#i need to work towards the next boss in sonic gens

[michdoodles]

I have SonicxShadow Generations brainrot... already spent a few hours today playing and am currently tempted to grab my switch again even though it's not done charging and open up the game for the third time today

[geek-gem]

Sonic Forces In One Day

1:46 am well was trying to think of a good title. One that would make sense and did time change but just I've been thinking. I mentioned in my last post about Sonic Forces related stuff oh water eyes just drinks.

Mainly such as two okay it's 1:47 am now and I had ideas for two posts. But I feel their were so much and just...I felt like I needed to share the amount of stuff I was thinking. I was gonna make one after I turn off my laptop. But I feel I have to make this or some shit.

Including I wanna mention this. I thought of this I suppose hours ago. Because I was watching Knight Of The Wind he's a Sonic related and I seriously recommend him to anyone who likes Sonic it's been a while since I've seen his content. It's mainly the ones about Sonic Forces. I watched these I...okay I'm trying to be honest yeah if I remember right in order, "Where The Hell Is Blaze", "Bad Voice Acting", "Opinions And Controversy" had to go on Google and look at his videos list now, and let me look, "Final Thoughts Before Release" and it's no spoilers.

But during I guess maybe the first time also be being weird I'm like going to at his Blaze video and being all bullshit.

Yet I thought of this and....this I want it to relate to something I feel that happened. To be honest seriously if the custom character Buddy almost left Bubby something or a character I've been shitting on ever since it was first announced.

If the custom character.....Buddy in a way I don't wanna spoil Gears Of War 3. But this is what sparked this up. If Buddy dies and Sonic mainly modern Sonic is torn apart by this.

Including if Buddy does something that helps Sonic and the resistance but it results in him dying.

I was seriously thinking this music I gonna find it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hW93CV6m-JU found it and went back to Knight Of The Wind's channel nice just....the last or just I feel during towards the end of the last video about his final thoughts. Even said in my head they helped me.

But just...during I guess towards the end I thought to myself that I remember now. Seeing him mainly happy he's excited. While I'm excited yet I hate the custom character so much. I thought to myself and thought I think okay....let go of the hate towards the custom character. Then felt like crying. I had a new Diet Dr. Pepper I have two of them finished one and was drinking that with the popcorn.

Yet honestly yeah and I even said I am a child when I pressed his username below his video.

Basically just....we are now officially a day before Sonic Forces comes out.

I should just talk about the game.

The stuff I've been thinking about. Honestly I even thought this and remember I've said this before this has been an emotional rollercoaster for me.

From being interested when finally seeing the trailer months later I made a journal about it on Deviantart yeah it was months later I wasn't in the Sonic mood. Then over time I got more excited even thinking I knew or hoped what the game would be about such as the third character not awesome oh head about that character. Then when it turns out the theory of it being a custom character was revealed.

Alright had to yeah tv back working this 4 hours no activity shit but seriously when it was revealed I snapped in a way. My excitement went very down. Then over time I got excited again including the villains trailer and Infinite with his theme song. Hearing now in that Blaze video from Knight Of The Wind again after months or some shit.

Then just it went up and down, and seeing more stuff. Even me ignoring the tag team trailer for I guess some weeks or I forgot how long and seeing the story trailer and being disappointed.

Now we have links and I made a post. Or two posts basically and me being upset and became in more favor of a 10th anniversary remastered version of Sonic Unleashed for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Basically all next gen systems wanted to be clear on that sorry oh head I'm saying too much.

But yeah just.....I've talked about this a bit. Yet not much on Deviantart okay I just thought maybe I should copy this and post this on Deviantart.

In a way basically no I'm sorry I'm talking about my experience of waiting for this game. I thought of this maybe two hours again or just one or so.

This I feel is similar to what's happening with the DCEU. It may sound stupid and I'm still kind of new. Basically what I mean is people praise Wonder Woman a shit ton. A film that surprised me and over time I decided to rethink my opinions about the DCEU.

