#Sonic Leaks, Rumours & Speculation

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cunning echo
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it is!

mint umbra
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did kishimoto ever explicitly cite that inspiration?

smoky summit
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They have an office in LA??

mint umbra
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i forgot if he did

cunning echo
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but is not a specific kishimoto thing dex

wide portal
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having to rely on memory sucks with this I don’t remember Kishimoto mentioning eva explicitly

mint umbra
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i mean its absurdly obvious with the amount of references, but i don't remember him stating it

toxic vapor
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No duh fuck lmaoo

cunning echo
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Sonic team overall are really full of nerds for anime and so

modest parcel
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Oh yeah ik

wide portal
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like it’s very obviously implied especially with the sage va choice but I don’t remember anything explicit

cunning echo
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which are also Sonic Fans btw

wide portal
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I remember the Judy thing but like Mauro said that was years after they left

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(side note but my auto correct keeps changing Mauro’s name to Mario 💀)

dusty osprey
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I get what you are saying, i'm saying that doesn't make any sense.

  1. Concepts change from concept to finish
  2. Yeah because they do not want you to think about vegeta when you think about shadow. They are very particular about the things they want you to associate with shadow. And have been name dropping comic book characters in reference to shadow for 20 years
  3. Not just spawn, constative, batman, venom " Dark 90's comic book characters" and has been doing this for 20 years
  4. That's a fair point. I'm not a japanese lawyer. I Couldn't tell you the first thing about copyright law over there.

Except, this is not sudden. They have been talking about the comic book characters for 20 years and the historical fact you claim is. Concept art , concept art that. You have no idea how it translated to the final product. They have been talking about shadow in reference to comic book characters for 20 years. My point was the idea that this them all of a sudden covering their ass about this doesn't make sense because they have been very open about shadow's influences for a very long time.

And you know what sure , maybe they just couldn't talk about it whlist they worked at sonic team. Then why has no one who left sonic team ever mentioned even once that shadow was based on vegeta? You have former sonic team staff saying that tails and sonic are based on gohan and piccolo. You have maekawa saying that shadow and maria's story is based on please save my earth. If that DNA was so integral. Someone would have had to have asked someone over the course of 20 years about vegeta one of the most famous anime characters atp famous characters in all of modern fiction and there's not one peep about that. You could go ask maekawa rn. But nothing has come up.

They have been talking about shadow being based on comic book guys for 20 years and people weren't paying attention and you suggesting this came out of nowhere because they weren't paying attention.

wide portal
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AHH

toxic vapor
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I haven’t even finished making the indie I’m working on yet

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Let alone a commercial title with 3 years of experience

cunning echo
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lol

toxic vapor
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But yall know im the goat level designer

wide portal
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I’m not gonna lie that actually scared me 😭

cunning echo
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you still have time to develop and fill your portfolio so dw about it

toxic vapor
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Next yasuhara for real for real

toxic vapor
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Mr Cyber Space extra

wide portal
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anyway my take is that when the inevitable sonic X dragon ball crossover happens shadow’s gonna get paired with somebody and it’s not gonna be goku

dusty osprey
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The answer is andriod 17

toxic vapor
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Writers: 483948 lines of text to explain a character made 20 years ago
Game designers: what if uhh you add a platform there and a spring there, would be fun

dusty osprey
modest parcel
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Vibe platforming?

dusty osprey
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its pretty interestng

autumn yacht
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see back then the game designer would do that writing smh

cunning echo
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I do filmmaking!!

wide portal
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WORDS are GREAT

dusty osprey
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other's cant

cunning echo
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I been filling up with shortfilms and music videos as of now

modest parcel
dusty osprey
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some people got vibe game design in em

cunning echo
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documentary too!!

wide portal
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NO IM NOT PADDING IT OUT IM GIVING CONTEXT AND ELABORATION

dawn pumice
modest parcel
dawn pumice
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So far I think I have one commercial project I worked on

cunning echo
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yeah indie projects are a good way to start

toxic vapor
cunning echo
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I would say to just start with small games like the one you guys made in a week

dawn pumice
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I will say too sonic was definitely a good step for me in that direction for video game design

toxic vapor
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Ohshima was a concept artist, game designer and made the world of Sonic

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Truly my goat

dawn pumice
cunning echo
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sonic galatic?

autumn yacht
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half of the sonic game writers started off as level designers or so

dusty osprey
# modest parcel I don't believe in it.....

There's some folks who just know how to make a good thing, but those calculations or how they got to point b on a design thing resdes with in them. They aren't like gods among men, but some folks just can like go " Oh this would be fun " and it is and other's need tests

dawn pumice
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Why 😭

cunning echo
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oh ok I see it now, this one?

dawn pumice
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Ya

toxic vapor
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But also I’ve heard things

cunning echo
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looks cool

dawn pumice
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Could we take it to DMs rq

autumn yacht
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i suspect hoshino has a lot more influence on sonic writing than what's been stated

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iizuka's influence is obvious enough due to interviews and credits saying it

mint umbra
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i really gotta work on doing 3D for something commercial at some point bc all of my stuff is personal work

dawn pumice
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I will say too connections are like a huge factor as well

toxic vapor
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I don't like shitting on 2D Sonic fangames, because they are just passion projects

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But man I played that Sonic Time Twisted game that I remember some people glazed as "CD but good"

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And I just had the biggest frown on my face whilst playing it

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Is making the next big 2D Sonic fangame = Sonic 3&K but you're trying to like heckin Saturn vibes because you saw Nights into Dreams and thought it was cool

dawn pumice
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I give sonic fan projects where credit is due

mint umbra
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my fav 2D sonic fangame is prob triple trouble 16 bit

dawn pumice
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Some 2D ones, even if demos are insanely good

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Favorite finished one tho was after the sequel

autumn yacht
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i like the uhhh

cunning echo
toxic vapor
cunning echo
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to this day is still one of my favs

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afther and before the sequel are goated

toxic vapor
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I'm ngl the Overture 95 situation still bums me out to no end

mint umbra
dawn pumice
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Oh shit

toxic vapor
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Syn has since left but the fact that people were dogpilling on me because I DARED to call out a spite project

dawn pumice
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Wasn’t overture one with the rabbit as the secondary antagonist or something?

