Dejimon11

Ok good, it’s actually coming out this year. Wonder why they couldn’t confirm anything last month at E3.

They said that they wanted to release the game when Next Level games were ready. Pretty much the same reason why they delayed animal crossing to next year to avoid crunch. 

Was wondering how long before this would happen 

Long lost sister?

Why does she have splinter hands?

Doesn't look too bad.

I thought we already had one...?

Looks badass still.

@Tails spin

No, it's a original character who was a foot clan soldier, who slowly grew kinder as Splinter took over the clan. 

She was recently stabbed by Karai, who's attempting to brutally retake the foot clan, and force the orphans that were currently in the care of Splinter into either being trained (and brainwashed) into loyal soldiers for the Foot, or killed, as they know too much over the inner-workings of the Foot Clan.

In order to save her life, Leo has to give her a blood transfer to allow his mutagen to heal her wound, the side effect is it mutated her.

I did mention it XP. Though why not, let's see how it goes. My only real gripe is having 3 weapons which I think is trying a bit too hard to be cool. A bow turtle would have been a neat addition on its own. Though having claws and a sword on top of that kinda seems a bit much. Hope she works out and doesn't go the way of Venus.

Huh. I like her. Looks pretty cool.

@Dejimon11 Well... I mean

it's nothing that hasn't happened before.

So it's like WWE fans vs AEW fans atm.

Yeah pretty much 

Uh, no. 

I don't care about the directors fixing something that shouldn't have been so broken in the first place. I also don't care about the movie when it still features about a hundred other problems that will not be fixed and still looks awful.

lol no

Indeed. Changing one character's design =/= Fixing the whole movie

I don't care if they're gonna make Sonic look more like Sonic, the film still looks very uninteresting to me.

Oh wait I forgot this was posted by one of the sonic Boom writers in a desperate attempt at relevance. 

Just watch- The next trailer debuts with the new design, people will still talk badly about it.

Then these chaps will change their tune to the ol' "Sonic Fans are Impossible to Please" shtick.

At this point, they should just ignored everyone and ran with the original design because what’s the point of changing one thing?

yeah i've been seeing that tweet showing up quite a bit on my feed too. for some reason.

badgering people to be grateful for companies trying to fix their (the company's) own mistakes would be (slightly) more commendable if the mistakes in question weren't ridiculous to start with. anybody with some basic knowledge of sonic would had seen the design the studio came up with as a giant disaster from miles away.

@SupahBerry winner winner chicken dinner

Life is too short to be spending money on games and movies I know I won't like.

Not only does nobody owe Paramount and the studio making the movie anything, but "oh but what if no studio listens to fans again" means nothing to me. Stuff like that should be judged on a case by case basis, sometimes fans have a point, sometimes...uh...not.

That if you want him in modern games again...

Whoever voiced him in Waku Waku Sonic Patrol Car has more right to voice classic Sonic than him. 

Jaleel White's high pitched voice kinda bugs me so no thanks

His was the best Sonic voice to me altogether.

I think Jaleel is best suited to Sonic’s old American look.

Trying to imagine Jeleel’s voice coming out of Sonic’s classic Japanese design just...doesn’t work for me.

I honestly think 1/2 Genie Hero's biggest problem is just reverting the good made by Pirate's Curse. Risky's gear gave such a fun way of mixing abilities and keeping up momentum that it sucks to have to jump back to Risky's Revenge where you've got to deal with the transformations, especially when stuff like Monkey Bullet requires far more precision than using the cannon or Risky's hat.

It really removed a fun aspect of the game.

HGH really isn't very good on the gameplay front. It's very plain and uninspired platforming, padded out with ludicrous amounts of backtracking and gating off basic manouvers as upgrades for your upgrades. The game is always telling you that you've got to replay the majority of a level to grab the one specific item that let's you do a context-specific move to get another item hidden near the end of another level. And did I mention the levels are long and linear? Piss off. Then you get into the realms of "went is this even in the game" with rubbish like the mouse transformation, or the two slightly different swimming transformations that do basically the same thing but are made separate to inconvenience the player.

The music is great. The graphics are great too, but I really dislike the character design in Shantae (big boobs, bare skin and cliché anime voices are all necessities for WF female characters). And beyond that... Nope. Absolutely not fun. I've not played any of the other games and I don't think that I really want to. PC looks better, but not particularly great.

And I'd just like to say what a dumb catchphrase "ret 2 go" is. A bit a googling tells me that it comes from an inside joke at Way Forward, which is fine, but didn't make it feel any less bizarre. It sounds forced every time it's used.

@Blue Blood

It doesn't just look better, it is legitimately a really good platformer, basically the total opposite of HGH - the backtracking is well done, the moveset you unlock throughout the adventure is meaningful and actually provides much more versatility, as well as allowing you to mix and match to your heart's content (using boots, cannon, and hat for example can give you a lot of fast movement).

The new abilities and items allow you to just very easily blaze through levels, and means that momentum is always flowing as well in the later stages of the game. There's also only two main collectables - heart squids and Cracklebats.

