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My review of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)

Oh but hey, those Cream pictures above reminded me of one of my favorite pieces of Sonic trivia:

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Cream's ears are backwards. The pink inner part is showing, meaning her ears have to be backwards.
 
TheSonicRetard said:
Oh but hey, those Cream pictures above reminded me of one of my favorite pieces of Sonic trivia. Cream's ears are backwards. The pink inner part is showing, meaning her ears have to be backwards.
I thought everyone knew that, just how I thought everyone by now knew NOT to use imageshack on GAF (hint hint).:lol Seriously though, I think that regardless of it being "wrong", it looks better.
 
RocketDarkness said:
Oh man, I remember hearing about s0nicfreak doing that way back when. I haven't visited the CulT in forever. ._.

Her real name is Alix Henderson, and she was notorious in the Sonic Community since before Cult was around.

I remember her gaining notoriety when she tried to sell her soiled panties on the forums :lol

naming her kid YujiNaka was the icing on her crazy cake.
 
HUELEN10 said:
But think of the kid, what the fuck will be of the poor kid?

I haven't seen Alix around the sonic community in years already, but last I heard some forumers wanted to report her to CPS with her pantie-auction as evidence that she's not able to care for a child. I have absolutely no idea if that ever came to fruition, though.

I bet she's still crazy as shit, though.
 
that forum's existence makes me cry and want to forget everything about Sonic. And I thought I had seen it all.
 
:lol These threads always go in this direction.

What's even worse is there are just as many websites like that for Pokemon, Yoshi's and KIRBY.
 
You have to remember there is different levels of fandom, I myself love sonic as the character and some of his games but i'm not one to drool over everything furry or every sonic game which comes out, i'm as scared as the rest of you.
 
RocketDarkness said:
Oh man, I remember hearing about s0nicfreak doing that way back when. I haven't visited the CulT in forever. ._.
Is this the same person that went by the handle 'Sonique'? Or was that a different crazy girl?
 
Blueblur1 said:
Is this the same person that went by the handle 'Sonique'? Or was that a different crazy girl?

First up, Sonique isn't crazy. She's eccentric, I'd say. But not crazy.

And second, no, they're entirely different people.
 
Yeah, she was never nuts but definitely eccentric. Speaking of old Sonic internet people, do you guys know what the hell happened to The Sonic Foundation? The site was gone for years and I just saw that they have a forum up now.
 
HUELEN10 said:
Yeah, I saw that on the Cult. So fucking awful man. Why IS the Sonic fandom like this though? Well, besides the furries I mean. They fandom makes me sick

What happened to you know.... THE GAMES!

I do believe there is a huge difference between Sonic fan and Sonic fandom member, HUGE difference...

Agreed. I'm a fan of Sonic, but I'm not a crazy.
 
HUELEN10 said:
I SAID IT WHEN I GOT NXE, BUT THAT WAS A WHILE AGO AND THIS NEEDS THE EMPHASIS


THEY ARE EVEN LONGER WITH AN INSTALL. YES THE MANAGED TO FUCK EVEN THAT UP GOD DAMN!
WHAT?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH WOW!

Also this new information is scary. I can't see anything and I am very glad about that. :\

EDIT: reading the rest of this thread reminded me of why I try to distance myself from my favorite franchise as much as possible now. ;_;
 
Blueblur1 said:
Yeah, she was never nuts but definitely eccentric. Speaking of old Sonic internet people, do you guys know what the hell happened to The Sonic Foundation? The site was gone for years and I just saw that they have a forum up now.

No clue about tFs, but I remember when it got mentioned in Gamepro. It was kind of an indication that the Sonic Community was getting very, very big. TFS exploded after that.

I was always an SSRG man, though. I was around back before SSRG got started, actually. The first Sonic hacking page I ever went to was Area 51. The OLD area 51, the one that was nothing more than a collection of odd scans. Those were the days.
 
The only Sonic fansites worth mentioning are Secrets of Sonic Team and Green Hill Zone.

/thread

Sonic Fan Games HQ was cool too, but that's a whole different beast.
 
I AM JOHN! said:
The only Sonic fansites worth mentioning are Secrets of Sonic Team and Green Hill Zone.

/thread

Sonic Fan Games HQ was cool too, but that's a whole different beast.

Pppppft, Rlan hasn't updated SoST in years. I offered to take it off his hands almost 5 years ago and he never got back to me :D

But you're wrong anyways. The best Sonic site, period, is Sonic Retro. Mainly because its what SSRG was always intended to be.
 
