Welcome to the Sky Sanctuary Poll. Scroll on down to the bottom, and there
will be two questions. One regarding Sonic, the other regarding videogames
in general. Answer whichever one you want, or you can answer 'em both.
Remember that this isn't a quiz or anything...it's a poll, so feel free to
explain your opinions.
The Sky Sanctuary Poll is updated every Saturday, which means that two new
questions will be posted and the results to the previous weeks poll will be
displayed. I guess that covers it, so dig in!
I love it..................................
Yes, nice indeed. TJ is one beautiful singer. I like the extended SuperSonic Racing for SS on Radiant Emerald. I hate the "C'mon run away" bit, but when the key changes towards the end and she just keeps screaming "Everybody" and "SuperSonic Racing", it's sublime. :D
I didn't like it that much at first, but I love it now!! I stick it in my CD player!!!! SOMETIMES I ASK MYSELF, WHAT AM I DOING HERE? (I really freak out if I answer myself.) [That's funny, I don't...]
I don't hate it and I don't love it, but it's definitely super-cool... they shoulda had a bit more variety, though... and BTW, I've tried taping my watch to my forehead, but it's really hard to see the time... [You're not supposed to see the time! Taping a watch to your forehead keeps salesmen, old teachers, and unwanted relatives away. Put boxer shorts on your head and it also scares kids.]
I love it. Radical City and Recative Facory are the best of all the songs. -- Ecco The Dolphin
I haven't heard it, but from everyone singing it.... It's gotta be great!! [Well, I think so, but I know there are a few weird ones out there who despise it with a passion...]
Well,at least 2 outta 5 aint bad. [Actually, there are six if you count the ending song, "Number 1". Which two did you like?]
Love it! its hot! uhhh I had to rent it But you can buy it for me!! -- Clarence33 [Are you kidding? I won't even share my own copy with my siblings...]
IT RULES!!!!!!!!!(I TRIED IT AT A VIDEO GAME STORE WHEN DEBATING WEATHER TO BUY A SATURN OR WAIT UNTIL DURAL COMES OUT.- ULTRA HEDGEHOG (HELP I'M STUCK IN CAPS) [I can solve this problem for everyone (no, not the caps). Buy both! Duh!]
Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!! [admin note: About a million exclamation points deleted...]
I just *love* it, especially both Radiant Emerald tracks and the end song at the credits. It is just so cool!
When I played it that one time at my local mall, the music in it was great for a Sonic racing game! Perfect!
Why must there ALWAYS be these dichotomies? Can't we just be indifferent? Are we not human and oft-incapable of making up our own minds? Sorry... ranting... I'll say this much... it makes great victory lap music. It's got a definite rhythm to it which definitely helps out on timing. As for the words... I'll just use the GEQ (graphic equalizer for you technically declined) to mute them out. The music is great, but the lyrics... could use a little retouching here and there. [Uh...why don't you just use the option to turn the vocals off?]
I like it . It`s a little sappy esp. living in the city . My fave is the can you feel the sunshine one. But usually I`m so busy trying ( & failing ) to stay on track. [You wimp. I got the hang of the control in a half hour. And now the track layout is burned so deep into my mind, it's a challenge to try to stray off it! (It's murder in the "5 Balloons" mode...]
Donaldo says "Yes. I like it a lot." Jonothon Pears says "Want a pancake? I got my pan right here!" [Donaldo is my Uncle, and has been disowned by the family.]
{Bill} Sammy! Wipe your bottom BEFORE putting your underpants on! Oh, yuck!" {Sammy} Sorry, Bill. Hey, George, want some.. uhh... chocolate?? {George} Sure, thanks! Mmmmm! [Eeewwww...now THAT is SICK! It reminds me of a similar event with Possessed Spam and I a few weeks ago...]
Lemme get this straight: You do NOT know who Monty Python is? Get a life. (And while you're at it rent "And Now For Something Completely Different".) If you had seen Monty Python stuff, you would know that the first four smart-@$$ comments on last week's poll were all connected... [Well, I thought he might've been some deadly giant snake or something...like Nessie, ya know?]
