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/sthg/ - #490 - Maria Edition
>Link Compilation<
http://pastebin.com/J6hTXkhK
>Drawfag/Writefag Idea Walls<
http://pastebin.com/j8KkPQ4n
http://pastebin.com/jNKKMk5b
>News/Developments
SEGA Confirms New Sonic Project Coming 2017
https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/06/sega-confirms-new-sonic-project-is-coming-in-2017/
Sonic Humble Bundles
https://www.humblebundle.com/sonic-25th-anniversary-bundle
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/sonic-comics-bundle
Tons of Unseen Sonic Concept Art Revealed
https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/06/lots-of-unseen-concept-art-of-sonic-and-company/
Sonic: Mega Drive First Look, Sequel Revealed
https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/06/first-look-at-sonic-mega-drive-1-reveals-sequel/
Sonic Boom Fire & Ice E3 Trailer
https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/06/sonic-boom-fire-ice-e3-trailer/
Runners is Dead.
https://www.sonicstadium.org/2016/05/sonic-runners-shutting-down-next-month/
Sonic is joining the cast of LEGO Dimensions!
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/06/09/sonic-hedgehog-joins-lego-dimensions/
>Recent Releases<
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is out for 3DS; WiiU on June 24. Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is out for the 3DS on September 27.
Sonic Boom's first season has ended! You can watch all of the first season's episodes in English here:
http://www.watchcartoononline.com/anime/sonic-boom
Previous thread: >>146971723
LOSER!
You're too_____slow_________
>>147070441
FUCK YOU
>>147069951
Don't die, thread!
We gotta save this thread! Uhh... Bump! Sage! Bat Tats! Blaze is flat! Blue arms! Shadow's prototype design!
Umm... Uhh.... The Sonic Twitter is nothing but memes! Sonic was never good! I'm just here for the furry porn!
Guys, help me out.
Oops, missbump!
>>147080320
That's not how you do it anon. Here lemme show you how it's done.
Ian is a horrible character writer. He inserts politics and beliefs into characters but instead of making those characters a voice of said thing he instead makes them an example of it and as such they come across as either shallow or the meaning behind the character and the events surrounding them is vague and lost.
Furthermore as far as Sonic is concerned, there are multiple characters (namely Tails and Chip since they are the biggest examples of this) that Ian refuses to write for. He has taken every step in the book to attempt to not write them. From trivializing any sort of character flaw that they may develop so that he can feign that they are hard to write for to outright writing them out of the story so that they don't screw with the narrative.
At this current state, Tails as as character in the comic may as well not exist since he is so trivial to everything else despite being Sonic's little brother figure. Chip has literally done jack shit and it's quite apparent that he's going to be the dues ex machina for the arc even without knowing Unleashed's story.
And none of this goes into the fact that other characters have the exact opposite problem that Tails and Chip has.
Sonic, Eggman, Shadow and Knuckles all have the character and personality traits cranked up to overdrive and it just feels awkward at times comparing them to other characters around them since Knuckles himself has multiple layers of personality meanwhile you have shit like Rouge who is defined by two traits: Her need for jewelry and the fact that she works for GUN.
Eggman is probably the worst of all though since no matter how you place him to another person he comes off as a much more complex than any other character besides Knuckles.
So at the end of the day it's not that Ian doesn't know how to write a character it's the fact that he's extremely biased to what characters he wants to write for.
>>147083558
Thanks. I've only been here for a month, or so, so it's clear that I have a lot to learn.
What is the best stage soundtrack and why is it Unleashed Spagonia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtSmFc-hHrw
>there's actually people that like sonic games
>>147087515
well that's our problem, leave us to it.
>>147087515
>there's actually people that like sonic
>Megadrive #1 appeared in my mailbox today
I am hype. No scanner, sorry.
