He seemed pretty evil in Sonic adventure 2 when he was brainwashed.
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Sonic Boom: even more characters revealed
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He seemed pretty evil in Sonic adventure 2 when he was brainwashed.
Leafhopper
Banned
That's true, I am hoping they are going for the old Sonic Cartoons feel rather than Sonic X or Adventure, while making this.
Wasn't it more like Amnesia and he was recruited by Robotnik and just believed him?
pinkurocket
Member
Leafhopper
Banned
This is not a case of them not wanting to make a new franchise, this is a case of a Western team wanting to make a Sonic Cartoon like the old days and said they might as well have a game with it.
Sonic Boom is being marketed as a Cartoon and the game is more of an accompaniment to the show. Not to mention Sonic Team is not making this.
ScreamingTrees
Member
Yay more Sonic characters. Still waiting for the Big the Cat spinoff though.
It's funny seeing how most people here are reacting to the characters and the show/games, not knowing that the games are not being developed by Sonic Team, and the fact that they OFFICIALLY stated that the Sonic Boom Universe is an alternative one.
To be honest, I like the designs, but they are not perfect though (Some of them are kind of all over the place, but that's my opinion here)
To be honest, I like the designs, but they are not perfect though (Some of them are kind of all over the place, but that's my opinion here)
spindashing
Banned
Wasn't the main gripe of the "shitty friends" complaints that people did not like the play style of the other Sonic characters?
Really, these guys will most likely be NPCs in the Sonic Boom universe just like humans were/are in the Sonic Team Sonic games...
Yea, and most of them dont even have the normal white glove that most cartoons have, they seem to be wearing realistic leather fingerless gloves or something.
Maybe to update the times. And no pants on the men, uh. lol
cartoons are weird..
Leafhopper
Banned
Nah, man why actually read when I can just knee jerk react to pictures and post how Sonic is worse and is bad and hasn't had a good game since Sonic 3 or something, even though I haven't attempted to play a game in 10 years.
And the designs look like I don't know, a cartoon. They look fine to me.
.... I see more request for sonic adventue 3 than just sonic games.... friends pretty ok.
He was never brain washed, he wanted revenge. Then he didn't want it, then he forgot about it, met his dad contemplated it and then murdered his people and his dad because he didn't want it and mellowed the fuck out.
Dragon1893
Member
I'm glad they finally realized that the franchise was lacking more characters.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Sonic Boomba
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I don't see anything wrong with these characters on a conceptual level...the main problem with Sonic's Shitty Friends was when they interfered with the actual gameplay like Big did.
Obviously with an open-world game, and a television show, you're gonna need to flesh out the cast.
Obviously with an open-world game, and a television show, you're gonna need to flesh out the cast.
Leafhopper
Banned
Alternate universe not made by Sonic Team, made for a Western Cartoon with a game accompanying it.
Your sarcasm is misdirected.
spindashing
Banned
HUELEN10
Member
Wait, what?!??
It's not a sandbox or anything like that right, this is the first I've heard of this to my recollection.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
I thought it was partially open-world?
My point though is that the "lol Sonic shitty friends!" meme has gotten to the point where SEGA adding any living creature to the games are met with a manufactured backlash, without considering how pretty much every game series tends to add new NPC characters as time goes on.
I'm simply questioning the design choice of humanized and sexed up animal characters.
The whole design reminds me of this shit right here:
Why would they do that when the target audience is children?
It's even more fucked up, when you think about it in detail. Animals are used to test out cosmetics like for example eye-liners.
If they have to add a sexed up female, then simply add an actual human sexed up female. Or better - don't do that at all.
bemusedchunk
Banned
I'm simply questioning the design choice of humanized and sexed up animal characters.
The whole design reminds me of this shit right here:
Why would they do that when the target audience is children?
It's even more fucked up, when you know that animals are used to test out cosmetics like for example eye-liners.
If they have to add a sexed up female, then simply add an actual human sexed up female. Or better - don't do that at all.
Bunny boobies.
HUELEN10
Member
I don't know if you are looking at the same characters I am, but none of them looked sex-ed up. Maybe people are seeing what they want to see? You want unsettling? There's tons of kid's shows with sexed up or fetishy characters, but I don't see how this is one of them.
This isn't Totally Spies!
This isn't Totally Spies!
