Thread 719111641

Shoutout to pizza!

I haven't seen chao on the 'log in a long time...

ooo ooo

Marzipan is my hero. Truly the greatest Chao of all time.

>>719114884
damn this chao got bars

>>719114983
He's so cool...

>>719115669
If I play SA2 again I’m definitely going to make a Marzipan Chao.

>>719112716
I knew the threads would die one day. We lasted a hell of a long time, though. It's been an honor, lads.

>>719116051
:(

>>719112716
Bro... same. Last time I saw chao on the ‘log was like early 2023. Used to be weekly chill threads, garden updates, breed experiments, whole squads of Hero and Dark chao with dumb names like Blorb and Skittle. Now it's just echoes... but maybe it’s time we bring 'em back. Chao revival thread when?

>>719116525
>Last time I saw chao on the ‘log was like early 2023
Where have you been? There were weekly chao threads on here since November of last year until July of this year.

>>719116051
I refuse

It's chaover...

>>719111641 (OP)
I spent so much time in these gardens and with the Sonic Adventure games in general as a kid and teen. I still revisit them occasionally. No other Sonic games replicate this whole experience. The Adventure games were genuinely ahead of their time. Even if I've fallen out of love with Sonic since for various reasons, I'll never shit on these games, they're classics.
Now, I will say (as I've said before) that I prefer the concept of SA1's gardens being part of the world instead of SA2's Chao World being some weird disconnected alternate reality place. SA1 really makes you feel like you could find a Chao Garden anywhere if you look. And on that note, what would be your ideal Chao Garden environment? Imagine a desert garden, or a cave garden, or even an arctic garden. Imagine if they impacted how Chao evolved, like how the Hero and Dark Gardens do. We could have had all that and more if SEGA weren't retarded. God damn it! I'll never even be able to raise Chao with my favorite girl, either...

winston churchill

>>719112716
>>719116525
People make weekly friday ones. They just die after like 40 posts.

>>719121261
The chao concept was ultimately underused, but they were a good sink of effort that gave you incentive to replay stages for the animals and upgrades.

The biggest missing feature was the ability to take them back out into the Adventure stages, like the PSOline mags. I feel that would make them a more complete addition to the game. Less a mostly disconnected mini-game but instead an integral part of the core gameplay.

We can dream but honestly when are we going to get the godlike SA1 controls. It's been over 20 years and every time I play a recent Sonic game it's like he moves by glitching. SA2 went in the wrong direction.

>>719121261
I always felt like Sega got pretty fucking lazy after they went third party. Heroes was a major downgrade in terms of features and controls.
In a way its probably a blessing. If Sega dug up chao gardens corpse just to half ass it I would be significantly more pissed off than if they just let it stay dead.

>>719123723
>I always felt like Sega got pretty fucking lazy after they went third party.
I always thought of it as shattered morale.
The whole Shadow gun game thing was like a teen acting out after their parents divorced.

le sigh. the days of running around and treating the maps like sandboxes in sa2. getting the weird sea monster things. running around in green forest, so on.
now i'm just a 25 year old khhv with a job i hate (which i'm gonna get like maybe 3 hours of sleep for tonight because i woke up at 1pm and have to get up at 7:30am tomorrow)

>>719123951
Well the dreamcast did crash and burn pretty hard, so I could see how they were demoralized. But now a days they have no excuse. It's been almost 3 decades since SA2 came out. You know its bad when the fucking new bubsy game looks more fun than their latest attempts at the franchise.

>>719111641 (OP)
I miss them.

no one posts their chao anymore so the thread cant survive.

>>719127318
I have all 3 types of Chaos Chao, but I don't have a good screenshot or recording device from my Wii.

>>719129305
Taking pics with your phone is fine anon

>>719127318
I simply lack the autism to sit in the chao garden for multiple hours a day anymore.

Why can't you guys just post on /vr/ and make the board actually postable? It's looking like another copy of nu/v/ by the day.

>>719130178
/vr/ was fucked as soon as they allowed gen 6th. SA2 shouldn't be a "retro" game in the same vein sonic 1 is.