What is Sonic Team doing?

They could always use one of Nintendo's old engines, if they ask nicely. :v:

 

I don't have very high hopes... Remember what they did for his 15th birthday? Sonic Genesis on GBA.

 

Remember what they did for his 10th birthday? Sonic Adventure 2. I think they'll pull something we'll enjoy.

 

You know what would be great for Sonic's 20th?

<div align='center'>Knuckles the Echidna Classic Collection. </div>
<div align='center'>Featuring such classics as Sonic 3 & Knuckles and Knuckles in Sonic 2, as well as fresh faces like Knuckles in Sonic 1 and Sonic CD & Knuckles. :v: </div>

But really, I'd like to hope that they're working on a 3D game that won't be unnecessarily dragged down by easily avoidable flaws, but then I'd just be jumping right back on the hope hype train to FUCKYOUSEGA-ville.

It'd be pretty cool if Sonic 4 gets a disc release just in time.

 

I doubt that one guy holds the rights to the engine. It might take some doing for them to know the ins and outs of programming with it depending on how involved he was in that compared to everyone else, but I doubt that's the case.

They have a spectacular proprietary engine custom-tailored to Sonic games, and they're damn well going to use it. Pity their plans to possibly license it out to other developers seem not to have gone anywhere as of yet, but such is life.

 

I could dig the interview out if someone wants a source, but if I remember correctly, a member from Sega told an interviewer while fans absolutely hated the Werehog in Unleashed, kids thought it was the best part of the game (how he got this information, I don't know), so he said Sega was going to make a more hardcore Sonic game as DLC (Sonic 4), and a more kid-friendly Sonic game, so they didn't mash up their audiences like in Unleashed.

So yeah, Sonic Adventure 3 could be true, because they could fit in all sorts of furries in there. The kids will eat it up. The rest of us will probably NOT like it.

 

Of course the kids liked the Werehog more. It was easy and mindless. The difficulty level of the Day Stages is much higher, which doesn't do the pacing issues any favors.

Although, DLC, "Downloadable CONTENT," is not the same as a downloadable game. Make sure you're sure which term he used, so you're sure exactly what he was referring to.

 

Kids will take anything that looks like it came out of a movie they're probably too young to even watch, IMO. That's what's wrong with video games today, IMO.

Now I'm curious how furries were suddenly associated with kids. Kids today don't give a shit about animals like they did ten years ago, it's all about blowing shit up with miniguns and mindless, pointless humor that looks suited for teens more than kids now. If SEGA wants to appeal to kids with their next Sonic game, just give him muscles, a pack of smokes, a giant ass gun, a cool car and camo pants and make all his levels revolve around GTA style gimmicks and they're set.

 

I think I heard rumors of a Heroes 2.

 

They did.

 

The ironic thing is, they were actually trying to appeal to older audiences with that tripe.

 

I forgot about Shadow. (It's easy to do.)

Then I'm surprised kids didn't eat it up. Good news is, SEGA won't try it again, hopefully.

 

Man I wish I had time to fucking color this. Maybe tomorrow.

I call it: Sonic the Hedgehog(2006) 2.

 

I would love to see Adventure 3. A proper one of course, not 2006. Given they have ample time to make the game this time around, it would be a crime to mess it up.

 

So E3 is next month. If Sonic Team is working on something big for Sonic's 20th anniversary, it might be announced there.

 

If Big starts rolling and gets enough momentum...

...fuck.

I should come to Retro more often. xD

 

That'll never happen. Sonic's not 'cool' anymore.

If they make Sonic an FPS, I'm done. I've sat through Shadow and tried to like '06 and I've beaten Heroes and hyped about a Sonic RPG that ended up being disappointing because it wasn't like Zelda or freeform and I've even tried the Wii titles, but I cannot abide Sonic as an FPS. I hate shooters enough already.

God damn it SEGA if you're working on something, don't fuck it up this time.

 

Wow. I agree with Volpino.

Sonic has always been a platform game. Sure, there are spinoffs, but half of the time they take their name from another character in the universe, and the other half they are somewhat based on the original platforming. A Sonic FPS just wouldn't work at all, unless you played as Fang in a Silent Scope-esque game. However, in that case, it'd only be Fang, and only loosely based in the Soniverse, so it shouldn't bear the "Sonic" title.