#Sonic

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flint folio
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i mean, that means nothing

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but im glad its being spoken about

atomic topaz
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i will jizz

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EVERYWHERE

flint folio
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frontiers is a ballsy as hell game for sonic and they're still kinda not quite going balls deep

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so its a very sega thing to do, to kinda half ass something amazing

atomic topaz
flint folio
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well sega gotta sega

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nintendo don't fumble quite this often

atomic topaz
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also remember how overly confident they were back then
in marketing

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completely ROASTING the super nintendo whenever they got the chance

flint folio
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they had the right to be, they were doing well

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and both companies did it, just shat on the other

flint folio
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Lol what

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Crazy timeline we live in

atomic topaz
flint folio
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That is a still image skeet

atomic topaz
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in the thumbnail

flint folio
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That might be why

visual galleon
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Haha

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Weird shading

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Is this game using unreal engine??

flint folio
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The funny thing is you can make that point but it doesn’t look so in the thumbnail lol

atomic topaz
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It still looks off to me

flint folio
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The grinding is from forces

flint folio
atomic topaz
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You'd think maybe they want to do something original

visual galleon
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Hedgehog engine 2?

atomic topaz
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People didn't like forces

visual galleon
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Didn’t know it had a new version

flint folio
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Forces was made on that mate

visual galleon
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Maybe for the ps5 / new xbox

flint folio
visual galleon
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I imagine the new engine can handle more shading effects without compromising the gpu

flint folio
atomic topaz
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Sorry I'm in pain
and tired

flint folio
# atomic topaz fair

As much as I agree originality and new animations is very cool, I think it’s nitpicky here, there’s a lot of new animations that are cool

Plenty of other games reused stuff all the time, it’s wasted resources to redo it

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Like the bridge sonic runs over in the frontiers trailer and jumps over an enemy is right from the death egg, but it doesn’t matter too much

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Of course you can overdo this, just not here in my humble opinion

next tartan
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Watched the trailer from a few days ago

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I'm not fond of the slow speed he walks at by default, I'm aware it's open world and thus has to be slower than how sonic rly is but my god I'm sure even botw default movement is faster

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It'd be nice if they had a mechanic to instantly make you reach a certain speed tbh!

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Like, a decent speed, like horse speed in botw or something

flint folio
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He might get faster, I’m not sure

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I suppose we’ll see how things develop

flint folio
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i think one of my takeaways is how the boost will work, if i can hold it down or if it can be upgraded
i see what you mean with the slow movement but i suppose my only though is if sonic has a skill tree, speed has to be on it a LOT

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also idk if anyone shares this but i am more fussed on if simply moving is satisfying

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like if the sound design while running is nice or i can look around as he jogs through the world

next tartan
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Kind ofv

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But not one that runs out

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A permanent "tap this to go fast instantly" button that does not need to be re filled

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Like unlimited boost ig

flint folio
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i do agree, but i also am not ruling out it already exists

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because the gameplay was not totally clear on it,

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sometimes they tapped boost, other times they held it
and with out lack of HUD i have no idea if it ever runs out

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also i saw this fucking galaxy brain theory that the grindrails look out of place because as you complete puzzles they complete a circuit which is why some of them go nowhere

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and frankly that is such enormous brain shit its probably not true

next tartan
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It kinda sucks that in a massive open world game the movement seems so rigid and slow

flint folio
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i think there is an asterisk next to that, because we have no real knowledge outside of educated guessing

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i mean lost works run wasnt limited, so its possible

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seems to have all sorts of collectibles, so to me rings fuel boost or its infinite in the open world, i presume we'll find out at some point

next tartan
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I'd assume rings fuel it, you can expand it with collectable resources. Like the stamina bar in BOTW

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But god knows!

flint folio
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i suppose either is plausible but there are so many collectibles that it could be anything lol
we may even find out

next tartan
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Mhm

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Hopefully

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I kinda think a delay might help, honestly, bc sega has a tendency to rush shit out. It seems to not be the case here! But you never know with sega tbf

flint folio
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i dunno really, even if you delayed it would they even know what to spend their time on? lol
from interviews and stuff it seems like this game isnt the case, but some of the bits in the trailer says otherwise
its quite confusing

next tartan
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Sonic team will swear left right and centre that their games are well made and polished but then they come out and it's just not the case at all lol

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The trailer looks like a cheap fan made game or like, an unfinished PS3 open world game

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It doesn't seem like the movement flows either. It's so jerky and stuff, maybe that's just bc of the person showcasing it?

flint folio
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It just seems very recently between these last two games that sega has really hyped up their quality control and dedication to this title specifically

but the trailers are very odd, like I don’t fully understand their goal like this, it would be fine if there was a proper fill trailer, then a month of this?

Whoever was playing didn’t seem great at the game either, which is weird, as it’s from sega
But like.. I like it, so there’s that I guess lol. I’m still very excited to learn more

flint folio
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Don’t worry lads, sonic mobile games are getting announcements

flint folio
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I can’t wait to hear about sonic dash

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And by can’t wait I mean fuck it

atomic topaz
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or are you just speculating

flint folio
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Who the fuck speculates about sonic mobile games

atomic topaz
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OH FUCK OFF

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Cunts

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"exciting"

graceful egret
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Bro I remember playing Sonic Dash in its early days

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It was a lot of fun

flint folio
atomic topaz
flint folio
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I don’t know if I can grant you that, and I’m sure you’d still be totally lost here lol

atomic topaz
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fair assumption

flint folio
atomic topaz
flint folio
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5pm my time

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its in 15 minutes

atomic topaz
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FUCK

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yeah im not gonna make it

flint folio
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9am eastern, 12pm whoever thefuck

atomic topaz
flint folio
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you fuckin donkey

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well i'll be screaming

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more people are in the IGN stream than the official sonic stream

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for anyone present

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otherwise here for when its done

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yoo

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shadow in prime

atomic topaz
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@flint folio Let me know if there's a 2D sonic announcement

