Ep. 365 - Post-Crisis Sonic 2

Fixin’!

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Yeah you can still buy SEGA Ages Sonic 2 SEGA AGES Sonic The Hedgehog 2 for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

SEGA Ages is intended to be the preservationist/purist version by M2. Sonic Origins is more positioned for younger audiences coming in from movie world to enjoy the original Genesis games with added modern niceties. Plus fans were screaming for years to re-release the CW remasters that were stuck on phones for a long time.

I think everyone should buy both ;) Sega ages Sonic 2 is like $2 right now

(fwiw I don’t think you could ever access the Hidden Palace remnants in official ROM-based releases of Sonic 2 anyway, you need some kind of cheat interface)

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Its pronounced pee cross

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I accept this

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100ft Robot Golf - Wikipedia is the biggest golf game

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Ya gotta raise the volume on these horrible buzzers! I want to hear them absolutely blare out and awkwardly and abruptly eliminate the conversation. This was a good one.

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@Jaffe

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Oh yes, in case it wasn’t clear I did understand jaffe’s ghostbusters joke! just didn’t have a witty rejoinder prepared.

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Ash’s impassioned plea at the end of the episode might just get my vote for the single best moment in the show’s history. Incredible.

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My most memorable times spent in a missable area were in Diablo 2’s Secret Cowl Level

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Does the whole inverted castle count as a missable area in SotN?

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keep bustin’

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“Please, Esperonto is my father. Call me Esper.”

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As far as Shadow of the Erdtree and GotY, Brandon’s thoughts mirrored my outlook on things. Something I’d like to point out is how backwards the situation is by the The Game Awards’ own standards. There’s already a separate category for DLC/Expansions/Games as a Service called “Best Ongoing Game” that I assume is there so Fortnite and others aren’t glutting up the GotY category every year. An expansion won that category last year, Cyber Punk. Why is Elden Ring up for game of the year, but isn’t even listed in this category? The other GotY nominees are all also nominees in the other various categories they belong to. Makes no sense, Keighley’s just reinterpreting stuff to stir up nerd rage.

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The Nintendo Listo discussion reminded me of long lost DSiWare knowledge: there was a series of paid notebook apps released on that thing called myNotebook.

They released a ton of them with different skins and the best thing was that had a limited number of pages like a real notebook.

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Registering an account here specifically to advocate for Heaven’s Vault for best hidden area.

And the hidden area is “most of the game” depending on how the story progresses.

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Sector NGP was a good community. I wrote reviews there, fun times!

Showering gameplay is very different in multiplayer.

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Didn’t know you were going to use more than one of the buzzers I sent in (woooo) but this week’s is my favourite one and the most horrible.

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On the DLC as GotY conversation, I think significant enough expansions can count—Phantom Liberty was the best thing I played last year, for example—but there’s a difference between DLC and an actual expansion, to me. Proper expansions feel much closer to “true sequels,” in the development sense, and many of them probably could stand-alone as separate releases if they were structured somewhat differently (some of them, like Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening or Baldur’s Gate II: Throne of Bhaal are sequels in a narrative sense, too)

With that said, though, significant expansions of this sort seem to largely be relegated to roleplaying games (including MMOs), and maybe that factors into how folks see them. I do think MMO expansions count: FFXIV’s major expansion Main Scenario Quests are basically a new JRPG experience of 20-30 hours, after all (Shadowbringers deserved the hypothetical nod far more than Endwalker in my opinion, though)

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