HGH is a pretty eh game, but Pirate's Curse IMO is legitimately fantastic and worth trying out if you get a sale on it at some stage.

Like I said last time, I'm very glad WF is going back to the Metroidvania route for the next game. It's not crowdfunded this time, and the opening is very promising.

@Blue Blood

Pirate’s Curse had much better gameplay overall. On Half Genie Hero I feel some of the other character modes such as Risky’s story mode are more fun to play then the main one. But I won’t fully disagree with your problems with the main story mode for that game, it needed far more work.

Far as character design… I disagree with the idea of them not being good. The characters have VERY fun designs and their charm is what drew me into the series to start with. I think folk like you over exaggerate how sexy all the characters actually are, especially with the thought of how “big” everybody’s boobs are… Shantae does not really even have big boobs herself… people who think otherwise are just to used to certain western children cartoons that try to be as PC as possible. I don’t have a problem it is not your personal taste in design, not all character designs & art styles can or should appeal to everybody. But I personally enjoy whimsical cute & sexy character designs as long the characters are likable in other ways too.

Wayforward games are so white bread in terms of mechanics that I have to assume people are playing them because of the characters and their designs 

I liked Pirates Curse but thats more like the exception rather than the rule. 

@Wraith

Fans like me also enjoy the goofy light hearted stories that have some continuation. The stories are just good silly fun and relaxing to me with a cast of characters mostly with enjoyable personalities that allow actually caring about following their adventures.

To me many game franchises the characters lack soul and whimsy in writing. However you are not wrong in that many fans are into it especially because of the characters on Shantae... (not overly different with many Sonic fans honestly) I am personally really picky in the types of characters I greatly enjoy in fiction, and some of the Shantae cast managed to hit me perfectly with a handful of them.

Art style, music, and characters go a long way to get me interested in a game even if the gameplay isn't its strongest element. The Shantae games are pretty basic but I liked them enough to replay multiple times as well as WayForward's Mighty Switch Force games, which are pretty excellent puzzle platformers. Shantae isn't the only series like this for me; Solatorobo is a fantastic game with one of my favorite fantasy worlds in a video game, but the gameplay is kind of the worst part of it lol.

Pirates Curse is the only game I outright enjoyed. As for the characters themselves I think they’re all pretty bland or annoying. Risky Boots being the one exception due to her character arc in that game. 

Risky Boots is actually my favorite character from the series. after that it is Shantae in 2nd place and Rotty Tops in 3rd.

Holly is worse than Metal Sonic as marketing for Sonic CD

She was being heavily pushed as being a Shantae rival that would be a thing for the entire game

And that's it for her in HGH.

At least you raced Metal once...

She was even a kickstarter stretch goal. What happened? 

Honestly, what's lame is her personality and voice was kind of annoying to begin with. I'm following a 100% guide as I'm going along and found out I'm literally beginning to near the final chapters of the game, and I'm like "...what?"

Honestly I don't blame you for using a guide for these games. Especially in PC when you had to find all the dark tinerbats. 

HGH feels like a bunch of different storylines that are entirely unrelated to each other. All of them go nowhere. The Holly one is the worst though, because it comes just as the game is getting started and you think that is going to be something important. But nope. One level and a boss fight later, she's gone and Shantae has her job back.

Spoilers: Not really. Skip to the Risky Boots campaign if you want a better time.

The Shenmue games were commercial failures (the first one was the single most expensive game ever made at the time, IIRC) and Sega didn't want to bother, so they licensed the IP to Ys Net.

Makes sense. I just wished that this whole situation was handled better especially with recent news. 

The moment they got deep silver involved I figured things would take a turn for the worse. The fact they keep having to find other sources of money really does beg the question is it worth all this investment from these companies.

Heh. Back into the driver's seat, I see. I don't expect you'll be returning to CTR anytime soon eh?

I'll still play it since I did enjoy the game a lot.  

So you actually got N Topy and his digital skin too?

I 100% the adventure mode. I ain't dealing with that crap

*Sigh* I can't blame you.

...did you?

*Sits alone in the I unlocked N.Trophy club*

@TheOcelot Hehehehe. What about the Digital N. Trophy?

truly, CTR is the undisputed rival to Mario Kart

Ah, you got CTR'd today I see.

it makes me sad that despite being extra beautiful and chock full of extra stuff, the core gameplay of CTR has been made significantly worse by races just kind of being designed to fuck you rather than attempt to make ai that acts like human players

Step aside Mario Kart Wii, there's a new contender for worst racing game AI in town.

That's so unlucky.

If you had been turbo-sliding you might have reached the finish line before N.Gin, but not guaranteed. The AI reacts so fast after being hit.

*when you already had a huge meal an you feel fat af but you still eat one more helping thats just as good but you still feel bad about it but it was still good tho*

No toy story movies were necessary 

3 ended perfectly imo, so that just made 4 feel all the more pointless. It’s ending wasn’t even all that emotional, despite what Tim Allen and Tom Hanks would have you believe 

I'm hearing very mixed things about Toy Story 4. Can't wait to see it 

My big brother, who actually dislikes TS3 (sibilings are a mistake), called 4 what 3 should have been.

