How to make Sonic games better

[internutt]

Some characters should be ignored. They should certainly keep the characters introduced on the Genesis/Megadrive. That excludes Cream, E-123, Rouge, Big, Shadow, the Chao, Silver and the Babylon Rogues.

The later characters are too similar to the existing cast. Shadow was ok, he was supposed to die at the end of SA2 anyway. The only character they have killed off officially is the robot from sonic adventure 1.

 

[Amnestic]

Some characters should be ignored. They should certainly keep the characters introduced on the Genesis/Megadrive. That excludes Cream, E-123, Rouge, Big, Shadow, the Chao, Silver and the Babylon Rogues.

The later characters are too similar to the existing cast. Shadow was ok, he was supposed to die at the end of SA2 anyway. The only character they have killed off officially is the robot from sonic adventure 1.

To be fair, the original cast isn't all that deep.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

To be honest the only way I would look at any new Sonic games is if they took Sonic 1 through 3, and converted them to 2.5d.

The 2.5d sections of the newest game looked like a highly-updated version of the original Sega titles and if it wasn't for the fact its not a remake, I would have bought it.

 

[S_K]

Some of this has already been mentioned but:

First things first get someone who knows how to program a 3D camera which they seem to have failed at repeatedly so far, possibly some better level designers would help with that and make sonic move like sonic adventure 1 again, you know... back when he didn't slip around like he's constantly on ice.

Next if they must insist on having A plot then fix the god damn thing already! They could at least try to make everything new link somehow rather then this random shit lately like were-hegehog around the world in 80 days, The dark brotherhood, sonic fanfiction 360, Sonic "why the hell don't I just run?" Riders", black aliens that are not even black, the whole confusion with blazes dimension thing and oh yeah...

Randomily deciding to set [strong]EVERYTHING[/strong] in the sonic universe on earth! If I Include every official source there's currently 8 different versions of the sonic storyline now... (4 cartoons, 2 comics, everything before sonic adventure and everything after) I mean FFS SEGA get it right already.

More of a personal idea of mine but I think Sega could also take inspiration from acrobats and 'free runners'! Seriously watch some free runner videos on youtube like this for example http://youtube.com/watch?v=IkawsBwJwpE Not so much the martial arts parts (although that does kind of look like the Wii sonic swordsmen game on the way lol) but you can see what I mean right?

and lastly...

STOP adding more characters and fully develop the ones they have FFS! All these new characters seem to be doing lately is becoming rule 34 fodder (for anyone who doesn't know what rule 34 is I'll give you a clue... it's not safe for work)

or... you could just scratch all of the above and just give sonic to Nintendo, since his brawl incarnation although underpowered is the most true to the original version of sonic I've seen in years -_-
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[IrrelevantTangent]

I highly doubt that anything Sega does can save the Sonic franchise from the doom that awaits it. Giving Sonic a bloody SWORD isn't helping matters, and making a Sonic *ARR-PEE-GEE* is frankly ludicrous. What's next, a Lost Odyssey FPS?

 

[varulfic]

Fuck new. New hasn't worked for Sega for years. What we need is for Sonic to get the Megaman 9 treatment.

 

[weirdaljedifan2]

Re-use old characters: That's fine with me I mean seriously, why isn't Metal Sonic in any of the newer games?
Recast the SA2 actors: I grimmest at that idea. I own and played through the SA2 Battle and I'm assuming that they used the same cutscenes and acting. One problem I have with that idea is that judging from my experience, THEY COULDN'T ACT! Tails' monologue in SA2 sounded worse than the current Tails voice, and she can actually act. The 4Kids voice are, yes, very annoying but at least some of them can act, like Jason Griffith when he's being Shadow or when Sonic isn't being cocky and a lot more serious, some of the 4Kids actor need some work (if not a lot) but they're improving some what and if I get a reply by a fanboy or fangirl, I'm going to assume that it's going to be like,"Your wrong, Jason sucks and the 4Kids actors suck, the SA2 actor were awesome and Ryan Drummond is God."

If you want to see really horrible acting, I suggest Troll 2.

 

[M3707ik]

make a sequil of the Shadow the hedgehog game with:

no guns,
made by sega,
either for X-Box arcade or for DS
should have old style speed feeling

 

[Crunchy English]

I'm sure it's been said, here and elsewhere but SatAm, SatAm, SatAm.

Rebel Freedom Fighters on the planet Mobius. That's what I grew up with and it worked then.
Also Sonic should use his 90's sayings!

Mondo Cool Little Buddy!
Was Past Cool!
Let's Jet!

 

[Digitalpotato]

Make it X-Rated

Been done.

http://www.FurAffinity.Net

 

[AuntyEthel]

Make it X-Rated

Been done.

http://www.FurAffinity.Net

I'm not gonna click on anything called furaffinity.net. Thanks for the offer, tho!

 

[Theo Samaritan]

Its based in mobius but not really around Sonic. This had to happen at somepoint.

 

[Crunchy English]

For the love of all that is good and noble,
I usually click links, but that TERRIFIES me

 

[Meado]

Keep: Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Robotnik, Metal Sonic.
Get rid of: Everyone else.

Start from scratch. Not everyone knows who Rouge or Shadow or whatever are, so scale the cast right back and do an origins style thing. Show how he and Robotnik first meet. Introduce Tails properly and actually give him a purpose. Bring in the Floating Island and Knuckles part way through. Don't just dump it all in our laps at the start, else it's gonna turn into a clusterf**k.
And the key thing is to make an open 3d world. Have massive sprawling levels that scratch our explorer's itch, and open spaces that show off Sonic's speed. Have multiple zones that we can go between as we unlock them, but not from a hub level. I know some people want a real homage to the old style Sonic games, but that's just going to make it show it's age.

 

[Typecast]

If you're going to do anything make ROBOTNIK(eggman can go fornicate himself with an iron stake) a halfway decent BAD GUY! All this Sonic X for 3 year old Japanese boys is DISGUSTING. He's an evil genius scientist with legions of robots that are enslaved fuzzy animals. If he's supposed to be evil, then let him do something FUCKING EVIL!
Ok, if Eggman is still going to be in the picture, kill him off. He is not BOWSER, some bizzaro immortal cog in the wheel of mushroom kingdom.

Also, give Knuckles awesome chaos powers, because going all "Unleashed" would be awesome(without the shitty irrelevant lightsabre rubbish and Lucascide).

 

[ceeqanguel]

Don't.
Thank you for the run, Sonic.
You can rest now, you deserve it.
And we all move on to the next step of videogame evolution.

 

[Bob_F_It]

I've got it.
Give it to me, and I'll make it on LittleBigPlanet.
I coat it with conveyer belts, with levers changing the direction as the "Sonic" does. Add loops and trampolines, and voila.

You make me want a PS3 even more.