No thread for Team Sonic Racing? hmm, guess everyone's busy playing it and having fun

Because it doesn't have to be this way

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They'll probably make DLC if people ask enough, ala Mania Plus.

So few people are playing online on PC.

Pretty sure once you get it, you can't get it again. You can get extra bonus boxes though
It's alright but some of these missions are as brutal as Transformed

Honestly, pretty comfy game. Story mode seems a bit lackluster but glad it's there anyway

>No Sonic Air Riders team
>Vector lumped in with Blaze and Silver because the rest of Chaotix couldn't be bothered
>No bunny cunny
>No Gamma
The list goes on and my autisim for characters that all look the same has not been sated.

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The driving still feels smooth, and you get a few new mechanics that actually work pretty well together. You also have a couple minor additions to the driving that weren't present in that game

No. Just character jpgs talking over static backgrounds with a throwaway plot while you just do generic races or minigames

is the multiplayer any good?

Quick before this thread dies like all the others:
1) How active is the online? Getting it thursday and I'm hoping online doesn't die by then
2) So custom teams. Do you still have to have 1 speed/1 tech/1 power? Or can I have 2 speed and 1 tech?

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From what I've played yeah, I was playing with my friend for hours and it honestly felt satisfying communicating with him to do Team Ultimates and when we won

>Zavok
why do they keep doing this

You can have any types you want as a team, but teams are randomized unless you're playing online or you have friends to choose characters

I've always played racing games with my keyboard, it's fine.

Wait, so I can't choose my teammates in sp mode?
Is there a custom team option in sp?

Yo, where fang the sniper @

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I thought you can't do online matchmaking with friends?

Still waiting

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>Wisps, Zavok and playable Chao are because of Sega.

my guess is they're popular in Japan and appeal to that crowd more, like the babies in Mario Kart.

Is this porn?

Not that I've seen you can't
I believe you can, but I'm not going to be getting the Switch online service or even bothering to go online until I get some good mods and combinations

>Not that I've seen you can't
THEN WHAT'S THE POINT OF CUSTOM TEAMS

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Just being able to mix and match I think. I'm watching the Tails' Channel stream and it looks like you can mix and match people in teams online

But what if I don't want to do online.
Is a simple Team Hedgehog to use during singleplayer so hard to ask for?

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>Vector lumped in with Blaze and Silver because the rest of Chaotix couldn't be bothered

This is the one that bothers me the most. I get that maybe they'd need a third wheel for Silver and Blaze, but why the fuck would you pick Vector, a character who IS ALREADY A PART OF A THREE MAN TEAM?!

POST CARS

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Rouge's voice is too high in this game.

This screams "wait until it's 20 bucks"

I agree, it is really annoying. I'm hoping they patch it in or something
Eggman Nega would have been a perfect 3rd member, make him a Power type to help distinguish between him and Eggman too

Am I crazy to not be interested in this. I like kart racing, the last two games in this series were top tier, the game looks as good as ever, the music remixes sound amazing but im super bitter that they took out the Sega All Stars, like, the minute I found out about that I completely thought I was going to boycott this game
It's cheap so I may get it anyways but am I crazy, is anyone else mad/sad you can't play as Ryo or Panzer Dragoon anymore? We rarely get a game that celebrates and references Sega in a Smash Bros style way and those games were it so I'm just sad to see it go

How do you unlock the other colors and vinyls? Is it just Mod Pod unlocks or do you have to make progress through the single player to get them?

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i do

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donto tarku abatto Egguman Negga

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It's not out of the question for them to make an All Stars game in a different genre, or make All Stars Racing 3 sometime down the line. Honestly TSR is still really fun
It seems some are unlocked through story mode and some are just unlocked through mod pods

Why is Rouge's car so fucking fly, and it's custom options are even better than its stock look?

Where's the sequel, Sega

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i know, the previews and everything have proven me wrong and i actually feel interested now that ive seen enough and its pretty cheap, i just still miss the rest of the Sega weirdos.

I unironically am. Went into the garage for the first time and I've been here for an hour.

Orbot and Cubot's interactions remind me of Sonic Boom.

>all future Ai Ai models will always be the fucking shitty Monkey Ball Adventure art
Why live

I'm mad about a lot of things. Sonic onry, no transforming vehicles, stages don't change each lap, team bullshit, I could go on.

This, Mario Tennis Aces is basically dead
Me too, I mainly bought the others to use Sonic and friends but stayed for the SEGA cast. Whenever I wasn't using Sonic it was usually Joe Mushashi
I'm sorry Iizuka san I'll never do it again

still trying to get all parts for him. got all parts for sonic though, legendaries included

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I just feel weird because I still feel like this looks like a great game, I just feel a bit salt regarding changes from transformed. Which is rare because usually when Sonic Team makes changes to good ideas for NO reason you get hot garbage like Sonic Lost World and Heroes.
But yeah this is Sumo, we'll see, i hope it sells well enough to warrant another in a couple years

The team bullshit is honestly the most fun stuff

The ring missions are damn near impossible holy shit

Is this real?

Right? It was just nice to have the mixed cast, even with a big sonic cast at the forefront. Transformed was such a good celebration of Sega and we never get that.

>tfw stickers aren’t back

Where the fuck is my completion autism fuel gonna go, then?

More questions yay:
1) How important are stats? Like do they make a big difference or not really
2)Is the announcer the same as racing transformed?
3)If yes to #2, does he talk about losing his job when you mute him in the options like in transformed?
4)What's the best type? (speed/tech/power)

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Vinyls, car performance mods, and paint kits
Yeah honestly it is a shame. But I do hope they do something different next time, I wouldn't mind them doing the team mechanics in an All Stars Racing 3 but having there be no preset teams

Classic Universe only along with all the pre Adventure only characters

1. Very
2. Yes
3. Haven't checked
4. Not Power unless you beef up their high boost stat

Does each character of the same class differ in stats a lot? (I.E. Is knux radically different from Omega)

One of the devs for Heroes said that if the concept were revisited, Sticks would be the 3rd man for that team. Unfortunately, the people in charge now are retarded and seem to have soft blacklisted her DESPITE her getting recognized as a canon character in Japan

1. Haven't been to the garage yet
2. I do believe he is, Wisp announcer is Roger though
3. Havent fiddled around with that but I want to now just to check
4. Really depends. Technique types can be broken as fuck since they can take shortcuts, Speed types are the fastest of course, with Radial Bursts being something you're promoted to do, and Power types get free Rings for driving into shit

I thought Default Tails was pretty different from Default Chao (who I thought was way better)

He adopted a new identity because he was too WEAK

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>4. Really depends. Technique types can be broken as fuck since they can take shortcuts, Speed types are the fastest of course, with Radial Bursts being something you're promoted to do, and Power types get free Rings for driving into shit
Sounds a lot more balanced then I imagined. I was starting to worry power types would be useless which locked me out of cool characters like omega if I wanted to leave casual mode.

I got it on PS4 today but it keeps crashing after the first race which I’ve done 4 times now so I give up. Hopefully it will get a patch or something.