toxic vapor
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And the only response I got was "wow how dare they not like racists" and then my response message got removed and then reposted to be dunked on

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Idk why I'm still salty about that to this day

mint umbra
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what was the situation with that game again

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i dont remember at all

dawn pumice
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Might be misremembering but wasn’t Mr. Lange on the project?

toxic vapor
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Lange racism drama happened, all the Overture assets got leaked, they decided to revive Overture, used the crusty ass Sonic Worlds Engine cause LakeFepard wanted to be involved in the project, has more bugs than the 2014 demo (LMAO), removed all of Lange's music and called him "Jordan L" in credits

cunning echo
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honestly

wide portal
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don’t remember either but if it was a Lange project then it was probably in my burn book

toxic vapor
cunning echo
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the fan game that makes me kinda sad they never continued had to be Sonic Chaos

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it had good potential

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everyone seem to forget about it tho

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it was pretty cool

toxic vapor
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Lake Fepard literally barged in with an outdated Sonic World's engine, worked on the project purely out of spite, and from what I heard got into conflicts and they replaced his engine, which he got mad about (LOL) -> so I ended up being right all along but people were dunking on me because "hurr durr Lange racist"

wide portal
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oh waaaaait there was a whole thing where they were still crediting him in regards to certain aspects of the game and they got like really defensive about it from what I remember

mint umbra
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i mean i dont think its that crazy to not really care for it being a spite project if the reason it was canceled in the first place was due to a dispute with lange, but also yeah it makes sense it wouldn't go anywhere if it was only made out of spite and nobody really had the passion to make something out of it

toxic vapor
mint umbra
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i don't think the quality is relevant to the conversation, and was lange the project lead?

mint umbra
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oh, no idea who that is

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not my circle

toxic vapor
rocky leaf
# dusty osprey I get what you are saying, i'm saying that doesn't make any sense. 1) Concepts ...

oh my god lol I come back to this. this is useless man, I never said he wasn't based on comics or anything, why're you going "he's based on constantine" like that's a reply to anything I said. you're literally arguing something I'm not talking about, man. eesh lol. the only actual relevant things you've done was pointing maekawa DID mention please save my earth while still working at sonic team, at least iirc, in a magazine. anyway don't bother, I don't want to have to give like seven more longer and longer replies until it makes sense to you

autumn yacht
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i didn't know he was racist

rocky leaf
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I forgot the piccolo bit yeah. that said I also forgot kishimoto apparently being explicit about evangelion? a bit wild if so

autumn yacht
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i thought he was booted from places due to personality

toxic vapor
# mint umbra oh, no idea who that is

Ngl I think my take is that I dislike Lange for personal reasons, but it was so obvious that a lot of people on the anti-Lange train were looking for every reason to dunk on a person they found annoying and didn't like lmao

mint umbra
toxic vapor
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It always felt so disingenuous

toxic vapor
# mint umbra yeah that seems like a shitty move then

What's worse is that Lake Fepard has literally said racist things in the past, like I remember being worse than Lange, but justified it by saying he was Brazilian?
Literally him and Lange are very similar people, it's just that Lake has actually made games and is a lot less strong on his negative opinions of Sonic lmaoo.

autumn yacht
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wharrrr

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man this drama funny at times

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kinda sad, but funny

mint umbra
dusty osprey
# rocky leaf oh my god lol I come back to this. this is useless man, I never said he wasn't b...

I kinda think its relevant if they mention both western and japanese influences for shadow and other things but vegeta just never comes up. Even when there are people who don't work there anymore, and could just openly speak on it. Like maekawa who was there during shadow's development actually. I think its super relevant when you have kishimoto talking openly about evangelion actually. Because if they are speaking about this these things the people who work there and the people do no longer do. And vegeta has not come up once, in 20 years.

I don't think he's based on vegeta big dog

toxic vapor
wide portal
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I dislike Lange cause he’s racist but the scummy stuff regarding Overture seems bad too I guess

mint umbra
dusty osprey
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and I don't think they are trying to hide anythng beyond controlling what you think of shadow

dusty osprey
toxic vapor
mint umbra
dusty osprey
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Do I think they thought of vegeta when they were thinking of shadow?

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Hell yeah

wide portal
dusty osprey
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they wrote t down

rocky leaf
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then you're agreeing with what I actually said to begin

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and everything else is fluff lol

dusty osprey
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Not really

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my whole dissagreement was the idea they are trying to hide shadow's influences

rocky leaf
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thank you, we arrived at something we can consider factual- they had vegeta as inspiration, at some point, in development. not talking about how much, not quantities, just the fact it happened at all

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you literally just agreed to that

dusty osprey
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No

toxic vapor
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Going around in circles ahh convo

cunning echo
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I think you guys should take it to debate channel at this point 😭

dusty osprey
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I genuinely think they right now feel more comfortable saying "shadow is based on spawn" etc, american concepts, than "shadow is based on vegeta", which would be seen as ripping off a fellow japanese company, despite the fact it's directly written right there lol

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based on, and thought about two different concepts

toxic vapor
wide portal
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his attitude sucks

cunning echo
toxic vapor
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Literally wasn't denying that, I hate that man

wide portal
dusty osprey
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My whole point was simply I don't think they were trying to hide shadow was based on geets. He just wasn't and they ddn't want to confuse people on that

cunning echo
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ah

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that guy yeah

dusty osprey
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If they thought about geets and then went " nah"

toxic vapor
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I think this is a situation where I hate on a thing that people like to hate but for entirely different reasons

dusty osprey
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he's not based on the man an dthey don't want you to think about it. I don't think they are trying to hide shit

rocky leaf
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my man can we drop this it's going nowhere, I'm being unable to convey to you what I said and you still think I said something else

dusty osprey
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They speak openly about his influences.

cunning echo
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Im surprised that guy hasnt even move on from the sonic stuff, his whole legacy is just being sonic utopia demo creator and that's it

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and thinking bro is smarter than sonic team

rocky leaf
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this is going to take like an hour to get you to finally understand what I said, it's how this shit always goes, and I want to do better things with that time

cunning echo
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literally

dusty osprey
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Sure man its fine

rocky leaf
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and I'm sure you do too lol

wise chasm
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One of the 2 convos rn

wide portal
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unstoppable v immoveable

dusty osprey
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is what it s

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hope you have a nice night

cunning echo
mint umbra
# dusty osprey he's not based on the man an dthey don't want you to think about it. I don't thi...

but he was, to some unknown extent, based on the man, at some point

the whole point of concept art is looking at what was initially proposed, you aren't supposed to look at concept art and go "oh so this is what the character IS", both sega and fans know this

therefore, censoring something from concept art, which clearly is only there to show off the initial concept, was likely just a legal precaution

toxic vapor
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He has to make bread somehow brah

wide portal
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anyway while you’re all here I’m gonna start rambling about my recent experience with Superman comics, page one of my 50 page essay, why cows go moo

cunning echo
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ehh

dusty osprey
cunning echo
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they prolly got a job somewhere tho

toxic vapor
dusty osprey
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people do ths all the time

dusty osprey
cunning echo
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wha?

