Sonic boom (another sonic game)

Let him go, Sega.

He's earned his rest.

I might be the only one to look at this and go. *huh* I can dig it. The series has been experimenting with different gameplay for how many titles now? I can give someone new the chance to do something with it and honestly it's nowhere near as awful as giving him a gun or a sword or such nonsense we've already endured.


to be fair I like the new Eggman design they've brought back a bit of the teddy roosevelt inspiration and thrown in a circus master flair to it.

Tails is pretty much the same with some clothing added which frankly is the third or fourth time he's been given goggles etc and every time it gets the thumbs up but sega has never stuck with it.

Sonic, meh, scarf doesnt bother me, they've trimmed his spikes a bit and in fairness with the longer legs his head doesnt look so massively oversized now.

Amy...Amy I need to wait and see how they've written her, she was at one point the surprise character that I really liked, she actually had some genuinely funny lines in Sonic Battle and as Retro put it, her crazy stalker side had a charm. If they've cut that then but they might have given it some bite instead, going from hopeless stalker to hormone predator might be interesting.

Knuckles.


Actually Knuckles needed to be redone, his character has been a mess since sonic adventure (noble guardian clashing with the idiot who keeps getting tricked) If they've rebuilt him from the ground up then *yay* lets see if it goes anywhere interesting.

In fact this really comes down to the same question asked when they announced sonic 06.

IS THIS A FULL REBOOT?

Zeus knows the sonic franchise genuinely needs someone to press a reset button and throw out all the trash over the years and start fresh.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Fantastic, the game has opted to add a crazy high-pitched badger character to the franchise's already loveable band of mascots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsIvZ0lcYDM

On a completely unrelated note, have you ever noticed that it's quite hard to emphasise sarcasm via text alone?

How wild and wacky! Ah, whatever, they've been aiming for a young demographic for some time now. Let's not beat that dead horse (is that a Sonic friend?).

Yer one's expression in that still, though. Wonder if it betrays her true feelings.

So lots of info out today on Sonic Boom: http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/06/02/explanation-behind-sonics-new-look

including a good video breaking down the game design on both versions:





there was a lot of footage but turns out they didnt have permission to show it so they pulled it down

luckily I saw it. Sonic's model looks really weird in movement which can be sort of seen in some screens, his head looks like it doesnt connect to his neck. So sonic cycle continues


Overall it sounds like they are taken a cue from sonic adventure with different level types may have broken things up a lot which could work but also just as much make the game feel very unfocused and just messy. Overall I am not excited (dont own a wii u and I know the sonic cycle too well) but nothing so far has been headslammingly stupid as some previous titles (shadow & gun, everything about sonic 06)

richymcdermott wrote: »

the cycle will end one day................................................................................................................................................AND.........I.......WILL...........................BE.....WAITING

Yeah, they'll give up on making sonic games!

Or at least quit making 3d ones.

played it at eurogamer expo, wasnt impressed.

perhaps its weirdest complaint/compliment is it didnt feel like a sonic game for the most part.

Most of the game is built around the new lasso system and any form of speed is now isolated to very specific *speed* levels

everything else is swapping between characters, using the lasso and mashing buttons to do a combat combo over and over.


So it's a weird one, it feels a bit like the first jak and dexter on the ps2 which could be good just to have basic game mechanics we know work (rather then ones that dont which has been the running theme of the 3d sonics) but at the same time the game is incredibly segmented to allow *multiple gameplay elements* so it also feels all very forced.

not to mention graphically it was not very good, funny teleporting characters to get them in the right position for the next cutscene and bland levels did not warm me to the game.

The only stand out improvement seems to be the design for robotnik which has both got a great look to him but also has been animated very well that gave the boss fight great visual and humour feedback.

Star Lord wrote: »

The shadow of the departing spaceship reminded me of this:

Hah! Didn't notice that the first time. That's some low low FPS!

No the original co for eggman died just after sonic adventure 2 I think.

This is the same guy since sonic heroes and sonic x.

He has been the best thing about the series in terms of character for a long time now and has gotten some excellent lines.

I enjoyed the animated series so far.

But I have a soft spot for bunny boiler Amy and she has had some cracking lines. Knuckles though is an odd but pretty funny change for the character

Just cancelled both preorders for the 3DS and Wii U versions. This looks like another stinker.

There's supposedly a new Sonic game in development for Xbox One (possibly PS4 too), so there's always that. :rolleyes:

.ak wrote: »

Why don't they just make a side-scroller ala Rayman legends? That'd be far more enjoyable imo.

Like Sonic 4 on PS3?
It was still **** regardless, but thats coming from someone who is not a die hard Sonic fan, my OH loved Sonic but even still she was like "meh" about it.

What made Sonic good back in the day will never translate to modern day games. In bold for emphasis

It was "the big thing" in the 90s because it was bundled with the Megadrive pretty often, it had really good graphics (blast processing joke here) for the time, was REALLY fast and it was the primary platform on the system to compete with Mario for Nintendo owners, it had like 2/3 decent sequels on the Megadrive and look where we are now. Maybe 1 or 2 halfway decent releases in 2 decades.
I don't why people are surprised at why these games are crap.

They have tried EVERYTHING to give him a new lease of life and nothing has worked.
3D? Crap. Fighting Mechanics? Crap. Dark World? Crap. New Characters? Crap. Tamogatchi Pets? Crap (for the most part). More Music? Crap. More Dialogue? Crap. Faster running? Crap. Wearhogs? Crap.

If a die hard Sonic fan designed the best fan service Sonic game ever it would read something like. "Plays like Sonic 2, has Knuckles, but is in 3D somehow"

And the thing is by the time they got to the 3rd part of the sentence, even that project is doomed

I know many people will think I'm just popping up in this thread to stir **** or mock, but I genuinely am not. I've just been a silent observer to Sonics prolonged demise over the last 15 years. If this game is not the nail in the coffin, it's laughable the studio is still in business.

Some games did not translate well into the modern age (like Worms for example), they jumped the shark a long time ago but nostalgia prevents us from moving on and accepting they were games that were once good.

TL DR: Sonic will never have a good game ever again, the series died after Sonic and Knuckles and everything after was crap bar 1.5 releases which was more of an accident than by careful design.

cloud493 wrote: »

Generations/rush/the advance games?

So when I said 1.5 or 2 releases, your point is I should have said 3?

It's still not exactly a decent amount

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sonic_the_Hedgehog_video_games