Sonic General Discussion Thread v2 - Sonic Has Cleared Facepunch Zone Act 1
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Here, we talk about all things relating to SEGA and Sonic Team's long-lasting platforming game series starring a blue hedgehog that's been running fast since 1991. He's thwarted the many, many evil plans of his mad scientist archenemy, Dr. Eggman, who's constantly out to rule the world with an army of robots. Every adventure, he's made new friends and fought new foes, including a two-tailed fox, an Emerald-protecting echidna, an Ultimate Life Form, a God of Destruction, and tons more.
Your goal in most Sonic games is to get through a level as quickly as possible while collecting Rings that protect you from a single hit of damage and Spin Dashing or boosting through any robots that get in your way. Gameplay tends to differ in later games, so consistency isn't always a guarantee, but these are the elements that most often stick.
Sonic's 27-year history has seen him take on all sorts of adventures. Whether it be setting out to save storybooks from ruin or dealing with the annoying Slow-Down Shoes that sap him of his world-renowned speed, he's seen and done it all. Despite some occasional missteps, the series has been running strong, with cartoons, comic books, spinoff games and franchises, and tons upon tons of merchandise. He even has a movie coming in 2019 after several years of development troubles!
The most recent main-series Sonic game is Sonic Forces, released in November 2017 and following Sonic as he teams up with his Classic self, a fully customizable character for the first time in series history, and an entire resistance organized by his friends to take back the world from Eggman and his new ally, Infinite.
As for what's next, an expansion to one of Sonic's latest adventures, Sonic Mania, is coming in the form of Sonic Mania Plus, releasing July 17th and featuring the return of classic Sonic characters Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUhuOwwD4n8
Speaking of Mania, there's an ongoing animated series called Sonic Mania Adventures that follows the events of Forces (and likely sets up those of Plus). Here's the latest episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAmBxc_yCsI
There's also an upcoming Sonic racer by the name of Team Sonic Racing, which is a kart racer with teamwork elements.
Follow the series' official Twitter to keep up with where Sonic's headed next (and partake in memes).
And if you need more info on the series and its many games, appearances in other media, characters, and locales, check out the Sonic News Network wiki.
Now let's. Get. Moving!
Is Mighty just Knuckles but better?
So there early forces script leaked a while ago and it had some annotations. There are a few annotations from someone named AW (Aaron Webber?)
Tails defeats Eggman alone in SA1. Why is he suddenly so weak here? Is it just dramatic effect?
Tails and co just let Sonic get captured? Big loophole here.
Wait, wha? Silver? Why is he here?
Lets not call them Buddy. Sounds childish.
Why doesn't Tails remember Generations?
"We're going in Hard and Fast" will be the most played line from the game on YouTube out of context
UGH! We do this every single time. EVEry SINGLE TIME. Generations end.
06 End. SA2 end. ALL OF THEM. Whyyyyyy (on the "Sonic's friends cheering during the final boss" part)
Does anyone know how to extract your custom hero model(s) from forces? I'd like to use mine in source filmmaker
New Mania Adventures ep was neat but the more they focus on action and less on simple slapstick the more the limitations of the series show, and it's not a good thing.
Like, the first ep was fun because it was just silly slapstick between Sonic and Eggman but every subsequent episode has focused on a sub-par action sequence, one that's likely so
due to budget and time constraints.
I mean, any way you slice it, motion comic level moving stills for action sequences isn't satisfying or fun to watch, especially with the pacing they give it.
The best thing coming out of the series are the little interactions between characters like Ray and Mighty fist bumping, and it really doesn't focus enough on that imo.
I thought that about Episode 3, but this Episode had some surprisingly good action scenes with Metal Sonic.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgWtphMUwAAkGPb.jpg:large
Team Rose, just like any esports team, has inconsistent members.
I can't believe Cream got axed for literally four fucking Chaos instead.
maybe cream will be with chocola
NGL 4 Chaos are way more interesting than Cream
I figure that other characters would also have more options when it comes to throwing insults
Honestly my only gripe with the game so far is how limited it seems.
A Sonic only racer sounds like it could be really fun because they could pull characters from every corner of the universe and have all these crazy locations from classic and modern games.
But it looks like it's literally just going to be the Heroes roster, plus Eggman's side. 15 characters is less than half of All Stars Racing Transformed's cast, and it's not making use of Sonic's
really diverse and unique cast at this point.
Hell, I expected at least like, an Infinite, or Hard Boiled Heavy, or even at least like Silver rep in the game, especially this first two since they're new games, but unless they pull some crazy
curveball with the last few teams then I don't see it happening.
agree with 15 being too little, with only 6 yet to be revealed, who's gonna fill in the last 2 teams,? They gotta choose wisely..
give blaze or RIOT
Something I've noticed is that they actually gave Big a very subtle redesign just to make him more flexible and... alive?
Not only is he slightly slimmer/does he have longer legs, but his face just has more, iunno, life in it?
He looks a lot more cheery than the absolutely dead expression he used to have.
Not sure if anyone has seen this yet, but this is too fucking funny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po1qdT7mj-s&t=0s
*SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT WATCH IF YOU WANT TO GO BLIND*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odW9eM2rLGk
So there's confirmation on what Encore is ( immediately the games start after Sonic disappears in the True Final Boss in Mania/Returns from Forces), how the new character plays, boss balances. There's also a new bonus game which is a pinball game.
So apparently they have finally began shooting the movie
All they had to do was full CGI ala unleashed intro but nope.