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if there isnt
tell me that too

flint folio
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frontiers prologue featuring knuckles coming soon

atomic topaz
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KNUCKLES

flint folio
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exciting shit

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skill tree, cyberspace confirmed, and fairly positive outlooks

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showing none of them

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chaos emeralds are unlocked with completing cyberspace levels and completing objectives in them

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also there are racing objectives

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@atomic topaz outside of the froniters prologue, nothing we didnt expect to feature featured

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and it was 12 minutes

flint folio
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the puzzles in the world are how you unlock bits of your map

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apparently there is a parry of some kind

atomic topaz
flint folio
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prime trailer, origins

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sonic speed sim, merch, oh and the symphony goes on tour?

atomic topaz
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so just new frontiers
which they were already showing the past 5 days

flint folio
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and the things i mentioned

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showing speed sim they played sonic unleashed music and i nearly had a heart attack

atomic topaz
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well i meant in terms of actual sonic games

flint folio
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origins

atomic topaz
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not collections

flint folio
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you're narrowing your own scope too much here

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there's no real reason to bring out a 3rd game weeks from origins, and 5 months before frontiers

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it'd ruin origins marketing and frontiers' month showcase

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fuckin sonic dash/forces mobile is getting mephilles and super shadow

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and blaze as a knight

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so that was actually pretty cool

atomic topaz
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damn they're actually acknowledging that game

flint folio
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they've done it twice already how are you more surprosed for that than the other two

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they acknowledge fuckin 06 of all things

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this is just a snippet of a thing, not sure why it says official trailer

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also this thing which is a razer xbox controller+charger

grizzled stone
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Oh hey, glad to see the lightspeed dash return to being a core move

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Or at least I think it is?

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Mentioning it in that hands on preview like that makes me think it's either a natural moveset thing or unlockable

flint folio
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i assume early unlockable?

grizzled stone
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but either way, sounds like it'll be less contextual than, say, Generations

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which I like, growing up with Unleashed and Heroes

flint folio
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i was pleased to hear the guy was fairly optimistic and positive about the games scope and outlook

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i suppose we may get pokemon legends type reception in "its their first time" or something

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which i can understand to an extent, but i hope they run with the style, as you could build off of it enormously

grizzled stone
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Yeah, really hope they do

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Though I wouldn't say it's too in Sonic Team's repertoire to really build on things?

flint folio
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this being said as much as id love open world sonic RPGs to exist forever, other stuff should continue to exist

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sonic team has probably changed totally about 8 times so who knows

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iizuka has said he would like frontiers to define a new style for the character

grizzled stone
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Ooooh

flint folio
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Building grinding and loops into the world rather than kinda cyber-existing is a better idea

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but yeah, seems cool - i hope it continues and the game develops well

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brethren

grizzled stone
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ayy sir percival

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though lately all I've been playing Dash for (incidentally using Blaze) is getting the movie event characters then waiting a week for the event to end XD

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currently it's movie knuckles

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already got movie sonic and longclaw

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it's really funny to see longclaw roll

flint folio
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see i play forces mobile and not dash lol

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maybe i should start up dash too

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can i be offline for that?

grizzled stone
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I think so

flint folio
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ill have a look

grizzled stone
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Time to cease chuckling

flint folio
atomic topaz
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also

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for some reason this video decided Joseph Gordon Levitt and Daniel Craig are good choices

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Not quite sure where that comes from

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Actually Daniel Craig maybe
His version of James bond is the most dark and brooding version we've ever had

flint folio
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jason isnt returning for shadow, i would guarantee it

atomic topaz
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Didn't he say that he only viewed working on sonic as a paycheck

flint folio
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i have no idea

atomic topaz
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@next tartan Ps plus free games are added today so im bouta install Nickelodean smash bros

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its only gonna take 45 minutes
Sweet 😎

atomic topaz
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I am a little disappointed with this roster

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However I laughed really hard at the fact that Garfield is in this game

visual galleon
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@atomic topaz voice acting dlc will come soon

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Is a free one iirc

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Instead of grunts we will get some quotes

atomic topaz
visual galleon
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Really?

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Haven’t seen the videos but got that notification on email

atomic topaz
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garfield was just talking in the match i played

visual galleon
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That’s neat

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How’s it?

atomic topaz
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he will say stuff like "lasagna"

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during fighting

atomic topaz
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for me

visual galleon
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No Tara strong?

atomic topaz
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idk if she voices anyone

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But she would probably do Timmy if they added him

visual galleon
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Wait

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Timmy isn’t there? Wtf

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He’s a freaking Nicktoon!

atomic topaz
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This was exciting for me because I definitely did watch a good amount of Nickelodeon as a kid
just surprisingly didn't watch as much spongebob as I watched other shows on that network

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Fairly Oddparents was probably the one i watched the most
in terms of animation

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I watched a lot of iCarly but I'm not sure how they could add live action characters to a game like this

atomic topaz
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The roster is kind of set up like smash Bros based on how some franchises depending on how big they are have more than one character represented

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For that they have spongebob avatar and TMNT with two or more characters

grizzled stone
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daniel craig huh

visual galleon
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Nop!

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That’s Multiversus

grizzled stone
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Ohhhh

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yeah

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I can't keep track XD

atomic topaz
grizzled stone
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I wanna say it'll be four

atomic topaz
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I feel like now that smash is actually over a bunch of other people are just trying to follow in its footsteps

grizzled stone
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Yeah, seems like it was a good time to launch one when the first did

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Plus, plenty of platforms Nintendo haven't touched

atomic topaz
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I feel like Nickelodeon was like fuck it they know that it's a smash clone so let's not hide it at all

grizzled stone
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Speaking of smash clones, Brawlhalla disappoints me

atomic topaz
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It does?

