Social Swamp's Social Thread 3 - And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain...

[Deleted member]

Question: What DS games should we get in everyone's opinion? I'd like stuff like Sonic Rush Adventure, Pokemon Conquest and Custom Robo Arena

Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City

 

[Cutie Gwen]

*checks a few Black Friday deals*
'Why, hello madam! Look at all these offers? anything you like?'
Vidya gaems
'We only have the finest stuff in all the land, Evolve, Destiny, etc.'
Anything that I actually like?
'**** off, who do you think we are? A business?'

 

[Dravidian]

Welp, Calem killed my last two Pokemon
Though since I healed before the fight, I had to let him kill the already dead ones again
Well, GG Pokemon Y
You finally defeated me
This was a fun suicide mission, thanks to everyone who joined me on this
I wonder what I should play next...
Maybe

Spoiler

Or maybe

Spoiler

But I really do wonder...

Spoiler

Is that name foreign or something? Hmm...

http://strawpoll.me/6115431

No salty runback?

 

[ChikoLad]

I have to remind myself sometimes that all these memes are being spread by AN OFFICIAL SEGA SOURCE.

They are literally the only thing retaining any positive brand image for the main Sonic universe right now so they kind of have to.

 

[Wario Bros.]

So far I only bought 3 things on Black Friday:

BoyBoy! on 3DS for $3.49 (normally $4.99)
Earphones for $3.99 (normally $9.99)
128GB flash drive for $27.99 (normally $119.99)

Not sure if I'll do more.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

They are literally the only thing retaining any positive brand image for the main Sonic universe right now so they kind of have to.

Honestly, if the Sonic franchise can't improve from these setbacks, I'd rather have the franchise die. I say this as someone who got into gaming with Sonic and loved playing a lot of Sonic games as a kid

 

[Jaedrik]

All aboard the Etika hate train.

I mean.

I don't enjoy the stuff he puts out, but...

Y'all silly for hating / kvetching about something so trivial as a guy who makes videos on the internet predicting something unlikely.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

Well... I certainly wasn't expecting this.
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Actual Webpage the Reddit Thread linked to.

This is nice. Hopefully, the Wii U gets a nice sales bump.

 

[BluePikmin11]

HOLY COW THEY HAVE SHULK AMIIBOS AT GAMESTOP, GRAB WHILE YOU HAVE THE CHANCE!

 

[SegaNintendoUbisoft]

So, the newest update for Sonic Runners pretty much ruined the game.

A shame, I just got into it a month ago.

 

[Chrono.]

http://www.sonicstadium.org/2015/11/sonic-the-hedgehog-awakening-found-on-ex-silver-va-resume/

Sonic 06 sequel confirmed guys.

 

[Deleted member]

No salty runback?

What?

EDIT: Poll is still at 10 votes, 4 for each Pokemln game
...
I thought polls were supposed to make this easier

 

[Shroob]

I had an awful dream. The December Direct came and we got twenty characters.

But they were awful.

We got two DK characters, but they were "Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong" (Diddy riding Donkey like in DKCR) and "Super Donkey Kong" (the power up from Donkey Kong 64." SDK was an invincible character.

On top of that we got Fiora who acted like some high school anime.

The finale was the third party character. It was that alien from Destroy All Human!

Only nice thing was Wolf and even he looked bad. His face texture didn't even cover his model.


Whew. Glad it's a dream.

All of a sudden, I'm thinking of Temmie Wolf.

 

[Dravidian]

All aboard the Etika hate train.

I mean.

I don't enjoy the stuff he puts out, but...

Y'all silly for hating / kvetching about something so trivial as a guy who makes videos on the internet predicting something unlikely.

Pretty much this. He may be mostly wrong, but from what I've seen he almost never states his opinions or reasonings as facts. I mean his videos are usually:

1. MY ****!
2. THIS THING HAPPENED!
3. MY OPINION ON THIS THING!
4. MY ****!

Honestly, instead of raging on Etika, people should question why people take his opinion as fact.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

God ****ing dammit Play Asia is ACTUALLY garbage. Not because of the Volleyball ****, that's pretty decent business no matter how childish it is, but because of their pricing
Japan exclusive game that came out last year with a region lock: 25 euros
Japan exclusive game from the same franchise, about 3 years ago on the DS: 77 euros

 

[Wario Bros.]

