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/sthg/ #1271 - Quality AIs Edition

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twitter.com/RubyEclipse/status/961717281049886720
strawpoll.me/15350071
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new waifu

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Sometimes I dream about loop-de-loops

Honestly, the new comic was one of the best in years.

What do we call her?

Boostfags literally ruin everything and they continue giving Sega money and allow Sonic Forces to "perform strongly" alongside Mania.

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Comics are more disappointing than I expected. I hope they don't continue to play it THIS safe in the future.

If they are going to be worse than that I won't even bother reading.

In case you missed it, the first issue of IDW Sonic was storytimed last thread

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That's just Pal, though.

It's been almost 20 years and still no new chao game.
The Chao Garden is never coming back

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Someone suggested the friend theme, and I liked that. There's already a Pal.
>Companion
>Ally
>Chum
>Mate
>Neighbor
I like Ally.

pic related is Pal

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>"Honestly"
>lies
What did he mean by this?

Why would you think they are going to get worse? This first issue was mandate city and yet it still turned out great. Things will only improve from here on out.

It was very boring.

Ally is cute

How bad do you think the Sonic the Hedgehog Live-Action/Animated Movie will be?
youtube.com/watch?v=ZV6A50ZDsCo

any news about the IDW comic?

Good grief this was terrible, borderline Pontaff tier.

>Companion
>Ally
>Chum
>Mate
>Neighbor
All of those sound awkward and Forced, no pun intended. They don't need names, just something like 'red cat waifu #1', etc.

good art
shit writing

Read above, shitposter.

Nothing about it was remotely Pontaff, shitposter.

This comic shouldn't have continued right after Forces.
I'm sick of this look and for any new readers this would be confusing.

Maybe it wouldn't have seemed as bad if a lot of the comic wasn't JUST Sonic spouting terrible oneliners to robots.

I know. It's a cute idea, but Ally was the only cute one as a name if you pronounce it like the name. Pal was a cute one too.
Red cat waifu #1 works too I guess.

I fucking hate you all.

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Sonic Mania sold on hype like many games nowadays do.
They might be able to squeeze another game or two before they run out of ideas. Franchises need to grow and do different things otherwise they have no staying power.

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SEGA mandate maybe? I dunno it was a bad idea.

Tails was great, everyone else was annoying. Flynn needs someone else writing jokes,these were terrible.

I hope you've had a wonderful week /sthg/

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Say that enough and you just might start believing it.

>Sonic barely says anything
>still gets accused of spouting oneliners

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It wasn't that confusing, but it didn't add anything and if anything just made the setting all the more dull.

Seriously, none of it was Pontaff shit. You don't have an argument.

Franchises also need to keep a connection with what made them great in the first place so they don't become an unrecognizable mess as they go on.

It had little substance in the plot and Sonic spouting constant terrible jokes. That's pontaff enough for me.

Like I said, keep telling (You)rself that.

>Q: Something has been on my mind lately, do you think the whole debacle with Ken Penders contributed to Archie and SEGA not continuing their relationship? I understand that was years later, but the ripple effect of the reboot must’ve hurt a lot.

>A: No. It had no–it–it didn’t help things, but it was not a major contributing factor. The reboot happened, it sucked at the time, but we were rolling full steam ahead and just other stuff happened. And here we are.

sonicsourceblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/flynn-clarifies-the-two-world-issue-in-bumblekast-65/

The first issue was so lame. You people need to stop sucking Ian Flynn's dick. The art totally saved it though.

Nostalgia can be toxic now bear in mind I did not say that it is toxic but that it can be toxic this assumption that because we have pleasant memories of something that it was alway good all the time a desire to get that back ignores all the good that's come since then as well as all the bad stuff that was there too and it poisons you making you more susceptible to deception to your own greed who's to say that your own past is more important than someone else's future and because you want something that may not have been real at all the farther the goalposts gets because you can't really reclaim it so it just gets worse and worse and you get greedier and more desperate for it because what you really want is never going to come until in the very end you become the thing you hate it in the first place you become more concerned with chasing some imaginary feeling that you forget where you are and then you can create real attainable goals right now to this mindset the past is more important than the future.

Just give me the quick rundown, I haven't been in the general in ages.

If Flynn can't write good jokes, how is he going to make Sonic fun?

Who was the artist of issue 1 was it ABT? Maybe he should replace Flynn as lead writer.

I know this is a shitpost but user, please use punctuation

"/sthg/ - They were never true Sonic fans."

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>Tails was great
"Without as much as an angry vlog? No way."
Surely you jest?

I think you guys are being too hard on the comic.
It was the first issue, of course it wouldn't be 10/10 pure gold, but I really don't think it was absolute bottom of the barrel trash like it's being treated it as.
I think we should just wait and see if it's able to find its own stride to hit for now.

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>I hate dialogue! Dialogue is so Pontaff!

Stop making excuses this was a terrible start from a well seasoned team.
They had a new universe to work with and supposedly less mandates, this was an easy gig and they somewhat blew it.

I'm assuming "The story and the characters" includes the porn.

>The reboot happened, it sucked at the time
Still does.

How the fuck are you still a fan of Sonic if a flat joke or two is enough to ruin the whole issue for you? I'd have thought you would have run out of tolerance years ago.