Now Justice League is coming soon and ever since last year that film has been dealing with so much shit. Such as rumors, news that's fake and just seriously. Including just I shouldn't say other stuff. But okay the tragedy that happened with Zack Snyder and people saying Joss Whedon took over the film fully when he's just finishing some final touches.

A weird comparison.

Sonic Mania is Wonder Woman and Sonic Forces is Justice League.

While I'm excited for Justice League and hope for the best. Even if I've heard some good stuff about it. My head says random negative shit. I'm hoping the film seriously gets some praise. Because just I feel it would be for the best. Yet I'll give my own opinion and like it however it is. If I don't like it fine if I do like it that's good that's awesome. Or even a ultimate edition like BVS which helped me a lot.

Yet right now just Sonic Forces hasn't been dealing with the amount of shit Justice League has been dealing with and that's good. But it's not all safe. Basically just waiting and Sonic Mania being a great game. Despite the fact I haven't played it since my friend @fatpinkraccoon423 yeah gonna mention him beware of his account he's very gay. I wanna message on here and say something about Sonic Forces is tommorow like that Game Of Thrones winter is coming meme.

Sonic Forces is coming....it's coming here people...not sexually you can laugh it can be silly.

Yet honestly I haven't played Sonic Mania because of Flying Battery zone I'm just seriously don't like that final boss and it's the one from what I remember where people thought was Eggman's daughter or some shit. When really it's not. Also the fact I feel like I'm bad at Sonic games I can't be.

Basically even at times I feel the praise and some stupid praise the whole hasn't been a good Sonic game in 23 years which is bullshit almost left 24. I remember a comment not a bad one probably below the intro scene for Sonic Mania. About how Sonic Forces will really need to outdo Sonic Mania or was it a video talking about the bullshit reviewers wait. 2:27 sorry can't find it I even thought it might be a waste of time but its a good video on how it was bullshit the whole best good Sonic game in 23 years.

Basically just....I even thought this and which is why I mentioned I was looking up Sonic Unleashed on Wikipedia. I was looking at the scores and also did read some comments below those videos I mentioned a top. No spoilers good.

I adore Sonic Unleashed a shit ton. I'm one of the people who seriously likes the game. It has mixed reviews yet my feelings towards it are very positive. Despite scores being better for Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations. I personally feel Sonic Unleashed is my favorite next gen Sonic game and I remember the PS3 version the one I play and adore. That has 54/100 by I don't know who I just saw it on Wikipedia. I've even had thoughts of getting it on Xbox 360 but that's another story.

Including from some comments I read and seriously thumbnails nothing big but seriously people more it seems or just they have gotten the game early which sucks said in my head stop it. Seriously what the fuck I thought right now.

Yet it has some nice scores, mixed it seems and I'm thinking so possibly a bit, and it's flawed as fuck but fun.

I've been thinking just Sonic games. Even for games people won't like their are things I really like about them. Whether it's story or even gameplay or other stuff.

Including just that might as well happen to Sonic Forces the same way. My own personal thoughts like I've said no it doesn't suck seriously negative shit in head. It's gonna be my opinion only and I should not be affected by other people's views I seriously shouldn't.

Listen this is random post it's me babbling and rambling and shit. I even thought seeing Knight Of The Wind's videos might wanna check Sonicguru after school.

Including I have school on Tuesday I even thought an hour ago or so should I take a sick day yet if I'm actually sick or close to it. Also I will start to download at night.

Okay this is me rambling I don't talk much about the game yet it's me and I thought of this talking about my experience waiting.

The gameplay looks nice and awesome and just other stuff the characters and I said gameplay.....this just....might count but just...that custom character. Basically Tuesday is gonna be a day where character development of myself might happen....

Think I should say it almost left like it. But honestly I feel I might expect to like it. Yet I just remembered that idea of Buddy dying. Also found out about this Network shit from Knight Of The Wind and didn't see this video something of a character dying even though it might not be serious.

