DimensionWarped Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 How the hell do you grind a rope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Sonic looks awkward, but the game looks more ever more interesting. I'm not sold, but I like where it's going. Edit: Same way you do it in tony hawk games. Seriously, doesn't have to make sense. Edit2: Anybody else notice the chao there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 "How the hell do you grind a rope?" With style and finesse. ;D "searching for townsfolk and treasure chests provides an element of exploration that recalls Sonic’s early Genesis days." Lawl? Why do they even bother with mentioning the Genesis? Why can't Knuckles have his own game again? I mean, they gave one to Shadow. His story was pretty much done. Yet Knuckles supposedly has all this history that they hinted at once, maybe twice and he doesn't get one. Fecking bull. Knuckles dual weilding's cool, but he should totally have a gunblade (as in sword/gun combo, not the vibrator from FFVIII). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Sonic not only grinds rope in this game, but he grinds it while wearing shoes with a normal sole. That part is nothing new, but putting them together just pisses me off for some reason. The friction would cause the rope to melt at any considerable speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 ok dw. Knuckles never really had his own game. I don't really see Knuckles Chaotix as a "Knuckles game". That aside, we're not going to see another game dealing with any part of sonic adventure because the series is over. A revival doesn't seem likely either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 It's not that so much as the fact that they seem to have, or at least have had (it's a different set of people now) the ability to write a nice story yet refuse to. Also, I doubt we'll ever have any sort of story or character development at this point. Sonic and the gang will just keep getting remade over and over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Remade? When they stuck FLUDD on Mario, I didn't hear people running around screaming that Nintendo remade Mario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 That might be because Fludd was a tool rather than a setting... including everything from backstory to roles for every character to play. And I'd like to add that yes, people did freak out when they gave Mario a water pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Must've been an American thing. Sonic still isn't being remade at all. Sega decided to expand on what they did with Secret Rings, and are putting Sonic in a different storybook setting, with various important roles filled by familiar faces. I don't see what's wrong with that, seeing as how it's aimed at kids anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Pretty much what DW said. Mario with the Fludd was still Mario in Mario's world. Sonic is continually uprooted and placed into drastically new environments with supporting characters that change their personalities from game-to-game with no promise of there ever being any sort of "final rendition." Edit: "Must've been an American thing." ...Nice cop out. Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 ”On the audio side, veteran composer Jen Senoue is taking a smiliar approach, injecting familiar Sonic themes with a Celtic flavor.” I'm sold. Sonic not only grinds rope in this game, but he grinds it while wearing shoes with a normal sole. That part is nothing new, but putting them together just pisses me off for some reason. The friction would cause the rope to melt at any considerable speed. Yeah, but who said all video games has to follow the laws of physics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Thats not the point. Thats not the point at all. I'm just sick of SEGA's extreme "Hey, I know, if it's long and cord-looking, let's grind it!" attitude. In fact, I'm so sick of grinding in general... only gimmick I know of since the spring and the spike to be featured in every game since its unveiling, and it isn't even a practical one :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Sonic grinds a footlong in final level of Unleashed. Grease makes it slippery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Cop out? Okay then. Anyway, grinding seems to be a way of covering long distances in a short time. I mean, it makes more sense for Sonic to grind down a rope than to whip out a harness and slide down a rope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 I really question whether Sonic should be hovering over large landscapes rather than playing in them. Think about that screen shot they posted. What looks more fun, skating along the rope or dropping down into the city and facing obstacles and trials and things? Actually, Sandopolis had rope gimmicks too. But the key difference there was that (well, aside from that you didn't grind on it) you could choose to scrap the gimmick at any time and drop down to the area below where you could actually do something rather than swing lazily through the air. But with grinding its always the same. Grind or die. If you jump off, it's death or more walking, but never something interesting. And the further along you go, the more often its just a way of zipping around without doing anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 How do you know he's not just travelling quickly across the city to start a new mission? Kinda like how it was far more fun to swing across the city instead of web-zipping everywhere in spiderman 2/3, but web-zipping was often quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Wow. Color me mildly enthusiastic from the article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligar Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Wow. Color me mildly enthusiastic from the article. =O ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron C-T Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 "Anyway, grinding seems to be a way of covering long distances in a short time." He's Sonic. With all this emphasis on "lawl, speed" why not just run? Actual control and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ila Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 =O ! You still don't even understand the problem I have with Unleashed, do you? I find that rather insulting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssbfalcon Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Ok, this may not be so bad... In fact, I'm for some strange reason, way more interested in this than in Unleashed... (Though I am interested in the environments of Unleashed more than the game itself at this point... Please be a decent gaem...) It may be kinda like Secret Rings... Where it's not really a "Sonic Game," but still pretty good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Ok but Scatta, what if this isn't a game where you run around all day? What if this is a game where you smack the crap out of stuff all day? I've yet to see an emphasis on speed in this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 How do you know he's not just travelling quickly across the city to start a new mission? Kinda like how it was far more fun to swing across the city instead of web-zipping everywhere in spiderman 2/3, but web-zipping was often quicker. Oh, thats easy. Just look at how tightly packed the buildings are. There isn't any room for walking normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosol Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 fair enough. Maybe the harpoon things are a mandatory way for sonic to shorten the time spent traveling on foot in between missions in the HUB levels, with much of scenery being simple filler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligar Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 You still don't even understand the problem I have with Unleashed, do you? I find that rather insulting. Its gonna be crap. I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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