Things have gotten better

Things have gotten better.

At least Sonic 06 didn't have OCs.

Mania is the only good thing on that list
Forces looks like trash and I doubt we'll have a final boss that tops the Biolizard or Chaos

>Silver
>Elise

Explain to me what's wrong with OCs without resorting to
>coldsteel
>sonichu/chrischan
>devianart in general

>20th anniversary
>Sonic 4 shit physics
>Sonic Generations shit physics
God damn it.

We have plenty of sonic characters as is
I wanna see my boy Snively fuck shit up

I honestly forgot Sonic 4 existed. I liked Generations fine, but for some reason thought it was the only 20th anniversary game.

God I had forgot about that GBA port of Sonic 1, 14 year old me was looking forward to it and when I got it I was so fucking disappointed.

I still can't believe they could fuck up a port of Sonic 1 that badly.

They just tried to shove it onto the GBA without optimizing it like at all. I remember a homebrew that made a working genesis era sonic engine for gba so it was possible to make it work but Sega just didn't fucking care back then.

I fully agree with this I miss characters that arent Sonic/Eggman/Tails

>sega just didn't fucking care back then
that implies they care now

I don't think Sonic Mania would exist if they didn't care to some extent

I don't mind OC's but there are already enough as is and SEGA/Sonic Team doesn't have any idea about what to do with all the characters they have.

...

Having been around during the 00's I can tell you that whatever you think of Sega now, it was a thousand times worse back then.

>Snively
You can keep those comic/cartoon faggots out the games.

Snively is about as likely to show up in upcoming sonic games as captain lou albano is to reprise his role as mario.

Snively is the only acceptable comic character
He deserves to be in the main games

No point, Orbot and Cubot are already established as his right-hand men. Game Eggman really doesn't need another yet another Starscream on his team.

Just let me play as Shadow and Blaze again.

I can honestly say that things have improved for the franchise in the past 10 years.

There is no Starscream right now

Fuck off. Let him die with that cancerous comic. We have those two robots, no need to bloat the games with redundant characters, and that IS saying something.

Snively would kick ass AND be a rapist
how the fuck could you not want that

>Mania
>Reusing old stages because of fucking moron executives at Sega
>Forces
>Bringing back fucking Wisps
The series is in a sad state when this is legit the best we are getting in over half a decade

>>Mania
>>Reusing old stages because of fucking moron executives at Sega
There's no way Mania isn't getting a sequel, and it's been AGES since we've have a Genesis-physics 2D game, so I'm okay with them playing it relatively safe. I just hope the sequel gets to be completely original assuming SEGA of Japan doesn't fucking shit the bed and drop Taxman's team out of jealousy/Japanese pride.

Wisps and Classic Sonic in 3D games are seriously cancers on the series now.

To be honest Wisps aren't really that big of a problem. Heck back in Colors there were a lot of stages where you didn't really need to use Wisps to clear them. They just gave different ways to go through stages.

Lost World on the other hand was bad with how they used wisps, they just felt shoehorned in at most parts and were only enjoyable to use in a few intervals.

Will he benefit the gameplay or the story? Pick one.

Story obviously
I want to see Mike Pollock and Charlie Adler kick some ass

>We have plenty of sonic characters as is
Whats wrong with more cheerleaders?
I would love to hear Custom the Character yell at sonic to perform a homing attack!

that Mania looks solid

We need good games and good gameplay, story is the last that Sonic games need. Fuck right off back to /acg/, Archiefag.

what about Sonic Mania and advance series?

Will the OC have a super form? I can't see them breaking the rule of only allowing male Hedgehogs to go Super with the Chaos Emeralds.

How the fuck would Eggman or Snively make the gameplay bettter

>MUH BOUNCE JUMP

fuck off

It'll probably end up being better than the 20th anniversary due to mania alone.

They'll probably either get a Super Wispon or just utilize Final Color Blaster

Exactly my point, we don't need frivolous shit that eats up dev time spent refining the gameplay, THE most important part of a game.

since they decided to give SOnic a voice and make stories more elaborate with Adventure, the series started to suck dick

Sonic Team still thinks they have ANY writing talent to this day, it's like watching a trainwreck about to happen with every release

So whats the point of having eggman?
He doesnt contribute to the gameplay
Neither do any other characters who arent Sonic and Classic

>liking to walk on walls

He's the antagonist. The one you fight in each fucking level. You can have multiple characters and not have a story, or you can do what Sonic 3 did and tell the story via level transition at the end of a boss fight. We have enough game characters that we don't need any of the comic characters period. Their roles are already filled.

>He doesnt contribute to the gameplay
>Neither do any other characters who arent Sonic and Classic
>Tails' flight
>Blaze's hover/double jump
>Shadow's Chaos abilities

Getting the guys that made the closest facsimile of the original physics engine to create an official new 2D game and getting the Generations guys to make what basically is Generations 2: OC Creator Edition are good moves. Sega have kept saying they really want to up their game in the next 5 years so this looks like a start, alongside getting Bayonetta 1 and Vanquish on PC.

RECENT games

I hope because he/she seems to be tech based they get a mech or something.

>Boss before final boss
>CYCLONE ENGAGE

how would you feel?

Pretty hype my dude.

