Rawr

Hell yeah - I'm on your team.

Cool to see a lot more non fangame projects cropping up a lot more frequently lately. I'll be keeping an eye on this topic for sure. I think its too early for me really to give any other feedback beyond that so keep at it dude.

Just updated my set for my WIP album - it is slowly starting to shape up. Take a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/batteryknife/sets/funeral

I've said it in the status updates, and I'm saying it again here - Nintendo is really pulling an Apple here (and dare I say it they have been for a long time). I get that it is normal for companies to release new versions of their consoles/handhelds at some point down the line but the frequency at which Nintendo does it has really started to turn me off from ever wanting to buy a console from them right off the bat. They do it a lot more than their competition. Not to mention the fact that their consoles tend to be a really slow burn for games unless you are really invested in their first party titles, which do almost nothing for someone like me aside from the occasional Zelda game and maybe Pokemon here and there. I am also particularly wary of the fact that they are offering this half-assed upgrade of a 3DS that promises more power etc and eventually will only have games that it can play. It's not a full fledged system successor but they're sure trying to almost treat it like that, but if we all remember the abysmal start the 3DS had compared to where it is now I am wondering why they are choosing now of all times to make this. The 3DS is really just hitting its stride now, but even then I'd claim it is still in a rough patch for games. This generation has been pretty awful for the handheld market unless you're a mobile phone really. The thing is, I know some people who just shelled out their money to get some limited edition of a 3DS that comes out that has whatever their favourite game styled on it and now they go and do this. Not to mention they still have upcoming bundles for certain games and special editions of the 3DS that haven't even hit yet and they're pulling this. I am awaiting the inevitable 2DS version of this upgrade for those kids who just got their 2DS because Nintendo made that just for them. Also what the hell is their gameplan for brand identity? They have so many brands under the same name with slight differences and/or a completely different brand with such a similar name it's going to cause people to be confused. Parents will go in expecting to buy a cheap 3DS which is the old model and NEWGAMEHERE that only works on this new model only to find out their kid can't play it. It's going to happen. I mean there was confusion over the Wii U and that was an entirely new system, I wonder what is going to happen with this lazy upgrade. Since the start of the Wii's launch I have become more and more frustrated with this company - I used to love them a lot. But the degree at which they continually pull the wool over everyone's eyes while pretending to be the nice guy while slowly rolling out the same shit we've come to expect from other companies is a lot more despicable to me than the companies who at least don't try and hide the fact anymore haha. I get it - they're a business and they aren't your friend but its a damn shame for me personally to see it happen with them. They used to be so genuine too. But I mean I should have seen this coming ages ago haha...

I'd buy Sonic 3&K if it got a proper remaster, yeah. Don't really care much about Sonic 1, 2, or CD as those all have gotten some excellent ports already, but 3&K for sure. I'd love a proper port to an HD console.

Okay 1) Please don't double post in these types of topics. Double posting in your own fangame topics or whatever is fine as long as you have some content to update the thread with, but elsewhere it's kind of a no-no. 2) This is a general note to everyone - these kinds of topics have been increasingly more common lately so if you're going to make one then please have some more content in the post. Explain why something is your favourite and for the love of Eggman how many of these types of topics do we reasonably need haha? Anyway just so I add something of worth to this topic I'll give you guys my all time favourite Sonic level. Probably a strange pick since a lot of people hate water levels, but I love the hell out of Hydrocity Zone. I love the aesthetics of the level, not to mention the music is amazing (which as the video shows is ripe for badass mixes). It also is a very vertical level, with a lot of those tall corkscrew things that take you above and below water at blistering speeds that when I played it for the first time as a kid it really blew my nuts off. Then again I'm pretty partial to water levels which is another unusual thing among the fandom. I think Hydrocity Zone was also the first time as a kid where I actually got freaked out playing a Sonic game, thanks to that wall at the start of act 2... although Sonic 3 in general scared me at times because Marble Garden had a segment kind of like that too!

I was all ready to make a snarky comment in here since I thought the topic was gonna be about this port: In which I was just gonna recommend the Sonic The Hedgehog port on the 3DS if you wanted your handheld Sonic 1 Nintendo Experience or whatever. I think asking for an HD release of the old genesis trilogy is something a lot of people have asked for over the years - myself included. I'd honestly be 100 times more interested if they were to release something like that these days - I haven't particularly cared for any of their titles they've announced/released after Generations.

So I'm working on a follow up album to the one I made before (called Melancholy - which you can listen to and download for free right here) The album is tentatively called Funeral (though that is likely to be the final title). Here is a demo for the first track of the album called Welcome.

Yeah I use this site a lot, I can never tell because my internet usually sucks balls.

Here comes a post of all kinds of not my art, but its worth sharing anyway. Yeah I'm hugely inspired by the works of Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill La Kill): Takeshi Koike (not sure if this specific frame was drawn by him, but its hard to find just stills of his art on the net lol - but this was the movie he made called Redline): As well as Toru Nakayama (best known from the Mega Man Zero series, though I have no idea what this image is from other than he drew it and its RAD AS FUCK): Non japanese influences include the likes of : Joe Madureira: James Stokoe: And more I'm probably forgetting. I've got elements of each in my style, or at least some of the styles I've used at SOME POINT or another. Looking at my work from 2011 to my work now I lean a lot more now towards the Gainax/Studio Trigger sort of style than I did back then. But all of the people I've posted here you can find bits of each in my work.

Not to mention I believe he wanted to add some other stuff in but it got cut or something? Anyway I'd love to have a 16:9 remastered Sonic 3&K. If it doesn't happen too then oh well I guess (though its disappointing to me) just because I agree with gsoft, S3&K I consider pretty definitive as is.

I get so excited whenever I see you post anything new about your game. Looks fantastic dude.

Been working on a follow up album to this little release. So here is a demo of one of the tracks I am working on called Funeral Party - it is still very much in a conceptual phase and has a lot left to go on it. Pretty much all the guitar bits in here will be re-recorded at some point when I get new strings. There is another song called Hello that I had a small demo up for but I haven't worked on it in a bit. This was a track I think I'm gonna scrap. This was just a little jam, I might use it on the follow up release somewhere.

That really wacked out Metal Sonic sprite in the first post is awesome.

Thanks bruuuuuuuuuuh.

Almost done. It's hard finishing stuff in between work but w/e, at least I'm on a roll here.