>This looks like such a fucking step down from Transformed
My ass. This is an actually good attempt to make Kart racing interesting instead of tacking on horse shit alt modes that detract from the actual kart racing mechanics. I fucking love slip streaming and skim boosting. The only thing this game lacks is content, and a doubles mode. I don't know why it has to be strictly a team of 3 players.

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Where the fuck is Cream? She’s my favourite and she’s not even in it.

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>best villain aside from Eggman is on the fucking blacklist
Sonic Team's decisions constantly anger me

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He's pre adventure

It'll be dead by then

There was a day one patch when I got it. Check for updates

Reminder that team racing literally fixed the racing AI. AI still can't drive worth a shit on haunted castle though. Pic related is expert difficulty and I ran into a billion things while still in the lead

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Best damn PS3 game ever made.

>sega games for Nintendo consoles
Im still kekking

>cutscenes are broken, no audio plays and the text just autoscrolls so I can't read it
>just crashed my computer after the first mission
Good game

That's what I'm saying. All the characters who don't have modern designs can only appear in fully classic universe games like Mania. So characters like Fang, Bean, Bark, Honey, Ray, Mighty, Tails Doll, Metal Knuckles, etc won't be in these games.

Gay as fuck imo, but that's the hand we've been dealt

What is his response?

>wake up from coma
>shadow's voice doesn't sound at all like he did in SA2

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imagine a world where sega won

Power types can open up shortcuts and paths, most notably in Frozen Junkyard near the beginning
Honestly wish they had a battle mode and maybe 10-15 more stages plus a few more teams. Then this would be the ultimate Sonic universe racing game

They're doing recon for him while he's working a lead solo.

>wake up from coma
>shadow is alive for some reason

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Is this game any good?

>wake up from coma
>there's a fourth hedgehog and some Bowser ripoff now

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It's pretty fun, honestly

>Their excuse to cut out the "& SEGA" part is because having all these cross over franchises would restrict them from doing anything interesting thematically and story wise
>Don't do anything interesting with the Sonic focus and stick to Sonic Heroes/Colors circle jerking for the 200th Sonic game in a row
>Despite having a large cast of characters to choose from within the Sonic universe, only pick the company approve characters and don't bother shoving in fan favorites or obscure ones that would fit perfectly in this team dynamic setting
>On top of that, have some bizarrely retarded team compositions (Team Rose doesn't have Cream, Team Eggman has fucking Zavok despite the history between Eggman and Zavok not being friendly, no fucking Team Chaotix
This shit is absolutely offensive. Game is fun though.

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> tfw no one online to play with
is PS4 more populated?

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I'm hoping they fix it with DLC, or even just fix the preset teams in a sequel of sorts

who do i use if i wanna go FAST
only tried blaze, rogue, pingas and tails

are legendary parts just golden, ugly versions of the regular parts? I'm not seeing any reason to use them.

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WHO /technique/ HERE

Yea Forums is this as FAST as ASRT???

golden frieza here, you art thou and idiot.

Where do you go to find these stats in Steam?

Probably Speed characters
Not as fast but still pretty fast

seems similar on expert.

lower difficulties especially normal are much slower though

It's like, alright I guess. I like the Sandopolis tracks just because a new Sonic game actually acknowledged Sandopolis.

Wait, is that what the difficulties are? Speed levels?

>Releasing this when CTR is around the corner

Dead game already

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Yes. youtu.be/LmWIIlKyJhM?t=51m5s

(Timestamps don't work on Yea Forums so either copypaste the link or go to 51 minutes 5 seconds)

How about this.
Let both games be really fun and unique so the fans can live in harmony.
Please?

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Nice!
i only have a ton of sonic and tails parts for some reason. i have unlocked almost nothing else

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>plus a few more teams
I think it's worth noting that if you replace the Chao with Cream, and replace Eggman with Zazz; Sonic Forces: Speed Battle has this entire roster and an additional seven characters. Add that all up and you get 24 characters in total for something like this:
>Sonic, Tails, Knuckles
>Amy, Cream, Big
>Shadow, Rouge, Omega
>Espio, Charmy, Vector
>Jet, Wave, Storm
>Blaze, Silver, Chaos
>Metal Sonic, Omochao, Eggman (Eggman reverts to Power)
>Classic Sonic, Zazz, Zavok (lol)
Obviously the answer here is to completely scrap the last team and replace Omochao with based Orbot and Cubot. The point is the roster is ass and they're getting beat by a mobile shit

Not old enough to drive, I guess

Yeah, the speed increases with the difficulty level, much like with Transformed and Mario Kart
I agree, would love for DLC to bring in some other underappreciated stages

Basically. AI is also smarter on expert. I saw them saving ghost wisps for lightning and pillars

>All those characters left behind
>no fucking Rogues in a Sonic RACING game
>no Cream

This roster is ass, but the carting and team mechanics are fun

So what are the better stats in this game? What does Defense even do? Are Tech characters fucked as we thought?

Your right user, I know that feel

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>We are living in a time where multiple kart racers from big name mascots are a thing again
Feels good to me.

>the requirements for a platinum rank on ring and checkpoint missions

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>much like with transformed
I didnt even know it had difficulty settings

He's lying to Knuckles. Tails hired him

At least TSR doesn't play like absolute fucking shit.

Even faster if you abuse slip streaming.

Silver main here. It's no use

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>even this game had fucking Jet
What timeline is this?

Agreed, but pic related is what I had in mind to fix it
Defense refers to the recovery time when you're spun out or hit an obstacle on the track

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>Making up an excuse on the spot
I don't get it. It's like they're sorta referencing they have no actual reason the Chaotix aren't a team in the game

The item spam in this game is horrendous. I don't see why they needed to make every hit box 2x bigger than it should be.

Its faster when behind, but they removed a lot of the weight behind the controls.

Based fellow silver main

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It's really not that surprising how lukewarm the reception to this game is. It looks like Transformed but not as great, plus no other Sega fanservice. Also just enough tracks taken from the first game and Transformed that it looks lazy.

Oh yeah. Transformed had S (Expert), A (Hard), B (Normal), and C (Easy). Earning stars in World Tour and getting every character required you to beat a ton of missions on the higher difficulty levels

Looks dope dont you think anons?

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Yeah but I can forgive it in some ways, having a majority of the ASR stages in this game makes me want the few from both games that aren't in this game yet to be added as DLC, and plus now we get to experience them in the Transformed engine

>Heavy
NEVER EVER

>no transformations
What the actual fuck. The controls weren't great for the air and sea stuff, but it was still neat and added variety to the courses.

what should I be looking to increase with mods when playing as a Heavy-type? I'm not really sure what defense is. I've kinda just been increasing top speed and acceleration while trying to my boost from sinking

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> finish first
> team members finish 11th and 12th
great game, also, what do rings do

>Not going the Mario Kart baby route with classic characters
>Classic Sonic, Tails, Knuckles
>Mighty, Ray, maybe one of the Chaotix?
>Fang, Bark, Bean
>Eggman, Caterkiller, Eggrobo
Being a classicfag hurts

>no Quinton Flynn
I sleep

.....did it? I don't remember him being in there. I know it had Silver and Blaze, but I don't remember the Rogues ever being in it

Yeah but the new gimmick adds variety to the actual racing gameplay as a whole rather than the just mostly cosmetic flair of transforming vehicles and race tracks.

