/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8902680
>Or maybe "ripoffs" if you prefer.
It would make no sense at all to call something a joke reference and a ripoff at the same time. A ripoff is something passed off as your own, and I'm not sure how you could think as obvious a reference as the Death Egg made to look and be titled as much like the Death Star as possible is in any way an attempt to pass off the most famous IP in the world as an original idea for the Sonic franchise.
It's a funny cartoonish blue hedgehog running very fast and fighting a fat guy, anon. Even the darkest Sonic content from the Archie comics keeps an ironic distance and sense of humor. You're not supposed to take Sonic seriously.

>>8837326
Someone had a Sonic CD thread the other day and then the OP of this thread tried making a post there complaining about it being considered a "hidden gem" and crying about level design even though nobody there called it that. After he got BTFO he started his own thread here saying the same retarded shit again. He'll probably keep trying every couple of weeks until enough anons validate his poor taste and arguments against phantom people.

>>8816186
>don't think there's enough sonic threads
This but unironically.

>>8711406
Is a joystick a button you mental midget?
Fuck off with that weak sophistry.

>>8692151
Mega Man did it much better.
Sonic in 3D was shitty alt-rock music and weird inexplicable combinations of furries with regular human crowds plus even worse attempts at involving humans and furries in dramatic lore, and voice acting for characters who are supposed to either remain silent or at most make brief nonverbal vocalizations like grunts or breathing.
If Sonic didn't talk, any lore was strictly limited to the core cast plus maybe one new ally and one new villain and not overdone, and the music wasn't Nickelback / Drowning Pool type shit it might have been alright.
Also way too much in the way of cut scenes and special features. They needed to focus more on a simple and very solid 3D game like Mario did for his. You didn't get a bunch of bonus features and story modes and alternative characters in Mario 64. You got Mario and 3D levels that worked. Sonic needed grounding, but Grounder didn't pull his weight and the franchise died. It's not a coincidence the first Sonic game that didn't get lots of hate since Sonic & Knuckles was Sonic Mania. People liked it because they went back to basics.

>>8666187
Came from the term supersonic being known as 'fast' and then taking just the sonic part which makes less sense on its own.
Similar to how people will use the words movie or car without any deliberate reference to their original source terms moving picture and horseless carriage.
Form is constantly drifting away from meaning with language.

>>8638048
>Bro where does sonic keep those rings? UP HIS ASSHOLE?!
There are pocket dimensions with the bonus levels so it's pretty clear the rings just go to a pocket dimension until Sonic is damaged and then they fall back out, or until he goes Super Sonic and then they get broken down for energy.

>>7484569
December 31, 1999.

>>7371318
If you weren't a zoomer you would appreciate how magical modern emulation is.
If you told me when I was a kid I'd be able to play any game from any system I want without paying for any of it and without needing dedicated hardware for each game and system I would think I was asleep and dreaming.

>>6664319
>Full Sail University
If nothing else this thread was neat for letting me discover the existence of a computer animation school. Not that I would switch careers and go back to school at my age but it's cool to know that exists.

post 'em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJDPsd80f4

Is latency a meme? Honestly I don't feel any difference between playing in an emulator and a console.

both the Japanese and US soundtracks are pretty much the best video game soundtracks ever made if you ask me.

Don't know why they changed it, but I'm glad the US soundtrack exists. Even if I'd rather play the game with the Japanese one.

>>2627210

Sanic was always cute in Japan, just marketed as a badass in America. Even fucking Kirby was the same, just a 90s thing.

Sonic CD without a doubt.

Easily CD.

JP/EU Stardust Speedway for Sonic CD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3UcnH8y3c