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My rainbow tells me not to be gullible enough to think a game will be good based on a different game's hype. It also tells me not to believe any game will be good based on hype, which might sound super crazy at first but you gotta trust your feelings after you live and learn.
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Let the person like the crummy game, guys.
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Mar 17, 2019 05:22
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Katsuma posted:Hang on. What? PallateSwappedNinja covered the Bolsonaro thing pretty throughly but Arby's Twitter decided to invent a underage schoolgirl anime mascot and asked if it was anyone's "new waifu" and made a "joke" about her "actually being 54". https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1104049390749138950?s=19 https://twitter.com/Arbys/status/1104106806836715521?s=19 Aaron Webber and the Sonic Media Team thought this was cool and funny and good. I'm trying to find their tweet, it may have been deleted since. DoctorWhat fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Mar 17, 2019 |
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Mar 17, 2019 06:35
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I agree but that attitude comes primarily from the marketing team and not the people actually making the games. Like, I don't think Sonic Team themselves are as in on the joke as the US-run twitter feed might have you believe, and the marketing team's making the most with what they've got, as tacky as it sometimes seems. The twitter and whoever is writing the Sonic Boom cartoon.
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Mar 17, 2019 09:32
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DoctorWhat posted:PallateSwappedNinja covered the Bolsonaro thing pretty throughly but Arby's Twitter decided to invent a underage schoolgirl anime mascot and asked if it was anyone's "new waifu" and made a "joke" about her "actually being 54". Like, I can understand where you’re coming from but I think you’re really reading a lot more into these things than most, including the respective marketing teams.
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Mar 17, 2019 09:40
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They should be reading at least as much into this as I am, it's their job. And I'm not accusing Arby's or Webber of incompetence, either - I think both teams are doing very good jobs of targeting an audience online. I just think their methods range from "willfully negligent" to "actively despicable" when it comes to engaging with things like the rise of anime pedophilia and worldwide fascism.
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Mar 17, 2019 09:58
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I think Sonic Mania 2 is totally being worked on right now, but is not the game they alluded to yesterday. Mania will probably be announce relatively close to its release.
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Mar 17, 2019 10:23
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Sonic Mania 2 will be called Sonic Mania and Shadow Depression and will be about getting proper mental health support that must be paid for with golden rings.
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Mar 17, 2019 10:45
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I think they have a vague concept that there will be a game in future and that's it like when they were in the leadup to the 25th anniversary and went 'oh poo poo people are expecting a game!' and threw something together.
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Mar 17, 2019 10:47
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I hope Sonic Mania 2 has at least one dedicated Sonic Spinball level.
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Mar 17, 2019 11:03
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DoctorWhat posted:They should be reading at least as much into this as I am, it's their job. And I'm not accusing Arby's or Webber of incompetence, either - I think both teams are doing very good jobs of targeting an audience online. I just think their methods range from "willfully negligent" to "actively despicable" when it comes to engaging with things like the rise of anime pedophilia and worldwide fascism. the man tweets about a cartoon hedgehog, no amount of performative wokeness will make him able to do a single drat thing about worldwide fascism
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Mar 17, 2019 11:09
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:I think Sonic Mania 2 is totally being worked on right now, but is not the game they alluded to yesterday. Mania will probably be announce relatively close to its release. If Sonic Mania 2 is being worked on, the original team isn’t working on it. They just started up a new studio.
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Mar 17, 2019 11:15
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True. Though Arby's should definitely be catching more poo poo for whatever the hell it is they're doing
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Mar 17, 2019 14:11
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Screaming Idiot posted:Sonic Forces would be straight-up improved if they reduced the godawful classic Sonic sections. Like, the modern stages are bad, but they're short. The OC stages are also mostly bad, but the gameplay is pretty okay and it's fun to make ridiculous characters. Seriously, I still can't believe how bad the classic Sonic levels felt when they were pretty fine in Generations. It feels like they actively spent more effort on making him control like dogshit when keeping him unchanged would have been good enough. I'd love to know what exactly happened in development.
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Mar 17, 2019 14:24
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I think the gross part of the Arbies thing is trying to get a bunch of people to do unpaid work that pushes their brand/hashtag. And they had better be making a Mania 2 / game with the Mania engine. But repeating success/what works is not something the Sonic Team seems to be good at.
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Mar 17, 2019 14:30
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Srice posted:Seriously, I still can't believe how bad the classic Sonic levels felt when they were pretty fine in Generations. It feels like they actively spent more effort on making him control like dogshit when keeping him unchanged would have been good enough. I'd love to know what exactly happened in development. Equally egregious is the sudden lurch in speed the avatar has that frequently slingshots you into pits, particularly on Imperial Tower. It's difficult to ignore and easily fixed, yet somehow they didn't.
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Mar 17, 2019 14:40
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Macaluso posted:Tyson Hesse livin' his dream Hold up, was Shadow planning to run down Big? What the gently caress, Shadow?! Also Eggman basically being Dick Dastardly and trying to cheat to win is so good. 
