Dee Dude

does that mean the super fake looking picture from like yesterday or so was real

Ngl, this actually looks great.

Nine-Tailed Tails. Never thought it'd be something I need.

thanks i hate it

What are those shoes?

just be happy his arms aren't blue and he doesn't have random extra quills that just jut out of his regular ones in a very non appealing symmetrical way

Eggman at different ages, maybe? These seem to be the same Eggman at various points in his life (baby, kid, young adult, present-day middle-aged Eggman, and old man) rather than Eggmans from another dimension or something.


Guys, I'm super intrigued by this.

Oh my god, kid Ivo dyed his hair blue. 

I'm just SO excited to see that Eggmanland-inspired locale, so so good.  The character stuff looks great though.

Amazonian Amy I'm not so sure of if that's Amy's backstory this time, but that might be a single universe thing and if not, I'm still open to seeing what they do with it before judging lol.

Those spotlight things shaped like SatAM Robotnik's belly are unsettling... other than that, they look cool.

Amy is now Sticks lol.

Color me intrigued. 

Grab a glass of orange juice and let's GAME GAMERS!

What an odd thing to cosplay as

aiming for low hanging fruit there huh?

eggman

Sonic Man.

I mean, of those three, obviously Tom.

Professor pickle.

My patience.

What's the significance of this?

my gut reaction is always that a dog would feel too mundane, but then i'm not sure that's fair when the series has had multiple cats and they're all fine. maybe it's more that they feel too domesticated? like, when i think of dog-ish traits a lot of them have to do with their relationship with humans which makes them kind of hard to transplant to an anthro version. obviously cats are domesticated too but they've got a more independent streak, and most other characters are wild animals. and a wild dog is basically a wolf and wolves are the swords of the animal kingdom, that is to say, boring and overdone.

Calling a Wolf a Dog character would be no different than calling a Fox a Dog character. Or a Jackal for that matter. We've got canine representation already.

I would be fully satisfied. Legit might be my most wanted in Smash, period. But I have my doubts Sony would ever allow it.

Oh God if this happens now everybody will think i'm some sort of gaming insider 

As for those Forces level designer newbies? I hope they were either fired, trained like hell or are working with a much bigger and experienced team.

It really fucking sucks that 3D Sonic expectations sink so low that you have to pray that a development team is competent enough to do their basic job.

I definitely can't wait for the four different, five minute long JRPG trailers 

I jest but I need some dunky kang.

you'll get project triangle strategy and like it damnit

“HOW DARE YOU COMPLAIN AND NOT BE EXCITED FOR *niche anime game that’s only popular in japan* AND *licensed game of some mediocre kids show*”

CONSOOM CONSOOM

Broke: Wanting Batman Arkham on Switch

Woke: getting DC Super Hero Girls tie-in video game that looks ripped from PS2 era

What is your dislike towards RPGs man? 

I don't dislike RPGs, I'm just tired of Nintendo conferences having a large focus on them. Even when they are varied, RPGs still get ridiculously long trailers that almost no other game gets, upwards of five minutes a go, even when those trailers are unneeded (Most people interested would know within a minute or two if they're interested by the concept, you aren't just randomly gonna decide five minutes in that now you're digging it).

Wanting some variety in a event dedicated to announcing a line-up of games for the next year or so isn't exactly a novel concept. If you don't like RPGs, or hell - you're burnt out on them - them getting so much attention and focus consistently is pretty frustrating.

@Dejimon11 I don’t, it’s just that they get too much focus nowadays and I say this as someone who enjoys playing ones such as Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy.

Advertising niche genres in major events is good actually

Trust me I get wanting variety of other games. It's kinda like how I get burnt out with a lot of indie games being  metriodvanias or journey-clones. But with you Dee after that Scrimblo tweet from earlier this year I don't know man. LOL

Guess I’m not really one to talk since I want Golden Sun to make a comeback myself lmao.

What tweet lol

@Ryannumber1gamer It’s a Smash Twitter thing.

It’s basically a term used to mock fans who are tired of “ anime swordfighters” and how they want mascot characters like Crash and Rayman, I got salty and tweeted about it once lol.

I mean, I can't really blame you, that sounds dumb as hell lol

It’s just weird that the term made by 1 guy on the fly is what ticked a lot of people off even tho for years smash fans would use “generic anime swordsman”. 

I feel like Nintendo fans slept through the fact that RPGs traditionally have done well on Nintendo handhelds and missed that their home consoles lacked them for three or four generations outside of key titles. Of course the Switch is getting more of those. Ports or otherwise. Because it sells. That and Nintendo fans don't give a shit unless something appeals to whatever flavor of the week trending topic they all collectively decided on otherwise they feel baited for overhyping themselves.

I can excuse the last direct as Nintendo forgetting how to better communicate with audience outside their home country with the whole "work-from-home" thing putting a damper on their routine. I trust they won't make the same mistakes now that the world's slowly opening up again.

They can't afford to make another 2015 or 2008, not in front of everyone else. But it's not JRPGs that I'm worried about taking too much time out of this show

like a lot of things i used to be super upset about, like, 4 years ago, i'm past the point of caring. it's gonna happen, the people it caters to are gonna enjoy it, and that's that. better to appreciate the stuff that does appeal to me (even if there's not much) than piss and moan about the stuff that doesn't, life's too short

it's why i've more or less stopped watching nintendo streams live and just sifted through the announcements after the fact, picking out the stuff that interests me. emotionally investing yourself in what's basically a 40-minute commercial is just setting yourself up for disappointment

I love JRPG's so I'm chilling. 

