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Post by McBain on Mar 22, 2010 10:06:04 GMT
Stewart, would you care to explain why you think Sonic 4 is the desperate actions of Sega?
Admittedly, I've only had a quick look at the website and have possibly missed quite a bit. But from what I've seen, it looks like they're returning to good old fashioned gameplay.
For a start, it's Sonic Vs. Eggman. No Knuckles, no Amy and NO FECKING TAILS! Surely dropping the unnecessary secondary characters can't be a mistake?
Secondly...
Actually, that's about it. Classic 2D, running as fast as you can, bouncing off robot heads action. What's wrong with that?
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Post by Someguy on Mar 22, 2010 13:06:17 GMT
When a series goes down the pan they go back to the roots to try and re-capture the success of ages gone by. My problem with this is that they appear to be going for the original gameplay word-for-word. In other words, they aren't bringing anything new to it. They're taking a colossal step backwards into the 90's.
I'm thinking this'll be one big recycling job as opposed to a brand new game. They're using old enemies and the level names mirror that of the original first game (but with slightly different names, so expect the same levels but with a different label. Also, there's a screenshot that looks just like the twirly-bit near the end of Emerald Hill in Sonic 2.
And no Tails! I LOVE Tails! What is WRONG with these people?
And one last thing. The people in charge of this project is the very same development team that brought us such classics as 'Sonic the Werehog', 'Shadow the whatever', and all that other piddling crap. This does not bode well. The possibility for an utter decimation of childhood memories looms.
UNLESS WE DO SOMETHING, GANG!
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Post by Spidey on Mar 22, 2010 14:26:12 GMT
Uh oh. Is there going to be a scheme? I lost my scheming hat.
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Post by McBain on Mar 22, 2010 18:10:50 GMT
What do you mean you loved Tails? The annoying little shit was good for nothing except staying two steps behind you. As a result he would then hit the mine that you just bloody dodged, losing you a small but vital quantity of rings!
As for the rest of it, you may well be right. Only time will tell if it's a terrible re-hash of a classic or the next step forward designed to offer a challenge to those who mastered the originals.
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Post by Someguy on Mar 22, 2010 23:22:45 GMT
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Hee! I love Tails.
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Post by McBain on Mar 22, 2010 23:27:42 GMT
And thus, I believe the debate is put to rest until such time as more news crops up.
Doubtless it will crop up behind me and deliver a skull shattering happy slap, just to amuse Stewart.
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Post by Starlong on Mar 29, 2010 2:38:06 GMT
Still, however bad/selling out/devastatingly dissapointing it may be, it'll still beat every 3D sonic game by sheer virtue of not being a 3D sonic game... My only regret for it is that I can't download it for my megadrive emulator. But seriously, tails should be in it. That shit MADE sonic 2 Except when you were trying to get chaos emeralds, yeah... You can't have your tails and be super sonic too.
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Post by Someguy on Mar 29, 2010 17:21:48 GMT
I don't know. Saw the 3D sprite of sonic in action. He looks like something out of an Internet Flash game. Team Sonic, that bunch of retarded fucker-wits (see Zero Punctuation review of Werehog game), are determined to keep any and all of the shitty artistic 'tweaks' made to Sonic's form since the MegaDrive heydays. He's thin, he's mal-shaped, and looks to be constructed of Play-doh. Remanded industrial-waste Play-doh.
You don't see Mario slimming down, now, do you.
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Post by Starlong on Mar 29, 2010 21:26:30 GMT
That's because Mario eats EVERYTHING. Stars, flowers, leaves and even hammers so I hear. And SO. MANY. MUSHROOMS! If the British Public are going to tackle this obesity problem, they need to get Mario to set a better example!
Besides, Sonic eats plenty but burns it all off, the cross continent sprinter that he is.
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Post by Fire Bear on Apr 4, 2010 14:08:27 GMT
I love Sonic! Screw what I said about borrowing Mario, I'm off to find my (3D) Sonic game! (At least, I think it's 3D - it doesn't always go sideways and it has four different teams you can play with. Boy, I haven't played that in ages.... To the PS2!) And Tails is awesome! Oh, and Knuckles is pretty good for if you want to do the hammer throw in the Olympic Games. Although, I'm not entirely sure why they don't make you spin round on the spot and instead you just wobble the Wii remote round and round before pressing a button...
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Post by McBain on Apr 4, 2010 16:32:52 GMT
Try spinning round on the spot for a few seconds then see what happens. You'll soon realise when you're sitting in a hole that used to be part of the coffee table.
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Post by Someguy on Apr 4, 2010 23:28:52 GMT
Or a hole that used to be someone's face looking at something closely on the coffee table.
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Post by Starlong on Apr 5, 2010 0:59:55 GMT
What if the room has no coffee table?!? What's plan B dood?
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Post by McBain on Apr 5, 2010 21:49:29 GMT
Coffee table, computer desk, sibling... who cares, something will have a hole by the end of it.
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Post by Fire Bear on Apr 5, 2010 22:57:22 GMT
Erm... If it was the case that there would be holes made when you spun round, why are they still letting them have it in the Olympics? They'd lose half their players! And, some would be at unfair advantage after/before it.
Also, wouldn't the hole be made on the floor, which is probably the best place for doing it!
And I don't have any of those things in the living room. (Bar the computer desks, but that involves climbing up onto it - too much effort!)
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