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Sonic the Hedgehog Community |OT| There’s no end to this franchise!
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I like how Judo Shadow has the coverings over his standard shoes and not like his athletic shoes...it looks ridiculous hahaha
All the sonic characters have that , its weird. I figure they would give em special socks or something. But...nah.
Someone needs to find that glorious puppet show footage and immortalize it for all humanity ASAP.
In the meantime, at least we've got this:
I heard that just listening to this in its entirety automatically grants you Australian citizenship.
They all look amazing.
Still. I wonder if there will even be a new Sonic game next year. Iizuka's statements strongly implied Sonic Team's next Sonic game will be in 2021, and it looks like a new Nights game might be happening soonish as well. I have no doubt Evening Star is working on a Sonic Mania sequel, but that won't be ready for a good while either. I'm going to guess no, there probably won't be a new game next year, but there will be teases.
Still. I wonder if there will even be a new Sonic game next year. Iizuka's statements strongly implied Sonic Team's next Sonic game will be in 2021, and it looks like a new Nights game might be happening soonish as well. I have no doubt Evening Star is working on a Sonic Mania sequel, but that won't be ready for a good while either. I'm going to guess no, there probably won't be a new game next year, but there will be teases.
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I just hope they take a good long while to work on that Sonic game, if there *is* one coming.
Sonic Mania took 2 years, no? 2020 would be 3 since the release of Mania, I think it's possible. Really interested with the 2021 game, though, as I don't see SEGA abandoning the Switch anytime soon. Maybe that game will come out for this gen, switch and next gen?
2020 so far is just the Olympic game coming out in regards to Sonic related content yeah?
I keep forgetting that this DLC was a thing lol.
I kinda mean both, but eithet way who knows what could have been.
I keep forgetting that this DLC was a thing lol.
I kinda mean both, but eithet way who knows what could have been.
This is exactly how I feel whenever 06 gets bought up as an example to dismiss evolving Adventure gameplay further. :/
As of now, we got M&S Olympics in November, the mobile Sonic Olympics game next spring, and SEGA AGES Sonic 2 which remains undated. (M2, what's the hold up? I'm starving here...)
The Olympics game comes out next month, so 2020 is still a pretty empty calendar for Sonic so far.
I agree that Mania 2 seems like the best bet, though.
What in the cold fuck did you just link me
Not to be rude, this just seems kinda.. I dunno tacky i guess? Kinda just seems like a decade + late new grounds video
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Who knows? I ask that question myself. I mean, I found it funny due to how weird and disturbing this was
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Oh man, that takes me back. Dorkly's been parodying Sonic stuff for nearly a decade. Their schtick usually involves poking fun at the... uh... "weirder" parts of the fandom. That brand of humor is certainly not for everyone. lol
I believe two years, yeah. I doubt it's releasing next year, though. Evening Star only formed about a year ago now. Releasing it during the 30th anniversary makes a lot more sense and gives them much more development time.
As for Sonic Team's game, I believe the Hedgehog Engine 2 was made specifically for making
multiplatform games easier to develop/port so it's safe to say Switch/Scarlet/PS5/PC will all get it.
The Genesis mini was completely redone by them, so that slowed down AGES considerably.
I'm aware, it's just that M2 has announced and released other AGES titles in the meantime after they initially announced Sonic 2 was coming over a year ago and have kept mostly silent on it since, not even providing an update at the TGS panel a few weeks back. You would think that a guaranteed best-seller like that would be prioritized over the others since they're basically leaving a lot of money on the table by not having it up for sale by now. It's just painful to have to wait so long for what's sure to be one of the best versions of Sonic 2 ever released.
Yeah, that comment the M2 producer made about possibly adding new content to it has had me excited for the past year, but since then, not even a word about it, much less Saturn and Dreamcast games. This sucks. No one cares about Columns or Tant R or whatever shit they're releasing now.
Harsh but true. lol I'm just hoping that all of this extra dev time has been spent to truly make this THE definitive version of Sonic 2. Build off of the 3D Classic version and throw in the extras from the Whitehead version, and you've got the best iteration of the game, hands down. I'm super excited to see what M2's done with it.
The title caught me off guard lmao. I stand corrected.
I'd be surprised if we got Mania 2 at this point. I think Evening Star was hiring for a 3D action game a month or two ago. I doubt it's Sonic related. I think they're moving on and would rather prove themselves in other ways than become known as the "team that makes classic-style Sonic games."
Granted, Sega could still publish something called Mania 2 without them...
Granted, Sega could still publish something called Mania 2 without them...
Cute fun video . Though its funny because none of those characters werre actually there, so I guess infinte decided to dress like captain ginyu and made friends with his powers because he was lonely and no one would hang out with him.
I guess he did have friends, though according to Ian Flynn from sega, shadow most likely killed them. Which sucks because I liked the premise of an in sonic universe merc group. But uh now all of its gone.
Rambling, cute fun video
the statue was made to promote shadow, not sonic 06, and what i hate most is that i remember seeing photos of it at e3 at the time
Reading between the lines I honestly think Sonic is dying. I don't mean to be alarmist but if you look at the way ex developers and current developers talk about the series it sure seems that way. Budget titles, long time creator (Iizuka) being credited as the only reason the series is alive, current developers constantly telling us how much they had to fight for animations, merch, physicals...
