[Cyberguy]

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"What is this? I just want to run through and hit bounce pads and spring boards and speed boosts and ping-pong around."

Ooooooooh boy....

[TimmiT]

Covarr, on 09 June 2015 - 11:44 AM, said:

Sonic Boom, as a sub-franchise, is not an inherently bad thing. I'm not going to get excited for this because I don't really trust Sanzaru to make a good game, but the idea behind it isn't a terrible one. In the hands of another, more talented dev, this is something I might keep an eye on.

Thing is, Sanzaru's not bad. Sly 4 was actually a pretty decent game.

But when they only get a year to shove out a shovelware game, you shouldn't expect much.

[EmphaticRevolution]

[GeneHF]

We live in a timeline where a Sonic 3 remaster will likely never happen, but Sonic Boom 2 is allowed to exist. I don't even know anymore.

[Aerosol]

GagaMan, on 09 June 2015 - 11:42 AM, said:

Aerosol, on 09 June 2015 - 11:34 AM, said:

I don't think anyone was ever seriously expecting that to happen. The concern was "when are we getting a Sonic game for us?"

I'm hoping Sonic Team are using this 'Boom time' to actually not rush their next Sonic game. I'm perfectly happy to wait a year or two or three for a great Sonic game.

And if Sonic Team are not doing that, and are just going to make mobile phone games from now on, well fair enough, I'll just stick to being fascinated by Sonic's past and development (hence why I even hang out here) and not care about new developments anymore.

Well yea, it's only a game. It's not the end of the world.

I don't think "Sonic Team" are working on anything noteworthy though. Happy to be wrong about that, but it's a hunch.

[High Fidelity]

Boring tropes.
Shit physics.
Wierd disconnected Lego foreground... blah blah blah...

[Lanzer]

I said this on NeoGAF but SEGA (Of America) still thinks Boom needs to be promoted in their eyes, and the 3DS game didn't get as shit on as the Wii-U game, it was just boring and tedious but not a second coming of 2006 evil like Rise of Lyric was .

All in all this is a pretty good call if this game needs to exist.

[Xeal]

After everything side from the TV show being pretty much a failure, why would they still want this to be promoted?

[TimmiT]

So look at the tags on the post about this game on the official Sonic Tumblr: http://sonicthehedge...ce-for-nintendo



Oh Ruby...

[EmphaticRevolution]

Xeal, on 09 June 2015 - 12:03 PM, said:

After everything side from the TV show being pretty much a failure, why would they still want this to be promoted?

If anything I think it's proof that none of the criticism got through to them, I'm starting to believe more and more SEGA lives in their own bubble where all opinions outside of the staff are to be ignored.

It also might have to do with them thinking the brand can be salvaged, which would also be laughable, they didn't continue with Sonic '06 or make a sequel to it yet they actually want to go to the well again with Boom?

[Narstyle]

Sigh. It took me some strength to grab Lost World on 3DS (and was somewhat pleasantly surprised).

This announcement just reminded me that another 3DS Sonic game (excluding Olympic spinoff crap), existed.

At least Smash Bros 3DS existed for Sonic's 3D outing. Makes me recognise how happy and appreciative I was of the Advance / Rush series.

[Andrew75]

Think I'll pass this one up...

[Josh]

Imagine if in 2009, Rare had announced a direct sequel to Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. This makes about as much sense as that would have. Sonic Boom left SUCH a bad first impression, and unless this new game is a borderline-masterpiece, it won't make people forget. Even if it's just okay, it'll bring more attention to the downfall of the brand and keep it on the forefront of people's minds.

Like Covarr said, an alternate universe spinoff is not inherently bad. The cartoon, I think, is a lot of fun. But Sega REALLY needed a mainline, well-received Sonic game before they announced something like this. Because whether it's true or not, the perception will be that this is the direction the franchise is going.

[W.A.C.]

Even though I have no interest in this game and think it'll probably turn out to be a lousy game (but less lousy than the original game), it would funny if this game surprisingly ended up being good. This game was a really bad idea for Sonic's brand image.

This post has been edited by W.A.C.: 09 June 2015 - 12:25 PM

[Caniad Bach]

Basically, Sonic Boom (the cartoon) is actually doing reasonably well and they want to get some more money out of it. More people have a 3DS and the sales there are generally better, plus the development's cheaper because it's handheld. Then you've got Sanzaru who already have an engine and Nintendo giving SEGA money to put it out. See this as free cocaine money for SoA, they get to fart out a cheap game in fuck all time and even if it sells naff all, they'll still probably make money because of dat Nintendo dollar.

Having seen the trailer I think I'm going to skip this one. Unless we find out that Ruby is a hidden character