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😭

dusty osprey
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( also its the weekend )

cunning echo
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wrong convo bro!!!

cunning echo
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noooo

wise chasm
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Oh no, they're fusing!!!!

cunning echo
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yeah 😭

mint umbra
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the concept art with vegeta named was shared alongside the early terios concept art

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nobody looks at that and goes "this is what shadow is" because

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its concept art

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it can lead you to see where the inspirations for the character lie, how it evolved into what it is

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but what it is is what you get in the final project

dawn pumice
dusty osprey
# mint umbra literally when

I mean i could give you examples, but this an all anecdotal because thsi conversation is anecdotal. But I have plenty of examples. Here's one not from sonic

There are people who think that an entire ending of fnaf help wanted 2 is invalided because they looked into the code and the original version hey found used another character. And that's a valid theory in those circles even though it does not make sense because its from an unused concept. That community being primarly made up well, younger folks. simular to sonic. There are plenty of examples of people in this very discord being exposed the smallest back end of a process and completely misinterpeting it

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they don't want you to think he's supposed to be like vegeta, because he's not supposed to be like vegeta. They mention spawn, because they want you to associate him with that

mint umbra
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they dont want you to think shadow has abs

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he has abs in the concept art

dusty osprey
mint umbra
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but they dont want you to think shadow has abs

wide portal
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if I’ll be blunt I don’t think most of the vegeta comparisons were (just) brought on by the concept art either, just moreso the nature of shadow as a rival/foe to sonic with a darker side who is then seen teaming up with the heroes to save the days sometimes

sure the specifics might be drastically different but in a series where it’s dragon ball inspiration created Super Sonic I don’t think it’s unreasonable to come to this conclusion at least initially, and it’s the one most people would probably take away from the getgo

that’s why I mentioned the crossover thing earlier, it doesn’t really matter what they intended because at the end of the day shadow and vegeta standing next to each other is gonna be a million times more profitable and popular than hooking him up with anybody else in that series

mint umbra
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they didnt censor that though

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vegeta is just a japanese IP

dusty osprey
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Your perspective comes from the assumption that people wont just misinterpret back end information from sonic

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like they always do

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like they do all the time

mint umbra
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its a legal precaution, thats all

wide portal
dawn pumice
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Wait I just noticed

dusty osprey
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There are people right now who have crazy conspiracies about mandates because they learned what one was

dawn pumice
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Do they actually take action just for a name alone in Japan @mint umbra?

wide portal
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(of course, keep fighting for New Classic Sonic of course! please, no problems with that whatsoever 😁)

mint umbra
dawn pumice
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Ah

dusty osprey
dawn pumice
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That’s really weird

dusty osprey
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You forgot about that part

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where iizuka spoke about vegeta openly

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and explained why he didn't like that comparison

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i can link it right now actually

mint umbra
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that was just a small part of the article

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but yes, they also don't like that comparison because it isn't accurate to how shadow presently is

wide portal
mint umbra
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however, that doesn't have to do with censoring concept art

dusty osprey
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its a concept

mint umbra
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his concept is who he was at some point

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or, who he was going to be

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hence, its relevant

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and sega has enough reasons to fear being sued by the IP owner (idk who that is) for similarities to dragon ball already frankly

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with super sonic

wide portal
dusty osprey
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Mario has 3

mint umbra
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sonic is by far the closest one, and was very obviously directly lifted

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the concept art is literally a redrawn dragon ball panel

wide portal
wise chasm
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And we (yes, we) will clap

dusty osprey
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You can't believe this

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There are anime that came out recently where characters litterally turn into not goku

mint umbra
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obviously there's stuff that falls under parody

dusty osprey
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Hold on lemme find this shit

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That actually doesn't work here

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because in parody they censor too

mint umbra
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yes, and its also why they haven't been sued just for having super sonic yet

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that's very dodgy to base a lawsuit off of, even with it being so similar

dusty osprey
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So gintama and bobobo are going to get sued any day now?

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How about the kids next door, maybe the anphibia

mint umbra
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but if you have that AMONG other things that could constitute as ripping off the source material, in a major IP, it might be the base of a lawsuit

dusty osprey
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Are you a lawyer from japan

wide portal
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are you 😭

dusty osprey
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No

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I'm not

mint umbra
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no, but i think these are pretty reasonable thoughts

dusty osprey
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But i'm also not making the argument that they are doing it for legal reasons

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there have been things based on super saiyan both parody and serious for decades

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some of which get pretty close

mint umbra
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gintama and bobobo were both animated by toei, would be silly to sue toei when they're animating dragon ball lmao

dusty osprey
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and for some reason , sonic out of all of them will get the hammer.

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Ketekyo hitman reborn

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guess they coming for it

mint umbra
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wait nvm gintama wasn't thought it was

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mb

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regardless, those classify as parody most likely

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its the difference between someone making a game called "sobic the pledgehog" that plays like a sonic game and a character called "sobic the pledgehog" appearing in family guy

dusty osprey
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ok?