"Sonic! I've finally found you!"

Shadow: 😑

Knuckles: "I think I've seen those guys before, I just can't remember where, also there used to be a red dude hanging out with 'em. 

Eggman to vector: 📻"Those guys will try to stop you! Kill them quickly!"

Big: "Uh oh! Those two people are working with one of Eggman's mean robots!"

Omega: "Insult detected! Engaging threatening procedures!"

Cream: "Tell me where your hiding poor Chocola, you monsters!"

Rouge: "Trust me, little girl, you don't wanna get on these boys' bad sides. You best be toddling along now."

Amy: "Hey, wait... That robot looks familiar... He doesn't look like the kinda guy who'd kidnap innocent creatures." 

Shadow: "And you don't look like the kinda girl who'd know how to stay outta trouble."

Amy: "Wha... and Shadow is back too?! I must really be going crazy now! That does it! (Produces hammer) I'm gonna put an end to this!"

Rouge: "Big mistake, sweetheart!"

(Battle pose)

When I first played the game as a kid, I was so looking forward to fighting Team Chaotix as Team Sonic after I got through Mystic Mansion and was just left scratching me head when the boss was just a fucking enemy mob

Vector: well hey it's knuckles

Sonic: IT'LL BE A DATE TO DIE FOR

I had a headcanon before the game came out that Tails and Charmy would be rivals since they both fly and were in the same age bracket, so when they didn't interact anywhere in the game it felt weird.

Jet Set Radio

Crazy Taxi

Rayman 2

Samba de Amigo (if you can get the maracas)

Marvel vs Capcom 2

Soul Calibur

Skies of Arcadia

Shenmue

Gosh, um...well, it depends on what genre of game you prefer but I could name several that I found very memorable.

ChuChu Rocket, Crazy Taxi 1 &/or 2, Dynamite Cop, Jet Set Radio, Power Stone 1 & 2, Shenmue 1 & 2, Skies of Arcadia, Soulcalibur and Toy Commander are some of the titles I personally enjoyed to various degrees.

Crazy Taxi and House of the Dead 2 are worth checking out.

All the Capcom fighters especially Power Stone 

crazy taxi 

ready 2 rumble boxing 

Evolution: world of sacred device.

Indy pretty much covered all the important ones.

I do hear the GameCube version of Skies of Arcadia might be a little better tho

IMO - Gens still did it best, blending both the Boost formula to the Genesis games. It's easy enough going from left to right, but you have to have good reflexes and be attentive to the game in order to get to the secret areas, or even the hidden paths which tend to be more rewarding.

High pathways are the fastest and most rewarding, but are the most physically demanding of your reflexes and skills, able to react to what's coming within a second. Lower paths on the other hand are less rewarding, slower, and force you to go through at a slower pace for making the mistake of getting there to begin with. It's not difficult, but it demands more work to get to the end usually.

Meanwhile, Forces made it so if you didn't literally spindash at a specific moment on a fucking gigantic slope, you wouldn't be able to get up to the second floor of Chemical Plant. Nice one, Sonic Team. 

These people must've really gotten a real kick in playing Mario Maker and assume the popularity they got there applies outside it

@Ryannumber1gamer Generations still invisibly automates or scripts every ramp and virtually every set piece in the game on top of the abundance of automated boosters, dash ramps and springs (which function nothing like they did in the Classics). I want that all gone.

This is what honestly excites me the most about Sonic 2022/Rangers, because it will be the purest test of Sonic Team's capabilities (or lack thereof) when it comes to making games.

Either they truly change their approach to designing levels, or they'll be creating the most baffling open-world game to ever grace the genre. Where they make a giant sandbox that (in theory) would allow for a lot of free movement and exploration; but you're still railroaded and scripted to do exactly, down to the letter, what their designers want you to do like in their previous games. And the latter would be a truly amazing trainwreck of a game.

I can’t remember or find it, it was someone’s artwork on Twitter I think.

Aw yeah, time to ROCK and ROLL

Legit bugs me that Sonic says this and Jet doesn't have wings either. Some of Jet's concept art designs did have wings even, and he looked so cool. 

classic griffith

It was called Sonic Forces with Sonic's friends at the forefront of the advertising and they still gave you Sonic but brighter and "fuck you make your own" that was just a worse version of Sonic as your playable characters.

Well, they also had Shadow playable.

I guess at least he had a short campaign but even then they barely bothered to make him work outside a handful of levels.

If the open-world thing is true, as well at the BOTW inspirations I honestly expect the Rangers to be this game's version of Guardians.

And Shadow is also basically just edgy Sonic, gameplay-wise.

I really hope the playable Tails rumors in Colors Ultimate turn out to be true, if only because that might bode well for Rangers' character selection.

Gameplay description makes it sound like it's focused on Sonic's abilities, doubt we'll see anyone else.

Considering the teaser once again focused on narrative and aesthetics instead of showing gameplay, they can probably name the game after whatever superficial non-gameplay element that they want to.