Green, Green, Green... Let's have *you* take care of k.a. for a week and see if you have time to think about video games. And another thing... when Saturn has an all Knuckles RPG... I'll get one. -- Moon P.S. How'd you know about Mario's mafia connections? I thought I told them it was a classified sting operation! [So dump K.A. into an orphanage and use your darn time for games! Games are more important than family, especially at this time of year! What's wrong with you? (BTW, I've suspected Mario's links with the mafia for some time now. I happen to be close personal friends with the yellow Yoshi, and he happens to know that Luigi was a government spy.)]
Errr, umm, I told you I don't have a Saturn yet! But I'm gettin one for Xmas! I know cause I wrapped it! Uhh, don't ask. [Good boy. But why wait? Go and open it up now, then blame it on your dad! It works for me every year!]
Would you PLEASE stop askin' Saturn questions! You KNOW I don't have a Saturn and it gives me a headache! RRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH...... -- The Silver Sonic [So here's an idea...GET ONE! Sheesh...]
I thought I told you to stay out of my whip cream pool!!! I found a huge green furball in it this morning! If I catch you in there one more time I'm gonna, gonna, I'm gonna do somethin so bad I don't even know what it is yet!! [I told you, it's an imposter! I only swim in lemon gelatin...just ask the Jell-O company!]
THE BUNKEY! THE BUNKEY WILL GET YOU! BUAHAHAHAHA!!!! *drool* --The idiot formerley known as Blue Hog! [This Bunkey is all bark and no bite, I'm tellin' ya...]
Geez Gibbon, there you go with the Saturn Questions again! You stink! I hate you! Errrr, just kidding...I WAS JUST KIDDING!!!!! *Hides from Possessed Spam* AHHHHH!!!!!! *Equips his "SPAMSHIELD!"!* Save me from the wrath of Possessed Spam! -- ~JM Stalker [First, you're going to go right down to the mall and BUY a Saturn. (And while you're there, you're going to pick me up a second N64 controller {the yellow one!}, a stereo connector for my PlayStation, a multi-player adapter for my Saturn, a Cid Highwind and/or Aeris Gainsborough action figure, and some take-out Chinese.) And when you get back, if everything's in working condition, I might tell Possessed Spam not to blow up on you...]
Beavis: Eh heh heh......heh heh.....heh heh......fire.....heh heh..... Butthead: Shut up, Beavis. Beavis: You shut up, you butt. Butthead: You're screwed, Beavis. You ain't got no nads. Beavis: Neither do you.....eh heh heh......fire......fire...... [I really don't know why I don't watch that show...it seems to match my intelligence level pretty closely...]
Noooooo! [admin note: *GG! slaps his hand over Cloud's mouth, thus saving all unfortunate parties from a major FFVII spoiler*] -- ~Cloud Strife [Zoinks, don't spoil it for everyone! That's the single greatest plot twist since Ghaleon's return in Eternal Blue (and I hope to goodness you've all seen that by now, otherwise you're hopelessly behind...)! Sheesh, maybe I should put up a security system around here...]
You still haven't answered my question, What's Sonic R? (You know, it was very RUDE to obliterate me like that without even answering my question!) [What are you doing here?! I thought I obliterated you last time! As for Sonic R...to quote Laura Petrie, "Well if you don't know, I'm certainly not going to tell you!"]
Well, when I don't know the tune and you keep on singing it over and over again, GG! . . . I HATE IT! . . . I'll probably like it better once I've heard the tune, though. =] -- Jim Doe [Here's an idea...GET THE STINKING GAME! Do I have to spell everything out for you people?! Darn, you must all be honor graduates of the modern public schooling system, huh?]
I love the song that goes "Smash the Democrat, he's askin' for it, just pop him right between the eyes . . . Smash the Democrat, you know you really want to, so rare back and smack him good . . . " Oh, yah, baby . . . dig those groovin' tunes . . . [Whoah...I never heard that one, but could you tell me where I can find the album?]
