[GeneHF]

Sonic Shorts having bad parts isn't a shock. It's always been hit-or-miss. Some bits are home runs, others try too hard and aren't really funny.

Also forcing the Tails Doll meme more in some way.

[Overlord]

Too tired to write anything in depth right now, but I enjoyed the show. Missed the above mentioned incident too, fortunately. Neowl, man. Completely missed you, sorry! Bizarre how you weren't showing on the tweet feed. I think Nova had entirely too much fun with that. =P Lost World is pretty much a solid 60fps and fun enough to play, though I played the autorun level so it's difficult to give more impressions and I'm too tired to think right now. Expect more on Monday. 3DS plays like a cutdown version of the WiiU one with a lower frame rate.

[Nova]

Hashtag Summerofsonic for life

Will do a write-up of my own later

[Sploit]

Well I don't know what anyone looks like, so I didn't really meet anyone from here or the other forum, although my Mii did meet a lot of other people's Miis via street pass and I recognised some of the nicknames...so that was kinda cool. I get over 100hits on it and prior to that owning my 3DS for well over a year I had only had 12 hits lol.

When I first arrived I went into the main hall, wandered around in there, then headed through to the other room and joined a random queue which lead to a Crush 40 merchant store and I bought the Crush 40 Live CD for £20 (I did go to the Sonic Merch stand prior to that but it was too packed to even get a look in so I went back later), after buying the CD I followed the line further to meet the artist Ferran Rodriguez and got a knuckles sketch off him, really nice guy (he brought some of his original art work with him and it was incredible, I recognised the knuckles poster piece). After that I went away from that area. Already met the two Nigel's before at a couple of the previous summer of sonics - (Nigel kitching was actuallybone of my drawing teachers at university for 3 years) - and whilst it would be nice to meet them again a lot interested in meeting them and it was pretty busy in that area so I decided to move on.

I then went to the special effect table and bought 4 raffle ticket strips, and made my way back to the main hall. The queue for the wii u version of lost world was insane so I didn't bother with it, but the 3DS one had no queue, so I got a go on that easily. Had a go on sonic dash afte that but didn't submit my score for the competition thing, 'cause I did really badly at it for some reason (had been playing it a lot recently)! With regard to the 3DS version of lost world -it did feel Very Slow for a sonic game, but it was fun. I went to the iizuka san signing, was near the area early to ensure I got in, as I really couldn't wait to finally meet one of the devs, he was really friendly and humble, very nice guy the item I got signed by him was the booklet from my sonic adventure 2 japanese copy - from the Sonic 10th Anniversary birthday pack game set- which I got off ebay a couple of years back. Was going to get my sonic 3 cart signed but felt it might be a bit small. The signature I got off iizuka was done in a black pen cause I forgot to give him my silver marker. I said it was on honour to meet him and he shook my hand and said thanks for coming.

After this I went to watch the mega drive band, recorded some footage of the street of rage part of their set. They were a very entertaining band. I opted not to go the the signing session for jun senoue, because I have already met him twice and thought I would give others chance (from what I heard he had the biggest queue waiting), plus I wanted to watch the Hoshino q&a as his attendance was definitely the biggest thing for me this time around. Brilliant session and I recorded a small snippet of it. I left the q&a early to get a good place in the queue for the Hoshino signing session, as meeting him was gonna be the highlight for me (I studied computer games art at university sonic and the other characters are what really makes the games for me, I would like to become a character designer myself). So meeting Hoshino, one of my artistic heroes and being a sonic team character designer, he is a huge influence, it was definitely the biggest deal. I opted to get my Sonic Cd PC copy - the outer big box - signed because even though I have the mega cd version, it was the pc version I played first and my copy has a lot of sentimental value to me. Again Hoshino was a really nice guy, very friendly, and humble (in his q&a it was clear he had confidence in his designs which I thought was very cool), I shook his hand said it was an honour to meet him and thanked him, then went to exit the venue.

After the Hoshino San signing I left to catch the five o clock train back home from king's cross.

If anyone is interested I can post pictures and the two videos I recorded.

Side note: Agree with others on the rare merchandise cabinet, was definitely less of great interest in the cabinet this time around.

This post has been edited by Sploit: 04 August 2013 - 12:37 PM

[Scarred Sun]

$25 bounty for anyone who can get me footage of the fan that lost it in the signing queue

[Sploit]

Scarred Sun, on 04 August 2013 - 12:41 PM, said:

$25 bounty for anyone who can get me footage of the fan that lost it in the signing queue

I never even or heard about this until seeing this thread...it's kind of of a shame for them though I think.