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There's still a bunch of forms inspired by SS and they have not been hammered

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Your argument requires an example, there is no example ( that we currently know of )

dusty osprey
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there's files for this, case files you could find

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Its why i'm asking you are speaking pretty definitively on this. I figured you had some information i didn't

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so far, this speculation that needs to be supported by actions on the companies end that seem to have not happened

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both for sonic and other thnings

mint umbra
modest parcel
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Guys

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This isn't an actual problem for Shadow

mint umbra
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Sure, there aren't any examples of a lawsuit over similarities to SS, but you can take the pokemon company suing the palworld devs for example, likely only possible because there was a large extent of elements taken from pokemon and not used as parody

modest parcel
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His creator cites an entire story as the inspiration for SA2 😭

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A japanese one

dusty osprey
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yo ucan find the tweet right now

modest parcel
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Go to beeeeed y'all

mint umbra
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It's 9am for me 😭

modest parcel
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Well

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Whit

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Shit

humble drum
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Whit

dusty osprey
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Whit

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Going to sleep is problably a good idea

modest parcel
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Also him freely referencing Cowboy Bebop for the Space Shuttle scene inspiration

dusty osprey
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that's cool

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i wonder if he liked champloo

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or space dandy

lunar trench
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Oh boy oh boy a whole ass conv to read 🥹 gonna read it at home

wise chasm
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Don't actually

toxic vapor
untold kayak
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Jsjsjs

lunar trench
smoky summit
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https://youtu.be/CZbx1ylUyoI by forces beyond my comprehension, this video is somehow relevant

Console Heroes is a new line of dioramas in the form of classic Sega Genesis games, not only providing some creative play and nostalgia, but giving some obscure Sega characters a chance to finally have some merch. Including the LONG overdue MECHA SONIC MKII!!!
GO BUY THIS THING KEEP OUR BOY ALIVE - https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/Variat...

▶ Play video
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He asked these guys if they had reference concept art for Mecha

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And they said nope, they had to go with what idw and everyone else had to go off of

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Soooo

modest parcel
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The Doi conspiracy will be the only remaining hope left for Mecha heads

wide portal
grand cobalt
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in other news it seems like sonictwt got fooled by a roblox game being touted as frontiers 2 for a second time

autumn yacht
raw ether
last idol
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Ngl just caught up with everything

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The Mecha Sonic concept art stuff specifically just sounds like insane rambling

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MK2 is too detailed to be captured by concept art what do you even mean?? 😭

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That being said stuff like the shadow gens improvements not being rolled over I could 100% see happening, especially with how it appears to have been forked off from frontiers around the time of DLC 2

toxic vapor
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Surely a new leak makes this chat active soon...

forest fractal
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I hope not

still epoch
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I hope not

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Specially coming from that place, no thank you

coarse ferry
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Hard pass

rugged edge
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What even happen in this chat

grand cobalt
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the name

rugged edge
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Sonic rumors & speculations

past matrix
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Really, I'm just waiting for the pen to drop for an shadow spinoff movie announcement.

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After all this skydance shit/internal studio stuff.

prime hearth
safe hull
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Just got invited to a SECRET playtest of the next game starring a familiar blue scrimblo...let's just say...if you're a fan of FIFA & COD monetization, wanted the Frontiers Battle Pass, and love wasting money on shit from an ass you surely won't be disappointed 🤫

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And here's some greentext details to really seal the deal

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burger king tie in, bk onion rings will be a collectible in a postlaunch dlc level
john from accounting told me that mike pollock voices 5 important characters with a lot of dialogue
iizuka personally saw art of rouge inflated big & round
luigi is unlockable after obtaining all the Super Emeralds and hyper forms are back

cunning echo
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Lmfao

humble drum
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iizuka saw WHAT

rugged otter
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this is correct information.

hasty schooner
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Even if the leaks from the 21st are real, I wouldn't put much stock in it honestly? Frontiers the game is pretty different from Frontiers the leaks

toxic vapor
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Still kept a lot though

silent haven
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GRAHHHHHHHHHH IM IN

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sorry new image

modest parcel
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d for multiplayer

wise chasm
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The fuck kind of resolution is that

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So crusty

silent haven
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it was automatically on low graphics 🙁

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(it runs fine at high i swear)

wise chasm
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What are the graphical settings btw

silent haven
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about the same as frontiers/sxsg

wise chasm
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Check anti-alisasing options

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Also framerate options

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Cuz if the other one is 30, I'm ordering tickets to Japan and going to ST's offices

silent haven
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aa is tsr/taa/fxaa and off

smoky summit
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Why would 30 be to the right

silent haven
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good question

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🙂

smoky summit
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Wait nvm

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Hahahaha

wise chasm
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Killing myself

smoky summit
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I noticed the other options had high on the left

wise chasm
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Actually no point buying the PC version then

smoky summit
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Right before you sent that

wise chasm
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No DLSS, no FSR even?

modest parcel
smoky summit
wise chasm
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No, cuz that one doesn't have ultrawide support

smoky summit
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The wrong way to game

modest parcel
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Thank youuuuu

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I may crossworlds in bliss now

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🕊️

smoky summit
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I'll be turning all these 2 zero a couple days in

silent haven
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there's

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no option for accelerate on trigger???

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or custom binding in general???

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????????????????????

wise chasm
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Can't you choose TSR control scheme anymore?

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It was in the character select menu under options in the original beta, you could choose that there

silent haven
wise chasm
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wh

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Ok but there's 3 options, what are the other 2?

silent haven
#

A, B and RB

grand cobalt
#

wait what the hell is this

smoky summit
#

Is trigger used for something else

raw osprey
silent haven
#

i reallyyyyyyyyyy hope not

raw osprey
#

why

#

i hope not

silent haven
raw osprey
#

this is my ideal controls

silent haven
#

locked SSS by the way bup

modest parcel
#

Fuuuuuck

wise chasm
#

That's fine

#

For the beta

raw osprey
#

its clear you unlock SSS when clear all cups

wide portal
#

Everybody’s super sonic speeding

silent haven
#

drift and this

hybrid hill
dawn pumice
#

Naaaa

#

No shot they got rid of tsr controls

grand cobalt
#

im confused

#

is this the beta or the actual game

dawn pumice
#

This is the beta

silent haven
#

ONT yeah

dawn pumice
#

Still tho

#

I ain’t playing this shit with X as accelerate

#

I need my right trigger

grand cobalt
#

weaklings

dawn pumice
#

Crash the only game I can utilize that control scheme

silent haven
raw osprey
#

because like why would get rid of it

#

especially when you have them in a beta 8 months ago

grand cobalt
#

we’ll see when they drop that online manual thing again

wide portal
coarse ferry
#

AYO!?

