Fenroar

Mar 22 2012, 03:45 PM

But just... what's the difference concept-wise? Both are kart racers meant to be very customizable.

Eh. Dunno about this. Modnation racers didn't really thrill me as much as it did to you, Neo. Though I suppose it could be more of me getting tired of cartoony racing games like this and Mario Kart overall.

Chibitalia

Mar 20 2012, 04:36 PM

There it went again, and I'm fairly certain that Zetaboards had nothing to do with it, seeing as I was able to access another Zetaboard while this place was down. Maybe I'm wrong, I really don't know. *shrug*

Tora Unlimited Crusader

Mar 22 2012, 03:01 AM

Chaos TH

Mar 21 2012, 07:58 PM

Spoiler: It's not that many. Only a few Sony only titles.

Apparently a few of the really early models did have backwards compatibility with the PS2, but it was ditched later. Not sure what the deal was with that.

Two words:

Money

grubbing

conspiracy.

"That's three."

... Money-grubbing conspiracy?

"That's still three words."

BUT THE HYPHEN! D=

But that aside, yes, I've heard of that before. Clearly suspicious.

Tora Unlimited Crusader

Mar 21 2012, 03:08 PM

Nope. PS3 is apparently non-PS2-backwards-compatible. Which is stupid because it's backwards compatible for PS1 games. This is why I refuse to trade my PS2 in for a PS3. It's a capitalist conspiracy to make me spend more money.

Peter

Mar 10 2012, 09:16 AM

This may surprise you all, but Sonic '06 is my second favourite Sonic game of all time. I'm dead serious.

The controls are alright in my opinion, but like Mystic said, the game really feels incomplete. But, this isn't SEGA's fault. Microsoft and Sony rushed them to apparently "finishing" it, which is why you have a ton of glitches.

Speaking of glitches, I haven't really run into any of them. It seems the only people who encounter these glitches are mighty-pro speed-runners that don't take their time. I mean, of course, it's a Sonic game and you get that feeling that you want to get to the goal as soon as possible, but a little paitience and this game won't be so hard.

Speaking of difficulty, Sonic's mach speed stages are probably the most difficult part of the game. OH MY GOD, THE KINGDOM VALLEY MACH STAGE. I HATED IT! You had to keep doing mini-jumps both at the beginning and in the middle of it, and when you were running on the waterfall and you saw this ramp coming up you didn't know where to go, and eventually you fell. But thanks to a video demonstration, I managed to tackle it. Once you get through Sonic's stages and the four mach stages of hell, the game shouldn't be that difficult.

But the real reason this is my second favourite Sonic game is because my favourite mechanic of Sonic games returned: adventure fields. When you complete a character's story, you were finally able to explore areas of one big city again (Soleanna) and you could play any stage at will. You could even play the Tails version of Wave Ocean if you wanted to.

Character playability could have been improved, it kinda annoys me that you have to complete all the town missions to unlock all the characters, but hey, you have Sonic, Shadow and Silver to start with, and each storyline has respective playable characters.

And the music... oh the music... it was great.


So to conclude it all, Sonic '06 is my second favourite Sonic game and the last game I'll ever have access to where you can play as other characters besides JUST SONIC. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't get a Mario game where you can't play as Mario, right? But I really don't have any right to say that, being someone whose only played the original SMB on an NES emulation website.


EDIT: Oh, I forgot, the story. As I sad earlier, it has a serious tone to it, but people are freaking out on bestiality? If people go apeshit on the whole Elise kissing a dead Sonic, why do people not bash the princess and the frog fairytale?