Meeting them is something I imagine most would love the opportunity to do, I am very grateful that I got the chance.

First time I've met any of my games related heroes aside from jun senoue in 2010 and 2011 when I was stuck outside.

I've been fortunate enough to meet people from some classic bands though, guns n roses members both past and present (my favourite band - got meet and greets for some and met others after small gigs), members of love/hate, the singer from Hanoi rocks, members of ash, erm black stone cherry -cant think of any others right now.

[GeneHF]

Thing is, Senoue is usually always at these fan events, so it's not really hard to track him down. Iizuka is also rather frequent. Throwing a hissy fit about missing either of them is silly (though the idea of a 20+ man throwing a tantrum like a child in public is hilarious.)

Hoshino, however, this is his first time at one of these for the West. He's a more interesting signature target, moreso if you're into character designing (and I know a fair few of you are.)

The "biggest" one, and I could understand being upset if you missed it, was having Naka, Oshima, and Yasuhara all together. That's basically the holy trinity in Sonic. Throw in Nakamura and you have every key figure in Sonic you'll ever need to concern yourself over.

[Sploit]

I'd love to meet oshima and any of the other character designers. Oshima would be incredible due to the fact that his character concept/design basically started it all. Personally it would also be a huge honour to meet yuda as he created knuckles (my favourite character from the series, I also think mighty is awesome so meeting kusunoki would be epic (dunno who created ray, but ray is great too and in my opinion they both need to make a return in some form :D )! Meeting uekawa would be interesting and I think a q&a with him would be interesting since he could be asked more about his process of redesigning sonic and co.

UK fans did not get the chance to meet oshima or yasuhara I don't think.

I missed out on meeting naka as I could not get into so SoS 11...

I have naka's autograph though as I bought a signed knuckles plush of a collectors website. And I got iizuka's on the colours (or colors) game from the SEGA play for Japan auctions.

EDIT: appears kusunoki designed ray too, awesome!

This post has been edited by Sploit: 04 August 2013 - 02:02 PM

[Pengi]

Is there a transcript or video of the Q&As?

[Sploit]

I dunno I hope so. I have a small clip of Hoshino answering a question regarding the tails doll from sonic r. Which was quite interesting.

(He is not the creator of the tails doll and apparently it was originally meant to be a level gimmick on one of the tracks, and the aim would've been to shoot it, the designer of tails doll, is the lead background artist on lost world!)

But I never saw the Iizuka q&a so some footage would be cool, will upload my short snippet clip from the Hoshino q&a if people are interested.

[Overlord]

My understanding is there's recordings of the Iizuka & Hoshino sessions (I know for a fact I was next to someone shooting them, if they want to reveal themselves =P), so we can get transcriptions of those if need be.

Really good weekend, enjoyed it (though as is usual for Retro, we dodged most of the show events in favour of the signings & Q&As). Pubbage with board members is always welcome. =)

Again, too tired for a full writeup right now, but look forward to my customary summary piece in the next few days on the front page, plus the dev interviews & Lost World impressions courtesy of the other staff & members who were there.

[Jen]

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(I know for a fact I was next to someone shooting them, if they want to reveal themselves =P)

Hello Orenge is going to upload the videos to his youtube at some point soon.

I really enjoyed the event this year. I'll write about it properly tomorrow once I've gotten some sleep, but basically the event itself was good fun and the barcade runs were awesome (as always) :D

[Overlord]

News coverage begins!

http://www.sonicretr...-sonic-edition/

Can I ask everyone who went to SoS and wants to add to the writeup piece for Sonic Lost World to get their text to me by the end of tonight, as discussed? Either PM me the text here on Retro or get hold of me on IRC to discuss a delivery method. I'd like to get this up and published some time Tuesday so that Nik has the rest of the week for his interview pieces.

[Sploit]

Do you just want different people's opinions or first impressions of it? Like a few comments about it? I only played the 3DS version of it, but can send you a few comments if it would be of any help.

[Overlord]

Sploit, on 05 August 2013 - 01:22 PM, said:

Do you just want different people's opinions or first impressions of it? Like a few comments about it? I only played the 3DS version of it, but can send you a few comments if it would be of any help.

Sure, I'm happy to take a few comments about it - just what you thought of the game from what you played, really.