With the recent restructuring of Sega and their emphasis on mobile and PC some thought that Sonic might be relegated to a future on smartphones and tablets. Thankfully, Takashi Iizuka who is the head of Sonic Team, said we should still expect to see Sonic titles on home consoles. The next home console Sonic title was rumoured for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and hopefully the Wii U.
Personally, I don’t plan to stop Sonic for home-video game consoles. Don’t worry about them! And enjoy!
Thanks, MasterPikachu6
Sonic Adventure 2?
Listen to Jack Parow!
Huzzah!
We would enjoy them if they weren’t absolutely horrible…
Exactly.
Sonic games have ALWAYS been horrible!
No they haven’t…
Back in the Ancient Era, I preferred his games a bit more than Mario games…
For me, Sonic games could never compare to Mario games. I always hated Sonic’s speed, and the overall style of gameplay and the robot characters and stuff. The first Sonic was the only one I liked. But I still wasn’t crazy about it.
Sorry but it’s clear to me that you are not really a gamer, more than a collector, I haven’t seen you like like 95% of the games mentioned anywhere…
Aw, do you lack decent motor skils to play sonic? Boo hoo!
Oh, so more trash for consoles.
If they at least could make games good consistently, I might actually buy some sonic games…
Sonic games can be good but Sega doesn’t know what to do with the series anymore
Yes, keep using the IP that single handedly killed your company. Good idea SEGA.
It’s not the IP. It’s Sega killing their own IP and image because their think tank of actual good ideas have run dry..since Dreamcast died.
Sonic is the only IP that has kept Sega relevant. You have it completely backwards.
No dumbass. You have it backwards thinking Sega is still relevant, especially after that major disaster Sonic “Boom”. They’re still pushing it and by “it” I mean more fucking turds like Runners, their latest cash grab scam.
sonic runners is one of the fuckin mobile games ive played
Is that good or bad?
And I bet it’s a blast to waste $50 of in-app purchases for fucking rings or some other dumb shit perks that’ll last you a level or 2 minutes of playing afterwards.
Sonic didn’t kill Sega in the Console Market, Sega killed Sega. The stupid add ons like the Sega CD/32X killed Sega. Releasing the Saturn and the releasing the Dreamcast a mere 2 Years later to rectify Sega’s mistake with the Saturn killed Sega. Doing this, Sega lost consumer trust, THAT was what killed Sega.
Sonic is the only thing that is keeping Sega from dropping out of the Video Game market entirely…
And what’s gonna stop them from making another terrible game then? Sonic Boom was only the beginning and knowing they were gonna shift to mobile to acquire money from dumbasses on that platform without real effort, they haven’t learn shit and this news is merely keeping their PR BS in check from being hated even more; aka “damage control”
Remember, Sonic Boom was developed by Big Red Button, Sega only published the game because of the Sonic name. I have full faith that Sega can at least make a game on par with Lost World, sure it’s not been hugely well recieved as Colors and Generations, but it wasn’t widely hated like Sonic 06 or Sonic Boom.
Also, on a side note, you seem angry on quite a bit of your comments. Are you ok??? Is there something that’s bugging you that reflects in your comments??? Not complain, just really curious (and concerned…)
*Not complaining…
Then you’re a fucking idiot. Sega would’ve canceled the game if they knew it was gonna bomb which they did and they still had the stupidity to approve that garbage unlike Nintendo who can see garbage (games) coming from a mile away.
Sigh……..You swearing is completely unnecessary. I’m trying to be as calm as possible, so please, don’t force me to go into inner anger mode, as in anger that I had held back for 8 years, starting from when I was 11 when I was first bullied and decided to stay quiet and continue focusing on my studies throughout the 5 years that I was at that school and still constantly getting bullied for all 5 years…………
Back to the matter at hand. Remember, the fact that a lot of the people working on Sonic Boom at Big Red Button had left the company during the project, this meant that the workload for the rest that stayed, increased majorly. The fact that a smaller team was tasked to reach the same deadline as Sanzaru Games with Shattered Crystal, meant that developing the game became increasingly difficult. That is why Sonic Boom Shattered Crystal isn’t an infamously broken mess, unlike it’s big brother game, Rise of Lyric. Yes, Sega should have intervied more with the development of Rise of Lyric and made constant checks that the development for the game and the game itself, was running smoothly and yes, Sega should have seen that it was a broken mess and just delayed the release until some point this year, but remember, Segam as a company, had less to do with both Sonic Boom games, compared to most other games in the Sonic series. Also, remember that Sonic Boom is considered a Spin Off title and not a Main Series title, therefore, any and all mistakes made in the development of the game, does not necessarily mean that the same mistakes will be made for the next actual Main Series Sonic game. Sega have already had the Dark Age of Sonic, starting from Shadow the Hedgehog(a spin off) and going through for about 4-5 years. I don’t think that Sega is that stupid to bring a Dark Age of Sonic 2.
