Topic: Reduced to Ruin: Sonic the Hedgehog (Read 36784 times)

Norondor · « **Reply #60 on:** July 22, 2008, 05:24:47 PM »

Different sexual deviants.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #61 on:** July 22, 2008, 05:47:18 PM »

Castle Vidcon's latest comic: relevant to this thread.

Thad · « **Reply #62 on:** July 22, 2008, 06:09:50 PM »

...
...Shinra, you are trying to explain Sonic fandom...IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE POST WHERE I REMIND EVERYONE I WAS PART OF IT.

Mongrel · « **Reply #63 on:** July 22, 2008, 07:41:25 PM »

Quote from: Thad on July 22, 2008, 10:38:09 AM

I remember reading a fanfic some years back called Son-ak the Barbarian or somesuch, and it was actually pretty entertaining.

Of course, it was over-the-top violent and the writer actually showed some self-awareness in what a goofy damn thing he was writing; this game will have neither of those things.

I briefly had this creepy vision of Dave Sim writing.

Saturn · « **Reply #64 on:** August 07, 2008, 12:33:03 AM »

Sega admits Sonic has been crap lately

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to not blowing ass.

Thad · « **Reply #65 on:** August 07, 2008, 12:53:28 AM »

They've been playing that song since they announced the first Sonic games for the PS3, Wii, and 360. Doesn't seem to have made a difference.

Air · « **Reply #66 on:** August 18, 2008, 07:15:08 PM »

Okay, I'm being zetta slow right now, but whatever:

I can't believe how retarded Sonic fans are being about Sonic and the Black Knight. Saying things like "Holy shit, he has a sword!? That's retarded! I'm going to wait for the game where he turns into a fucking warewolf, that sounds much better!"

Sorry, but personally I think giving a character a random sword is just a little bit less retarded than making him a fucking liken (I'm trying to use a big goth word so I fit in with you guys!

Anyway, I didn't like the wolf in Twilight Princess, so I hope Sonic Unleashed says the fuck away from the Wii.

Fredward · « **Reply #67 on:** August 18, 2008, 07:17:19 PM »

...wait, who wanted to turn Sonic into a fungus?

I can only assume that is what you mean, because the alternative is only more absurd.

Air · « **Reply #68 on:** August 18, 2008, 07:24:40 PM »

Quote from: Fredward on August 18, 2008, 07:17:19 PM

...wait, who wanted to turn Sonic into a fungus?

I can only assume that is what you mean, because the alternative is only more absurd.

NO! Fuck you! I know I heard that word used to describe a warewolf in Underworld! Or was it blade... I don't remember.

Doom · « **Reply #69 on:** August 18, 2008, 07:25:27 PM »

Lycanthrope, kid.

New Sonic games will be awful, what else is new?

Air · « **Reply #70 on:** August 18, 2008, 07:35:30 PM »

Man, I wish the Sonic team from the Dreamcast days would come back.
-Jet Grind Radio
-Space Channel 5
-Phantasy Star Online
-Sonic Adventure (and 2)
-Shinume

What do they put out these days? Crappy Sonic games, Phantasy Star titles with no style, No Jet Grind Radio, No Space Channel 5. Instead they decide to put out crap like Mario and Sonic at the Olympics, which I rented with a friend and found to be complete ass, and some kinda of super violent black and white game I could give two shits about. Which brings me to my next random addressing.

When did games stop being about style and start being about who can squirt the most blood and cut someone into the most pieces? Not all games are, but the ones who aren't try way too hard to be kiddy, or give me some kind of crappy looking alien or furry that I have no interest in playing as. Why can't shit have style like Sega use to? I guess The World Ends With You did it really well too, but I want more games with cool style, dammit!

Norondor · « **Reply #71 on:** August 18, 2008, 07:51:23 PM »

Well as far as i remember, Smilebit and Overworks pretty much broke up and all their members scattered to the four winds, so you may as well abandon all hope of Sega ever making another good game.

