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Sonic Colors - E3 Trailer + screens
- Thread starter Aaron Strife
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Leviathan1 said:
Were you alive in the 90s? Sonic became irrelevant after DKC hit.
Also, one game being outsold by the combined total of four doesn't really support your case that one was more popular than the other. That's like saying Halo has more widespread appeal than Wii Fit because all three Halo games have sold about 25m copies while Wii Fit has sold about 20 million.
Kai Dracon
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joetachi said:
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Willy105 said:
"Wow! Mario is so SLOW! Sonic is FAST!"
1991 TV commercials taught me everything I need to know about video games.
Leviathan1
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AniHawk said:
And DKC became irrelevant when people realised beneath that soulless high resolution shit was slow-ass gameplay from hell. Hence why in retrospectives DKC is poorly reviewed (without a fanbase left to give a damn) whilst a new Sonic game creates a 250 page thread.
I can do this all night bro. Your move Drago.
ThatObviousUser
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Yoshi's Island is better than any Sonic game anyways. Heck, it's the best game across any of the 16/32 bit consoles.
DKC2 is also great. If you deny that you have bad taste.
DKC2 is also great. If you deny that you have bad taste.
Your talking like Sonic games are still relevantLeviathan1 said:And DKC became irrelevant when people realised beneath that soulless high resolution shit was slow-ass gameplay from hell. Hence why in retrospectives DKC is poorly reviewed (without a fanbase left to give a damn) whilst a new Sonic game creates a 250 page thread.
I can do this all night bro. Your move Drago.
Leviathan1 said:
Sonic games get 250 page threads because your settings aren't on correctly.
Also, Sonic games get 250 page threads only because the game looks like it's taking a giant shit on what the shrunken, crazy fanbase liked or expected from a proper numerical sequel. When the game doesn't look like the worst thing ever, it tends to be relatively calm (see this thread).
You originally made this about Nintendo platformers versus Sega platformers, and their levels of success. Saleswise, Sonic didn't matter anymore after DKC stole the spotlight and Sega bungled the Saturn (may it rest in peace). Quality-wise, Sonic didn't matter anymore after DKC stole the spotlight because Sega stopped making them at such a high quality.
There was a brief time in the 90s, between 1992 and the end of 1994 when Sega was on top, and Sonic was very popular, especially in Europe, but it essentially was a fad.
ThatObviousUser
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AniHawk said:
You say fad, I say cult.
MiamiWesker
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This is crazy. Everyone knows that Sonic 2 is the best Sonic game.
goldenpp72
Member
Leviathan1 said:And DKC became irrelevant when people realised beneath that soulless high resolution shit was slow-ass gameplay from hell. Hence why in retrospectives DKC is poorly reviewed (without a fanbase left to give a damn) whilst a new Sonic game creates a 250 page thread.
I can do this all night bro. Your move Drago.
Fool, sonic was awesome but DKC shat all over them in terms of meat, graphics and music, those games are fucking awesome.
Leviathan1
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TOO. MANY. NINTENDO FANS.
Okay now it's four against one. Fuck that. If we're going into pedantics the original argument was Sonic versus Mario (which I won when I destroyed you with the reviews and sales stats). Having lost you guys pulled in DKC which pretty much just shows how much I owned you.
For fuck's sake the last time I had an "Internet argument" was in 2001. Alright I'm out. When the other Sega fans come in here you guys are in big trouble. :lol
ThatObviousUser
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"TOO. MANY. NINTENDO FANS."
More like too many fans of good games. Ice burn.
More like too many fans of good games. Ice burn.
Leviathan1
Banned
My favourite games company gave me this:
Your favourite games company ditched you for this:
Your favourite games company ditched you for this:
Leviathan1 said:My favourite games company gave me this:
Your favourite games company gave you this:
We were talking about platformers, so fixed.
And regardless, the slew of casual games never reached the pits of hell that the shittiest Sega games have spawned from this last decade.
Crumpet Trumpet
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Yikes, it's like the 1st grade playground again. SMH
ThatObviousUser
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Leviathan1 said:
Hero of Legend
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Well one of my favorite games company (Sega) is making a potentially great game (Sonic Colors) on one of my other favorite games company's (Nintendo) console (Wii).
Why are you all fighting? Can't people have their own preferences? Can't we just talk about what looks to be a great game?
Why are you all fighting? Can't people have their own preferences? Can't we just talk about what looks to be a great game?
ThatObviousUser
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Altazor said:
Gotta be careful not to fall off-topic here!
Aaron Strife
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1) sales don't matter because there are 3 sonic games and 1 mario game (by the way I think mario world outsold all of them even if you included CD and S&K, mainly since it was packaged in with most SNESes)Leviathan1 said:
2) gamerankings doesn't matter because those reviews were written in the early 90s when every magazine were propaganda tools for sega/nintendo and there are also only like two of them
I prefer 2D sonic over 2D mario but come on
Jaded Alyx
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.........what in God's name....
