General Sonic The Hedgehog thread

Rise of Lyric got its studio, Big Red Button, shut down. That's how bad it was.

.... great googaly moogaly.

Actually BRB is not shut down, as a google search provides their website and twitter which is showcasing a game they made just this year.

But yeah, I can't see most folks letting them ever live down RoL.

Maybe the Stealth and Taxman team will take over Sonic development, lol.

Leave them in charge of Classic Sonic.

"Hey, Mania Guys, wanna be the new Sonic Team?"

Mania guys would not pull off a 3D game in that abysmally short development cycle either.

edited 17th Nov '17 5:00:51 AM by Luminosity

Well, maybe, just maaaaybe, SEGA should start allotting better development cycles for ST?

Really, it's amazing how SEGA refuses to do this. Time & time again, this has worsened the series: ST2 could've had 18 zones, STH3&K had to be split into two, 2006 was a broken mess. Whatever happened to "Learn from your mistakes"?

edited 17th Nov '17 5:09:10 AM by YasminPerry

SEGA could have a dev team dedicated to making new I Ps, a dev team dedicated to making new games for existing I Ps, Sonic or not, and then whatever dev teams to work on whatever specific franchises.

SEGA could do a great number of things. SEGA could devote proper time and resources to Sonic games. SEGA could make a third Jet Set/Grind game. SEGA could SEGA could revisit some of their better Saturn titles. SEGA could make a third Jet Grind/Set game.

You said "make another Jet Set!!" twice

Personally, I think SEGA/Sonic Team should farm out say, a potential Ni D/BR/JSR/etc. sequel to a competent dev team (like say, HAL Laboratory, maybe? They're second-party for Nintendo, so no, but I can dream...)

I mean, they'd just give them like a year to develop the game, if that, like they do with Sonic Team, so it'd ultimately be a pointless endeavor.

Doesn't Sega own Atlus now? Use them some more.

I finally got the game and it's good. It's not the best game ever or anything like that but I enjoy it. I know people give them a hard time for reusing gimmicks too much, but they really should bring back the Avatar system and the backgrounds to the levels are gorgeous, easily the best of the boost games if not the 3D games in general. Really if they'd had more time and scrapped the Classic gameplay in favor in favor of making the other levels longer, it would have been one of the best 3D games. As it stands, I'd say it's tied for Colors for second-best boost game (after Generations).

edited 17th Nov '17 9:35:37 AM by LordVatek

That's the highest praise I've seen this game get yet.

I'm glad you enjoyed it at least.

Reused gimmicks isn't even a thing...the only time that happens is in Classic's Death Egg Stage.

There are worse issues.

Scrapping Classic Sonic wouldn't have made stages longer, would likely have just gotten more.

edited 17th Nov '17 11:44:20 AM by randomness4

Shadow needs a Chaos Emerald to do his time stop/teleport move, right? Because in the Archie comics he teleports all the time without one.

He teleports without one in Forces too.

Putting it on par with Colors is kind of amusing to me, since I feel like Forces is basically Colors 2 (especially since I consider it just as average), only with darker colors and even less goofy humor. And I agree that the Avatar system should return, regardless of the direction the next Modern game takes. To me that was the best part of Forces, and I think part of it was because the stages didn't have mechanics like Sonic's Boost to rely on to pad out the levels, and the Avatar didn't control as sluggishly as Classic did, making for more engrossing gameplay (even though I could've done without the auto-grappling hook parts taking a bit of control away from me, and would've liked for all the Wispons to be as versatile as the Burst and Lightning ones).

Ehh, Avatar was a bit too stop-and-start for my tastes. And I say that as someone that liked Colors.

Doesn't that apply to most levels...

Not to Modern's.

Shadow can also use Chaos Control and such without an emerald in his self-titled game. Both before he finds the first one, and after they're all stolen from him.

Speaking of magic rocks, I'm a little confused over something from Mania in Forces.

edit:

Never mind; my question is answered in one of the comics.

edited 17th Nov '17 9:22:36 PM by Enlong

You know, since the Phantom Ruby was so great and powerful that Eggman ignored the Chaos emeralds and the Master Emerald... Why didn't the resistance try to utilize them instead?

Well, I guess Tails ran off somewhere, so their top inventor guy was missing, plus all the Eggman forces running about would make it tough to leisurely look for magic rocks. So I suppose that plot hole is already covered up.

Wouldn't really mean much...

They're using wisp based power for their machines...