raw osprey
#

nothing but the confirmation that you do need to indeed finish all tracks on sonic speed to unlock super sonic speed

and these little guys are unlockable skins, that's all the "leaks" https://t.co/ucNL7zJfSk

QRT: stockindonut
sega did learn from the old crossworlds leaks bc i've been going through the files for crossworlds and it's beta and there's... nothing!!!!!

rugged otter
wide portal
#

these rival lines might bring in levels of silver slander unseen by the general public

rugged otter
#

nah man i'm getting some light story mode out of this

grand cobalt
#

silver PLEASE

modest parcel
#

And it's ass just like the last time it happened 💔

wide portal
#

we cooking this white boy 🔥 🔥 🔥

silent haven
#

im just happy we have base roster skins

grand cobalt
#

I didn’t even register that

rugged otter
#

please tell me we have Riders skins too

modest parcel
#

SEGA PLEASE

#

MORE SKINS

#

I BEG

wide portal
#

they found a lot of dialogue actually it looks like

#

should I start spoil censoring just in case

#

oh the embed doesn’t work

grand cobalt
#

but yeah I won’t be looking at these

wide portal
#

censors it is!

raw osprey
modest parcel
#

Damn they really went for SAGE and then dipped

#

looks at pfp

#

Checks out ig

wise chasm
#

God, I'm still kinda pissed about the graphics settings

modest parcel
#

The line for Knuckles is VERY good

still epoch
#

Yep

wide portal
#

op claims there are “355 lines to and from Sage” bog

hybrid hill
wide portal
#

multiply that by 23 for everybody else and that’s like

hybrid hill
#

it’s weird coz didn’t shadow gens have unlimited framerate?

wise chasm
#

No, but it had 120fps cap

wide portal
#

oh my god

still epoch
#

Lol

wise chasm
#

I wouldn't be shocked if it also doesn't have ultrawide support

modest parcel
#

Alright guys who wants to put the "all dialog from Crossworlds" video together 💪

wise chasm
#

When even Team Sonic Racing does, even if kinda scuffed

grand cobalt
#

more than 1000 may be underselling 💀

hybrid hill
#

me and jet the hawk tuah settling our differences

coarse ferry
#

So I guess the SEGA DLC Chars are not founded yet?

wide portal
#

no characters in the files except the ones playable in the demo

coarse ferry
#

🫡

silent haven
#

ok fuck it

cunning echo
coarse ferry
#

OH!?

raw osprey
wise chasm
#

Are those actual skins or are these just for the weird rival system

raw osprey
#

someone said you can have them as skins

coarse ferry
#

ngl I do like these

wise chasm
#

Yeah but is that confirmed tho

coarse ferry
#

Especially with Zavok

lunar trench
#

@silent haven hey just saying that you can't post that here sorry

raw osprey
grand cobalt
#

is it confirmed or is it someone just talking

wise chasm
#

Then I don't think that's confirmation

#

And I won't take Rio's tweet as confirmation, they don't actually know anything

coarse ferry
#

oh okay

grand cobalt
#

yeah they just post whatever they find lmao

coarse ferry
#

fair LMAO

raw osprey
#

oh you meant rio tweet

coarse ferry
#

I just never follow rio at all so I'll keep that in mind

raw osprey
#

idk then

grand cobalt
#

ngl that red sonic

wide portal
#

they’ve got no source for that

grand cobalt
#

kinda fire though, I would like to race as that

wide portal
#

I’m like 50% sure these ghost guys are just NPCs for an alternate mode

raw osprey
wide portal
#

they also do not specify what purchasable means 😭

ember junco
#

I mean can’t you buy vehicle parts with those tickets

#

I don’t see why skins couldn’t also be included there

wise chasm
#

I'm mostly saying this in case people think that's 100% confirmed

#

And then get disappointed when it's not

grand cobalt
#

I said this earlier but uh

#

I think they replaced the TSR toggle with regular options in the menu for controls?

#

Like how you can change whether to use the button or the trigger for acceleration

wise chasm
#

Yeah, except the third option is still a button apparently

#

Cuz it's RB instead of RT

grand cobalt
#

who tf is using RB LMAOO

wise chasm
#

Unless they straight up mislabeled, which I really hope is the case

toxic vapor
rugged edge
#

Miku sorta has voices

grand cobalt
#

why are you posting this in rumors

rugged edge
#

Uhhhh

#

Idk..

#

Sorry

hybrid hill
#

I too…have voices….

pulsar horizon
#

Nuh uh

loud zinc
coarse ferry
#

🙃

raw osprey
#

im voice in your head ooooooooooooooo

coarse ferry
#

Just in case at least c

raw osprey
#

i wai for music like 5 hours atp

coarse ferry
#

Fair

silent haven
#

from what i've heard the only things that haven't been fully scrubbed are audio/voicelines

#

otherwise they actually did a good job this time

#

do you guys think they'll know

wise chasm
#

Potentially

#

Depends if any kind of telemetry gets sent their way if you play it in the evil and fucked up way

dusty osprey
toxic vapor
dusty osprey
raw osprey
#

looks a miles better than tsr version

dusty osprey
dusty osprey
scarlet ether
#

say

#

where's the AES key stored again?

hasty plume
#

how are ppl playing this again?

dusty osprey
hasty plume
dusty osprey
wise chasm
#

No, people are playing PC version when they're not supposed to through weird ways due to the files not being encrypted

silent haven
#

full course list

still epoch
#

||CORAL TOWN?||

prime hearth
#

ooo fuck I see some new ones in here

still epoch
#

||PUMPKIN MANSION?||

prime hearth
#

||Eggman Expo?!||

still epoch
#

||BLIZZARD VALLEY||

wide portal
#

||oh Eggman Expo is new isn’t it||

prime hearth
#

multiple new ones, not just that

#

v v excited to see some of these

#

||Steampunk City inject it directly into me veins||

hasty plume
#

wasn't there a museum one?

still epoch
#

||4 tracks left||

hasty plume
#

a museum was shown off wasn't it?

#

wonder museum or something

still epoch
#

Yea???

