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Which game do you play the most in Sonic Mega Collection?

  • Sonic 1

    Votes: 28 4.5%

  • Sonic 2

    Votes: 112 18.1%

  • Sonic 3 and Knuckles

    Votes: 245 39.5%

  • Sonic 3D Blast

    Votes: 23 3.7%

  • Sonic Spinball

    Votes: 24 3.9%

  • Dr. Robotnik's Meanbean Machine

    Votes: 89 14.4%

  • they're all good in my opinion

    Votes: 99 16.0%
  • Total voters
    620
I still need to play that one Sonic game where you can create your own spergy autistic self insert character.
 
A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
I still need to play that one Sonic game where you can create your own spergy autistic self insert character.
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This shit takes me back to 2006-08. I then discovered the cringe known as recolors where spergs claim that they are OCs. Nowadays, it's just a meme that even fans themselves make fun of
 
A Rastafarian Skeleton said:
I still need to play that one Sonic game where you can create your own spergy autistic self insert character.
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I suggest looking into the mods if you do. While the game itself isn't unplayably bad, the mods definitely make it more enjoyable. [I'd at least recommend one of the mods that fix classic sonic's physics.]
 
SSj_Ness said:
I really wish more games would go the Rayman route with hand-drawn 2D art. Mario and Sonic would look perfect that way, better than pixel art or 3D models could ever be.
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As long as the art isn't drastically different from the source, then I'm O.K. with this. The animation that was used in Sonic Mania and the YouTube shorts are good examples of good Sonic 2D

My problem with Rayman 2D is that it's too much of a drastic extreme from what it used to be in the 1st game. In fact, the 1st game seems to always take a back seat for the 2nd game (the 3D one, not the GameBoy Color one), which is what nu-Rayman 2D is going more for.
 
Ryan Bloom is.....

CATCHING UP ON IDW SONIC​

Really starting to miss the Archie days. IDW Sonic is feeling really simple and aimless. I know the complaint some people layer against Archie Sonic is that it was a “soap opera” but to some degree that’s just any long running comic book franchise. Spider-man’s been that, Batman’s been that, X-men has DEFINITELY, ABSOLUTELY been that, and so on.

And with Archie it felt like there was always something going on. It felt big and robust. You knew characters were off doing their own things. Sonic would run into Mighty somewhere and it turns out Mighty had been training with the monks on a mountain top for the last two years to hone his inner strength. He had his own entire story arc off panel that the reader never even saw and became a new person when nobody was looking.

IDW is like “okay this story arc petered out into a non-ending, now we need to find something else to do.” Especially since the end of the Metal Virus Saga. I get that these “non-endings” do eventually come back around; Eggman experimenting with interdimensional tech 25 issues ago is tying in to this Egg City thing and how Tangle suddenly has Kitty Pryde powers.

I really like all the new characters they’ve introduced – Tangle and Whisper are great, Dr. Starline was incredible, Surge and Kit are very interesting. But I don’t feel like I have enough to chew on. Not like I used to. There’s a thinness to all of this that’s starting to bore me. They spent, what, 6 or 7 issues on a single Surge attack? How much did that move things forward? We learned that Surge is having hallucinations. Sonic gets to reprise his “I believe everyone has the capacity for good and they get as many second chances as they need” schtick from the end of the last story arc.

Beyond that, it was a lot of noise. For six months.

I imagine some people are saying “Well Blaze, it’s a kids comic, maybe it’s just not for you anymore” – and to some degree, fair. I am at the point in my life where I’ve been out of school longer than I was in school. I am a long way from the target audience, these days.

But children aren’t mindless animals. They like good stories, too. And there’s a vibe that IDW Sonic is spinning its wheels that, deep down, I don’t think they entirely enjoy, either. They may not be able to articulate that yet, but I bet the feeling is there regardless.

