Concept Art Fridays

[Vec]

We get a new badnik at last...but nooooooo, people only pay attention to what looks like Marble Garden wheel and go "Bawrehashkthxby" leaving the poor Pokeball Hermit Crab alone

[Nintendoga]

Yay! Boring stuff I'm not interested in. Gameplay trailer should come in 2-3 weeks since this is following Ep. 1's marketing.

Rehash blah blah blah who cares.

[speedfreak]

That's nice I guess, but I honestly don't care about any thing that much unless it's screen shots or a trailer.

I find the marketing campaign for this game makes me more angry/annoyed then excited.

Edited January 20, 2012 by speedfreak

[Doctor MK]

And the award for Most Unnecessary and Unwanted Teaser for a Game goes to... SEGA!!!

Concept art is cool an' all, but it's really tedious now. Use it as a bonus or something, or as a nice little accompaniment to the game's release, but to actually hype it up? No. Episode 1 I could understand, but not Episode 2. We couldn't care less about the badniks, we want to know about the important stuff. Show us some gameplay, show us some screenshots, show us goddam ANYTHING that's of some sort of significance please.

I'm not ungrateful for the concept art, I just feel like I have gained nothing from it.

Edited January 20, 2012 by Doctor MK

[Marcello]

And the award for Most Unnecessary and Unwanted Teaser for a Game goes to... SEGA!!!

Concept art is cool an' all, but it's really tedious now. Use it as a bonus or something, or as a nice little accompaniment to the game's release, but to actually hype it up? No. Episode 1 I could understand, but not Episode 2. We couldn't care less about the badniks, we want to know about the important stuff. Show us some gameplay, show us some screenshots, show us goddam ANYTHING that's of some sort of significance please.

I'm not ungrateful for the concept art, I just feel like I have gained nothing from it.

Hey, hey, I could care less for them. :-/ They're part of the new things I wanted to see for E2..

[Doctor MK]

Hey, hey, I could care less for them. :-/ They're part of the new things I wanted to see for E2..

Okay, in fairness, I don't mind seeing the new stuff and I certainly didn't mean to speak on behalf of everyone (think of my post as using the royal "we", in that sense).

But there's far better things they could be teasing us with.

[Nix]

Well that concept art is very nice Sega.

Now how about you show us something we actually care about, like, oh I dunno, the fucking game.

[speedfreak]

Concept art used to be this cool bonus thing you got to see a while after a game released. Because of Sonic 4 I've grown to hate it.

[LoseR]

Every post combined into one sentence:

Oh look at the cute Pokeba- Marble Garden wheel AAH rehash AAH just show me the game as it is even though it is going to be a rehash because Sega is yet again doing a slow campaign because they don't want to show how much of a rehash this game really is!

[Sean]

Again, enough with the complaining about people complaining, I can't sleep with all this fucking racket.

[Aquaslash]

If there is one thing I HATED about the road to Sonic 4 Episode 1, it's this god awful trickle down marketing. Go big or go home SEGA. Show screenshots, another three seconds or something. Anything that isn't trees and crabs and reused props!

God, I hope there's antoher PartnerNet leak or something. I'm not gonna be able to take 9 months of this madness.

[PeanutButterDimond]

I don't mind the whole slow campaign honestly.To be honest, I got to see an adorable new badnik that I want to just hug and a cool gimmick from Marble Zone. Good enough for me.

Seriously I just want to hug that freaking thing. It's so cute~

[Diogenes]

I think I'd enjoy this bit-by-bit hyping if they gave us something solid to chew on first. Like, give us a legit trailer with a decent amount of gameplay to show us how the game plays, then start passing out the little bits of concept art to keep people following.

As it is, given that there are some pretty significant concerns that they haven't properly addressed, it's hard to get too excited about a bunch of stuff that doesn't have much to do with the quality of the game.

[Shoot em up Capbusta]

Concept art cool ok really didn't give a damn during ep.1 not starting here. Would rather actual footage of the damn game but whatever.

[Sparky]

Ok, THIS EPISODE WILL NOT BE A REHASH!!!!!

The only reason episode I had so many reused stuff was to get it to look like and (at least almost) feel like a classic game. And it was just the prologue. The Real Story and stuff doesn't start till Episode Tai- err II.

The Marble Garden wheel might be a gimmick in every stage, like what they did with Chemical Plant's speed boosters in Sonic Generations.

I remember Ken saying that this game won't have re-hashed levels!

[Komodin]

Ok, THIS EPISODE WILL NOT BE A REHASH!!!!!

How are you so certain of this? You got some secret info that you have to keep mum about, or something?

[Spooky Mulder]

The Marble Garden wheel might be a gimmick in every stage, like what they did with Chemical Plant's speed boosters in Sonic Generations.

I remember Ken saying that this game won't have re-hashed levels!

That sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. I'd rather have rehashed stages.

Also, I've defended this game and am willing to give Ken as SEGA the benefit of the doubt. However, allow me to play devils advocate for a moment:

During the Episode I Campaign Ken once claimed that Casino Street Zone was an entirely original zone and that it was not based on Casino Night.

Edited January 21, 2012 by Spooky Mulder

[Barry the Nomad]

Problem with Episode 1's campaign was that the stream of info was supposed to conclude with a spring release in 2010, and then it got delayed and the campaign got stretched out to the point where it was becoming absurd.

With Episode 2 we're looking at an April/May release (assuming Archie's adaptation hits when the game does). So this time really doesn't compare to last, given that we'll (I'm guessing) see the game in 3 months time. So probably Jan/Feb concept art, March screens/trailers, April launch. The concept art reveals aren't going to feel as bad as last time given that the game is (hopefully) hitting very soon.

[Milo]

Oh look. It's THIS campaign again.

Wake me up when the Sonic 4 PR releases a trailer with gameplay/screenshots, let along something bigger than concept art.

Although I am happy to see they are using new badniks.

[Sonictrainer]

Next Friday: We get a palmtree....that's actually a Badnik in disguise.

Edited January 21, 2012 by STrainer

[Big Boss (legendsneverdie)]

I like the badnik, don't really care about the wheel, and am indifferent to the way the game's being marketed. I hope we see some level concept art next week.

[OlenJimi]

This is neat and all, but they could show us more, like what the badnik does and stuff like that. Oh well, I don't really care for this marketing, so I'll just wait for a release date and then just buy the game.

[Megabox91(Renzy)]

At least wait until you see some gameplay footage before you past judgement guys. And that Badnik concept art looks really nice

Edited January 22, 2012 by Megabox91(Renzy)

[Hyper-Shan]

(Trying to ignore most of the predicted comments here.)

I really like the concept art Friday thing, although I would like it if they don't show almost everything like in the E1 trailers & such.

Poké-Badnik here is really cool, & the wheel thing is a nice thing to see since we don't see it often - it can be possible that the switch can be used in a different way/changed up slightly.

[Spooky Mulder]

(Trying to ignore most of the predicted comments here.)

I really like the concept art Friday thing, although I would like it if they don't show almost everything like in the E1 trailers & such.

Poké-Badnik here is really cool, & the wheel thing is a nice thing to see since we don't see it often - it can be possible that the switch can be used in a different way/changed up slightly.