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1976
Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)
« on: August 10, 2010, 07:51:00 PM »
This is what happens when people post without even reading the topic.

Meh, newfags in summer. Happens everywhere.

1977
Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)
« on: August 10, 2010, 07:28:12 PM »
These days, I assume everything that doesn't make sense or is bad or I don't like in comics is either Quesada or DiDio's fault.
It's not exactly that. See, I'm a Morrison fanboy. But I used to hate the guy, because I just heard about his concepts. Heck, I used to hate DC, but I didn't really give any of its stuff a chance, simply because I found the concepts ridiculous.

Grant Morrison has Batman be thrown through time, and travel back through the ages while uncovering mysteries about his bloodline and interacting with DC historical figures and time travellers. That was just after a dark God suddenly became a mega-consciousness in Earth, Superman reset the universe and then saved it from a reality-eating vampire.

That sounds really lame just saying it. It does. But read it, and it's absolutely AWESOME.



And the Bat-God thing, was referring to both Batman being someone who can basically survive anything (so Morrison skipped the usual brooding street-level crap and posed him with a REAL challenge), and aparently, there are a ton of references to Batman being Orion.

You see those antlers where Batman left his cowl on the cave? Look at the symbol they form. Look at how Orion's constantly referenced in the comic.

Batman's gonna be the new Orion, at least in a way.

1978
Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)
« on: August 10, 2010, 04:37:20 PM »
The homing attack is actually a little bit of genius from the Sega guys. Its inclusion in SA1 as a standard move was the result of the question "how do we take complete control of a fast, loose canon, who is supposed to run at the speed of sound and aim at small robots in his path?" "We give him a logical, easy to use homing mechanism".

Funnily enough, the Mario franchise took awhile to find the absolute perfect way to get Mario to attack in a 3D form with the spin from Galaxy. (yes, the punching and water spraying were also effective, but we're talking about a singular move which grants us the ability to attack enemies logically and with ease as we traverse through levels. And this is definetly it)

1979
Gaming / Re: The "What are you currently playing?" Thread
« on: August 10, 2010, 03:04:57 PM »
I want a piece of that action
Then you gotta gamble your copy of Big Rigs. =P

1980
Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)
« on: August 10, 2010, 03:04:31 PM »
Didn't DiDio want Batman to become a god or whatnot?
No, that's Morrison.

1981
Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)
« on: August 10, 2010, 01:13:00 PM »
It will be picked up again. They just needed to give Ollie a Robin Hood kind of way this time. As soon as he and his Merry Men step out of the forest, they'll be reinstating his marriage into the story.

BTW, anyone got any theories to how Batman's gonna get out of being surrounded by Dollotrons and how Joker's gonna survive Damian's beating? =P

And can anyone make the connection as easily as I can to how Batman's gonna be the new Orion?

1982
Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: August 10, 2010, 01:06:15 PM »
Thank god. 

My brother is a responsible drinker, he's 21 right now, since he only drinks once in a while.  But his friends, who are either older guys, or under age girls really don't know when to stop drinking or think about the reprocussions.  I mean I can understand the guys but not the guy who is supposed to be the designated driver I mean really does he really think he can even drink one beer if he's given that responsiblity? 

And the girls are worse, one of them had a mandatory meeting at her job at 8:00 and she was drinking at 4:00 in the morning complaining about how she was going to get there when she was drunk.  My brother was trying in vain to tell her to go to bed but of course logic does not get to a drunk person very clearly.  Because of this my brother had to stay there until 5:00 to make sure everything was okay. 

This same girl has had warnings about her and her 2 room mates being evicted from their appartment.  One of the girls is away and is the most responsible one out of them, and it would really suck for her to find out she can't live there anymore, but at the same time he really hopes the other 2 get evicted.

Another time a girl got drunk and well...I don't want to really say it, but let's just say it was the most drangerous thing that you could do while being drunk, that is not killing someone, and she did it in the backyard.

I honestly don't know what about my brother attracts these stupid bitchy girls that don't care about anything but themselves and their pleasure.  I would never keep friends like that but my brother is too nice.
Drinking controlably and in a classy way is the only way to drink respectably. And getting drunk is an art, not something you just do randomly and then wake up on somebody else's bed with a pile of regrets. I hate guys (and girls) who treat it so disrespectfully. Me, I use it for stuff like listening to Pink Floyd albums while hanging out with friends. It rules.