We all know Forces was a flop, but I'm not so sure Mania did that well. At least in relation to how good it was. I mean it was only 20. And that can be attributed to the current negative reputation as opposed to people not liking it
Even Crash and Spyro have leap frogged into best sellers.
They've dropped bad games before but it's kinda remarkable how fast they made games. But with new hardware and tech, games are taking even longer to make and more expensive. 4 years and they dropped forces. It will be 3 or 4 years minimum to the next game and ps5 and xbox are coming next year.
How is the next 3D game gonna be good with no funding. Man honestly I think it's curtains for the hedgehog. Or we are dangerously close to the point.
We all know Forces was a flop, but I'm not so sure Mania did that well. At least in relation to how good it was. I mean it was only 20. And that can be attributed to the current negative reputation as opposed to people not liking it
Even Crash and Spyro have leap frogged into best sellers.
They've dropped bad games before but it's kinda remarkable how fast they made games. But with new hardware and tech, games are taking even longer to make and more expensive. 4 years and they dropped forces. It will be 3 or 4 years minimum to the next game and ps5 and xbox are coming next year.
How is the next 3D game gonna be good with no funding. Man honestly I think it's curtains for the hedgehog. Or we are dangerously close to the point.
Sonic will never die. The furry audience alone will make sure of that.
...Until Klonoa gets his long-awaited revival and all the remaining Sonic fans flock to him en masse.
...Until Klonoa gets his long-awaited revival and all the remaining Sonic fans flock to him en masse.
I think the furry audience is a meme/myth at this point. Something they thought would carry them in Forces but how many character creations can you remember from the game.
The amount of sonic fans I see still making OC has pretty much died and the people that still follow the series are holdouts for something good or there to play the games ironically to shit on them.
It's like they can identify what's 'good' or 'bad' about the series but they don't know why. So it gets botched
The amount of sonic fans I see still making OC has pretty much died and the people that still follow the series are holdouts for something good or there to play the games ironically to shit on them.
It's like they can identify what's 'good' or 'bad' about the series but they don't know why. So it gets botched
Everything dies eventually, but even if Sonic stops being a flagship title for SEGA the community is as strong as ever. Both 2D and 3D fangames are becoming both more frequent and better on average. Lots of people collaborating and sharing ideas to make good fanworks, and the best of them still get buzz on video game news sites. Sonic will die when those people stop caring, and at that point I'd say he had a pretty good run. 🤷
Sega isn't in nearly as desperate of a position now as prior but ironically that also means that they don't need to depend on crapping our low budget Sonic games at 60 USD to generate revenue, AND that the franchise has been abused for so long that it no longer has a big enough sales ceiling to be worth a real gamble.
I mean let's be real, what is Sega going to allocate money to? Speeding up/improving Yakuza, Atlus Projects, Pachinko machines, or spending 50 million on a new Sonic game when Mania probably sold 2-3 million being generous?
We know that they had prototypes after Generations that were physics based and NOT a rehash of the boost formula, but obviously none of those got approved or turned out.
Honestly imo, the only path forward is for Sega to outright outsource a mainline project straight to Nintendo with next to no input.
Sonic Team Racing is also likely to never turn a profit.
Ian flynn did some writing work for indivisible, cool!
I think Sonic Mania did very well.
They don't release exact sales figures, but you have to expect that releasing at $15 ($20 now, with Plus), along with the increased buzz around the game, it had to have better penetration than your average Sonic game.
I don't know if I'd say Sonic is any worse off now than he was, say, six years ago, when Sonic Lost World launched. Sonic Team continues to be Sonic Team (read: a nebulous blob, constantly baffling) and I feel like brand awareness is stronger now than it has been in a really long time. That counts for something.
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They don't release exact sales figures, but you have to expect that releasing at $15 ($20 now, with Plus), along with the increased buzz around the game, it had to have better penetration than your average Sonic game.
I don't know if I'd say Sonic is any worse off now than he was, say, six years ago, when Sonic Lost World launched. Sonic Team continues to be Sonic Team (read: a nebulous blob, constantly baffling) and I feel like brand awareness is stronger now than it has been in a really long time. That counts for something.
i don't believe sonic as a brand is dying any time soon but i absolutely believe sonic team as a developer has gotta be close
SEGA said at the time if Sonic Mania could have been counted towards the UK game chart, it would have been number one by a large margin. It sold well, so well SEGA kept tacking Forces onto the success of the Sonic brand that year, despite that games sales being disappointing.
Yeah, I've noticed this gen that Sega have been spreading more attention to other franchises than before compared to previous gens where their reliance on Sonic was pretty evident.
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Nintendo doesn't have experience with handling something like 3D Sonic though.
I don't actually think 3d sonic is as difficult as Sega has made it.
Boost gameplay is hard to make because of how fast it is, but you can't tell me they couldn't make Adventure 1 or 2 speed stages (or even heroes). Seriously polish it up and go to work.
Why would it's character design be relevant. I think Sonic can survive as a brand sure, but I just don't see the 3d games surviving at this rate.