Alright, my dad likes baseball, hunting, and plane games, none of which I know anything about. I have a wii, gamecube, and a PC. What would be your recommendation?

I'd say they're trying to follow the money. And even if it fails, people will buy it, full price, and defend it.

I've played it, and from my experience, this game suffers severely from broken controls. Sonic never swings when or how I want him to. I've often died because of it. If they'd've provided an alternate control scheme (SEE: GC Controller), maybe it wouldn't've turned out so bad.

I think he means to impersonate a French documentarian.

Anyway, there's at least one loop-de-loop, as seen in the Perceival tariler, and don't the blue faries act as dash panels?

Something tells me they didn't really play this game enough to review it...

I was thinking about random stuff Thursday night and alot of things popped into my head. Luckily for you, I plan to share one of those things.

Ever wonder how big the ARK really is? Well, I'll tell you regardless. Correct me if you find a mistake.

My main unit of measurement came from the Space Shuttle in Eggman's Base from SA2B. Luckily for me it gets very close to the ARK and I was able to estimate its size based off of that. If it's anything like our Shuttles, it would be 149.6 feet tall and 28.5 feet wide. I estimated that the bottom of the ARK, where it reaches its widest and longest point, was 100 shuttles long. Of course, being a circle, that would also make it about 100 shuttles wide. Ergo:

149.6x100= 14,960 feet, which is close to three miles long and wide. Then just for fun I decided to measure the Eclipse cannon. According to my estimations, the Cannon is around 50 shuttles long and 3 shuttles wide.

149.6x50= 7,480 feet, or around 1.4 miles long. And:

28.5x3= 85.5 feet wide. Of course, since the Cannon is cone shaped, I measured it at the base, where it's connected to the ARK.

Now for the circumference of the ARK.

We already know that its diameter is close to 14,960 feet, so we just take half of that to get the radius:

14960/2= 7,480 feet

Well, look at that. It appears that the Eclipse cannon is half as long as the ARK. Anyway, moving on.

Now to get the circumference, which is pi x radius squared.

3.14 x 7480 x 7480= 175,684,256 feet, or 33,273.5 miles.

Of course, since it's a dome and not a complete sphere, the circumference is actually half of that:

175684256/2= 87,842,128 feet, or 16,636.76 miles around!

As you all know, everyone teams up at the end of the game to stop the ARK from crashing into the Earth.

But how fast would it have to be going? How much power would that take? I was determined to find out.

I like to measure energy in Joules. If you prefer Newtons, let me know and I'll try to find a convertor.

After doing some research, I found out that it would take 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules to destroy the Moon. And since it takes 49 Moons to equal 1 Earth, it make sense that it would take 49 x 10^36 (to the power of 36) Joules to destroy the Earth.

49,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules, huh? Man.

Anyway, I used the formula Joules= 1/2 mass (in kilograms) x velocity squared. We already know the Joules, so we can go ahead and fill that in:

49x10^36= 1/2m x v2

It may seem simpler now, but we have a big problem. Mass= Weight/Gravity, and Weight= Gravity x Mass. But there's no gravity in space, so it has a weight of zero, and a mass of 0/0, which is obviously zero.

We won't be able to figure out the mass, so I skipped over to velocity.

Velocity= Distance/Time

Thankfully, we know that it took the ARK 27 minutes and 53 seconds to collide with Earth. Well, in theory, anyway.

So now we have V=D/27.95 minutes. We know that the ARK didn't start out in the atmosphere, because it's still 5 minutes away when you go Super Sonic. I can't find the link to it, but it said somehwere that Earth's atmosphere is 300 feet thick. Unfortunately, we can't find the true distance because we don't know how fast the ARK was hurtling through space, and vice versa.

So then I approached it from another angle: instead of figuring out what they are, I tried figuring out what they HAVE to be.

"What numbers, when multiplied, make up 49x10^36?" Well, if we drop a crapload of zeroes, we can ask an easier question:

"What are the factors of 49?"

Once you have that, replicate the answers and tack zeroes on accordingly. Like so:

1, 7, 49, 10^36, 7x10^36, 49x10^36

EDIT: I later realized that these were not the only factors, but they were the only ones neccessary.

So now, m and v in the equation J=1/2m x v2 are limited to these 6 numbers. It's obviously not anything 49 or below, so now we have three choices. And since neither of them can be 49x10^36, ladies and gentlemen, we have our answer:

49x10^36=7x10^18 x 7x10^18

Now we need to rig the equation to get this result. 7 is half of 14, so the mass must be 14x10^18. The square root of 7 is approx. 2.645, so the square root of 7x10^18 is a VERY LONG NUMBER, making our equation:

49x10^36=1/2 14x10^18 times, ready for it?, approximately 2,645,751,311.0645905905016157536393, in meters per second, I believe.

So, the ARK has a mass of 14,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms, which is 30,864,716,706,000,000,000 pounds, and 15,432,358,353,000,000 tons.

And it's traveling around 2,654,751,311 meters per second, which is 61,357,347.24 miles per hour.

That fast, and it STILL takes about 28 minutes to reach Earth? It'd have to be 45,949,622.419 miles away!

So, there you have it. Exhausting, isn't it?

That's pretty much my outlook on things.

I enjoy Sonic games for what they are and not what they used to be.

As long as you understand the foundation of a game, you can understand what it really is and work towards enjoying that particular gameplay style.

Shadow wasn't about speed; it was about holding B and killing everything in sight. Fun, right?

Same thing with Black Knight. It's less about blazing through stages and more about slaughtering everything with a mere flick of the remote.

The only inexcusable things are poor controls and glitches.

Well, I'm sure those aren't the only things, but you get my point.

Think we should mention that no one wants to play as Amy/Cream/big and that scavenger hunts suck?

Of course, that would only encourage them...

Dood.

He's a Jedi.

I mean, he already has telekenetic powers. Tack a sword on top of that and...

Unfortunately for us, SEGA has too much of an audience to lose if they start appealing to older fans who just want Sonic.

It's hard to say exactly what caused younger players to become most of the fanbase (and people who are just stupid in general).

On an on-topic related note, the March issue Nintendo Power review has confirmed Blaze to be a playable character. Why Sonic Team is so reluctant to show us screenshots I'll never know.