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alfredofroylan on 30 November 2008

Because they're too short. Well according to a recent Interview:

I asked one of the developers at TGS, you know I was like, come on everybody just wants Sonic running, like whats up with the werehog? And he was like, well, heres the deal... he runs at this miles per hour, kilometers per hour, and he laid out all of the statistics on how fast this hedgehog goes, and he was like In order to make a game where Sonic is running and everybody enjoys the whole thing we'd have to design this many miles of level, and it was some ungodly number. And he's like and that would be like maybe a three hour game and I was like wow, well that kinda stinks and he's like yeah, so we gotta do this other stuff."

Source:

http://www.indoorheroes.com/article.php?id=58

Well I don't know; I love classic Sonic but people complains a lot about short games these days.



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badgenome on 30 November 2008

They should take a cue from Mega Man 9 and make a retro-style downloadable Sonic.



Tecmo on 30 November 2008
badgenome said:
They should take a cue from Mega Man 9 and make a retro-style downloadable Sonic.

 

i agree with you 100%



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BrainBoxLtd on 30 November 2008

I can understand his point that all that running would turn into some pretty big levels they have to make just to hit a three hour game. But I think I'd rather have three hours of that and them not tacking on several more hours of other nonsense like a werewolf.

Why not take a cue from Secret Rings and reuse the exsisting levels to create multiple challenges? Getting gold on all those took a huge chunk of time for me to do.



thekitchensink on 30 November 2008

It's funny, cause Sonic and the Black Knight looks like it focuses more on the speed, though a little fast-paced combat is tossed in.



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Laakso on 30 November 2008
badgenome said:
They should take a cue from Mega Man 9 and make a retro-style downloadable Sonic.

 

Exactly what I was going to say.



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Gamerace on 30 November 2008
Tecmo said:
badgenome said:
They should take a cue from Mega Man 9 and make a retro-style downloadable Sonic.

 

i agree with you 100%

 

Me too.



 

Roflinator on 30 November 2008

Oh come on, look at Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Those games lasted for a good while.



Thechalkblock on 30 November 2008
thekitchensink said:
It's funny, cause Sonic and the Black Knight looks like it focuses more on the speed, though a little fast-paced combat is tossed in.

 

If that game ends of being exactly that It would be awesome.



jlauro on 30 November 2008

It's just a lame excuse. You shouldn't have to keep running. If you didn't jump at just the right time you would stop in the original Sonics as you ran into a wall, cliff, spikes, etc... My biggest complaint with Sonic and the Secret rings is it was so hard to stop running, or to go backwards. You could turn around in the original Sonic, I don't know why such features were removed...

I wouldn't mind it if a speed run took 3 hours. If they didn't put in so much scripted movements and made the game so easy, there is no way you could do it in that amount of time the first time through...