thought >>37915 I'm doing okay but I feel confused sometimes idk I've always had a /fast/ window open on my computer since last month so I see if people post here

So is CrossWorld releasing near the end of the year? I thought it would release more like... well, now.

I post anonymously for the most part, I don't wanna break the rules, so I try vary the pictures I use now. I like this place, and wanna respect it. So maybe that's why you haven't seen me? idk lol. What's got you confused?

>>37917 Sega likes its holiday Sonic release schedule.

>>37917 Yeah idk, but I'm glad they're giving it breathing room. Let them cook up a better experience.

>>37918 Yeah, that makes sense. I think people are posting here less and less though. >>37919 >>37920 Don't they want it to compete with the new Mario Kart?

>>37921 I see that. But, As long as there is some activity, I guess I'll be here.

>>37921 I think they really meant with Mario Kart 8, but I'm not so sure. I'm thinking they think their gimmick will carry? Who knows for sure.

>>37924 >competing with Mario Kart 8 I don't think that's possible at all lol, that game is huge

>>37923 Same, but it kinda upsets me that others don't see it like that when I think about it

Posted it in the Fic thread but it's slow and dead so I'll post it here as well but after Captain Awf abandoned his fic, I salvaged all his old docs and started rewriting the story. I don't use Shitter or Shitscord so you won't catch me wasting my time getting into social media drama. I'll pop in every week or two to update. Have some human x mobian smut. https://archiveofourown.org/works/65052328/chapters/167276344

>>37930 Will read a lil later, drawin right now, thanks for tha share

>>37931 Cool cool. Drawing what?

>>37921 "Competing with Mario" is half of what doomed Superstars. The other half was the prices. $60 bones was too much.

>>37934 Cream! :D

>>37907 I thought the song was stupid and exaggerated, but ultimately it was easy to ignore. Then it blew up as a meme and it became even more meaningless. The whole thing feels rather retarded.

>>37935 Yeah but this is a different situation. The new Mario Kart seems controversial, and there's no guarantee that a new console can be successful

Why are Sonic "fans" so illiterate? I just had someone try to justify the way Lex Luther is written like an absolute dumbass by saying Krypto the Super Dog isn't "Kryptonian".

>>37939 Nintendo in general is getting shit for overpriced games and the "game key card" nonsense. Neither of which improve sonic's odds. And if we're gonna talk "controversal", Sega just stepped in the poo with picsreel. All the people complaining about the ShadGens censorship are not only validated but objectively correct.

Enjoy my shitty cream drawing!

>>37942 She's had too many Meh Burgers.

>>37942 Cute! Good job

>>37942 >Riders Cream Good choice

>>37943 I tried to make it more like she had cheeks that reflected that she was smiling, but I think leaving the mask/muzzle as law would be better next time. >>37944 Thank you! I'm still working on it, following Scott Robertsons How To Draw book to get better. >>37945 She's very cute in that one! I had to!

>>37936 Let us see later (if you want)

>>37942 >>37947 Oh, nevermind you already posted it, sorry

>>37948 No worries, thanks for checking it out!

>>37941 You're right. I feel the Rouge thing is a separate issue entirely though.

>>37949 Nice job, by the way

>>37951 Thank you, king

>>37942 Cute goober

>>37941 >Rouge is now flatter than Sonic Why has the censorship gotten so bad all of a sudden? We were getting great Rouge renders in Dream Team and Forces Speed Battle just a couple years ago and then with ShadGens they suddenly started censoring her to oblivion.

>Rumor has it that Sony is not going to do a May State of Play this year So how long will we have to wait for a Crossworlds update since the people who paid for the game's marketing rights aren't going to market it for the forseeable future?

>>37955 I'm starting to get the feeling people largely don't care about this game.

>>37942 cute Cream

I wonder if they would make shooting stages again for a new game now. They aren't afraid of using alternate characters anymore, and they gave TaIls the Cyclone in Frontiers. They could make Omega or even Eggman playable again.

>>37956 I just want something new to discuss to be honest. Did you fags play TSR? Did you like it?

there was soooo much sonic stuff at the convention today

>>37960 I listened to the soundtrack and that's what I enjoyed. I didn't care about it at all otherwise. I watched the story but don't remember almost anything

>>37961 Convention?

Does she have the moon across her chest too? Yes, I'm horny.

>>37963 yes like a fandom/nerd/otaku convention. there was a lot of sonic cosplayers and merch at the artist alley. i swear ive never seen so much sonic stuff at any convention before this

>>37965 Cool! Did you see anything nice in particular?

>>37966 lots and lots of merch like stickers and charms. i also saw a couple shadow gijinka cosplays and a few amy ones, one cream and one silver. somehow nobody was dressed as sonic though

>>37964 Knowing Sega it would be a no. Back in my youth I headcanon'd that she had a star shape if she had a shape on her chest

Why does nobody care about Sonic Colors anymore?

>>37965 I remember coming across pictures and stories of some conventions that had really great Sonic collectibles in them, I've always dreamed of going to a convention and walking out with something nice.

>>37969 I like Colors, but it's not really very memorable.

>>37969 Colors is above ok as far as gameplay but that's about where it's praise ends. No one remembers it for anything else

>>37972 I like the zones, their themes/environments, narrative (not the cutscenes) and the music

>>37964 I always assumed the crescent was a male Echidna only thing. If Tikal had tits, I guess a crescent might look good on them, but if she's flat like a real Echidna (real echidnas don't have nipples), then it would just be kind of pointless for her to have a crescent since it would make her look too much like Knuckles.

