I think the highs of the Sonic series (Mega Drive/Genesis Sonic) are higher than the highs of the Mega Man series for the most part, but to suggest that Sonic even comes close to the consistency of Mega Man is... uh... something else.
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Mighty No. 9 review thread
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I think the highs of the Sonic series (Mega Drive/Genesis Sonic) are higher than the highs of the Mega Man series for the most part, but to suggest that Sonic even comes close to the consistency of Mega Man is... uh... something else.
X7 is hot garbage tier along some of the worst of the Sonic games, but MM8 is at worst just an alright Mega Man game.
TheSlySoul
Member
True, I would agree with that. Personally I liked about the same number of MM games (2,3,5,6,9, X1-X5) as I have Sonic (1-3, CD, Knuckles, SA1, SA2, Unleashed, Colors, Generations) so I cannot say one way or another. But I agree Sonic has bigger lows and highs IMO. MM is more consistent.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
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Shots fired by Sonic: https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/745311041987371008
BobTheFork
Member
I would call The release of Sonic Boom worse than nothing.
Something about throwing rocks in glass houses.
GabeTheGrouch76
Member
Sonic, no contest. Megaman hasn't had not just one, but two prolific turds of a title rushed to release. And Megaman 9 and 10 actually understand what it means to go back to the series' roots.
Sonic's just become a zombie of mediocrity since the late 90s/early 2000s with the occasional bright spot, piloted by people who clearly don't know what the hell they are doing in most cases. At least Megaman went out on some high notes and has had far more consistent quality in games, and Capcom to their (minimal) credit could have said to at least understand what Megaman is far more than Sega has with Sonic.
Sonic doesn't have much room to talk when his upcoming game is a sequel to Sonic Fucking Boom.
At least nobody paid for Sonic Boom years in advance
Should have been "It's better than Sonic Boom."
Goddamnit.
GabeTheGrouch76
Member
bury me in peace, the roast was lit fam
Megaman 8 is great, get this BS out here trying to lump it with x7
Oh boy, where is the popcorn.
Honestly, there are very few Mega Man games I would call outright bad, partially because the formula is so strong. Even a lot of the spinoffs (ZX, Megaman Battle Network, etc) are good. There were a few clunkers, but not many.
The series wore out its welcome more because the games tended to be exactly the same and Capcom wasn't able to innovate on the formula, not because bad games ruined its reputation or anything.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Try not to think of all the other Sega IPs that the funding for Sonic Boom could've gone to.
Ha, ha, that tweet.
They were just asking for this with a tweet like that
Chubzdoomer
Banned
It's just insane to me that nearly $4 million was raised for a third-rate Mega Man clone with early-2000s graphics. Where the hell did all that money go!?
ShockingAlberto
Member
paying people enough that they do not starve while they worked on it, I think
That's awesome, lol.
sixteen-bit
Member
Boring time/score attack gameplay with terrible level design. The only thing Azure Striker has is good 2d sprite in my humble opinion.
Glitchesarecool
Member
Better than nothing
Bought. What a fuck-up this situation is on all levels. Adding to the lackluster reception, there are now also backers getting errors for their keys? There are no words.
orthodoxy1095
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Chubzdoomer
Banned
That is just cold! What will really be hilarious is if A.R.E.S. ends up on Steam's Top Sellers list, and Mighty No. 9 doesn't.
Damn I hate that account
WickedLaharl
Member
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darkwing-buck
Member
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
Now we just need Hideki Kamiya threatening to block everyone to complete the trifecta.
Not sure if posted already but Colin Moriarty's impressions are savage. First 16 minutes of the ep.
https://youtu.be/7KDYsXK7f-0
https://youtu.be/7KDYsXK7f-0
Honey Bunny
Member
It'll be Last Guardian
Yeah, making a game is a lot more expensive than people think. It was in development for, what, three years? If you include benefits, paying ten decent programmers for that long is easily going to eat up 75% or more of that, and that's before you get into artists, testers, basic costs like hardware and office space... this is a budget title.
I mean there have definitely been great indie games made for less, but those were usually labors of love, with many or most of the people involved taking far less money than they could have made elsewhere in order to make their dream project. Look at the size of your typical game's credit roll and imagine each person on that list eating 50-80K a year. It adds up really really fast.
Just in case anyone gets any ideas, ARES is also a giant pile of shit.
Too late it seems.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Seriously, I thought they meant X8 at first (which is actually an ok-tier game)
Apparently since I didn't do the second, actual survey I got a Steam key even though I asked for a PSN code. wat.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Fucking Christ, I wish this $4 million number would die in a fire already. If it wasn't already clear that $4 Million didn't go into the game before the live stream (and isn't even that much), they finally confirmed last night that after the taxes, rewards, licensing and fees, that only about $2.7 went into the game's production. Stretched across the 10 platforms they wanted to port to, it's clear why it ended up the way it did.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
yeah, Mega Man 8 is a decent game. It's my least favorite in the OG series, but it's still decent. Nowhere near as bad as the majority of the Sonic games made in the past 20 years. And light years beyond Mega Man X7.