Ken Balough, the former Brand Manager behind Sonic 4, has revealed that the company had plans to release Sonic 4 Episode 3 but it was ultimately scrapped by the company. The Sonic 4 series of games on the Nintendo eShop, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network were originally planned to be a Sonic trilogy, but Balough wouldn’t disclose why the third part was canned.
Thanks, MasterPikachu6
Because when your whore out sonic the product suffers. Sega needs another IP to star in a game. Not just stick sonic in everything.
Maybe they should bring back Alex Kidd.
Are 2D platformers even Sega’s thing anymore?
The only thing Sega knows ever since the Ancient War is not knowing what to do with their weaponry,machines and resources…
Aliens/Aliens Vs. Predator, Golden Axe, Hastune Miku, Phantasy Star, Puyo Puyo, Shinobi, Space Channel 5, Super Monkey Ball, Total War, Valkyria Chronicles, Yakuza, NiGHTS, ect.
Sega makes A LOT more than just Sonic, and Sonic Team even made a decent amount of these. So don’t act like the only thing they make is Sonic.
Sega needs to stop making games and start selling propane
Fuck sonic runnets why no make this?!
because sonic 3 was made already
holy fuckin crap you’re stupid
but they could have made knuckles playable AND IN THE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think it’s cool and why not you
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I CANT GET BETTER THAN THIS
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i put a man and i failed
sega didn’t make it because sonic 3 was already made.And because mecha sonic would never make a return because he clearly exploded at the end of knuckles’s story then ending his story but my story was in doomsday zone and there was asteroids and super mecha sonic and knuckles with your recorded fight if you look closely. Also, if you get debug mode with knuckles, you see space above.It’s weird how that is, and if you stay up for about 5 hours you’ll see me flying around in space.It’s a real pain to do that. to get debug mode: go to zone 1 jump on a vine and do left left left right right right up up up. then you have level select, then go to level select only and go to mushroom hill zone then find a pulley and do the same thing like with the vines with wii you need to press 1 for debug use and 1 again for me and what you cant do is change gravity (sonic 3 not sonic 3 and knuckles) but you turn hyper for sonic and super for tails and hyper for knuckles (HAHA HES PINK)
i tried and it worked thanks BRO …
_Testing… 123…_
XDDD It didn’t work.
Testing again 123… TESTING 123…
They suck why this game would have been awesome that bull shot yo im tierd of good game being turn down its ridiculous and poor I really would o love to play this game wow good way to blow my cool yo
Gee, I sure do wonder why. Maybe it was because nobody liked Sonic 4, and that it was a letdown on pretty much every conceivable level? The choice to not only rehash previous levels and bosses, and make it episodic was what killed this game. Nobody wanted a game like this, especially one called Sonic 4. Generations made for a fine “4th” Classic game. In my opinion, it’s pretty much the best Sonic game out there. Why couldn’t 4 be more like THAT?
I think there was a bad decision made in nearly every part of both games. But I did kinda enjoy the first one(2nd one was pure garbage IMO).
4 shouldn’t have been episodic. That was weak. Would’ve been better as one big game. Take what made the classics so fun and preserve that but add new things too. Generations was pretty good though… and Adventure 1 & 2 were awesome…
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I agree. Sonic 4 was nowhere near as good as the classics imo. It’s really disappointing what they’re doing to Sonic. I used to be a huge Sonic fan and always look forward to his next game. Sometimes even buying his new games before I even knew way they were about. But now whenever he gets a new game, I have to stay away from it and just read the reviews online to be sure that I’m not wasting my money. Lol.
Yep. I want to love the Sonic franchise, but I’ve learned to be cautiously optimistic about every game, generally looking for a score of ~80% on gamerankings.com before picking any title up. A long, long time ago a new Sonic game was something to get super hyped about.
Good. Episode 1 & 2 were so uninspired and a complete bore. Why call your game Sonic 4 if you can’t at least attempt to match the brilliance of Sonic 2 or 3?
Why don’t Sega make a new IP for a 3D platform. New hero new enemies on new platformers and strategies?
Because it’s not easy to get a new IP to sell.
Tell that to Pikmin from Nintendo, Last of Us from Sony and…well, nothing else from Microsoft besides Gears of War. All it takes is good publicity and massive oublic access of demos and such.
I said not easy, not impossible.
How the hell did Pikmin sell?
Because people loved it
Look at their sells figures.
It’s no secret why it was cancelled. The first 2 sucked, who was going to buy a third?
As for those saying SEGA should ditch Sonic, I disagree. It’s not Sonic that’s the problem, it’s SEGA themselves. They have gone from phenomenal developers to total jokes. Give Nintendo the reins over a Sonic game and guaranteed he would be back and better than ever.
