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So, I'm gonna save Sonic
TheSonicRetard
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Thanks to polago, I've been put in a position where a few sega reps want to talk to me specifically about what needs to be done to fix the sonic series. Obviously, I have volumes of stuff to talk about, and I have my own ideas about what to say. However, I'd like to get everybody's opinions on what needs to be done to help. I've already started talking to some of the bigger sonic hackers, but I'd like a casual sega gamer's stance.
So, penny-arcade, what should I say?
So, penny-arcade, what should I say?
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Somehow make it like Sonic 2 or Sonic 3 & Knuckles again.
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Tails
Knuckles
Every other fucking character has to be cut and never to return.
Period.
Also, can we go back to calling him Robotnik? "eggman" is stupid...
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This... and Sonic can no longer speak anymore.
The whole series needs a "reboot", but their last attempt with that godawful 360 game was... godawful.
It's ironic, because the two suggestions I can think of boil down to the 360 Sonic and Sonic and the Secret Rings: either a return to the redeeming elements of Sonic Adventure or a completely minimalist approach. Both of them had pretty noble intentions with pretty mixed results, which therefore pegs the execution as the real problem here. I don't mind the adventure concept, and I certainly don't mind the stripped down approach, but in both cases, you need people in charge willing to ensure some quality control that's been lacking for so long.
I suppose if I had to change anything, I'd fire everyone responsible for the amount of inane plot that goes into these games. The presentation sours the aesthetic. For this genre, the amount of plot in Mario 64 is probably as much as you're ever going to need. Anthropomorphic animals really aren't a good source for compelling drama.
3 playable characters -
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles. Each should be playable on all levels, there should be no "sonic levels" or "Tails levels" although alternate routes in levels is acceptable.
No cut scenes, any story should be told though in game scripted events.
Arcadey level structure (should be able/designed to be completed in one siting)
Spinning signs at the end of levels, and Containers with animals in them after boss fights.
Extra optional stuff -
I would love a 3D graphics, 2D gameplay sonic game, but I am yet to play Sonic Wii, so maybe that is good.
I will no doubt think of more in time, but I have an exam 2moro and am off to bed, I will post more later. This is very very awesome of you/the Sonic community.
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semi 3d characters, new art, same level design.
It would sell a million.
for the ds ofc
I'm pretty sure you can't revive a franchise by doing the same thing you've been doing for 5 years
Speed-running, plus foreground-background switches? Awesome.
no.
I enjoyed SA 1&2, and I wouldn't mind seeing a third.
Though I kind of miss Amy's mallet of death©.
Shadow was a huge letdown. I really wanted to like it, especially seeing as how his levels in SA2 are intense. Pushing the gun mechanic into a game about him was a bad idea. Stick to high-speed madness.
Do not change Sonic physically.
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/ultimate-sonic-fan.php
From an outsider's perspective it seems like when played well, Sonic is essentially a fancier version of Dragon's Lair. Is that actually true, and if it is is that a good thing?
This made my brain die a little.
Meh.
Okay, then have the guy who did the Sonic Rush soundtrack do a CD of remixes of the original Sonic game's music.
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2d Sonics have always been better than 3d.
Change him back. Look how much he's changed, and how stupid he looks now:
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old
See the Mario games? Princess has been kidnapped. Save her.
That works.
Animals have been captured, save them.
That also works.
Sonic has been sucked into a magical book wherein he has to save Arabia from an evil djin? That does not work. Stop being silly.
Sonic should be saving animals not some stupid human princess or what ever he does now. ugh.
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Just play some Jet Set Radio in the meantime. That's Naganuma at his finest.
People who say that don't know what the hell sonic was about. Sonic wasn't about going fast. Sonic 1 was a straight up adventure game. It was a 2D Indiana Jones. You were swinging across chasms of lava, outrunning rolling boulders, being thrown into water ways while trying to hold onto poles to position yourself, etc. It was a platforming game at heart, with speed being the connecting pieces.
Except Amy. But they need to ratchet back the insanity, and make her play like she did in SA except a lot faster and with actual levels rather than avoiding some stupid robot chasing her around. Unless the robot can actually chase her and keep up so you have to work to avoid it.
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that would be pretty cool
1. Make a 3D platformer that doesn't suck. Sonic Adventure was OK, Sonic Adventure 2 was great, every 3D Sonic platformer since has been a HUGE disappointment.
2. Just go back to the old style of play, like Sonic Rush.
3. Shake things up, like they are with that Sonic RPG for DS. source: http://ds.ign.com/objects/856/856273.html
4. Screw making new Sonic games altogether and just make old ones downloadable, so we can feel like it's 1994 again, when Sonic didn't suck.
But there's one, undisputed thing that everyone knows they should do (and has already been said in this very thread): cut off the oozing slack of useless characters.
How about something like the Sonic/Shadow levels from SA 2. Only a full game of them. With better boss fights.
Also, why not make a sonic/metroid hybrid? Worked for Castlevania...