Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing

I won the Egg Cup on Advance with Ryo and he's pretty good although he's exactly the same as Shadow.
When I played Sandy Drifts on Time Trial (current best record: 50sec with Knux) where the staff ghost plays as Amy, at the big jump part, she goes way to high! I don't why but it's like her car is 5 meters above mine.

 

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They actually liked it.

 

I think Alex the Kidd is the best racer in this. The Virtua Fighter guys have the shittiest vehicle though. It seems to take forever for a drift to get a boost, and when it does, it's lame. No other racers seem to have that problem.

 

Calm down, it only a name, the track is the same =P. It was renamed to Studio probably because the "void" in the console versions was replaced by a TV studio in the DS version. It's still cool to race on a piano keyboard etc XD.

 

When it comes to drifting through the course, which you can do very often, Sonic is by far the best character in the game. I've been testing the capabilities of each racer I think has a chance of besting the hedgehog and I keep coming up short(Although props to Aiai, he came so very close). Problem with Sonic is that he isn't easy to handle, and his car loves to just tap the edges of everything he's close to.

Although, I do love Knuckles, despite him being slow as all hell. Man is his handling and boost gain godly, if only he went fast... Still working on taking back my #1 spot. I've got to the point where I can break 31 seconds with a lot of characters, which is something people can do without much trouble anymore, according to the leaderboard.

But yeah, go Sonic, I guess. Makes sense he's fast at his own racing games.

 

I just got #9. Just that extra half second to shave off...

 

Well, AiAi has identical stats to Sonic apart from the slightly inferior boost. It's not surprising that he comes up as a very good character. Knuckles is my favourite though; being able to chain boosts so quickly while tackling those dreaded 180s in Monkey Target is a God send.

 

Which characters have the same or near to boost charge time as Opa Opa?

 

As far as I can tell, characters with duplicate stats are:

Sonic
Aiai
Billy - Amy - Bonanza Bros.
Amigo - Knuckles
Ulala - Tails
Beat - B.D. Joe
Zobio & Zobiko - Jacky & Akira
Ryo - Shadow
ChuChus - Big
Alex Kidd - Opa-Opa
Dr. Eggman - Banjo & Kazooie

* Sonic and Aiai have unique stats, as does Eggman in non 360 versions, although Aiai's are really identical to Sonic's except for a lower Turbo-Boost stat.

So if you're looking for someone with the same boost charge time as Opa-Opa, that would probably be Alex Kidd.

EDIT: Added B&K.

 

Banjo duplicate's Eggman's stats, though I seem to recall S0L mentioning that there are differences between the vehicles not expressed by their stats.

 

So my friends were watching me play as Jacky and Akira and pretty much decided that they were Ace and Gary, especially after the HIGH FIVE they give each other when air tricking...

I was just letting this go as silly jokes until now... because anyone who plays Virtua Fighter knows that there's virtually no relation between the two...

Until now.

They just hopped on top of Jacky's car and did pushups...

Jacky and Akira are so gay, and it's hilarious. Best bad character in a racer ever.

 

Not that it's any big news now, but Steam finally has the game available. For those without a Wii/PS3/360(me), you can go out and get it. Let's hope they also have Sonic 4 for download when it comes out too...

 

So, the preliminary domestic sales numbers are out for this game.

If they hold, the Wii version of ASR did worse than Sonic and the Black Knight did in its launch week.

Gulp.

 

I'd guess because a few handful got the game by other means.

 

And because a lot of retailers failed to stock it until later on in the week.

 

Well, the test will be if the numbers drop off in week 2. If they do, retail stocks aren't going to be an excuse.

 

Yeah that makes sense.

Who knows, maybe word of mouth will have some kind of effect. Everybody seems to be enjoying ASR so far, no matter which version they're playing.

Oh, and the Steam release may rack up some digits.

 

Tristan, stop using VGChartz for sales numbers.

 

If I'm using this VGChartz thing correctly, Mario Kart Wii sold 1,212,795 copies in its first week. ASR sold 1.7% of what MKWii did on the Wii, and 3.2% overall. Of course that's unfair because Mario Kart was a sequel, and everyone seems to get excited over anything Mario. It's a shame. I've gotta admit though, I haven't bought it yet. Waiting for a price drop, which sounds very likely in this situation.

If you look at the stereotypical gamer on each of these consoles though, this isn't surprising. I'll probably offend people if I go into more detail, though