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I like its artstyle

grizzled stone
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It's good, I've played a bunch, I love the art style and would absolutely crush HARD on Nix, but they just won't stop with annoying monetisation and tie-ins

atomic topaz
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Everyone knows the best smash clone is Super Smash Flash 2

grizzled stone
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naruto 4 life

atomic topaz
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Yeah Naruto in smash
You don't get that any worlds

grizzled stone
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Kinda diluting the draw of a platform fighter with a unique cast if you're shoving WWE, Kung Fu Panda, Rayman, TMNT, Steven Universe, Adventure Time and more into it

atomic topaz
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Smash Flash 2 is the sole reason why I think anyone asking for goku in smash is a fucking idiot

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Well also that hes not a game character but
Yeah

atomic topaz
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I'm pretty sure Rayman is the only one with a unique move set

grizzled stone
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Yeah, they're skins with the exception of Rayman

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Which, it's good that we don't have to learn that many extra movesets haha

atomic topaz
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It would be cool if Lara Croft had her own unique set though

grizzled stone
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oh forgot her

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Could definitely work, but ehhhh

atomic topaz
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Yeah I remember hearing about her being added in back then and I thought she was an actual unique character

grizzled stone
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honestly I just don't care for tie ins in this game specifically

atomic topaz
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i know what you mean
It's not unique like when Soul Calibur does it

grizzled stone
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Besides being smash but on PC, the draw for me was also the cast of unique characters with interesting lore that have interactions with others

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Means you don't have to be a fan of existing franchises to feel like you can enjoy the cast

atomic topaz
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Sidenote I bought soul calibur 5 today and I actually really enjoy it

grizzled stone
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Oooh nice!

atomic topaz
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I hear that game often considered to be the black sheep of the series

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But I don't get the hate

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It's also very graphically impressive
It looks better than soul calibur 4 which is surprising to me

grizzled stone
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I haven't much knowledge of Soul Calibur but I can't help but think there's probably a fair amount of people who complain about anything that isn't 2

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Oh hey didn't 4 have Darth Vader?

atomic topaz
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3 and 4 are really good

grizzled stone
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speaking of tie ins XD

atomic topaz
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and yes it did!!

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I've been playing multiple entries recently and 4 is probably my favorite

grizzled stone
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Reminds me of how THPS3 had Darth Maul, and THPS4 had Jango Fett

atomic topaz
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And it's not really because of the star wars cross marketing, surprisingly

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SC4 is just a really diverse and well balanced fighting game

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it does have some clone characters though

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But they're listed under bonus characters so it's fine

atomic topaz
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None of that can happen today which is so sad

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I remember talking to AJ about the Tony Hawk remake leading up to release, and hoping they would add something surprising as an unlockable in the place of spiderman

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They could have just put Nathan Drake in there or something

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But they just went with Jack black in a cop outfit

grizzled stone
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There is the special edition Ripper character

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a mascot for either Santa Cruz or Powell-Peralta

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but yeah, not much in the way of unlockable skaters :(

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Really surprised Crash isn't available

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There are a few pieces of Crash-themed gear

flint folio
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sonic

atomic topaz
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it feels so janky but i like chillin on games with you

atomic topaz
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sonic

flint folio
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Indeed

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Still playing chronicles

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Met shadow, definitely gonna sit on my team

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When he stops fucking off

atomic topaz
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is shadow cool in that game

flint folio
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I think so

atomic topaz
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Nice

flint folio
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Though I’ve not seen much of him yet and his effect on the game I don’t remember

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But it’s cool he’s here

atomic topaz
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is there voice acting

flint folio
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Sadly not

atomic topaz
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Rip

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a full sonic RPG with voice acting would be cool to have someday

flint folio
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But I mean Sonic Rush didn’t have much, and this is a very dialogue heavy game, I don’t think it’d been great quality

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I reckon frontiers will be the closest we get for a while

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But a more traditional one would be awesome, even if it’s turn based again

atomic topaz
flint folio
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What I don’t think is that the DS would have brought high enough quality audio for a story heavy game like this, based on how muffled sonic rush sounded lol

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Also this was BioWare and not sega/sonic team, so I assume that also played a part

atomic topaz
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All the dialogue in Bioware's other games had voice acting though
but i see your point

flint folio
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I assume outsourcing sonic and not being stuff BioWare has rights to would have played a part on how far they went

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It’s worth asking what was the last non sonic team sonic game to have voice acting

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I think it’s not here because of the hardware and it was cheaper, probably

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What amuses me is this game has idle animations, and forces doesn’t

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Thought it was funny

young dagger
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@flint folio probably gonna stream sonic generations later tonight if your up to join

flint folio
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If I’m not busy I will pop in, depends when really

young dagger
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im on summer break so honestly just lmk

flint folio
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Me too technically, so like 6 or so hours from now is the best for me lol
Usually when anyone I’m with fucks off

young dagger
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aight

next tartan
atomic topaz
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I hate that in fighting games

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specifically smash type games

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you dont need it if its fuckin 2d

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just pressing up makes sense

next tartan
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I use the dedicated jump button more than the joystick

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It makes it easier

atomic topaz
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its just rather annoying to me

next tartan
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Dislike the fact there's no down special

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Like wtf

atomic topaz
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i have played smash for like 10 years

next tartan
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Graphics are terrible too

atomic topaz
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since the brawl days

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this is just weird

next tartan
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You just need to get used to it bestie

atomic topaz
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maybe you can help me with that

next tartan
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Maybe

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It's just a learning process

atomic topaz
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Would you be able to do like 5 o'clock my time tomorrow

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I'll be out until around then

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Maybe 4 actually

next tartan
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Yea I think so lemme check timezones

atomic topaz
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I think if we do that time it'll be like 10pm for you

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Which isn't too bad

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If you just want to do like one hour that's fine

next tartan
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Yea that works

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I'll just map during the day

atomic topaz
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Yeah I have class in the morning tomorrow and a meeting with my tutor at 2pm

next tartan
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Yea no worries just hmu when you're free

atomic topaz
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But I do not work so the afternoon will be fine for that

next tartan
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Baller

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I'm free tomorrow thankfully

