/fast/ - Sonic the Hedgehog

Fast

And thanks for doing the honors, OP!

>>19791

Oh yeah, this is definitely getting a sequel. I imagine we'll get some type of adaptation of Sonic 2 given the mid-credits scene in the movie.

>>19795

>95% Audience Score

Tbh, it's almost amazing hearing just how much people loved watching this film. I read a few posts of people talking about how their theaters would have a shit ton of young Sonic fans all discussing the series, lore, talking about wanting to see Shadow or Silver or Amy or Knuckles appearing & there's been several people talking about their theater erupting during the mid-credits scene. Sounds pretty wonderful, tbh.

>>19791

On one hand it's pretty cool that Sonic has been demonstrated to still be a viable brand, but I don't think there are any other positives. This good outcome happened through sheer clumsiness of everyone involved and I don't trust Sega to take a single constructive conclusion out of this, I'm afraid of how this might end up affecting the whole franchise, and honestly I would really like something else for a movie and instead it's likely that this is here to stay. This isn't how I thought this was going to play out at all, lol.

>>19796

Same thing happened to me when I went to see the movie, It's amazing how popular Sonic is with kids… Wasn't expecting to see them hyped up about the film.

Spoilers ahead

I can't begin to imagine how ugly Tails would've looked like if Sonic's design stayed the same.

>>19799

I think some of it comes down to SEGA changing after Sonic came around & nowadays, the general idea is that franchises like Ristar wouldn't sell.

>>19801

>after Sonic came around

I meant SEGA changing after the mid-90s.

Forgive my brainfart

>>19803

IIRC, doing more with SEGA's current IPs & putting more money into their budget was something confirmed around mid-2019, so it's incredibly likely that's the case with Sonic.

And yeah, they're promoting 2020 as the "Year of Sonic," with some piece of info or news coming out every month this year.

>>19798

tails in the movie looks too much like sonic for me anyway (too similar eye shape) so just apply old design's philosophies onto tails (maybe just shorter) and you'd probably get it close

>>19796

sonic's quills giving the ability to keep up with sonic and eggman going nuts at the end makes me want a simultaneous 2&CD adaption where eggman makes metal sonic cos hes going crazy and needs a punching bag that can react and something that can beat sonic and tails is there and he can maybe do tech shit or just be more firepower to beat something thats equal to sonic [spoiler]and then it leads into a quadrilogy with 3&K as the third movie somehow and the OVA is the fourth movie so it evolves from Metal Sonic (which could look like the drones and stuff and not be blue) to Hyper Metal Sonic[/spoiler]

>>19805

fuck how do you nestle spoilers

>>19806

I mean you could delete your post & try again

>>19807

how to format it properly though cos idk what i did wrong

>>19808

Personally I just wrap ** around everything I try to post. Makes it much easier, since doing it the other way can be a pain.

Test it out

nested test

>>19798

tails in the movie looks too much like sonic for me anyway (too similar eye shape) so just apply old design's philosophies onto tails (maybe just shorter) and you'd probably get it close

>>19796

sonic's quills giving the ability to keep up with sonic and eggman going nuts at the end makes me want a simultaneous 2&CD adaption where eggman makes metal sonic cos hes going crazy and needs a punching bag that can react and something that can beat sonic and tails is there and he can maybe do tech shit or just be more firepower to beat something thats equal to sonic and then it leads into a quadrilogy with 3&K as the third movie somehow and the OVA is the fourth movie so it evolves from Metal Sonic (which could look like the drones and stuff and not be blue) to Hyper Metal Sonic

>>19811

There you go!

>>19813

Nothing Sonic related, but I am next week gonna see about DL'ing from the comics mega link in the OP.

>>19813

Nice pic. I played a bit of Forces and did a bunch of boring stuff like meeting with family and tidying up my apartment. What about you?

>>19812

trying to delete the old post and its giving me a 403 forbidden?

>>19816

Deleting posts is still bugged.

>>19813

I passed a test and drew some shit. Tried out Lost World for the first time, it was fine, but I can't enjoy it entirely since my pc is shit and it runs slower than it should.

>>19830

keep thinking abt movielore a lil, make bread, go outside and stuff, have sonic in back of mind

>>19830

>plans for the week

Get back into drawing and pixel art for the umpteenth time. Might do a banner for /fast/

Play a Sonic game

Play certain video games less

>>19827

Good morning pink gerbil.

>>19830

Play some more Forces, work a lot and sleep very little, hopefuly enjoy the stream on the 20th, look forward to >>19832 's banner.

>>19834

>watch the movie(not yet sure if legally or not)

Are you talking about sneaking into movie theater without paying or is there a rip available for download?