How in the fuck do you get the platinum medal on the ring missions? The best I can get is gold on the first one

Yeah I know. Maybe they could use the Custom Hero instead
Personally I feel like they wouldn't have fit well with the type based system this game has. Boats maybe, but not planes
Rings help increase your speed and your own personal score at the end, which in turn helps you earn more Credits
Power types have good Defense and they basically can recover quicker from getting spun out. Your best bet would be to focus on Boost stats I think

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co-op

I doubt the Chao are old enough

I know it's asking for something impossible these days, but I'm so fucking sick of current Sonic games always having Wisps these days. I hate how Iizuka thinks of them less like "characters" from the game they came from and more like generic power up abilities. It all just seems so forced, like that other garbage where "classic" characters like Bean/Bark/Fang/Mighty/Ray can't appear in "modern" games.

If it's anything like Transformed then boost and speed are top tier while all other stats are completely irrelevant.

Man I don't even know
>Iizuka says to make the game accessible to kids
>Sumo still finds a means of making brutal as fuck missions like Transformed had
Fucking hell

Iizuka dying in a car crash would genuinely make the Sonic franchise better.

I just wanna say that I don't care about modern sonic lore and autistic shit like the roster so I'm enjoying the game a lot. It's pretty hard, maybe harder than sart.

What other types of challenge missions does this game have? Is it just rings or anything else?

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Tick tock Sonicfags
There is no room for coexistence. There is only room for one king of kart racers, and CTR is boosting it's way I to first place. Enjoy your shitty threads while you can

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Are there any "go fuck yourself" levels like Burning Depths or Chilly castle in this one?

>he still doesn't know
sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Morio_Kishimoto

If Iizuka died the Sonic franchise would get even worse. Do you really want Nakamura and Kishimoto to have more power?

I already played CTR 20 years ago though.

youtube.com/watch?v=iO49MFsM4Sk
Unlockable character like Silver, and they both didn't show up in the plot. He even has hand axe...things as weapons.

Listen I love crash as much as the next guy
...but there's a reason he's been dead for like 6 years straight so yall don't have the ground to stand on

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The traffic dodging is back, and there's also drifting within checkpoints and another new mission type that's basically a better version of the tank mission where you shoot rockets at eggpawns.

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>tfw want to play racing games
>Team Sonic Racing has unique team gimmick with sharing items
>intrigued
>been playing for hours
The story of this game kinda sucks ass but the gameplay and music is fucking baller.

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>some of these missions are as brutal as Transformed
Try everything that isn't a straight race. Daredevil events are fucking annoying as all shit and the Ring Challenges also give you very little time. I think you need to wait for better vehicle mods to reliably do them.

To be fair they work fine as items in a racer. While I do see the criticism that many of them look alike, I feel like anyone complaining about not knowing what they do should read the tips section that's right on the main menu screen.
Not that I've seen. Maybe Sky Road or Doctor's Mine due to the saw blades, but most of the tracks aren't as unforgiving
Traffic Attack is back from Transformed, there's Daredevil missions which is a mix of Checkpoint missions and Drift Challenges, there's Survival Race, Grand Prix, I think there's also one that promotes you to shoot down Egg Pawns

>tfw the best Crash game in years was just a rehash of the best Crash games

Mario will BTFO Crash with the inevitable next Mario Kart installment anyway

For some reason I am incredibly interested with them since they are all put with a color. It tickles some bit of autism I have pink. I would be happy for them to just delegate them to being on wispons and in racing/side game powerups.

The rubber banding on races, and your retard AI teammates finishing at 11th and 12th place. The rings are just easier drift challenges from transformed.

>tfw the best Sonic game in years was just a rehash of the best Sonic games

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>Mario will BTFO Crash with the inevitable next Mario Kart installment anyway
That's a mobile game, so no he won't

Don't remind me. I was playing with an old friend who was able to finish World Tour in SART and is way better than me in general when it comes to games, and both of us were struggling with some of these missions. I've been stuck on the Grand Prix mission in Chapter 2 for hours, and even he couldn't help me

Sonic Mania isn't a one to one rehash though.

>No liking based hopeman

>inevitable next Mario Kart installment anyway
You mean that mobile game?
I seriously doubt it.

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How does it feel knowing the best cart racer we can get today is a remaster of a ps1 game?
All my shitposting aside, the leg I stand on is one of good gameplay, which CTR is universally praised for.
>Tfw the best Sonic game in years was just a rehash of the best Sonic games
Lol thanks for trying. Last good Mario Kart was on the snes

idk man i'm just on world 2 but the ai is really smart and you can slipstream to go pretty fast. It's way better if you have someone to play coop. I get 100+ fps splitscreen.

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>Implying the reused zones weren't completely different (sans Hydrocity Act 2)
>Implying it's four original zones aren't some of the best zones in 2D Sonic.

Beat me to it you bastard. Maybe it was a setup all along

>the leg I stand on is one of good gameplay, which CTR is universally praised for
Ok fair, but so is sart (kinda)
I still think we should just make peace and have fun with our racing games in unison

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Forgot about the music, easily one of the most memorable parts of this game

Funny thing, sometimes I've found myself being carried by the AI, who are in higher spots, while I'm trying desperately to catch up.
I honestly kind of feel like shit when that happens but at the same time I'm glad they actually do a good job for the team

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Really liked Lost Palace's music. Like some lost bit of Sonic Runners music that never surfaced till now.

Is there a crack yet?

It wasn't. The N. Sanity Trilogy is literally just the first three games with a new coat of paint and one new level. Sonic Mania is maybe 30% rehashed content at most. The visual style might be reused, but even the classic zones have remixed second acts, so it's not even exactly rehashed.

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This game is fucking garbage. Im glad i got it physical. Gonna get all the achievements and then sell it. For everyone saying its a downgrade from transformed...IT IS. Dont listen to the shills saying its better or the same. The maps are so wide, the music sucks, its hard to see off road areas because of poor art, and its very slow. Stick with transformed

I don't think so, wait at least a week like Mania or a year like Forces

I guess we'll see if it really ends up being the best. If it doesn't bring anything new to the table in a genre that gets pretty stale when you don't do anything new, I can't really see it excelling above the Mario or Sonic racing games, what with them being the originator and the "always trying new things" guys of the genre.

Alright then

I was just playing by the "no classic characters" rule. If you gave me full reign, I'd pretty much double the roster:
>Jet, Wave, Storm
>Espio, Charmy, Sticks
>Fang, Bean, Bark
And if we're going balls to the walls:
>Honey, Ray, Mighty
>Egg Pawn, Tails Doll, Metal Knuckles

What's your favorite voice clip in the game?
vocaroo.com/i/s1mKLxosvitU

You're not wrong, I'm just fulfilling my obligation to shitpost in TSR threads to counterbalance the 1 or 2 you find in CTR threads. It truly is a great year for us all.
We'll see, but it's been so long since most people have had access to the game, that it'll likely feel fresh. Not to mention it'll bring in brand new, younger players (as much as it pains me to say). Add in lots of new characters and customization, and I think we'll have a winner on our hands.

I really do hope CTR does well. It'd be nice to live in a time where three separate kart racers are all doing well by their individual merits.