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No work just sleep

atomic topaz
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I guess just try not to fall asleep when I'm trying to ping ya idk lol

flint folio
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Piss plus is pretty nice this month

atomic topaz
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yeah also SHINOBI STRIKER @next tartan

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forgot to mention

next tartan
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Yea I saw I'm a platinum it

atomic topaz
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@flint folio I got to the part in the video where Scott bitches about sonic colors ultimate

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damn its fun lol

flint folio
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I finished it this morning actually

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Scott’s sonic opinions seem alright, I mean he includes unleashed content a lot too in previous videos

atomic topaz
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He really does have a point
sega shouldn't have advertised this as "ultimate"

flint folio
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I mean, if you ask me both of you put more meaning behind the title than I think anyone intended

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It seems a nitpick to me

atomic topaz
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It does add meaning to people being disappointed though I think

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If it was just called colors remastered it wouldn't be that big of a problem

flint folio
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I did not see anyone care about the name at all until this video, so I doubt it

atomic topaz
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lol

flint folio
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I like how the name sounds, just the only thing was it wasn’t a very good remaster lol

flint folio
young dagger
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an maybe 30 minutes or so

flint folio
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Sounds good

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That lines up nearly exactly anyway

young dagger
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nice nice

young dagger
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@flint folio am in vc

flint folio
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hjiuyblsadfhyuilsdafghyuilrgshyu

young dagger
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yeah

flint folio
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@atomic topaz thought i'd let you know

atomic topaz
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im still at work

flint folio
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work faster

atomic topaz
flint folio
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maybe?

atomic topaz
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@flint folio I'm on my way home now I'll join vc if you're still there in 30 minutes

ornate oyster
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@atomic topazyo im about to get home

atomic topaz
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sonic 06

flint folio
atomic topaz
flint folio
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that sure is one of the games of all time

atomic topaz
flint folio
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yes

flint folio
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Gigavirgin Lock Screen engaged

grizzled stone
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ooh pretty

flint folio
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give frontiers a photo mode and then i dont care if its any good

young dagger
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@flint folio what was your green hill time?

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from last night

flint folio
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1:43 something

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youtube says i can do it in like 1:30 or some shit

young dagger
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i was 3 seconds off from that time

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the 1:43 one

flint folio
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1:46 was my record for ages

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the area where you grind over a bridge i mostly jumped over

young dagger
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cuz i just got 1:46.63 and i thought you got smth like that

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cope about the legacy sonic but yk

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sorry 46.62 but same thing at the end of the time

flint folio
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46.62 is faster than my previous best

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i waws 46.65 last time lol

young dagger
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pog gaming

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the trick mastery skill makes everything about the trick system so much better

flint folio
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i have no idea what perks i have on

atomic topaz
flint folio
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its the first line of my cv (resume)

next tartan
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Wanker

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Also idk if Americans know what a CV is

flint folio
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noted

ornate oyster
flint folio
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big man iizuka got shit to say

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He legit finished this interview saying he hopes he can use the work done on frontiers to make another adventure game sometime

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fuckin hell

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@atomic topaz what a nuts way to end an interview

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before this he said "i haven't thought about my next game yet"

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i just thought this was a small iizuka interview for people like me to enjoy just for extra insight but no, there was that

flint folio
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fumbling to LA

flint folio
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Well I should have expected that

atomic topaz
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lol im just kiddin

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i loved what ive played of adventure 2

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the knuckles stages are mildly annoying tho

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a new one is long overdue

flint folio
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Adventure 2 is also one of if not the highest rated sonic game among anyone who’s played them, and at the very least it’s the highest rated 3D game

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So even the mention of a continuation set everyone off

flint folio
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Lol big is in prime

atomic topaz
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I feel like big has never been acknowledged in sonic tv animation

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unless he was in sonic x and i missed it

flint folio
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He was, I don’t recall how much though

atomic topaz
flint folio
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He was definitely in the first episode

atomic topaz
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oh lol

flint folio
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Technically he was the first character to appear?

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Apparently in 15 episodes

atomic topaz
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out of 78

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thats a decent chunk

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Well in that case what I meant to say was
He wasn't in Sonic Boom so its kinda nice to see him again in sonic tv

flint folio
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I mean sure he was in them but there’s a big area where he wasn’t, so representation is cool anyway

atomic topaz
flint folio
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I agree

atomic topaz
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I'm not one of those guys who's like "FUCK big hes fat and stupid and annoying"

flint folio
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I mean he was very annoying in a few entries, but others he wasn’t

atomic topaz
grizzled stone
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"Oho! Oho! Oho!" - Big the Cat

flint folio
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Well I guess there is that

grizzled stone
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love his bellyflop in Heroes

untold arch
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GUYS

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MY FRIEND WENT TO A CONVENTION TODAY

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AND MET COLLEEN O SHAUGNESSY

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SHE EVEN GOT HER AUTOGRAPH 😭 😭 😭

flint folio
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Dope as hell

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Do show

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P.s. sonic frontiers had a playable demo at SGF today and fuck me the reception has been excellent

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I’ve seen a handful to tweets and they all say the game is smooth, controls are great, all sorts
Previews from them are next week, they’ve played cyberspace levels too.
Excited to hear more thoughts

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Just an example

flint folio
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There was always hope

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I never thought the game looked bad, I was always excited

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Just critics and reviewers being positive is very good news

atomic topaz
flint folio
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Important to not read too many of other peoples opinions and form your own

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Sure people can not like it, I get it, but I do

atomic topaz
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Not saying I agree with those people but it was worrying

flint folio
#

It happens every time, some arguments are valid, others are misplaced and unlikely

atomic topaz
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yeah

flint folio
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People wanting utopia 2 are simply expecting the wrong game

atomic topaz
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lol

flint folio
#

But those pointing out clear bugs and performance issues are very right to point it out, and perhaps bits of the game they don’t like

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Just my personal taste in games really sings out to this game, and if things like combat is satisfying that’d sell the game alone

atomic topaz
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perhaps just give it a month delay to fix bugs or whatever but it seems like the game will actually be good

flint folio
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A month wouldn’t make much difference, see how things develop

atomic topaz
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you right

flint folio
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If that was a build from about may, I expect the difference between 6 and 7 months won’t change much