#

Since the beginning? Lmao

#

Where have you been lol

hasty plume
#

found it

dusty osprey
grand cobalt
#

||damn, so that was never metropolis speedway huh ||

still epoch
#

||sadge but steampunk city looks cool||

grand cobalt
#

true

raw osprey
#

||what if its metropolis speedway they jsut rename it for no reason||

#

||like they did with other tracks||

silent haven
#

oh yeah

#

||rush music||

wise chasm
#

|| if I had a nickel for every racing game that remixed Vela Nova and literally no other Rush track, I'd have 2 nickels ||

still epoch
#

Oh nice

forest fractal
#

Go figure Rush music without the samples

untold kayak
silent haven
#

cyberspace intro i think?

still epoch
#

Whoa

#

So there is more music??

wise chasm
#

Doesn't sound like any of the cyberspace tracks

still epoch
#

Yea no this could be anything

wise chasm
#

actually hmmm

#

yeah, dunno

humble drum
wise chasm
#

but it's a vibe

silent haven
#

the ids don't match up but it's the only one with the number i could find

humble drum
#

what did I say...

still epoch
#

Shut up

humble drum
#

it's happening

#

you can't deny it much longer

wise chasm
#

It's probably happening tbh

#

There's just no confirmation, so it amounts to "source: my ass" rn

still epoch
#

I am not denying anything i just want you to shut up bup

wide portal
#

me when I step on Lego knuckles

humble drum
#

it hurts you more than it does me

prime hearth
dawn pumice
#

There’s legit no evidence in the files that says among us is the last dlc

autumn yacht
silent haven
#

there's nothing about dlc at all besides joker

grand cobalt
#

it’s just people running with that one interaction they had on Twitter months ago

silent haven
wide portal
#

dinkleberg….

wise chasm
#

Big when you lose and downgrade a rank: "I guess even I have lazy days"

raw osprey
wide portal
#

what

wise chasm
#

oh

still epoch
#

What

wise chasm
#

alright

wide portal
#

is that

wise chasm
#

|| Peel ||

wide portal
#

what the fuck is ||peel||

autumn yacht
wide portal
#

||Is this like a sticker for the cars or like an actual goddamn skin ||

wise chasm
grand cobalt
#

||i mean there’s nothing special about the image so my assumption was sticker but why does it say skin then 😭😭😭||

raw osprey
wise chasm
#

...Rio?

raw osprey
#

yea

wise chasm
#

The font makes me think it's google lens'd from japanese

grand cobalt
wise chasm
#

so yeah, I dunno

grand cobalt
#

Oh good eye

dawn pumice
#

So maybe that’s how u unlock characters in the beta?

wise chasm
#

I mean it could also be a placeholder

#

so

#

¯_(ツ)_/¯

#

gotta wait till proper release at this point

wise chasm
raw osprey
still epoch
#

Wait um

#

Aint that the uh

#

Whisper board…?

grand cobalt
#

?

#

you mean miku’s board?

still epoch
#

Which one is whispers board

wide portal
#

It’s the one that looks like a wispon

#

the Variable Wispon specifically

still epoch
#

Oh its a lot different

#

And obvious

#

Than I remembered

wide portal
#

large bright neon sign

rugged otter
#

this is a nice jingle

#

the blaze one

#

though would've been cool if she had her event theme

silent haven
#

HEMS 😴

#

no more fun

cunning echo
#

honestly it was for the better

#

I think it went a lil out of hand 😭

wide portal
#

oh yeah that’s allll the lines of dialogue in the datamine 💀

still epoch
#

Oh wow

wide portal
#

oh yeah Ian definitely wrote these 😭 😭

grand cobalt
#

you didn't think so before? 😭

wide portal
#

no i just crossed something relevant

#

there’s one specific Amy line that might be another 9/11

still epoch
#

Which one do it now kill me

wide portal
still epoch
#

Oka

#

That isnt even bad

wide portal
#

yeah it’s just the first part im a little iffy about but the context evens it out

grand cobalt
#

so is this towards metal sonic

still epoch
#

Yep

grand cobalt
#

makes sense

#

there's nothing wrong with this plug lmao

coarse ferry
#

ngl I like this a lot

#

It shows Amy's growth very well since her debut

wide portal
#

the discourse it’s sucking at my pores

#

||she, tails, and knuckles all reference their own metal counterparts in rival dialogue with metal when they go first. Amy mentions trip in one line||

grand cobalt
#

we need to get you to a normal machine stat

coarse ferry
#

||I WANT TO SEE TAILS AND KNUCKLES! NOW!||

still epoch
#

||Oh no does this mean trip is not||

coarse ferry
#

SHOW!

still epoch
#

||whats the trip line||

wide portal
#

||“Ooh! If I see Trip, I need to stop and say hi!”||

still epoch
#

NOOOOOOO

#

||TRIP DECONFIRMED I HATE THIS||

wide portal
#

||it’s listed as a course comment so i think she says it when she’s on Northstar ||

still epoch
#

||noooooOo TRIIIIIIP||

grand cobalt
#

yeah 100%

still epoch
#

||FUCK||

grand cobalt
#

wait

#

||henry did you take it as amy having rival dialouge towards trip or ||

still epoch
#

||no just the fact amy is talking about seeing trip in the islands||

#

||meaning shes not gonna be dlc||

wide portal
#

||that’s not confirmation of anything yet I don’t think ||

grand cobalt
#

||i mean that's not really a deconfirmation nor confirmation, its just a comment ||

coarse ferry
#

||Yeah I doubt that means anything||

grand cobalt
#

but it'd be really funny if they did make it in

wide portal
#

||lmfao both eggman and sage try to trick knuckles ||

grand cobalt
wide portal
#

||I think I posted the sage line earlier but Eggman tells him there’s a shortcut at the start ||

plush moth
#

why would you have us imagine this😭

wide portal
coarse ferry
#

||BRO WTF!? LMFAOOOOOOO||

wide portal
#

Shadow’s lines are great

#

||his lines with Blaze caused me to realize this is the first time either of those characters have ever interacted with each other||

coarse ferry
#

||AYO!? I WANT TO SEE IT!||

#

||I have been dying to see the interaction between Shadow and Blaze!!||

grand cobalt
#

ooh

#

alright that's enough rumors thread, i'm closing it until after the test

untold kayak
wide portal
#

||Metal||

untold kayak
#

If anything, this would show Amy has some spine against ||Metal||

#

specially given she usually requires Sonic to help her out against him

wide portal
#

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO

#

||ZAVOK’S SCARED OF BIG||

dawn pumice
#

😭 😭

untold kayak
#

BXSHVCXSGCGUYSGCDBC

#

If Leo sees this

#

he won't give Soni a break at all

#

😭

hasty plume
# wide portal

the fact you think this is even slightly comparable to 9/11 is so beyond sad I do not have the words to articulate it
go outside

plush moth
#

OH I AM GONNA HAVE SOME FUN WITH THIS

untold kayak
#

😭

plush moth
#

SONI YOUR GOAT IS TERRIFIED OF BIG

untold kayak
#

Is it alright that Soni is tagged though?