Thad · « **Reply #72 on:** August 18, 2008, 11:25:21 PM »

Quote from: SoraCross on August 18, 2008, 07:15:08 PM

I can't believe how retarded Sonic fans are being about Sonic and the Black Knight. Saying things like "Holy shit, he has a sword!? That's retarded! I'm going to wait for the game where he turns into a fucking warewolf, that sounds much better!"

Sorry, but personally I think giving a character a random sword is just a little bit less retarded than making him a fucking liken (I'm trying to use a big goth word so I fit in with you guys!

Wow, two straw men in two paragraphs, IN THE WRONG THREAD.

The astounding thing is your continued insistence that there's something wrong with everyone BUT you.

Brentai · « **Reply #73 on:** August 19, 2008, 12:17:05 AM »

It's a good question, though. Why the hell is it such a problem that he has a sword? I mean, besides the fact that it goes right against his character and is pretty redundant, but that's not been much of a problem before.

I think the problem is this.

He just looks so fucking serious about it. Like having a sword is serious goddam business. It's gonna blow the poor fucker's mind to find out that he's got a dozen sharp blades right on his back.

It's not the root problem, but it's a glaring symptom of it. The root problem is that SEGA pretty much lost all sense of irony right around the destruction of the Dreamcast. If someone could just remind them that yeah, their games are all kind of silly, they might get back on track.

Or maybe not. Did you know Sammy's been losing their pachinko revenue ever since buying them?

Alex · « **Reply #74 on:** August 19, 2008, 05:13:36 AM »

I find Sonic and the Black Knight all the more hilarious when I recall Sonic telling Shadow he'd never use a gun in Shadow the Hedgehog.

Clearly, this was foreshadowing to the max!

Koah · « **Reply #75 on:** August 19, 2008, 10:08:13 AM »

The entire thing strikes me as a bizarre arms race between Sega and the Sonic fanfic and fanart communities to see who can come up with the worst idea for a plot. Sega's only managing to keep up with the Internet because despite being limited to a Teen rating at most, everything they come up with is canon and the people who came up with it actually got paid for it.

Thad · « **Reply #76 on:** August 19, 2008, 10:55:28 AM »

Quote from: Brentai on August 19, 2008, 12:17:05 AM

He just looks so fucking serious about it. Like having a sword is serious goddam business. It's gonna blow the poor fucker's mind to find out that he's got a dozen sharp blades right on his back.

It's not the root problem, but it's a glaring symptom of it. The root problem is that SEGA pretty much lost all sense of irony right around the destruction of the Dreamcast. If someone could just remind them that yeah, their games are all kind of silly, they might get back on track.

WHY...SO...SERIOUS?!

Quote from: ⑨. Hakubi on August 19, 2008, 10:08:13 AM

The entire thing strikes me as a bizarre arms race between Sega and the Sonic fanfic and fanart communities to see who can come up with the worst idea for a plot. Sega's only managing to keep up with the Internet because despite being limited to a Teen rating at most, everything they come up with is canon and the people who came up with it actually got paid for it.

And fanfic throws things off by occasionally producing something GOOD.

(Um, I assume. Is Dan Drazen still writing?)

...Actually, I have a month-old post on the previous page that's relevant to both the fanfic issue and the "WHY SO SERIOUS?" issue.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #77 on:** September 16, 2008, 09:59:13 AM »

I finally played the demo for Too Human.

When I first heard about this game, it was when it was coming out for the Gamecube. When I read about it back then, it sounded like a shooter RPG that would have an intelligent, thought provoking story about transhumanism and artificial intelligence (Ghost in the Shell with Mass Effect's gameplay, basically).

I have never been more disappointed.

Thad · « **Reply #78 on:** September 28, 2008, 02:27:20 PM »

1up gives Dark Brotherhood an A.

If anyone else here plays it, let me know; the review's light on details other than "It's like Super Mario RPG".

Alex · « **Reply #79 on:** September 28, 2008, 03:02:01 PM »

It's pretty okay so far, Thad. I don't know about giving it an A just yet, but so far, everything about it's screaming A- right now.

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