>>19835

I've taken a quick look on TPB and there are HDCAM recordings, so I thought these might be good enough since I'm not concerned with quality. But I have decided to watch it with a friend at the theatre legally

https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2020/02/12/sonic-the-hedgehog-writers-1/

New interview from the writers of the Sonic film.

Apparently, more CG characters & more stuff from Sonic's world was in the early drafts of the movie, but had to change for budgetary reasons. This actually makes me hopeful on seeing more game characters in the future, tbh.

>>19838

I guess that makes one of us.

>>19838

stream when

>>19840

When I can find a quality DL that isn't just someone recording with their camera.

>>19841

>that isn't just someone recording with their camera

sounds unlikely until the movie comes out in dvd or something.

>>19842

Fair, but I do wanna have a good rip to play in the cytube for you guys.

Unless no one cares & just want to see the movie, in which case I can do that.

>>19844

For me it depends on how bad the rips are and how long a good one could take to pop up. I'm probably going to wait for the stream to watch it, but I'm not rushed.

>>19848

This time, it's Japanese and not a reboot.

>>19849

How do we know it's not a reboot though?

>>19850

Because their last Sonic off-shoot failed spectacularly and will never be relevant ever again.

>>19850

Tbh with the next game already in development & SEGA keeping their distance with the movie until the last 3 months, I doubt the movie is gonna lead to a reboot of the series.

Especially with how much money they'd be leaving on the table from capitalizing on Mania's success

A bit of a random question, but if other characters outside of Sonic became playable in the Modern games again, would you be for unique level OSTs ala SA2?

>>19853

fuck yeah

>>19855

Cool picture, anon. Did you take it?

>>19856

wish I had the statue, but no.

>>19853

>unique level osts for different characters

Ideally, I'd want it done where the zone / stage has a base theme and each character has their own twist to the music as well as level design

>>19858

Sounds pretty cool. I can see something like a rock remix for Sonic, rap remix for Knuckles, pop for Amy, etc.

Would the twists in level design be something like Sonic Heroes, or would it be done some other way?

>>19863

Hey, you did a good job on the Sonic so don't beat yourself up too much.

Thanks for the pic, anon!

>>19864

Thanks. But I just noticed I didn't even draw his ears kek. Guess I was really out of it then, I'll fix that later.

>>19863

Reminds me of an Archie cover. Also yeah the ears.

Morning /fast/!

Now we can (sorta) play Sonic X-Treme!

>>19863

Nice.

Sonic 3 is finally getting a port! On TIGER Electronics

https://www.destructoid.com/tiger-electronics-handhelds-are-alive-and-well-in-2020-581059.phtml

>>19871

What stream?

>>19872

The first Sonic Radio thing. We're set to get a stream on the 20th of very month, so we're just a few hours away from the first one.

>>19870

Do they actually play the whole, original game? Also do they play only one game?

>>19874

So far, you can only play 2 X-Treme levels.

But people have used this Dreams game to make their own Sonic levels, some even inspired by Adventure, which is pretty cool.

>>19876

>>19871

I would not get too excited. It's probably just going to be showing the Sonic 2 port for the Switch and Sonic at the Olympics. These streams weren't even announced by Sega of America so there's no chance they'll be announcing anything important

>>19880

Name a cuter mascot than Lah the Ghost. You can't.

Well, only other one I can think of is Shantae.

Soon

>>19882

I'll need to check it out later unfortunately

>>19883

Nice, this makes me wanna see the movie.

>>19883

Much better!

>>19884

Yeah, likewise, I'll need to check it out later, I want to see what Jun and Hoshino got up to!

>>19883

Great work!

Why didn't the Sonic Boom cartoon get a cool opening like all of the other Sonic cartoons did?

>>19892

A: it was a comedy show

B: CN made every show's opening since 2008 last like 30sec-1min long compared to shows back in the pre 2006 era

>>19893

Basically this. It's pretty commonplace for cartoons to basically only show the title card to fit in more commercials.

Although Boom (like other CN shows) did have a longer intro in the UK, IIRC.

>>19891

Nice!

>>19889

>Shadow crying

Heh, good stuff

>>19893

>>19894

I think anon is more referring to the fact that what opening there was (and the full thing the UK got) was a very generic deal with the characters just in basic action shots and some of the most forgettable music ever. There was no creativity or passion at all in that opening.

>>1988

Thank you very cool!

>>19890

That's some really nice stuff!

>>19892

I have always wondered why they chose to use such an uninspired, expressionless intro. It sticks the badger out when comparing the other shows, in a negative way

>>19894

>>Shadow crying

>Heh, good stuff

You horrible monster.

>>19898

I mean, Shadow IS a bit of a jerk sometimes

>>19889

Maria gonna do a Chaos Dunk.

So this is a thing

Which Sonic spin-off you'd like to see get a sequel in the future, /fast/?

