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Village

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Oct 25, 2017
11,811
New famitsu interview about the racing game is about

You can do normal races, and the teams can be anything you want
 

Waddle Dee

Banned
Nov 2, 2017
3,725
California
Honestly, if Sumo/Sega know what's good for them they should make sure non-Team races are possible online with randoms. I'm not completely against the team system but at the end of the day I doubt anyone is going to prefer it over standard races...
 

Village

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,811
Honestly, if Sumo/Sega know what's good for them they should make sure non-Team races are possible online with randoms. I'm not completely against the team system but at the end of the day I doubt anyone is going to prefer it over standard races...

I mean normal races are a thing in the game according to the famistu, so I don't see why there wouldn't be normal online races

Also to me personally the team races kinda sound fun, don't know if I prefer it, but I'm willing to try it out.
 

Virtua Sanus

Member
Nov 24, 2017
6,492
I normally avoid the official Sonic streams but I did catch the Sonic Mania Plus stream this time. They showed off a lot of Mighty and Ray's abilities. I have really warmed up to them, so that is neat! Ray especially has some adorable animations.

The way Encore Mode works and saves is very different from the main game. It looks like a much more solid addition to the game than I thought. I suggest waiting to find out yourself in the update if you have not seen the stream yet though!
 

TheOGB

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
10,010
Umm, hello everyone. :P
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Hi~
 

Xtortion

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,657
United States
Sorry if this is a dumb question. Do we actually know if Encore Mode in Mania Plus is co-op? Asking because it handles the characters super differently than Mania Mode with the swapping mechanic.
 

Sixfortyfive

Banned
Oct 28, 2017
4,615
Atlanta
I'm planning to pre-order Sonic Mania Plus on Switch soon. Are there any different SKUs to pick from? Retailer-exclusive shit or anything like that?
 

Tizoc

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Oct 25, 2017
23,792
Oman
So my brother helped me get a copy of Wii Sonic Unleashed thru Ebay.
I can't remember if the PS2 ver. also started with these short tutorials but man...I am enjoying it. Stages are lengthy (Day) but I like that it acts like a race track kind of thing where you aim to clear it fast as possible.
 

Nali

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,665
The last couple issues got a bit more interesting, yeah. The plot finally started moving.
 

TSSZNews

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Oct 27, 2017
663
September or October IIRC, which sucks because it'd collect the first 4-5 issues only, and I would've liked it to be released earlier so I could gift it to my cousin.

There is a box set on sale right now that collects #1-4 and has a sketch version of #1 to boot. Doesn't solve the only 1-4 problem but still very nice to gift IMO.

Earlier, there was a version of that box set that had a variant cover of #4 and a T-shirt, but it went pretty fast.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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USA, Sol 3, Universe 1
Why do you do this to yourself?
You mean for myself, right? I just... I love Sonic comics. Yeah, so if i am not mistake...

25 USD for the IDW 1-4 virgin + Sketch, 40 USD for the sega shop bundle, 25 USD for the Spencer's thing, like 26 issues of variants of the current IDW series, so we're like at 200 USD after taxes so far, plus new art, old Archie comics and compos, and everything else seems to have brought it to around 505 bucks.

As far as games this year, only 3 games for me for the reminder of the year are TSR and Mona Ware Gold. If this keeps up, comics will usurp vidya in non-necessities for me for the first time, yet Sonic will move up in the ranks.

So with IDW, if I get all covers, I can expect to spend a little over 16 bucks a month on Sonic moving forward. Like, I've reached an age where there's few, if any things I collect, but I want Sonic comics to be one of those things.
You could buy so many chicken nuggets with that money
Nah man, gotta go fast eat fresh.
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Oct 28, 2017
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Wild rejected '90's film concept appeared!

By 1993 Risley began to plant the seeds of a larger project: bringing Sonic the Hedgehog to the big screen. At the time the blue blur had serious commercial clout, and other video games movies were being made, so by August 1994 Sega had signed a deal with MGM Studios and Trilogy Entertainment.
The treatment opens with a 12-year old boy named Josh Pinski reading out his school paper on a test pilot named Sonic who was killed in a plane explosion while attempting to break speed barriers. However, this paper isn't actually finished and Josh is reading it to the class from memory — and his teacher tells him to finish the paper by the morning or else his parents will be called in. Jeffries describes Josh as "an awkward kid at the most awkward age enduring the most awkward time of his life. His parents recently split up, leaving him in joint custody. Josh feels like a ping-pong ball, bouncing back and forth between two houses, equally ignored by his Mom and Dad… And the worst thing is, Josh always ends up feeling like the whole rotten mess is his fault."
Josh is picked up from school by his Dad, Hal, who is a smart computer wiz but is currently out of work. "He's always on the brink of some great discovery, or so he'll tell you," the treatment claims. He has recently built an artificial intelligence computer which utilises a unique system of holographic memory which he's dubbed XRI (eXtremely Radical Intelligence). After dinner Hal rushes out to pursue a lead on some obscure computer part and tells Josh not to touch the XRI.

Though he promises he won't, of course Josh breaks into the computer and asks it to write his paper on the test pilot Sonic. When the XRI doesn't recognise the name, Josh plugs in his Sega Saturn and copy of Sonic X-Treme to demonstrate. The treatment reads, "That's when odd things begin to happen. Sonic stops responding to the game controller and discovers a will of his own." As Richard Jeffries described it to me, "These kids work out some hack, where Sonic the Hedgehog steps through the right door and into the real world. So he becomes a renegade from the game world." Sonic and Josh stand face-to-face, two friends meeting for the first time — described in the treatment as a "3-D CGI guy in the real world."

Found it neat that they implemented the Japanese pilot story.
 
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