Kuzu

@E-122-Psi I don't know what else to say lol. I loved Crash 4, and many others did too.  I never felt any of the things that you are feeling and even the people I spoke to about the game claimed that there's very little actually wrong with the game. So I honestly have no idea what is it that you want.

When something is too samey, you accuse of it being stale. When something changes too much, you accuse it of changing too much. 

It honestly feels like you can't be satisfied with something unless it goes against what the majority likes or it's catered to your specific tastes. I'm not trying to be hostile here, but thats honestly what it feels like when I read some of your stuff. I wanna believe you when you say you aren't being a contrarian, but that's what it honestly feels like when I speak with you. 

You need to keep in mind that Crash 4 is a sequel to Crash 3 primarily, so it needed to do SOMETHING to differentiate itself from that game. Wrath of Cortex played too similarly to Crash 3, and was considered vastly worse for it. 

On that end, I honestly liked how Crash 4 did things; it added enough new things to keep the game fresh, but still kept the game familiar to people who played prior Crash games. 

Wrath of Cortex is the exact reason you can't just rehash the same gameplay and expect it to go well, diminishing returns. You need to change it up once in a while. Now whether those changes are good or not is up to the individual, but I really didn't have an issue with Crash 4 and I'm sure many people didn't either. 

And even if I did have a major problem with the game, I'm sure as hell more tolerant of them than I am with the many problems that plague Sonic games whenever they attempt this. 

Like I said, it does not make up for all of the shit that happened. BUT it is a step in the right direction at least.

An easy af main game and more difficult DLC.

Yea, there's way more to do than just Dynamax battles. Like I said, the main quest is essentially a Legendary Pokemon hunt. Outside of the opening, you don't have to do Dynamax battles.

Same is true for Isle of Armor, although the main quest is a bit more story driven but for the most part, you can do whatever you want and explore.

You know the worst part about it; the chapter itself was honestly not that bad. 

What makes it bad is that the pacing is absolutely gone to shit. 

Its like...damn, it reminds DBZ in the worst way possible, I just never noticed how bad the pacing was cuz I was a dumb kid who liked pretty lights. I never knew...

She voiced Phil, Lil, and their Mom.

IF you grew up in the 90's and early 2000's, you'll realize how versatile Kath Soucie's voice is. She voiced like 3-4 characters in one show, all of them with a different pitch. 

That actually would have been a good way of have a unique final boss while also subverting the themes of the game. 

That wouldn't have worked cuz the whole point is that Eggman and Infinite "have no friends, and are therefore weak" 

It's like the game literally had no idea what to do with itself and was just going off a checklist of plot cliches with no coherence on how they work,

Forces feels so at odds with itself; it makes a big deal of Eggman taking over...but most of the game is focused on Infinite as the new big bad guy, only to toss him out for an Eggman boss fight despite the fact that Eggman has barely done shit through the game. 

Talk about not living up to your name...

@Diogenes That's' true, and I do agree. But it also depends on the content of those alternate paths too. If Path B doesn't offer much different from Path A, then they are functionally the same. 

The genesis games generally split this up by having the higher paths be much less treacherous than the lower paths, but in general, every path in the level was pretty much a line to the finish. 

I feel like where 3D Sonic falters a bit is that it's level design is much more horizontal, which does necessitate it being more linear to accomodate for how fast Sonic moves. The faster Sonic moves, the less controllable he is so you need level design that lets you dictate where Sonic goes while maintaining control. 

I honestly wonder how more vertical level design would work to for that same feeling; in 2D, losing control and falling into a pit will just put you in a slower path as opposed to the 3D games where losing control and falling off the level is a death by bottomless pit. 

I will gladly sacrifice Team Dark if it means Rouge gets to do her own thing. It's not like Shadow doesn't already get tons of focus anyway. 

Dude killed 80% of his army with a plan he thought up in two minutes. 

Alright then. 

yea, see THAT I get. 

What I don't get is how do you make something so offensive without actually thinking about it. It's like 

Its like Zeena is written by someone who has never actually interacted with a real female and based their personality on what they see in cartoons. 

Do you see nothing wrong with a character's entire personality being "lol, I'm fat and stupid" ?

If he was just being a tsundere, I'll forgive everything the book has done with him so far. 

I'm kind of hoping this arc actually gives him some personality beyond "I hate everything", because oh man am I bored of him. 

She doesn't get enough focus for that.

I'd argue Brb knew what they were doing, but Sega was being executive as fuck and trying to dictate everything...and then forced them to develop on a consolet they weren't originally developing for...

You remember the last time they gave Sonic to another developer do you?

I honestly have no idea what to infer from Sonic Forces` existence; that game confuses the fuck out of me. I legit cannot even begin to understand what the thought process was with that game, and what I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall during development. 

I didn't say it was a good thing; just something that might actually motivate the creators. 

Whatever happens, it's going to be controversial, because the series is just too big to satisfy thirty years of fans. 

To be honest, I just want a reason to care about this series again; it honestly does feel like the creators just have no idea what to do anymore and just going through the motions of making games. 

Like, you can argue the series has been that way since 1998, but shit, at least the series TRIED to do something new. It didn't always work, but it was something. 

Now it's just like....everything is so damn phoned in. So like...who is actually satisfied with how the series is as a video game series right now? Even people who jump into the series nowadays don't think it's anything special, let alone the older fans who have long since become jaded. 

I don't think we need a reboot or just retread Sonic Adventure until the end of the time. But for fuck's sake, can SOMEONE actually give a damn about this series for once? I've never seen a series as iconic as this one be treated with such apathy.

Maybe a reboot is what they need, a clean slate to worth with or just remember the shit that actually got people to give a damn to begin with. But this half-assed, phoned in shit they've been doing since 2013 ain't it.