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If it stays that kinda buggy then I’d be pretty disappointed, but I’ll be quietly optimistic about that

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That being said I’m also slightly biased toward optimism but I’m just one opinion I suppose lol

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My main thought is to see how this month of frontiers hangs out, see how much we see, and reviewers being positive is a very nice sign

grizzled stone
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Sonic heads, get ya sonic heads!

atomic topaz
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lol

atomic topaz
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its just nice to know that it probably controls well at least

flint folio
grizzled stone
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these were in Smyths today

atomic topaz
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like on the menu

grizzled stone
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Kinda surprised I haven't seen someone do that with the Adventure 1 Sonic head

spring hill
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yo those Sonic heads are so soft. my gf and I both have one

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also Sonic Adventure [3?] hype rn

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I'm very excited for Frontiers too

grizzled stone
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Frontiers interests me, I wanna see how the final product ends up, and what the fanbase does with it

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Probably won't end up playing it for a while, I don't really have the kind of money to be buying full price games

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(Or at least I can't justify the purchase to myself)

untold arch
flint folio
atomic topaz
flint folio
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I’ve never met anyone famous, but I’ll try one day

atomic topaz
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or any actor who's worked on sonic

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hell if it was someone from the new Sonic Prime i'd probably still explode

grizzled stone
#

I think the most famous person I've met is the voice of K-9 from Doctor Who?

atomic topaz
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hell if you met Ben Schwartz i'd be just as impressed

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maybe more
because you would have met Jean Ralphio Saperstein
one of my FAVORITE recurring TV characters

next tartan
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And the red mighty moprhin power ranger and I met zordon

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Zordon gave me his business card

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Also qrow from rwby

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I have a photo of that one

grizzled stone
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!!!

atomic topaz
next tartan
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Waiting

atomic topaz
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hes a dude that only appeared in a tv movie??

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Paul McGann

next tartan
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It wasn't a TV movie iirc

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Oh it was

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Yea he only appeared in that and in a five minute special, TV wise, but he has plenty of comics, books and audiobooks

atomic topaz
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thats cool

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its a similar situation to how George Lazenby is considered one of the main Bond actors
despite only appearing in one film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969

next tartan
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He was never not a mainline doctor

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It's more that he loved the role, and big finish gave him a lot of opportunities to play it after the movie

atomic topaz
#

it is still kinda comparable to bond tho

grizzled stone
#

if we're pairing bonds to doctors, would Daniel Craig and Christopher Eccleston go together?

atomic topaz
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because Craig's 007 is really cold and grounded, more in line with Fleming's novels

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is eccleston's doctor more dark?

grizzled stone
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now that I think about it what AM I basing that on

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I'm guessing in part appearance

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can't remember if his run as the doctor is more dark

next tartan
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Compared to what came before it, it's fuckin scary

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In the first episode of his run a bunch of killer mannequins are chasing him across London and it's creepy

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He straight up just let someone die in the second ep

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But then, old who is campy even if it's a serious tone (such as genesis of the daleks)

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Eccleston and Craig were both actors who played grittier and darker versions of what were campy characters even if they weren't always intended to be campy and they both did it wonderfully

atomic topaz
atomic topaz
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i cant speak to Eccleston as ive only watched like 2 episodes from the Matt Smith run and basically nothing else, but it sounds really unique!

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@grizzled stone

grizzled stone
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I do love the vibes of his run, hanging around 2005 London is my kind of aesthetic

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stuff like Rose's fashion

flint folio
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Sir, this is the Sonic thread

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Stop making me excited that someone actually cares about the blue cunt

spring hill
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God, I can't wait for origins

flint folio
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God, I can’t wait for frontiers

atomic topaz
flint folio
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Yes

atomic topaz
flint folio
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Ayo

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Did he just fucking chaos confuckyou that shit

flint folio
#

Skeet when someone waits for a bus:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

atomic topaz
#

bruh lol

atomic topaz
flint folio
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Did you watch the video

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It’s a tweet with a video

atomic topaz
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i did not

flint folio
atomic topaz
#

fair

flint folio
#

LOTS of frontiers B-roll is out there, this one includes the ghost girl

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right at the end, briefly

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the opinion on this game is shifting, iizuka has some very interesting things to say on some of the mixed reactions

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the playtesting feedback and demo at SGF has surprised me with how positive its been

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gonna spam this chat with info as i find it

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slow down at 19 seconds for a surprise flip?

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AT 37s HE DOES IT AGAIN

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the fuck is that

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Fun look at reveal footage vs now

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fairly positive little article

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fairly "iizuka out of touch" clickbait going on, and you could sure make comments about marketing but putting that aside there is good news here

flint folio
grizzled stone
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Like tuning a car haha

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Jokes aside, that's neat

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Actually, another joke: Shadow's shoes in Sonic 3 should be Reeboks

flint folio
#

i have posted a multitude of things only to be greeted by near radio silence for most of the day
probably should have said something about doctor who

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my excitement remains even if it is difficult to share it lol

grizzled stone
#

yeah sorry this is Sonic as in the screwdriver

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I don't really have too much to say I guess? I'm not great at carrying things.

