Small suggestion. Perhaps Tails' tails should be shown in his signpost art? It's looking rather blank. :/ Just an Example. Made these a long time ago, not intended to be used.
I had an idea for a series of bosses. How about 7 badniks each designed around the 7 coloured emeralds? They would be slightly tougher and more agressive then a regular badnick but you fight them one after the other to create a sort of boss. Wasn't sure how it should work though, either the less emeralds you collect the more robotnick has so the more of them you have to fight as a sort of punishment, or it could be that the more you colelct the more you have to fight and in that respect its sort of like an extra challange for the people who take the time to go in all the special stages. That and its a good excuse for people to have a go at designing 7 new distinct enemies.
<!--quoteo(post=263785:date=Jan 6 2009, 12:06 AM:name=Chimpo)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Chimpo @ Jan 6 2009, 12:06 AM) [/quote] WIP, don't say shit about shading since I'm not done yet. [/quote] This is absolutely beautiful. Shouldn't he have a nose though? I'll see how it looks. EDIT:
<!--quoteo(post=265650:date=Jan 9 2009, 08:43 PM:name=synchronizer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (synchronizer @ Jan 9 2009, 08:43 PM) [/quote] WIP, don't say shit about shading since I'm not done yet. [/quote] This is absolutely beautiful. Shouldn't he have a nose though? I'll see how it looks. EDIT: [/quote] I don't think it suits a nose, besides that I don't think a robot would need a sense of smell. He probably has radar or something much more useful.
<!--quoteo(post=265719:date=Jan 9 2009, 06:20 PM:name=fifthelephant)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (fifthelephant @ Jan 9 2009, 06:20 PM) [/quote] I don't think it suits a nose, besides that I don't think a robot would need a sense of smell. He probably has radar or something much more useful. [/quote] Although even if they didn't need a sense of smell, all previous Mecha Sonics had a nose. This MK-III or whatever it's called could have one too, just to follow the line.
Some small edits. Now it need swimming animation. I think, that bottom one is better, but im not sure... What you think?
I dig that a lot. My only beef with it really is that the back of its head kind of looks like feathers. I guess it's because of the length. Or maybe I'm just retarded...
So is this the Sonic robot Tails is going to fight or are we still sticking with Metal Sonic? Going by Chimpo's storyboards in the general project thread, of course.
<!--quoteo(post=265738:date=Jan 9 2009, 07:03 PM:name=Thundertimi)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Thundertimi @ Jan 9 2009, 07:03 PM) Some small edits. Now it need swimming animation. I think, that bottom one is better, but im not sure... What you think?[/quote] The bottom one is better, I am liking it! Question is.. what type of level do you want to see it in?
I was thinking about underground zone, but I don't want to decide it myself. About that robot. If tails Is actually fighting it, so... Stupid idea?
The whole point of the fight was to get something as close as a Sonic vs. Tails fight. A Tails vs. Tails fight doesn't seem that all appealing, at least to me.
To be quite honest, I'd rather see Sonic fight a Metal Tails, and vice versa. Still, the art here looks fantastic! It seems detailed, which was all the bitching was about on the other forums. So you all seem to have got your benchmark for some of these. :v: EDIT: Punctuation >.>
How about this instead, if you play as Sonic alone then you face Metal Sonic alone, if you play as Tails alone then you face Metal Tails, but if you play as Sonic and Tails then you will face Metal Sonic and Metal Tails together. It may be very difficult to program the AI though, it might be interesting to give them extra moves when faced together (metal tails can pick up metal sonic and hover over you to drop him, or metal tails could make attempts to grab you and metal sonic could attack you while 'pinned').
I kinda like this, but I don't think it could fit with the stories and the split paths in the General project & feedback thread. And maybe it's just me, but a metal tails just doesn't seem intimidating at all.
Tails Doll? But that's the point. It isn't intimidating, meaning it's more of a surprise when the player ultimately gets owned by it.
I think the previous idea that Sonic will fight Dr Eggma, Tails will fight Silver Sonic, and Knuckles will fight Fang is excellent. On the contrary the idea of a Metal Tails seems very poor. A such character is a little bit ridiculous. Then, just translating the concept of a metal character from Sonic to an other character is a sort of copy and paste without flavor.
I personally don't like the whole Tails has to fight Metal Sonic thing. Why not have it like Sonic 2 where each character goes through pretty much the same story?