>>19902

Battle, hands down! But I hope if they one day do it, they do a better job with the gameplay.

>>19903

Yes! A Battle sequel with the newer characters like Silver, Blaze & whatnot would rule, tbh.

t'd also like to see another attempt at a Riders game. If nothing else, that series had a great aesthetic & deserved a better fate than dying with the Kinect.

>>19901

This is interesting. I like that they're not separating Sonic and "classic" Sonic in two different characters.

I can't help but feel this is in preparation for something bigger, though.

>>19905

There's been some hints that some big announcement is coming this year.

With Sonic at SXSW, I imagine we're getting something game-related very soon.

>>19904

>Silver, Blaze

It could be a lot of fun to fight as them! It sounds like they'd be OP as hell.

>>19901

That was pretty fun. It makes me wonder if they feel the need to do this because they want to move forward with a more story/lore based title. That would be pretty awesome.

We are evolving.

>>19908

Funny and sad.

>>19908

It sounds like this was made out of spite rather than anything else. Doesn't feel as funny or original as the first one, but probably it's because of not frequenting there anymore. I remember all the shitposting that came after the first one too, hopefully they're faring well but yeah fat chance. I Feel bad for anon at the end, though.

>>19916

>the fucking finale of the metal virus is about the deadly six

Why can't Sega just drop them already?

>>19918

Name one Modern recurring antagonist that isn't Eggman or Eggman Nega.

>>19919

That's relevant how?

>>19920

I think the point is that Modern Sonic has a very low list of villains that are recurring, thus the D6 get used more than they probably would otherwise.

Also, Ian hasn't really used 'em much in comics, so they're at least sorta fresh there.

>>19921

But as the final conflict in a zombie story? The D6 just feel so haphazardly thrown in to a plot about a rampaging, seemingly unstoppable zombie virus. You have this really dire situation about a mindless entity consuming the world that's suddenly undermined by the dollar-store Koopa Kids becoming the lead villains in control of said mindless entity. The plot shouldn't really have a lead villain like that in the first place, because it acts counter to the entire point of the story. It just feel like another instance of the D6 being shoved into a story they have no place in, like pretty much every use of the D6 aside from Lost World and maybe Runners.

>>19919

Why did it have to be a recurring antagonist? That doesn't make it necessarily good.

>>19922

I suppose that's a fair point. Although it *does* kinda make sense given that they can control robots, but the D6 has been very over-exposed in recent Sonic media without much to really show for it.

I liked the way Ian wrote them in #25, but I can't help but feel like the Deadly Six is still lacking in personality or reasons to care about them, unlike Starline, Eggman or Metal, etc.

https://www.sonicstadium.org/2020/02/sonic-blasts-to-the-top-of-the-box-office-for-2nd-week-grosses-200-mil/

>Sonic Movie made over 200 million

Jesus, I could've never have imagined this a year ago. With this & the rumors of who's gonna be in the sequel, there may be an actual Sonic movie franchise.

>>19926

>A full animated Marza Sonic flick

That's the dream, tbh. Going by what's being posted on their social media lately, it's clear Marza wants to do some more Sonic stuff so I'm all for it.

I love this

>>19935

Sweet!

>>19936

Homing attacking robots while holding Elise feels dumb.

>>19937

Elise can take it, I'm sure.

>>19939

She takes it like she wants to take hedgehog cock.

Is there a Sonic game with an OST more underrated than Sonic Heroes?

>>19940

W-well, I suppose so

>>19943

I'm hoping Cream finally snaps and tears a zeti up.

>>19943

God damn, Gray's covers have been a treat lately.

>>19944

That would be pretty fun actually.

>>19943

>OUCH POTATO

I chuckled.

>GEEK GRRRL

wut

Is Cream's mom using someone else's cup or something?

>>19947

Could be, although I dunno who'd fit that description outside of Wave. Or maybe Vanilla's a nerd

>>19944

Hell yeah

>>19943

I want to point out that Big is not only in first, but is using the fishing rod controller. Also, Tails appears to be cheating and using a controller by his own design. Rouge is actually cheating and yet is still somehow in 7th.

>>19950

Big kicking everyone's asses in Sonic Shuffle with a fishing rod controller is just amazing, tbh.

chao focused mini story arc when

>>19953

Cute stuff.

>>19954

Tbh, I can see that being a story in the Annual. Would be pretty sweet.

>>19955

I completely forgot about the annual. When is it coming out again? Have they already gotten around to delay it?

>>19960

IIRC, it's coming out in April. No word on delays so far, so who knows

>>19957

Gonna be busy most of the day, but tonight, I may play some Sonic Unleashed

Just looked up stuff about TLSC out of curiosity & surprise surprise, it's still not out.

Hasn't it been 10 years since it was announced?