plush moth
#

oh yea fair, lemme go ahead and edit that

untold kayak
#

lol

wide portal
#

||Espio and Zazz allude to their fight from Metal Virus||

plush moth
#

Today’s just my day, now I have even more clap backs against the bullying😭

wide portal
#

||Zazz also mentions it in his response to Espio; he also mentions him being beat “one time”, which very explicitly ties it to the MV fight ||

dawn pumice
#

Oh fucking shit

#

That’s like huge

loud zinc
#

Already lmao

pulsar horizon
#

This is a joke btw

wide portal
#

||lowkey I think people seeing “apologies metal sonic” and assuming Sage sees Metal as a brother might have jumped the gun a bit 😭 ||

still epoch
#

Cuzzz?

#

||Also you did not explain any of the shadow and blaze lines||

forest fractal
dawn pumice
#

||The zazz line really just confirmed idw is canon 😭||

forest fractal
#

CrossWorlds has no story so it’s not canon

pulsar horizon
forest fractal
#

Just a video game ass game

wide portal
wide portal
#

anyway, uh ||Sage basically says that she’s gonna lobotomize Metal because he’s getting too aggressive on the track ||

still epoch
#

Crazy

dawn pumice
forest fractal
#

So?

#

There’s the artwork of Zazz and Espio this year

dawn pumice
#

💀

wide portal
#

said art was also drawn in response to a poll where said vote total only occurred because of previous encounter, which they referenced directly in the article confirming the pair up

forest fractal
#

Idc i refuse to accept IDW into canon

wide portal
#

you can’t run forever bup

dawn pumice
forest fractal
plush moth
#

true

#

also you cannot kill IDW you’ll accept it sooner or later

humble drum
#

but then he showed up again

forest fractal
#

Good thing we’ll never see em again

plush moth
#

the future is unpredictable

#

maybe we’ll see em once they fulfill their dream of escaping scrapnik island

wide portal
#

while Crossworlds doesn’t have a story, it has a very explicit Framing Device that Ian makes apparent throughout all the rival dialogue

#

that combined with very specific references makes it clear that the intention is for the events of this game to fit in to the canon

dawn pumice
#

Is there any more idw mentions?

wide portal
#

As far as I can tell, ||it’s just limited to Espio and Zazz||

#

||there are no other pairings where it’d be natural to bring up those events||

#

||Dodon Pa has built this massive simulation machine that allows him to create massive environments from different time periods and dimensions. He uses these simulations as the basis for the Grand Prix

It seems like the main purpose of the Prix is gathering data regarding further expansion of the system, so whether or not the characters take it seriously is up to their jurisdiction. Amy was singled out because of some specific lines, but she’s not the only one who talks about taking this as good fun ||

#

This is my read of the framing device, and I imagine the comic (and the animation too?) will delve into it more explicitly

dawn pumice
#

||ehhh the travel rings being simulations is kinda boring ngl||

#

||wish it was like actual multiverse stuff||

untold kayak
#

||I mean, it simulates those worlds perfectly, as Eggman states in a conversation with Tails. The danger is pretty much real so they, for all intends and purposes, are going through different worlds that are simulated||

#

||Such as the Arabian Nights or Donpa's planet||

smoky summit
#

@dawn pumice yeah it's basically what I surmised. Unreal Engine provides the ability to customize pretty much anything, so Sonic Team can retain some useful HE2 objects and parts of the code

dawn pumice
#

Mb I thought I said that 😭

#

It’s mainly UE5 with HE2 acting as a sort of plug

smoky summit
#

You said UE5 is acting as a wrapper

dawn pumice
#

O mb

#

Bad way to put it 😭

smoky summit
#

I don't think HE2 has robust online support anyways so UE5 is definitely handling all of that

dawn pumice
#

I also think it’s UE lighting as well?

#

Cuz I saw someone mention that market street has a common problem with how UE5 does lighting a certain way

smoky summit
#

Yeah, that would be very likely

#

There's no tangible reason to port over all that stuff from HE2 when UE5 has its own implementation

#

If I had to guess I assume everything retained from HE2 is gameplay specific stuff

cunning echo
#

So ig this is similar to what konami did with efootball

dawn pumice
#

Ya exactly

#

I also think this is gonna be used for the future of Sonic

#

Kinda needed ngl

cunning echo
#

efootball was made with fox engine but they moved to ue

#

gameplay was the same and physics but lighting wise it was pretty much unreal engine

dawn pumice
#

#FightingGameDreamLivesForever

cunning echo
#

is real

#

sonic frontiers 2 uses ai unreal engine 5

dawn pumice
#

If that frontiers 2 leak is real

#

I’ll be doing flips

glossy sphinx
#

I'll be doing more flips

wide portal
#

I’ll animate Sonic hitting the griddy

wide portal
dawn pumice
#

Believe in the fighting game dream

smoky summit
#

So each Crossworld has a final lap remix that I'm assuming shows up in the grand prix fin race?

forest fractal
#

No, I think it’s when a Frenzy happens

glossy sphinx
#

could still be a third lap thing if you get the option to do 3 laps of crossworlds

forest fractal
#

Prob

smoky summit
#

Or uploading them, I should say

forest fractal
#

Ah

untold kayak
#

yeah I checked footage

#

the songs of the crossworlds don't really change

#

with frenzy time

autumn yacht
#

oh

untold kayak
#

so probably a third lap or something

dusty osprey
#

IDW's canonicity is weird purposefully so you don't really have a lot to refuse. And remains tenuous

forest fractal
#

Imma just cut the thread

dusty osprey
#

hmm?

forest fractal
#

Just cut

#

Snip snip

dusty osprey
#

ok?