I'm familiar with GHZ but not with SoST. Back in the day, I mostly visited tSf, Sonic HQ and Kenpenders.com's board. All of those places are either dead or a mere shadow of their former selves.
 
Come now, everyone knows Sonic CulT and The GHZ are (well, were at least) the best Sonic forums. Sonic Retro seems to be where everyone I used to know from there migrated to and is probably loads better, but I haven't really checked it out aside from using the wiki to catch up on old community members and look up certain developers. Nothing will beat the feuds Sonic Cult had with Sega over the Sonic Heroes alpha they got a hold of, the developers they managed to hold interviews with, and the times they fucked with the more obsessed fansites. (And occassionally sites that weren't so deserving, but damned if it wasn't funny anyway) The GHZ is just... bitter and sarcastic. But in a good way.

Most of the cool guys post on SA and NeoGAF now though.
 
Kulock said:
It was hard to pick a thread for this, but this game really doesn't deserve another new one. Still, when I saw this, I couldn't believe GAF hadn't seen it. You want to know how batshit insane Sonic 2k6's development apparently was?

If the info is true, supposedly Elise's body is modeled under her dress, complete with polygonal, textured nipples.

I'm putting some caveats on there because I don't know if the model has been modified, but I personally believe it wasn't.

http://www.tssznews.com/2009/05/05/nudity-in-sonic-2006/ (NSFW images, thumbnailed)
http://www.sonicstadium.org/board/index.php?showtopic=1114 (NSFW links)

Shorthand version is this: Many of the models have been ripped to a format that can be imported into Garry's Mod. This has happened with lots of the previous Sonic games, Smash Bros, Galaxy, et cetera, there's a thread with some funny creations that pops up here from time to time. As you can see, the poster turned up transparency on the dress part, and then used the camera to clip into the model for a better view.

Now, what's very possible is that they cheated and modified an existing model from some resource to make Elise, and didn't remember to fix it. However, if this really is the unmodified model, that's a pretty significant thing to miss, particularly for a game that sells in this:

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And if you think there's no chance of the player ever seeing it in game, now that people know it's there, I'm sure they'll find creative ways to glitch the camera to clipping into the models to confirm.

I'm not outraged, I just love that it adds to the laundry list of what a huge catastrophe Sonic 2006 was. :lol

SONIC HACKING TO THE RESCUE!!

According to resident Sonic Adventure hacker Polygon Jim, the tits on the model are grade A bullshit. He's already imported and worked with the model before, and the skin for the model stops under her dress.

His best guess is that the modeler took a generic female body and placed it under the dress model. This explains why Elise is seen wearing a black thong in those pictures.

EDIT: Bummer, because this means the game has even less going for it.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
Why must everything Sonic-related take a turn towards the creepy? Psychotic fans, furry porn, and so on and so on.

As opposed to nintendo related discussions (i.e. kirby, yoshi, etc) or Halo related stuff (need I point out the amount of Halo fanfics are on the net?) or final fantasy discussions.

It's a popular game franchise that attracts a very, very large sample of people. And the general population has some fucked up issues. It's only natural that a game with a large fan base is gonna have fucked up fans.

It happens to every game series that people care about. Yes, even that one you're thinking of to post in reply to this.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
Why must everything Sonic-related take a turn towards the creepy? Psychotic fans, furry porn, and so on and so on.
because like it or not, that is where the money is? We real Sonic fans would never pay full price for a shitty game, I know I don't. Who do you think makes Sega the Sonic money, well the bulk of it anyway.



Exactly.
 
Well at it's worst the only things Master Chief can have sex with are a bunch of aliens and a computer program.
Hell I dunno I don't keep up with the Halo-verse.
Just seems like every thread some freaked-out stuff tends to come up and we don't have any decent games(at least not lately) to hide behind.
 
PepsimanVsJoe said:
Well at it's worst the only things Master Chief can have sex with are a bunch of aliens and a computer program.
Hell I dunno I don't keep up with the Halo-verse.

Don't forget about the undead zombie things, the horde.

And remember, the true horror of people's fantasies aren't apparent until they have characters leave their universe and enter another.

Hence, Sonic x Yoshi inflation porn.
yes, it exists, and yes, it's as terrible as it sounds
 
HUELEN10 said:
because like it or not, that is where the money is? We real Sonic fans would never pay full price for a shitty game, I know I don't. Who do you think makes Sega the Sonic money, well the bulk of it anyway.

Didn't you make the official thread for Sonic & the Black Knight?
 
AwakenedCloud said:
Didn't you make the official thread for Sonic & the Black Knight?
Hell no, and I certainly didn't pay full price for it either. So Meh, and untapped potential, something that I felt not of most later Sonics ironically.
 