Etika doesn't bother me because I don't follow him.

Plain and simple.

 

[Dravidian]

What?

"Salty runback" is a fighting game community phrase. When one is salty about a loss and/or feels they should have won, the loser (after a tournament) sometimes ask for a runback, an opportunity "run-it-back", to play again or get revenge.

 

[Guybrush20X6]

I got a question, in an original Ruby Sapphire Nuzlocke what's an infamous difficulty spike/team killer?

 

[Chrono.]

You know you ****ed up when even DarkspinesSonic gets mad

 

[Deleted member]

Today, I learned that I share the same birthday as the kaiju, Gamera. Funny I never knew about this until now, considering Gamera is one of my favorite kaiju.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Today, I learned that I share the same birthday as the kaiju, Gamera. Funny I never knew about this until now, considering Gamera is one of my favorite kaiju.

Similarly, I share Mega Man's birthday. 20 days left too

 

[Substitution]

You know you ****ed up when even DarkspinesSonic gets mad

Just curious, what did the update do?

 

[Deleted member]

I got a question, in an original Ruby Sapphire Nuzlocke what's an infamous difficulty spike/team killer?

I believe Flannery's Torkoal(Bulky+Overheat), Norman in general and Tate and Liza due to the MASSIVE level spike(double battle and the fact they're 10 levels stronger than theor gym trainers)

"Salty runback" is a fighting game community phrase. When one is salty about a loss and/or feels they should have won, the loser (after a tournament) sometimes ask for a runback, an opportunity "run-it-back", to play again or get revenge.

I actually did that once on my ORAS run

 

[Solfiner]

I got a question, in an original Ruby Sapphire Nuzlocke what's an infamous difficulty spike/team killer?

I believe Flannery's Torkoal(Bulky+Overheat), Norman in general and Tate and Liza due to the MASSIVE level spike(double battle and the fact they're 10 levels stronger than theor gym trainers)

I actually did that once on my ORAS run

What he said, especially Tate and Liza. They are filthy.

 

[ChikoLad]

Honestly, if the Sonic franchise can't improve from these setbacks, I'd rather have the franchise die. I say this as someone who got into gaming with Sonic and loved playing a lot of Sonic games as a kid

2015 has just been a bad year for the Sonic as a game franchise. Next year should be better as it's the 25th Anniversary and there's gonna be a new main series, console Sonic game (making it a three year gap since Lost World) coming out.

Outside of the games, Sonic has been doing very well. The Sonic Boom TV show was a hit and has already been greenlit for a second season, the Sonic Boom toys are selling very well, the comics have actually improved a lot (I'm still not a big fan of the comics personally but I acknowledge that they are at a much better objective standard than before even if they aren't really my thing) and continue to sell well, and the social media channels have of course been a blast. The community also continues to do great things, like SomecallmeJohnny having a highly successful Sonic marathon stream that raised a ton of money for Extra Life, and the Sonic Hacking Contest was really exciting this year.

It's just the actual games, i.e the MAIN part of the brand, have been bad in since late 2014 to 2015. We had 3 bad to mediocre Sonic Boom branded games in the span of a year, and Sonic Team's first mobile game, Sonic Runners, started out really promising in the test launch phase and people were enjoying it, but they've continued to butcher the game since it's worldwide release. And Sonic Lost World released on Steam which is fine, but it's not a very good port (it just got an update actually, but I doubt it changes much since the last few haven't done anything).

I look forward to next year since the 20th Anniversary for Sonic was AMAZING, easily one of the best year long celebrations for anything ever. But yeah, 2015 has been a rough year to be a main series Sonic game fan.

 

[kylexv]

So, the newest update for Sonic Runners pretty much ruined the game.

A shame, I just got into it a month ago.