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I like the look of Frontiers so far, seems really interesting to get this different take with bits of everything past

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I am a little worried about the holiday release date, but that's more because I watched those episodes of What Happened? and am now paranoid about Sonic games releasing for holidays

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I guess I wonder why the HUD isn't there yet?

flint folio
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Just the more things come out the more excited I become, especially with sliders to customise sonics controls and the more interesting story from Ian Flynn

grizzled stone
#

Ooh yeah, that's really nice to see

flint folio
#

I guess I’m, if anything, more excited than most, so I am struggling to find anyone to convey that with other than people who are like “yeah idc imo” and then I just melt and die

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Like many many firsts here and even just the convincing positive response is nuts, the newer footage even looks much better than before

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I think I just want a sonic game I spend hours and hours in the vanilla game, I like mods but I’m not too fussed about a good chunk of them, and the idea of a huge open sonic game sounds great for dicking around in

next tartan
#

And would make sense!

flint folio
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I have posted a good chunk of that

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Though there’s a few dedicated accounts posting all the articles and I’d clog up chat doing so myself, sonic stadium posted almost all of them, I read a couple

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Also there’s about 5 minutes of extra footage and most of it looks much better than the 14 minutes or so we got from IGN

next tartan
#

That trailer looks absolutely fabulous wtf

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The 14 minutes of ign footage looked boring as fuck bc it was around what seems to be the equivalent of the towers in botw

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And ergo, it's slow

grizzled stone
flint folio
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I mean, In the extra footage they climb the tower again, but quicker

next tartan
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Bc those towers are slow too. If you saw footage of link climbing those towers and nothing else it would be boring as fuck

flint folio
flint folio
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BOTW towers were kinda mini puzzles in themselves, which made them fun

flint folio
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I’ll get up the full video

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Tower is about 1:57 in

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Not lightning fast, but much faster

next tartan
#

Combat looks good as fuck

next tartan
flint folio
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Literally all of this is better than the IGN footage lol

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And it’s fuckin B roll

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Who is marketing this game

next tartan
#

What does b roll mean

flint folio
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What I mean is it’s just other guff that I had to dig for

next tartan
#

Also fwiw, ign have never been "good" or "entertaining" or "good" with their footage of games

flint folio
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This is random ass videos that I didn’t see advertised anywhere but from fans or small channels

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The fucking IGN first videos are from sonic team how the fuck

next tartan
#

I'm convinced they just pull some random fucker in off the street, give them a controller and inject some sort of drug into then

next tartan
flint folio
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I have no idea, like going slow to show of the world is cool and I get it, but even that was poor

next tartan
#

Also the HUD is hidden in every video

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Methinks plot details are in the HUD!

next tartan
flint folio
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We’ve not seen a skill tree and it almost definitely was on the hud

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I would enjoy a video of speeding around to certain areas and going slow when you get there

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Oh did you see the blurry ass demo footage? We see the HUD somewhat

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Much better image

next tartan
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What does it do when you get 400 rings tho hm

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Also, sonic seems to be able to throw a ring or something which is kind of cool

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It's like that Saturn game where he threw rings bc it was 2.5d and they didn't invent the homing attack yet

flint folio
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Afaik you can increase ring capacity, could be health

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Tails threw rings in 06, although I hated that

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Small skill tree for the demo

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If only SEGA would show off these very cool parts of the game
It could be a fucking masterpiece and we’d have no clue

next tartan
#

That was a great trailer

next tartan
#

Builds interest, but also since nobody has faith in sega because they fuck things up more often than they should, it just means everyone's nervous the game secretly sucks and they're hiding the fact it sucks

flint folio
#

Iizuka is playing 4D Chess with frontiers

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What if all the trailers are shit and then the last one blows your mind with like
Shit you actually care about

next tartan
#

Tbf, I loved all these trailers so far except the first

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Animation is kinda iffy! But, it looks fun

flint folio
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It is a little, but idk if you noticed but the rail switching animation was fixed I think, or whatever in the trailer happened, it didn’t in the other footage

next tartan
#

I didn't notice the rail animations at all ngl

flint folio
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Also I need the boost explained to me, sometimes it’s held down, other times he taps it forever

next tartan
#

I was more referring to the combat footage

flint folio
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In the reveal trailer sonic flipped the same way for both rails, or the dev had to correct themselves? But in the recent one it was different flips

next tartan
flint folio
#

Excellent

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I like holding go fast button

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I will daydream while holding it down

next tartan
#

Zoomy

flint folio
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Exactly, give me dopamine rush with the go fast button

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If the combat stays satisfying those two things alone sells the game to me

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Though I really either want that SGF demo or to see switch gameplay

next tartan
#

The combat looks fun

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Sgf?

flint folio
#

Summer game fest

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Where those leaks are from

#

I am thirsty for info

next tartan
#

Ohh

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I want info too

#

I'm hype again

flint folio
#

I’m overtly optimistic anyway

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Gimme

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

i saw this

atomic topaz
#

whoops

flint folio
#

i saw a mod that added sonic and it was cursed

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would be cool MK8 DLC to add 3rd party areas

atomic topaz
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Don't think that will ever happen for Mario kart 8

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But maybe for the next Mario kart game

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I heard rumors a while back of nintendo wanting to make Mario kart more like smash brothers

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In terms of characters

atomic topaz
#

@flint folio are you playing alot of sonic while being covid'd

flint folio
#

i played speed sim for a bit

atomic topaz
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nice

flint folio
#

did the latest event, wasted all my rings

atomic topaz
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i played like a week ago

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maybe two

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rebirthed a couple times

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then logged off

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i havent got chemical plant yet

flint folio
#

there is a new summer sonic skin that has the adventure 1 shoes, so thats neat

flint folio
#

On my way to platinuming sonic forces

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

Epic

atomic topaz
#

I just hated the knuckles level I was stuck on

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the floating televisions do NOTHING

#

@flint folio

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fuck i spelled that word wrong

flint folio
#

Lol

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The TVs are sometimes helpful but I did not like a good chunk of the adventure games gameplay

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Treasure hunting is a cool idea but my god was it a pain in both games

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

same

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

Yeah lol

flint folio
#

Chad

atomic topaz
#

Maybe they would make a new 2D game, marketed seperately from 3D

subtle geode
#

what the fuckles, here comes knuckles

atomic topaz
subtle geode
#

you're welcome

flint folio
flint folio
#

Eat shit cunt
billed $1.99, thank you for subscribing to Joe

atomic topaz
#

Amazing

flint folio
#

Joe from the future warned me that I think sonic forces is just okay

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

I mean, I couldn’t stand lost world

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So yes

atomic topaz
#

I remember it being divisive at best

flint folio
#

Glad to see Jason sees the praise he gets

#

Also anyone noticed he looks a little like gigachad

grizzled stone
#

looks like one of the replies did

flint folio
#

Absolutely magic

#

It fits so well

grizzled stone
#

very chadly

flint folio
#

Cyberspace levels lookin like generations but again

grizzled stone
#

Hmmm

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

For cyberspace or the overworld? Because both are confirmed to have many

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Even the frontiers website mentioned about 4 at least, and cyberspace is likely 7 different stages unrelated to those biomes

