neezTHEhuman

No pop Superstar is untainted by scandal.

That is strikingly odd, now that you mention that...

i think there are many debates to be had over that actually

Greatest 3D Sonic maybe, but Banjo-Kazooie still holds the title as the greatest 3D platformer of all time

...I guess its the best far as 3D GBA games go

But does it have a giant singing pile of shit trying to kill you? No? Then its not the greatest 3D platformer ever!

You're right though. There was no debate. Just murder.

RIP SA1 1998-2001

Maybe the greatest on the Dreamcast.

y'know what, I don't necessarily agree with that wild take, but the undying Adventure fanboy in me says to respect it, so I will

I wouldn't necessarily say fuck this franchise just yet, although considering that Zippo was proven wrong entirely...

Ya, it's probably another boost game 

Good luck.

good eye candy if nothing else.

Good eye candy if you're not playing the Switch version.

I want to get the game at some point too. When it hits absolutely rock bottom prices, I'll give it a go. 

Good eye candy on the CGI cutscenes only. The rest looks terrible. 

Nah, the rest of the game looks pretty nice. Not amazing, pretty much standard for Unreal Engine games these days, but rather nice. 

Nah, it looks like a bad PS2 game honestly. 

It really, really doesn't look anything like that. The Switch version looks really bad, but there's nothing offensive about the graphics on other platforms.

I'm normally tolerant towards them, but i prefer when a game actually bothers to justify how the double jump is performed instead of "oh, your character can just break the laws of physics like that".

In Crash Bandicoot using the double jump results in losing horizontal momentum, I think some sort of sacrifice for the ability is necessary. 

Hell yeah it is.

On one hand I'm sad, on the other I'm free

I can finally move on with my life. 

Not be sad that it ended, but that happy that it happened at all. 

@Nix

I wonder what it says about us that we'd feel relief as opposed to sadness at Sonic ending....

This series has fucked us up something fierce.

I'd be sad as I'd have no more CD's to collect. Jun needs my money guys!

Cool

On one hand, my childhood hero is gone.

On the other, fucking finally god damn...

Shame that the last platformer was a mediocre 

nature is healing

Okay

Agreed. It's absolutely top.

Yes.

Sonic CD is the real Sonic Colors.

Legit, though, CD is far and away the most colorful of the classic games.

That gives sonic rings instead of him? Nah,

He's his own waifu

What's the lore behind the statue? 

The angel is said to be the previous savior of little planet but is unknown whether she is still alive so the inhabitants built a temple to house her statue inside to commemorate her until eggman took it over. It is until sonic uncovers this statue that it reveals a small hint of her state.

In the bad future, eggman just left the prototype of the statue that is in stardust speedway in the area somewhere just to mess with sonic.

I totally made this up.

I dig it! Surprised no one's created a fan character based on her....so far.

DAS ME! CROW!

CROW NO LIEK EGGMINS THO

The what? What're you all talking about?

@Waveshocker Sigma

This statue in wacky work bench zone

Well, it will probably never get back to where it was before Reddit and twitter, but if the new game was good or the pre-release hype of 2021 was promising this place could probably jump back a bit.

Adventure 3 maybe?

Twitter, Discord, YouTube, Twitch, and Reddit all going offline simultaneously, just like when the Nintendo forums closed down and everyone moved to here and the Sega forums en masse

What's interesting is that you can still make a large platform like SSMB nowadays, as Tails Channel proved, it's just not at the same level of constant engagement that the forums usually achieve. Everyone comes together from their different niches for the livestreams, news announcements, and events, but otherwise everyone pretty much chooses to stay in their preferred lanes as long as they want to otherwise

Probably a good half or more status updates never get any responses, so why bother?

The only time I can see SEGA stopping Sonic is when SEGA themselves die off, and I don't see that happening any more or less than any other notable video game company. 

If SEGA dies, Nintendo or another company will buy the rights to Sonic.  Just as when Rare which gave us Donkey Kong Country, Jet Force Gemini, Banjo Kazooie, and Perfect Dark got bought by Microsoft. 

Even Sonic Mania still had Iizuka involved in a pretty high capacity. Don't get your hopes up.

words cannot describe how much I hate these types of comments.

and not Tekno?

If I owned a pet squirrel/chipmunk hybrid, I'd call it Sally.

It should. I'm excited 😁

i know, to add chocolate to this sundae, SONIC GT IS GETTING AN UPDATE! it's one of my favorite sonic fangames of all time. everything you'd want in a sonic game is there and I LOVE IT!

Looks like we have a good showcase this year, a lot of them caught my eye. So yeah, I guess you could say I'm excited!

YOU EVEN GET TO PLAY AS MIGHTY. MIGHTY!

I'm always excited to see Sonic fangames

What about him?

Opinion on his channel? I enjoy his content and presentation style, kind of filling the void left by Cobanermani.

He's alright. I enjoy his content. Some awful jokes, but his channel is nice to watch in the background. 

Cobanermani is irritating to watch. Can't stand him. Has he stopped uploading?

Cobanermani is on hiatus and apparently dealing with personal issues.

Oh okay. 

Internet fame is a strange beast.

As you should. As you should.

They talk like normal human beings towards each other rather than exaggerated caricaturized overreactions, so by default that makes them some of the characters with the best chemistry in the series yeah lol

Honestly yeah. They work off each other surprisingly well despite how completely different from each other they are.

yeah i think they work well together. they did a neat thing where they sort of mirror each other but not as blatant or shallow as you'd expect, where sonic's this sort of high energy adrenaline junkie type while blaze is much more focused and controlled, but then you dig under the surface and blaze is not nearly as in control of herself as she acts while sonic is much harder to shake and generally keeps a clear head no matter how wild things get. that extra layer helps them bring out more nuance in each other.

plus it's one of the few relationships in the series where it feels like they fully respect each other as equals. it's not like tails or amy to sonic where they put him on a pedestal, or knuckles and shadow to sonic where their relationship's got an element of rivalry and they can be, to some extent, a threat to each other.

and then the end of rush is like, actual ship-launching material; both "stepping" closer, the hesitantly offered and enthusiastically accepted handshake, holding tighter and reaching out as they get pulled apart, all to a song about one person empowering another...it's a little cheesy but for a series that doesn't usually do romance, it's actually pretty effective.

its like manic pixie dream girl if the dream girl was a boy

@Diogenes your analysis is spot on and reveals exactly why the pairing appeals to me so much, also I'm glad someone credible like yourself interpreted the ending of Sonic Rush the same way I did! 

they're the COAT

I'll admit I'm not a serious shipper. I enjoy Sonouge because I feel like they balance out a lot but honestly if any ship was to ever become fully canon I wouldn't mind Sonaze. They honestly feel like they could be a genuinely healthy couple.