>the music sucks
Here's your (You)

youtube.com/watch?v=Kt5arDNr9-g

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Tails
>Who's your Daddy, Shadow

Its my favorite because I hate it.
Some of these interactions seem really strange and not at all natural to me, characters referring to "Chao" is really odd too.

The music in the casino levels genuinely does suck ass.

They really needed to add more bloom and neon lights to Silver's car, you can still see him. It looks straight out of someone's screenshot for their own custom ENB.

Thank fuck for being able to essentially disable that shit by making the lights a dark color.

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That I will agree with, with the exception of Bingo Party because it calls back to Launch Base

Ive played for 5 hours. I only remember a handful of tracks. Meanwhile ill never forget burning rangers, graveyar d gig, sanctuary city, race of ages, or chilly castle. They rely on that shitty fucking synth way to much in the modern games. The best tsr music is the one where jun is shredding with his guitar. But no most of the music is that awful fucking synth from forces. Im just fucking mad at how boring the levels are and how dull it all is.. Ill be over it tomorrow but im so sad after waiting years for a sequel to transformed, we got this crap

>bingo party has a launch base callback

i'm gonna need to relisten to that

ok people
do i buy this game?
i love tranformed.
is this better or worse?
hows the music?
are the tracks fun?
is the team gimick good?

>no Sega all stars
>no boat/plane sections

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It's pretty great. However the story is soulless and the roster has weird choices and leaves much to be desired.

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youtube.com/watch?v=SFCeQCJwcwU

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>Don't do anything interesting with the Sonic focus and stick to Sonic Heroes/Colors circle jerking for the 200th Sonic game in a row

If I see Rooftop Run one more fucking time I'm going to shit my liver out in anger.

>Green Hill
>Chemical Plant
>Seaside Hill
>Rooftop Run
>if they're feeling adventurous then maybe Casino Park

Why is this franchise so devoid of creativity? Almost 30 years worth of crazy levels and art to choose from and they just reuse the same four or five over and over again.

Probably because you've played this for 5 hours and Transformed for significantly longer than that. Play this some more, songs will stick to you whether you like it or not.

youtube.com/watch?v=3g59FBbDwF4
Such a nice track/stage.

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The "go go go" stuff makes me think of Launch Base's music youtu.be/Kt5arDNr9-g
>better than Transformed
Depends on if you wanted more of the driving sections
>how's the music
Mostly top tier with a couple songs I can do without
>are the tracks fun
Yeah
>is the team gimmick good
Honestly it is pretty neat

It's not a matter of better or worse, it's just something else. The team racing gimmick is the new stand in for the transformation thing. The gimmick is also fun and makes the racing feel pretty fresh.

SoA really wants to make him appeal to the middle school douchebro demographic.

By using memes from 15 years ago?

The casino tracks have chiptune music. The synth is only Forces esque in Sky Road, most stages have Jun playing guitar and some even have Tee Lopes, though if you don't like Hyper Potions' synth I can't blame you either
I'm just thankful Green Hill and Chemical Plant aren't in this

Nu-Sonic Team sucks.

Yes. Faggy youtubers still use the words "EPIC" and "FAIL" in their LPs nowadays.

After SA1, SA2 and Heroes I was so sick of buttrock that I never wanted to hear it again. But now after 11 years of shitty synth and violins, hearing Jun go nuts on the guitar again is actually really great.

sega and sonic team are shitting themselves because all of their recent activity has been selling poorly and been critically panned.
before sonic mania, their last big win was sonic generations in 2011 and im not sure if colors sold too well even if its good. mania wasn't even developed in house.
They are relying on nostalgia because they are scared shitless and they are doing what worked before

Out of all the Heroes levels they keep rehashing why can't they ever do Mystic Mansion act 2? That was the most original Sonic level in a long time.

>Can't even get 3 stars on the first race on expert

I have no idea what i'm doing

sonic team hasnt been a thing for years sonic team is just MARKETING

At least Hang Castle/Mystic Mansion kinda live on in Haunted Castle.

my brother of african decent

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Does anybody else think this game is hard as fuck? Coming from somebody who finds other kart racers incredibly easy, even on the hardest difficulties, this game is kicking my ASS on normal.

sonic forces was marketed poorly, I wouldnt even spare them that little amount of praise
the best marketing they've done is getting youtubers to say nice things before the reviews are up

The japanese business world is weird. If an american franchise had been doing this badly for this long, heads would have rolled across the entire division a long time ago and few if any of the managers would be employed by the end. But in japan seniority trumps everything and you can be a completely incompetent retard and still get promoted to "creative director" or whatever just because you've been there the longest.

it's alright for me on normal but on hard the game claps my bootycheeks

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I don't mean sonic team is marketing team I mean there is no "sonic team" its just a name they slap on everything no matter who is actually working on it.

This game is hard as shit surprisingly, even when you get a grasp on the mechanics it will fuck you up
But I guess it makes sense, both ASR games had hard ass missions

its unfortunate that not all of them can be good though.

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Good point. I hate all the new composers. Tee lopes and hyper potions are fucking garbage. The chiptune nu male stuff is shit. They bring back the fucking guitarest from sonic forces WHY? The old sega wavemaster is whats needed. Jun, fumie kumatani, ohtani (being overseen so he doesnt use to much synth or jpop anime music), eguchi, kenichi tokoi. Hideki kobayashi. RICHARD JACQUES (SONIC R AND TRANSFORMED!) These people made the ever remember and iconic sa1, sa2, heroes, 06, unleashed sound tracks. I think ive outgrown sonic at last bros.

how fucking potato is your computer, can you really not turn on AA?

This. Tee lopes is overrated fuck his shitty music.

Jacques is in there, and don't talk shit about the Forces guitarist. This is one of the best tracks in the game.
youtube.com/watch?v=m7OjPRW1jUs

Strange because this game had changing tracks and cars but no one really cared for it
Tee Lopes is great to me, Mania's OST is one of the best. Also Richard Jacques was involved in the TSR soundtrack, and I'm assuming Ohtani did the Sky Road music because it sounds like a leftover Forces song

Im played it for 5 hours and the game was amazing, the online is fucking dead tho, i was playing with a friend and it always took us minutes to find a good looby (pc version).

I disagree with you completely that Tee is "fucking garbage."
Though I agree with Hyper Potions. I want them to go away.

>Tee lopes and hyper potions are fucking garbage.
Fight me IRL nigger. Yeah hyper potions sucks, but Tee Lopes is the shit

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denuvo denuvo denuvoooo

Hold up. The fucking Chaos are playable characters?

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>"waaah I cant steal the game"

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Fuck off Eggman

Yes

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Based

I want to buy the game but I don't want extra DRM shit running in the background so I'll just wait until the denuvo-free version comes out

>collect at least 400 rings in a single drift
my trigger finger is fucking gone

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I didn't even bother with that one
I'm inclined to believe it isn't even possible

THE game that prove that Sonic always have good music, even when the game is bad.

you need a character with high handling so you can drift swap and adjust trajectory

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unlike her butt

>Those bonus events
What kind of sadistic fucker programmed those?
In one of the early Ring Challenges I was going pretty damn fast getting all of the rings in optimal places yet I still ran out of time well below the Platinum score. Daredevil and Traffic challenges can also suck my dick. The Target one is pretty fun, though and actually a fun challenge.

