Sound Team From Sonic's 25th Anniversary Bash Explains Live Stream Issues

I mean this in the nicest possible way, the issues were what kept me watching, I couldn't look away. I really feel for the people who kept it going though.

I thought it was all rather hilarious.The moment it cut to Sonic rave dancing after leaving us waiting for 40 minutes had me in stitches.

More than the sound issues, it was the knock-on effect of poor presentation and heckling from the audience that turned me off. The DJ part at the beginning was painful. They made it through though and I was impressed with the positive character of Mitch Vogel's write-up. The SEGA team need to take some of the blame for the poor presentation, but good on Hunty for recognising his mistakes. Live shows aren't easy.

I remember when the sound kept cutting, that was ridiculous! But it's great that this guy powered through and made it work.

Twitter really is the worst medium for these kind of explanations.

Sonic Mania and Project Sonic 2017 are well worth the stream.

Honestly the issues were what kept me watching through the whole stream. I couldn't stop laughing! If I didn't know better I'd almost think SEGA did it all on purpose to get more attention!

Lesson learned. Glorified iPod owner standing in front of laptop = boring to watch. Hot-rockin guitar work = quite engaging!

It was worth it just to see Mike Pollock make an "impression" of the stream (it was just him making a buzzing sound) when the Sonic Boom cast was on stage

I have never ever seen a "professional" broadcast of any kind, TV or online, so amateurish like Sonic's 25th anniversary.

I casually had the stream on while doing other things, and until I turned off after 2.5 hours, most of what could go wrong, did:

Stream started about 20 minutes late
Buzzing sound for 2.5 hours
Hosts seemed unaware of camera blocking, or was even camera blocking done?
Trailer started early, last half was immediately replayed after finishing
Voices from microphone over unrelated imagery, like other people, video playback.

This is only about half if the stream's problems, I've forgotten a lot.

What a mess.

The whole thing was a disaster, not just the sound.

This was the anniversary party that we were teased about for months... rofl

The technical difficulties were distracting, but also kinda entertaining at the same time. It was all worth it at the end though, with two new promising Sonic games! Fire & Ice is looking pretty good, too, imo!

Sega is the king of memes, this stream only adds to their title.

I've just remembered that I posted this article about what I'd want from a 25th anniversary Sonic game roughly six months ago:

http://www.inceptional.com/2016/01/13/can-sonic-have-a-happy-anniversary/#more-772

And it seems that Sega did actually largely give me what I was hoping for, Sonic Mania, which is basically a very nice surprise.

@DoctorOverbuild Oh my God I can't believe I didn't think of it that way!!! Lol

I didn't catch this live, but I skimmed through a recording and chuckled hard. Wow.