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[Robertman2]

Repost from the Switch thread:
Nintendo upping Switch production from 8 to 16 mil this FY. Best of luck to them, they must have higher expectations after this launch.
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1353192

It'd be kind of funny and kind of sad if the Switch surpasses the Wii U in its first year on the market.

Mostly just funny

Someone was talking about how the initial design of the human alien hybrid in Alien Resurrection was too bizarrely sexual

Well DUH, it's all based on the work of HR Giger.

EVERYTHING would have looked like a twisted fusion of human sex and mechanical parts if he had his full way with the movie

Aren't all the designs really sexual?

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Mostly just funny

Aren't all the designs really sexual?

Yeah, Ridley Scott wanted men to feel uncomfortable with the phallic Xenomorph in the first film iirc

 

[Coricus]

This is still my favourite joke about it.

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I don't think even Super Sonic would have the power to stop that monster.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

This is still my favourite joke about it.

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My headcanon is that he points at 06 and Unleashed "There! Those are Adventure games!"

 

[Deleted member]

Man, I love the Translator's Notes in the BSD scanlations

But this chapter, holy ****
Everyone: "No one ever knew Natsume Soseki's Ability, some theorise that it was the strongest of all Abilities..."
Natsume:

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I found the best joke about Sonic Forces
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Classic Sonic X Dreamcast Sonic is worst ship confirmed

 

[Robertman2]

What if third gameplay style is Sonic R style races?

 

[ChikoLad]

What if third gameplay style is Sonic R style races?

I'd be absolutely down for that.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Man, I love the Translator's Notes in the BSD scanlations


But this chapter, holy ****
Everyone: "No one ever knew Natsume Soseki's Ability, some theorise that it was the strongest of all Abilities..."
Natsume:

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Classic Sonic X Dreamcast Sonic is worst ship confirmed

Wait, who'd be Jenna? Because Classic Sonic X Shadow would be best ship in that universe

 

[ChikoLad]

OK, possibly new favourite joke about the title.

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[FalKoopa]

OK, possibly new favourite joke about the title.

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Beats mine by a mile.

 

[ChikoLad]

I don't have anything special this year, so I'll just post old material.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day.

http://gamebanana.com/skins/147114

 

[A Distant Demon]

Radio had a game to guess the word

"a game made by sega, he runs really fast"
"mario"
"no, uhhh its a real life animal"
"bigfoot"

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Radio had a game to guess the word

"a game made by sega, he runs really fast"
"mario"
"no, uhhh its a real life animal"
"bigfoot"

I refuse to believe people are under that thick of a rock

 

[A Distant Demon]

I refuse to believe people are under that thick of a rock

to be fair, it was an old woman on a random comedy talkshow, not a teenager on a gaming show.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

to be fair, it was an old woman on a random comedy talkshow, not a teenager on a gaming show.

But how the **** do you think bigfoot?

 

[Coricus]

Just got around to listenting to the Sonic Forces theme.

I suddenly have a strong feeling like we're definitely getting Dreamcast Sonic.

Combined with something else I saw, I think the plot might be that the timeline got ripped up REALLY bad and started melting together instead of being thrown into a void. For something I'm speculating that's not backed up by anything, I also think Eggman might have either gone to or been a version of from the future in order to have the time to amass an army of that nature without interference.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Good lord Coricus was right, GAF LOATHES Sonic

 

[wedl!!]

Holy ****
I just found out you get charged 100s of dollars if you get taken to the hospital by ambulance in America. That's ****ing theft

reminder that everything about American healthcare is bad and will only further drip into the drain for the sake of "competitive pricing"

 

[ChikoLad]

The little theory I alluded to yesterday was this (getting impatient for the Direct Feed footage).

At the end of the footage, Sonic jumps off some springs out of the city roads, and then we see this view. While there is still some city streets below that he lands on, most of the environment here actually appears to be very natural, rather than urban. More importantly, the green hills we see look like...well, Green Hill Zone. At the very least, the green hills have a very cartoony aesthetic, in contrast to the realism of the city.

I can't tell if it's actually Green Hill Zone with a city on top of it, since the footage is too blurry to make out a checkerboard pattern even if they were there. But at the very least, this leads me to believe that "Sonic's world" (the cartoony green hills) and "Earth" (the realistic city) might be fusing together in some way.

For the uninitiated, as part of the internal "Sonic bible" at SEGA, it's been said that the reason Sonic jumps between cartoony and realistic environments between games is because the Sonic game universe is split into two worlds - "Sonic's world" and "Earth". The games with more cartoony locations (the classic games, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Lost World) are Sonic's world, and the games with more realistic locations (Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Unleashed) are set on Earth (Earth is also where all of the humans are, they don't exist on Sonic's world besides Eggman). There is supposed to be a gateway that connects the two worlds as well, but we've never seen it addressed in a game. Maybe they're finally addressing it in-game though.