>>37974 You'd think with it having that much going for it it'd be much more popular, what was missing from it that prevented it from becoming as popular as some of the other games? Is it just because the story is so shallow and inconsequential?

>>37969 Because it's just a good, simple game, and that loses you 90% of the autismos, it has nothing for doomers to latch on to perpetuate shitposting, it has no lore for spergs to fight over, if you want to talk colors, you have to talk about the game, and as we've seen, people that actually play sonic games are rarer than you'd think.

>>37976 That, and the bad dialogue, and the 2010s marketing that tried to please non-fans and journalists. The gameplay being different from previous games and mostly 2D probably contributed as well.

>>37977 More Wisp lore would have been cool. They could have used Lost World and Forces to expand on it instead of whatever they did with the Wisps in those games

>>37960 I played TSR. The story mode was pretty fun even if the story itself was bland and disappointing. I just wish there were more missions. I played a lot of local multiplayer with my friends and we all enjoyed it. The game has a solid foundation, if it weren't so phoned in and actually had online multiplayer it would've been a success.

>>37980 >and actually had online multiplayer I thought it did

>>37969 I remember playing Sonic colors, it was my favorite PS3 Game at the time. https://files.catbox.moe/7ehq0h.mp4

>>37981 It died almost immediately after launch because the servers didn't allow cross platform play and were constantly having downtime. Go on the servers now and I guarantee nobody else will be there.

>>37982 Is that a mod for Generations or a mod for Unleashed?

>>37984 It's unleashed. Wanted to have some fun by making it a complete mishmash of other Sonic Games.

>>37985 Cool lol

>>37982 It feels so lifeless, lol. >>37985 Damn, I don't remember seeing many Unleashed mods!

Knuckles is said to be a treasure hunter, but what kind of treasures does he search for when the Master Emerald isn't broken?

>>37969 Colors felt like all the good parts of Unleashed put into a stand-alone game.

>>37990 It doesn't have hub worlds or the Werehog though

>>37991 Like the werehog all you want. His gameplay SUCKED

>>37990 I'd say Generations, not colors.

We love the werehog here.

I actually downloaded the mod that adds the full Original Night Stages, like savannah citidel was originally longer but half of it was cut in the final product, then salvaged for a dlc level. I genuinely like the night stages sorry /fast/ https://gamebanana.com/mods/582497

cars...

>>37996 That's interesting. People would have hated them even more if they were longer, so it was a smart decision

>>37990 >>37993 The level design feels quite different for the most part in all 3 of those games.

>>37997 >sonic the cathog This is funny to me because as a kid I had an uncle that thought that Sonic was a cat because of his ears

>>37989 Considering he's tied to Angel Island then I imagine he'd explore the island for clues about its past. I'd imagine him seeking not really riches but knowledge. >>37991 I really hated the level select in Colors, I felt like it got very much in the way of immersion even if the Colors level select screen is one of the most elaborate ones we've had so far. I really don't like level select screens in general, they feel so cheap and make the games feel like a map pack rather than a game with progression and cohesion. An actual hub world would have made a huge difference, but then they would have had to come up with a world that didn't feel empty and lonely. I think Colors failed hard on that, it's a huge amusement park, your expectations would be that it'd be crowded but the whole game is desolate. And it could have been a really interesting setting but it isn't explored with much depth. I think these things bother me a lot more than they should because they show that the game had some really cool ideas but it could have been so much better.

>>37997 The white outline on Shadow's eyes really bothers me.

>>38001 I thought something like that too years ago, it would have been cool to have hub worlds for each planet in Colors. I think most of the planets are supposed to be desolate though since they're still under construction. Tropical Resort is the only one that's completed, and technically it's full of people, but everyone is in cars for some reason... Yeah it's weird.

>>37964 She'd happily show you if you asked her nicely.

>>38002 It defo needs to be black.

>>38002 yeah and the black outline on amy's looks bad too. very weird

>>38001 >he's tied to Angel Island Surely he explores other places as well though right?

Why does the rocket wisp feel so week in Generations compared to Colors?

i have sonic on my tamagotchi now

>>38010 That's pretty cool. Do you actually carry it with you and play throughout the day? Now hack Bump or Sage in.

>>38010 it's so canon it hurts

>>38010 Nice!

>>38012 topkek, that's friggin' wild!

>>38012 Yea i do but i mute it. theyre pretty low maintenence compared to the 90s-00s ones which never shut up

So what have you done/played today /sthg/.

>>38017 Nice run ShadowKnight.

>>38017 >So what have you done/played today /sthg/. I wageslaved all day >vid Damnn! You make it look fun. How many times did you have to replay it to get that good?

>>38017 I implemented dialogue in my little game >01:16.05 I just checked and my best time is 01:31.95. Might try to beat it, can't record videos though >>38019 It is fun. I think Forces is an underwhelming game overall but I like the Avatar and Episode Shadow stages. Sonic has some alright stages as well even if most aren't as interesting. Classic Sonic is the biggest issue with the game when it comes to the gameplay

>>38017 Did some drawing and put in a new SSD to back up all of my files. Planning to play SA1 and 2 again later as it has been a while since I've played either

>>38018 It was a good way to finish forces. >>38019 Hope you can relax now. >You make it look fun. It was fun to do, the DLC is easily the best part of the game as a whole, makes me realize how the 2d in the game actually felt better. >How many times did you have to replay it to get that good? going by my recording. 25 minutes, not that much but it's easily the longest a forces level took me to S rank. >>38021 Cute sketchogs. > can't record videos though A screenshot would be enough if you get a good time. >>38023 That's your drawing? if so then it's a really good metal.