Leafhopper
Banned
I haven't heard anything about it being open world but, yeah you are right. At this point if you make any game that isn't just Sonic and only Sonic they get shit and its kind of ridiculous, even if they aren't playable. Screw new gameplay elements, or having a world.
I'm simply questioning the design choice of humanized and sexed up animal characters.
The whole design reminds me of this shit right here:
Why would they do that when the target audience is children?
If they have to add a sexed up female, then simply add an actual human sexed up female. Or better - don't do that at all.
More than just kids watch kids shows is my understanding. Same reason why a lot of kids movies have adult humor that go over the kids heads anyway. Also I still don't see how Lola is "sexed up"
OmegaSmash
Member
These are Sonic versions of the Metal Slug martians and you can't tell me otherwise. Even their bodies look like Metal Slug styled vehicles.
TheSlySoul
Member
Pretty much. The cycle died with Colors. Lost World is the only game that I think fits the cycle at all. This game is not part of the cycle because people are realizing it looks bad way before release.
Edit: Also the complaints against Sonic friends were really adding pointless friends. People like Blaze and Shadow. Big the Cat and Silver are the biggest complaints.
The problem now is Sega really took it to heart and now you cannot play as Tails or Knuckles. Lost World really proved why just Sonic does not equal good game.
HUELEN10
Member
I think they were going for this...
These are Sonic versions of the Metal Slug martians and you can't tell me otherwise. Even their bodies look like Metal Slug styled vehicles.
R_thanatos
Member
i don't mind friends in sonic games When they actually control in a fun way.
Exemples of good friends gameplay :
-Tails in sonic adventure
-amy in sonic adventure
-Blaze in sonic rush
Exemples of bad friends gameplay:
-Shadow in shadow the hedgehog
-Silver
-Knucles/rouge in the adventures games
-BIG THE CAT( oh god kill it with fire !! )
I don't mind friends, as long as the game still feels like a sonic game
sixteen-bit
Member
The beaver is humorous.
So some adults want to fuck hedgehogs?
I don't want to get an answer to this question unless the answer is no.
Dice//
Banned
Leafhopper
Banned
HUELEN10
Member
The answer is not no, which is a form of no, I guess.
If something exists, then there's someone out there that's into fucking it. That's life, it's that simple, you don't have to like it, many of us don't, let's move on.
OmegaSmash
Member
I see what you mean, but the rust coloring on their bodies really reminds me of Metal Slug for some reason.
And I miss Dimitri sometimes.
Dice//
Banned
I'm simply questioning the design choice of humanized and sexed up animal characters.
The whole design reminds me of this shit right here:
Why would they do that when the target audience is children?
It's even more fucked up, when you think about it in detail. Animals are used to test out cosmetics like for example eye-liners.
If they have to add a sexed up female, then simply add an actual human sexed up female. Or better - don't do that at all.
I remember growing up wondering why a bunch of fucking Lions from 'The Lion King' series looked appealing. And yeah, it's the strangest thing when they're designed with partial human features to, daresay, be "good-looking animals".
I mean, look at that goddamn hair and smirk!
HUELEN10
Member
As I miss Jani-Ca/Lara-Su, and will continue to miss them every day. It's sad, but we can't do anything about it.
Fully clothed character with attitude pose? I think some people are seeing what they wanna see. In fact, it reminds me of some of the art used in Riders in pose.Oh come on. This is straight up fanmade art.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
To be fair, a lot of the designs are pretty bad, I'll admit that.
I remember early rumors mentioned how we'd see classic SEGA characters...I was hoping this would mean Mighty, Ray, Nack, Bark, maybe some non-Sonic dudes like Amigo or something.
I remember early rumors mentioned how we'd see classic SEGA characters...I was hoping this would mean Mighty, Ray, Nack, Bark, maybe some non-Sonic dudes like Amigo or something.
When I mean "fanmade" I'm not talking about furry stuff but people that make Sonic characters in their own time. And most of them look just like her.
Glad I'm not the only one who felt exactly the same way.
These characters actually do look good and I could see why they would be needed in an animated series but Sega has to realize bogging Sonic down with too much story when they don't have the writing or directing talent could hurt this game.
lol.
And there's nothing wrong with that girl design or whatever. People are really reaching here. Creepy people will be creepy but the design itself is fine.
And "humanizing" animals is nothing new at all....sheesh.
Why are all of them standing on two legs?? Hmm....