A shame that the monthly update schedule has now been officially scrapped. Still, hopefully this signals that Deep Silver is preparing to ramp-up the marketing in other ways.

My point is that the emphasis used to be on platforming. Speed was only part of the equation because of SEGA's need to market the Mega Drive as a faster console than the SNES. You seem to have trouble differentiating the difference between Sonic's identity as a character/brand and the identity of t...

nobody takes ign seriously. I know from german and dutch major magazines rating the game a 7.5 and you guys seem to completely miss my point about consumers rating the game much lower back in the day. the game got a ton of hatred from gamers, who simply were not ready. just like people were not rea...

Ah, so you haven't played all Sonic games then? I assume that you're younger than a few of the earlier titles? Oh dear, is this another attempt to pigeonhole me into an un-person category? Implying that I was closet-furry didn't work so now you want to claim I'm not a classic fan. That's a flawed a...

What exactly did you dislike about them though? Well, to keep this as brief as possible. Sonic Boom was an unfinished disaster that made unpatched Sonic 06 look like a stable build. While Lost World looked and played more like a half-assed Mario game, lacking the spirit and high-speed gameplay that...

As for the other guy, I'd like to ask a sincere question: Is there any Sonic game (or aspect of one) that you have ever disliked? If so, what was it? I've made it clear in this thread and elsewhere that I don't like Sonic Boom or Lost World. Back in 2011 Sonic Generations quickly became one of my f...

Shenmue combat was good, but it's not really balanced enough to be called "hardcore", it is what it is. The lock on, movement, hitframes and the hit detection would feel really clunky today. It has a lot of moves, but most of them are just for the flash. Shenmue's combat mechanics were ba...

I would say that I hope you understand the irony of the fact that you've now turned the term "baseless rhetoric" into actual, literal baseless rhetoric ... but I feel like that would fly over your head, and you'd start ranting about the branching complexities of Null Space again. Whatever...

MiTT3NZ wrote: You're a big fan of buzzwords, aren't you?

I see that you don't know how to put forward a reasoned argument and instead resort to personal attacks, as per usual.

wow. what a bunch of crying. people have worse tastes now? go look up scores of games like Limbo, Brothers, flower, journey, heavy rain, life is strange, the last of us, witcher 3 and what have you. for the record shenmue 1 got bombarded with terrible review scores by pro's and consumers alike, upo...

That apparently goes both ways. You're going off on tangents that have nothing to do with anything anyone is saying. And I'm starting to think you don't actually know what "semantics" means. And yeah, I looked at Null Space. It's a corridor level with a couple of platforms off to the side...

When did I say a single thing about graphics not being important to storytelling? You said that having voice-acted characters was a major achievement for the Dreamcast itself, and I disagreed on account of a multitude of games having done that previously. You made no mention of graphics in your sta...

I don't know why this matter though, Shenmue was as "hardcore" as milk with honey. You couldn't loose, you could retry everything or there were other paths, the difficulty decreases, you had hints everywhere, the most powerful move is pressing forward forward punch, and the most "str...

I'm not missing the point of anything. You didn't say anything about graphics before. You literally just said: ...and nothing about any of that was an important technical achievement. You specifically pointed out a "multi-character voice acted story," and there's tons of that all over the...

^^I'm not sure having multiple characters and voice acting was all that impressive an achievement, when Playstation, Saturn, PC, and N64 games had already been doing that for years. But yeah, until now I literally hadn't looked at anything for Sonic Forces aside from the announcement gameplay, but ...