>>38027 >Enemy Territory 01:20.78 >Network Terminal 01:21.90 Hey I win these on the other hand. 01:19.88 and 02:11.94

Need to get used to the Homing Attack being on B once again lol

>>38017 was working for most of the day. I've been home for a couple of hours now but I haven't really done anything. Don't really have the motivation to draw or play anything either. I hate feeling like this. Hope your day is going better anon.

>>38009 Only colors is allowed to have fun wisp gameplay.

My new time for Virtual Reality is 01:24.32. Still not as good

I love Unleashed *maps Homing attack to A* Day Stages are just perfect!

>>38033 Homing Attack on X is the future, and it's better once you get used to it. Unleashed was the last time the series truly evolved. The 2010s were stuck in the past and now the Sonic series has finally started to progress again. Homing Attack on X is symbolic of all of this, an innovation the world wasn't ready for, that finally came back with Frontiers and Sonic x Shadow Generations

I prefer the homing attack separate when they pair it with either the air dash or a double jump desu.

>>38017 >>38032 (Me) Finally got it, 01:10.91 Also I realize you were going for S ranks rather than just times but your time was still way better than mine even though I played that stage quite a bit last year

>>38028 >>38037 Congrats, and yeah. i prefer S-ranks over just speedruns, i kinda like that forces uses points rather than time for them, if it increased the point requirements or removed the retry bonus it would be a lot more fun to get them.

>>38039 I was thinking of going for best scores before I started playing earlier, but I thought Forces didn't save scores. Except actually I just noticed it does, you need to pause while in the stage to see them for some reason

>>38040 (Me) ...nevermind, that's the current score, not the best. Yeah Forces doesn't save them. I could still try to beat yours though. Maybe later

>>38042 it's friday?

>>38023 Nice bot. I'd give him all my oil. >>38027 >going by my recording. 25 minutes Yeah, it would have definitely taken me a lot more lol. >2nd vid It feels so good when you keep your momentum.

I was thinking with the talk about Sonic Colors earlier that the bosses of Colors are pretty interesting, they fit in with the theme pretty nicely and I feel that makes them more memorable than bosses in other games. What are some of the bosses in 3D Sonic games after SA2 that you find memorable and why?

>>38045 Oh. This looks bad.

>>38047 Can you elaborate? I always thought they were lame because half of them are recycled, but now that you mention it they are more memorable than a lot of the bosses in other games >What are some of the bosses in 3D Sonic games after SA2 that you find memorable and why? That one boss in Advance 2 is memorable for being that one boss in Advance 2. The bosses in 2006 are just as memorable as the Adventure games, mainly for story reasons. Rush Adventure has the Blizzard Peaks boss which plays like a stage (also true for those two bosses in Colors), and the Sky Babylon boss and the final boss which I remember for using a different perspective compared to the rest of the game. I remember the bosses in Forces, so I guess they are memorable, probably because of the story again. And the Titans in Frontiers, those are pretty obvious.

>>38049 To be honest it's been so long since I last played Colors that I completely forgot about them reusing bosses like that lol. I just remembered there was a ferris wheel boss that I thought was cool and had a fair amount of character and a boss that was a pirate on a ship, but after looking it up it's a lot lamer than I remembered. Also the final boss having some of my favorite Sonic music.

>>38050 I like the music, but I prefer Senoue's remix of it. The Final Color Blaster is cool

>>37975 >if she's flat like a real Echidna Her shirt has tug lines so there's at least some mounds there

Mina

>>38053 >Hope Robotnik Jesus, that's a name I haven't heard of in a while.

>>38054 Mina.

>>38054 >>38057 Meana

>>38054 shes cute without the piercings

How's your weekend going, /fast/?

>>38063 It's a busy one. I miss when weekends were for playing vidya and shitposting.

>>38062 >>38054 Jesus Christ this is a blue board.

>>38065 Nobody's thinking of fucking someone's piercing holes anon....

>>38065 lol

>>38068 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z0SSOwIIbA

>>38068 >>38069

Tails!

The Mystic Ruins and Soleanna were already "open zone"

>>38063 My computer died so I'm not postkng as much.

>>38074 The closest analogues to open zones in past Sonic games were Sonic R's tracks and 3D Blast's levels. SA1 and 06's hubworlds lacked the platforming of Frontiers' open zones, the main thing you'd be doing in tbhem is talking to NPCs and completing missions while in Frpntiers' Open Zone the bulk of the gameplay is chaining together platforming to get collectables and occasionally fighting stuff.

>>38077 In Sonic Adventure's hub worlds you find collectibles (rings, emblems, powerups, Chao eggs), can cut the grass or dig to find rings similar to the cyloop, you solve puzzles (stone keys, the monkey destruction switch) and there are some very light platforming elements (the paths to the powerups and emblems, the jump before the entrance to Ice Cap) Sonic Adventure is the first open zone game

>>38078 SA1 hubworlds had: >1 Chao Garden per world >1 Hidden Emblem per world >1 Chao Egg per world >1-2 collectibles that would advance the plot per world >1-2 puzzles per world (all of which are mandatory) >A few light platforming segments >Several power ups >Tons of NPCs you could interact with Frontiers Open Worlds had: >0 Chao Gardens per world >Dozens of hidden Keys per world >Hundreds of Collectibles per World mandatory to advance the plot >0 Chao Eggs >About a dozen puzzles per world (only 1-2 of which are mandatory per world) >Hundreds of platforming segments >1 mandatory upgrade per world (cyloop + the three upgrades that come from the characters) >Only a few NPCs They're completely different. In SA1 you're spending the bulk of your time in the hubworld merely getting to levels or completing tasks that take you to levels while in Frontiers the open zone is the main attraction and everything done outside of it (cyberspace, the minigames, etc.) is done for the sake of the open world (advancing the plot, getting collectables, etc.).