I ask this again. Why do you seem so angry most of the time???
*Sega as a company…
*Done reading Reader’s Digest magazine* Are you done yet?
Are you done acting like a complete douchebag yet??? Lighten up……
Don’t mind his anger issues, it does come in handy sometimes…
The only thing that matters in the end is the total extermination of the Xbots and then the rest will either kneel or fall like domino bricks…
I’ll take your word for it Commander. But the fact that he doesn’t seem to listen to reason is starting to get on my nerves, he seems to take his anger out on everybody, Nintendo fan or not and that’s just plain stupid. I atleast try to keep my comments away from profanity, but there has only been about 2 or 3 times when I just couldn’t help myself because the person that I reply to just seems to keep on argueing for no reason whatsoever. Anyway, sorry for the rant, I just really had to get that off my chest.
I agree, eliminate everything wrong with the Gaming Industry and keep all that is good about the industry…
Nintendo can see garbage games from a mile away?
Then why, pray tell, would they allow game such as The Letter and Meme Run on their own eShop?
Because eShop is an open invitation service should any indie is welcomed and I was referring to full console games. Yeah, Wii Music and even Other M did happened and wish it hadn’t.
Sonic Boom is a terrible game
No shit
Thank you for actually being the only smart one here on this fucking comment board.
Sega made to many systems in short periods of time, and the ps2 killed the dream cast because of better games, graphics and they ability to have a dvd in the system to watch movies.
Sega kept sonic going as much as they could, but dream cast sonic was the last game that the original sonic team was on before they all divided up and the main member left. Sega has a lot of good games that people fail to mention or realized they helped other companies make like Bayonetta and Mad World.
Sega should make games only, as they hardware wasn’t as good. Only ones that were good were the mega drive and dream cast.
Thank You. I try to be as unbiased and as understanding as can be, because that’s how I am in real life, Understanding and respecting other people’s opinions, no matter how much different it is to my own…
If you haven’t added me on the Wii U yet then I suggest you do it, I command it…
N-Commander…
*wink*
Alright, my NNID is AMAN1995 and the name that you will see is ςΥĢ★Aman95.
I’ll send a friend request through Miiverse now. The main thing that I do on Miiverse is pixek drawings, even though I’m not really that active right now…
Freind request sent…
*Friend
Good good, I’ll login later today to check…
Is this supposed to be a good thing?
More of a warning to stay away from it…
Once more, Sonic gets tortured to death. X(
*Batman Forever’s Two-Face* Why can’t you just DIE?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alDq5hAUoHY
The Segan High Command about Sonic…
Why make a mobile game in the first place?
Pleanty of developes make mobile spinoffs. Get used to it because they’re only going to get better.
They’re gonna get better at robbing idiots blind with in-app Microtransaction BS if that’s what you mean.
Crabjuice9 it’s a rhetorical question, what i really mean is why would they think this can benefit the series? Have you heard anyone actually excited for this? Same goes for Capcom with that Mega Man runner
You know. I want to be happy that I might get another game for Sonic, but after Sonic Boom’s suicide, how can I be happy? How can I be happy again if we wanted a Sonic Adventure 3 and got that junk?
Was Sonic Boom that bad? Was it worst than Secret Rings?
Even worse than 2006 which was the last most terrible sonic game.
Sonic 06 did the same for some, even a Hardcore Sonic fan like ClementJ642 left the Sonic scene after 06 and it was the Unleashed demo that brought him back. There will still be people that will play the Sonic games after Boom with the mindset the it was a spinoff of the Sonic Series…
Because games like Sonic 1, 2, 3&K, Adventure 1&2, Heroes, Unleashed, Colors, Generations, Lost World, Rush & Rush Adventure, Advance 1, 2 & 3 exist? Sonic haters love to ignore how spectacular Sonic is when he’s actually good.
