Sega to "Bench" Sonic
 

http://www.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=9544

Public apology for sh1tty games, and they state the need for a real reboot. Let's see if this is PR, or if they will finally dissolve the mess that is Sonic Team and get the ball rolling on quality once again.

Well Sonic Adventure 2 was fun, I think that was the last one I liked.

Let's see what they can do, Sonic could be really cool.

Let's hope they aren't trying to revive a long dead corpse. Sonic's first three games, from what I have heard, were great. Heck, I've been lucky enough to get to play a little bit of the original Sonic game, and I loved it. But when it came to the "ZOMG! 3D!" stuff...well, you know what happened.

But I'm with Spit on this. They could get Sonic to be great once more, instead of being killed slowly before our eyes. If this "restart" fails, then hopefully Sega will see that Sonic will not be able to run again (huzzah for bad puns! :roll: ) and just stop trying to rape the poor guy. We'll just have to wait and see, I guess... *sighs*

Here's what I'd like to see.... more Sonic T-Shirts in adult size. I have one, and I'd love to see others. I hope by reinventing we get a wave of retro Sonic merchandise. I wonder if the sale of the Sonic SatAm DVD set will show any interrest in other calssic ventures.

As for the games, unlike Mario, Sonic doesn't work half as well in different settings and 3-D. Mario is still going strong, but Sonic's playing catch up, even copying some of Mario's stuff (Sonic Racing for example... and that Sonic Air racing game was very similar to Kirby's).

BIG mistake IMO.

I like how they contradict themselves.

From what I've seen, Fans don't want a total re-invent of Sonic. Mostly because it's scary and who knows what nonsense will come out next. Nor do they want every new game to include 4 new characters and their evil clones involved. There are plenty of characters as is, SEGA just needs to get creative with the story.

And what's contemporary supposed to mean? Contemporary for people who were fans back in the day, or fans now? *sad we can predict that answer* I mean come on whats next, they drop Crush 40?

Agreed I hope the release of SatAM does very very well. I'm already on Disk 3.

The problem Sonic does not go so well in 3D is that he's about speed. Mario is more around blowing things up and performing trivial tasks. So people have a smooth if not slow pace to handle everything coming at them. Sonic games, things are supposed to jump out at you and require quick decision making and accurate movement. People end up stopping their character to assess the area then go in doing things, greatly adding time. If they don't - they die.

ROALZ! WTF!? Most retarded thing I've read in awhile.

Anyways, a couple simple things for Sonic:
1) Stop being so god damn serious about this franchise! Stop with the inane storytelling! It's awful and no one besides furries give a f*ck about it!
2) Ditch all the horrible horrible characters. It should have stopped at Knuckles. Everyone else needs to go!
3) Sonic does not work in full 3D. He just doesn't. Sonic games are much too one note, so when you add further complexity, it just makes it worse and worse. If you're going to go 3D, make it limited and stick to rails.

I agree with pretty much everything Peanut said and I'll add that there hasn't been a good Sonic game since S&K. Both Adventure games were absolute garbage, not to mention what came after.

While I enjoyed Sonic Wii, a "reinvention" can't hurt either.

And yeah, Mario about blowing stuff up? Ridiculous.

I'll drink to that. According to my good friend Wikipedia, there are 97 characters in the games (including special forms). That's heroes, anti-heroes, and villains. I don't mind if they are in the anime version of Sonic, but just not in the games. It gets too confusing otherwise :dead:

I will say that the Chaotix were pretty cool. They all had some character to them. I wouldn't mind if they stuck around, but not in any kind of main role in the series. If they had their own game, though, that would be neat.

Knuckles Chaotix was a badass game. Too bad nobody played it. 32x sucks. AMIRITE?

Dumbest post of the month of March. Sonic games were about serious platforming with a few sections where you run fast for the sake of blast processing. Sonic is not about speed. The Sonic Advance games sucked ass because they were nothing but giant race tracks. Boring. Sonic games were about good level design with some fast sections here and there. The level designers went to Naughty Dog in 1998. Jax and Daxter is what Sonic should have been.

Mario about blowing stuff up? lol

Hmm, I'm not so sure that they'll make the series into something fun to play again, but at least they're admitting their mistakes and are willing to try something new.

Yes, agreed on all 3 points. They really need to stop focusing so much on the story aspects and instead concentrate on the level designs and overall gameplay.