I'm fucking dying of laughter
Post more EEnE edits please

nice

I miss other characters

>Fanboys ask for Sonic Generations 2
>Sega gives them one
>Fanboys whine about OC creation and Wisps

Sonic fanboys are like SJWs: They will never be pleased even when you give them stuff they ask for.

You are aware that Generations 2 has nothing to do with OCs and wisps right?

Wisps were in generations once.

I was saying fuuhhck to each of these
good post

>Fanboys whine about [shit that wasn't or was hardly in Generations]

Go figure

10/10

You're forced to make your fursona and play a third shitty gameplay style. What does this mean? Less levels for the regular sonics.

It's not a high bar to pass.
That said, Mania looks great and I'm cautiously optimistic about Forces.

>I remember a homebrew that made a working genesis era sonic engine for gba so it was possible to make it work but Sega just didn't fucking care back then.
Yes and now he's working on Mania.

I'm willing to give it a chance. I liked Xenoverse.

>Implying that OC creation and Wisps are a bad thing

After Colors, Wisps have felt nothing but shoehorned into things. They were shoehorned into Generations Planet Wisp, shoehorned into Lost World and now shoehorned into Forces.

>Wisps were in generations once.
To be fair, Planet Wisp was the worst zone in Generations

>They were shoehorned into Generations Planet Wisp
Planet Wisp sucked, but how did they feel shoehorned?

Cause no other level had them. They were just in there because it's the Colors level, but they added nothing.

It's as shoehorned as the skating in the Generations City Escape level. The wisps fit planet wisp.

Lost World they were definitely shoehorned though, and probably are for Forces too.

Buddy's levels are more or less remixes of Modern and presumably Classic's stages, like the side missions from Generations.

>They were just in there because it's the Colors level
But that's a perfectly fine reason to include them.

>Silver
>ANY OTHER FRIEND

I just think it looks fucking stupid in a series with established characters to suddenly have something the artists didnt design specifically. This is what I would say in Mario or something, but Sonic's art design is so tonally fucked it doesnt even matter anymore.

It's Sonic with guns and other such tech instead of homing attacking, but he's whatever species you want him to be.
I wanna make a spess marine bear.

Hyped for Mania, hyped for Forces[/spoiler]' music.[/spoiler] Despite the gimped Classic Sonic gameplay and overwhelming amount of 2D, Forces doesn't look too bad. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as though it's improved much from Colors or Generations though.

it had a great 10th though

Buddy can homing attack too.

I remember when everyone told me Sonic CD was incredible so I need to check it out. Found an insanely rewarding and difficult platformer...that only lasted like two or three hours. Ive replayed it a lot and yet only have 9 hours. I want to be hype for Sonic Mania but why bother with so much excitement for such a small game

Adventure 2? Or was Advance also a part of that?

Forces having lyrics in the music reminds me of Sonic R which is cool.
I love how they seem to have actually got back the old Saturn-era artist that made all those colorful pictures for Mania, which I guess makes sense cause Mania is trying to be the lost 2D Saturn Sonic game that never happened.

Adventure 2 certainly promoted that, Advance probably too

Well shut my mouth then. Homing attacking and shooting people with guns. I wouldn't be surprised if you could turn Buddy into Shadow.

Apparently only some stage songs will have lyrics, but it's cool regardless. There should be an extended preview of Park Avenue's theme sometime before or around E3.

I hope so

>things have gotten better
>sega LITERALLY said fuck it and let a goddamn modder make the game for them, highlighting how little they understand how to make good games anymore
>the AAA sonic game is basically a deviant art circle jerk

No, user. Sega has gotten infinitely worse.

You just sound like you don't even like Sonic in the first place and just like to shitpost about it.

Yes but there was no real reason for them, Spikes is just a spin dash that lets you go over literal spikes and the forced use of Rocket made the levels very long and killed your momentum so you can watch yourself break through a floor it's like they intentionally padded the level to justify that little gimmick.

>a Gameboy Advance Game came out 10 years ago
I don't know why, but that feels way too recent. Like the GBA was 20 years ago or some shit. And just earlier I was surprised to find out the PS4 is 3.5/4 years old. What the hell is happening the my perception of time?

Also doesn't help they made the music worse somehow when original Planet Wisp had great music.

They weren't done well, but there was a reason for them to be there, even if that reason was simple.

So apparently mania is coming out on august 15th in europe

Meaning america will probably get it a week or 2 before that

August is gonna be hype boys

>06

>Crash remakes
>Splatoon 2
>Sonic Mania

Summer is nuts

What cute concept art. It's like the guys in SoJ have no idea about the stigma towards fan characters.

There's no reason why it wouldn't be a global launch.

Still so far away though. Literally the only game I wanna actually get this year.

SoJ is in its own little bubble, basically.

iktfb

None of the shitty anime games on ps4 that have been coming out interest. I just want muh old 2D sonic and im so happy it exists. Best thing sega has done in a few years

It's certainly my most wanted. At least next to the Shovel Knight DLC which is free anyway.

They have a much more innocent look on it at least. Let them keep their purity. Let them continue to think it's just kids wanting to make a character that fights alongside Sonic.

This

It will be the first and maybe only game I buy this year

I loved sonic in the genesis era.

But his 3D entries have been a disaster.