How did it ruin it?
I thought this game was meh in the first place.

 

[Dravidian]

Etika doesn't bother me because I don't follow him.

Plain and simple.

I mostly agree with this mentality. That said, there are things that I don't "follow" but bother me because of the negative effect I believe they have on the world.

But Etika, is just a guy on the internet. Even if his information is wrong he's not actually harming anything in the long run: "Oh, no, people found out they were wrong a month later". I mean the buttholes that use his videos as evidence were going to be buttholes even if Etika didnt exist. And if Etika didnt give his seemingly crazy theories to his fans, they'd just make their own. Etika is simply a scapegoat for some people.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Holy **** Steam has amazing deals. Bioshock1 for 3 bucks...If only my PC wasn't ****...

 

[SegaNintendoUbisoft]

Just curious, what did the update do?

How did it ruin it?
I thought this game was meh in the first place.

That's not all, they've nerfed a ton of buddies and characters, they make it harder to get Red Rings, which means if you want to do anything with them, you'll have to resort to microtransactions.

 

[Chrono.]

Just curious, what did the update do?

Basically they nerfed every single power up, item, buddies and characters to hell.

Adds unavoidable spike walls that kill you so you spend more red rings (aka more money)

The roulette is even more ridiculous and unfair than it used to be.

The game got greedy as hell in one update.

 

[Bedoop]

@HextupleyooDOT does it again
Damn son, he's great at everything.

 

[Substitution]

That's not all, they've nerfed a ton of buddies and characters, they make it harder to get Red Rings, which means if you want to do anything with them, you'll have to resort to microtransactions.

Wait, looking at the spike formation in 0:05, how the hell are you supposed to jump over that?

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Oh...I...Wow...This was Sonic Team...I...I don't trust this company anymore

 

[ChikoLad]

How did it ruin it?
I thought this game was meh in the first place.

Actually, Sonic Runners was easily one of the best mobile games on the market when it was in the test launch phase.

However, they've made it increasingly worse since it's worldwide release.

I was bummed out after that initial worldwide release (I spun the roulette to get Classic Sonic at least 20 times and I never got him within the allotted time limit. Got burned out on the game after that), but a lot of people apparently were still enjoying it.

However, the new 2.0 update has completely butchered the game. There's a long list of problems with it, some of it may not make sense to you if you haven't already been playing the game. But I will just leave this image here, as it about sums it up:

>Red Star Rings are practically impossible to get now without paying real money
>Finding a "Beatable Opponent" in the new competitive mode effectively costs money now
>You have to pay to make the matchmaking actually work properly

That's like if Smash had an online mode where your character's stats level up, and you had to pay real money to get matched with people who have similar stats to you.

 

[BandanaWaddleDee]

Meh, it's just an iOS game. No sense in getting all worked up about it.

 

[Chrono.]

Wait, looking at the spike formation in 0:05, how the hell are you supposed to jump over that?

You can't.

It's insta-death to make you resort to microtransactions to continue.

 

[kylexv]

Basically they nerfed every single power up, item, buddies and characters to hell.

Adds unavoidable spike walls that kill you so you spend more red rings (aka more money)

The roulette is even more ridiculous and unfair than it used to be.

The game got greedy as hell in one update.

Wow.
Sega, you're even deader to me now. The bolded is completely inexcusable in a game. Ever.

 

[Substitution]

You can't.

It's insta-death to make you resort to microtransactions to continue.

Wow. I mean, for Christ's sake Sega.
There's fake difficulty, and then they're outright scamming.

Meh, it's just an iOS game. No sense in getting all worked up about it.

Of course there is.
Mobile game or not there is no excuse for bullcrap. It doesn't matter if this was on iOS or a PC. This is atrocious.

 

[SegaNintendoUbisoft]

Wait, looking at the spike formation in 0:05, how the hell are you supposed to jump over that?

Either you have a spare Wisp or invincibility, or you need to use microtransactions,

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Meh, it's just an iOS game. No sense in getting all worked up about it.

This was done by the devs who made Generations