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PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.
Tiara Boobowski?

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SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.




That Sonic is some good avatar material.

Amppelix
Aug 6, 2010

I agree that final rush is awesome when you're speeding through it but boy is it a bad stage actually. The rail mechanics in SA2 are just bad all around, and as a result The Rail Level is bad. They should not be requiring you to precision steer yourself in the air onto the thin-rear end rails with SA2's controls. That's just completely unacceptable. At the very least homing attack should home on rails, but that's not the only problem. The supposedly automatic rail-switching mechanic is garbage too and can send you careening off to space, and not slowing down on rails is an entire crapshoot. I haven't ever been able to cleanly grind some rails in SA2 without entering the "whoops you didn't know to slam the control stick in the other direction" animation.

Stink Terios
Oct 17, 2012


What the hell, SA2 has the best rail mechanics BY FAR.

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011

Stink Terios posted:

What the hell, SA2 has the best rail mechanics BY FAR.

what the gently caress man

Ms. Unsmiley
Feb 13, 2012

Stink Terios posted:

What the hell, SA2 has the best rail mechanics BY FAR.

they feel so good when you nail a sequence, i love it

Amppelix
Aug 6, 2010

Y'all are nuts

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747
SA2's rail mechanics work really, really well when they work, and are janky poo poo when they cock up on you

that's kind of the SA games in a nutshell, to be completely honest- when they're on point, they're loving amazing, but when they're janky, they're janky

Stink Terios
Oct 17, 2012


In SA2 rails are great when you land them.
In every other game they range from bad and boring to absolute catastrophe.

Simsmagic
Aug 3, 2011

im beautiful



SA2 had the second worst rails in the series besides Sonic 06

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


SA2's rail grinding actually involved a degree of skill so it's automatically better than pretty much every other game's rail grinding

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012
I thought that Heroes had the best rails.

Spiderdrake
May 12, 2001



I couldn't beat heroes because the rails out of the gun would just fire me to my death over and over.

Eventually I figured out you could just do it as tails and fly up to reconnect, at which point the game bugged out and crashed. Those goddamn loving speed traps.

PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.
I don't remember much about Heroes except for one of the earlier levels on the Dark path or whatever, the one with the setpiece where you climb the inside of a silo while acid rises up from the bottom of the screen, and being absolutely unable to beat it due to issues with the camera and the homing attack.

Shadow Hog
Feb 23, 2014

Avatar by Jon Davies
Heroes rails were dumb if only because there's no way that constantly jumping around 180° repeatedly like a weirdo would actually generate forward momentum.

Chieves
Sep 20, 2010

Shadow Hog posted:

Heroes rails were dumb if only because there's no way that constantly jumping around 180° repeatedly like a weirdo would actually generate forward momentum.

You only need to do it once and then hold B. :ssh:

Nodosaur
Dec 23, 2014

Shadow Hog posted:

Heroes rails were dumb if only because there's no way that constantly jumping around 180° repeatedly like a weirdo would actually generate forward momentum.

Neither will forcing a round object to spin in place for any length of time, but here we are, two decades later...

Shadow Hog
Feb 23, 2014

Avatar by Jon Davies

Nodosaur posted:

Neither will forcing a round object to spin in place for any length of time, but here we are, two decades later...
Touché.

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

So I'm not entirely sure how it works, but in that early update for PS4 that some people got you can access a unfinished version of Encore mode via the debug menu some people found out.

It's clearly not done by some levels being unchanged other than recolored backgrounds but some levels do have minor changes here and there. Biggest of all being the fact Sonic no longer has a sky chase level, instead it's a normal one.

Elentor
Dec 14, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
That's a fantastic change because I hated that level.

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:
I mean, i liked the music in it, but it wasn't a super impressive level, no.

Hitlersaurus Christ
Oct 14, 2005

I’m gonna be honest, while I’m not a fan of the game as a whole I think Sonic 4 had the best Sky Chase style levels, unless we’re counting Adventure.

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

Tee Lopes is still dropping some crazy awesome music after being done with Mania.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfkKdlMYnC0

azurite
Jul 25, 2010

Strange, isn't it?!


YoshiOfYellow posted:

Tee Lopes is still dropping some crazy awesome music after being done with Mania.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfkKdlMYnC0

That's really awesome! I also like this rendition someone did for the Genesis sound chip, the YM2612.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8HAzcsCrg4

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



azurite posted:

That's really awesome! I also like this rendition someone did for the Genesis sound chip, the YM2612.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8HAzcsCrg4

Sounds like it could have been in an Ecco game under that sound chip.

ArfJason
Sep 5, 2011
Wheres the latest animated short!!!

Dehry
Aug 21, 2009

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/1000074525281677313

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007



:lol: Okay Sonic Twitter, you got me.

Frankston
Jul 27, 2010



New game announcement this month!

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQuDnNO9JsM

Really slickly produced video on Sonic 2's development, there's one on Sonic 1 as well.

Frankston
Jul 27, 2010


Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQuDnNO9JsM

Really slickly produced video on Sonic 2's development, there's one on Sonic 1 as well.

Came here to post this. I've watched countless videos of this type but these are really well made and well worth a watch.

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012
@sonic_hedgehog: [game teaser goes here] https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/1001632459862065152/photo/1

Set up for disappointment nerds

Ms. Unsmiley
Feb 13, 2012

the racing game will be good. i hope shadow gets to ride his motorcycle again

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Well, it's being made by Sumo, who made two of my favourite racing games of all time, so I'm going to get hyped instead. If this turns it to be a spiritual successor to Outrun 2 then I will be incredibly happy.

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

Well, it's being made by Sumo, who made two of my favourite racing games of all time, so I'm going to get hyped instead. If this turns it to be a spiritual successor to Outrun 2 then I will be incredibly happy.

Now I really want an Outrun game but you’re Sonic running down the highway instead of driving a Ferrari.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.


??

SeANMcBAY
Jun 28, 2006

Look on the bright side.



http://imgur.com/a/itCZoXb
Some screens have leaked too.

I’m pretty underwhelmed. I’ll wait for a proper trailer but so far it looks to be just like the older racing games, except all the cool stuff from other Sega games removed.:lol:

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012
I wonder what's the "Team" aspect of this game gonna be.
Or is it a nod to Crash Team Racing and if so why

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

SeANMcBAY posted:

I’m pretty underwhelmed.

Same, a bit.

I'll probably still buy it.

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Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Kikas posted:

Or is it a nod to Crash Team Racing and if so why

Because CTR was great?

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