Glad I'm not alone. Piss easy races, optional shit is really tough to get above silver ranking.

How is the switch port? I’d love a kart racer for that and Ive played Mario Kart to death.

this
>EWWW, TSR is no All Stars Transformed! No Transformation!
>keep shilling everywhere a fucking remaster, with no transformation either.

they're like 40 in chao years
and omochao is immortal

Should I bother?

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Jesus. Gonna have to hit the Garage at some point then, I've mostly been playing with defaults so far
Pretty much this. I like that though, it gives you stuff to come back to at least
It's 30 FPS but still pretty solid.

How do you play anything

is the pc version locked to 60fps?

>gonna get all the achievements
but user you need friends for that

>30 FPS
I’m not a FPS die hard or anything but that on a racer sounds kinda rough. But I’m bored enough I’ll get it anyways, thanks

Hope you enjoy it user, I know I am

It's not that bad at all, but I've also been playing it for like 4 hours straight now and probably just got used to it.

Why in the fuck does opening the mod pods play a loud as fuck sound that may or may not be clipping?

Hyper potions is never going away. Aaron Webber is friends with then or some shit.

FUCK

Eh, it is what it is. I don't hate the musical contributions they did for Mania or TSR

Their music is just so twee. It just annoys me.
Also I just don't get why Aaron is so close with stuff to do with Sonic. He hates Sonic.

>He hates Sonic.
What? Didn't he grow up playing the old games?

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That's genuinely depressing

>game is out since a few hours
>WaaararrrGGGHHH

lol
youtu.be/sGnq4GVvOQ0

>971 peak still
>441 now playing
Damn. I knew it was going to flop for very good reasons, but that's disastrous.

He's thinking of Arin from Game Grumps

That makes much more sense then
Shame too, these games are always a lot of fun, and this one is no exception

>He hates Sonic
I simply refuse to believe this is the truth.

>No Cream
>No Bunnie Rabot
>No Vanilla

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I also wanna fuck the rabbit, user, but TSR is still pretty fun.

Reminder that rouge is the best specialist and deserves a special vehicle
also the sunshine remix is fucking amazing

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post it, and I may buy it

What’s the best song in the game and why is it bingo party?

youtu.be/jE0XLyMWL1g

youtube.com/watch?v=cNgxJSb-D50
Sadly it doesn't actually play on any of the tracks.

I see your Bingo Party and raise you one Sand Road.
youtube.com/watch?v=8tltAglVC3o

I can't believe the Mania contrarianism has gotten bad enough to even shit on the music. Eat a cock.

I mean, what the fuck were you guys expecting? Everyone here always circle jerks Sumo Digital as some sort of God tier devs, but they've always been fucking shit at releasing a polished product that feels complete. Thus shit us not going to get a patch until the game is dead, and judging by , looks like the general audience learned their lesson.

Never buy Sumo games at launch. They're almost always awful.

What's the most popular version of this game? was thinking of getting this or just waiting for CTR. Also are there any more characters? Where's my nigga espio at.

>Bought the game on my Switch
>Have had none of these issues
30fps is a decent compromise for a game that actually works, I guess.

Probably Switch followed by PS4

AmI the only one who think the Casino Park remix sounds perfectly fine?

Only 15 sadly
Haven't had any issues, bought the Switch version like The only downside is that version doesn't have the GOAT tier intro

Yeah I just wanted to say I fucking hate anybody that bought this game or showed any kind of support for it otherwise. I really wish you and your shit taste would fuck off forever.

It's not that it's bad per se, it's just that it's really boring. You should never make the drums in a song so prevalent if it's just gonna be a simple 4/4 kick snare kick snare pattern.

Don't worry. Seems like it flopped.

They're alright

Cope.

According to Yea Forums everything seems like it “flopped”

Transformed is better

PS4, easily

It's decent, just not what I was expecting
I'll wait until the numbers come out to see if it did or not, and besides, it's only the first day. Seems most of the people who actually gave it a shot are enjoying it

Naw. I actually like racing in my kart.

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I agree, but TSR is still a good time and got me to actively want to play multiplayer and it honestly enhanced the experience

Sonic Eraser.

Well good, cause it needs to. This joke of a game has gone on far too long. It would have been a stellar first installment but after the Sumo games and effectively removing all the unique features, it really fries my fucking brain trying to understand why anybody would support this. Especially a Sonic Team game at that.

Blow me you shit taste bastard.

Cope.

People like you are the reason mediocrity like this exists. The game is shit and you were seduced by graphics and a cartoon.

>
>People like you are the reason mediocrity like this exists. The game is shit and you were seduced by graphics and a cartoon.
Dialate

SEGA needs to fire everyone in the US marketing department. They keep pulling bait and switch bullshit like this and piss people off.

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Pretty sure it was just meant as a reference/homage, it's just the nature of the game, plus they do have minor Sonic R representation in the game.
However I would love it if they went the extra mile and did a Sonic R stage as DLC

What fucking bait? There’s no bait. There’s just a massive red flag and it’s called Sonic Team. Hell no they would never remake or have a sequel for Sonic R with modern graphics, courses and controls, because that’s a good idea.

They blew a perfect oppurtunity to just call the damn thing Sonic Drift.

>Troo frrar Sumo

>Tease with the R from Sonic R
>Sonic R was a racing platformer game
>End up revealing that this is the 3rd entry in the All-Stars Racings series, but remove the All-Stars part of it
>Release it with even less content than the game that preceded it
What's worse is that the boost formula would have worked well for an on oot racing game if they designed the stages to be wider and made more use of the drifting mechanic. Toss in the Create a Hero mode from Forces and you would have had a decent follow up to Sonic R.

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>Toss in the Create a Hero
Why would anybody suggest this???

Adds replay value and extra unlockable content to the game
I don't get how anyone thought it wouldn't be another Sumo kart racer once the car engine sound effect played, I figured it was obvious

I genuinely enjoyed the Rent-a-Fur shit in Forces.

steamdb.info/app/785260/graphs/

So PC version peaked at 1k and thats it? Ouch. Transformed had a peak of 5k at least.

Transformed is also years old, while TSR is a day old

I was thinking about getting the game on sale or with some sale, but everywhere is 30€ sadly

>28.63€ or 31,95$ or 25,08£ at Voidu
>Here voidu.com/fr/team-sonic-racing
>10% + 20% witch voucher GAMINGTIM
Was in steam forum

>Blaze's new voice

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>Mfw voice of Black Cat in Spider-Man PS4 voices a cat in TSR

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Who is your main, and why is it Vector?

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Switchfag here, you can't go into matchmaking with friends unless you luck out with the lobby
Only ps4 can make a group and jump into matchmaking together

youtu.be/awkUfIjl1R0
READY TO JAM baby!

Because he takes charge
Shit, I hope they fix that then

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Eat a dick, Egghead

Someone tell me what the class abilities are. I saw a hint saying that technique drivers can drive over any terrain without slowing down, but that's literally the only one I've seen. What do speed and power characters get?

what is sonic 06

Technique drivers also have a slightly longer ultimate duration and larger ring pull. Power has the ability to break obstacles for rings and has their own special items. Speed characters have a special projectile protection when they're the leader of their team

t.speedlet

Transformed was too good for this world.

