Sonic Dev Admits Reason Why Recent Sonic Games Have Suffered

Steven Colbert - 387 days 8 hours ago

If they decrease the length to make it better that is fine.But I think most would agree on simply making Sonic back into a 2D game again.Its just like Megaman,they are 2D characters and should be in 2D games

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PirateThom - 387 days 8 hours ago

I'd rather they make it a download title with running only than bulk it with crap to make it a disc title.

Honestly, that's a poor excuse for subpar games.

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Rob0g0rilla - 387 days 8 hours ago

Just listen to the fans.

Make it cheaper if it's that short.

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Smacktard - 387 days 8 hours ago

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 were terrible. The only good levels were the speed levels. The knuckles and rogue levels in SA2 were absolutely AWFUL.

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The Kingslayer - 387 days 7 hours ago

Down to design, you can't just make it an old 2d game or some 3d game like another. They have yet to find a good design formula for a new generation of Sonic games. There are so many exmaples and ways to do it, that I've given up on Sonic games. It'll happen one day, a designer is going to get an aha moment.

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blackparade man - 387 days 7 hours ago

2D Sonic was fun as hell, so was Sonic adventure 1&2 on the Dreamcast,there were also some good Sonic games released on the gameboy as well. Wish they would make a new Sonic game worth playing.

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nirun - 387 days 7 hours ago

what about tracks? think of wipeout HD meets Sonic Unleashed.

nobody is asking for completely diverse scenery. make some FAST tracks with decent (repeating if they have to) background visuals.

Mix this up with some platforming requiring momentum (think LBP physics), while including the spring like mechanism from Sonic games.

Even if Sonic was unleashed in some robust pinball machine like world to go back and fourth to complete tasks at break neck speeds, that would be a true testament to sonic while keeping it next gen.

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gacibula - 387 days 7 hours ago

They should make sonic into a paper mario like game. Keep it 2d, keep it sonic style. I loved sonic 1, 2, 3, and knuckles. Great games!!

If they did a paper mario style sonic... kick @$$

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ultimolu - 387 days 7 hours ago

2D Sonic was awesome.

I think they're trying too hard with the series.:/

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Yi-Long - 387 days 7 hours ago

... I think the mistake that Sega makes, is that they think Sonic is ONLY about running, but the first 2d Sonic games were just very entertaining and enjoyable PLATFORMERS, where the lead-character was a fast guy, sure, but that's not what made it so great.

They should just go back to making 2d, sprite-based Sonic platformers like the first 2 megadrive games and Sonic CD.

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Bits-N-Kibbles - 387 days 7 hours ago

a PSN game with nothing but running and some multi online for replay value. hell, just recreate the classics in the new 3d style or something and no one would complain. Unless they charged $50-$60 for each game or something

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ShinnokDrako - 387 days 6 hours ago

I have a magical sentence for Sonic developers: "Sonic 2D HD". Simple, HD, and again with its wonderful speed and appeal. Stop the 3D experiments, Sonic had to be 2D, like Castlevania. For me Sonic died with Sonic & Knuckles for Mega Drive (little exception for Chaotic on X32 and the Dreamcast episodes).

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bokharij - 387 days 6 hours ago

game will be good and none the less what people say I'm getting Sonic Unleashed(for PS3). More for the Sonic half, but also for the werehog half. Sonic games seem to now be moving back into the right direction.

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name - 387 days 6 hours ago

Sonic needs to become a psn/xbla series like megaman. Release classic style sonic games with new levels.

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LinuxGuru - 387 days 6 hours ago

Make Sonic 2D again, and everyone will be happy. Myself included.

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Nitrowolf2 - 387 days 6 hours ago

Make it like LBP graphics style. Keep it as a 2D game, and charge about 10-20 bucks for it on psn/xbl

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Nike - 387 days 6 hours ago

If it were that easy to pinpoint what they've been doing wrong all these years with the Sonic franchise, Sega might have done it all those years ago when Sonic Adventure 2: Battle was releaseed, and most definitely done so when Sonic Heroes came along. Quite frankly, Sonic Team isn't what it used to be - most of the original members including Yuji Naka have left (though, he's oddly still on Sega's payroll) and the crappiest titles (Sonic the Hedgehog for 360 and PS3) weren't handled by the team at all. In fact, they divided the total members into two, and the real Sonic Team members went on to work for the superior but still fundamentally flawed Sonic and the Secret Rings.