It's obviously just speculation right now based on one very small piece of evidence from blurry footage, but this could also help explain Classic Sonic being in the game too.

Tagging @Swampasaur because he asked me about this.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

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Hey @Prince Alucard ,I hooked him
Just look at that face, look at him. He is top tier

 

[Holder of the Heel]

So I signed in to Heroes and randomly got a free 4* F!Corrin. Huh.

Now the question is should I merge her with the one I had already or use her for skill fodder...

Merging anything below 5* is a waste, assuming you ever intend to promote in somewhere down the line. I'd suggest extracting skills.

The more I think about it, the more excited I am about inheritance. Building teams around buffs when I get Tharja in 2026 has just exploded in possibilities since I can arrange Hone, Spur, Fortify skills and -blade+ tomes to the characters I like. And then I think about the -wolf+ weapons, -raven+, and then Naga, Excalibur--effective/advantage caster themed teams. Also making a team full of Killer weapons with Moonbow specials would be fun too.

Can't wait until the time comes for me to summon again, now I won't sigh whenever I get "Literally who?" 95% of the time. I've even been doing the special maps now, which I had been ignoring from the start.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Thanks for the ****ty corrin, game. Its not like I wanted male corrin or anything or I already have a female corrin I abandoned, its cool

 

[Aetheri]

Everyone's hyped about Sonic happenings and I'm still playing Breath of the Wild...

Still need to find the remaining 18 shrines, I only have 1 incomplete shrine sidequest on my quest log that I still need to do over at Rito Village, at least out of the ones I found probably still plenty of others I haven't gotten from people yet...the slightly less than 700 remaining koroks can stay in their little holes for all I care...

Will pay Kass's little hut a visit again to see if there's any more of those 'ancient songs' I missed...I did complete a few of them randomly while exploring...

Also want to thoroughly explore Hyrule Castle before making my final push...

 

[AwesomeAussie27]

It's safe to say this last Sonic poll was close. Both Blaze and Shadow were neck the neck the whole time, but the Fire Princess of the Sol Dimension won this found. I can hear Champ Gold crying in the distance. Shadow was behind by two votes, so he didn't do too bad. But both Silver and Jet flopped hard.

Now we are doing the memorable and strong robots of the series. We're not talking about weak Badniks, but powerful machines that either fight for themselves or serve Eggman. Your choices are Metal Sonic, Gamma (E-102), Omega (E-123), and Sonic Battle Emerl. This might be too one-sided, but we'll see how it goes.

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[Cutie Gwen]

It's safe to say this last Sonic poll was close. Both Blaze and Shadow were neck the neck the whole time, but the Fire Princess of the Sol Dimension won this found. I can hear Champ Gold crying in the distance. Shadow was behind by two votes, so he didn't do too bad. But both Silver and Jet flopped hard.

Now we are doing the memorable and strong robots of the series. We're not talking about weak Badniks, but powerful machines that either fight for themselves or serve Eggman. Your choices are Metal Sonic, Gamma (E-102), Omega (E-123), and Sonic Battle Emerl. This might be too one-sided, but we'll see how it goes.

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FLAT
CAT
BEST
SUPPORTING CAST
EAT
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GUN
SHADOW

 

[Robert of Normandy]

Thanks for the ****ty corrin, game. Its not like I wanted male corrin or anything or I already have a female corrin I abandoned, its cool

>Implying Female Corrin is ****ty

???

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

>Implying Female Corrin is ****ty

???

well I mean, Ive been trying for a male corrin and All ive been getting is female so pff. Really, All I want a male one

 

[allison]

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[AwesomeAussie27]

FLAT
CAT
BEST
SUPPORTING CAST
EAT
A
GUN
SHADOW

Careful, you wouldn't want Golden to see this post.

And Metal Sonic is one-shotting as I've expected.

 

[Deleted member]

It's safe to say this last Sonic poll was close. Both Blaze and Shadow were neck the neck the whole time, but the Fire Princess of the Sol Dimension won this found. I can hear Champ Gold crying in the distance. Shadow was behind by two votes, so he didn't do too bad. But both Silver and Jet flopped hard.

Now we are doing the memorable and strong robots of the series. We're not talking about weak Badniks, but powerful machines that either fight for themselves or serve Eggman. Your choices are Metal Sonic, Gamma (E-102), Omega (E-123), and Sonic Battle Emerl. This might be too one-sided, but we'll see how it goes.