HUELEN10 said:
Hell no, and I certainly didn't pay full price for it either. So Meh, and untapped potential, something that I felt not of most later Sonics ironically.

My roommate got it, and I completely agree with you. I saw places that it could've been a good game but god, the gameplay was too unresponsive and inconsistent to do anything effectively. Worst of all, I almost loathed him for liking it.
 
Fixing the load times would have brought it up from a 3/10 to a 5/10. Fixing the other glitches and controls would have brought it up to a 7/10.

So yes, I agree it could've been a good game, but it would've needed a total redesign to be a great game.

I remember someone saying that installing it on the 360s HDD made the load times even worse. Is this true?
 
Dead Man Typing said:
I remember someone saying that installing it on the 360s HDD made the load times even worse. Is this true?
Yes. This is VERY noticeable in that on cutscene when tails flies away before the dusty desert level with Sonic. At least 6 seconds longer easily.
 
TheSonicRetard said:
SONIC HACKING TO THE RESCUE!!

According to resident Sonic Adventure hacker Polygon Jim, the tits on the model are grade A bullshit. He's already imported and worked with the model before, and the skin for the model stops under her dress.

His best guess is that the modeler took a generic female body and placed it under the dress model. This explains why Elise is seen wearing a black thong in those pictures.

EDIT: Bummer, because this means the game has even less going for it.

I read about that later on. Well, I believed it could happen, given the assorted junk they left in the game data as it was.
 
TheSonicRetard said:
Pppppft, Rlan hasn't updated SoST in years. I offered to take it off his hands almost 5 years ago and he never got back to me :D

But you're wrong anyways. The best Sonic site, period, is Sonic Retro. Mainly because its what SSRG was always intended to be.

I'm a busy man!!!

That and just after I decided to stop updating it the whole community both exploded and imploded at the same time - There were less people around, and yet we got like 20 different prototypes released thanks to drx.

I run GamerBytes.com now, and work full time as a QA Tester for Krome Studios. It didn't help that my Sonic fandom went to shit due to Sonic 2006 and Sonic Unleashed :)
 
TheSonicRetard said:
First up, Sonique isn't crazy. She's eccentric, I'd say. But not crazy.

And second, no, they're entirely different people.

Sonique was at the very least a little crazy. She is / was a furry at least, and that's some kind of crazy.
 
Rlan said:
I'm a busy man!!!

That and just after I decided to stop updating it the whole community both exploded and imploded at the same time - There were less people around, and yet we got like 20 different prototypes released thanks to drx.

I run GamerBytes.com now, and work full time as a QA Tester for Krome Studios. It didn't help that my Sonic fandom went to shit due to Sonic 2006 and Sonic Unleashed :)

So, uh... that offer to maintain it for you still stands.

Although, truth be told, I'm in the exact same situation you are. I'm graduating from college.

I'll have more free time soon, though.
 
Rlan said:
Sonique was at the very least a little crazy. She is / was a furry at least, and that's some kind of crazy.

If she got herself off by dressing like a squirrel with someone who shared the same fetish, more the power to her. I don't judge people based off their personal life like that.

I really think eccentric described Sonique well.

EDIT: Crazy has such a negative connotation, and at the very least, Sonique wasn't a bad person.
 
I was going to come in here and say 'Well, at least it looks good kinda.' but then the furry shit was posted and all hell broke loose.




God.
 
TheSonicRetard said:
If she got herself off by dressing like a squirrel with someone who shared the same fetish, more the power to her. I don't judge people based off their personal life like that.

I really think eccentric described Sonique well.

EDIT: Crazy has such a negative connotation, and at the very least, Sonique wasn't a bad person.

Eh, I guess. She did go a little bonkers during the Sonic Epoch / RobEpoch phase, but hey, that's relationships I guess.

Haven't spoken to her in ages though, she's probably calmed down. I remember her sending me some weird shit back in the day, but she's nothing compared to Pachuka :)

I'll think about SoST - or at the very least see if I can give you the files for it. Who knows how long Emulationzone will continue to live.
 
I never understood why there was such....drama regarding Sonic.

It's just a cartoon funny animal hedgehog who saves the world from a fat mad scientist.

It's really not worth taking so seriously.
 
Could we please veer this onto why Sonic 2K6 sucks so bad? We're getting into creepy territory here.

What drives me nuts is seeing reviews giving Sonic Unleashed lower scores than 2K6. Unleashed was much, MUCH better than 2K6 in every aspect. Even if you don't like the Werehog, the game is not broken in any way and the day levels were incredible.
 
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