ITT: moments that make you smash your controller, break your system, and shoot the neighbor’s dog
To this day, I still have no real idea why they thought having minigame shit take up half the game was a good idea. Thank goodness it's optional.
>>12066849>optionalYou didn’t beat the game. In fact, I strongly believe that if you didn’t 100% a retro game, you shouldn’t post about it.
>>12066843even as a kid i understood this wasn't actually 3D, and it made me sad that it's so shitty, like the special stages in every Sonic game. They'd be much better without.You can get all the gemeralds before leaving the first act, but it's not fun.
I just got all the chaos emeralds only once then I just cheated to get super sonic. Like the other anon said, it was way too time consuming.
>>12066843>moments that make you smash your controller, break your system, and shoot the neighbor’s dog
>>12066849It's really just a shitty version of the CD special stages. Sonic 1's special stages are way better than this.
>>12066849the worst thing about it is how beating it just lets you steamroll the rest of the game (apart from the shitty final boss)it works better in 3/3k where you can fuck around on a beat savefile as the syper and hyper forms
>>12066843don't have tails with you, he increases the amount of rings you need and fucks you over by lagging behind and hitting the bombs
>>12066959yeah fuck that nigger in the special stages
>>12066959he only ever loses rings that HE collects. if he collected a ring, that means that YOU DIDNT. be better at picking them up, and it wont matter how many bombs he eats.
>>12066978>every time you jump he goes in front of you>having him blow up bombs can obstruct your view>the higher ring count needed
>>12066959>blaming Tails for your skill issue
>>12066984>every time you jump he goes in front of youwhen you jump, he jumps, so it stays the same. if he gets hit by a bomb, he drops back anyway.>having him blow up bombs can obstruct your viewskill issue. also most of these stages are based on memorization anyway.>higher ring countskill issue, and the price you pay for the added help on bosses and stuff.
>>12066853Completionists are and always have been absolute faggots.
>>12066843I haven't "raged" over a video game since I got good.Get good.
>>12067360based and same. imagine raging at a game as an adult
>>12067372 (me)to extrapolate:losing at a video game as a child:>fuck this game! *tosses controller/breaks keyboard*losing at a video game as an adult:>oh shit, i lost. let's try again. *gets better at the game*
>>12066917This is easy. You just need to gang up on him, never let him have any breathing room except for stepping away for one second when he calls the thunder. If you keep mashing the punch button the invincibility frames protect you when he runs through you.
>>12066843>>12066912>pic unrelatedalso>shooting your neighbor's dog is a natural act during a fit of ragemass shooter mentality
>>12066849>goodnessyou could've wrote "god," but instead you had to put in more effort to show everyone your a good polite boy. truly one of the worst 4chan threads i've ever seen
>>12067547shut the fuck up nigger
+Can someone explain how people find games difficult? They're rote memorisation children's toys, not anything actually difficultEven the so called hardest games ever made, arcade shmups, are incredibly shallow and easy
I never realized you could play without Tails as a kid so his delayed reactions losing me rings and failing these special stages made me throw the controller.
>>12067572Very few people back then had any idea how games worked under the hood. They knew there could be patterns but things like apparent luck/misfortune actually resulting from player inputs at specific times were utterly alien.Now, people know these things and can pick up on loops and quirks and getting enemies STUCK IN A PATTERN! STUCK IN A PATTERN!
Most of Killer7 boss fights. Luckily I downloaded the completed savegame and can avoid all of them entirely.
>>12066941>apart from the shitty final bossThe final boss was awesome especially because it was super hard.
>>12067572>>12067586This, normalfaggots and people back in the days didn't know what a pattern was, nowadays everyone beats those children's toys first try>getting a game over in a video gamePft...haha... HAHAHAHAHAHAH if you've ever seen a game over screen as an adult don't even bother posting here
>>12067616It took me many game overs and resets from the beginning to realize that his hidden arm spikes were what was instantly killing me when I tried to damage him, then it took a few more continues until I start getting behind him.Not having access to a single ring was the bad design choice. It gave me no chance to see what even killed me, it looked like I jumped into him dead-on and somehow died.
>>12066843S1 and S3&K I can do legit but I never could beat the S2 bonus stages so I just cheat with that option menu code.
>>12067710You just have to memorize the ring patterns and know when it’s coming in the later half pipe stages. There isn’t anything that changes. Some of the bullshit bosses in later actual 3d games are harder. The weakness of sonic games is artificial difficulty ramping up to the point where it’s not fun, or bosses cheap attacks.
>disable tails>make save states for each of the special stages on an emulator and practiceI swear I vaguely remember playing as Super Sonic as a kid but as an adult this is the only way I could get the emeralds, I guess I just got worse at video games. I can still 100% Sonic 1 first try though. CD and 3&K are actually easy as fuck because you can just reload your save every time you fail
>>12066849They're in general pretty great except for Sonic 2's bonus stage. On the other hand, you can do like 6 of them on the first 2 Zones alone IIRCI did it recently on Origins, I don't remember which in particular, but only 2 of them are really, really bad. You have to know what to expect and the patterns and how to execute it. Once you have trained, enough, they're not so bad, but they're pretty nefarious compared to all the other ones
>>12067545>mass shooter mentalitylook what website you are on.
>>12066843i don't understand...what exactly is so hard about 2's special stages? are most people's reaction times several seconds? you couldn't see the bombs coming and move out of the way? is this another case of sonic 3's barrel that exposed how many actual unironic impaired retards browse here?
>>12067751dunno about cd but you can't do that in 3&k actually, whenever you end a special stage the game saves with the ring gone.
>>12068351The trick is to reset immediately
>>12067545Are you genuinely autistic or just stupid
>>12067810The abysmal framerate and non-existant draw distance make it pretty difficult to react to stuff. In mobile/origins, where those issues are corrected, these special stages are piss easy.