wide portal
#

it’s out there if you look

dusty osprey
#

just link the shit bro

coarse ferry
wheat kindle
#

So basically ||Trip and movie stuff deconfirmed by various sources. How lame||

#

They had a cool opportunity to make this grand

#

||Also I don't know why Superstars got a course but no classic characters apparently||

#

||and even freakin Rumble had a movie collab||

silent haven
#

where was trip deconfirmed?

coarse ferry
#

||We don't know over Trip, but movie chars are out||

cunning echo
#

No classic sonic you say?

raw osprey
#

oh someone leaked another crossworlds track

#

should i post it here?

still epoch
#

Ya

raw osprey
#

alr ||egg expo||

still epoch
#

||uhhh not the color scheme i was expecting||

untold kayak
dusty osprey
#

mobians just hanging out at the eggman expo i guess

raw osprey
dusty osprey
#

" He wants to enslave us but he makes a mean toaster i tell you "

#

that's funny

raw osprey
#

||wdym you would not go to hitler concert??||

prime hearth
#

I mean some of yall still on twitter so it’s accurate at least lmao😭

raw osprey
#

||btw yea i was right that secret crossworld is metropolis speedway||

rugged otter
#

huhhhh

still epoch
#

||no its not||

#

||its not even on the list||

rugged otter
#

yeah

still epoch
rugged otter
# raw osprey alr ||egg expo||

||also do need another look at this
it does look like an expo but since it's eggman's I was kinda expecting something a bit more out there visually - but it's just one shot we have so far so I'll wait a bit||

raw osprey
#

||ill wait tbh i remember i do not liked how donpa factory looked in that big leak but now im a fan||

still epoch
silent haven
#

tugs at collar ermmm gulp

still epoch
#

?

silent haven
#

update

still epoch
#

What update though

silent haven
prime hearth
#

I think we both know what update lol

#

100% a workaround-killing one I’d bet my life on it

smoky summit
#

Unless there's another workaround that gets discovered lol

still epoch
#

Um

#

The graphics went insane for me LMAO

#

IT STOPPED WORKING

#

oh lmfao

#

Yea i think im done

wise chasm
#

I don't think there was any update, otherwise it would've shown up on Steam itself

wheat kindle
#

Also I'm not sure if people pointed this out

#

from the beta, the last 2 cups besides the main 8 ones are called ||collab cups|| so this is what they are

#

||so including DLCs we have 10 grand prix cups||

still epoch
#

Oh so

#

The nick cup

wheat kindle
#

I'm guessing one is "cartoon" and one is "videogame collab"

still epoch
#

And the pacman and minecraft and the last one

wheat kindle
#

we could speculate the last one being from videogames

#

so no DC comics

wise chasm
#

it's gonna be DLC 1,2 and 3 cup. Then 4,5 and 6 cup

still epoch
#

The order is so weird

wise chasm
#

so Minecraft, Spung and Pacman is gonna be the first one

#

then TMNT, Avatar and ??? for 2nd

wheat kindle
#

maybe

#

what I suggested would also make sense though

leaden acorn
#

Oh right, the SEGA characters don't even have tracks with them. A shame.

silent haven
#

i can open console but typing stuff in doesn't do anything for me anymore

#

joever

hasty plume
#

if its videogames and then toons I got nothing for what could remain

#

can't exactly go bigger than minecraft

#

could be like
fortnite ig

silent haven
still epoch
#

Race Park?

#

Is there anything single player on race park

silent haven
#

yes

#

there’s ai rivals you can race against for single player

#

which is where the weird shadow skins are from

#

but most of it’s been cut past the menus so can’t check anything past those

rugged otter
#

thought those skins had something single-player campaign about them

still epoch
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Ooooo

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So race park has single player content, thats great

raw osprey
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i meeeeeeeeeeean we kinda knew this no

silent haven
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they've said it's for 1-4 players before yeah :v

raw osprey
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sage being silver villain hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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i see you sonic team

silent haven
still epoch
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Super Sonic speed what how

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I love silver as the like Hope guy

dawn pumice
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How’s super sonic speed? @silent haven

silent haven
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about what you'd expect

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similar to transformed's s class i guess

hasty plume
smoky summit
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Pfffff I knew he'd milk this nonsense (its his instinct), but good grief 😭

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Just let it go man

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Let it go

untold kayak
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I mean, if the character is stated to have some semblance to another character, the fighting game rule is to make mention of it at least once

smoky summit
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Idk what that means, but even if I did, it's like

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Not gonna make it any better in my book?

modest parcel
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Is there anything more interesting that's worth pointing out

untold kayak
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Basically

If a character looks like another, the character specific interaction will allude to it of one way or another.

DB games do this a lot with Turles and Goten

smoky summit
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That's neat

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Idk why that's relevant here

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This is a joke about amy mixing them up in SA2 and 06

modest parcel
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Tobeeeeee

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Novaaaaaa

smoky summit
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Sorry, I feel like everytime it's like "but technically this and that" and I'm just not here to listen to random justifications for things that I don't like about writing or gameplay 😭

modest parcel
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Tobe you already know you're not going to accept any justifications on it

smoky summit
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I wasn't here to do that, I was here to say it's bad lol

modest parcel
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You don't like it because of the exact reason you're irritated by it lol

torn trench
modest parcel
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Thank you Sonic Team

smoky summit
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Yeah deleter, that aint your datamine sir

modest parcel
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You're right

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Im a fraud

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I haven't even listened to more than 4 tracks from the datamine yet

torn trench
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Smh

modest parcel
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I just got off work and ngl

wide portal
smoky summit
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Sorry Nova, a lot of people do this thing, it ain't you. Sometimes I just wanna call a spade a spade

modest parcel
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Outside of seeing the metal sonic dialogs and pogging out

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I'm not that interested in reading up on the crossworlds stuff yet

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Kinda want to continue my hollow knight playthrough instead

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And leave the sonic for my days off

smoky summit
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Play Shinobi Art of Vengeance instead

modest parcel
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Uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhno

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Sorry tobe you'll have to buy a copy for me

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And play it for me

smoky summit
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It's better than some weak sauce Hollow Knight

modest parcel
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Be the change you want to see in the world

smoky summit
untold kayak
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its cool, don't worry Tobe.

coarse ferry
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I'll be playing kirby DLC first tho 💀