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Speed characters can do a Radial Burst by charging any level drift or by doing stunts, and it takes out incoming projectiles. Power types can drive into and break enemies and obstacles on the track without a speed penalty, which can also open up shortcuts, and when you do drive into them you get Rings

This game was a hidden actual underdog and possibly the best racer ever made, god fucking damn.

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Time to go find transformed.
Just remembered you can play as fucking Heavy from TF2 kek

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Games peak when they're first released or DLC comes out. You think it's ever going to peak again?

>durr hurr work in a team. you are not not an individual anymore-you should work together :)
>remember how we ALL (yeah) hate when we go online and there is always 1 guy that wins? NOT ANYMORE! now he can lose if we will work in a team!
>so even if he finishes first but our teammate finishes last-we still win!!!
youtube.com/watch?v=3H9iEkOK8aM

This video made me pissed off so muck
fucking absolute bullshit
I wanted to get this game because i love Transformed more than mario kart but now im 100% sure im not buying it.

I play games to feel good and use them as a form of escapism. Not to force myself to interract with people and work in a "team :^)"

holy shit the way he talks about team play. and how its cool that if you finish last - your team will make you finish FIRST even if you are the last one

way to fuck up the whole idea of racing games

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None of that's especially true, but okay, have fun being a bitter twat.

So we are getting both Sonic kart racing and Crash racing is making a comeback
What a time to be alive bros
What game modes does this game have?

there sad thing is that no matter what you do in the race to help teammates, if you come in first and the other two come in 11th and 12th, you'll always lose. end of race placements matter too much and what you do in-race doesn't matter at all

Depends on if they do any DLC, I suppose

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unironically based, the projecting cope posts towards this, its a step backwards, just like forces. however, it's bombing hardcore so it doesn't matter, and crash will plummet the price.

mediocrity shouldn't be rewarded, and for once, this time it seems to be the case.

I just hate how it's just Sonic, AND the game feels like it's gone backwards. If you're gonna take something away, a gameplay mechanic, at least add the FUN feature more. It only has 15 character, which is just MADNESS. Why didn't they go all out with the characters..? If you're gonna do it, then go full out. Don't just half way it.

This is why Charmy isn't in TSR

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This one does suck when Crash has been confirmed to have 25 characters and it's adding even more. Hype for that game at least.

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>None of that's especially true
i literally said what he said fucking degenerate
>if you come in first and the other two come in 11th and 12th, you'll always lose. end of race placements matter too much and what you do in-race doesn't matter at all
i'd stick with Transformed then.
they totally fucked up with this forced teamplay.
Also fucked up with the fuck that this game will be unplayable after servers will go down.
While i still play Transformed on my PS3 from time to time and having a great experience.

The second time they fucked up is with weird characters choice and the fact that they said - there will be no mo future character adds.
What a perfectly passable game.

The multiplaye in this game is UNFORGIVABLE. I have NO idea how they allowed it to ship like this. It plummets in FPS, to stupid levels. Who fucking okay'd this?

Time Trials, Team Adventure, Online, Grand Prix, Exhibition Mode

>forced teamplay
okay retard

I have no idea what the sales will be like, but if they're not good, we won't be getting DLC. Every interview I've seen seems to point at them not seeing DLC as a priority.

This game isn't going to hold a candle to CTR. I think everyone knows that. TSR's gameplay is solid enough, but most people agree it lacks in all other areas, especially content.

CTR is overflowing with polish and content. It feels like a real game.

Because hes the best character in the franchise

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I love how, the story mode, is the BIGGEST con of all time, to lrue in Sonic autism. like my self, and it worked.

They were all like WOAH STORY MODE, and it's just fucking NOTHING. It's literally jpegs talking. I'm not saying I was expecting some kind of grand plot in a kart racing game, but AT LEAST try. What the fuck. So disappointing.

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You don't have to race on teams, though, you can also do solo races

Let's be real here. Can you even call most of the racers in CTR characters?

100% as they were in the other Crash racing games. Admitelly, they're not as iconic as Sonic characters, but that makes it EVEN worse that they have less. Surely, if the Sonic characters are known more, than they should put more effort into putting them in.

Why didn't they make a new Riders game?
When I think "Sonic", I think the epitome of speed and cool. How does "Mario Kart clone" ever say anything interesting about Sonic compared to "extreme hoverboard racing"?

That just feels hilariously safe. Sonic, king of speed, gets a standalone racing game, and instead of an appropriate twist like hoverboards, or running on foot, it's Mario Kart with a team gimmick.

Knuckles paying tribute to his ancestors.

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and to add to this, if the Sonic characters are more well know, why not go all out? If the case was "we're removing sega characters" surely, you shouldn't take away the riders and then go PUSH more with the Sonic side? Add the most insane, niche side game mainline sonic characters, just splice it up. What about that yellow robot guy from the handheld games? In fighters I think. or just fuck it, Chaos, who gives a fuck, anything.

...but thanks for Zavoc.

You shouldn't take away the sega characters and then put LESS JUST on the Sonic side? Surely you should push MORE on the Sonic side because you've removed the Sega characters*

That's true. Personally I think it could be a great game if it got an expansion like MK8, with a decent amount of extra characters and stages, but it may not happen, unfortunately

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>Blaze and Silver know each other
>but 06 retconned itself and Colors DS isn't canon apparently
How the fuck is Iizuka gonna explain this shit?

I can assure you user, you care far, far, far, far more than lizuka kek.

riders fucking sucks

>Colors DS isn't canon
Mother Wisp is in TSR

how many times do we need to tell you lizuka makes this shit up on the spot and isn't thinking about "canon" in Sonic. It's just a waste of time to worry about it user. Just go with it. It's a fucking Sonic kart racer, ya know

>Colors DS isn't canon
This very same game has a level built around the Mother Wisp.

you suck big nigger dick tasteless pleb

Sonic generations

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Everything is canon
Mother Wisp even shows up in this game
Because Free Riders happened and the Sumo Digital games have a better track record, even most of the people who've actually played TSR so far have enjoyed it. I'm sure the first two Riders games are enjoyable as well but they had the unfortunate case of the 3rd one being some Kinect inspired gimmick game

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Yeah but I wouldn't call that "working together" oh well.

S.S.S.S.S. Squad DLC when?

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>Caring about and trying to keep track of Sonic canon
Whats the point? Its clear the devs don't care about it

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Riders was great. In how many Sonic games can Eggman fart on Cream?

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>just pictured the entire MMMHMMM PUNGENT MY DEAR YES in eggmans voice

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Just that one but I bet there's lots of fanfictions where it happens.

You're expecting coherence from the same people who said that the moon in every Sonic game is still the moon that got shot by Eggman in SA2, but it's just always faced away from the planet?

