youtu.be/PueyaaX4rV4 >classicfags can make perfect 2D Sonics (Mania) >can also take from Adventure style without shitty gimmicks (Utopia) >even modernfags can take from classic style and add to boost style (vid related)
Literally no excuse. Come on SEGA, hire the fans if you want to save Sonic.
What are other examples of fans doing stuff, companies couldn't?
Angel Sanchez
What about Sega's other franchises like NiGHTS, Jet Ski Radio, Billy Hatcher, Chuchu Rocket, etc Those franchises haven't seen daylight for years other than cameos to other games
Aiden Smith
Blue Water Blue Sky paired with Sonic What a time to be alive.
Adam Young
AM2R
Tyler Hill
Those IPs are dead, user. Only popular series get fangames for them.
Adrian Scott
Remember Nights as a car?
Grayson Davis
Which is kind of a shame, really
Thomas Price
Rouge needs her own game
Nolan Richardson
MegaMan maker
Xavier Cook
bump
Landon Lee
TRIPLETS BORN
Isaiah Morales
THE THRONE AWAITS
Parker Myers
what is gimeck about sonic utopia, the game looks great
Brody Foster
Making 3d Sonic work?
Jose Thomas
At least even the worst Sonic games have the best music
For the longest of times fans have been making better Sonic games then Sonic Team. It just comes from Sonic Team making Sonic games because it's their job and it keeps food on the table while fans still understand what actually made Sonic fun in the first place.
Luke Jones
The game engine has nothing to do with how the game plays, blame the dev for that. For example, Dragon Ball Fighterz and Tekken 7 run off the same engine. The engine choice doesn't mean as much as you think it does- it's mainly just tech.
Easton Martinez
I WANT SPACE CHANNEL 5 PART 3
Eli Gomez
For NiGHTS, you could check ou Sonic Robo Blast 2's special stages.
>we've gotten to the point where even boostfags are fed up with Sonic Team and have started making their own games Jesus Christ, that's hilarious. Sonic Team is completely 100% useless at this point.
Christopher Clark
nice
Luis Reed
They were for a while
Owen Green
never
Jace Flores
They make Puyo Puyo so they are 50% Useless
Chase Flores
>Beat Sonic forces and Lost world >pretty decent >Nice banter and music
I like that Sega gave sonic characters personalities and that's I feel is one of the main reasons why people still look forward to sonic games.
Sonic games will be nowhere near as good as Mario games but they are pretty decent once in a while
Jason Reyes
A SEER WARNS OF A DEADLY FATE
Jack Jackson
Why is Mario better than Sonic if story elements is what you're looking forward for in a Sonic game? Especially when the two examples you posted was shit in that department.
Jaxson Murphy
>Jet Set Radio gets a perfectly good pitch for a 3rd game. >Sega just goes nah,man.
The assets were all there, they just needed to make it into something playable.
Jordan Cook
>Forces >Decent Only if you've played very few other entries in the series.
I'm not even a hardcore Forces hater, but every single element of Forces, bar the OC creation screen itself, was done better elsewhere in the franchise >Classic Sonic sections were done better in Mania (obviously) but also in Generations >Modern Sonic sections are severely neutered compared to Unleashed and Generations >OC character is basically just the Modern Sonic physics but with no boost and with the Wisps brought back >Copied the final boss right out of Colors and Lost World (seriously how many times do they plan on reusing the basic set up for that boss?) >The returning stages - Green Hill, Chemical Plant, and Death Egg - aren't as interesting as their previous incarnations I admittedly did like the cheesy poppy vocal music in Forces, although that, too, was probably done better in other Sonic games. Overall my problem with Forces comes from the fact that it borrows HEAVILY from previous Sonic games but unlike Mania, it doesn't do enough to revitalize those old concepts, nor even really expand on them. It's just the same shit we've seen a dozen times before but on even more of a shoestring budget as Sonic's funding clearly starts to dwindle.
Levi Walker
I think they're referring to Mario games being better in general, but they prefer Sonic when it comes to story. Forces especially focuses on story (at the expense of the gameplay imo), and that focus appeals to some people regardless of how good or bad the actual story is. What Sonic Team fail the most at in this regard is keeping continuity between games since they clearly stopped giving a shit after Adventure 2.
Brayden Wright
Even if you like Sonic for the personalities, how can you not think Forces completely butchered them?
>Sonic doesn't take anything seriously at all anymore and just cracks really bad jokes all the times >Tails is a fucking pussy that can't fight anymore and has a dependency complex with Sonic >Knuckles acts like a Vietnam veteran >Shadow barely does anything in the story >Omega is still a generic robot like 06 instead of the cocky little shit he was in Heroes/the comics
Evan Hughes
This is amazing, I might actually enjoy a sonic game if this was completed.
Justin Adams
>Focres >Lost World >Nice banter
Nigga not even close. And in the case of Forces that banter created a tonal dissonance that hurt the overall narrative.
Jackson Johnson
Let's be honest though, anyone could make Puyo Puyo.
Jack Gonzalez
Then they should just read the comics. I hate how Sonic's had to pander to everyone instead to just who like it as is. Want something else from Sonic, that's what spinoffs are for, which Mario did right.
David Thompson
its really fucking sad because team sonic and sega are total bros and really cool guys on their social media
Dominic Russell
Social media accounts exist for public relations, of course it seems that way.
Charles Nguyen
You mean SoA and Aaron are total bros.
Carson Harris
Sonic Team and SEGA of Japan have nothing to do with the social media.