It's been a month. A second round would have been fun, but I guess it would have happened by now if it were easy.

>>38079 Alright, you win ...for now. If the next "open zone" game doesn't follow the formula as you described it that might reopen this discussion

>Only a few NPCs Hopefully this isn't part of the definition of open zone. Frontiers felt empty and this is one of the reasons why

>>38082 Me too, Frontiers felt so lifeless. The game was entirely carried by the gamerplay loop of chaining the platforming challenges together to get collectables. Hopefully Kishimoto actually meant something when he said the game was a "global playtest" and wasn't just making an excuse to justify shitting out a barren skeleton of a game. Hopefully he also learned the correct lessons from Frontiers as well.

Tails!

>>38089 But why do they call him that?

>>38090 Because he's cute! <3

>>38063 uuu

>>38092 whisper...

Iizuka says Adventure gameplay would be taking a step back but they always use Classic Sonic and Green Hill

This is something I typed a month ago: >I don't think windfags are unable to enjoy inaccurate media, that's a weird narrative people have been trying to push But since 4chan went offline, I haven't seen this narrative being pushed. "People", right. It was probably just one person pushing it for months

Sonic & Tails!

>>38096 Someone should make a compilation of all the stupid stuff he's said over the years.

>>38099 That would be funny. I don't like shitting on him because he directed games I love but he always says strange things in interviews

>>38100 Me neither to be honest, although I don't think he's great at what he does they could have fucked the franchise up a lot worse or just killed it completely, but at least it's still there and still has some of the stuff I love even if it's frustrating as hell sometimes.

Iizuka's going to give an interview about Crossworlds on the 7th. Any predictions on what he'll say?

>>38102 My guess is that he's going to contradict recent "lore team" statements at least once

>>38102 >Buy the game gaijin.

>>38102 >"Sonic is gay." >crowd cheers >"Which is why we're shutting it down." >crowd falls silent

>>38105 This greentext reminds me of that one Spongebob meme.

>>38102 >Any predictions on what he'll say?

>>38107 <Rubber baby buggy bumpers

>>38102 "Sonadow is real"

I want the off panels back.

>>38110 heh.

>>38110 >over nine thousand 1) this makes me feel over nine thousand years old 2) can ian do anything without referencing something else?

>>38112 Sonic is a paradox of Dragon Ball Z, deal with it

>>38102 >Due to popurar demand we have decided to delay Sonikku Crosswords to incrude a highly acclaimed character that our fans love

One study found that orange is considered a highly stimulating but friendly color.

>>38115 I really like how Marine and Sticks look.

>>38113 >paradox What does that mean in this context

>>38115 >>38116 I like the orange girls. Too bad Sonic Team doesn't seem to care about them much

Everything is slow today...

>>38120 Try kissing Sonic The hedgehog

>>38122 lol

How long have you fags been Sonic fans and how did your trip down the autism rabbit hole start?

>>38124 Since I was like 5 or 6 years old. As to how I got into Sonic, the Adventure games on the GameCube.

>>38124 I got into Sonic when I was an adult.

>>38124 I got old and sought out nostalgia. By all rights, I should be an Archie-fag, but I like the new characters.

>>38124 Since I was old enough to pick up the controller and play Sonic 1 on the 8-bit Master System and then later on the Mega Drive. For better or worse, Sonic is a part of who I am.

>>38126 How old, and how?

>>38129 >Sonic is a part of who I am Fuck you, I had to listen to this again and now so do you.

>>38124 I only got into Sonic as an adult after watching a couple episodes of Sonic X in 2022.

>>38126 >>38133 I'm glad to see adults get into the series

Bump's so damn cute.

>>38124 Started when I was like 5 playing Sonic 2 on the Genesis and watching Satam. I stopped paying attention to the franchise from around 2010 to 2018 but eventually got back into it for nostalgia sake.

>>38136 actually it is sage that is cute

>>38136 >>38139 Actually it's BOTH that are cute!

I started watching Sonic X and I'm halfway through Season 1. The one issue I'm having is the story doesn't really move anywhere, in most episodes it's based around "what if" situations where everyone just fucks around and occasionally find a chaos emerald. Is this going to get better in other seasons (where Chris is adult for example)?

>>38143 It's been a long time since I've watched X and I can't recall it getting any better until Season 3 which does its own thing instead of rehashing the games.

>>38144 >It's been a long time since I've watched X and I can't recall Basically same, which I hate admitting because I really liked Sonic X. It was my introduction to the series and even though I love it I kinda hate watching it now because it takes me back and gives me the feels. Plus it makes me crave more character interactions and that's a no-no in the current era.

>>38143 Season 3 is better. Chris doesn't actually become an adult though. He does for like two scenes because they thought the show was gonna end, but then upon realizing they got a third season, they just do a Dragon Ball GT and turn him into a kid again. Also they go into space to find the seven macguffins, so it's just pure Dragon Ball GT. Still pretty good though. >>38144 The games are only rehashed for like eight episodes of Season 2. Very little of the show is rehashing the games, and even those eight episodes are more like speeding through the plots of the games. They skip many details and plot threads. Later in Season 2 they introduce the Chaotix, seemingly because Heroes was coming out, and eventually they do a very, very loose adaptation of Sonic Battle, but that adaptation is so loose that I don't think anyone could call it a rehash.