Which describes how you're feeling all the time/which describes how you're feeling/how you're feeling all the time/There's this guy in the sky/and he makes you want to/want to make you sigh like the time/when you felt like you're feeling all the time/and you sighed at the cracks in the ceeling all the time/You said "I'm feeling fine"/but it didn't really rhyme/it didn't rhyme with the work/overseas/Which describes how you're feeling all the time/when you lie that your life's unappealing all the time/You said "I'm feeling fine"/but it didn't really rhyme/it didn't rhyme with the work overseas/Overseas there's this guy/who describes how you're feeling all the time/From behind distant lines/even straighter than his spine/which is fine/which is fine/and describes how you're feeling all the time. -They Might Be Giants I'll get you guys hooked on TMBG yet! [I've heard their stuff already, but they've got nothin' over Richard Jaques!]
Sonicr: I'm getting it the 20th! In the meantime, *In the end who's on your side, who can you trust in the middle of the night, where will ya' be if we can't find you , there's no place to go, nothn' to do! Cosmic Eternity! [So, if you're reading this right now, you should be ashamed, 'cause you SHOULD be playing. So go play Sonic R already!]
I dont know (you should put WAV files up so evryone can hear the songs that is if you have the space) [Well, I am low on space, but I could always get more if I wanted. (I have ways...mwahahahaha!) The main problem is that there are none available on the internet, and I don't have the necessary equipment to record them myself. So, there's one easy way to solve this problem...JUST BUY THE DARN GAME, PEOPLE!!! Geez, meet the future generation of Democrats!]
Metal Sonic: Okay.. Metal Tails you put on the dress and stand over there. Metal Knuckles, you wack the Gibbon with this big stick when he goes to see Metal Tails. Any questions? Metal Knuckles: How much is Clinton paying us again? Metal Tails: How come I always have to wear the dress? [Don't try to fool me, 'cause I done established myself as a fool since years before you KNEW I was a fool!]
You hate It? HOW COULD YOU!!!! NOW YOU'VE HURT IT'S FEELINGS!!!! [Hate it? Heck no, I love the Sonic R music! Infact, so did everyone else here! Those game magazines are plain nuts...I'm beginning to think they're comprised of *gasp* casual gamers! I had three game magazine subscriptions running...one just ran out, one's about to run out, and one runs out next year. I'm not gonna resubscribe to any of 'em.]
Attackkk, of he Killer Tomatoes, Ataaaaaaack of the Killer Tomatoes....
SO?? I had $500 just a few weeks ago!! So there!!!! It's not my fault there was about a million different games I wanted!! [Okay, smart guy...where, pray tell, did you get $500?]
What are you talking about? IS THIS SOME SORT OF TRICK?! You Democrats think you're SOOOO smart, don't you? Trying to trick us into answering these stupid questions . . . well, fah on you! I shant answer a one of them. Naught is my answer! Freedom is my weapons! DIE DEMOCRATIC SCUM! KI-YA! [Er...actually, I'm a Republican (as if any of you couldn't tell) and I just ask these questions to kill time...]
We of the Dweezle Corporation have no comment on this matter. However, you CAN quote us on THIS: "Whether you're in a galactic war to save the universe, or enjoying a smooth Dr. Pepper on top of a pile of hubcaps in your nearest junkyard, just remember that life is like a box of Dweezle 9000s. You never know what's going to explode and cover everything with Chocolaty Goodness(tm) next." Thank you for your time, patience, and whatever may have been left of your sanity. If anything. -- Staff of Board Members, Dweezle Corporation [If this keeps up, I'm gonna have to start charging for advertising space...]
Hate it. That damn high pitch squeel blew my speakers out. I don't recommend this album at all. [You're not supposed to play the first track, moron!]
Why do birds suddenly appear, every time Super Tails' near? Just like me, they want to be kickin' butt . . . [I might be wrong, but I believe its the same instinct that drives them to fly around new cars...]
