| ckmlb said: I'm surprised no one said Sonic yet. Sega should have the balls to just change the main console Sonic franchise back to 2D and perfect what a 2D game can be instead of trying to make it some 3D crapshoot. Put your money on making it look like an amazing 2D game with great art and sprites and such and forget about 3D or even just go 3D sidescrolling and focus on that. I dunno but I think it would cost them less money too and if they can make the game a very long, fun and well made experience people will buy it even if it is 2D, I know the old Sonic fans would. But I don't see them taking this risk ever. Really Sega has been going downhill lately, if you have an Xbox or 360 go check out some Sega games that came to that system and you will see how much talent they have over there or just pop in VF5 on your PS3 and see how they can make great games. I think a lack of vision is the problem not a lack of talent, unless most of the guys who made the great gams left which would be even worse... |
Sonic needs another game like Secret Rings, but with improved controls. Not necessarily on rails, but in a fairly narrow environment so as to solve camera issues without taking away the game's sense of speed.
Less focus on collecting and solving puzzles (like in Sonic '06) is also a must.
Get rid of all the excess characters, and focus on Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman. The others can make appearances, but I seriously get sick of playing as Big the Cat.
Less Amy Rose=more win.
We also need less focus on storylines. No one plays Sonic for the story. Better voice actors and sound tracks would help a lot too.
Someone did....lol.
No doubt Sonic is certainly a franchise that has not survived the transition into 3D. I think collecting rings just isn't that fun anymore. At the time Sonic was amazing because of the speed at which it played. It was the first game MADE for ADD kids. That speed doesn't really transfer over to open 3D environments. For this reason Sonic remains on rails in its 3d incarnations (I'm sure there are exceptions). Crash already did this. Doesn't Crash even look a little like the blue hedgehog? And look where that got Crash? Even Naughty Dog left him behind to make the far better Jak and Daxter series (on the shoulders of Crash's move set). So I'm not sure that Sonic can be rebooted or fixed. We'll se how the current RPG project fares, but I'm skeptical.