Lost world was bad
The show at least isn’t bad
Sonic Boom was admittedly awful, but that doen’t mean Sonic is awful in general. I’ve had a blast playing all the Sonic games, minus the storybook series and Sonic boom, and of course 06. Sonic Lost world was actually really fun once you got a grip of the controls, and I played the hell out of Colors, Unleashed, and Generations! I hope the next Sonic game tops Lost World at least!
Sonic Unleashed was a step in the right direction but still wasn’t great (At least the humans weren’t hyper-realistic like in Sonic 06)
Sonic Colours was awesome
Sonic Generations I’ll admit, wasn’t as good as Sonic Colours but was still pretty amazing.
Sonic Lost World, it’s hit or miss but it does have some good things about it that makes it part of the good sonic games line… just barely though.
I liked Generations the most, because Sonic Colors felt more like a 2D platformer with 3D elements rather than the other way around, but hey, to each their own.
It’s Sega who is awful at making DECENT Sonic games anymore. Only on portable (NOT MOBILE) consoles is what still kept Sonic interests afloat like Advance and Rush which BTW I must ask, WTF is Sonic Rush 3?
Sonic Rush 3 = Sonic Colors Ds
I mean with Blaze and Marine fool. lol DS’s Color merely used the same Sonic Rush engine. I’m still waiting for the 3rd Rush game.
I wonder what people are gonna shit on next, after Sonic dissapears.
Mario, Zelda, and Metroid most likely.
There are the fans of Mario that like his 3D adventure games like Mario 64, Sunshine, Galaxy 1&2. However, where the divide occurs is that there is still a fanbase for the retro 2D Mario games, but the fact of the matter is that the New Super series of games has been stagnating the series in terms of innovation. A sentiment both sides share as they don’t appeal as much to longtime Nintendo fans as they do casual gamers. While the NSMB games are solid platformers, they don’t set any new standards like the rest of the 2D and 3D Super Mario games have in the past. Super Mario 3D World was highly innovative for the seemless way it merged both playstyles while still feeling like an adventure game, but there are still people like myself that want the Galaxy series to be a Trilogy.
Zelda and Metroid is far easier to define the canvases within them. You have the 2D/Top-Down Zelda fans that prefer the games on the 3DS and other portables now, then you have the fans of 3D Zelda games since Ocarina. The same goes for Metroid. But then, you get the mix of fans that like both, which still outweigh both groups of people (luckily).
Then, you have the Zelda and Metroid fans that liked SS and Other M and the other group that abhorred the changes both games made to their series because of the shift from WW/Prime-like exploration to linear, repetitive gameplay elements because both games focused on the narrative TOO much and became washed up and generic to most fans of both series…hence why Nintendo acknowledged their poor sales and decided to return to a focus on exploration (ALBW for Zelda) and gameplay (Prime-like game for Wii U in development by Retro).
This has been a trend for Nintendo lately: a return to form towards making games for their fans as well as the core gamer. Hoping that Zelda Wii U doesn’t disappoint fans like SS did, especially.
Anyways, that’s enough of that essay. Sonic will always have a place in my heart, and I don’t know why people overreacted with Sonic Boom: it’s a spin-off…who cares? That’s like me hating the entire Zelda series because I find Hyrule Warriors boring and repetitive. It doesn’t make sense.
The last Sonic game we had was Lost World, which was a solid game on its own merits, but it was held back by having half of it’s levels absolutely balls-to-the-walls infuriating and horrendous (Frozen Factory Act 2) and the other half really stood out and felt refreshing to play on. I still go back to the game to play on good levels like the Windy Hill and Desert Zone stages. But I think we just need a 3D Sonic game that focuses on gameplay instead of story…one that feels more like Super Mario 3D World and less Sonic Adventure.
I know that it sounds like a sin, but I think the focus fans put on SA and SA2 for nostalgia is keeping the series back from innovation. Less story…more speedy platforming!
Zelda is never hated and Mario only has very few bad days/games than Sonic’s 10 years of shit. Metroid, only one, ONE BAD GAME that almost ruined the lore is Other M and Nintendo is retarded enough to celebrate that crap more often than Metroid Prime, a much better game that respected the Metroid series and Samus’s character altogether.
Nintendo was retarded enough to even say that Other M was a canon game while the Prime series wasn’t. At least we can say that SS supplemented and helped fill in major plotholes the Zelda series had. Other M doesn’t add anything relevant to the Metroid series at all! :/
Anyways, Mario games that are bad tend to be that way only because the “bad” games tend to cater to casuals and lack innovation (once again: the NSMB series lacks innovation the SMB series had…that’s really why they’re bad games in the eyes of a core Nintendo fan). Still…there are the people that like the NSMB games, so at least they’re doing something right.