>>19962

Ten years would be 2010, which I'm pretty sure is at least a couple of years before it got announced. Pretty close, though.

>>19956

I really wish spring would get here already. I'm tired of Chicago winter.

>>19965

>>19966

Looking nice. Feels like it's been a while since we got Super Sonic merch, tbh.

>>19962

Has he actually had any kind of paid work in all these years?

>>19968

IIRC, he did a few commissions at recent conventions but beyond that, he hasn't had any real work since his first couple of years after leaving Archie.

I think his wife's a lawyer, so he's doing fine.

>>19971

Oh nice. Not him, but this is pretty cool stuff.

>>19973

You know, despite what people say I still have fond memories of Colors. Fucking around with the drill wisp and finding hidden areas was comfy as hell.

>>19974

Colors is pretty much the opposite of Unleashed, nice gimmicks on top of a poorly built game.

Although I've said I wasn't going to update much on the low poly game until March, I did want to address something I've realized when comparing my game to the likes of SA1/2.

Radical Highway confirms one thing; SA2 moves a lot faster than my game does but also has slower movement at the same time than my game?…

Basically, because you can spindash whenever you want with a high force output compared to the classic games instead of using the slopes to gain your speed naturally, you kinda have this "start and stop" type of gameplay which makes the flow of the game look really weird. It means, despite not looking like it, if SA2 played more like my game you'd actually have lots of moments you can just fly over the level with the speed gainage you can get in SA2 and skip a lot of the current level design, if you had more closer momentum to the classics.

This isn't me calling SA1/2 out persay, it's more like, it's what had to be ajusted to somehow make a faster Sonic the Hedgehog while also having control, even if it messes with the fluidity of the momentum itself, and more than likely, due to the file size of the game they had to make work on the Dreamcast at the time. It's interesting to notice that, comparing to Emerald Coast, my game is almost pace to pace the same as in SA1. So SA2 is more or less at faster kinda of game than SA1.

As long as you don't spam the spindash like in SA1 that is. /blog

>>19976

Huh. I never really thought about the way SA2 played like that before. I suppose with that in mind, it actually kinda makes some sense as to why Adventure 2 never fully replicated the classic games style of momentum, even if it was one of the better attempts in the 3D games.

Although I can't help but wonder how the scenario you mentioned would've turned out for speedruns of SA2 & the like

>>19977

Those figs look great. I see an Amy in the back, is it new or what?

>>19979

Well, tell Lah to stop being so cute then!

It was Naoto Ohshima's birthday yesterday.

Iizuka's birthday is next month, I believe. And apparently Ohshima retweeted this:

https://twitter.com/EmeryKennedy77/status/1232220540708016129

Archie Sonic characters are SoA property.

I wish I got Blinx a long time ago now that I have an original Xbox

>>19981

Lovely. I don't think we've gotten many figures with Eggman's pod so that's very nice. The Amy & Metal are looking sweet, too.

>>19982

>Archie Sonic characters are SoA property

In the case of post-reboot Archie, I think SEGA made it a point to get the rights to them to avoid another Penders situation from happening. Great to know those guys aren't in legal purgatory, at least.

>>19982

I wonder if it's true.

>>19983

>Great to know those guys aren't in legal purgatory, at least

They still could be I guess, they might be wary to use them out of fear of attracting issues, even if they're in their right to use them.

>>19986

Morning anon!

>>19984

I imagine SEGA was also heavily soured on anything Archie after the Penders & Fulop legal mess. I can't blame them, but I guess I'm glad the fans are keeping them alive at least.

>>19987

Those guys are to us what Chris Christie is to New Jersey.

We all pray he gets killed as soon as possible…

I'm glad stuff like StC: Online and Archie Sonic Online exist just to show how much we care.

I remember a certain anon trying to justify that they are nothing but non-canon fan fiction that's not worth existing (even if some of the original staff worked on them). While it's true to some degree, you don't see SEGA trying to continue them anytime soon.

I say mass community support is as good a Seal of Approval as any (especially if the original creators support them), that's how I think they made that Sonic Movie not only watchable, but ironically one of the best video game movies ever made.

Come to think of it, maybe that's one of the reasons why SEGA are the complete opposite when it comes to fan-made content compared to the likes of Nintendo and Konami.

How many of you think Penders will attack the Archie Sonic Online staff for infringement?

>>19989

I doubt he'd do anything to ASO, just based on the fact that he'd gain nothing from it. Going off of some of the stuff he's said over the years, the only reason Ken is doing any of this is because he wants to make money with his characters attached to official Sonic series material.

He even talked about how despite the legal issues, he wanted to "work things out with SEGA so they could use his characters in the games in exchange for him being able to use Knuckles in a film."