>Issue 1 sold at wondercon
>Redditor uploaded
>user storytimed
>People arguing about whether or not it was shit

Nice try Ian, but you can't fool me. I'm not buying your shitty comic.

Exactly. Excessive dialogue and quips is a cancer that Sonic doesn't need.

I don't remember Sonic trying hard to be trendy and topical in the past.

Tails have as many bad jokes as Sonic did, which was like half of his dialogue in this comic.

This is the #1 shitposter opinion. Bad dialogue = Pontaff, therfore all dialogue must be bad!

Where have you been since 2010?

How did they blow it? Sonic and Tails fought robots and they were both competent, and written to care about each other, I'm not really sure what you want, and I'm pretty sure you don't actually want anything.

twitter.com/RubyEclipse/status/961717281049886720
I love when Aaron has to dispel Veeky Forums rumors on his Twitter because he’s butthurt about Sonic Forces sales.

Give up, user. You're not gonna change their minds.

Is there a mandate that says to emulate Pontaff writing? Because it certainly looked like it.

How about the first issue to have more substance than that and not tie itself to a shitty game?

I mean look above your original post, retard.

This and not have shitty jokes.

>Quips! Quips! Quips!
>Tails: "Dude, I'm so trendy and have a 'tude just like you, Sonic!"
This was the entire issue. You cannot say it wasn't.

There probably was, to keep things similar to the games.

>Swing Batta-Batta-Batta
Comedy gold according to Flynn fans.

Don't forget
>OMFG YOURE SONIC

that line wasn't even that bad

Setting it after Forces enables a good justification for a bunch of new characters starting to fight, as well as Sonic's friends to be more concerned for Sonic than normal, and gives a lot of Eggman's infrastructure laying around. Even if it was a bad game, that doesn't mean it can't work as a setting.

I'm cringing at these terrible jokes.

>Amy will never realize that Sonic doesn't like her back
>Amy will never strive to grow stronger for herself
>Amy will never desire to be anything but the main character's girlfriend
>Amy will never become consistently useful to the group
>Amy will never have her own game where she works to invert all of the above
Actually mad and sad.

The writting seemed alright.
The art is pretty good.

not surprising.
most older sonic gamers dont really find the games too fun anymore and just look forward to the lore + more shipping material

Also the majority of /sthg/ is /co/ pretending to have played the games.

I didn't understand that scene. Sonic was heavily involved with the Resistance after his jailbreak, why were they acting like he just appeared?

It was very cheesy, even for Flynn. Who even says that anymore?

rate comic
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>Classicuck takeover.
>The Sonic movie guaranteed to be awful is on the horizon.
>The comic is a disappoint at issue #1.
This is a very bad time to like Sonic.

Nobody.
>"Hedgehog." Noun. A burrowing animal.
>C'mon, big guy! Swing batta-batta-batta -
>Without so much as an angry Vlog? No way.
>OMFG you're THE Sonic!
My god, we're off to a rocky start.

>good games that both fans and naysayers can enjoy making it a bad time to be a Sonic fan
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>"Hedgehog." Noun. A burrowing animal.
That was an acceptable joke, you're just looking for reasons to be pissed off.
>Apparently it's unaccepable for Sonic to be famous in-universe

Probably because there wasn't a damn decision as to whether the series was going to continue after Forces or not.

LOL
youtube.com/watch?v=TvNEZ4WWQIk

Has Sonic ever been treated like a celebrity in the games?

Stop giving excuses for lame jokes.

No it's a terrible joke.

Wow, I knew the fanbase was bad but this is a brand new low.
Also supporters of SA3 think the success of these games will kill off the idea of that game coming into existence completely?
...Why? What indication did Sega ever give that they would do that? I mean, yeah they're focusing on Modern and Classic Sonic gameplay again but at this point its what'll hopefully rescue the franchise and help it recover from its rather bleak state. Then once these games come out, Sega will listen very carefully to their fans on what to improve on and can begin to build Sonic back up from there. And if there's one thing I know about this franchise its that nearly every game is different and while Sega probably won't take as big risks as they used to anymore, they will continue to experiment with small ideas in each game without changing the core gameplay to see what fans think. That doesn't stop SA3 from being made, but at the same time it could take a LONG time before Sega decides to give the Adventure gameplay another shot since they need to make sure they meet the expectations of the fans wanting it. This can also serve as a reason why it won't happen because of the crowd it needs to please. If they screw up such an anticipated sequel that's been awaited by fans for over 15 years now...It's scary to think what might happen to the series then.

He was voted to be man of the year despite being a hedgehog.

>dictionary definition
That's a pretty cringy attempt at humor if I've ever seen one. I'm not going to excuse bad writing just because it's Sonic.

Forces and... Huh. Still, it isn't unreasonable, the guy's put an entire planet together and in one day saved multiple.

Who is most responsible for Sonic's terrible reputation? Sega/Sonic Team or the awful fans?

*BEEP* *BEEP*
Best ship coming through.

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Does having his name and face all over casinos count?

Both.

The Mania Team.

Seems like you're picking a weird place to stop, given that Sonic has never really made good jokes.

Sonic is a blue talking hedgehog that runs fast. Of course the comic isn't going to be serious and it's going to have silly jokes. That's what it should be. That's what the games' stories should be. The comic should just have Classic Sonic in it since Modern Sonic is ruined at this point and it's impossible to make anything with Classic Sonic in it overly serious.

Me, my bad guys.