And as far as I can understand, you've never tried alcohol. Just do yourself a favor. Never pick up a beer, or whisky, or any of that crap. Do at least, sooner or later, try a sip of a drink like some really light wine, or ideally, sangria. Sangria specially tastes like fruit juice with a very light grazing of alcohol, which essencially just adds a little spice at the bottom. I didn't like alcohol either, and had very bad drinking examples from my father. But learning to drink responsibly is something very important, and if you drink about one glass of wine per week, every week, it's very good for your heart in the long run. Around here, there's a VERY minimal number of heart attacks because of that.

1983
Gaming / Re: Metroid Discussion Thread
« on: August 10, 2010, 11:17:32 AM »
LMAO! Yes exactly!!!
We don't know yet. Suited Samus in Brawl pretty much might as well be playing in heels. =P

1984
Entertainment / Re: DC Animated Universe Thread
« on: August 10, 2010, 11:16:27 AM »
So, I don't get what happened to Jason at the end? Was it cut because of the early internet leak? Or is it supposed to leave you hanging?
It's a direct adaptation of the comic plot. He lives to come back another day.

1985
Gaming / Re: The "What are you currently playing?" Thread
« on: August 10, 2010, 06:36:02 AM »
Ah, i remember when i first bought my copy. Played the game for about 3 days and literally put it up for auction the next. Never bothered to finish it. I really wonder why i even bought it in the first place... >_>
I pirated it, played two endings and halfway to a third. Gave up in that [tornado fang]ing bomb mission and just cursed having wasted a brand new DVD-R in that [parasitic bomb].

...today, I bought it again for Gaming Shitfest '10. It's a party a few friends and I do every year. We each bring a game which is complete crap, randomize selection between all. Whoever lasts the longest with one of those games, wins the whole set of horrible games to take home. It's awesome. We've been doing this for three years.

1986
Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: August 10, 2010, 05:59:33 AM »
Do you at least get overtime pay?

1987
Forum Games / Re: "What Are You Thinking Now?"
« on: August 10, 2010, 05:07:22 AM »
I feel like [parasitic bomb] especialy since summer is almost over and I had no job to show for it, it feels like life is passing me by and I hadn't done anything yey. I wish I had done more in school, hell, I wish was back in schooll even if my lazy butt doesn't feel like going.
Because you're a lazy bastard. If you want to do something, do it. Don't wallow around in the wish that you'd do it.

Quote
Why does life suck so hard?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Life doesn't suck! YOU suck! Stop blaming life for your inactivity. Your post is an internet cliché of a generation who'd rather sit on their asses than do something fulfilling and productive. You're full of [parasitic bomb] because you say you want to do this or that, but you don't actually go out and do it. You just complain about it to people who you think want to listen, but who really are too busy with their lives to listen to inane prattling.

This is the biggest hypocrisy I've ever heard. Stop blaming life for your damn inactivity and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

1988
Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)
« on: August 10, 2010, 05:02:55 AM »
Are you guys sure that Sonic Colors won't include a homing attack?

If so, then it may be a drag. I know that the homing attack is overused, but you don't remove something that works.
...read the actual topic before you make a post, would you?

1989
Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself
« on: August 09, 2010, 11:36:45 PM »
Most that tend to sidetrack from the origional plot or go so far as to add the Big Lipped Alligator Moment.
You mean all of them? =P

1990
Entertainment / Re: DC Animated Universe Thread
« on: August 09, 2010, 11:36:19 PM »
That would be obvious. Batman trained Jason Todd when he found the boy trying to steal the Batmobile's tires.
What does that have to do with anything?

1991
Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)
« on: August 09, 2010, 10:56:11 PM »
You know I don't buy that.  Black Knight corrected many of Secret Rings' control flaws, most notably backwards movement and charge-jumps.  It's noticeably easier to actually SEE in front of you, as well.  Over-reliance on track memorization was one of Secret Rings' weaker points.