Now with all that being said, I will be fair & admit that if Penders/Fulop or anyone else weren't paid royalties for characters they may have legally owned, then yeah, they should've sought compensation. However, that doesn't justify the shit that Ken has been doing in all the years since the lawsuit.

>>19988

Cute hogs. I kinda wish we had gotten the "online short series before a game's release" deal sooner, because some shorts based off of Generations would've been nice.

I hope SEGA brings Naganuma back for a future OST. Rush had some sick stuff in it.

>>19992

Lost World and Forces, and I disliked both, but LW far, FAR more

Mania and Robo Blast 2, both I liked a lot. Get's both 2D/3D Sonic right for me desu.

>>19992

I was about to say forces but then remembered the last game i played was actually Skypatrol if that counts.

In terms of forces, despite its more blatant issues; the only thing that really made it a poor experience was how short it is for me.

Its other flaws are decently well hidden for a really loose playthrough, though i'm sure they'd become very apparent if i played it for longer.

Personally i find sky patrol just a fun little game, its a bit odd to get use to; but once you do its pretty fun.

Difficultly is pretty normal till the final which is a huge leap in difficulty. But well, the game is really short so i guess i can't really blame the jump.

https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1233130871353298945

So Ken is planning to reprint & re-sell his Archie Sonic run.

The balls on this man is incredible.

>>19996

>Spoiler

Not really but you just miss out on Ray and Mighty. Otherwise, it's really not such a big miss but it's not a bad thing to just get Plus.

The only thing Plus replaces from the original is the old Metal Sonic bossfight. It's replaced with a Knuckles's Chaotix reference.

>>19997

https://twitter.com/KenPenders/status/1233081283506425856

Wrong tweet, but yeah. He's seriously going to re-print his Archie run under his publication & will (seemingly at least) remove the Archie name.

>>19997

>>19999

It would be balls if he realized how risky it is. In reality, he's so narcissistic he doesn't even see the possibility of this backfiring on him.

>>19987

>I imagine SEGA was also heavily soured on anything Archie after the Penders & Fulop legal mess

They should turned the other cheek for us fans like we've had to do for them so many times in the past.

>I guess I'm glad the fans are keeping them alive at least.

Yeah, definitely.

>>19989

>How many of you think Penders will attack the Archie Sonic Online staff for infringement?

That would be fun and a new low for him. Honestly, if I ever worked on any fan projects I'd do so anonymously. Cease and Desist this. Though in the case of people working on these fancomics I think they might use them as portfolios later on so it could be not so easy.

>>19990

>I doubt he'd do anything to ASO

I can at the very least see him demanding that they put © and ® Pen Kenders like he's demanded in the past in relation to fanart of "his" characters.

>I will be fair & admit that if Penders/Fulop or anyone else weren't paid royalties for characters they may have legally owned

He even went on the record saying he didn't own anything before his contract vanished without a trace, if I remember correctly. He's a snake and when he saw the chance he bit the hand that fed him.

>>19996

Sky patrol has an odd rep from what i've seen. I've seen it labeled as extremely difficult but it really is just a learning curve till Dark Castle.

i'll never get why zones are called areas; though i suppose a lot about sky patrol is an enigma.

Its probably a side effect of lack of exposure, while people sorta know it exists; its not a game that gives you a large amount of breathing room like Tails Adventure.

>>19999

Holy hell thats amazingly stupid. I think he forgot that he didn't get all the characters in those.

>>19992

I'm still slowly going through Forces. It's… a mess, honestly. It doesn't really do anything well and it doesn't do anything for too long, so it doesn't end up being offensively bad, but it's… basically nothing.

>>19992

I played the final release of Sonic 2 Advanced Edit. It did some neat things, but man, some of those levels go on way too long, and some of the bosses are horrendous. Sad the devs basically had to drop the project before it was finished, though.

>>19997

>>19999

This guy is playing 4D chess. All he's got going for and what keeps him relevant is the hate he gets from every side, so he has to keep doing shit like this so he doesn't fade into obscurity until he releases his comic.

>>19996

>There's a new Sonic Riders mod?

I don't know if it is actually new, but I just discovered it a few days ago.

>There are many more changes present in the mod. Character balance, tweaked mechanics, helpful features, and even more additional content! You can see every we changed in great detail by browsing our website here: https://sites.google.com/view/sonic-riders-te/home

>It's important to mention that the mod and the texture pack are separate to give people the choice of whether or not they want to use it. Additionally, the texture pack also works on vanilla Riders. If you don't care for the mod you can still play riders with our high res 2D assets!

>>20007

>so far he's done really well for himself

He got his characters back, but only because Archie's legal team sucked balls, and as a consequence he made himself a pariah to Archie Sonic fans, the only people who might have been interested in the LSC in the first place. Very few people are actually going to buy his shit, now, which is probably why he's trying to resort to selling Archie issues. And, considering those issues contain characters own by SEGA, they're going to drop the hammer down on him hard if he actually attempts it.

