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And Harley Quinn's new costume is god damn amazing.

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@Spin Attaxx

I watched it all a couple months back. Didn’t personally see what the rage was all about. Like the ending wasn’t entirely satisfying, but nothing to go “this show sucks” over 

I've never heard of this program before so Googled it and now I finally know what the second face is in the Cal Arts meme.

I can't speak personally but from what I've heard, an insulting as hell finale coming after two lackluster seasons that throws away the charm of Season 1 and 2 for a bunch of relationship drama, and turning Star into a garbage asshole of a person.

It's one of those endings where, if you watch it in a vacuum divorced from the rest of the series, it's not the worst thing ever, but when you stop and think about the context of the rest of the series, it has a bunch of unintentionally ugly implications (you know how people joked about Sonic killing people with that blackout in the movie? Think that, but this time it's intentional, and we see actual victims).

Though beyond that, it also does a couple of things that play into this unintentional "white saviour" narrative that I've realised kinda hangs over the series ever since it decided it wanted to be Baby's First Game of Thones instead of a lighthearted dimension-hopping comedy.

EDIT: And as Ryan said, it's also the culmination of issues that are present since the start of the third season, and are largely unaddressed even by the fourth.

people tend to over exaggerate to hell and back when it comes to cartoons so i can never tell until i watch it myself

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I don't get why people are so baffled. Exclusive deals like this have been in games since the 90s. Earthworm Jim had exclusive Sega content, The PS1 Mortal Kombat games had content not on the N64 versions, the Xbox 360 had exclusive Call of Duty stuff, this is all part of competition, companies trying to give us reasons to get their console.

Doesn't make it less shitty, dude.

I think he's wondering what has changed now for people to actually start complaining, because this has been the first major example i see for this case. Hell, only a few years ago everyone was a-ok with Ubisoft having Star Fox content for the Switch version of Starlink and no deal for the other versions.

Not to mention that is one of the most egregious examples ever. If you're dismissing that just because "it's the way it's always been", you're being wilfully ignorant and dismissive.

It was always shitty. It was shitty with star link, it was shitty with Sonic & sega all stars, and it’s shitty now.

but good god, I hate that I was right in thinking there’d be more sectioned off in this game 

Lol, fuck off Square and Sony

@KHCast I forgot about that! I could accept Banjo/Avatars on 360 and Miis on Wii because of first party rights, but having several SEGA brands exclusive to PC was lame. Although IIRC it was a much later release and SEGA simply weren't interested in the going through the associated costs of updating all the other platforms.

That and some of the added characters (2 from Total War, one from Company of Heroes and one from Football Manager) had more presence (if not complete) on the PC market. Although in that case it could be Sumo just got told the exclusitivity beforehand and decided to pick and choose themed racers.

@Thigolf  Why is it shitty? So basically you're saying Nintendo is shitty for doing that Wii U exclusivity deal with SEGA a few years back. Are they also shitty for putting their games only on the Switch? In the entertainment industry if you have no exclusive content you're nothing dude, why would I spend money on something, be it a console, a streaming service or whatever if there's nothing it offeres that others don't ?

Was SEGA shitty for not putting Sonic 2 on the SNES as well?

@Blue Blood Even in those cases, it still was a case of devaluing the PlayStation version and charging the same amount for it. Still shitty even if it “makes sense” given the characters. Hell, having different content in the same game based on different consoles is still in itself a ridiculously dumb idea to me, since it essentially tries to FOMO us and make us feel bad for not getting the other “better” version(s)

@pppp that’s a lotta false equivalences you’re making 

“In the entertainment industry if you have no exclusive content you're nothing dude” 

In the case of video games, that’s why first party exclusives are a thing 

“Was SEGA shitty for not putting Sonic 2 on the SNES as well?”

LOL WHAT? 

If a rich as fuck company shoves money up the ass of another company to keep content from other platforms, it's shitty, yes.

Especially if the former rich as fuck as company has plenty of studios and cash to make their own content anyway. Noone is mad that Sony made games are Sony platform exclusives. People are mad that Sony and Square gatekeep their third party shit. Sony gets sales. Square gets cash. The consumer gets NOTHING out of this, other than fucked over.

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So basically you're saying Nintendo is shitty for doing that Wii U exclusivity deal with SEGA a few years back.

Thinks back to how RoL literally had one leg in the grave coming out the gate as they had to port the game down from hardware they already had working builds for. Not to mention how the series in general had next to no footing tech wise this generation largely due to being stuck on that gen for another 3 years...

... I mean to be fair, it was largely Sega being stupid there too.

Gee that's not blatant advertisment for the (indefinitely better) PS Spider Man games at all

Looks a bit rough but reminds me of Billy Hatcher a bit.

Is this the first time Naka and Oshima have worked together since...what, Sonic Adventure?

What's more, is this the first time Square-Enix has ever done a platformer?

didn't navi already leave after oot? it was a different fairy in mm, tatl in the english version.

The implication is that at the start of MM Link is searching for Navi before he gets jumped by Skull Kid. After that, the plot threads of what Link was doing at the start of the game and Navi's disappearance are never brought up again.

Proof #2.

I think he was very fair. The game has LOTS of bad traits, but several really good ones too. Ultimately, I think the bad wins out, but eh.

The gameplay is definitely the worst part of the game (which is kind of the most important thing but eh...) but everything else makes it up so much for me that it's still one of my favorite Sonic games. 

Wonder how this has made Sally fans feel 

That name is redacted from all SEGA archives.

...

Wait.

Nicole the Holo-Lynx is gone too now.

Fuck I didn't think about this until now. Loved Nicole.

Sally was in a game already:

But seriously, what game are they being added to?

Like, I'm guessing Speed Battle, but I googled it and didn't find anything.

Sonic Dash

What will their voices sound like?😮

im still wondering what marine sounds like tho

@Pelvic WOO! engine Neither Dash nor Speed Battle use voice clips.

In fairness Sally had her turn used in SEGA marketing in the mid 90s, just stuff like spin off games was a less lax process those days (they sure did TRY though, just they never got off the ground).

Also at this point I can see why characters like Sticks, Tangle and Whisper have been considered more compatible with this sort of marketing, not just because their works are the fresh new 'hot topic', but because they're more easy to translate. They all have one consistent design and characterisation and it's largely flexible with the games universe. You don't lose a ton of important lore and character building slapping Sticks in her Boom design in the games world for example.

With Sally and the other Freedom Fighters, they've went through an excessive amount of retools and development. It's WAY easier to alienate actual fans of the characters by just picking one interpretation as the 'official' one and sticking them in.

Honestly, i'm pretty stocked for seeing the SGB old videos revisited and given more detailed reviews that fit in with Johnny's current style. Hell, Resident Evil 5 also fits that, so we'll see that too soon enough.

That, stuff like Mortal Kombat, Metroid Prime and Other M. There's a lot of stuff that could be really good being done with Modern Johnny