I played it. :( I may be the only one here who does, but I still own a working 32X. Even though it was abandoned a little over a year after it was released, it still had two great games (Chaotix and Tempo), a great port of MKII, and a few others that were worth playing.

That's for sure. I wish there were a way for Hirokazu Yasuhara to be able to work on the Sonic series again.

Grrk. Krang. You've beat me on that end... I don't have a 32X.

But simply for this psuedo compitition we've had going for the last couple of years, I will seek one out to even the score.

You've not seen the last of me, Krang :flaming:

I may have won this battle, but I haven't won the war yet. You still have that Turbo Duo, a console without which I can't play the best version of Parasol Stars. But one of these days, I'll track one down, along with a JVC X'Eye to give me the upper hand! :evilgrin:

maybe for your birthday I'll post a pic of my Turbo Duo, like I did a few years ago with my Saturn :lol:

YEESH. blow up, break down, kill minions, WHATEVER... I don't care how you want to label it.. it's all the same to me. Mario has come more about mini-games and random stuff anyway.

Yes the most I can agree with you is about the excessive amount of characters. (BTW Why count their super forms? It's not a separate individual.)

Lets see here... "Sonic games... where you run fast"... and yet you say "Sonic is not about speed"

I'd say you beat me in the "dumbest post" contest but... It's April so I guess your the new leader.

Sonic has always been about speed. When have you stopped in the middle of the Sega games to marvel at its beautifully made levels? I beat levels in minutes. I would fly through them. That's the premise of Sonic, and it always has been. It was Sonic Adventure that tried to put an end to that by adding the exploration function of the game. That's just pointless. You gotta put the game on rails, if you really must make the game 3D.

So this basically tells me that you've not played a core Mario game...ever? Yeah, that sounds about right.

Wow. I have a hard time believing you've ever played a Mario game.

The minions of Bowser approach! We must vanquish them for the greater good, and to rescue the princess! Onward, Luigi!

INCOMING BOB-OMBS!! *BOOM BOOM BOOM!*

See, Mario did have explosions! AMIRITE?! Yeah, you haven't played a Mario game.

Thanks Ai. I laughed so hard that my jaw hurts. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it hurts :lol:

I couldn't be bothered to take them all out. I just didn't have time to go into detail and pick out all of the forms. I would have if I had time, but it was late and I wanted to go to bed. In other words, I'm lazy ;)

Can't believe I got to this so late. Well, here are my thoughts.

A restart of a series that has been going for 15 years, would be like a total restart of the Simpsons, and Super Mario Bros. Just plain sad. But Sonic Shuffle and on has sucked badly (well, okay, Sonic Adventure and on, but I actually liked Sonic Adventure 1). And while I wouldn't like a restart, I would like them to get rid of Shadow, Omega, Rouge, Big, and Cream for good.

In a restart, here's the only characters I would like to see return.

Sonic
Knuckles
Amy Rose
Nack the Weasel/Fang the Sniper
Metal Sonic
Gamma
All of the Chaotix (Maybe not Bomb and Heavy)
Eggman
NiGHTS cameo's

Yes, I know I didn't list Tails. Screw him. I hated him since Sonic Adventure. I used to love him in the older games, but when he was just an adorable kid. Now he's an annoying brainiac who's too damn mature for his age. Nack/Fang has always been my second favorite character (right behind Knuckles).

If a total restart is actually done, here's the way I'd like the first two games.

Sonic Begins (okay, bad Batman joke): Sonic and Tails, maybe include Amy Rose. They meet Eggman for the first time. Also the Death Egg should probably be envolved in this one. Basically it's the original 'Sonic the Hedgehog' plus Tails, and possibly Amy.

Sonic 2: Basically I want this one to be based on 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3'. Sonic and Tails meet Knuckles, whose working for Eggman. The whole game takes place Also, Eggman has built a robo Sonic since their last encounter, Metal Sonic.

Sonic 3: I don't know, Eggman hires a bounty hunter, Nack/Fang? Or maybe he could be in Sonic 2. Meh, I don't care by this point.

I'm glad someone else remembers Nack the Weasel. He definetly needs to make a comeback.

As far as the benching goes...well. I'll believe it when I see it.

.....^QFMFT

...Meaning?

Quoted for mother f'in truth.