Hello

>>38148 Why do they have to make so many things off model most of the time? All the western mascot costumes are, all the plushies are. They are clearly capable of doing it right like in this pic, so why do they insist on fucking it up on purpose?

Hi guys :) >>38148 I like these costumes

Sonic Unleashed's game design is well thought out. Possibly the best game in the series in that aspect

>>38151 The production value in general is probably the highest in the series in Unleashed. I wonder which game would be the second highest, SA1?

>>38152 I would say SA2 followed by SA1

>>38153 What makes you choose SA2 over SA1? SA2 doesn't even have hub worlds.

>>38154 It feels more polished, less buggy, better graphics

>>38124 >How long have you fags been Sonic fans easily over 20+ years >how did your trip down the autism rabbit hole start? the first console i've owned was a GBA, the day my parents bought it i got to pick a game for it, and i went with sonic advance 3 because i thought sonic looked cool.

>>38154 >SA2 runs at 60 fps on Dreamcast, SA1 runs at 30 >Half of SA1's gameplay styles just aren't fun, SA2 refines what works and trims off the ones that don't >The Japanese version of SA1 had a bunch of bugs that took a whole year to iron out for the worldwide release, SA2 had none >SA1 has far more primitive looking, lower poly models than SA2 >SA1 has a worse Chao Garden than SA2 >SA2 doesn't waste the players time with going around hubworlds to fetch random keys >SA2 has multiplayer, SA1 doesn't SA2 took all of SA1's production value and then built on it further.

>>38159 >and trims off the ones that don't :c

>>38158 I should replay Advance 3. It was one of my favorites as a kid

>>38161 Tails' gameplay in SA1 is just "Fly past everything and win" it's too easy to be fun and there's no challenge to it.

>>38163 It's fun, but it mostly lacks level design. Speed Highway does it right by having long stretches that you need to fly over, and vertical level design, so it makes you move upwards and it also forces you to land. All of his stages should have been designed like that. 2006 made his flight more limited and focused more throwing the ring bombs, which is a good approach as well, although I prefer Speed Highway. SA2 could have definitely improved on Tails' SA1 gameplay

>>38117 I believe he's a retard who meant parody

>>38124 1992...

>>38165 kek

Sonic Team should humanize all the characters for one game, and never give an in-universe explanation at all

>>38172 Why not? Humanizations are cool and it's nice when some games have their own style that sets them apart

>>38173 It might be more popular than the original versions and we'd lose those forever.

>>38174 That would be funny

>>38171 How would that game even play?

>>38179 Just like normal, as if nothing is different

sonic livejournal icons

As expected it's getting slower and slower here

>>38171 >>38173 >>38174 >>38175 >Sonic Team makes a single game with all the characters as humans as a one-off >It performs unusually well in Japan >SoJ realizes that Sonic was only unpopular in Japan because the Japanese prefer human mascots >They force Sonic Team to make more Human Sonic games >Western fans become confused and increasingly alienated Honestly it might be worth it if the human Sonic games aren't written by Ian.

>>38184 Anon, it's Memorial Day, the only people posting here today are ones with no lives.

>>38187 Mi amor. I'd look after her.

>Sonic 1 was a tech demo for the genesis >Sonic CD was a tech demo for the Sega CD >Knuckles Chaotix was a tech demo for the 32X >NiGHTS was a tech demo for the Saturn >Sonic Adventure was a tech demo for the Dreamcast >Tiny Chao Adventure was a tech demo for the VMU >Chu Chu Rocket was a tech demo for the Dreamcast's online features Given that Sonic Team made a tech demo for nearly every Sega Console and addon, what sort of tech demo would they have made for the Dreamcast DVD player addon?

>>38197 Are DVDs going to give you any advantage other than just plainly more storage space? How are you going to show off that storage space? The Adventure games already included full voice acting, recorded music, and varieties of different game locations with unique models and textures. You could try an FMV game, but those were already possible on the Sega CD. Maybe a... less compressed-looking FMV game?

>>38197 Nothing as DVD was Sony's idea.

>>38198 More storage space and slightly cheaper to produce than GDs. I suppose they could put both Adventure games on one DVD, but that wouldn't really be much of a tech demo. >Maybe a... less compressed-looking FMV game? I guess it would probably be an FMV game, but with actually gameplay thrown in to show off high quality textures and uncompressed music, maybe it would have a shitload of different minigames to show the vast amount of different assets and environments you can put on a DVD. So I guess Feel the Magic, but with a more maximalist art style and lots of FMVs and vocal themes. >>38199 The CD was Sony's and Phillips' idea.

>>38200 Dreamcast used GD. They may look similar but Sega didn't have to pay Sony or Phillips to license the technology. Same thing with the Gamecube's mini-discs. It illustrates just how well Sony does in the tech sphere. Every company uses Blu-rays and Sony gets paid every time.

>>38201 >Every company uses Blu-rays and Sony gets paid every time. So Microsoft was paying royalties to Sony during the Xbox One Generation? It really shows how stupid they were for not partnering with Toshiba to use HD DVDs as the discs for the 360.

>>38202 Yep Sony gets paid >HD DVD The 360 did have an HD-DVD player accessory. Nobody bought it.