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Cyberspace are boost levels likely going to be generations style from sonics past, and the biomes/islands he visits will be of multiple styles, though we’ve not seen them

flint folio
#

@atomic topaz pinging you since you asked and didn’t respond yet

atomic topaz
#

more bang for my buck

flint folio
# atomic topaz more bang for my buck

Yeah interviews said the game will be about 20-30 hours. With double that for 100%
Since I put 60 hours into mostly vanilla generations, that’s pretty great value

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It’s the longest sonic game in history, by at least 2-3x

#

I think sonic 06 may have been one of the longest, being about 8-10 hours?

atomic topaz
#

considering so many sonic games are like 3 hours long

flint folio
#

Well, forces is 3 hours, colours is 3-4, generations is like 2.5, maybe 4 if you do the side stuff, unleashed was 8 or so, 06 was maybe 10, adventure games were maybe 6..?

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So recently, yeah

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Frontiers will likely take me as long to finish at it took me to 100% forces entirely

#

I can see a cool 100 hours being spent

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

Based on just replaying levels and walking about really

#

I always preferred much longer games, I like to stick with stuff for a while

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

That’ll be down to opinion I reckon, but it seems well made or at least decently thought out, so if I liked forces to some extent this will definitely be better

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It’s good that I’m asking myself how good it will be rather than if it’ll be good

#

Though based on interviews and shit, it does seem like everyone hasn’t got the full picture yet, I get that’s likely because the videos haven’t been great, but it’s good to know there’s plenty left

atomic topaz
#

i'll play the shit out of it

flint folio
#

Fella if that happens I am g o n e

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

Bruh I’d replay shit like that for ages, idc how long it is I’d play it on everything

#

Tbf I could really use a demo for performance

atomic topaz
#

I know most of us are going to buy it anyways but I think we would still love to try it beforehand

flint folio
#

Performance is my biggest worry, I’d like to try it on every system I own

atomic topaz
#

that isnt switch

#

so either ps4 or ps5

flint folio
#

Well you have many things

atomic topaz
#

also you know i meant the most current lol

#

its obv coming out on ps4

flint folio
#

I’m just saying you have a switch too, I’m very interested to see how that runs

atomic topaz
#

sonic game will run fine on ps4 i think

flint folio
#

It doesn’t look that demanding, should run fine on everything I own

atomic topaz
#

yeah thats what i was thinking

#

lets see it running on psp tho

flint folio
#

Lol

#

Maybe a vita

atomic topaz
#

lol yeah

#

that makes more since

#

its closer to ps3 which is what you could compare the switch too

flint folio
#

There abouts

#

Nintendo has rarely been with the other consoles in terms of graphical power

#

Ever since the Wii really

atomic topaz
#

yes weve always known this

#

lol

flint folio
#

Well home consoles they were for a bit,

#

The Wii U was kinda in some ways but not massively?

atomic topaz
#

the last time their hardware was on par with the current gen was Gamecube
comparable to ps2

#

their choice to have the wii run basically the same graphics as gc was what set them back forever

flint folio
#

Then the Wii U was a decent jump and the switch was the exact same thing

atomic topaz
#

wii u was a good 6 years late from the HD competition tho

#

so they only had a year to catch up before the next gen was released

#

so they didnt

flint folio
#

Yeah it was, but the Wii U to the switch was yet another side step in graphical power

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

Well it’s got the DNA of handhelds, cheaper console for less graphical power

#

Then companies try squeeze doom eternal on it

#

Issue is it’s likely Nintendo will do a step up the moment Ps4/Xbone are phased out, so it’ll be pointless for those ports again lol

atomic topaz
#

because like
any remaster of a 360 era game that is released for ps4/xbone that gets a switch port
they try to port that newer version
and wonder why it turns out bad

#

just downgrade it to the 360 graphics

#

and dont call it remstered on switch

flint folio
#

Would be good to bring back the old Xbox live arcade “HD” games

#

Just rerelease it in HD

#

It’d run excellently on switch then

atomic topaz
#

i just hate that they always do it that way yknow

flint folio
#

Well yeah, the switch would be perfect for HD ports not massive remasters

atomic topaz
#

the epitome of this fuckery is the Kingdom Hearts cloud version trainwreck

flint folio
#

Lol cloud versions on a portable console

atomic topaz
#

everyone knows they should've just tried to convert the PS3 version of the final mix remasters

flint folio
#

What a joke

#

I’d take OG versions of those games

atomic topaz
#

exactly

#

either would work

flint folio
#

Old classics at 60fps in HD but they look like PS2 games

#

I’d gobble that up

atomic topaz
#

you just dont have to use ps4 version

flint folio
#

It happened once, like with KOTOR?