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....whatever.

This one's tough, though. Between Metal and Gamma, I have no idea who I'd really vote for.....

FLAT
CAT
BEST
SUPPORTING CAST
EAT
A
GUN
SHADOW

....between this and the one guy that alluded to killing himself if Shadow beat Blaze while clearly expressing her being a waifu for him, I'm starting to think the Blaze fanbase is worse than the reputation the Shadow fanbase gets. Which is sad because I happen to like both.

 

[Coricus]

You know, I know it's never gonna solve it because no one will be happy with everything or even anything at all whatsoever.

But if SEGA really threw Classic, Dreamcast, and Modern all into the same game, that'd at least be the closest they could try to simultaneously appease the three largest factions of the swirling mass of angry chaos that is the Sonic fandom. I mean, it'd probably just end up pleasing no one, but I couldn't fault them in the slightest for trying to just give everyone what they want at once in order to get them to pipe down if that's what happened.

And of course, having Dreamcast Sonic in there could . . .hypothetically. . .give them a base to work on that Sonic Adventure, uh, 5 they've been being hounded about by the fandom if that's what they wanted to try. They definitely wouldn't want to just leap into that after the Adventure formula's last usage backfired so bad that over a decade later people STILL won't let it go, but at the same time they're getting demand for it blasted into their faces like a hurricane, so if they went for an Adventure playstyle that would be a pretty good toe dipping to see what needs to be tweaked or not.

. . .To be honest I'd like the Adventure formula to be given another shot myself, if a little less distracted by other playstyles. Only played the first one a few years back, but I actually really enjoyed it despite the lack of nostalgia goggles. I'd be very happy if they managed to properly pull off a game like that again.

 

[MF Viewtiful]

Sega finally released the direct feed of the footage from yesterday.

 

[A Distant Demon]

Monopoly has a duck in it now. T rex and penguin too.

New best board game.

 

[Champ Gold]

....whatever.

This one's tough, though. Between Metal and Gamma, I have no idea who I'd really vote for.....

....between this and the one guy that alluded to killing himself if Shadow beat Blaze while clearly expressing her being a waifu for him, I'm starting to think the Blaze fanbase is worse than the reputation the Shadow fanbase gets. Which is sad because I happen to like both.

Wait you mean me?

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That was a joke, holy hell Goldy. I wasn't being serious. Stop making assumptions because you're gonna make an donkey out of your self

 

[Deleted member]

Monopoly has a duck in it now. T rex and penguin too.

New best board game.

This is the most genius decision of 2017, whoever came up with this decision should've been president.

 

[ChikoLad]

God the game looks beautiful.

And it seems I might be on to something after all.

Trees look very similar to the trees from Sonic's world in Lost World.

 

[Deleted member]

Monopoly has a duck in it now. T rex and penguin too.

New best board game.

I have a MIGHTY NEED for that T. rex piece.

 

[Coricus]

Wait you mean me?



That was a joke, holy hell Goldy. I wasn't being serious. Stop making assumptions because you're gonna make an donkey out of your self

Considering what "Sonic's *redacted* Friends (TM)" get from people in general and the flak Shadow gets in particular with the Ow The Edge meme, I can't really blame him for having a Poe's Law situation.

Never mind the ridiculous stuff people say about Sonic as a whole that's dead serious. Liking Modern Sonic games exposes you to witnessing the wrong end of enough bile that it'll. . .alter you a bit. You either flinch at the first sign you're going through another round of hell or just get utterly callous and incapable of enjoying anything. I'd say I'm in the former group myself.

 

[Ivander]

So I signed in to Heroes and randomly got a free 4* F!Corrin. Huh.

Now the question is should I merge her with the one I had already or use her for skill fodder...

She gives out Hone Atk 3. So if you already have her, you can have the benefit of giving another character Hone Atk 3.

Also, somebody get Koei Tecmo to take some inspiration from the FE Cipher card game for Alternate Costumes for Fire Emblem Warriors.

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Exalted Chrom

Risen King Chrom

Seriously, those look awesome.
Opossum Since I know you're a fan of Chrom and believe you ought to see them.

 

[Deleted member]

She gives out Hone Atk 3. So if you already have her, you can have the benefit of giving another character Hone Atk 3.

Also, somebody get Koei Tecmo to take some inspiration from the FE Cipher card game for Alternate Costumes.

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Exalted Chrom

Risen King Chrom

Seriously, those look awesome.
Opossum Since I know you're a fan of Chrom and believe you ought to see them.

Holy ****, that's an edge to surpass all edges
It's on a whole other level of edginess