Talk:Sonic the Hedgehog 3

The master Emerald Was never mentioned until Sonic & Knuckles (And as such, Sonic 3 & Knuckles came out) It had nothing to do with the plot of Sonic 3 as a stand-alone game. I think that should be made clearer in the artical.

Also, I believe Sonic team only made Sonic 1 & Sonic CD. Sonic 2 & Sonic 3 were made by Sega Technical Institution in America (See http://ghz.emulationzone.org/team.html, and, if anyone has it, the UK Sonic 2 ofical Walkthrough)

Any thoughts?

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If the game is really challenging then I will be one of the first people to get it.

To whoever posted the above: that's nice, but this isn't the place for comments like this. Get an account and put it on your User page, if you like, but this is supposed to be an encyclopedia -- this article should talk about the game in a neutral, factual manner, describing the story involved through the gameplay, the style of play, the consoles/formats it was/is-to-be released for, and/or the stages and history of its development. And more, possibly. But not comments like this, mate.

Please do write more about it if you want to, but give us facts (and not copyrighted material, as some do). You are welcome here, but not to post things like this. Wikipedia is not a message board. -- Sam

Box art

Rattleman thank you for your contribution but in Gods name why change the box art to the American version! What was wrong with my picture? It was a higher resolution as well. Now there are two images of box art floating around Wikipedia and quite needlessly so. I'm sorry but I might change this back unless you can offer me some coherent explanation... I mean, what's the point? --Steerpike 10:18, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I have a bias of sorts to the American box ^^; Most pirates use parts of the version of the box that you posted for their pirate boxes, and it has since been regarded by me as not as good. It doesn't look as professional to begin with, and look: Sonic's holding up FOUR fingers! In the Japanese boxart and the American boxart he holds up three fingers. Plus, I grew up looking at that box whenever I went to go play Sonic. Also...I can't really argue this well it would be better to have the American box as I think that most people that would come to this article would be American. -- RattleMan 22:24, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

So you admit this a clear case of Americocentrism :p For the record, he is holding up three fingers isn't he? You're not counting his right hand though? And if we're going to get sentimental, I grew up watching the European box. And about that last thing: the English speaking world extends quite a bit further beyond the US you know ;)

I think if we really want to be correct we should put the Japanese art since that was the first release. Look, you *can* and *may* put the American Box if you want (since this is after all Wikipedia free to edit for anyone blabla) but I think some changes should be sufficiently justified. Otherwise Wikipedia would get swamped with images (and sometimes I'm wondering how many there are actually in this database allready...). --Steerpike 22:58, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Going down the line: Yes, I am counting his right hand; I understand the English speaking world extends beyond the US (I know maaaaaaany foreigners who speak English, including a Hungarian, Englishman (England), Hungarian, Scotsman, Polish-man, Canadian...the list could go on; I agree with the Japanese boxart but some people might be ignorant and think the Japanese art is fake; I also wonder how many unlinked and unused images there are too. No hard feelings though ^^; Good job with improving various Sonic articles so far. -- RattleMan 23:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Regular Shield

Regular Shield:(Confusion in the manual)

I deleted this. The shield doesn't exist in the game, and so it shouldn't be in the list of Sonic 3 shields.

In sonic 3's manual, they claim there is a regular sheild as there was previously in sonic 2, but this shield never appeared...

I edited this for English. Also, can anybody who owns a Sonic 3 manual confirm this? I've moved this (edited) tidbit to the trivia section, since it doesn't really have much to do with Sonic 3's gameplay. -- Drumnbach 02:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I just checked my (PAL) manual and it has no mention of this at all. I've deleted it and put another bit of trivia in there instead.

-- Galvy 21:09, 05 Febuary 2006

Ice Cap Zone BGM

*The background music for the Ice Cap Zone is widely considered by fans to be the best piece of music in Sonic's history, and one of the best tunes of any video game. Because of its popularity, it has been remixed to death, with hundreds of remixes of it available on the Internet.

This seems a bit NPOV, especially where it states that it is one of the best tunes of any videogame. I have edited this for POV. -- Drumnbach 00:29, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikibooks

I started a book about this game at Wikibooks. Gerard Foley 02:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)