>>20012

Probably nothing Sonic related outside of listening to Sonic music. Maybe I'll listen to one of the Sonic vinyls I got.

>>20012

I'm going to play Sonic Battle. Haven't touched it in years, and I've been getting interested on it lately.

>>20010

>considering those issues contain characters own by SEGA, they're going to drop the hammer down on him hard if he actually attempts it.

Depending on how things actually played out, I think it's possible they might not be able to. Take this with a grain of salt but I remember him getting the right to some of the issues and not just his characters, and if that's the case then Sega gave permission to produce those issues and they can't take that back, so I imagine he'll present himself as the rights holder for the issues (but not Sonic or any or the characters) and say he can reprint them.

It's like how Sega can't remake Sonic 3 because of rights issues with some parts original material but they still can port it to as many platforms they like without problem because they're not making a new product with the original material (which would require new licenses), they're just commercializing the product the material was licensed for so it's perfectly okay.

>>20015

Yeah no, he literally cannot; he could remove sonic and such from the comic and release it sure; but he cannot release it with them intact.

SEGA basically gave zero shits in regards to Archies bed shitting. They sure as fuck didn't sign any contracts that gave limited usage of their characters.

He might own issues, but he doesn't own anything that gives him access to actual SEGA characters; just like he wouldn't own any ads attached to the issues he bought.

>>20016

So basically, he'd have to remove all the Sonic game characters, the Freedom Fighters, every character that debuted in SatAM, the random characters from other franchises that showed up in Archie (Spawn, the X-Files) & (if he's really planning on doing the whole comic series) the Capcom characters that appeared in the comic?

>>20017

Weren't the Spawn appearances and such parody? Pretty sure those are safe.

But yeah realistically he would have to modify and change the names of the characters that aren't his.

I don't even know if he bought any of the issues involving Capcom stuff.

Or he could get permission from SEGA i suppose, always a technical possibility.

>>20018

I know the TMNT appearance was a parody, but I think Spawn was actually a crossover. Been a long time, so I may be mis-remembering.

>>20016

>They sure as fuck didn't sign any contracts that gave limited usage of their characters

I don't think that's relevant anymore because the characters have already been approved by SEGA to feature in the comics. They can't say they didn't approve the use of their characters anymore, now it's about who owns the rights to the film/comic/game that they're featured on. It could be a situation like with Sonic 3 where Sega can't use the original tunes because they don't own them, not even for a Sonic 3 remake (since it'd be a new product and would require relicensing), but they can re-release the already made Sonic 3 without modifications, because they did license the tunes to be used in that game and they own the game.

>>20018

The Image appearances were from an actual crossover issue. That was supposed to be the real spawn Sonic and co. met.

>>20012

Finish Forces I guess. Maybe replay a few missions.

>>20014

Battle is a lot of fun, enjoy. Record some fights for us if you can!

>>20023

Well, objective complete I guess. Happy to see Sergio got a mention in the credits, but I was surprised Haruki Satomi (CEO) also got mentioned, and as an executive producer no less.

>>20025

How did you like the final boss?

>>20026

It was very uninspired. In the case of the fight with Classic, it was very disappointing they reused the very first boss mechanic, but what they did with the floor was an okay twist I guess. Still, very very uninspired compared to some of the bosses in the classic games. The one with the avatar was better I guess in the sense that it was more original, but it wasn't anything to write home about. It wasn't anything exhilarating or super fun or anything. For the one with the three of them, it also felt very unoriginal, uninspired, and honestly kind of boring. It feels they took the worst possible lessons from previous boss fights. Sorry to be such a downer.

>>20029

>Softlocking in a modern Sonic game

Color me surprised…

>>20031

The D in IDW stands for Delay

>>20031

What a joke of a publisher.

Sonic by DC when?

>>20035

>No proof anything in the image hints at the actual content of the next game

Hopefully the fact that Classic is there doesn't mean we're going to get Forces 2 or something. I imagine the 30 in the title references the 30th anniversary, which would be pretty cool because it'd be great if they ramped up the 30th anniversary hype soon.

>OP of thread states SEGA's going to rerelease HD ports of most 3D Sonic games to current and next gen consoles coming soon at SXSW.

That would be so much work simply because of how many games there are. I just hope if this is true and they're actually putting that many resources into re-releasing old games everyone's played 1000 times, they're also actually putting a good amount of resources into the actual anniversary game. Because I can totally see them using up all their resources into something other than the anniversary game and then them running out of resources for said game.

>>19990

Nice optimism, and I can confirm that Triple A Comic Writers are fucked over every day even worse than Penders (especially at Marvel), but he milked it so hard, Archie became so lactose intolerant that they made all of us drink soy.