Yet when I thought of that whole idea no doesn't suck stop...said perfect in head. I thought I hated this custom character so much. But I get so emotional over this Buddy character if this idea happens. Then thinking I should of been a lot nicer and just less harsh no just...said it sucks in my head....

Sonic Forces is a game that's something I'm just....an experience. As a fan who's passionate about the franchise. Including just my first time waiting for a Sonic game with my own hopes. It didn't happen much with Sonic Generations because I was younger and just was excited. But when your my friend and you tell me my head almost left friend....but my mind being wrapped in head canons and just 4 years without a main Sonic game. We have Sonic Mania that's sweet man. Yet Sonic Forces was a game I was always wondering and excited about... thought cool in my head.

Honestly this isn't like Knight Of The Wind's final thoughts video where I talk about or just....I did talk about the game. Yet in a different way. Basically me being serious. Because I'm worried, being cautious, probably scared, excited as all fuck. It's been some very long months. Also a year I left the word gear. But a year since it's announcement said awesome in my head.

I think with me talking and shit I want to have the best and hope for the best. Still haven't put that heroes and villains theme on said said sweet in head. Forgot what else but....also don't know how to switch my icon just...stop with the random feelings.

I'm feeling both positive and negative about the game no it can't suck.....just....I'm very sorry this is very long. Because it's been so many months.

I just want a good or even great game. I'm being paranoid as all fuck my Autistic mind just saying and just waiting for this game. Including me worrying I've been acting like a child, I've been overreacting and paranoid about this game. Yet I'm still very excited for it. It's been quite some time and it's tomorrow where just can I say this too.

Seriously even some spoilers I've read. A part of me doesn't wanna believe them. They were from that streaming thing that the Sonic I think YouTube channel did. That it was the first half or some shit. I'm gonna experience the game myself and see what it is like.

I seriously don't believe some of the spoilers or I'm being stupid because I just seriously wanna play the whole game now. Which is why I wanna avoid many spoilers. Despite what people are saying bullshit it must be from that streaming thing from the Sonic YouTube page.

It might happen but I really hope I like the game. Might happen yet I'm just paranoid and this is becoming weird. Yet just.... Tuesday is gonna be a weird day I presume because I'm finally gonna give my first impressions on the game. Not a review I'm not finishing a game in a day. I should hope for the best despite what my mind says. Almost put I again but I almost forgot to copy this. Fuck it I would have to copy every paragraph fuck this shit man.

I'm sorry and got tags done. I just hoping I like the game might honestly seems like just.... I just this game got me thinking a lot. I remember I'm sorry of being in the tags. Yet just honestly I want the best and just my head....I'm mixed paranoid and hope for the best 2:59

[drscotcheggmann]

