Which one has the better design?

Which one has the better design?

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OVA sonic always wins

classic obviously

left looks more like a hedgehog

1999

Classic. It's specifically engineered to be perfect and appeal to literally everyone. Modern's design was a desperate attempt to stay hip and cool and as a result it lost a lot of its charm. Modern's design only looks good when it's done by an artist that can elevate it like Hesse.

I always liked the 99 sonic the best. I dunno why. I guess because it's a strong reflection of its time and his character. Classic sonic is good too but in different ways

In that art style I'd say they're both equally good.

Sonichu

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right.

99

but adventure sonic is literally just a taller classic sonic. surely you mean post-2003 sonic?

Somewhere between 2 and 8 would be perfect

Your image is missing the best one.

"I'm the definitive Sonic the Hedgehog"

>Blue arms
I'm triggered.

>Sonic the fighters
>Sucking
>Being a worse game than Fighting Vipers
Am2fag here, this is way off the mark.

Does Lange post in these threads anymore? I hope we get to see more of Utopia at SAGE, even if they're not ready to show off the new level, and it's just the show off their more complete engine and new framework in the same demo map, that would be fine. I can't wait to see Tails show up in Utopia.

I like OG 1991, but in terms of the present, 1999 is best.

obviously "modern" sonic
modern sonic's art style has inspired tons of great fan art whereas "classic" sonic has aged as well as the old mcdonalds mascots

I never understood why people made a big deal about the green eyes. I literally didn't notice them until I heard people complain about "why are Sonic's eyes green now?"

Classic is the best. I do have a lot of love for the 99 design despite it trying too hard to be cool but the classic design is timeless.

Both are fine.

It's the style. Sonic often had brown eyes in old art but nobody cared. When you make it a full neon green oval surrounding the pupil, it makes his pupils look constricted, giving him a more crazed look. It just looks less friendly. When it was just a small deep brown eclipse within the bottom of the pupil, like how Kirby's blue eyes work, it looks more natural for the art style. Also, people don't like needless change for things that they already liked. It's where the phrase "don't fix what isn't broken" came from.

I love old sonic spikes, he looks way more like a hedgehog. But in the end, if he's gotta go fast by running, right makes more sense, and looks more arrogant.

If we're actually designing him around running for some reason instead if for curling into a spiky ball, we should make him a quadruped with Cheetah-like legs. Drawfags?

We can go back and forth but the bottom line is Sonic's design is top of the line in just about every way. How did they do it.

By making the most corporate design ever

It's wasn't designed by committee like modern anime characters to profit of off easy saps or something, it was the winner of a contest and designed by one guy. SEGA was motivated by profit like literally everyone else in the industry, but they always had heart too. The first game was a little stiff, they were just finding their footing, but it still had plenty of care put into it. The sequels up to Sonic and Knuckles are clearly inspired games.

I like them both, but I think I prefer Modern. It was the one I got to know first, and I feel like they've perfected the concept so that it looks really solid no matter what.

OVA Sonic will always be the best.

>be japanese furfag
>draw your fantasy
>autismos, manchildren furfellows identify with it sexually
>children like anything anthropomorphic unless they're sociopathic

What the fuck do you mean "how did they do it?"

This is the ideal Sonic The Hedgehog. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

This. That's back when Sonic was actually cool, and not some sort of surfer retard.

I don't know how in the FUCK I forgot that the sonic cd intro was a thing, but thanks for reminding me about absolute perfection

Modern Sonic lost the "Pikachu Cute/Cool" vibe.

That's not '99 Sonic, this is '99 Sonic, or '98 Sonic to be more accurate.

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How did they get it so right, and then never use it again?

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The right one
The left one is too chibi

Modern seems to fit the 90s era far better than Classic who looks like a forgotten 30s film toon.

This, but any sonic without blue arms is fine too desu

ON A SUNDAY, RIDING MY BIKE, I NOTICE, I NOTICE, DIFFERENT THINGS THAT LOOK ALIKE

I miss Adventure Sonic. Modern Sonic doesn't have any of his weird poses or insanely early 2000s-ness in general.

It's a crime that we never got a tv series based on the OVA

It's amazing how every soundtrack for Sonic CD is god tier

someone make a bowsers inside story thread, have been replaying this game and have been reminded how amazing it is

I expected a bunch of cocksucking pieces of shit to put Classic Sonic's design on a pedestal and shit talk Modern Sonic's design. Pleasantly surprised Sup Forums, but I know this won't last

They toned it down after Adventure 2. Funny enough, the original artist did a rendition of Adventure Sonic back in '98 that was even zanier.

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I don't see what's so zany about th-
>leg

I always wondered why they changed Sonic's design from Adventure 1 on the Dreamcast to the weird render they have on the Gamecube (and why they don't have the Dreamcast varient available on the PC).

1=3>2

They're both fine. I don't dislike modern Sonic, I just prefer classic style more.

In my case it's more that I can't decide between the old chubbier Mickey Mouse-esque Sonic or the Toei/Tyson radical '90s spikified one.

1 >= 3 >= 2

1=2>shit>3

>no love for Murican mohawk Sonic

>2 > 3
>3 bad
shit
taste

I knew I'd trigger one of you Heese cocksuckers. I don't want him being the face of Classic Sonic, especially when there's plenty of other renditions.

dont fix what aint broke.

I love the way Hesse draws Sonic's spines to be pointier with less curve. They look more like y'know spines, rather than a weird saw fin down his back.

Classic of course, but the real question is WHICH classic Sonic. For my money it's a tie between japanese key art and Toei/Tyson Hesse style.

I wish the Classic Sonic model in Forces looked more like CD or OVA Sonic.

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Sonic movie design was perfect, "classic" sonic from generations looks way too round and fat

I kind of wish they had started using this as his default model for promotional art and shit, it completely captures the mix of Jap anime and western cartoon influence. As it is it just makes CD look like the odd one out, the one classic era game were both Sonic and Eggman are played seriously.

>classic sonic
>in riders style
After 1998 and 2006 for having the quills go down this is the best he's ever looked.
Will we ever get another riders that doesn't involve some stupid gimick?

SA2 art Sonic was the best modern design, I think he should've kept the SOAP shoes too.
My favorite Classic Sonic design is the Mega Drive comics version, it's pretty much the CD design with more personality.

I like this one, it has the pudgier body of the OG design with the color palette and pointier spines of the CD version.

Toei/Studio Junio Sonic looks completely different from Hesse's Sonic, are you sure you're not confusing them with OVA Sonic?

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To be fair official designs like this already exist.
See Mario Strikers or Sonic Lost World.

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I like all of them

Rush era was perfect.

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Sonic was universally loved and a huge phenomenon in the early-mid 90s, interest sharply dropped after the Genesis era. Sonic is something the 90's would actual love, skinny voiced skaterdude Sonic is like a parody of what you'd think people in the 90's liked if you aren't old enough to remember it.

1 > 2 > 3

Exactly, thanks for agreeing.

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I find it weird that Sonic has 5 fingers while Mario only has 4

Both are great, outstanding even.
Renders were a mistake

I still don't understand why they thought this was necessary

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Movie and Hesse Sonics are seriously the greatest incarnations.

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>tails doing the swirly run
REEEE

Hi hater

Bye hater

I just don't get how short spine sonic was such a PERFECT design in CD yet they just kept getting longer and longer in the 3D games until we got dumb shit like this

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