After all – all those “soap opera” comics like X-men, Batman, etc.? That used to be bread and butter for this audience. Like, jeeze, look at this:

Cassandra Nova is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. (…) Cassandra is a “mummudrai,” a parasitic life form born bodiless on the astral plane. The mummudrai that became Cassandra became telepathically entangled with the future Charles Xavier, who possesses vast mutant telepathic powers. This granted Cassandra some psionic powers herself, including the ability to exit the womb and create a body. Cassandra is Xavier’s ideological dark shadow, bent on destruction and genocide. She is most infamous for commanding an army of Sentinels to massacre 16 million mutants within the mutant homeland of Genosha.
This, for reference, is from one of Marvel’s best selling series.

This isn’t me launching some kind of epic takedown on IDW Sonic. I think the book is still mostly fine, but the boredom I’ve felt from the last nine issues is highlighting an overall problem I’ve felt all along. In the early days it was more acceptable, because things were just getting started. But we’re 60 issues deep. The comic is celebrating its fifth anniversary. We’re almost a quarter of the way to Archie’s ultimate milestone. And it still feels like it’s missing something deeper.
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also, his opinion on whether or not Frontiers' style will be kept:
It’s hard to say. Kishimoto is on Twitter now, interacting with fans directly, so while I do think some elements of Sonic Frontiers will carry forward, I do think we could see another major shake-up in the future, as well. I also think that with Sonic Frontiers being a success, we could see Sega giving Sonic Team more rope in the future. Like I don’t think it’s a controversial statement to say that Sonic Frontiers feels like it was made on a shoestring budget. Sonic games have been about making a lot of content out of a little for a while now, but Frontiers is maybe the most aggressive example of that. I feel like 80-90% of that game is hardcore, aggressive asset reuse. If they can start stretching their legs again, who knows. Sonic as a franchise is always changing for better and worse, and it feels like we’re on the precipice of a big shift.
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Pixy said:
Anyone else remember this one halloween-themed flash animation where Sonic skins Tails and wears the pelt for a halloween costume, leaving him for dead only for Tails to be reanimated? That's probably the only one I remember from newgrounds.

There's probably a few minor updates from SDCC and Sonic fandom in general
- There's a new Fang and Knuckles comic meant to be released for their 30th anniversaries in 2024
- IDW issues 67 - 70/71 are going to be a predictable story arc for Surge and Kit. They're either faking having turned over a new leaf, or they unsuccessfully try to reintegrate into society. Either way, it's a disappointing storyline premise.
- A new halloween comic focusing on the Chaotix.
- The pop-up Sonic cafe did not give anyone food poisoning yet.
- SAGE 2023 is coming up soon, entries close next month August 21.
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Who keeps reading these shitty comics? WHO? why are these still being made? how the fuck its profitable at all? I'm serious who buys this?
Mr. 0 said:
Sonic Mania 2 was never a thing
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The first thing I thought when I saw that penny game was "this could be a 3D sonic that dont suck ass"

All sega had to do is buy these niggas for chump change and let them go nuts, they clearly know their shit, but sega is a champion at FAIL, it always manages to let opportunities go away
Evening Star was developing our new Star Engine, so we also ended up making a cool Sonic prototype that played with depth in 2.5D, and some other gameplay ideas
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I hope it gets leaked
 
Cool Dog Returns said:
All sega had to do is buy these niggas for chump change and let them go nuts, they clearly know their shit, but sega is a champion at FAIL, it always manages to let opportunities go away
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They probably wouldn't have gone for it, or just left and reformed under a new name, though that would've probably made making their original stuff difficult.
 
Cool Dog Returns said:
Who keeps reading these shitty comics? WHO? why are these still being made? how the fuck its profitable at all? I'm serious who buys this?
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As far as I can tell, none of the diehard autists actually read them, aside from wiki spergs.

Plus, I'm pretty sure that Sega is actually paying for these just to be made instead of trying to turn a profit off them
 
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