It was always obvious to me that Blu-ray would win as the next-gen format back then.

i still dont know whats supposed to be different about bluray

>>38205 More disc space off the top of my head. Over 50 GB on a dual layer disc for Blu Ray

All's well that ends well, right /sthg/?

>>38208 No Tails, that doesn't make what you did right...

>humanized >"It would be worth it if it wasn't written by Ian" Slashy you left your nametag on again

>>38208 >OH GOD, EVERYONE IS DEAD!!

>>38188 If that happened it would be cool if both coexisted as distinct branches like they're doing with Classic

>>38203 And I don't see why anyone would

>>38208 THE CITY'S BEEN FUCKING DESTROYED!

>Dreamcast Sonic Title screen >Sonic 3 music >Sonic Jam music >Classic shaped sprite with green eyes >Sonic 2 Special stages Other than rekindling my hatred for Half Pipe special stages, I find Sonic Pocket Color to be an interesting game. I need to figure out how to record gameplay

>>38215 Some autist hasn't made a Neogeo emulator? If so, just use that along with OBS.

>>38209 >that doesn't make what you did right What did he do again? I only remember him protecting Station Square from that one Eggman boss, I don't remember him being responsible for the flooding.

>>38218 Sonic and Tails failed to retrieve the last Chaos Emerald from the Tornado 2 in time, so I guess you could partially blame them, and Big too. But I think that's kind of silly

>>38215 There's a NGCP Emulator in Retroarch, just use that to play the game and use whatever screen recording software to get footage.

>>38197 Probably a Sonic Adventure remaster with higher quality models and textures and a boatload of pre rendered cutscenes. There were cases in earlier games where they would include more or higher quality features depending on how they were released or your hardware availability. I think System Shock only included voiced audio in the CD? release and Quake I think did something similar with the music, whereas Wolfenstein allowed you to use a sound card if you had one or the speaker. Maybe they'd expand parts of the game with more junk like the Chao Garden. Not sure what the timeline of the DVD addon was but maybe they could also include SA2 in there and have them interact together somehow. Overall with the console hardware being the same I'm not sure it'd make sense making a whole new game for it, specially since this was just an addon. It may make more sense to add to something already existing. Now this got me thinking, if you could go back to SA1 and add stuff it to make it more complete or to tie it in better with the rest of the series and the story and lore that came later, what would you do?

First image was originally going to be the SatAM freedom fighters but Sonic Heroes felt like a better comparison.

>>38215 I need to play that game someday, it looks fun.

>>38226 It is, I honestly enjoyed it more than Sonic 2 (which it's a quasi remake of).

>>38226 >>38227 Yeah I was going to ask, isn't it just a rehash of Sonic 2 for the most part?

>>38228 It is, but it's missing a few zones, some of the level layouts and bosses are different and you have to fight Knuckles midway through the game. They also added puzzle pieces for you to collect in the levels (not sure what they unlock) and it had a time trial mode. It was also the first Sonic game to have a letter based ranking system.

>>38229 >It was also the first Sonic game to have a letter based ranking system. Huh I always thought that was SA2

>>38228 Not entirely since it's missing some zones but, it is an adapation/port of it.

deer

>>38233 Bump has been an important part of the low intelligence acceptance movement.

>>38234 RUDE Do you think she would be friends with Tangle? They both probably have ADHD.

>>38235 They seem pretty similar.

>>38236 *squint* hey... you don't think Tangle is just... a rebranded Bump... do you?

>>38237 We should sue them!

>>38237 EVERYONE is Bump!

>>38233 I didnt understand why people like Bump so much, but I think I get it now..

>>38247 thats all it took?

>>38248 Ehhh not really, I liked her before but I was still confused.

>>38247 Bump is CUTE!

Damn, there's going to be an Apotos stage in Crossworlds? You don't see them bringing up Unleashed often. Also the sound design in this game is shit, you can barely hear the music behind all the SFX spam.

>>38253 iirc it sounded better in some clips where they weren't playing as Sonic

Wouldn't it be cool if there was Sonic news, maybe involving new Sonic video games?

>>38255 We have to hold ON TO WHAT IF until the 7th apparently.

>>38253 Apatos looks so much worse in Crossworlds than it did in Unleashed.

>>38230 Yeah a couple anons played through it on 4/sthg/ last year and competed to see who could get the most Platinum Ranks.

>>38258 Cool!

>>38258 we should do that here desu

Bun!

>>38263 I miss when we had characters with cool accents.

>>38264 Now that I think about it, does anyone aside from her and Antoine have an accent?

>>38265 Non.

>>38266 How unfortunate. accents turn me on something fierce

Why

>>38265 Wait, I just remembered Geoffrey exists.

>>38268 Because Robotnik kept changing designs between games and regions I suppose.

Are there any notable members of the Sonic community that do 3D printing commissions? Seems like something that would be a thing in high demand when there are plenty of fans that have OCs and fans that love a character that doesn't get much merchandise

>>38271 https://x.com/furrysculptures https://furfigs.com/

>>38265 absolutely no one

>>38271 No idea but something that I've noticed is that it seems to have become sort of popular to print life sized statues. >Seems like something that would be a thing in high demand when there are plenty of fans that have OCs and fans that love a character that doesn't get much merchandise That sounds extremely expensive. Getting a model done for your OC sounds like it'll set you back a few hundred dollars already. I remember years ago when >we tried getting a Bump model made. Then it'd have to be printed and painted which doesn't sound cheap either. Probably not something for everyone. >>38272 These don't look terrible, definitely exceed my expectations. Still, $200 for premade ones, I wonder how much a custom one would cost. Also, this style feels sort of familiar, is this BBMBBF? >>38273 >mfw anons remember Geoffrey but not Marine Croiky!

