Why has Sonic failed to branch out the way Mario has?

[izaaz101]

wfz said:

Onyxmeth said:

stof said:
Because Sonic is inherently tied around a play mechanic - speed.

Mario can be put in to anything and it makes sense. It's hard to stick Sonic in other game modes and pull it off.

Bingo! Look at Sonic Chronicles. The question always asked was how do you deal with the speed issue in a turn based game? No one would ever ask that of Mario, because he is tied to nothing. He is a chameleon able to shape shift into whatever genre he sees fit. If the next Mario game is an open world GTA game, you better your ass it'll feel like Mario and it'll be awesome. The problem with Sonic always was that he's the fast Mario. Without the speed, you revert back to a generic platform placeholder, and that is Mario's job.

 

 

I don't get it.. I posted the exact same thing, but more in depth. Stof goes on to post that completely disregarding the fact that I did (I think?) and then Onyx quotes him and says he's right...

Why do people overlook me?! :P

 

OT: I agree with you.