>>19997

>>19999

It's not just balls, but he's proving to be a Grade A Edison when it comes to property seizure (in this case, we were all Teslas).

>>20001

Continuing from my statement above, he's also proven to be on the same wavelength of (if not worse than) a Star Wars fan-boy. I'm willing to bet 10 dollars that he still lives with his mother as well. They're all either pretty lousy liars, or master manipulators.

>>20011

I agree wholeheartedly.

It's hard to pinpoint a prime canon for a series like Sonic because it was Rick and Morty before Rick and Morty when it comes to "infinite worlds, infinite possibilities".

As the saying goes:

"Multiverse theory is a bitch!"

Lay it on me if you think I can elaborate anything else…

>>20036

Well don't get too excited because it might actually be faked

https://twitter.com/SamsProStation/status/1233835821196881920?s=20

Official SEGA font has a different styled 3 because of legal reasons.

>>20038

Kinda fucked that a lot of people thought it was a hoax because it looked too good.

>>20039

Sad but accurate

Just came across this, throw your opinions.

>>20041

Some people usually only bring up Archie Sonic's pre-reboot era solely to clown on it for being "so weird" & whatnot, but it's nice that a lot of people look back on that series with fondness & praising its high points. I'd like to see a part 2 that covered more of the post-reboot years because there was some stuff introduced in that period that doesn't get enough love, imo.

Makes me all the more excited to make that Archie Sonic storytime thread here, as well.

https://www.sonicstadium.org/2020/02/sonic-went-super-in-early-movie-drafts-director-confirms/

>Super Sonic was almost in the movie

Mad men. Although it probably would've been a bad idea to pull the trigger on that so early.

>>19992

>what was the most recent Sonic game you've played?

Rush, Colors, 3ds Generations, and Cronicles

>Thoughts on it?

I played rush adventure first, which I liked a bit more, but rush is fun so far. Colors is hard to get used to for me due to the lack of tricks like in rush, the same can be said about Generations. I've heard alot of bad stuff about Chronicles, and I can agree about the fighting being lackluster, but the story keeps me going.

>>20048

Being Silver is suffering

>>20047

I like that music, sounds like something from an amiga demo

>>20048

Ouch!

https://twitter.com/ThatSoni/status/1234177289207848967?s=20

So Pontaff are seemingly done with the games

>>20053

About fucking time.

https://cytu.be/r/8chanmania

Can't wait to see Knuckles job again to Optimus Prime

(At least he beat Cirno today)

Some of his videos are underrated give me a watch.

>>20055

>>20056

nice

>>20048

I see nothing wrong.

Marry the trap, Silver.

>>20053

Good riddance.

>Wrote the games "Sonic Colors", "Sonic Generations", […], "Sonic Team Racing" and probably a few I forgot

Says how much he cared.

>>20060

It seems Toyoda comes up with the premise/plot outlines, while Pontaff came up with the jokes and one-liners

>>20062

In which case, depending on who replaces the, this could be some progress then!

Obviously I wish the two well in whatever they do next, but they never really impressed me with their writing on Sonic so I can't say I'll miss them on the games.

>>20053

oof

>>20060

>Sonic Forces (2017) — Writers

Oh no

>>20061

I'm mean Sonic Colors was ok.

So that maybe they did at first.

>>20061

>>20053

I had to recheck that bit with Graff. He actually said that on his resume, I feel like I should be surprised, but wew. Wonder how much hate mail the duo have gotten over the years

As for the mania, Knuckles is back to fight Mr. Rogers for one hell of a childhood battle:

https://cytu.be/r/8chanmania

>>20066

>>20056

Bless that echidna

>>20070

Yeah, but it was a good run for him regardless.

At least he didn't die this time.

>>20073

>Sonic X edits

Not gonna lie, it' warms my heart to see these are still a thing in 2020.

>>20074

I just like the style a lot so I'm happy people are still doing them.

>>20073

That Sonic vs Shadow fight was such a waste. I hope we get a rematch now that zombot Shad is being controlled by the Zeti.

>>20076

Spoiler Alert Buddy!

>>20077

The comics are not nearly exciting or action-packed enough to have spoilers ruin the story.

>>20077

/r/ing Buddy holding a spoiler alert sign.

>>20078

For the most part I disagree, but Shadow turning Zombot happened months ago. Anon should keep up, tbh.

>>20079

Heh!

>>20081

Technically speaking, they could all be called Buddy. But for the sake of giving them unique names, I suppose they could be Gal & Pal

>>20081

Who even are they?

>>20083

Some of the custom character examples that was shown in ads for Sonic Forces.

>>20086

It's alright, I forgot about those guys sometimes myself.

>>20081

All called Buddy according to Steam trading cards.

