I can't even focus on the game or series without laughing to death at Sonic and Buffles' designs.

I feel like Buff Knuckles should be on a 24/7 roid rage and just go around suplexing mother fuckers

(02-06-2014, 06:44 PM)StarSock64 Wrote:

(02-06-2014, 05:18 PM)NICKtendo DS Wrote: And I'm getting sick and tired of dubstep in everything!

This, seriously. Bleh.

The bandages on their hands, I guess I can deal with. The bandages on their feet though, what???

If I remember correctly, bandaging up your feet can help you gain a little traction(or maybe it's the opposite.)

I remember playing Fifa World Cup 2010, and you had the option to do that to your shoes while creating a player.

That's really cool, and I appreciate the thought that goes into those kinds of things.

But, like with a lot of things (coughpokemoncough), just because it makes sense doesn't mean it looks good. And style is like, all of the battle.

anyways, I'd rather this was an Archie tie-in, but oh well

(02-07-2014, 02:27 AM)Kriven Wrote: anyways, I'd rather this was an Archie tie-in, but oh well

We all know that will never happen. Even if they got redesigned, the characters really do not belong in the games.
Plus they're just upgrades of the little critters that come out of bandiks and the capsules. Fleetway did this as well.
And I've always hated Sally, even as a kid due to her character, and being paired with Sonic.

Anyone got a chance to see Eggman's redesign yet?



The dude has been working out as it seems! I know he could easily outrun Sonic, but is he able to lift more than Knux with that new bod of his?

Surprisingly, I liked the trailer for the TV show. It's essentially the cutscenes in between Sonic Lost World, Generations, and Colours only lasting 22 minutes. Ever since I watched the cutscenes for Lost World, I thought that this could be a decent TV show.

but seriously I'd love to see Shadow in this really tryhard style.

I like these designs. Then again, I like just about anything Bob Rafei does.

(02-06-2014, 06:44 PM)StarSock64 Wrote: The bandages on their hands, I guess I can deal with. The bandages on their feet though, what???

neva takin my shoes off tape that shit to my feet g2gfast4eva

(02-06-2014, 05:59 PM)GaryCXJk Wrote: Especially Amy's. Can't wait for some rule 34 o-er, regular fan art. Plain old fan art of her, nothing that involves indecencies.

if you look at the new renders/concept art of the characters, tails' head is exactly at the height of knuckles' crotch



hello rule 34

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i'm gonna be 100% honest right now, the baby gamer in me flipped out at these designs, especially knuckles', but the more i look at these guys, the more i like them. their new design's starting to grow on me now. especially given the fact this is like, a spinoff of the current franchise (it's basically megaman x, but sonic)
i can kind of justify the stupid-ass shoe wraps at this point; each character's use of bandages give extra accentuation to each characters' abilities (this is more aimed at younger viewers). given how long sonic and tails have been running around in those shoes, they're bound to get worn out. where are you gonna get new shoes when you're stranded in the middle of jurassic park?
i also like how sonic has FAR MORE bandages than tails on his shoes to further drive this point home, lol (except...why doesn't tails have bandages on his tails then...)

what i like and dislike at the same time is that now sonic's friends have more pronounced silhouettes. what i like about them is that amy's slinky figure and body language really lends the fact that she's the most acrobatic of the bunch, and tails has goofy-ass goggles and a wrench sticking out of...uh, well, he's a spunky little mechanic! and knuckles is...well, now it's obvious that knuckles punches the shit out of everything. what i DON'T LIKE is that sonic's got a piss-poor silhouette now, a mess of a design that just screams "amateur designer!"


see what i mean? like, is that nathan drake's nephew on the far left? sonic looks so horribly generic now, compared to the King of Cool i knew growing up as a kid (and don't even get me started on the blue arms; though i guess you could argue sonic got older so he grew some arm hair lol? might also explain why amy's arms haven't changed)

actually, tails and knuckles' height relation shows a pretty horrible amateur design flaw as well ):

what i'm really curious about is the design direction they're going to take with Amy. there's some kind of trend in reboots lately (see: april o'neil in the new turtles cartoon) that the ditzy damsel is reimagined and takes a stronger, more pronounced role with narratives that contribute to more robust character development (which is totally cool with me) so I'm really excited to see if they make Amy an actually engaging character (as opposed to "G2G TALK TO BIRDS AND GUSH OVER SANIC" throwaway character)

though, i'm not really sure how graceful they can make amy if her melee combat revolves around using a giant hammer.
if they rework her so she's got actually badass melee combos where she hammerspaces horizontal hammer swings with an overhead axe-swing finisher, i could totally get behind that


oh and if knuckles just suplexes everyone into oblivion i will buy a wii u just for this game

I never liked sonic's apricot arms, they made me think he was a man in a blue hedgehog suit

theyre all fine to me

knuckles is my only real complaint, like what

I saw some fan art of his new design earlier today and I thought someone was just joking

You know what also bothers me?
That 3rd Nintendo-exclusive Sonic game being this. It's a game about a show about a game, it feels weird. It looks great, but feels weird. Out of place even.
I'd be super happy if it turns out to be the Sonic Adventure 3 we've all been waiting for, but I highly doubt it, especially with another 3DS version. For fuck sake, give the 3DS something real rather than a slap-in-the-dick edition of the console version, like the Rush and Advance games. Seriously, Rush Adventures was the last proper handheld Sonic title that wasn't a handheld-edition of a console game. [/rant]

I saw an image on another forum where somebody made an edit to the character designs; he shortened everybody's legs, and IMO it really helped remove a lot of the awkwardness of the redesigns (right):

What do you all think?

One specific thought I have is that Knuckles, while not entirely redeemed, probably gets the most dramatic improvement since his proportions are nowhere near as ridiculous as before.

Sonic boom

Mario Blast

When you look at this part of the video, you can see that they changed everyone's personality to be really cliched.

Tails is the scrappy kid mechanic that thinks everyone else is dumb (but has a good heart)
Knuckles is the lovable but not very bright oaf that beats stuff up and gets physical things done
Sonic is arrogant and stupid and won't shut up (meaning he'll get injured a lot comedically, as you can see by him landing on his face and making the loud OOF sound) but he's still heroic i guess
Amy is the only one that's actually competent and it's clear that they're setting her up for her own spinoff series (which they confirmed) (she still loves sonic even though he's an idiot)