Wyatt Diaz
I wonder if Sonic Team will ever recover. They seem to be losing budget as every game after Unleashed slowly started to look more barebones, I guess you could call it.
Why dont they just do what they do best and make a plain, modern sonic game. no gimmicks, not too many new elements, just a plain,nice looking world to run around in. I'd imagine it'd be cheaper to focus on that instead of putting money towards a new gameplay element that they have to make fun,somehow.
Go back to the basics, and see where they go from there.
William Perez
Everything wrong with modern Sonic is 40% budget and 60% Iizuka.
Wyatt Jackson
People should stop using Iizuka as a scapegoat. He barely had anything to do with Forces. Hell I think he was more involved with Mania than with Forces.
Connor Lopez
I'm no Iizuka hater, but Sonic Team's output is a reflection on him as a leader since he's literally their boss, and it's not a good look.
Andrew Lewis
Or Rodea the Sky Soldier (original Wii version only though) since it's Yuji Naka's spiritual successor essentially,
Sebastian Martinez
>Hell I think he was more involved with Mania than with Forces. Yeah, all those forced classic stages instead of Taxman's intended all new stages. Iizuka has been a root of evil for Sonic's history spanning as far back as SA1, but he isn't alone with ruining Sonic. Nakamura also is a bad influence, name responsible for 06 story wise and it shows his bias when characters like Silver show up.
Benjamin Rodriguez
Should they do what crash and Spyro did and have each character go to the others world
Easton White
The original pitch was for a small new game with 4 or so new zones and bundled remasters of the trilogy, so we'd have less new content if that's what we ended up with instead of Mania. Maybe they'll go all in with the new stuff for the followup.
Connor Price
That's before Mania was greenlighted as a new game instead of Sonic 1 and 2 port plus 4 new levels. Iizuka was promptly responsible to keep old stages instead of more newer levels
It was also Taxman's an whole different story where Eggman got depressed and the Hard Boiled Heavies would be the main antagonist of the game, but then was forcefully changed to what it is now as a Forces tie in.
Jacob Adams
So you're saying it's Iizuka's fault I don't have Taxman 3K on my PC? He must be executed.
Jonathan Evans
I mean, I get that TROO FRARR is just a meme, and it's also impossible to tell EXACTLY what goes on during Sonic games' development and who did what, but... let's not pretend that Iizuka is completely blameless here, or that he hasn't had an overall net negative impact on the series as a whole to warrant such scapegoating. He seems like a nice guy, but his ideas haven't done much for Sonic.
>He barely had anything to do with Forces He was pretty involved with the character creator in Forces, at the very least, judging by the developer interviews. It stands to reason he was involved enough to shoulder some of the blame for the games' shortcomings. Also, what this guy said, basically.
>so we'd have less new content if that's what we ended up with instead of Mania. That still doesn't excuse the rehashed Zones mandate though. I'm still torn over Iizuka and Mania. Yeah, he allegedly suggested the idea in the first place, but he still gimped the fuck out of it, creatively with that retarded mandate. >Maybe they'll go all in with the new stuff for the followup. I'm sure they will. And it'll be a much better game for it, too. Unless Iizuka decides to flip a table and cram more "nostalgia insurance" in there again anyway, which is still entirely possible.
Isaac Thompson
Classic Sonic but in 3D.
Chase Carter
DO YA KNOW DA WAE?
Xavier Morales
Gotta wait for the next SAGE for that. Hopefully
Joshua Price
>dat super Amy A man can drea- >HYPER Amy >tfw never ever Please user, don't do this me.
Henry Butler
God, the physics... It looks like a mix of Sonic 4 and Forces. Great job mixing shit with puke.
Cameron Peterson
Looking good so far, hope it gets done. I'd love to see some campaigns and mods for different characters made. once this is done.
Jeremiah Gray
>Yeah, all those forced classic stages instead of Taxman's intended all new stages. End this fucking meme already, Iizuka's suggestion only made Mania bigger than what it originally was going to be. You could argue that they should've been given a bigger budget and more dev time to make a longer fully original game, but that's not what any of you argue.
Jaxon Davis
>they bring back the Egg Dragoon, again >don't even use the Egg Dragoon music i'm not sure which one was more disappointing
Charles Adams
Hi lizuka
Jose King
The problem is the physics are far too powered. But they are far more function than both of those game, it just need to tone down the speed, more accurately the acceleration.
Ryan Wright
New game with both brand new stages and heavily remixed and expanded old stages >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> minuscule brand new game with just other two old games bundled in
We got the better deal here, FACT.
Jason White
>bigger = better meme No thanks, I'd rather had taken the original pitch over forcing the ported levels into one game. You'd literally get ~16 classic levels + 4 new ones, 20 levels over 12. So more my asshole.
Grayson Edwards
>Still no Billy Hatcher PS4/XBone port >The PC port is still shit if you can find a torrent that doesn't have 0 seeders
JUST
Justin Baker
As much as I would have loved having the remasters on PC, he's right.
I don't think Mania would have been half the hit if they just went with the original pitch. 4 zones only? Does that sound familiar? It would have just been seen as Sonic 4 Episode 3. A small fraction of a whole experience that ends too quickly. And I don't think people would have been that excited for it since it would just feel like a demo of what Taxman and Stealth could do than a full game. Mania is a much bigger step for them.
Ethan Martin
Did you even play Mania? Because these remixed stages feel really fresh, and arguably every single one of them is superior to their original counterparts. So no, in this case bigger = better is an accurate statement.