In the night, dreams delight, I want to see you standing there. [This place has been getting very musical lately, hasn't it?]
Polly: Who grabbed my butt? Guido: It wasn't me! Polly: Meowzma! Meowzma: I didn't do it! I'm a happily married cat! [Hee, hee, hee...I don't remember that one, but I do remember a similar case where Speedy, Polly, Guido, and Meowzma were on Prisoner Island. Something takes a swipe at Polly, so she turns to Speedy and yells: "You just watch your hands, buster!" And then Speedy says: "It wasn't me!" (or something to that effect). Then someone takes a swipe at Guido, who turns angrily to Meowzma and says: "Oh, so you're the wise guy, huh?" And them Meowzma says: "No, really, I'm married!" (As it turns out, the culprit was a giant snake, but that's beside the point...)]
Why yes, I'd love a ben burrito. [Who's Ben?]
The Blue Gorilla is superior in every way to the gibbon! Stronger, faster, smarter, and better at all video games! Ha! Ha! Ha!*laughs insanely for half an hour* [Of course, and that's just your problem. You're SMARTER than me! You admitted it! Ha, ha, ha, ha!]
It's getting better, I guess. But the thingy is, at least on PCs, programmers don't bother making their games compact and stuff anymore. They get lazy programming-wise, and when they find that it's too sloppy for less powerful computers (ie P230s!) they just say, "Oh, upgrade your computers". But on consoles, they GOTTA stick with the hardware, except when they release upgrade cartridges and crap. Ah well. [One of the major reasons I take console gaming over PC gaming anyday. Graphics and system power are just superficial, but if you even want to PLAY PC games, you have to upgrade your system everytime you turn around.]
Were slipping into a rut with a spring in it. Non-metaphorical version: Were temporarily slipping into a rut. When the Katana (formerly known as Dural, yes the name DID change, just ask SaturnWorld or Next Generation) arrives, we'll be out of the rut and be gaming away while our minds dissolve. Video games...You gotta love 'em! -- D-H Sonic F http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Battlefield/9413/
Rut. Definatly a rut. How many friggin MK games are they gonna come out with?!?! Have you seen the latest one? Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub Zero. It don't get much dumber than that. I haven't seen anythin orignal since NiGHTS! *walks of grumblin* [Lets just hope Midway takes the hint after MK Mythologies flops like a wet pancake from a chef with lousy aim...]
With games like NiGHTS!!! It's getting really good!!! Wait till we have fully interactive VR games!!!!
well, when it comes to graphics and sound and special FX, it's definitely getting better.... but in my opinion, when it comes to the actual gameplay and originality... well, it's getting a bit tough to find any Really good stuff...
How can you ask such a stupid question? Gaming is in its finest hour! I mean, uhhh......how can a multibillion dollar industry slip into a rut? Oh yeah, I remember! IT'S CAUSE ALL THE GOOD RPGS ARE EATING T+ RATINGS!!! Darn, they're blocking all people with little brothers under the age of 13 from getting any friggin' good games! It stinks! -- ~JM Stalker [So don't let your little brother play 'em! And man, they're lucky to be getting "T" ratings. If I'd be in charge, Final Fantasy VII would've gotten a well-deserved "M"...]
It's getting much worse. If people think that a "new" version of Rampage or putting Diddy Kong into a go-kart is cool, they suck! [Hey, are you insulting my gaming taste? Putting Diddy Kong into a go-cart is far from cool, but it is damn fun.]
Are you kidding me? Of course ot's getting better! Except for the fact that there's a TR2.... DIE, LARA, DIE!!!! [Yes, kill her! KILL HER! If I hear one more male gamer so much as allude to Lara Croft naked, I'm going to have a coronary. Blah, that chick is gross!]