GoldandBlue
Member
:lol Seriously.Jaded Alyx said:
goldenpp72
Member
Leviathan1 said:My favourite games company gave me this:
Your favourite games company ditched you for this:
I'm a huge Sega fan, I think the Dreamcast is one of the best consoles ever and have owned all of their platforms (even the 32x and nomad), but as far as i'm concerned, Nintendo at their best (or rare) absolutely was able to trump Sega in the genesis era, and here is why.
Sonic titles all take an hour or 2 to beat, the best sonic title ever crafted was sonic 3 and knuckles which was TWO games in terms of how we had to purchase them.
Streets of rage series, ristar, almost all of segas non rpgs were really short, great games, but short. But when looking at Nintendo when they decided to pump out a first party game it was just simply bigger, badder and more badass, mario world 1 and especially 2 were much longer than any genesis sonic, and in the case of both, totally drastic departures, much better composed music, and more meaty in general. The DKC series is LOADED with shit to do, filled with beautiful music, amazing graphics for the time and yes, the mechanics were excellent.
Just taking a look at any first party nintendo game (star fox, mario, mario kart, etc) or rares efforts with DKC, and you can see they just had a lot more budget and time put into them in comparison, i really don't see how it can even be argued.
Now the dreamcast, that shit was awesome
Aaron Strife
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oh god my thread my wonderful thread
BlazeHedgehog
Member
Leviathan1 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7syAjNrqZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUbBBJON1xE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOpf9OrvIg
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People who hate on Donkey Kong Country just don't know how to play it right: Never stop for anything.
It's not as fast as Sonic, but that really doesn't matter. This isn't the playground at recess.
Andrex said:
Actually they said this game will have a much lower focus on cutscenes and that they won't be long like past games. I have no problem with them though...I don't even remember Rush having cutscenes at all. If you're bothered by that low amount of cutscenes, you'll probably be very frustrated with Colors I guess.
GoldandBlue
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The price of creating a Sonic thread is that you must watch it crash and burn.Aaron Strife said:
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I thought this thread got bumped for new screens or something.
Fucking hell, GAF.
Fucking hell, GAF.
Catalix
And on the sixth day the LORD David Bowie created man and woman in His image. And he saw that it was good. On the seventh day the LORD created videogames so that He might take the bloody day off for once.
This thread actually did kinda have a good run, considering its subject matter...but ya'll lost me.
MiamiWesker
Member
Leviathan1 said:
TOO. MANY. NINTENDO FANS.
Okay now it's four against one. Fuck that. If we're going into pedantics the original argument was Sonic versus Mario (which I won when I destroyed you with the reviews and sales stats). Having lost you guys pulled in DKC which pretty much just shows how much I owned you.
For fuck's sake the last time I had an "Internet argument" was in 2001. Alright I'm out. When the other Sega fans come in here you guys are in big trouble. :lol
I am a huge Sega and Sonic fan... you are still insane.
flintstryker
Banned
what ion the holy mother of fuck is going on here? I felt my nonsenso meter going off when my mouse hove over this thread, now its completely broken upon clicking the link.
RobbieNick
Junior Member
geeko420 said:
LOL Go see the Sonic 4 thread.:lol
I didn't want to get into this, but I can't let a couple of these claims stand.
You can't just draw direct comparisons between them like that.
Also, I really hope the people praising DKC are basing it primarily on 2 and 3. The first one is just plain painful to go through, and I'm not sure how Nintendo ever let it get out the door.
Also, Colors looks pretty damn good. I like the old pinball physics as much as anyone else, but the series does have a few other fun tricks these days.
Sega's entire design philosophy was centered around making short, fast games. The Genesis hardware itself is a testament to that. They were an arcade company, they made short, wildly replayable games. When Nintendo does dip into arcadey games like Star Fox and F-Zero and Punch-Out, they're pretty short too. But for the most part Nintendo's expertise isn't in that sort of game, so they made longer, slower-paced games (and again, the hardware design reflects this).goldenpp72 said:
You can't just draw direct comparisons between them like that.
Fightin' words.goldenpp72 said:
Also, I really hope the people praising DKC are basing it primarily on 2 and 3. The first one is just plain painful to go through, and I'm not sure how Nintendo ever let it get out the door.
Also, Colors looks pretty damn good. I like the old pinball physics as much as anyone else, but the series does have a few other fun tricks these days.
Aaron Strife
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i've been ripped off i want to make the OT nowGoldandBlue said:
new concept art from sega's blogdisappeared said:
