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- Koldsnap, on 01/18/2009, -3/+163They're raping him! They're raping him!
- Spamcan, on 01/18/2009, -2/+133Dear Faux-Sonic Team, (real one is looong gone)
Here is the list of what you need to need to put in a sonic game, do not deviate from this list for any reason.
1. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Robotnik ONLY. No other characters animal or human.
2. 2D gameplay only, bring the franchise back to it's roots and keep it there.
3. Extremely large multi-path stages built for speed.
4. A soundtrack completely devoid of god-awful singing.
I don't expect such a title to be released anytime soon but thankfully the Genesis ones still have near infinite replay value. - goldenhearted, on 01/18/2009, -0/+97This is the typical sonic cycle these days
1. New info release of new Sonic game, people say it's gonna be Sonic's comeback.
2. More or less, hype is generated as info, screens, vids, etc. releases.
3. Game comes out, it ends up like mediocre-*****. People say nothing can save Sonic.
4. Go back to #1 - Croixce, on 01/18/2009, -2/+61If that song is in the game, I'm not buying it. No way, no how.
- phpirate, on 01/18/2009, -0/+59Letme be the first to say... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?
Why can't they look back at the old games. All mario did was run and jump. Fundamentally that's all he still does. Why can't sonic just run really fast in a 3D environment and collect rings? Is that too hard? - AlDaTbagsNChina, on 01/18/2009, -2/+52FF style story line? Check
Butt Rock? Check
Super fast movement and fighting? Check
Seams to be another crappy sonic game.... - RaveGamer, on 01/18/2009, -0/+49Now in picture form: http://i41.tinypic.com/2cnbo1k.jpg
- SomGuye, on 01/18/2009, -0/+35Sonic goes fast...Check (so far so good)
Humans...Uhh oh (Jarring contrast between super stylized Sonic and humans)
Robotnik...No where to be seen (Things are looking bad here)
Sonic has a sword...Aww dammit (Admittedly the sword mechanic looks neat and you return to running fast instantly)
Processing........Fail detected, shutting down HOPE.exe - Mooseka, on 01/18/2009, -0/+33That song is so ***** bad
- JlmAWP, on 01/18/2009, -0/+32What blows me away, is they haven't figured out that all we want is sonic running fast - preferably from the side - but a good camera can really made 3D work. Werewolves, swords, and guns are just.....*sigh*.
- th3wiz4rd, on 01/18/2009, -0/+27Worst background music for a trailer ever.
- Uarefat, on 01/18/2009, -2/+28as soon as that music started i facepalm'd so hard i left a mark on my forehead.
- reyoo30309, on 01/18/2009, -0/+23It's past the time for redemption. They could make the greatest sonic game ever and people would sill wait for it to hit "greatest hits" before they bought it just to make sure they were not tricked by yet another gimmick.
- scubachef11, on 01/18/2009, -0/+19dugg for 'Butt Rock'
- albinoMithos, on 01/18/2009, -0/+18Good level design was always more important than Sonic's speed. Also dammit I want Dr. Robotnik back!
- schavira, on 01/18/2009, -1/+18Any Sonic song with guitar and vocals is terrible.
(Sonic Boom is an exception) - vwerf, on 01/18/2009, -0/+16Wait is George Lucas involved in this sequal too?
- InfinitySnatch, on 01/18/2009, -0/+16Just what we need, another Sonic game with a plot revolving around him trying to bone a jailbait human chick.
- LeadStripes, on 01/18/2009, -0/+16Is the song sung by the same person who did the Pokemon song?
- aywwts4, on 01/18/2009, -0/+16We really don't want sonic running fast, sure there were a few fun looping parts of the good sonics that were exhilarating for the time. Now this is about the only thing the series has, running really fast, and pressing a button when you a near an enemy.
What made sonic fun was really good challenging level design, often it would penalize you for trying to be too careless, thing on sonic 2 stage 2 act 2, if you were careless you would end up as low as possible in the water having to work your way up, then once you got through everything, if you ran too fast there was the brief run that ended at a wall, where the four pads would give away and drop you right back into the water again. They have fast, sonic is more than fast enough, 95% of the recent games are nothing but fast, and guns or *****. I want a good HD 2D platformer which was crafted with care. Branching paths, a high road, mid road, and a low road, Get careless and you have to play the whole level underwater, take some time and skill and you can stay up in the canopy.
Really, go back and play them, sure sonic is a hell of a lot faster than mario, but the fun parts are not the speed. This was a problem of sonic DS, it was so focused on speed the levels were completely non challenging, it would just bounce you where you needed to go while you press the trick and attack button in quick succession.
I really can't tell if this title is sarcasm, the blogger really thinks this looks awesome, I think it looks exactly like every other ***** stain of a 3D sonic released in the past decade. - T8erT0T, on 01/18/2009, -5/+19No. No it's not.
- hellaHOMER, on 01/18/2009, -8/+22Awesome trailer, though the concept isn't original: Hero from another world/future is summoned to vanquish the summoners enemies and save the day (think Narnia and Black Knight...hey, wait a minute. Did they just rip off the Martin Lawrence movie?!)
Wasn't there a movie about a teenage baseball player who was summoned by Merlin to save a princess in Medieval times? - inactive, on 01/18/2009, -1/+15These guys are remaking Sonic 2, but without touching the great gameplay. They're only updating the graphics to HD, as far as I know. Check it out, they have a demo. http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=1 ...