>Somebody spent literal hours and hours and hours making sure ever fur on this things face was correct, probably not going home to there wife/children just to make this abomination

really makes my emeralds shine

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so is there any switch lobbies up? any steam groups? I was hoping to play with Yea Forums like the good old days

tell me why they made his chest grey

tell me why they made his chest grey

ignore all of the other horrific design choices. why his his face a different color to his chest. this was made shit on purpose. it is the only other answer. TELL ME WHY HIS CHEST IS GREY. It makes ZERO sense.

That sucks, they are easily the weakest link in Sonic music today. They did an okay job with the Mania intro but that's really it. Very one (unimpressive) trick pony.

Old man Sonic

Take it to Yea Forums.

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because they don't want an exposed skin-colored chest on a realistic hedgehog in a movie for kids

*reminds you the sonic movie is still coming*

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DOA

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DOESN'T this have denuvo?

>no Cream
>no Espio
>no Charmy
>but fucking Vector is playable and has an entire team named after him
I'm genuinely confused as to how these decisions were made

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Blaze~

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Imagine if the Sonic movie stayed with Sony pictures and Marza animation planet.

Sonic probably would have looked a 1000 times better

I too this day, still do not realize how the Sonic fanbase haven't worked out how adding characters to the games work yet. Sonic games, need a selling point. They know this. They use the characters, to bait you. They remove a few in one game, and then put in the ones they PREVIOUSLY removed to get those old fans back. It satisfies everybody. It's like a swapping of the carrot on the stick, except the new and old bait. Next game, CREAM will be in, but blaze will seamlessly disappear, and maybe silver will be in, but not Vector, but also chaos are vanished. Guaranteed. This is the fucking way it goes. They just remove, and replace. It keeps people talking and everybody happy. Remember, Sonic the Hedgehog, all he is, is bait. They will NEVER give the people what they want, because they need you to keep chasing it. Just enough.

SEGA probably thought that somehow, 15 characters would be enough to satisfy everyone
And it sucks because Espio was supposed to be in as far back as the first All Stars Racing

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The quality of the writing probably would've been the same, what with Sony Pictures and all.

He's right, you know.

>inb4 we don't see Vector next game but some how Espio and Charmy just rock up
>Cream is there, Blaze leaves

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Fullprice switch tier game

Blaze is scared of heights?

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Yeah. But sonic probably wouldn't look a Ken Penders drawing in the real world

I could see that happening, yeah. But weirdly enough, don't Espio and Charmy just somehow get shafted in all Sonoc racers? I don't even think they've been playable in a Riders game
Yes, it's a reference to Sky Babylon from Rush Adventure

*Sonic

>Games peak when they're first released
no?

?

Sonic 06 had bad musics?

they go through a list of the most popular characters, decide what they have the budget for, slot them into roles of speed/technique/power, move them around and make compromises, etc. charmy wasn't popular enough, there were already too many speed/technique characters for espio to be in, it would've required them to make more characters and move the teams around again to even it out, and so on. i'm sure sumo did the best they could.

>Just remembered you can play as fucking Heavy from TF2 kek
as if it was the craziest character.

>TSR thread
>CTR shills in full force

Pretty much this. Here's hoping they actually change their minds on DLC and are able to fix the roster, I honestly feel like this game would be great if they added a few more tracks and characters, maybe even more paint kits and car mods

>

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sumo had input on the roster.
it was purely sonic team

>Sumo did not have any input on the character roster*
Typo. Stated multiple times in interviews.

These fucking star pole challenges are unreal

Is the game good or not?

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if someone asks who shadman is and what's his art style looks like show 'em this.

Love it so far but how is it possible to get anything better than silver during these ring challengesm

Use a technique character.

Does someone really have to say this EVERY thread?
Everyone already knows it's worse than transformed. Every fucking racing game is worse than transformed. Tsr is still great at least but comparing it to transformed will always disappoint you.

>That "Thanks hun" Rouge voiceline

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Git gud

Why that? Handling is not the problem but I run out of time before I get to collect them rings.

>denuvo
No thanks.

technique characters draw rings in from further away, it's not much of an increase but it massively helps in ring challenges

Ah thanks

The fact that Zavok is near this thing was a huge tipoff.

Also they changed his voice so now he has even less going for him.

Who the fuck is Zavok? Honest question.

Main guy in the villain group from Sonic Lost World.

Since when is American Bowser knockoff more popular than the Chaotix?
Japan never fails to disappoint with their shit taste for characters

>no way to get into a party and ensure your friends are on the same team as you when playing online

utter cardinal sin. i thought that was the entire point of making this game, going for the online co-op crowd.

Red Bowser

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why do you faggots want Sonic to be srs bzns

FUCKING TAILS
PATHETIC

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Where my Zavok homies at? Fuck the rejects.

On the subject of Zavok, why is he racing in the context of the story?

>"Have none of your team eliminated." objective

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Sonic wasn't serious business in that game, in fact he was the guy that made it light hearted and not take it seriously
>Knuckles literally tries to commit suicide
>Sonic: Gimme a break what's with all this drama?
He was actually written to be Sonic. But now he's just this retarded 40 year old that shoves dad jokes in your face every chance he gets.

Why does Rouge have a southern belle accent for her racing voicelines but not in the story segments?

more like, thanks hung

And you think Knuckles trying to kill himself is the tone this series needs? Adventurefags killed the franchise, god damn

she is so cutes.

The joke is that everyone except Sonic took that shit way too seriously you colossal fagatron.

Don't tell me that's an achievement?

And the game sucked huge balls, dude.

So is it true that this is basically multishit only with single player being gimped fucking hard?

Yes it did. But that's not what we were talking about

you'll suck my huge balls fag

The only real difference the single player has is the jpg cutscenes. Still has those tough as hell side missions and races can have secondary objectives now. Wouldn't call it gimped at all.

I tried emulating it without the waggle but I couldn't get the sword swing button not to swing twice.

Yes.

That's all right then. I'll probably wait for a sale then pick it up. Thanks.

The single player is a lot like Transformed and I'm enjoying it in much the same way.

the multiplayer is actually the worst part. unless you play local, you can't ensure you'll be in a team with your friends when playing online

Go ahead, get 'em out

It adds to it sucking ass, dude.

When did Knuckles tried to kill himself?

so far it looks inferior to previous versions so I'll wait for a sale

>fuck up your roster
>face the issue full on because you know fans will complain and raise questions
Lack of character representation is one of the main reasons MvC:I bombed. The fact companies are still convinced they aren't out of the line of fire for stuff like this is baffling.

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Name?

>obvious space for future characters
who will they be?

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Try using a Technique character for ring challenges, they pick up rings from farther away. Those missions got way easier after I started using Silver.

Why didn't they just have the same teams as they did in Sonic Heroes?

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there's also some space to the left

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No, that spot is reserved for the preset options in garage mode. There is no space for more characters.

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Nope! CANT WORK. The preset card won't fit on the screen then if a new column was created

:(

Is there any way to send a "let´s use the ultimate" for your team via message or just by voice chat?

>quick match
>0 players

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I think team chaotix only got shafted because they had a limited amount of characters they could do due to the budget and really wanted to include silver and blaze

>"Accept my thanks, or be eliminated."

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How is he a good villain?