While it's true that Black Knight doesn't have nearly as imaginative bosses as Secret Rings, that's a relatively minor concern.  Black Knight scored poorly for one reason: Because reviewers have to play every shovel-ware piece of [parasitic bomb] to ever be developed for a console, and therefore any motion control without direction recognition is evil and must be buried.  Am I the only one who remembers the console launch when this was treated as what it actually was: a minor inconvenience, rather than a game-breaking tragedy?  And given that you're working with the premise of Sonic with a sword in the first place, who here honestly thinks that Motion Plus dueling is AT ALL more fitting than plowing through a row of enemies with a buzz-saw attack?  Black Knight is by no means revolutionary, but that doesn't make it bad, doesn't mean that it doesn't work.  Frankly, there's a lot from the game that Sega needs to remember, especially when it comes to handling player selection.  Control, level design, and skill growth were all superior to Secret Rings, as well.
Critical appeal tells us that enhanced ports are somehow only half as enjoyable as the originals, that Heroes is better than the Adventures, that Black Knight is worse than the shovelware "my 3-year-old's first cartoon shop" crap currently out on the DSi's download service, and that the best Wii game of 2008 was a one-trick PC physics puzzle port.

I don't give two shits about critical appeal.  And I think that the general gaming populace over-estimates its importance.  If you took notice of the journalism community's response to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, you know what I'm talking about.
One hell of an irony that in the wake of this, the "new" Sonic games to follow for that generation looked considerably worse.

Still, graphics alone don't justify all the flak thrown at SA2B.  The gameplay was outstanding, and the overall experience is every bit the equal of many native GCN titles.
...singling out small things I said out of all of them instead of replying to my old post? Oh, you. 8D

Let's see what Black Knight had worse than Secret Rings.
- Worse level design, which either put you on a very straight path with a bunch of enemies piled up for you to waggle through, or gave you a few random obstacles without any sort of order.
- Sword attacks on a game where you're always running forward at big speeds = NO
- NPCs to talk to and trade rings with... on levels equivalent to a race track? This is a pretty big what the [tornado fang].
- Worse bosses.
- Aside from having an analog stick to use instead of a vague steering mechanic, the gameplay's worse. Sword attacks are damn stupid to use, either flailing wildly or getting a few QTEs in is all there is to it.
- No big cool unlockable and equippable moveset like in Secret Rings, which pretty much made the amount of quality Secret Rings had.
- Although the graphics look fine, the levels aren't really very attractive, whereas Secret Rings actually had quite a few colors, which was unexpected given the Arabian Nights background.
- Much shorter and less fun game.

Aren't alot of these... you know... main defining points of a game's quality? That brings quite alot into question. Aside from the "moar characters" thing you jizzed all over about, I don't see alot of improvements.


And dispite a few critic mishaps, I do find it VERY hard to disagree with any of the recent criticisms by the press to pretty much all of the Sonic games in the last 7 years or so. The scoring mechanic may be a bit iffy, but the reviews are quite on the spot. But from what you're saying... who is right anyway? Just you and your opinion? I think I'd like to give quite a bit of importance to the major public around. And what was wrong with New Super Mario Bros Wii? It was pretty much another Mario game, same as ever, with included co-op. It's what everybody wanted Nintendo to give them, so they did. It's not by any means outstanding, but it pretty much works. You may not give a [parasitic bomb] about critical appeal, but it's the lifeblood of games. It's what makes them appear good or bad to the general gaming populace. I know sales are the ultimate way games get made, but if even Sonic Team are aware that they've been making absolute [parasitic bomb] and don't tend to deny it in interviews (they even accepted the [tornado fang]ing Sonic Cycle in the last interview), who am I to disagree?

And blame Sega and Sonic Team for all of the new Sonic games after SA2 looking like absolute crap. Heck, I'm replaying Shadow as I type this. It looks like [parasitic bomb], plays like [parasitic bomb], and it's even worse than I remembered it to be. That doesn't mean SA2 didn't have quite a bit of standards to follow through. As good as the game was, it was still deeply flawed in many ways. Sure the rating system sucks, but the points are still made in those reviews.


Back to my original point, the way I was saying Sonic doesn't work in 3D without a homing attack. He doesn't. At least not with his basic set of moves. Jumping towards an enemy normally would require quite alot of cumbersome aiming. Heck, play Sonic Robo Blast 2. It's a pretty cool FPS mod, but ultimately, its gameplay is flawed. Then add the Sonic Adventure mod for it, which enables a homing attack, and look at the game suddenly becoming playable. Sonic just can't work without the homing attack, and it's a mechanic that fits him, so why remove it? As long as they manage to make good level designs in which it fits in, I have no objections. The homing attack is something that actually works in a game where the main mechanic is running forward. As opposed to a [tornado fang]ing sword, for example.