The more I listen to this song, the more I realize this is probably Shadow's best theme in the series. Not that I hate the ones he was given in his game, but Throw It All Away is just incredibly addictive.

>>20089

This, i wish they continued the more jazzy-ish rock for his game and themes.

>>20090

because that shit sounds like damn good villain music

>>20089

To this day I still don't know why they didn't just remix that for his evil route ending instead of going for Powerman 5000. Guess they really wanted to go whole hog on the edge.

>>20089

I think this kind of music worked well for the game, but I'm not a fan of the music itself at all.

>>20095

He looks sorta cuddly

>>20093

>go whole hog

Heh!

>>20095

He should have been in more games like a Fighters Mega Mix sequel

https://www.sonicstadium.org/2020/03/you-can-buy-sonics-shoes-now-but-itll-cost-you-thousands-of-dollars/

>A Thousand Dollars

Jesus, that's a big price.

>>20099

Ten. The immediate price without bids is $10,000.

>>20099

The amount of merchandise you could buy with 10 grand…

>>20104

That stuff looks nice!

>>20106

True. If only Shadow wasn't a big jerk on top of it

>>20108

Or, ShTH killed his image.

SA2 is 20 years old, and no one played the GBA Power Stone game or cared about 06 past surface value to care about Shadow's 3rd of the story.

He's less misunderstood, moreso misused by SEGA and overrated based on headcanons around the character. You can pull that card on the entire cast since Colors, when Kishimoto took over the series, but as far as people are considered, Shadow's image alone ruined him. Maybe instead of designing him to be evil Sonic maybe people could see that "Sweetheart" said of him from a casual perspective

It's like saying Mewtwo or Waluigi is "good" on the inside. They are designed to imply the opposite.

>>20109

Shadow was made to be a pure character, though. That's what Maekawa wanted when he created him. It's the whole point of SA2, which remains one of the most popular Sonic games to this day. Hell, the dude even uses "boku" as his personal pronoun.

>I myself treated Shadow as an image that is a very subtle and pure character, this “boku” was a part that I could not throw away.

I don't care about public perception, whatever. They can think what they want. But the fanbase should know better. You should know better. His design is meant to convey "he's evil Sonic" when in reality, that is most definitely not the case. I don't understand how people miss it, Shadow isn't a total jerk, and even someone with knowledge of only post-2010 Sonic media should be able to realize this.

This isn't meant to be rude or condescending btw I'm just very tired of people misinterpreting Sonic characters.

>>20108

>Shadow isn't a big jerk

You're right. He's a small jerk!

For real some of the misunderstanding surrounding Shadow's character can also be attributed to Sonic media playing up his perceived role as "Vegeta of the Sonic series" in recent years. He's been a victim of misinterpretation similar to how Silver, Big or other characters are/were misinterpreted.

>>20112

In all fairness, I've always been a bit partial to some of the lighter portrayals of Silver (like in the Archie Silver Age arc), but yeah, this is an unfortunate side effect of some of the inconsistent writing the franchise has undergone over the years. In some ways it can't be helped, with how much Sonic media has existed, how many different writers the franchise has had, but it does make me wish SEGA was consistent themselves in the games. Maybe having a level designer be the character supervisor of the series wasn't the brightest idea

>>19911

> Feel bad for anon at the end, though.

Me too, i honest was a bit piss off that video putted the world smallest violin clip because anon is goddamn right. except for the shitposting part, there not even shitposting anymore, 4/vg/'s /sthg/ mostly just been getting angry or horny at this point (from what the video has shown).

>>20118

Tbf it was Chris, he had it coming

>>19983

Does that mean Tangle and Whisper could be added to the games if they wanted to? I never think they would as they tend to avoid that but it'd be fun to play as them. Maybe a spin off title? I'd even take a mobile game if it was decent.

>>20108

I find it kind of funny Shadow had a literal tsundere moment in JP SA2 followed by the standard reply of "you're not honest (with your feelings), are you?" by Rouge.

>>20122

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on this, but from what I remember all the Sonic comic characters from Post-SGW Archie to IDW Sonic can be used by SEGA if they choose to use them.

Funny enough, Tangle & Whisper were designed with having a gimmick that could be integrated into gameplay in mind.

>>20126

I'm not caught up on the comic, what would Whisper's gimmick be? Sniper?

>>20127

Sniper/Wispon user, yeah

>>20127

Weapon that changes forms based on Wisp.

>>20133

I'm not a newcomer, I've just developed taste and realized that Shadow x Maria is the patrician ship.

>>20134

Well, that's still a good conversion

>>20134

>patrician ship

Oxymoron if I've ever seen one.

>>20133

Always fun to get newcomers.

>>20137

kek

>>20137

I have never seen anything good come out of shipping.

>>20139

What about cute fanart?

>>20142

nice