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Discendo Vox posted:It's ultra lowbar ARG speak. "icarus", probably combined with two other words, gets converted into numbers and added somehow, probably to give a release/more info date. I forgot to keep up with this thread for a couple days, but Icarus is the name a Madeon song. The Son of Daedalus stuff is probably just further hints at some kind of Madeon collaboration.
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Dresh posted:I forgot to keep up with this thread for a couple days, but Icarus is the name a Madeon song. The Son of Daedalus stuff is probably just further hints at some kind of Madeon collaboration. ugh. Madeon announced as musician for new Mean Bean Machine remake.
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 04:05 |
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 09:32 |
Bingo- and the fanbase is ahead of both of us: Courtesy of jigenxlupin on Deviantart. (surprise! the artist has some sort of robotnik fetish)
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 10:09 |
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Discendo Vox posted:(surprise! the artist has some sort of robotnik fetish) Whats wrong with that
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 10:35 |
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As far as sonic fetishes go That's the best one to have
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 12:26 |
Kelp Plankton posted:As far as sonic fetishes go Thinking about it, I guess that's objectively true- Eggman's the only character that's not an animal, a minor, a robot, or some combination of the three.
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 21:07 |
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Do we actually know how old he is? I know the Heroes manual had ages for everyone playable but I dunno about the villains.
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 21:11 |
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given that the series is japanese, i'm going to guess that he's the mighty old age of 24
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Dabir posted:Do we actually know how old he is? I know the Heroes manual had ages for everyone playable but I dunno about the villains. The Sonic Heroes manual unfortunately lists himas "Age unknown". It does however say that he's a "romanticist, feminist and a self-professed gentleman".
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 22:02 |
LOCUST FART HELL posted:given that the series is japanese, i'm going to guess that he's the mighty old age of 24 Wikis say it's canonically unknown, but the comic version was 48 "Pre-SGW", which I guess erased everyone's knowledge of how old he is or something. Veotax posted:It does however say that he's a "romanticist, feminist and a self-professed gentleman". I can't decide which I enjoy more: MRA eggman, or the idea that Robotnik is a genuine feminist that would construct a social democratic (dictatorship) paradise if he ever actually conquered the world. "Sure, he puts his face on everything, but the wage gap is gone and we have free universal healthcare!"
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 22:07 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Wikis say it's canonically unknown, but the comic version was 48 "Pre-SGW", which I guess erased everyone's knowledge of how old he is or something. He'd turn everything into robots and gender doesn't even matter if you're a robot.
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 22:15 |
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Robotnik 2016
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 22:19 |
I went looking for a campaign site and OH MY GOD
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 22:21 |
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Mr. Fortitude posted:He'd turn everything into robots and gender doesn't even matter if you're a robot. Sounds good to me. This also reminds me of what I read about the Fleetway comics. Apparently the writers actually realized "girl who has a crush on Sonic" is incredibly boring, and turned her into some sort of badass feminist, and changed her outfit into a t-shirt and fatigues. Never read the comics myself, but that's certainly a step up, especially for a comic written in the 90s.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 01:14 |
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She also stood up to Sonic and put him in his place a couple of times in the Fleetway comic, because Sonic is a giant rear end in a top hat in them. It's been a long time since I read them as a kid but I don't remember her fawning over Sonic all that much either.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 01:19 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Thinking about it, I guess that's objectively true- Eggman's the only character that's not an animal, a minor, a robot, or some combination of the three. He's a giant, talking egg, you sicko.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 01:37 |
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For reference, here's Amy from Sonic the Comic (later in its life):
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 08:26 |
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Why did Amy get a redesign to make her look like knuckles
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 08:52 |
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I've been playing Sonic Lost World on PC and it's great aside from the deadly six talking about kicking sonic's spiny butt every other zone. I'm going for S ranks after beating the game and these are some of the most strict ranking times I've seen in a sonic game.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 08:54 |
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Looper posted:Why did Amy get a redesign to make her look like knuckles I was curious about this, too. Because there was some McGuffin in the comics that could grant wishes, and because she was the "young" one in the group, she wished to be a teenager. This resulted in her Sonic Adventure character design. If I remember right, Sonic's logic jump for his different appearance was just as dumb.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 09:35 |
I enjoy how we all pretend to have not memorized the Archie comics wiki in this thread.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 10:10 |
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Amppelix posted:For reference, here's Amy from Sonic the Comic (later in its life): I love how literally every piece of European pre-Adventure artwork draws her with those upturned spines because I guess the artists only had this image for reference And Sega never bothered sending out her actual reference sheet. Archie, on the other hand, got it right but they changed her dress a bit, and her character was a lot less important until the Adventure adaptation.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 10:20 |
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My entire Sonic comic experience: I spotted one at the counter of a gas station, flipped it open, took one look at Evil Leather Jacket Sonic and Evil Beret Knuckles and tossed it back on the rack. Even lil Sonic-fanatic me knew that poo poo was garbage. Carpetbomb Archie.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 10:35 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:My entire Sonic comic experience: I spotted one at the counter of a gas station, flipped it open, took one look at Evil Leather Jacket Sonic and Evil Beret Knuckles and tossed it back on the rack. Even lil Sonic-fanatic me knew that poo poo was garbage. Carpetbomb Archie. Evil Beret Knuckles should be the name of my garage band
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 10:42 |
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Evil Eagle posted:I've been playing Sonic Lost World on PC and it's great what
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 10:52 |
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I have also been playing Lost World on PC; the script is garbage, the controls terrible, the parkour mystifying and unknowable even until the end and every time the level skip thing pops up I can't hit it fast enough. That they took the Mario Galaxy engine and made something that bad is criminal.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 11:42 |
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Shinjobi posted:
Wait are they meant to be evil because I'm just seeing EuroSonic&Knuckles.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 13:35 |
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MikeJF posted:Wait are they meant to be evil because I'm just seeing EuroSonic&Knuckles. If I remember correctly it was an alternate universe set on the Sunken Island. Sonic and crew were punks blowing up Robotnik's good robots.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 14:25 |
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Wow a Sonic movie. Imagine this but for like two hours.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 14:36 |
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Cubey posted:what It's a good game Doctor_Fruitbat posted:the controls terrible, the parkour mystifying and unknowable even until the end Probably the saddest part about the Wii version is that they came up with a completely different gameplay/control system from the rest of the franchise and didn't put in any tutorials or setup any level design to help people adjust to the new systems. And then out of nowhere expects you to regularly utilize all this stuff that you almost never have to use that is never explained. The 3DS version of the game sucks but at least it had a tutorial level that thoroughly explains the mechanics and early level design that eases you into the games systems so you can get used to it appropriately. The Wii U game still has problems (bad story, unnecessary and stupid gimmick levels, why kicking is even a thing, wtf Frozen factory level design), but the controls honestly are fine once they get explained cause they are pretty specific. The one legitimately bad thing about the controls is that there is no easy "dismount" option off of walls or way to choose if Sonic is gonna wall run or not. You'll end up in a lot of unprecise scenarios where Sonic just has to wall run like an idiot for a couple of seconds and there's nothing you can do about it cause pressing any buttons out of panic is just gonna make it worse.
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Ventana posted:The one legitimately bad thing about the controls is that there is no easy "dismount" option off of walls or way to choose if Sonic is gonna wall run or not. You'll end up in a lot of unprecise scenarios where Sonic just has to wall run like an idiot for a couple of seconds and there's nothing you can do about it cause pressing any buttons out of panic is just gonna make it worse. Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I was talking about. It is absolutely infuriating.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 16:13 |
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I mean there are plenty of other really bad things about the controls, like the identical jump buttons on the ground differing in the air only if there's a target nearby, and the weird tap, release, hold for infinite spindash that could have been easily solved, but I suppose that's more a problem of the game struggling to explain the controls in the first place. That said, it's not nearly as bad as people say it is.
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# ? Feb 15, 2016 16:57 |
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Not half as bad as wall running in the Adventure-through-2006 Sonics. They were really struggling with that until in Unleashed they just went "gently caress it, script it, limited control, print."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b59Ai5xmvio
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 08:14 |
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Same.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 08:25 |
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Robotnik and Bowser: the two hottest men in gaming
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https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/697506711498727425
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Macaluso posted:Robotnik and Bowser: the two hottest men in gaming Bowser's a MRA creep who believes in friendzoning, everyone knows Dr. Wily is a thousand times hotter and should rule the world.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Bowser's a MRA creep who believes in friendzoning, everyone knows Dr. Wily is a thousand times hotter and should rule the world. it took 9 games for wily to make a female robot master.... pretty sure he's not down with the sisterhood, friendo
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