>>38274 > is this BBMBBF? Yes, I think so.

Tails!

>>38272 Some decent work in there. Bookmarked for later >>38274 >That sounds extremely expensive. Probably not something for everyone Yeah statues are quite a chunk of change. The SA2 statue here >>38271 went for 370 USD. I'm not familiar with the expected quality of what that kind of money should get you from a statue, but I'm more than willing to pay that much for one that looks how I want it to. For others, that may be too much

>>38277 >I'm not familiar with the expected quality of what that kind of money should get you from a statue I think $400 is already top of the line territory in terms of statue quality for mass produced ones, so you'd expect something made through resin casting and not 3d printing and it should be fairly big and complex. I think the SA2 statue is PVC though. For a custom one I don't imagine you'd be able to get the same level of quality at a similar price level. >I'm more than willing to pay that much for one that looks how I want it to What are you looking to get made?

>>38224 You can't really compare a videogame team with comics team. Tangle is alright character for comics, it would be a nightmare to implement good game moves for her elastic tail though. Whisper could be more interesting E-123 and Lanolin would be just an useless bitch like Amy.

>>38279 >Lanolin would be just a useless bitch like Amy. You mean she would use her wispon like a hammer and paralyze robots like Thunder shoot? Sounds like a fun character to play as just like Amy was

>>38279 > it would be a nightmare to implement good game moves for her elastic tail though. just repurpose what the werehog had and give her platforming focused acrobatics desu.

>>38279 Yes you can. The same team dynamics apply. The Diamond Cutter lack said team dynamics which is why they fail.

https://x.com/CrossWorldsJPN/status/1927515162929467818 They posted footage of the Extreme Gear segments of Crossworlds today and it's worse than I was expecting: >No Air Meter >No boosting >No Turbulence >Tricks have no impact >Super SLOW I had already assumed they'd just be reskinned karts with a few tacked elements from Riders, but they couldn't even give us that, it's just super slow reskinned karts with no changes made whatsoever.

>>38285 >>38284 I feel bad for all of the Riders fans hoping it would have a little bit of juice from Riders

>>38286 Makes sense

>>38285 Compared to what actual Extreme Gear play like it feels like he's riding a lawn mower. No wonder why they kept this hidden for so long.

>>38285 >>38284 >>38253 It just dawned on me how slow this stuff is. Regular Sonic games are faster and more extreme lol.

>>38290 Oh yeah, that Apotos clip is really jarring, it's like Sonic's takng a leisurely sunday drive instead of boosting through like he normally does. I've heard people say that maybe it's just set to a lower cc to better show off the environment, but I'll believe it when I see it.

>>38284 >>38285 Damn, I know this wasn't going to be a a true Riders game but this is still disappointing. I was seriously hoping Jet would at least be fun to play as.

Still disappointed that Crossworlds is all we're getting this year

>>38284 I hope they keep touching it up so it feels great.

>>38295 i wish someone would keep touching me up so i feel great...

>>38296 Alone on a Wednesday night? Damn.

>>38295 There probably isn't enough time left before release to make any more substantial changes. >>38293 This might be wishful thinking, but there's a nonzero chance they announce a new game in June given that Superstars was announced then. They could also do what they did in 2023 and shadowdrop another Apple Arcade game randomly.

>>38298 Was Superstars announced only a few months before release?

>>38299 Yeah, the first announccement came in June shortly before Mario Wonder's announcement.

>>38300 Interesting, I didn't remember it being like that. Guess you're right then, we could still get something this year. I hope we do

>>38301 According to the wiki, it was annouced June 9th, but they may have planned on announcing it at the June 23 Sonic Central before they realized Mario Wonder would get announced before then.

Why's /fast/ so slow today?

>>38303 We're busy playing video games

>>38299 >>38300 Seriously? That doesn't sound like enough time to generate any hype and get people interested lol.

>>38305 Probably one of the reasons Superstars failed

>>38305 >>38306 >SxSG was announced in January >Crossworlds was announced in December Superstars must've flopped pretty hard for them to be announcing games so early now.

>>38308 Superstars is such a weird release. It was also competing against The Final Horizon, which was free and released at around the same time

>>38309 >Every Superstars announcement was coupled with a Frontiers DLC announcement >Superstars was scheduled to release two days before Mario and Spiderman >The game was priced at $60, the same as Frontiers (which was frequently on sale during this timeframe) >Farmed out to Arzest, a notorious shovelware developer >No online multiplayer >Bad Music >Sonic 4 tier Graphics >Any lasting hype among Sonic fans was quickly killed off by the announcement of Dream Team a few weeks later >No DLC Looking back, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Superstars had been deliberately set up to fail.

>>38310 Why would they want it to fail though

>>38311 That I don't know. My best guess would be that Sonic Team just didn't like the Classic Sonic brand since it exists purely because Westerners bitched and moaned at them for a decade and wanted to kill it off so they could focus on "their" version of Sonic, but this doesn't seem like a satisfactory explanation.

>>38310 >Sonic 4 tier Graphics Having played Ep 1 recently, that's not entirely accurate. >>38311 >>38312 This is Sega we're talking about. They're known for poor business decisions.

>>38310 >No online multiplayer >Bad Music Bait

>>38273 Australians aren't real.