Basically the entire original lineup
God dammit, SEGA¡
Worst sonic for me is sonic galaxy “lost World” . Can’t talk about sonic boom as I haven’t tried.it yet.
When you try sonic boom, sonic lost world will look like sonic adventure 2 in comparison
Have you ever played the game called “Sonic 06”? What about Sonic Genesis, the port of the original onto the GBA. Lost World isn’t the best, but I’ll never say it’s the worst.
I couldn’t help but wnjoy both games for what they were. My only problem wasn’t even originality. They could both be beaten 100% in 2 hours. It has dawned on me that they are both custom-tailored to the ios.
Can we bring Jet Set Radio back on the Wii U, please?
WHY SEGA WHY??!?!?!?!? :,-(
So they scrapped a better Sonic game for the sake of making these garbages called Lost World, fucking Boom…and now Runners for mobile….Sega should no longer have the right to own the Sonic IP anymore.
I would take Lost World over Sonic 4 any day.
I get it may not have been the long waited sequel die hard fans wanted but let’s be real here; They’re not terrible games. Sonic 06 is. Half of Unleashed is. Generation’s scale of “originality” is. Lost World’s stupid ass Sprint button mechanic is. Everything about Boom and Runners is terrible too.
I can tell you what my issues are with the games. Sonic 06: Never played but heard bad things about. Sonic Unleashed: Nighttime “Werehog” levels. They drag on forever and they’re boring. Sonic Generations: Gameplay was great but it would’ve been better for a new game instead. Classic Sonic is nothing like the real Classic Sonic. His levels are actually pretty boring and Generations is way too short. And Sonic 4 isn’t bad but it is not as good as the classics. I have heard people complain about Lost World because of its controls and its difficulty. Also because it’s too short as well. As for Sonic Boom, I don’t know what’s up with that. I played the 3DS demo and that was really boring imo. And I’ve heard the Wii U version had frame rate issues, glitches, and bad graphics. I haven’t really had any major issues with Sonic Colors. Other than the fact that it’s a bit too short…
Shadow the hedgehog was a cash-in on shadow’s popularity and a trial run for the new voice actors with crappy dialogue, but it did have some badass imagery. You gotta give it that.
Sonic 06 was a great idea brought to sh*t by sony and microsoft rushig sega, who everyone blamed for it all.
Secret rings was the backwash of the incident, with the original idea being to port it to the wii, but that was delayed (if i recall.)
Unleashed was an interesting concept, day and night giving you a different way to explore each level, but then there was that jackass who decided it was a good idea to slow sonic to a crawl (blegh. At least give us dreamcast style speed).
Black night was an attempt to improve secret rings, but was better off as a movie.
Sonic colors…. Just needed more content.
Generations-
Classic of course isn’t what you remember. You were trying to build gameplay from one console on a different era with a completely different engine, so of course it would be different. At least you could guarantee a spin dash with x/square.
Modern- guys, people responded positively to it. Of course it would have little changed. But the game did need much more on it. At least we get 25 years in 2016.
And lost world? The perfect game was somewhere between the two. The levels and parkour were clearly the selling points, but the wii u had better levels, and the 3ds more pf them aka it was longer. The wii u barely let you use parkour at all, but the 3ds was so dependent on it it drove the difficulty up to absurd levels. Somewhere between the twp was sega’s ideal game.
As for sonic boom? Sega’s way of saying: “f*** you. You were going to hate it anyway. Let the little kids have this one (and the show.)”
Like i tell everyone- sonic CAN BE DIFFERENT. He just needs to be fast, fun, and (somewhat) easy tp control, and that’s far from easy. When you are going at the speed of sound, you need reflexes fast enough to match, and thats why lost world had the sprint button.
Totally agree with all of your points.
Was for the best. When are they going to revive the Adventure series? Those were games that at least tried to tell a serious story rather that the clitche family friendly stories we have now. Though Shadow The Hedgehog was a bit overboard
Episode 1 and 2 were trash. I’ve accepted that Sega can never make another 2D Sonic game as good as 1-3&K, CD, and the Advance series. You know something’s wrong when fan games are miles better than the official games.
What about sonic rush and SRA?
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Um, actually, it was me who asked Ken Balough about this. http://forums.sega.com/showthread.php?520516-Sonic-the-Hedgehog-4-Episode-III-is-NEVER-HAPPENING-Maybe
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Well, considering the route that Sonic 4 was going for, im kinda glad it got cancelled.
Sonic 4 was just trying to hold itself by trying to look nostalgic and keeping into a comfort zone of just using what was already used back a while, it didn’t add anything remarkable or even did something to differentiate from all other Sonic games, there is a reason that when I think of Sonic modern games, I might remember Sonic Gens, Sonic Colors, Sonic Unleashed, hell even Sonic ’06 or Sanic Bum, but Sonic 4 is so bland I completely forget it exists, and I think is better that way.