And, yes, there are many fans of Zelda that like certain Zelda games and hate others. For instance: my eldest brother hates Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, but he loves every other 3D Zelda. My other brother loves Twilight Princess, and he likes Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time to an extent, but he detests MM and SS. I only disliked the shift from gameplay to story that SS had as it made the game far too linear like Other M, and the backtracking in SS was awful. I did think the motion controls made Link look a wonky, but they worked. I just didn’t like how the game made everything involve a gratuitous hand swing maneuver as it made me ache at the end of the play session. Zelda II is unplayable to me. But I loved every other Zelda game ever made (the DS entries were a bit meh, but I still liked them too).
Other M was infuriating. While the game is still solid on its own merits with combat, I was fighting the motion controls, and it was WAAAY too linear due to the heavy focus on story. I still shudder when I hear Samus’ monotone voice from that game to this day…Jennifer Hale was such s better voice actress than the random one Nintendo picked off the streets to do Samus’ voice in Other M (I’m not joking…the Other M voice actress of Samus had no prior experience whatsoever).
That’s was the one utter bullshit I despise Nintendo doing aside from calling the original 7 Bowser children his “minions” and call Jr. his only child. Bowser Jr. is just a present day Baby Bowser that is a major whiny pussy while Other M is nothing more than an epic failure of a Metroid Fusion rehash with Super Metroid bosses that makes the creativity lazy and with a sorry ass excuse for a Prime/NES control setup that’s so retardedly built and illogical for a 3D plane game. WTF would they say Prime trilogy is not canon when the first game plugged up the first Metroid game’s plot with Prime?
Agreed. Each Metroid Prime tied up with the storyline of every 2D Metroid before and after very seamlessly. It caused no issues with the canon of the series. Other M just contradicts everything about the lore of Metroid, RoS, Super Metroid, and Metroid: Fusion while also claiming that MP3 (and thus the whole Prime Trilogy) never existed.
Then WTF was that of making Retro produce Prime 1-3 for nothing?!
Retro Studios must have been pissed at High Command with the decision, but with Other M being the largest AAA game failure Nintendo has ever had in their history, I’m almost positive Nintendo no longer considers Other M as a part of the series lore any longer.
Now, I will say that every Nintendo fan and gamer alike should be looking forward to this year’s E3. Not only because of the new Zelda and Star Fox, but also because it is very likely Nintendo has even more games up its sleeve for 2016, and with Metroid’s upcoming 30th Anniversary, it would be a perfect time to release two new Metroid titles: one for the Wii U and another for the 3DS.
My thought behind this is that the Wii U game could be the 3D Prime successor; the other could be Metroid 5 exclusively for the New 3DS.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they later come out and say after announcing the next Metroid game that Other M is no longer canon and that they are going back on what they claimed in Other M with the Prime series. While Nintendo never outwardly spoke of whether Prime was canon or not, Sakashit did. Shittymoto is the reason Retro Studios hasn’t made a new Metroid game since then…and I hope with his “departure” from the series that he never touches a core Nintendo title ever again (his last game was Tomodachi Life…that alone should tell you everything you need to know).
I want to believe his so-called “departure” involved Miyamoto getting furious at how Sockinbopper handled/destroyed the Metroid universe with one game and how horribly it was received that he told him he will “never touch the Metroid franchise again”. Because shortly after Sakamoto made the comment that he wouldn’t be returning to the series, literally less than a month afterwards Kensuke Tanabe, who worked on the Prime Trilogy with Retro Studios, and Shigeru Miyamoto both announced they have plans to continue the Metroid series, and both respectively worked on the 3D Metroid titles (except Other M) and 2D Metroid titles.
It’s time for the Metroid series to make a comeback with a game next year.
They still celebrated that garbage Other M in Smash Bros. 4 and turned Dark Samus into a fucking trophy while giving Dark Pit, a CLONE, a roster spot while DS that has a different move set and animation of its own, has been denied a spot. That’s how much “respect” Nintendo has given to the Prime trilogy and Retro who rekindled the series back from hiatus after the creator died from a car accident.
I’m glad that motherfucker is history and won’t be anywhere near Metroid again. Now I hope Prime will be named as a canon series and bury that POS Other M or completely rebuild and rewrite it from the ground up and port it to the 3DS. I was excited to see Metroid continue and change with Other M but OMG, I’m so glad I didn’t waste a dime on it because it was just a shitty window dressing of a “celebratory” Fusion/Super rehash with a terribly written story that only Michael Bay or John Woo could come up with which BTW is why John Woo was denied of making a Metroid movie. lol
Hold on now, you’ve never played Other M before? All this time you’ve been trash talking it… And you never played it? Lol.
It’s an open world 3rd person game that recycled Fusion’s Story, Super Metroid’s enemy/bosses, turned badass and fearless Samus into a pussy with PDST plus “daddy issues” with Adam, turned Adam into an asshole instead of respecting Samus after all the years she’s defeated the Space Pirates time and time again (Other M being canon and not Prime which plugged and told a better story ark than Team Ninja/Sakamoto did), has THE MOST RETARDED CONTROL DESIGN/CHOICE IN ANY VIDEO GAME (Wii remote only for a full 3D game is fucking stupid) and lastly, Samus is voiced by some noob, a nobody with no fucking acting experience instead of Jennifer Hale who last did Samus’s ‘voice’ work in Prime.
Where did Sakamoto say he was finished with Metroid, all he said was he was no longer the Director or Writer for 2D Metroid games. He is still the Producer and Manager of them after his promotion idiot. PS, learn about Nintendo’s dev staff before posting.
Probably was done after that disaster Other M idiot. All we know is 2 new Metroid games are coming and likely Retro is back to do another Prime entry or a Prime-esque successor.
I enjoyed Other M, but at this point, I wish Nintendo would just recreate Other M (keep the gameplay roughly the same because it was fun as hell) & rewrite the story since a majority of people hate the game. Bring Prime’s voice actress for Samus back & let her do the rewritten Samus lines since she’s good at doing more than just grunts & screams when given the chance to actually talk. (Loved her as Alexandra Roivas in Eternal Darkness.)
Gameplay seriously needs revamping for multiple control options, not leave it at only one limited Wii Remote with a D-Pad in 3D open environment (it’s very stupid) also that pathetically stiff “Prime” 1st person mode needs movement, get rid of that retarded “authorization” BS and bring back actual upgrades both old and brand new since there was nothing new in the game so the players can feel “rewarded” for their progress, rewrite the entire story so it doesn’t sound like a ripoff of Fusion repeating the same shit we already know about GF’s secret Metroid breeding corruption, ruin so many character development chances for Adam or Samus’s already established strong and respected feminist character (like get rid of that fucking controversial Ridley PDST scene) and took a shit on past games like Prime because it’s “non canon” to that retard co-creator of Metroid (Gunpei would’ve loved Prime so much to consider it Canon if he was still alive), add tons of brand new areas and enemies especially bosses that AREN’T REHASHED FROM METROID 2 TO 4 plus if they wanna add a subplot like that Deleter traitor, at least fucking reveal who it is. Don’t bring it up just to forget about it later like nothing (because Other M didn’t directly reveal who, they left the fans to figure it out themselves but it’s forgettable anyway)
EVERYTHING about Other M including that subtitle name which didn’t stand for anything (like WTF is Other M) needs to be reworked…COMPLETELY.
Oh yeah and bring back Jennifer who did Samus’s voice in Prime instead of random, unrecognized and talentless bitch of Other M.
If they keep anything from Other M, I prefer they keep the pre-flying stages of Ridley. I loved the fact he practically metamorphosed from a little bird looking thing to a bigger than human lizard to the creature we all know & love. It made him feel more like a Space Pirate as they tend to be insectoids & some insects do metamorphose from one creature to an entirely new one.
His evolution design makes no fucking sense. A little furball evolving into a giant dragon by pulling off the “Alien” stunt from growing inside of a body? WTF? Ridley was done justice in Zero Mission, Prime 1/3 and even Fusion.
Well considering Metroid has tons of Alien references, it just felt right with having Ridley start off as something not so dangerous looking & turning into the badass dragon that he is. And it was the opposite of the Metroids which even in their unevolved forms were quite dangerous. In fact, turning from a small little furball into the dragon just made Ridley feel even more badass. Just think of Chucky. You’d think him being a doll would make him less dangerous but instead he was just even more so.
And to help it make sense, just look at a fly or butterfly. They are completely different from what they started off as.
He said that because he was promoted to Producer and Manager, so after that he can no longer Direct or write a game because he is no longer on the team instead he manages the team, had nothing to do with Nintendo being pissed about Other M.
People seem to forget about Colors and Generations…
For the sake of humanity, let him die already.
I’ve been a sonic fan since the genesis era and have enjoyed quite a bit of the sonic games in the series, new and old. In my opinion I loved Sonic Colors and Sonic Lost World. Just went back and played it yesterday for the first time in 7 months. I was sad if they weren’t gonna continue with sonic on the home consoles but this is now good news for me. I think that the next sonic game should be a true collaboration with Nintendo and sonic team, so that they can together develop a new sonic game, like they did with smash bros with nintendo and namco bandai.
I don’t want another Wii U-exclusive Sonic game. SEGA needs the money from a successful multiplat release of Sonic now on all main formats: Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Technically, they need to make a powerful Sonic game that takes advantage of current-gen hardware for its gameplay. They need to focus more on gameplay and less on the narrative as well. Let’s be honest here: there are more Sonic fans that play those games on PC, Nintendo, and Xbox platforms in that order. We can’t have another Sonic ’06…SEGA needs to step up to the plate and deliver on making a Sonic game that plays amazingly well and is innovative like Colors and Generations were (more the former than the latter).
I don’t really believe sonic will do too well on the other consoles that much. I’m a PS4 owner and I know a lot of people who own one too and they could careless about getting a sonic game on PS4, and I have felt that sonic is more at home with Nintendo since Sonic adventure DX. Sega was right when they said found that the sonic was purchased more on nintendo consoles than on the others. That’s why Sonic Colors was on wii and was one of the best sonic games. Wow that sounded weird since I remember agruig back in the day when I was a kid that Sonic won’t every be on a Nintendo console because I always thought sonic was better than mario back in the 90’s.
couldn’t care less*
Thanks.
Fun fact. There were more 3D Sonic games on Wii than on the PS3 (2nd most) and Xbox 360(Least), last generation. Wii had, Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colours.(=4) PS3 had, Sonic 06, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Generations.(=3) and Xbox 360 had, Sonic 06, Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Generations.(=3) Note-The Sonic games on PS3 were also available for Xbox 360, but the Wii had 3 exclusive Sonic games and 1 Multi Platform game. Not that it really matters and I think that I just wasted mine and your time with this pointless information, so I apologize…
*After reading my comment after posting it, I realised that I made a mistake. I stated that Xbox 360 had the least 3D Sonic games and PS3 was 2nd most, whereas infact, they both had the same amount of 3D Sonic games, so I would like to rectify that.
Epic fail on my behalf…
The Empire thinks Sonic needs a little rest, or a redbull, tonic, gatorade, something.
Gatorade…hah! Let’s just hope the little speedster doesn’t have another sugar rush n’ crash.
Never really enjoyed Sonic games as much but they do provide a change of pace for me. Sonic Boom I heard was awful, both in design and with many technical issues. I’ll be fully aware for the next console release so their next game better not be full of technical issues. I hate that above anything else.
YES!!! I never wanted Sega to stop making more amazing Sonic games for that matter and tbh about Sonic Boom, it wasn’t a bad game but the gameplay could have been more easier for me to handle. Other then that I’m proud of Sega still moving forward for the Blue Blue Sonic :) And to think I actually they’ll become the Next Capcom.
There’s nothing wrong with the Sonic Franchise btw, they just need to create a gameplay that’s easy, delightful, creative, on going, dramatic, and all of the above. Or in this case why ask what the fan’s want for the upcoming games.
“There’s nothing wrong with Sonic” I’m not sure how to ask this in a way that isn’t rude but are you around 10-15 years old? I mean that’s the age demographic that I normally see defending Sonic games in such manner.
I’m 23 and I think There’s nothing wrong with sonic. I have always loved him since the genesis days and still enjoy some of his newer games to an extent. Sega just needs to make sonic games that are very fun and enjoyable again. Like how fun Sonic the hedgehog 2 is, and then how enjoayble Sonic adventure 2 battle was, and the Sonic Colors. I pers
personally liked sonic lost world. It isn’t the best sonic game but I like it a lot. I finally played it yesterday for the first time again since 6 months ago.
“There’s nothing wrong with Sonic.”
Well, that’s your opinion and you’re very much in the vocal minority. Even myself, being 23-years-old and a huge Sonic fan ever since playing the first Sonic the Hedgehog game and (grudgingly) playing and beating every main Sonic release since then (even 06), can realize when there are huge problems the franchise has, such as the inability of SEGA to create a proper, cohesive Sonic game since, arguably, Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Colors in terms of achieving a balance between story and gameplay.
There’s either waaay too much a focus on story that the gameplay itself is ridden with glitches and hit detection issues (Sonic 06 and Unleashed) or games where the gameplay consists of nothing else than speeding down a straightaway with nothing much to break up that pace and where you end up fighting the controls more than anything else (Generations).
While you’re meant to get better over time, and I can pull off some really crazy speed-runs now on the aforementioned games, your first experience shouldn’t be one where you are fighting controls, the camera, and making mistakes because of poor level design and game design.
For Generations, I also felt it was half great (Modern Sonic), and the rest was terrible by comparison (Classic Sonic). Ironically, Classic felt better than Modern on the 3DS version.
That’s my point. Sonic is not consistent as a game series. It has just as many good things going for it as it does bad things, and that is an opinion most gamers express towards the franchise. On the contrary, Mario games have universally good games to masterpieces.
That is the problem Sonic faces in this industry. Compared to his past rival, Sonic games just aren’t as good as they used to be, and if this trend continues, then regardless of the Blue Blur having a place in the mobile market, he’ll soon be just a part of gaming’s history like Pac-Man is now no longer relevant anywhere but Super Smash.
That being said, I still have hope for the Blue Blur. I think he’ll manage to get out of this hole whether his games are made by SEGA or Nintendo, regardless. I don’t care for which platforms Sonic games release on: all I know is that I want to play it. :)
I would like to see a Sonic the Fighters 2.
Damn another Sonic 3D adventure? I like Sonic but give it a rest. EVEN a 3D Mario tittle doesn’t appear that often.
Best sonic games was Sonic the hedgehog 2 and Sonic Adventures 2. I never played colors so I don’t know.
no one ever mentions sonic 2 but it was so much fun and the soundtrack is one of my favorite video game soundtracks of all time!
Yeah I loved Sonic The Hedgehog hog 2 soundtrack and gameplay. I really liked that the adventure mode was 2 player cooperation. Yet they took that feature off SH3. Plus you had the race mode on 2 players as well. Sonic 3 was ok but Sega got too carried away. The music on Sonic 3 was forgetful. Sonic 2 first, Sonic 1 and last Sonic 3 in my favorites list. But between Sonic 2 and SA2 that’s close.
yeah I loved the drop in co op feature that 2 offered. sonic adventure 2 was fantastic though , but I think I lean more towards sonic 2 simply because I’ve always felt that sonic works so amazingly well as a side scrolling platformer. I really think if sega was smart they would go back to sidescrollers, they are cheaper to make and could really touch base with their fans before they go back out and try to do another 3d adventure game.
It would seem that way side scrollers but Sonic the Hedgehog 4 sucked big time.
yeah it started going downhill with 3 when they broke it into two parts to make a deadline.
Great news. Keep making improvements to the Unleashed Daytime stages/Sonic Colors mechanics and the games will be as good as gold…
So does that mean Nintendo will be doing the Sonic??
I hope you were being sarcastic.
It does look like Nintendo might have a financial interest considering the Sonic amiibo. Who knows, we might get anither decent 2D platformer. In the right hands it could be the next Shovel Knight.
That’s good to hear. At least I can await what Sonic Team has been working on since Generations (What the “A” Team has been working on since the “B” Team already brought out Lost World).
I don’t think I’ll ever play another (new) Sonic game until Nintendo acquires the rights to make a Sonic game…
Won’t be a news about the update 1.1 of majoras mask? Hehe
Sonic Boom 2 pls
dont plz XD
Why’s everyone bitching for? The sonic team made Sonic games have been good since unleashed, are people really disowning the franchise just cause of a shitty spin-off tie in made by another company?
Sonic the Hedgehog franchise belongs in Japan…….GOOD Sonic games belongs in Japan. Please don’t “westernized” Sonic games ever again! I don’t want to see good Japanese IPs turn western. Look what happen to Devil May Cry or “DMC” for the ‘Merica dude bros.
Westernization is the reason Sonic was made, dude.
sega, maybe you could get big N or, pretty much anybody else (besides big red button) to help you out on the next one, I mean I love my hedgehog but you keep hitting him with the car!
I am glad that Sonic isn’t finished with consoles. Hopefully the next Sonic game is as polished as sonic generation or colors.