>>38315 They are real and they live in your local dumpster

>>38293 I get you but I still remember how barren it was before and after Forces and I feel lucky we get something at all lol. Would be nice to have something better to discuss here and keep things moving though. >>38311 I think Sega has a history of wanting its own projects to fail and internal fights between their teams and branches and stuff. >>38314 >OST webm You can just upload .mp3 and I think even .flac files. I really hope we can go back to having strong OSTs in Sonic games soon. I was looking at my Sonic OST files and it's all stuff from more than a decade ago.

>>38318 The Twinkle Park music is very unfitting for that battle.

Why didn't Infinite use the Phantom Ruby to create fake Sonic's?

>>38322 Wouldn't be believable.

>>38314 Is the online multiplayer mode fun?

>>38318 I love that area of Twinkle Park and its music, I'm glad it's getting some appreciation >>38321 You're probably right but I would be disappointed if the music wasn't there

>>38319 I think Forces and TSR have strong soundtracks

https://sonic.sega.jp/SonicChannel/special/sidestory/sonicpict/20250529_008946/ New SonicPict. I love rain pics

I still don't know why for SonicPict they only give us .pdf files and no proper image files in full quality

>>38322 Sonic is already a fake. Can't create fakes of a fake.

>>38327 Sonic looks so weird with boots, it's like a mix with Amy. What's he reading?

>>38330 He has ALWAYS worn boots. "Sneakers" are noncan SoA localization garbage. They are boots exactly like the ones he's wearing in that pic, excepts normally he folds out the intrnal part at the top, which is the white part everyone mistakes for socks

>>38327 How many other times has he been shown with his boots not folded?

>>38330 >>38331 Those are a Birthday Gift

sonic footware lore is almost as deep as sonic foot lore

>>38331 Those boots have a heel but Sonic's regular footwear doesn't. >>38333 I love when they reference earlier pics and create a story of sorts. Feels more meaningful than the story in the games lol.

>>38335 >Those boots have a heel but Sonic's regular footwear doesn't. Okay, fair point. But still, Sonic was always meant to wear boots

So why isn't he folding the ones Amy gifted him?

>>38337 Amy's are stiffer, duh

>>38336 >>38331

>>38340 Holy shit I can't believe someone went through the effort to track down and compile all that.

>>38340 I like that the one image is on there twice. Just to really hammer it home, I guess.

>>38344 Ok, what game is this?

>>38323 >Spread rumors that they're torturing Sonic on the Death Egg >One day Sonic (Ruby Illusion) shows up >He's evil and on Eggman's side >Everyone thinks he's snapped from being tortured for months on end This is how you make it believable.

>>38344 That sounds better, the compression of the Chronicles Main riff actually sounds good paired with the compression on the voice clips.

Amy is cute

>>38350 Boom Amy?

>>38351 Yeah.

>>38352 I love the Boomnic.

>>38353 I love YOU

Sonic the Hedgehog!

>>38327 Another W for Sonamy.

>>38263 Third is peak.

>>38362 there's just something about her

>>38363 >something about Mashed...

>>38354 Aww anon, I love (You) too. :)

>>38340 Damn the tweet is true at the very least. https://nitter.poast.org/NaotoOhshima/status/945438422474223616 Now if only the archive was working.

>>38371 Archive?

>>38371 Got it to work, kinda. https://archive.ph/Mcrkv >>38372 Yeah, anyone can make up stuff and create an image about it, so ideally images should be accompanied by an archive of the original source.

>>38373 Makes sense. I'll save your version of the pic as well

>>38367 My retarded wife :)

>>38373 Here are the others as well https://nitter.poast.org/NaotoOhshima/status/846388816248156160 https://nitter.poast.org/NaotoOhshima/status/1485270959980351488

>>38376 Sweet, thanks, I've added them too. I ended up archiving a capture from archive.org from when twitters weren't such niggers.

Remember to clean your shit /sthg/

>>38378 Will the Marza ghosts ever appear in another game? I understand they aren't owned by Sonic Team, but it would be nice to have them playable alongside other Sega characters in Crossworlds or cameo elsewhere.

Honest question, how much does it cost ST to buy these lost characters? Is it something they're against paying for personally, or is Penders and co. just naming ridiculous prices?

>>38380 Offer to buy them would be admitting defeat and relinquisihing their claim of ownership over them.

Are Cat and Hedgehog the only species of Blobians where we've seen what both sexes look like? What would the sexual dimorphism be like in other species?

>>38383 Tikal exists.

>>38379 I mean worst case they're owned by Marza which is owned by Sega, so it's not a situation like with Penders. Hopefully they remember them and include them at least as background characters, I like them. It was surprising though that Marza remembered them and started pushing them so many years after Night of the Werehog out of nowhere. Either way god damn I want more Marza animations, it's been years for fucks sake. I remember they worked on some Mario shit years ago and it just adds insult to injury. >>38380 I wouldn't pay out of principle because the whole thing is retarded and a bullying tactic, instead I would use that money to continue challenging it legally so that every party loses instead of just Sega. >how much does it cost ST to buy these lost characters? It's for sure not going to be $100 to settle it, Sonic is a huge franchise that moves millions of dollars so it's easy to think that you could milk them for a number with many zeros even if not accurate. Not to mention that Penders probably doesn't even want to settle it, if there was an honest intention from Sega to pay, Penders would just move the goalpost to make himself a victim and ruin it. He'd want it to be a licensing deal instead of a transfer of ownership or some shit. The whole thing is not going anywhere, the characters are simply not valuable enough for it to be profitable for anyone to make a move about them against the other party's pressure.

>>38383 Probably more fun to consider the comics too.