I think we're just getting too good. I dunno. I mean, when it gets to the point where I rent a game for a week, and then end up not playing it for five days out of that week because I've beaten it the day after I'd rented it, you gotta know SOMEthing's wrong. Oh, well. Maybe that'll change once I get a Playstation and FFVII . . . probably not, though. It's actually a pity. Are they purposefully making games too easy nowadays, or am I just really that good? Oh, well. I'm off to make Level 20 on Tetris on my Game Boy again . . . -- Jim Doe [Trust me, there's no way in hell you're going to beat FFVII the day after you get it. You may be hard-pressed to find any other games that can hold that claim, though...]
Geez, I was about to go on to all my reg'lar goofy entries to the poll when I suddenly realized that I'm not done talking about my real answer yet. I mean, I don't think it matters what system I'm playing when I beat these games. I massacred Star Wars: Rebel Assault II for the Playstation in just one night. I rented Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island for the SNES a while ago, and beat it the second day I had it. Within a week I had beaten Sonic 3 & Knuckles for Genesis with Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails respectively, all of them with the Super Emeralds. It's not that vidgames are boring me or anything . . . it's just, you'd think they'd make 'em harder, wouldn't you? Feh, they were probably made easier for the friggin' casual gamers, I bet! Dangit! DEATH TO CASUAL GAMERS!!!! -- Jim Doe [Oh, so you're starting to see it my way, eh? Casual gamers aren't worthy to exist among the rest of us! If you're looking for a challenge, may I suggest Diddy Kong Racing, Sega Touring Car, and Mega Man X4?]
DEPENDS ON WHAT TYPE... RACING-WE HAVE TWO NEW ONES ON TWO DIFFRENT SYSTEMS(N64-DONKEY KONG SATURN-SONIC R) FIGHTING- UH, HELP ME! ROLE PLAYING GAMES: TOO MANY TO LIST (SONIC, FFVII, NiGHTS, ECT,ECT) LOOKING AT THIS, WE ARE GETTING BETTER, BUT WE'RE IN A RUT IN OUR IDEAS. -- ULTRA HEDGEHOG [Sonic and NiGHTS are platformers (NiGHTS debatably so), not RPG's...]
Better! *Sonikku! *cool music plays** I've been playing Sonic JamWAYY to much. (That's not a bad thing, tho')
I think we are slipping into a rut, but when Sega's new console comes out gaming will just get better. (Nintendo were getting boring. In a new alternate lifetime, there will be no Mario, no Nintendo and no Playstation! Ha ha! Sorry, I got a little carried away.)
IMHO, I think gaming has been the same as it always was. We still have non-violent game such as Sonic, NiGHTS, and Bug! Violent ones, and ones about hit movies and stuff like that. Gaming's been the same if you ask me.
Well, the games certainly have more than a few extra bells and whistles... but is that a good thing? Not really. Most of the games for the N64 (they're pulling out of it now) were just designed to show off the capabilities of the new system. No actual fun... I heard rumors of people beating StarFox 64 for the first time less than an hour after first getting the game. The first Sonic game took longer to beat (and beat properly, with all the emeralds) than that. As for the Saturn... it's not quite so bad. NiGHTS was great, and Sonic Jam and Sonic R sort of built on the legacy. Hmm... Sonic R... I'll have to buy it one of these days, if I can find a store that still has it in stock... The PlayStation is getting better, no question at all. Final Fantasy VII is easily the most impressive (visually) RPG of all time... especially those nifty summon spells. (Personal faves: Alexander, Knights of the Round, and the Bahamut series... and Choco/Mog for the occasional comic relief.) As for the games coming out... I've played the demos. Intelligent Qube promises to be a most excellent puzzle/action game, and Pa-Rappa adds a new dimension to the whole "follow-the-leader" idea. Gaming is getting better, simply because the technology has improved. But it's a question of whether developers are going to USE that technology or just show it off. Quite frankly... the first Sonic game was quite probably the most challenging of the series... though Sonic CD and Sonic 3D Blast (especially the Volcano Valley Robotnik) have their moments as well. And FF VII is actually a bit easier to beat than the first Final Fantasy... if for no other reason than because it's more fun to build up levels. Although there's a depth in that game that most non-Squaresoft RPG's lack... with the possible exception of PS IV. So... gaming is getting a lot more visually impressive and a bit more fun. Better? I certainly hope so. [Whoah, I think that's the record longest response ever! To be fair, I wouldn't say the N64 was quite that bad off. Games like Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing, aside from showing off the system's capabilities (DKR only debatably so) also have an incredible fun factor. They're few and far between, but they are there. Although I must argue that fun factor is no kind of trade-off for extra challenge (easier or not, I'd still rather be playing FFVII than FF1 anyday).]