Toy Story 4 justifies it's existence by being good. That's all it needed.

It’s still underwhelming and feels honestly unfinished at a few points. Being “good” doesn’t absolve it from criticism. Like it’s good, but it to me didn’t feel like it was nearly as memorable. It’s just there. It exists. It’s definitely toy story 

Nah it's finished I just wished that things ended with 3 instead of 4 being the epilogue. We could of had those holiday shorts and left it like that. Also Buzz is a moron in this movie. 

It feels unfinished when it comes to the extended cast. I get it’s a woody focused plot, but they really made everyone else feel just there. Especially Jessie. Poor her. I was really hoping her role would be larger 

Maybe I'm just bitter that this movie hurt the development for Incredibles 2. 

The other characters weren't the focus of the film.

The films focus on the small group of toys was overall generic and not all that special and could have used more character interactions with the cast they had waddling around in the background 

You guys don't know how to critique anything, man. You just string random words together 

Sounds more like you just are personally in a “meh” attitude about anything when people on here have a problem with anything 

Like damn, sorry people didn’t care for TS4 all that much and just found it there. Opinions, shocker.

If only it were that simple. 

Well whenever someone has a negative criticism on something, you usually take the apathetic “so what” route. So I do think it’s that simple. People don’t think TS4 is all that special? You feel the need to take a defensive stance, and say people can’t criticize or have opinions correctly because you personally don’t have a issue with the films goals and direction 

You seem to think the problem is people expressing negative opinions when it's just people saying dumb things.

TS4 feels low stakes, it’s focus on woody overall felt pointless and boring when compared to previous entries which were also able integrate the casts much better(even fucking buzz feels just there), and just feel doesn’t like a good follow up to 3 when it comes to satisfying conclusion. That’s not an exclusive opinion to this forum, quite a lot of people are saying that, despite it yes, overall being decent. Which is what it just is. Decent. If you’re gonna call people idiots cause you disagree whatever, but I’m not gonna change my opinion because you disagree and enjoy and are fine with what you watched 

This isn't about you not liking the film. If I see criticism that I think is poorly thought out or unfair I challenge it. That's all. I don't care if didn't like the movie.

It’s unfair that people find it overall a meh follow up(despite admitting it’s still good) to a film they feel ended perfectly, and you challenge it by calling people idiots. Great way to start the dialogue 

Toy Story 4 more like Toy Story DLC.

Saying the film isn't good because it doesn't focus on the old cast feels more personal.

@Kuzu the Boloedge Literally no one said that. (Also ignores that there were other criticisms made about the film) Did you look 2 statuses above or just equate criticism to calling something automatically bad? Also welcome to opinions, personal kinda is apart of forming them. 

Are you on PS4?

Hmm, you on the Switch right now? I do have some Twilight Tour challenges to win.

@KHCast No lol 

Welp I’m out then 

Aight then I'm on Jovah

Alright then, I'll be with you after I finish this race I'm in.

where are ya?

@Dejimon11 I made a room.

I already created a room. 

@YoshiUnity @TCB and @Hero of Legend are in 

Oh, I thought that Joshua was @Wraithfor a bit there. Anyway, I'm keen to race now. 

Not a bad first race lads.

Now that race was beautiful. 

That was a fun session.

They are more annoying than actually hard.

Bullshit.

The game just freaks the hell out whenever your car isn't directly parallel to the floor.

“Why not?”

Why play Mario Maker when you can play SMBX and other PC fangames with level editors for free?

To be fair, SMBX is my go-to, mainly because I have more customization. Mario Maker feels limited in everything else except graphics.

ease of creating and sharing levels

fan-made editors can certainly be powerful, but they're often a lot harder to learn and can have unexpected limitations and quirks compared to the professional level of polish and design in the mario makers. and while the romhacking and fangaming communities are far from insignificant, they're still pretty small compared to the reach of a newly released game by the most famous company in gaming.

plus nobody's forcing you to choose between them. play both, or pick one, or neither, who gives a shit.

Well, if you’re not an experienced modder or hardcore gamer, you probably don’t want to take the time out to sift out the not-sketchy programs and the not-sketchy websites that host them from the rest of the internet, then learn how to use them properly.

Or maybe you have a Linux or Mac system and don’t want to deal with emulators, etc. 

Why would assume that?

Why would assume that?

Because most of the issue people had with the previous film are still there. 

Yes, of course.

I wanted to give it a better shot, but the netcode is atrocious. I don't think I've ever played a racing game where it's possible to get launched off the track by someone shunting you during a lag spike.

Yeah it's pretty crap. I'm baffled that they said that they delayed the game for half a year because they wanted to fix the online only for it to be released in that state. Yeah they're gonna update it soon but the fact that it took them over a month to addressed this they deserve all the flack they can get. 

lol just checked SteamDB and not a single update since launch.

It's very empty nowadays but I still play when I can. Usually the match starts with only me and one other.

But then again XBox Live's TSR wasn't very populated to begin with lol