What is a Classic? And Does Classic Always Mean Keeper? Part 2 of 2

So, it's a classic - by way of the game meeting your own standards, thanks to the game's huge commercial success, its mass appeal or dedicated but relatively small scale fan following. Some or all of the above. But does this mean that it's a keeper? A game that they will have to pry from your cold dead fingers for you to ever to consider letting go? I have always been a bit of a hoarder, keeping everything from cinema ticket stubs to beer mats. I've started collections in earnest but have then lost interest and been left with something no one could truly call a collection. I've been swept along by the latest fad, only to jump ship and onto the crest of the next big craze which has ultimately petered into nothing. Video games have been no different, except they are not a fad or craze; they have been and continue to be a huge part of my life. In the same way developers don't set out to make classics, I never set out to collect video games. In the early years my collection was much more a product of my pride at having beaten a game, conquered its world and then have the game sit proudly on my shelf as a trophy to my achievements. I may very well never have played that game again but I was ok with that. I also wasn't as discerning then as I am now about which games I do or don't keep - I didn't just covet classics. For years I refused to part with a PS2 copy of Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers, simply because it was my first PS2 game that came bundled with the console which I received as a Christmas gift. Hardly a classic. But as time has gone on, such feelings of sentimentality towards my gaming library have slowly begun to evaporate. Not because I've fallen out of love with video games but because something huge has happened: life. Having quite recently become a father for the first time I have been faced with a significant and inevitable shift in where my priorities lie. I now spend more time pressing coloured panels on interactive books and toddler toys than I do bashing buttons on a controller or working an analog stick. Not only do I have less time to play games but also less disposable income. You can't wipe a baby's bum with a copy of Battlefield 1 but £44.99 could buy you a hell of a lot of baby wipes! As a consequence, when I do buy a game these days, it really has to be worth my time and money which often means that it has to tick all of the right boxes that confer masterpiece or near masterpiece status. I wouldn't say I have become a gaming snob. A gaming snob is someone who consciously chooses not to play games which fall below a certain standard, even though that person may have unlimited (or at least less limited) resources to do so. That's not me. I just need to be more careful in order to maximise the enjoyment I get from the limited gaming time I do have, as well as make sure I have money to spend on my family. And I'm ok with this, I really am. But it has also backed me into a few corners that I am less comfortable with. As I like to know if a game is worth my time and money before handing over my hard earned pennies, I've become more and more reliant on the opinion of others, namely in the form of reviews. I do like reading critical opinion but I'm also sad that I don't feel brave enough to give a game a chance and form my own opinions first. Although I don’t necessarily always agree with pigeonholing that results from the use of numerical review scores, my cut off these days is usually an 8/10 - that's not necessarily classic or masterpiece territory you may say but anything lower and the likelihood is that there'll be something else coming out in the next few months which is better and in which I would rather invest my limited money and time. And I know that's not the way it should be and I wish it wasn't. I do wish I could jump into a game for the simple reason that I just really want to play it, regardless of review scores and certainly not because it absolutely must be a near masterpiece. But time and money are precious in a young family, the latter especially so, since the day one RRP of games is not insubstantial and new games generally don't hold their value for long. I know that a £44.99 day one purchase could come down as low as £20 within a few months. Which begs a bigger question which I'm not going to attempt to answer here: should we buy games on day one? My head says no, my heart says Nioh. A big fat day one purchase which I had been looking forward to since playing the demo, despite my New Year's Resolution not to give into day one pressure. I lasted until February. But to be completely honest with you and myself, I'm resigned to the fact that Nioh, coming in at around 70 hours to complete supposedly, will likely join the vast pile of games already in my backlog of unfinished and, I'm ashamed to admit, unplayed games (Until Dawn has never even been in the machine!). I'll get to them one day, I tell myself. One day this year, next year, in 10 years. Until Dawn will be 2 years old in August..... So my backlog grows larger as my gaming time grows shorter and the new releases keep on coming. This cycle of events and the changes in my lifestyle have forced my hand a bit in the last while to the extent where I've changed how I view the games I absolutely must and must not keep. Games which I would've once kept for the sake of keeping, now make it onto the top of the trade in pile, some of them widely regarded as classics or masterpieces, even if it means I only get a few quid back. This trading in for pittance may seem callous, opportunistic, a product of relentless consumerism and the need to always have money in your pocket for something else to come along but I have to admit, I don't miss these games. Not a bit. This begs yet another question: does every game we every play need to be kept, masterpiece