#

It got a remake announced and the switch just got the original

atomic topaz
#

yeah like
im glad they did that

flint folio
#

It’s a good way to do it

atomic topaz
#

all the old lucasarts games coming to switch has just been really nice

#

like im not buying them cause most of them run on my pc, but its cool

flint folio
#

Portability is nice, I can’t take my PC everywhere

#

Hell, I wouldn’t even wanna take a laptop everywhere

atomic topaz
#

yeah

flint folio
#

Rereleases on switch kinda hit different anyway

atomic topaz
#

but like, i prefer Republic Commando on a mouse and keyboard

flint folio
#

Mouser kerboard

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

Funni

atomic topaz
#

you rarely point out my typos anyway so its fine

#

and that one was actually funny

flint folio
#

It made me chuckle

atomic topaz
#

happy to amuse ig lol

flint folio
#

I’d be a cunt if I pointed out a wrong your or something

atomic topaz
#

ha true

#

HEY CUNT ITS THEIR YA FUCKIN GIBBON

flint folio
#

I could not hear you say this IRL

atomic topaz
#

i assume that was a pretty decent impression

#

yeah its inspired by you

flint folio
#

I’d probably go harder than gibbon, something that makes very little sense

atomic topaz
#

wanktoaster

flint folio
#

Something like that

atomic topaz
#

lol

atomic topaz
#

i bet you've probably seen this but
yeah

flint folio
#

I have actually

#

It’s magnificent

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

I did that for a bit, then I realised I’m in the boat where I only like 1/3rd of the game anyway

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

Then the physics on the mech levels suck

atomic topaz
#

i'd say i enjoy the tails mech sections better than those so far

flint folio
#

Jumping about and shit feels horrendous and it’s hard to judge

atomic topaz
#

they are fairly enjoyable tho

#

at least i think

flint folio
#

Can’t say I look forward to them

#

I struggle to enjoy a game when I only really want to play as 2 characters and see the cutscenes

#

Similar with generations I guess

atomic topaz
#

shadow?

#

i seem to always forget if he was or not

flint folio
#

He was or not what

atomic topaz
#

fuck

#

i went to work and forgot about this interaction lol

flint folio
atomic topaz
#

i know

#

damn lmao

subtle geode
#

lol

flint folio
#

Plotnum

atomic topaz
#

lol jk

#

i respect your dedication

flint folio
#

I’m glad that was still your first response

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

It is my desperate attempt at someone to care about what I’m doing

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

This is the sonic thread

atomic topaz
#

Yeah

flint folio
#

So

atomic topaz
#

and

flint folio
#

So why would you talk about guitar hero here

#

I was posting an achievement how is this now about your Wii collection

atomic topaz
#

because i HATE you

flint folio
#

You don’t nail this stance very well

atomic topaz
#

lol jk

#

I wasn't even intending to start a conversation about Guitar Hero

flint folio
#

There’s more to this joke than being mean and saying jk after

atomic topaz
#

idk

#

ive failed

flint folio
#

Apparently so

flint folio
#

Sonic speed sim added metal sonic

atomic topaz
#

when do they add big the cat

flint folio
#

Oh we care about the silly Roblox game

atomic topaz
#

you obviously do

flint folio
#

I care about the blue cunt, hence why I keep up

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

British slang, and my mannerisms are not to be taken so literally

atomic topaz
flint folio
#

I know but you can understand not to take things I say so literally

#

I make that fairly clear

atomic topaz
#

I wasn't really

#

That was more of a joke

#

I understand what you say that a lot

flint folio
#

A lotta misses today I can’t lie

#

Fairly misguided

atomic topaz
#

yeah

#

idk man

flint folio
#

It’s hard to tell if you’re just being nasty to me or ignorant rather than joking

atomic topaz
#

this is not the impression i wanted to have on you

flint folio
#

It’s hard to tell

#

If the punchline is “jk” maybe it’s not a good idea

atomic topaz
#

i just do

flint folio
#

You could not do that, it’s not the best idea for your joke to be rude and just say jk, and it just being a thing you do isn’t the best reasoning lol

atomic topaz
#

idk

flint folio
#

It’s not mindless though

flint folio
atomic topaz
#

idk either

flint folio
#

Like I get it but you get to a stage where I have no idea what you’re trying to do

#

Like I just wanna share something but it kinda goes off the rails and it seems odd

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That’s what I mean, like “I don’t care” can be funny off the bat, especially before actually responding

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But then the rest is like
Huh

atomic topaz
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i can't think of anything to say to this

flint folio
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It’s fine

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Nothing major, just felt it was worth pointing out

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Just wanted to stop like what are you actually talking about lol

atomic topaz
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im sorry for whatever i made you feel
but i dont really know what else to say beyond that

flint folio
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It’s no biggie fella

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I will continue to ask you to care about my stupid hobbies

atomic topaz
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you're friendship still means alot to me i hope ya always know that man

flint folio
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You too mate, always been the way

atomic topaz
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i just have my own weird confusing quirks i guess

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and so do you

flint folio
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I respect that, I also respect calling things out if it doesn’t seem right

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Works both ways obviously

atomic topaz
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yeah

flint folio
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Not sure what point we’re getting at now, but I’m sure it’s all gone through lol

This is the sonic thread

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And somehow still the most active sonic channel I am in, I don’t talk much anywhere else

atomic topaz
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im assuming

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Cause isn't it just a big weird cluster fuck out there in the wider fandom

flint folio
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Mostly, plus a huge clusterfuck of opinions it’s really hard to express my admiration for certain things without being ridiculed by someone who disagrees

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A lot of the time I’m not looking to debate, I want to just enjoy stuff and express that

atomic topaz
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yeah ive noticed that about you, its a very admirable trait

grizzled stone
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I hope we get to see more alternate addon things involving other characters in future

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Actually, Shadow would be a perfect fit in Frontiers by the looks of things

flint folio
atomic topaz
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like wtf

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they're giving you an actually huge and ambitious sonic game

flint folio
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Shits changed overtime a lot though, it’s just very tiring to talk about

grizzled stone
flint folio
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Epic

grizzled stone
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But yeah, little extra things that use the other characters like that, mini-campaigns

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I'd love to see that

flint folio
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we got post release content

grizzled stone
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That'd be lovely

atomic topaz
flint folio
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ill fuggin do it again

atomic topaz
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do what again

flint folio
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more sanic DLC

atomic topaz
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in another game

flint folio
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Forces has sanic shirt DLC

atomic topaz
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that is actually awesome

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now enjoy your sleep, i didnt mean to keep you sorry lol

flint folio
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Lol it’s ok, the DLC is free too

atomic topaz
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epic

atomic topaz
flint folio
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True

atomic topaz
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Still can't believe we live in a time when where that shit is real