Graphics,hmm... good. The rest of it... ugly :(
The graphics get better no question but it`s debatable if anything is new besides making everything 3-D polygon enviroments.
Um...let's see, I'll say better-NO WAIT, that's wrong it's getting worse, 'cause...um, 'cuz...no, no, it's better...um..no...I dunno, is this gonna be on the test? [Test-schmest, this is a pop-quiz worth 50% of your entire grade for the year!]
I would but it fell on my foot.....Oh, wait....wrong poll. --Blue Hog!
Gibbon!, I must ask you a very important question. It's very important! LISTEN TO ME!!!!!! Now, the question is...hey, look at me! The question is......d'oh, I forgot! [Uh...could you repeat the question?]
Locke: Father, what's with all these democrat jokes? Enerjak: I am unsure. When last I heard, America was still a democracy. But of course, when Canada takes over...who's to say, eh? [*Athair appears out of nowhere* ATHAIR: You stupid fools! America was never a lone democracy! It's a democracy within a republic, and it's been that way since they designed the Constitution! Sheesh...now I remember why I disowned the family...]
Were getting better, but we still make too many damn sequals! Anyone see Scream 2? Saw it with my girlfriend... then I figued out I ate too many free drano cookies and I was sitting next to George Wint!! -- Top Spiffy! [Free Drano cookies?! Where?! WHERE?!]
Mmmm...Carmen Electra..... -- Top Spiffy! [Any relation to Carmen San Diego? Speaking of her, where in the heck is she, anyways?]
Bah! No matter! My Dweezle 9000 will revitalize the gaming industry no matter what its condition is! We are the world! We are the children! We don't know the rest of this song! Have you bought your Dweezle today? (This was a public service message from Dweezle Enterprises. Remember, we won't work hard and you don't have to.) [Hmm...more unauthorized advertising...y'know, I smell profits...]
Uhh what exactly is a rut and why are you harassing me about it! Yea! I see you watching me all of the time asking me the same damn question are we gitting into a rut are we gitting into a rut leave me alone ahhhhhhhhhhh stay the @%#$ away from me GG!!!!! -- Clarence33 [Uh...okay...]
Its getting uhh one of em. [Uh...huh?]
Videogame awards, cool! But it will be put to shame by South Island's "Create your ultimate videogame!" [We'll just see about that!]
Metal Knuckles: Okay..I got one. A gibbon, an echidna, and a possessed meat product walk into a bar... Metal Sonic: I've heard this one already. Metal Tails: I don't get it... why am I always the one that has to wear the dress? [Y'know, I bet Metal Sonic/Metal Knuckles/Metal Tails could replace Scratch/Grounder/Coconuts if they weren't so seriously cool...]
AHHHH!!!! WATCH OUT FOR THE RUUUUUUUTTTTTT!!!!!!!! STOP SLIPPIIIIIING!!!! *goes on screaming and yelling for some time* [Hey, there's a hole right there...]
Naughty gibbon . . . using words like "getting"! You should be ashamed! [Ashamed? Why? Then I'd only feel bad! I don't care what anyone says...giving's okay, but the best part is getting and we all know it!]
Boy howdy . . . that Major Kusanagi sure is a chick, ain't she? [Uh...izzat the chick from Ghost in the Shell? Or are you talking about a different Kusanagi?]
Don't get cocky, it's gonna get rocky! We gonna move down to
the next ya jockey now! [Don't count on that making the top 40...]