or not? Are memories of our escapades in these virtual worlds not enough? I have fond memories of cruising around the streets of Rockstar’s version of Miami, pumping REO Speedwagon from the speakers in my top down convertible station wagon with hydraulic suspension, but I don't feel the need to own Grand Theft Auto Vice City anymore to back that up. I remember staying up way past my bedtime, watching my Dad beat Misrabelle, the final boss of Mickey's Castle of Illusion on the Megadrive, in the days before memory cards and save files. If you died and were out of lives, it was right back to the start! This is perhaps my earliest gaming memory but I don't need to own a copy of Castle of Illusion to keep that memory alive. And now that my own son is tottering about the place I've sometimes thought to myself, I should keep these games because maybe he'll want to play them when he's older. He might. But an equal part of me thinks, who am I kidding? It'll be next gen times two by the time that rolls around. But then the other part of me is also happy knowing that I'll be content just to tell him about them, about what I remember and relive what they were like through memory alone. The feeling of hitting a spike at high speed and losing 100+ rings in Sonic 2. The jangling sound that denotes failure. Or finding out that the trick to beating Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid was to switch controller ports mid fight so that he couldn't read your mind. This was mind blowing back then and I'm hoping, if my son is remotely interested in games, he'll find it just as mind blowing without needing to get the PlayStation out of the attic. Memories aside, I'm also at a stage in life now where I don't need to keep everything I've ever played, completed or not touched, as the case may be. And I admit, not only do I not miss these game I've let go of, I feel better for having done it. I know that if I ever want to play them again, they're not gone forever. Thanks to how interconnected the world is these days, I know I could likely pick these titles up again either in a 2nd hand video games store or on e bay. And in some ways this is more exciting than having a game gather dust on a shelf for years and potentially never be played again; knowing that it's not out of arms reach, even though it would involve buying the game again, a game that I probably paid top dollar for when it was first released. For the ones I've traded in but never begun or completed, having to part with cash for them again may actually be the kick I need to get the job done the second time around. Maybe one day. This year, next year, in 10 years.... But while I've been keen to let go of a good chunk of my gaming library, there are some games that I will never get rid of. These are for me my true classics, games I would be upset about if I ever had to part with them. There aren't many and I'm not going to gush and spout odes of devotion to them all here but my all time favourite game cannot go without mention: Dark Souls. This game is my masterpiece but I know for others it's a disasterpiece, a game which provokes feelings of love and hatred in equal measure. I’m aware that some feel the game is desperately overrated and I know that not everyone reading this will be a Dark Souls fan so I will spare the details; suffice to say that the world building, combat, stat and weapon upgrade systems, vaguely hinted at lore and steep but rewarding difficulty are all things that make Dark Souls a game that has created many memorable moments for me. I’ve completed the game once and so the memories should be enough, right? Well, I'm not quite done making memories with Dark Souls. Despite my lament about limited time and an ever expanding backlog, I've just recently begun my 2nd playthrough of Dark Souls. And I'm loving it. Yes, I've seen it all before and the sheen that coated my first time isn't glistening nearly so brightly this time around but I still feel the adrenaline when facing a boss I know I've beaten before, I still care enough to explore everything I can see on the horizon. I know I will never part with it. So worried was I recently that I had permanently lost my copy during our last house move that I went out and bought another copy second hand, despite also having a digital copy on my Xbox360. You never know when the thing might go kaputt, you see, so a back up physical copy was a no brainer. This might seem a bit daft and it probably is to be honest, but I felt strangely good about buying that 2nd copy, as if I was liberating it from the shop because it didn’t deserve to be among the second hand trade-in titles. I mean, who in their right mind would trade in Dark Souls? Maybe someone who has their own little cabinet of classics at home but Dark Souls isn't one of them. Or maybe someone who has reached a stage in their life like me where they don't need to keep absolutely everything. And that's fine. The fact that it was traded in meant I bought it and I'm glad to say that since it hasn't been wasting away on a shelf like so many others before it. I've since found my original copy and have leant my 2nd copy to a friend, a Dark Souls noob. You never know, in time Dark Souls might just become my friend's very own masterpiece. If there is one message to come from all of this it's this: a classic is only as classic as the connection you, the player forge with that particular game. Although we hear the words classic and masterpiece thrown around a lot these days, forget review scores, fan following and commercial success. These are only indicators. Fundamentally a game that you consider to be a classic has to mean something to you, whether that's thematically, mechanically or just because you walked its world and reveled in its brilliance at a particular moment in time. It's a deeply personal thing. And that alone makes any classic worth keeping.