Meet The New Sonic and His Next Game

[acri1]

This is a popular argument the developers make. The thing is the OG Sonic games were very short too, and no one had a problem with that. People continue to play and replay these games today. Devs gotta get out of the mindset that games have to be 20 hours to be good. If the game is great, length won't matter. People will replay games over and over if it's fun. The new Ratchet and Clank game can be completed in like 4 hours and it stays in my gaming rotation.

A good game is a good game. I felt both of you on that one but I tend to side with you now that you verbalized it better than I could. I think gamers are smart enough to know not every game is going to a 10-20 hour campaign; as long as they have fun with it and it's dope, length shouldn't be an issue. The Sonic team needs to do what they do best. Sonic was never designed to be an epic game

I feel both of you on that, but let's be reality - if Sega came out with the most epic, fun Sonic game ever, but it only took four hours to beat - people would bytch about it and complain about not getting their money's worth. Especially in Sonic's case since the Sonic fanbase is already pretty much impossible to please.

IMO, the best bet is probably to do the Sonic Adventure thing and have a hub world between levels. That way it would give players something to do between levels and lengthen the game without having to insert some unwanted gameplay change.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Why knuckles look like he on HGH???

Game itself looks like another mediocre Sonic game.

Knuckles on that Balco....

 

[MartyMcFly]

Knuckles on that Balco....

 

[hex]

Gaming consoles shifting to 3D and polygons really fukked over Sonic. Sega didn't know how to translate the character and game play to 3D. You can tell because there was a big ass gap of Sonic games between the Saturn and the Dreamcast. After that it was pretty much a wrap.

Fred.

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

.......................

 

[Just Rod]

Knuckles on them roids...

 

[acri1]

Gaming consoles shifting to 3D and polygons really fukked over Sonic. Sega didn't know how to translate the character and game play to 3D. You can tell because there was a big ass gap of Sonic games between the Saturn and the Dreamcast. After that it was pretty much a wrap.

Fred.

The gap was because of Saturn's failure...there was supposed to be a Sonic game on Saturn called Sonic Xtreme, but it got cancelled mostly due to politics. To be honest though, I'm kind of tired of people acting like every 3D Sonic game was bad.

Sonic Adventure - Was extremely popular, everybody liked this when it came out
Sonic Adventure 2 - Same
Sonic Heroes - Was considered meh, but not horrible
Sonic 2006 - The worst 3D Sonic
Sonic Unleashed - The daytime levels were considered great, the nighttime levels were ok
Sonic Colors - Considered to be very good
Sonic Generations - Considered to be very good
Sonic Lost World - Considered to be good


So that's really only like two, maybe three (depending on your opinion) 3D Sonic games that weren't good, but people want to act like every game was Sonic 2006 status.

 

[hex]

The gap was because of Saturn's failure...there was supposed to be a Sonic game on Saturn called Sonic Xtreme, but it got cancelled. To be honest though, I'm kind of tired of people acting like every 3D Sonic game was bad.

Sonic Adventure - Was extremely popular, everybody liked this when it came out
Sonic Adventure 2 - Same
Sonic Heroes - Was considered meh, but not horrible
Sonic 2006 - The worst 3D Sonic
Sonic Unleashed - The daytime levels were considered great, the nighttime levels were ok
Sonic Colors - Considered to be very good
Sonic Generations - Considered to be very good
Sonic Lost World - Considered to be good


So that's really only like two, maybe three (depending on your opinion) 3D Sonic games that weren't good, but people want to act like every game was Sonic 2006 status.

Saturn should have launched with a Sonic game. You can't go a whole gen with no mascot. Imagine if N64, Gamecube, or Wii had no Mario game. shyt would never happen.

(and yes I know a Sonic game later dropped on Saturn, but it was half ass)

"Not bad" isn't good enough for a franchise that went toe-to-toe with Mario breh. To put it into perspective none of the games you mentioned, even the "very good" ones were anywhere near the respective Mario games out at the time. The 16-bit Sonics were direct competition for Mario.

Fred.

 

[winb83]

Sonic just doesn't work in 3D. They should just give it up already. Sega been trying to bring Sonic back to prominence since the Sonic Adventure days.

Ok they won me with that one

They need to bring back the original voice of Sonic Jaleel White

 

[Responsible Allen Iverson]

I feel both of you on that, but let's be reality - if Sega came out with the most epic, fun Sonic game ever, but it only took four hours to beat - people would bytch about it and complain about not getting their money's worth. Especially in Sonic's case since the Sonic fanbase is already pretty much impossible to please.

IMO, the best bet is probably to do the Sonic Adventure thing and have a hub world between levels. That way it would give players something to do between levels and lengthen the game without having to insert some unwanted gameplay change.

If the game was that good, it would be infinitely replayable, so people probably wouldn't be mad.

 

[duncanthetall]

These nikkas cannot be serious, brehs. Sonic got a scarf for no reason. I mean, no clothes or anything, and if he was cold, wouldnt he throw on some trousers or a shirt first? Nah, my dude is a fukkin hipster n got a scarf on. Tails...aite nothing there. Amy, nobody really cares bout the bytch. But.....brehs.

BREHS

Knuckles.......

 

[wire28]

why they got my nikka knuckles lookin like he been liftin with terry crews

i feel sorry for these young guns now, i grew up on that sonic adventures, the last true sonic piff

 

[Benjamin Sisko]

SEGA,
Please go back to making consoles.

Nah, go back and do side scrollers.

Sonic3 and Knuckles....

Sonic CD

Sonic Adventure

 

[Wild self]

http://www.sonicstadium.org/2014/02/sonic-boom-will-not-be-replacing-the-old-universe/

There you go people, Sonic and crew have designs for only this game and this game only.

 

[marcuz]

they have to ditch the 3d attempts and bring back to the 2d roots. they also have to rmember one major selling point of sonic was the music.

out of all the games i've played, i don't think any theme has stuck w/me more than sonic beats. like the ice cap zone, i can just listen to the beat and see the entire stage in my mind






entire soundtrack goes hard