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Mar 17, 2019 14:52
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:If Sonic Mania 2 is being worked on, the original team isn’t working on it. They just started up a new studio. Sonic team: "good news fans we got the guy behind the classic Sonic Sonic forces stages to make mania 2 and why are you all screaming what's wrong"
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Mar 17, 2019 14:59
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“I wish for Sonic Mania 2!” *a finger on Paw the Monkey’s hand-shaped head curls* *Sega announces Sonic Mania 2 made by DIMPS featuring 20 acts of Bottomless Pit Zone*
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Mar 17, 2019 16:40
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Carnival Night Zone but if you go down on the wrong barrel it takes you to a bottomless pit and you die. There's no warning beforehand.
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Mar 17, 2019 17:27
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Mushroom Hill but it's filled with speed boosters.
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Mar 17, 2019 18:46
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What if every speed booster has that chicken that blows you back right in front of it.
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Mar 17, 2019 18:50
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we must imagine Sisyphus happy
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Mar 17, 2019 18:53
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Nodosaur posted:There's a certain logic to why loops in 3D are scripted, and Utopia ironically shows why. One, the classic physics make it extremely easy to slip out of them, which is why the 3D games use splines and guard rails on them. Aside from that, 3D makes them kind of pointless, given in Utopia it's one again faster to go around them or hop over the gap between the start and the end of the loop. This is from 900 pages ago but: make it so successfully completing a loop takes 3 seconds off the timer. I have never actually played a 3D sonic game unless Blast counts btw.
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Hitlersaurus Christ posted:If Sonic Mania 2 is being worked on, the original team isn’t working on it. They just started up a new studio. Wait, what? Why? Sonic Mania was universally beloved.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Wait, what? Why? Sonic Mania was universally beloved. Maybe the guy is bored of reliving old Sega IP and wants to do his own thing.
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Mar 18, 2019 02:52
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lol but seriously I posted:Maybe the guy is bored of reliving old Sega IP and wants to do his own thing. He's been doing it for over a decade, so I figure if that's the case then he certainly took his time to make that decision. Maybe he just got tired of dealing with Sega's corporate bullshit -- they are notoriously hostile to one another in that company and will actively sabotage one another over petty slights.
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Mar 18, 2019 03:05
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That new studio indicates nothing about the developers' intent to make Mania 2. If anything, it'd probably make it easier to manage, seeing as the original Mania was made by a bunch of little micro-studios that all had to be corralled. Either way, I don't think they should be cranking out Mania games - the more quickly they put them out, the worse they'll get and the less people will want them. One a gen a la NSMB would be fine.
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Mar 18, 2019 03:07
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Whitehead has had nothing but good things to say about working with Iizuka.
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Mar 18, 2019 03:08
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Elentor posted:Carnival Night Zone but if you go down on the wrong barrel it takes you to a bottomless pit and you die. There's no warning beforehand. carnival night zone but the barrels actually do work the way half the players expected them to, and there actually is a spot where you have to jump on the barrel a bunch of times and then nail the landing perfectly at the lowest point possible to progress
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I’m fine with not getting another Mania. I don’t think it would be as charming the second time, definitely so without those devs. It really felt like they put their all into it.
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I hadn't thought about it until now but did Sega let the Olympics license lapse? Mario & Sonic 2020 for Switch seems like it'd sell a shitload in Japan.
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I agree that making more manias would increment the possibility of one of them turning poo poo, and that making mania a one off makes it a lot more special. But I would REALLY like a game with only brand new stages. I also understand that on a mechanical level, pretty much every stage in mania is basically a new stage because they have gimmicks that the originals didnt to the point they are completely different beasts. But man, press garden 2, studiopolis and mirage saloon made compelling arguments for new stages.
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What was the absolute best mania stage? Personally CPZ2 is the stage I replayed the most. Really fast and the bouncy gel mechanic was cool as poo poo. Puyo boss is a bit of a pacebreaker. Second place would go to either mirage saloon 2, or one of the studiopolises.
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Mar 18, 2019 04:01
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New levels but bring back the game gear rocket shoe bonus stage.
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Mar 18, 2019 04:13
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Also the mechanic where you can skip across water like a stone.
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Mar 18, 2019 04:16
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The White Dragon posted:carnival night zone but the barrels actually do work the way half the players expected them to, and there actually is a spot where you have to jump on the barrel a bunch of times and then nail the landing perfectly at the lowest point possible to progress Now now let's not get crazy here
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Mar 18, 2019 04:18
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Casino Nights shits all over Carnival Nights just shits all over it.
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Mar 18, 2019 04:22
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*Zone.
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ArfJason posted:What was the absolute best mania stage? I spent probably over half my time with Mania in Metallic Madness Zone Acts 1 and 2. They were more or less my dream stages
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