The Deleter

They're also in line with the series' general aesthetic, which is cute, colorful, and wierdly surreal but having a specifically powerful and cool appeal when applied in an action scenario

Just like Sonic

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Honestly liked the unique forms, it made them more alien and bizzare and cartoony, sorta like when charcters would shape shift their bodies into certain items inexplicably in those old cartoons. But wouldn't mind if some sort of artificial mechanical wisps were introduced and created energy constructs similar to that pic around Sonic when used.

I think that's my problem with them; they're a bit too cartoony as a transformation, too much of an animation gag for their own good. Their abilities revolve around energy in the first place, so I'd think having an energy field of the same shape/effects surround the character would be better than turning into a solid version of the character's head

Actually now that I think about it did all the characters turn into Sonic's head in Runners' wisps or

Yeah I have to agree; the Wisps turning Sonic in a giant head always looked wrong to me. I prefer them giving Sonic a power, making him glow or whatever as opposed to physically transforming him.

Fun fact, early builds of TSR featured Sonic's face on the cubes that you can throw down as obstacles, but it was removed later on. I would say this is because it's supposed to just be the Wisp instead of Sonic using the Wisp to transform, but the Black Bomb retains its face so it's pretty inconsistent. Not sure about the Orange Rocket and Crimson Eagle etc.

i kinda like the transformations, but i think they could stand to be a little more stylish. just having a swirly glow around sonic or whatever feels a bit boring.

What if they gave Sonic a full body transformation, like Super Sonic? Asides from fur color, his spines could bend the same way as the head forms (maybe not as extreme) to match the Wisp power.

It's not impossible, it's just not going to be any good.

I mean... I guess it's technically "possible" in that it's possible to mix mayonnaise, hot sauce, and lemonade.

But like... why would you do that?

In what world does three sword choreography work though lmao

@The Deleter in a world where people have three arms, duh

I thought it was going to suck because of Netflix?

Both the Netflix-driven reimaginations that I've seen - the Devilman Crybaby and the Witcher series - have been nothing short of fantastic, so I don't see what that would have anything to do with it. Plus Klaus was the best 2D animated movie of the decade, but that was moreso an aquisition by netflix than an original product.

One Piece is a whole other beast though so I don't see it actually working unless they take an entirely new direction ala "make it epix" and create a game of thrones-esque effort in the process

The live action destroys any appeal it could possibly have for me. One Piece is an extremely stylized series that I just don't see what you have to gain from doing it differently. Conversely, I'm open minded to the Cowboy Bebop series that's in development and I can see that working out if done well.

The appeal to me is that we've never had a pirate story as sweeping and grand as One Piece when you look at the series in the light of it's most serious moments, almost reaching the point of a full-on adventure novel series, so to see everything that the series does do without the tounge-and-cheek nature would be... something else to see, but worth it if it could pull off the grand fantasy vibe it has going for it imo. Think Percy Jackson's take on Lord of the Rings, but waaaay more drastic than a reinterpretation of just dialog/presentation tone.

Then again I hate half baked fantasy like Narnia or surrealist stuff like Alice in Wonderland, so maybe best to leave well enough alone

From the trailer? Not really 

what

Nah

I don't particularly care for the visual stylings of Origami King (or Sticker Star and Colour Splash), but what the hell are you smoking?

Well that’s certainly a unique interpretation, but I’m gonna have to disagree with that. Like a lot.

Come again?

came here for the responses, did not disapoint

I was not expecting this to be an unpopular take, but alright lol

What makes you guys feel so strongly about it? In color splash you were traveling through kinda dense/layered worlds, all I can see from the trailer is empty spaces so far, where the origami aesthetic takes precedence (which is just similar shades of color side by side for the most part)

im not saying it’s uninspired or anything but out of all the arts and crafts gimmicks so far, this one feels the weakest in terms of presentation to me

If you don't want your feelings hurt, run a fucking cable to your router. Acting like not connecting your game machine with WiFi is a privilege is about as laughably stupid as any other usual Era takes.

Tbf, on one angle I can see where some are coming from. Say you're a kid/ teen who can only game from their room and the router for the house is downstairs or something. Not a lot of older homes have ethernet ports running through the structure so the only way to get that lan connection would be by running a long af cord across the house. That's something I can't imagine a lot of parents being down with. Not to mention the fact that not too many games nowdays necessarily need that kind of connection in the first place so it overall might not really be a concept to most.

This being said though, yeah, an addition like this is really going to help players that do have a wired connection be able to find good matches and might forces a lot of others to switch over if they can. It's not a pretty move, but it probably isn't a bad one either.

People can already choose to decline a match from you based on your connection. Not sure how this is any different 

@Wraith Because connection stability as it's currently measured in the game vs wifi stability isn't the same thing. Download/upload speeds and ping are all relatively consistent things that can be measured from just a small sample of a player's connection, but wifi has the ability to lose packets at random times with random severity due to wireless interference, which can't really be measured accurately in the same way. It's why people usually encounter lag in games with good connections from all in-game appearances, and why the dev for the game has gone so far as to build this into the game to allow ethernet players to avoid it.

Edit: This is dev in question fwiw

No I'm agreeing with you. I'm just saying I'm confused why anyone was mad about this because you were probably getting denied based on your connection quality already.

I mean like most people in the thread are saying, these people probably wouldn't have been playing SG itself anyways. It's just the idea that wifi gaming just isn't good enough makes everyone lose their cool apparently

I've been mostly playing online games through wifi because there's just no way for me to get a wire through my parents' room without making a big mess (or in a dorm where I live during working days). First-person shooters are actually very lenient to the type of connection you use, since they actually use dedicated servers.

Wifi warriors should not be tolerated in ranked matches for fighting games and I'm surprised they're even allowed to play ranked.

People who use wifi don't deserve rights

You’re lucky. I got a French Final on the 18th.

I had a cooking class final planned for the 15th, but I did so  well on my practice that got I exempted from it (all students who did well on the practice would get exempted). So I only have my French Oral, French Final, and a practical exam for cooking class left.

Yeah a lot of universities seem to be on different schedules of when they start/stop classes from what I've seen. I've seen people (who I think live in the UK) say they were out of school several weeks ago, but then others who say they have their final projects due at least three weeks from now. Least everyone's out by June for the most part tho

Also dang Sanji save some for the rest of us lol

When you think about it, that mindset makes sense; if you're younger and have no context for why the series gets so much shit, then you're going to believe the most common and vocal answer and that indeed would be that IGN, Game Grumps and the like are vocal Sonic critics. 

Its like a child coming online for the first time and learning something that everyone knew for years, but acting as if its a big deal. 

It's not just a function of mass and speed, his surface area and the length of his stride are factors as well. There are also potential psychological factors at play. Sonic can't swim, so if he drops below a speed at which he knows he can stay on top of the water he may well panic, freeze up, and sink (I've seen plenty of novice water-skiers do exactly that). The article also goes in depth about the precise motions which Sonic presumably doesn't know, since he can go fast enough for it not to matter, and isn't interested in trying to figure out for himself (see again "can't swim"). Besides, he can't move at anything between the speed of sound and a brisk jog in the boost games anyway.

... Unless he's drifting. Even without the boost he can stay on top of the water indefinitely by quickly alternating between drifting left and drifting right (at least in the 360 version of Unleashed).

His shoes are the same size as a human's and his legs are half as short, so I figured it'd be less all things considered.

I could probably do the actual physics if I wanted to but I'm too burned out rn to bother tbh