Sonic & the Black Knight 2
NOW WITHOUT MOTION CONTROLS!!!
After playing Sonic Lost World, I can honestly say that I just really don’t care. I cannot believe that I actually wasted my money on that game instead of Bayonetta. -_-
I feel your pain. 😣
While I do like Sonic games, and I like Sonic characters more than those from the Mario series, Sega needs to get its act together and actually put effort into the next Sonic.
Sonic 06 (which I actually loved playing as Silver and managed to get SOME enjoyment out of) was the first in many, many missteps. Don’t even get me started on Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Lost World.
I WANT to see Sonic return to glory, but that won’t happen if trends continue.
Sega needs to do less Sonic and more Alex Kidd, Fantasy Zone, Phantasy Star, Space Harrier, Monster Land, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Billy Hatcher, Samba de Amigo, Space Channel 5, Seaman, Chu Chu Rocket, Ivy The Kiwi?, and Super Monkey Ball. It’s absolutely shameful that Sega, who once had the single greatest lineup next to Nintendo (and arguably Capcom) is reduced to releasing a game a year in ONE franchise. Just think how much better everyone would have liked Sonic Unleashed if, rather than a half-hearted Sonic game, it had been a bizarre and original new take on Altered Beast. Sonic & The Secret Rings could have been an amazing new Space Harrier. Even Sonic Boom would have been a lot more fun if they’d made the characters entirely new and left out the lame running segments.
I want Golden Axe 4 in 2.5D, not that garbage 3D game they made…
I’m surprised to learn you’ve played (or at least are requesting) a game from your empire’s former rival, Commander.
Unlike the Xbots and the bigger parts of the Sonyans, the Segans were a true gaming empire…
I wasn’t loyal to their back in the Ancient Era…
I HAVE been wanting a Billy Hatcher sequel for a few years now… They should get on that.
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and i hope they will make a good sonic game.
To all the fucking sad Sonic haters on the comments, there are like two really bad main-series Sonic games, and that’s being generous with the haters in considering Sonic Boom a main series game. And no, the storybook series and Shadow aren’t part of the main series. Sonic Generations is one of the best Sonic games and that came out not too long ago.
It came out 4 years ago. Lol.
Well, 3 years actually. Anyways, every time SEGA does something right with Sonic, they manage to screw it up again. Sonic games use to be amazing to me. But I have never been as disappointed with a Sonic game as I have with Lost World. Everything started going downhill after Adventure. Not saying that Colors or Generations are bad though because I enjoyed those. But the games haven’t been as good as they used to be. My favorite Classic Sonic game is Sonic 3 and once I heard about Sonic 4, I got really excited. But it was a disappointment. It was nowhere near as good the classics. (Imo) Sonic Lost World was a waste of my money. I just hope that one day they will make another amazing game in the series. But for now, I don’t think I’ll be buying or looking forward to the next Sonic game any time soon.
Actually, I’m pretty sure Shadow the Hedgehog is main-series-canon, as well as the storybook series (or at least Secret Rings since a line of dialogue *in* Sonic Generations explicitly mentions its events).
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To many of you Prime shit heads who keep bitching about Prime’s canon; you all should honestly be happy that Retro Studios doesn’t have to worry about Sakamoto being up their asses to stick with mainline canon. Plus if you retards ever notice the Galactic Federation are more technologically advanced in the Prime games then the GF of the main series. in both Metroid Fusion ending and Other M shows humans using ballistic lead-based weapons. Plus the Prime games are still canon just not with the main series that way Sakamoto’s development Team and Retro Studios wouldn’t get into an argument over story issues, so Nintendo pulled a Zelda and made two separate timelines.
Hopefully the next time it won’t be a major bomb like Sonic Boom for Wii U.
Too bad Shadow the Hedgehog is hated by many because I really enjoyed that game. It was a nice spin-off & allowed Shadow the Hedgehog to be more than just a Sonic knockoff. It gave Shadow a chance to be his own character, so I honestly don’t see why all the hate for it. That’s like making a Knuckles spin-off game & hating it because Knuckles is no longer as fast as Sonic but is instead a powerhouse with a little speed to him, allowing him to be more than just Sonic 2.0. *shrugs* Oh well. It matters little as long as Sega keeps killing Sonic with bad games. *sigh* Poor, poor Sonic & friends/foes.
Oh well. It’s a moot point as long as Sega keeps releasing bad Sonic games.* Fixed.