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So I guess it's worth noting that "Youtube_Archive" over on archive.org has backed up a sizable chunk of raocow's videos (starting from the beginning of raocow's Youtube uploads) here , last updated on March 2nd. It's not exhaustive by any means, and kind of weirdly jumps from around halfw...

I stand thoroughly corrected. Wow. That's really, really dumb.

Whatever my opinion of Yuji Naka might have been before, it is currently pretty firmly in "very talented, but also a crazy diva asshole" territory thanks to the stuff brought up over the course of this thread.

Chao Garden: A place to hear Eggman's Japanese voice, even with English voice acting turned on. Because I guess SoA didn't think it was worth it to dub equivalents for exclamations like YOSHI and HORE HORE.

Sonic Adventure 2 (or more specifically SA2: Battle) is not the first Sonic game I ever played, but it was the first one I was able to actually complete as a child without cheating, and I think it was also my first real exposure to "serious" cinematic game storytelling (didn't really play ...

*looks at thread title* Why you got hot sauce on your head, cuz? What's wrong? I was about to ask the same thing I think he's part of that duder's personality cult, since he's mentioned him a couple times in previous parts of the thread :P It's a reference to a meme. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfT...

Since raocow has commented a couple of times about the voice acting in the Dreamcast games, I'm just going to throw out this thing that I read online a while back, and cannot actually provide a source for (so take with a couple of grains of salt, but it makes sense considering Sega's general situati...

Sonic Shuffle really feels like SEGA went up to Hudson Soft and said "hey, make us a Mario Party - but Sonic...except actually don't make it like Mario Party at all beyond the vague concept of 'board game where you can play mini-games' because we're SEGA and we can't go flattering Nintendo by c...

raocow wrote: ↑4 years ago one of those smw is not gonna be bite-sized

it's... people are probably gonna complain honestly

Super Mario Infinity Youtube Edition heck yeah.

"I hate to admit it, but Tails is right." - Knuckles, who has had no meaningful canon interaction with Tails whatsoever up to this point. The last few cutscenes of Super Sonic's story feel very "we don't have time to execute this properly, so just have the characters say things out of...

Obligatory mention that people playing Sonic Adventure in a more straightforward way than AtS probably won't see that opening text crawl explaining Gamma's motivation.

So for most people you go straight from "E-Series...friends...must save." to "Destroy E-103 Delta."

Robotnik, why did you design a robot with an operational time limit of 3 minutes? How does that benefit your goals whatsoever? If it's some sort of fail-safe to prevent rebellion then why did you make it possible to mitigate the countdown by blowing things up??

So I think at the time Adventure was made the idea was supposed to be that it was a Mega Man X -> Mega Man Zero situation where all the old stuff was still supposed to have happened and you just aren't supposed to think about why a large chunk of the cast looks radically different now. It's easier t...

Sonic's story: It is pointed out that Knuckles has been tricked, Knuckles tries to deflect blame to Sonic, thus looking like a gigantic goober. Tails' story: It is pointed out that Knuckles has been tricked, Knuckles responds with general disbelief, looking like slightly less of a goober. That's kin...

A recap of Chaos' forms up to this point:

0: Vaguely humanoid water creature
1: Vaguely humanoid water creature with one over-sized arm
2: Vaguely humanoid water creature with two over-sized arms
4: Weird shark water creature
6: Weird...scorpion crab thing water creature

This sure is a hack that exists.

No disrespect meant to the creator, but I think it says a lot that my first reaction to a lot of these levels so far is "this sure feels like an edit of *insert existing SMW level here*".

This isn't really something I thought about much previously, but coming off of Sonic R and Sonic Jam on the Saturn, the graphics and sheer spectacle of Adventure stand out a lot more. I'm realizing that there may in fact have been a brief period of time where Sonic Adventure was the pinnacle of real...

There's a lot to be said about Sonic Adventure and its place as a transition between the old style of Sonic and what will become the new style for roughly the next decade's worth of Sonic games in this series. Stuff that can probably wait until raocow actually plays a real level or two. In the meant...

This is an upgrade over the previous Tiger Electronics "games". That is saying very, very little, I realize.

I can't believe All the Sonics is going to be doing a 4 episode filler arc right before we get to the next main series game.

Looking forward to Adventure. Is Dreamcast emulation decent or is raocow probably just going to be playing the PC version?

Unlocking Metal/Mecha Knuckles being absolute hell is one of my stronger memories from playing lots of the Gems Collection version of this game back in the day. Oof.

So from what I remember, now that you've unlocked Metal Sonic, Metal Sonic will replace Sonic in Grand Prix races from here on out (unless you're playing as Sonic, or playing as Metal Sonic yourself, of course). So yeah, the game actually gets harder as you unlock the secret characters which is...fa...

Uh, so as a point of advice/quality of life thing (since there's not really anything in the game that'll tell you this, from what I remember), Sonic can double-jump in this game. It's pretty helpful for taking shortcuts and such.

I was of course always aware of this in the back of my mind, but something about that Sonic timeline recap sort of sparked the realization that...holy shit, at the time Sonic Jam was released Sonic had only really been around for 6 years and they'd already released so many games.

The year is 1996, and Aspect Co. Ltd still does not quite grasp the concept of sprite resolution vs screen resolution, and why bigger sprites aren't always the best idea ever.

So uh, fun fact: The Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast was the only version of the game to be released in Japan (before Sonic Mega Collection, anyway), and it didn't release there until 1999 - after the original release of Sonic Adventure had already come out (in fact, it came out the same day as the...