Thigolf

tragic

Your PR move is even worse, for you cannot accept that people like different things >:U

accept the delicious truth

@Polkadi~☆ Just because I think this is the worst PR move in the existance of human kind, doesn't mean that I'm not open to things or that he isn't correct.

Because he totally is correct

Honestly original Launch Base sounds more fitting for a "last stage" (or rather, climax stage since at this point it wasn't intended to be the last stage) than final Launch Base, but I still adore the final version for how chilled out it is. Really adds to the summery, "lazy sunday afternoon game" feel that I personally get from Sonic 3 standalone.

You think so? Final Launch Base fits fine, I feel.

The part that kicks in at 0:31 always gave the funky beat a "something's not quite right" kinda vibe to me, and the constant "GO" adds a certain urgency. The prototype one just sounds triumphant and happy - it almost feels like a "Yay you did it" credits tune.

Huh, that's interesting.  Weirdly I can shift my mental gearstick a bit and find it very easy to see your interpretation of the melody - with just slightly different instrumentation/backing tracks or something it wouldn't take much to shift the song into sounding more ominous, but in it's natural state it just sounds like chilling at the beach kinda music for me.  Like, the Project Chaos remix might be more obviously chillout, but to my ears, it matches the tone I got from the game version exactly:

Meanwhile the prototype/PC track is upbeat but a bit more "you're in an industrial place with lots going on!" vibe.

Oh, and to my ears, the "GO!" samples didn't add a sense of urgency, they just came off as a thing that added to the "cool music" mood of the song, just adds a stylish flair, like Sonic Rush's vocal sample-heavy music.

comparing the PC versions to the beta versions, the credits song got the best glow-up by using the MD instruments, i'll tell you that

They kept that song playing for like 30 mins or so after they were done showing the beta and I didn't close the stream till it stopped cause I was tryna listen to it

Wonder the same, but over it, I think that's might be the last time we'll see Classic Sonic prototypes around. I mean, I don't think that there's still so much prototypes lost around.

Likely, I imagine drx got them in some kind of auction and received a box of old Sonic prototypes. And much likely wasn't for a low price.

Looks like an artsy version of Kameo. Wonder how it would play.

Now I'm remembering the SEGA Heritage Collection that only had like three games for it because that was unceremoniously dropped

What is it with classic game collections/ remasters and stopping right before 3D/ 5th-6th gen stuff

This did not age well

Jesus, this is extremely harsh in hindsight...

Is this the same interview where he said that 2019 game will absolutely not have a Pokemon compatibility issue like Gen 2 -> 3 did?

I mean technically speaking it doesn't, the Pokemon it has in the game can be brought over just fine, unlike gen 2 to gen 3. 

But that does come with that sarcastic thinking macro.

This status update made me look up Limp Bizkit, thanks for that.

So far the only thing that got removed that was actually a good thing was all the grinding to breed good Pokemon and the need to breed for Pokemon with good stats altogether

Everyone is just focused on the negatives right now soooo

Don’t the games kind of do that already?

The wild pokemon you encounter in certain parts of the game are usually at a lower level than those of the next gym leader you need to face, with areas containing higher levelled ‘mons not even being accessible until you’ve beaten certain gyms.

If it’s a mechanic that stops you from trading/transferring in higher levelled pokemon on the other hand, that’s good.

Sure, but the wild area now has Pokemon of all kinds of levels roaming around. I don't think this is an enormous issue, but I feel like if you go underleveled to a mon and are brave enough to face it when you could get stomped easily, you should be allowed to catch it.

Have you ever heard of Super Monkey Ball Adventure?

I made it as far as stage 10.5 in SMB HD, which is a fucking awfall stage.

I TRIED TO TELL YALL

STILL MY HEART IS BLAAAAZING

I agree. It baffles me that rosterwise, the Sumo-made racing games got progressively worse over time.

I was really disappointed when SEGA confirmed that Secretary wasn't going to be playable in TSR. She's been neglected for far too long.

Did it get cancelled? Arms was a bit of a flop. According to Wikipedia it sold in excess of 2 million units, which is good in its own, but all interest in the game died out pretty rapidly. Nintendo kept the game going with support for a while. I guess. I just don't think think that Arms had much of an impact.

Before Arms came out I really was thinking it'd be the next Splatoon mainly because of its multiplayer aspect and fun character designs. Sad to see that it pretty much died.

We don't know if the comic got cancelled, but we haven't heard of it in like 1 1/2 years, so I'm not holding my breath.

And yeah, while it wasn't a huge hit, 2 million copies isn't bad at all and since the thing is written already, I feel like it'd be worth a shot to release the comic. ARMS is full of fun, interesting lore implications that the game doesn't fully elaborate on, so I wish the comic would be a thing so we could delve into those things a little deeper.

Personally I'm not all that bummed out about it. Although it looked ridiculously funky and creative, the gameplay didn't interest me enough to even give any of the demo events a go. The fact that it was designed to use motion controls primarily stopped it from being a second Splatoon-like hit.

This is one of the many reasons why games need to implement a good chunk of their story content in the actual game and not wait around for side media. Arms had a very interesting world going for it but they chose to rush out the online elements with bare-bones content without supplementing anything else. Now we have a new lore opportunity dead on arrival.

from parody comics to this

follow your dreams kids

from modified Sprite comics to this

It's a story of the ages

What? I really disagree. Cute fluff is only a bonus like the outfits and didn't really change the roster sadly, but outside of that, there are 44 freaking sports, more than any console Mario & Sonic, a fun story mode, online for every event, they added depth to most of them which wasn't a thing until Sochi, the Dream Events aren't many, that's true. But aside from these things I don't know how could they improve the series further. I'd rather see it end with Tokyo.

There's barely over 30 sports, where are you getting 40 from?

Online mode doesn't change the fact that the games don't have much depth. The vast majority games are barely deeper or more fun than an average Mario Party game, only stretched over a longer period of time. Many of them are nothing more than "played once, moving on". Either you work further on them or you just have to add more, because at this point, it's clear that those games can't hold the interest of many - even less if you've played any of the previous entries and are familiar with most of those events, because they change barely. You can't even play them with new characters because they've stayed the same for a decade! Even the dream events are disappoiting - how often can you play through the same skateboard track or shooting area without getting bored? 

You have to add more modes, tourney modes you can play with friends instead of just single matches and literally nothing else, more challenges, more ANYTHING that keeps you going back. As it stands, it's a party game that seems to barely be fun at parties, and a story mode doesn't change that. I want to bust the game out with friends and have a good time with them, but button mashing to make a character run doesn't do that. 

It's better than rio, sure, but only because Rio already had an abysmal line up to begin with.

Not only but it's over every sport count in any episode of the series, I don't think they can do better than that tbh, there are 34 events in total plus the 10 Tokyo minigames, which are supposed to be the fun mission type of things in the story mode. The deph includes a lot of tips and tricks to master each event, so you can beat the very hard difficulty cpu, it was the same in Rio although for only 14 events… uh. Obviously it's not Tennis Aces level of care but that only has 1 sport to focus on, here there are tons, you get the idea. The problem is the roster which is the same since 2010, it got old fast.

Again, I'd really like to know where you're getting the additional 10 events from. The ones here + the 10 retro events still make barely over 30.

I think Jack is counting the minigames you can do in the story mode which... even if you count those, London still has it beat with 31 events and 39 bonus London Party minigames with a total of 70 games all together.