SaturnWolf

Even more obvious in that in Fist Bump, the lyrics only ever mention two people, the player and sonic, but never factors in classic sonic, like the singer never says "the three of us" or anything like that

Ther probablay could ahve fixed or at least martginally improved the Avatar and Modern if they hadn't put time into Classic tbh.

edit: They probably could have fixed or at least marginally improved the Avatar and Modern if they hadn't put time into Classic tbh.

ALRIGHT I GET IT CLASSIC BAD NOT NEEDED OOGA BOOGA

I guess I struck a nerve?

Wording lmao

You have to kill yourself to get experience nowadays. They’re looking for that and degrees.

Job hunting is demoralizing. Keep your head up, though.

Of course. Egg Dragoon in Gens is one of my all fime favorite bosses in Sonic. Time Eater... Meh, they always experiment in extra battles without substance and effort.

I see that boss as a personification of all the bad moments in the series; from sudden gameplay changes with poor execution, to completely useless side characters who never shut up. (Even if you disable tutorials, which is basically what that is.) It's like after being rewarded with the rest of the game that brings out the Best of Sonic, we have to pay for it by dealing with all the worst aspects rolled into one.

Frankly, it's also eerily prophetic for what happens to the franchise after this game: More bad gameplay, characters and junk. What a way to finish off a beautiful celebration of Sonic's past by giving players a glimpse into his "bright, sparkling" future. 

was kinda nice seeing the Egg Dragoon fight in the way that Eggman probably originally intended it to. I remember reading in Unleashed's Eggman machine bios that he build it as the ultimate fighting machine against sonic or whatever but never accounted for the Werehog when building it originally, which is why it was easily torn apart by Sonic in that form. But in Gens its like Eggman technically has the upperhand that go around

couldn't make it look clean. mufasa fell and got trampled, looks like an accident. mauling simba himself would leave too much evidence and another "accident" would be suspicious.

also doesn't he sic the hyenas on simba anyway

He does tell the hyenas to kill simba. Then the hyenas lie to Scar. Scar tells the pride both the king and crown prince died. He even looks at the hyenas saying I thought you were dead when Simba returned

@Diogenes what if he Stepped on Simba’s Head/throat and choke him to death?

in that case the lion crime scene investigators would surely notice the lack of hoofprints or related trauma and investigate further.

really the point isn't that there would be no possible way for scar to get away with killing him, but that he had ways of getting rid of him without (further) dirtying his hands

@Diogenes If there isn’t a lion who does the police siren. And there isn’t a ticker tape made from grass surrounding the crime scene, I’m gonna be mad.

i mean, half of me absolutely understands sony being sheepish about disney wanting to shoulder the financial burden less. they just got fox (and the related marvel film rights) and had a great box office this year; and yet now they want sony to co-finance the movies (whereas under the current deal sony handles marketing/distribution while marvel studios handles production and gets 5% of the first-dollar gross). i agree with what wraith said in a previous status that they're being greedy in that context

but the fact rothman --of fox marvel fame-- is playing the role in negotiations has the other half of me just laughing

@Milo Plus Disney got 100% of merch sales too.

Ugh.

I take it it's against the rules to say who was it?

CrazySonicfan110.

You can view the whole mess here:

The fuck is with YouTubers this year

@Zaysho It's not just this year.

Wow that's fucked up.

Per the norm for YouTubers this year I guess.

@Balding Spider Fair, but I don't normally follow this stuff and I've just been hearing about it so often this year it's pretty surprising.

Not surprised, just disappointed. 

You know, Fisher filmed a lot of scenes for VII and VIII which will be used in IX. I'm gonna leave it at that.

I be perfectly willing for them to asspull making Han into a Force Ghost for no explained reason and without any warning if it meant fulfilling that desire.

Just thinking on this almost put me in tears, I don't think I'm prepared for Episode IX.

But Idk, Sequels have went in a totally different way from what I expected, an ok movie, a bad one and now I think I'm putting much hype for Episode IX which may end up disappoint me. I don't think it will fix all the other problems VII and VIII had, despite III did this with I and II.

But yeah, seems a very unlike scene to film Han, Leia and Luke together on Episodes VII and VIII and more unlike if Han and (Theoretically) Luke are dead.

I’d like to imagine if SEGA didn’t force them to release it on Wii U and let them use the planned consoles, the game would’ve resembled a better product.

Rise of Lyric failed on two fronts that messed the show up badly - one - it was meant to be a prequel explaining Boom Sonic’s origins, and how he met the rest of the group, as well as setting up lore for the series that would’ve portrayed it more than being a comedy (If the echidna and ancient hedgehog statues are any indication).

SEGA was counter intuitive about allowing an origin game, because Sonic Team was considering a origins thing and didn’t want it dictated by a Western company, despite the fact that Boom in general was literally designed to be a radically different approach by a Western company, so what they planned shouldn’t have mattered much to Sonic Team’s.

Really, it was the shift to Wii U that killed it though. It became a meme for being as bad as 06, and that spun off into a bad showing for the TV series and comic, which was far better. 

@Ryannumber1gamer especially hilarious seeing as it's been 5 years and still no word on that origin story that SEGA was apparently so confident in doing that they fucked up a whole sub-franchise for it

@Vertical Snoop [D.K.] I'm thinking they probably wanted to continue the Generations trend while hitting the reset button. The next game after Gens would have been the origin game before they decided to scrap it and make a new game nothing to do with Sonic's origins.

I wish they gave Big Red Button more liverty with Boom.  I feel like they could've made a pretty good (if not a great) game.

@Ryannumber1gamer Apparently they even had a time limit as the game had to be out by 2014. I'm not sure when they found out about this but apparently they had to crunch it to even get it out.

@DiamondX

IIRC, there was two reasons, the Boom show, and the deal with Nintendo. SEGA wouldn't extend the deadline due to these. The unfortunate part is the project had time, and was running stupidly well on high end consoles.

Then SEGA demanded it ported to Wii U, an overhaul of the story. A game designed for PS4 and Xbox One on an engine designed specifically for those consoles had about a few months to get it ported and downgraded. It's no surprise it ended up how it did.

Even conceptually it was boring and uninspired. The show turned out bad too for this reason. The comic is only any good at all because of Ian. 

That being said Big Red Button didn't deserve the treatment they recieved. Nobody deserves that.

The show wasn't bad at all perhaps because it didn't even bother with the boring origins or lore shit that the OG game tried to hamstring together and just went the self contained cartoon approach. Was it a good thing that the games, comics and show all operated on different canons? Nope. But in hindsight it worked out for the best. It's all dead now so it doesn't really matter. I'm more interested in the amount of money that Sega wasted on this venture more than anything else 

It just would of been Jak and Daxter with sonic characters