What can Sega do to improve the Sonic franchise?

Since the people making Sonic at Sega have completely screwed us over yet again, I figure that we here at SW would be much better at devising a Sonic game than them. So let's give them a helping hand by telling them what should be put in and what should be left out of the next Sonic game.nervmeister

I'm telling you people the game isn't bad at all, if you were interested in it you should rent it. I bet whoever does will see how screwy these reviews are, I'm starting to believe its popular among websites to hate sonic since its not exactly like what it was back in 16 bit. So yeah, whoever was interested in it I'm not saying buy I'm saying RENT to see for yourself. If you haven't noticed, the userscore and critic score is a lot higher than that of gamespot's score.

they should take the Megaman 9 route, and just design the game as if it were on older hardware, then put it onto consoles for download and DSdarkodonnie

Make a game like Sonic Adventure 2 or 1. SuperEmpera

they should just make a remake of sonic advernture 1. that game was so great, then they just fell offULTIMATEZWARRIO

[QUOTE="Sunamaru"]They should take Unleashed, take out the werehog and the HUBs and BAM there ya go a perfect sonic game eather that or give sonic to nintendogunswordfist

The best thing they could do is take it off of the Wii.gunswordfist

[QUOTE="SuperEmpera"]Make a game like Sonic Adventure 2 or 1. DJ_Vhat

Put an end to it.Epak_

Do what worms does.

Mostly now they just stick to 2D, they had a time on the ps2 where they did 3D but hopefully they have stopped.

Sonic games should just be made for the PSP, DS, maybe the wii and then 360 and ps3 DL games.

Sonic Team needs to sit down and replay Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Sonic CD, and Sonic Adventure and figure out what made those classics and strive to reach their quailty. They should especally pay attention to Sonic CD and use it as a benchmark for their next Sonic game. caryslan2

I wholeheartedly agree.

Step 1: Make it 3D, we have the DS for great Sonic 2D games he should be able to surpass that.

Step 2: Cut down the cast, the only human around should be Dr. Eggman give him Metal Sonic as a side kick and leave Sonic around with Tails, he can keep Knuckles if we don't have to hunt for emeralds and he's more like the Genesis era.

Step 3: Don't try to have a deep story, no plot twists, no relationships just Eggman trying to capture animals.

Step 4: Make the Chao Garden better than ever, these little guys add a ton of replay value and deserve a DS game in the style of Nintendogs.

Going back to 2D or even side scrolling wont save Sonic.

It's not enough to just have Sonic sidescroll.

The originals had exceedingly complex levels, unique and fun bosses, variety of enviornments and challenges.

You need all of those qualities.

organic_machine

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Going back to 2D or even side scrolling wont save Sonic.

It's not enough to just have Sonic sidescroll.

The originals had exceedingly complex levels, unique and fun bosses, variety of enviornments and challenges.

You need all of those qualities.

Senor_Kami

They seem to think that the only thing that made the originals great was the speed. So each new Sonic game goes really fast. But those things I listed and you pointed out are the reasons the oldsonics are great. Speed is nice too. But it is not the reason I play.

Shut down Sonic Team, give the responsibilities of making the games to Dimps (They made The Advance and Rush series, and the PS2/Wii versions of Unleashed)klidron02

Dimps was responsible only for the day stages in Sonic Unleashed for both the Wii and PS2 versions. It was not responsible for the night stages.

They can start by dissolving Sonic Team. Secret Level, too, Golden Axe: Beast Rider was horrible, regardless of what Dave Halverson says...ferrarimanf355

I agree with everything other then SOnic being only playable. You should have the option to pick Tails and Knuckles as playable characters like you could in Sonic 3 and Knuckles.DragonQuestHero

Step 1: Sell out to Nintendo. Step 2: Put Miyamoto in charge of the next Sonic game. Step 3: Profit.Zero5000X

Take out all those stupid additons they seem to need to throw in each time like the wearhog. Get rid of the more annoying side caracters. Have game-play be a mix of old-school 2D sonic in 3D and Sonic Adventure platforming. Make the chao garden deeper and more useful. Have online time trial comparisons. If they could figure something out like having 2-4 characters race across a level at the same timeto see who gets to the end first that would be cool but they'd have to put in a lot of time to make it work. Sometimes even the best Sonic games make it seem like the game is playing itself, so at least make the environments really nice to look at.

It's...it's just...ARG! It's beyond understanding.

Doesn anyone NOT know what exactly needs to be done to make a great sonic game? EVERYONE knows what needs to be done...except Sega.

It's just mind boggeling how simple of a fix it is, and how nearly the entire Earth's gaming population knows what needs to be done, and yet sega still doesn't get it.

Going to 2d isn't necessary.

What is necessary is stop making dumb spinoff concepts, like the wearwolf levels in SU. Just keep the speed levels.

Don't mess with the original formula, don't make gimmicky things, keep it to the speed. Fix the camera.

lettuceman44

Make it 2D and scrap all of the useless characters.

They can release Shenmue III and Shenmue I and II in a nice trilogy package for 360, PS3, and PC so everyone can play one of the greatest games ever made and finish the story.