Anywho, fans are fickle. Some like those extra characters, and others like those pure speed stages. Some like the variety SA2 brought with its grinding and stunts and lightspeed dashing while others think Sonic needs to be taken back to 2D. Regardless, whatever Sega does, if they just, I don't know, do it RIGHT without the typical video game fallacies (bad framerate, bad levels, bad story, etc.), at least one segment would love them and the others would appreciate them. At least no one would outright feel sorry for them.

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mugoldeneagle03 - 387 days 5 hours ago

Worked for me, they just needed to be less story driven I think...Or maybe I'm forgetting somthing.

All I do remember is logging some serious hours back when I first got my Dreamcast :)

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PS360WiiRocks - 387 days 5 hours ago

so they are lazy?

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Arsenic13 - 387 days 5 hours ago

How about Sega make something worth while like lets say SHENMUE 3. Sonic is so played out, drop him already Sega. You whole revenue which is small comes from children and mentally disabled ppl.

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gumgum99 - 387 days 5 hours ago

I think the reason why they had too do all that was they finally made him fast, but too fast. They just need to cut back the speed a bit so the levels won't have to act as compensation(think Sonic adventure speed but faster). Also, I guess, they could throw in a 2D Downloadable game too so the Genesis era fans can get their fix as well(although last time I checked, Sonic rush was that fix).

You gotta admit that those Sega Dev got a sense of humor in a way.

First they made him too slow in Sonic Next-gen, now they made him too fast.

Come on, Sega, what's going on here! >.<

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Ps_alm3k - 387 days 5 hours ago

make a valkyria chronicle 2!! Now!!!!

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sidar - 387 days 3 hours ago

They could just do a 2D platformer, they know they can.
But a company doesn't wants to stand still and not try to "innovate".

I say to hell with Sega and just make a 2D platfomer....the fans are screaming for it.
Hell put me on charge and even i can best the current team.

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gumgum99 - 387 days 3 hours ago

just make him slower. you don't really have to make him 300mph to get that sense of speed.

our eyes get overwhelmed by just 100+mph and that's where burnout drops in.
the best speed for sonic in gaming, I think, is about 150 or less. Apparently the sega team was so obsessed with speed that they went off the grid.

I still can't believe they thought that was the logical choice. The solution was such a no brainer.

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freeblue - 387 days 2 hours ago

ask RARE to make a sonic game. RARE is great at creating huge platform level and worlds that player has to explore with vehicles. so good thing that Sonic has great speed, so no vehicles are required. and RARE creativity and artist style should fit Sonic game easily.

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JasonXE - 387 days 2 hours ago

to much Japanese culture influence in Sonic games. Look at what it did to jrpgs.

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Andras84 - 387 days 2 hours ago

If you can't make a proper game, and you know you just do stuff to fill it out with b.s. than why make it on the first place? We don't need to get a new Sonic game every year!! They should take their time and do those levels right.

Lazy devs confirmed!!!

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jax07 - 387 days 2 hours ago

He is not saying that they don't want to do the work. The problem is that Sonic is so damn fast that even with the miles and miles of tracks to run on the game would be finished far too soon. You know good and well you would not buy a sixty dollar game that lasted 3 hours. GumGum99 has by far the best solution to this problem in mentioning making him slower.

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levy - 387 days ago

sounds kinda stupid.... ok, just do it like this... all the time and work spent on creating the "warehog" mechanics and levels, just focus it on the "speed" levels. You know, it's a sonic game, and the fans wants nothing more. And if it takes so much time, just Take That Time and release it later. Or are they saying that it will be too expensive? lol

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Gambit07 - 387 days ago

I think the dev just spit some BS when he was put on the spot.

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Mr Fancy Pants - 387 days 8 hours ago

mmmm interesting, lets read it...

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AngryTypingGuy - 387 days ago

Mario made the jump to 3D quite nicely. However since the main focus of Sonic is to go as fast as possible, it should be left at 2D. They could make it 2D with 3D visualizations, similar to the last Street Fighter.

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