So many of the streams of people disliking are very clearly hating it simply because it's Sonic only and "dude Sonic is never good"
>Maxdood complains about getting hit by lightning and then goes back to All Stars and everyone tries to swear it's better
Transformed I can understand people thinking is better but All Stars Racing aged like milk.

youtube.com/watch?v=aatVwjRc8KU

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youtube.com/watch?v=3tq-PYJP_Ys

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Well, they could MAYBE do something like pic-related and extend the blue border. If we do get DLC, it'll only be 3 characters max.

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Is this game fun? I want to play another MK but I’m not buying an switch and the first Sonic Racing was kino, the second one i liked less because the water and air section played like shit

oh my god they actuarrry rike it

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One thing I'm glad they did was getting rid of this stupid all star item. It was way to overpowered in Transformed. The new boost is much better

No fuck you for excluding Cream. Only reason I bought this was because I'm hoping she's eventually added. If she isn't, then I'm never touching this franchise again

whats with nips and having bad teeth?

Dental care is expensive as fuck there for some reason and they just don´t give a shit

>you reward it and think people want games with no cream because you gave them your money, they continue games with no cream

good job kek

your post is the sonic franchise summed up in a post. the literal carrot and bait post above and then you post this

It's a popular game, of course Yea Forums shitposters wanna take many chances to try and knock it down a peg.

If you're serious I want to know why Cream specifically, why you care so strongly and why you bought the game assuming she'll be added later as opposed to waiting for her to potentially be added.

I mean, I get liking a character. The one reason I'm not too upset about it going from All Stars to just Sonic is that I can play as Rouge now. But I don't care about that so much that it'd impact my purchase either way.

Use a speed character and customize the car so it prioritizes top speed and handling

>crush 40 style music is all over this game for some reason

>that crush 40's ish intro to the Rooftop run level

>that crush 40's ish version of wisp planet

>and super sonic racing

Its like they never left.

Man, I love Transformed too but this webm has literally become the Sonic racing equivelant of that one speed higheay webm you see posted in nearly every Sonic Adventure thread. It's just kinda annoying to see these days. Yes Transformed is better but TSR could still be so much worse and it's not worth putting this many people down about it. This ain't fucking Forces, people.

Every single piece of media with modern sonic should have crush 40

I'm the user who posted that webm and I agree. It ain't Forces, but it still is a step down. The reason I'm not letting it slide, is because Forces, was expected. I expected Forces to be shit because I have zero faith in them. However, SUmo, SHOULD know better. THey made quite literally, the GOAT kart racer. It's just a little bit silly it isn't at least on par. Sonic can't do "medicore" at the moment.

well, it can, but you know what I mean.

TSR isn't mediocre though. It's genuinely good. Not fucking AMAZING like Transformed was, but there's a spectrum and there's things between mediocre and amazing on there.

Otherwise I understand your sentiment, just specifically saying mediocre is inaccurate.

> SUmo, SHOULD know better.

You know Sega made all the decisions right?

All Sumo did was make a game to their clients specifications

Suck my ass

>If you're serious I want to know why Cream specifically
She's my favorite character and I always played as her in other spin off titles such as Riders, Speed Battle & Sonic Heroes. Same reason someone would be upset if Shadow wasn't in the game.

>why you bought the game assuming she'll be added later as opposed to waiting for her to potentially be added.
Because I didn't want to have to spend a month getting good at the game. When/if she's released, I'll be at the same rank as everyone else online.

>But I don't care about that so much that it'd impact my purchase either way.
To be fair you see Rouge every game and she's plastered everywhere all the time on media. You wouldn't be missing out on much if she wasn't in 1 game.

>Come on guys, at least it isn't 06/Boom/Forces!
People like you that accept mediocrity are the reason Sonic will never get better.

seems slow compared to other racing games, and the drifting looks weird

TSR isn't Mediocre though, needlessly shitting on every Sonic game hasn't helped it either has it?

I like how much attention Heroes gets in this game. Seaside Hill, Casino Park and Final Fortress are all here.

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Well I already said this would be the last time they screwed me over. I put my last shred of faith in Sumo to do the right thing.

>mandatory daredevil challenge in chapter 6

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I hate the drift boost. I can never really tell if I've been drifting long enough to get max boost from it, because the visuals don't change much. They should've added more clarity to that.

Centuries of inbreeding

I can't believe this game has the gall to use the Sonic R logo in its own logo, and doesn't include Egg Robo, Metal Knuckles, or Tails Doll.

And doesn't have a Richard Jacques Soundtrack.

And also doesn't play anything like Sonic R.

He clearly cares about Sonic but something or someone at SEGA keeps fucking with him he was even crying from joy at the sxsw panel

This. It should have been Sonic Renault

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>And also doesn't play anything like Sonic R.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

>Start the Story
>first stage on Hard, thinking I am hot shit
>took me 5 attempts before my team got 1st place
>first 3 my clique gang ended up last
It really was teaching me how to use the super boost the hard way. I never expected Team Rose of all things to fuck my shit up

Those are all reused tracks from the original All Stars

Doesn't matter. Stuff from Heroes is good. Heroes deserves attention and to be remembered fondly more than other Sonic games.

with those eyebrows, that guy is basically a sonic character

>quickmatch
>0 players
>network error

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kek

Sonic Heroes is just as bad as Adventure 1 and 2, and Shadow the Hedgehog.

t. nostalgia blinded zoomer that played it on Sonic Gems Collection when he was 8

don't give me that. it was shitty back then and it still is now.

It's better than all of those combined.

what's the meaning behind this picture?

QUICK BEFORE THREAD DIES:

IF I WANT TO USE TECH CHARACTERS, WHICH STATS SHOULD I PUMP WITH CUSTOM PARTS?

Always speed. Use the second accessory from the left for maximum speed. rouge is on par with un-upgraded speed users with custom parts

>Play the same game 4 times
>Better than 6 unique stories, 2 paths and 6 stories where you only repeat some of the levels

That's because they were all holdovers from the first Allstars Racing.

Is the bat that good? I'll have to consider using her

felonious bolus

Are you guys doing Normal or Hard for the story?

I'm doing Hard and it feels just right.

The homages are pretty cool in this game even with the forced Forces stuff.

>Planet Wisp (Generations and Colors DS)
>Glacierland is obviously Holoska. Even has the music.
>Sandopolis is like Arsenal Pyramid/ Sand Hill and SA2 Pyramid levels rolled into one
>Spagonia is both Spagonia, Curien Mansion and Night of the Werehog at the same time
>Casino Park kind of looks like Tropical Resort on steroids

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I've started doing Normal, then Hard immediately after if I feel like I can do it. I don't mind the extra credits for more mod pods.
I think you also get a reward for doing all missions of a chapter on hard. Could've sworn I got a special horn or something.
Hopefully there isn't anything for doing it all on expert. Don't think I could handle that.

new thread where?

join the team sonic racing community groups on steam search for them, specifically the "Team Sonic Racing touraments group"i guess

It's still a step down, and with Crash looking the way it is, and right around the corner, its just making this look like a filler game. To me personally, it is mediocre. I expect more than just Sonic characters, and if you're gonna do Sonic characters, then go all out. Do not hold back. If there wasn't a racing game coming out right now with over 25+ I wouldn't be saying this, but there is. It's very hard to treat it fairly, and when it had a god damn 8-9 month delay.