- Tddupre, on 01/18/2009, -0/+14Just let Sonic die. Why prolong his suffering?
- googooly, on 01/18/2009, -1/+14This will suck too. 4/10 IGN
- inactive, on 01/18/2009, -0/+12"3. Extremely large multi-path stages built for speed."
Whoa... no! I agree with the first two parts, but the stages should not be *built* for speed. The perfect example of Sonic stages at their finest is in Sonic & Knuckles, where speed is just a nice tool to have, helpful in saving time, but certainly not necessary to beat the game. S&K was full of secrets everywhere that you could only find when exploring the levels (read: slowly). Only the best of the best were able to complete the game with all chaos emeralds AND a decently low time. - drgmdp, on 01/18/2009, -0/+12the customers won't like it, marketing dept. says
- Cheesepuffly, on 01/18/2009, -1/+12Ok screw the gameplay we all already know it sucks BY THE ON GODS EARTH IS SONIC WIELDING A DAMN SWORD!?!?!?!!?!?!
Hes SONIC THE FASTEST HEDGEHOG in the world, not the Sonic the Unarmored Blue Knight. - GuacamoleSan, on 01/18/2009, -0/+11ey dont be dissin the pokemon song.
- Atomic05, on 01/18/2009, -0/+11Don't kid yourself. They stopped making actual Sonic games a long time ago.
- firebhaal, on 01/18/2009, -0/+10Dr. Robotnik plz
- inactive, on 01/18/2009, -0/+10But the levels in sonic & Knuckles were still built for speed. The secrets didn't use confusing Lara Croft like levers and platforming like the recent Sonics.
"Built for speed" doesn't mean that they are built like a racetrack, but that the gameplay is fluid, with minimal switches and buttons to press - molossus, on 01/18/2009, -0/+10Wow. That's dumb.
- Funkleft, on 01/18/2009, -4/+14...
yes? - Funkleft, on 01/18/2009, -0/+91. Sonic 3/Sonic Knuckles were by some people's estimates the last good sonic games, and those two characters still function well in the original game premise.
2. I agree that 3d levels worked in sonic adventure but I imagine they take more work and are more risky, they're better off returning to roots if only for safety's sake.
4. I'm mixed on the music, I think some of the music was decent, and even fi pretty well, but I think most people agree that the dancey bit-tunes in the old sonic games were good, so again, what works might be worth sticking with. - johnroth, on 01/18/2009, -0/+9Holy CRAP this looks amazing! Why the hell isn't Sega doing this themselves?! Why aren't ANY game companies making a 2-D game that looks this incredible?!
- Hikimbi, on 01/18/2009, -1/+10I think it was "A Kid in King Arthur's Court"
- viper001, on 01/18/2009, -0/+8The entire sonic team needs to be fired, with a new group of devs who actually played Sonic 1-3 brought in to replace them. When will those idiots learn to KEEP IT SIMPLE.
- no new characters
- no stupid gimmicks (swords, guns, etc etc)
- no ***** pop metal
- tight controls
- no humans, it makes sonic look like some kind of freak standing next to one - torressr3, on 01/18/2009, -0/+8Zelda anyone?
- ChileanGoD, on 01/18/2009, -0/+8squeeeeeeeeal sonic... squeaaaaal!
- Larssonk22, on 01/18/2009, -0/+8I had my cousin around for christmas I bought them Sonic Unleashed for the xbox360 they played it for about half hour and got bored, I booted up xboxlive arcade and let them play Sonic 1, they were smiling from ear to ear for 3hrs!!!
Sega Sonic only works in 2D after how many 3D games will you get this. Seriously what were you thinking, sonic with stretchy wolf arms, and now a F*ing sword!!
Sonic 1 & 2 were perfect and they remain timeless classics that people still enjoy and find challenging in a non broken sense. 2D isnt dead!! - HotGore, on 01/18/2009, -1/+8I raged.
- Nauree, on 01/18/2009, -2/+9Oh jesus. Seems like a rip off of Kingdom Hearts.
- schavira, on 01/18/2009, -0/+7Asian Bon Jovi + Furry Sonic + Stupid Human Characters = Sonic Has Not Yet Managed To Change Since Sonic Adventure And Is Still Terrible
- inactive, on 01/18/2009, -0/+61. Knuckle is for he sake of nostalgia, nothing more. A game with Sonic and Tails would be enough.
2. Mario isn't based on speed. Unless you want Sonic to play like F-Zero, 3D isn't the way to go.
Actually, all the time I was playing Mirror's Edge, I though how cool it would be if his was Sonic, but I am not sure if the new Sonic Team can pull off a colorful world that plays even more fluidly than Mirror's Edge... - inactive, on 01/18/2009, -0/+6"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is an 1889 novel by Mark Twain. "A Kid in King Arthurt's Court" is a 1995 movie lightly based on that book. By the time "Black Knight" came out, this basic plot had been used dozens of times.
- SeriousMite, on 01/18/2009, -0/+6They are when you try to combine them with an anthropomorphic, blue hedgehog. No one wants any story at all in a Sonic the Hedgehog game.
- Nephrastar, on 01/18/2009, -0/+6I could cry.
Sega is ruining my childhood hero. - SirBruce, on 01/18/2009, -0/+6HA HA HA HA! GIVE ME YOUR MONEY!
- Jeffler, on 01/18/2009, -0/+6http://digg.com/gaming_news/The_Sonic_Cycle_PIC
Credit obviously given to both of you. -
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