1992
Gaming / Re: Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)
« on: August 09, 2010, 07:48:11 PM »
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- About Heroes:
Heroes was considered to be pure [parasitic bomb] back when it came out. Years later, after the fuckuppery of Shadow and 06, everyone now remembers Heroes as a halfway decent game. Me? I think it's where [parasitic bomb] started to get bad, but at least the gameplay matched the levels, and although the enemy life bars and bosses was completely moronic, and its gameplay was far inferior to the previous titles, it was still a solid game in some areas. But yes, look at it from a general nowadays gaming point of view, and it's [parasitic bomb]. Look at it from a Sonic point of view, and you're giving rotten bread to the hungry. Sure it's rotten, but it beats starving.

- Secret Rings:
Although it's better than Shadow and 06, that's not saying much. reviewers didn't treat it very well (Heroes averaged 64% and SR about 69%), and most people acuse the motion controls to respond badly. It really depends on what your point of view is and the type of gaming communities you're around, but I generally think of it as an average game. Better than Shadow, 06, Black Knight and Unleashed, yeah. But still not saying much. Running into everything and trying to make some sense of the level design gets kinda bad in alot of areas there.

- Not marketing appeal.
Sonic's still as whoreable as ever. I said CRITICAL appeal. Go to pretty much any gaming site, or read any gaming magazine, you'll find every single article written about Sonic has either disdain or a certain bit of hope for the future. No treating games neutrally or excitingly, it's pretty much all "will this FINALLY be good?" This reputation is what I'm talking about. Regular gamers don't touch Sonic [parasitic bomb] because it's been bad for years. And to be honest, I don't blame the journalistic community for treating Sonic like they did. It's not a trend of giving bad scores, SA2 had already aged badly when SA2:B came out. The game looked like crap compared to the new offerings on the Gamecube, and although it was still a solid game, now with the new consoles and games giving it the proper competition, it wouldn't have been fair to hype it up as much as it had been. Shaking off the current Sonic reputation is tougher than Spyro or Crash shaking off theirs. There would need to be a complete rejuvenation of the franchise instead of these baby steps. Let's just hope that Sonic 4 is what it needs.

1993
Off The Wall / Re: Post a Random Fact About Yourself
« on: August 09, 2010, 07:27:53 PM »
I'm morally confused when it comes to the anime's plot. Why? Because sometimes there's continuity errors from the source, it being filler-city, too many episodes, etc. It's why I tend to like smaller anime.
...what anime?

1994
Gaming / Re: The "What are you currently playing?" Thread
« on: August 09, 2010, 06:35:12 PM »
I just popped in Shadow the Hedgehog out of curiosity, just to see if it's as bad as I remember it.

...whoa, it's actually worse.

1995
Gaming / Re: The "What are you currently playing?" Thread
« on: August 09, 2010, 12:46:55 PM »
I just feel awesome.

So I'm playing Seven Force on Hard Mode. Hell yeah.

1996
Entertainment / Re: What are you Reading.
« on: August 09, 2010, 04:02:54 AM »
I'm re-reading Ulysses for the fifth time.

1997
Off The Wall / Re: Request [parasitic bomb] Here: The Thread
« on: August 09, 2010, 03:54:54 AM »
Yeah, but it IS called "Fan Creations". And it's original work, not really related to anything.

1998
Gaming / Re: The Official Pokémon Black & White Discussion Thread
« on: August 09, 2010, 03:05:04 AM »
You mean stuff I posted days ago? Indeed.
Plus, I heard that the female character was gonna have these really short shorts. And that the cities were gonna be huge and on 3D.

1999
Gaming / Re: Halo Reach
« on: August 09, 2010, 01:13:23 AM »
I hope they end up revealing multiplayer space battles. I just want that, and this would be officially my GOTY.

2000
Off The Wall / Re: Request [parasitic bomb] Here: The Thread
« on: August 09, 2010, 12:59:50 AM »
Are only Megaman-related stuff and fanstuff allowed in the Fan Creations forum? I'd like some opinions of a coupla short stories I wrote.

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