What you think about Sonic (poll)

Sonic and the Black knight is coming out soon. The Sonic with a sword part doesn't appeal to me.

I got to thinking about the whole Sonic franchise, and wondered what everyone else thought thought.

Personally, I liked the older, 2d Sonics more than the new games.

Sonic may not be as glorious as he was considered in the past ,but he is still relevant in the gaming world, and the sales prove it. People still love the Blue Bomber.DaLegendKilla92

[QUOTE="DaLegendKilla92"]Sonic may not be as glorious as he was considered in the past ,but he is still relevant in the gaming world, and the sales prove it. People still love the Blue Bomber.Sonick54

Sonic itself is fine, and I think its universe has a lot of potential. The problem is that Sonic Team does everything they can to prevent anything great from coming from the Sonic universe.

We also really need to root out the provably false notion that "Sonic games have always been about speed", though, too.

Every game after the first Sonic Adventure has been forgettable.Rocky32189

My question is has Sega ever tried making a 3D Sonic game that just focused on Sonic? Maybe that's all the need instead of putting in other characters and adding gimmicks like wherhogs and swords.TheColbert

They have. It's called Sonic and the Secret Rings, that is if you don't consider the on-rails gameplay to be a gimmick.

As I see it, there are only two things that can be done that are better than just killing Sonic.

1. The developers are given a swift kick in the crotch, preferably a hard one. With luck, this would knock some sense into the Sonic Team and they could regain their ability to make great games.

2. Nintendo buys Sonic. Just imagine what the genius mind of Miyamoto could do with the blue hedgehog! No more stupid stories, no more needless characters, no more gimmicks, etc. In fact, why stop with Sonic? Sega is already focusing on Nintendo, so it wouldn't take much cash to buy them out completely! Of course, this should be done AFTER the release of Madworld or Nintendo would mess it up.

2. Nintendo buys Sonic. Just imagine what the genius mind of Miyamoto could do with the blue hedgehog! No more stupid stories, no more needless characters, no more gimmicks, etc. In fact, why stop with Sonic? Sega is already focusing on Nintendo, so it wouldn't take much cash to buy them out completely! Of course, this should be done AFTER the release of Madworld or Nintendo would mess it up.

Head_of_games

Quite frankly I've said on numerous occasions that Nintendo should just buy Sega and be done with it. :P

make a 3d sonic game, but make it good, like the 2d games.

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3d and speed CAN go hand in hand.garrett_duffman

Contrary to popular belief, if they made a game like the original Genesis games, it would not be focused on speed.

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2. Nintendo buys Sonic. Just imagine what the genius mind of Miyamoto could do with the blue hedgehog! No more stupid stories, no more needless characters, no more gimmicks, etc. In fact, why stop with Sonic? Sega is already focusing on Nintendo, so it wouldn't take much cash to buy them out completely! Of course, this should be done AFTER the release of Madworld or Nintendo would mess it up.

GabuEx

Quite frankly I've said on numerous occasions that Nintendo should just buy Sega and be done with it. :P

[QUOTE="garrett_duffman"]make a 3d sonic game, but make it good, like the 2d games.

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3d and speed CAN go hand in hand.GabuEx

Contrary to popular belief, if they made a game like the original Genesis games, it would not be focused on speed.

what sega NEEDS to do is, is make sonic kinda like assassins creed, but more advanced i suppose, as far as how you play. its best described in exlpanation form:

-you're running, running, running

- all the sudden, you're headed straight for a wall, but there is more of a hallway scenario, and its turning.

- you hold a button to pick up speed

- you press another button, you jump, once you are close to the wall, in mid air, press it again, you stick to the wall, and one more press will have sonic lunging off the wall, having the same speed as before you picked up speed.

- but oh no, now theres a big gap with a whole bunch of tiny little pillars and such, no rings, no enemies, and the pillars look too narrow to simply run across, or do they?

- you either:

A. tap the jump button over and over to "homing attack" onto them, not actually homing attack, just something similar to the motion

B. hold the speed up button, and sonic will strategically run across them, losing minimal speed, and continuing on.

- oh no, then there are enemies! well you can...

A. jump on them

B. Homing attack

C. jump and grab onto them, forcing them to move and crash into things ( you control where you generally go, think of in TP when you have to reclaim your horse and its freaking out)

D. do something else i guess

- now all the enemies are gone, and theres a vertical wall! it has a round to the corner though, so you could either:

A. run up the wall, holding the speed up button

B. wall jump up

C. Start running without holding the speed button, then jumping up the rest of the way

yea this is all just general thinking... make him more agile, sega likes to make him just go fast. buut implementation is key i suppose, i bet sega could screw this up somehow

Well... Sonic Unleashed didn't help him much and Sonic and the Black Knight doesn't look like it will do any better. When I see Sonic with a sword the first thing that comes to mind is Shadow with a gun and how horrible that game was.

Sonic was one of my favorite franchises along side Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Kirby.

But ever since Sonic Adventure 2 for the Dreamcast its lost its touch.

I think its time to take Sonic behind a shed and just put him to sleep.

2. Nintendo buys Sonic. Just imagine what the genius mind of Miyamoto could do with the blue hedgehog! Head_of_games

[QUOTE="Head_of_games"]2. Nintendo buys Sonic. Just imagine what the genius mind of Miyamoto could do with the blue hedgehog! clicketyclick

[QUOTE="Head_of_games"]2. Nintendo buys Sonic. Just imagine what the genius mind of Miyamoto could do with the blue hedgehog! clicketyclick

Sonic itself is fine, and I think its universe has a lot of potential. The problem is that Sonic Team does everything they can to prevent anything great from coming from the Sonic universe.

We also really need to root out the provably false notion that "Sonic games have always been about speed", though, too.

The idea of having Miyamoto making a new Sonic game sounds interesting.Pierst179

Sonic is still a great franchise, Sega just needs to stop putting stupid gimmicks in the games.

Well, if Sonic Unleashed could sell 800k after 4 months on the Wii alone, I don't think Sonic is going anywhere.

The last Wii exclusive Sonic game was Sonic and the Secret Rings, and that sold about 2 million. Sonic and the Black Knight has a chance to match that, and maybe exceed it (if Sega markets this game too).

Unless SEGA is willing to disband Sonic Team and put Sonic in another more qualified developer's hands, the series needs to die. It has gone from a fantastic platformer series to some of the shoddiest, furf-a-g infested crap in the modern video game world.

If SEGA can do something about that and make the franchise regain it's fomer excellence, I'm all for it. However, if they continue down their current path of blatant shovelware, the Hedgehog needs to be put to rest once and for all.

They are killing Sonic... in a way.

This looks ok, but the old ones look better. The sword is kind of a cool twist... but I don't like the new style, like how you can only run one way (like Secret Rings).