Some fun with Generations and Unleashed + which racer?

A few days ago, I made a very unimpressive Green Hill Act 2 speed run on Generations.  I wasn't really looking towards getting a specific (let alone a spectacular) time.  Because it's been so long since I've really played, I decided to practice with a skilled run, and after about 25ish tries with 1 glitch, I managed a mid 1:34.  This was after I had re-ran Skyscraper Scamper Act 3, and instead of putting them into separate vids, I decided I would experiment one time by putting both in one video.  There was about 20 times the effort put into simply making the vids as a while ago, Craigolette suggested I try a different method of rendering.  He's been an excellent help for me with this, as I also got to learn a bit more about my video editing options.  Unfortunately, I didn't have much success in making videos of a higher quality (yet!) but I still had fun.  Admittedly, I'll have to use a more efficient way of experimenting with rendering, but I think I was always hoping that the next video would be the one that would be free from desync issues.  So I wound up doing it the old fashioned way, except I paid attention to the bitrate this time!  It wasn't set at 400 this time!

Street Fighter EX + Alpha music - the composer of that OST... is so friggin epic.  Literally one of the greatest soundtracks of all-time to me and aside from a lot of Asian influence being thrown into most of the songs I enjoy, it just felt right to use for Sonic.  It's fast paced, it's energetic, it changes and stays interesting most of the time.  For as long as Sega has made games, from my experience, they know what a great composer is and this is one of those composers who I probably wouldn't mind doing music for Sonic games. Gosh, I feel so disrespectful... let me Google this guy's name... credited are:

Takayuki Aihara, Shinji Hosoe, and Ayako Saso.

I don't know who did what, but I'm guessing Takayuki was the lead composer.  Definitely an EPIC soundtrack.  If you are a fan of the Street Fighter 4 series and have never played EX Plus, the game pretty much laid the foundation of Street Fighter 4.  It's a really fun game and I still have my PS1 disc of it.

But, back to Sonic.  When I was out today with my sister, I found this little Sonic The Hedgehog themed vending machine.  It gave out these little ornament-like heads of the main cast (I don't think this included Amy or Blaze but it did include Silver, Big, Metal Sonic and Super Sonic along with everyone else you'd expect.)  Who did I get?  Out of about 10 different outcomes, I got Tails!  A dollar well spent.  It's so tiny, though... in fact, I was going to take a picture of it, but I can't even find it...

I'm looking forward to getting some racing games and right now, two have my attention.  The first would be Forza Horizons and obviously, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.  The new All-Stars Racing game has me hyped after seeing the gameplay and the levels and it appears to look like it's going to be really, really good.  I've never played the full version of it's predecessor (which I found okay, didn't really give it enough time to grasp it too hard) but this just seems so much better.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to getting back into the speed run game.

OH!  I MUST SEE WRECK-IT-RALPH THIS WEEK.  NO, TOMORROW.