Really, who cares? Even if it is a 2D Sonic game, does that really make anyone excited in the year 2010? Sega needs to find a way to evolve the series in a meaningful way. Not just say "HEY! YOU LIKE THOSE GAMES BACK THEN? MAYBE YOU LIKE THEM NOW?!"
If this a downloadable game through XBLA or PSN, this could be promising. Also, keep Sonic's friends out of it, and just don't bother with a storyline.
I really enjoyed Sonic Heroes, though it was the first sonic game I'd ever owned. One of the reasons I enjoyed it was that I set my expectations really low, by the end of the fourth world I thought "ok this is it" but then there were three more worlds coming up.
Today I can't go back to it without hating it for it's flaws, but back then I really liked it. I even did everything you could do and got S-rank in all the missions, feels kinda strange when I think back at it.
The new game sounds like it's trying to be sonic 2-3 which just doesn't hold up gameplaywise these days. At least not to me.
" First off, for those who post the sonic cycle: Thank you, we know, you're not clever, fuck off. Second, for those questioning the name: Needlemouse was an in house development codename for Sonic way back before the first game came out in '91. "
Oh my god, a Sonic fanboy! I haven't seen your kind since the mid-90's.
I hope it's similar to the daytime levels in unleashed, that game has moments of absolute brilliance that suddenly get halted by some stupidly tough slow platforming...and usually just out of thin air...and LIVES...sonic needs to ditch lives... getting a GAME OVER after one tiny section near the end of a level thats is strangely punishing is absolutely no fun.
Unleashed is definately a bad game as a whole, there is no denying that but there is something incredibly satisfying abotu whizzing from one place to another in very quick succession and if anything a game like 'Splosion man with some very similar mechanics has shown us that a new 2D sonic could still be viable in 2010.
Sonic is almost dead for me. It's fun and stuff, but these new Sonic games are just too awful for me to actually care anymore. Hopefully this will be good.
I don't know...sonic and sega have crushed my hopes of a triumphant return way to many times to be persuaded by this one sneak peak. Definetly keepin my eye on it
Another thing: there better be NO FUCKING HUMANS and there better be Chaos Emerald bonus levels!!!
@marioncobretti said:
"sonic needs to ditch lives"
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! Keep lives alive!!! Don't give those casual gaming crackheads a fucking inch! Make them tremble in fear at the idea of jumping at the wrong moment and hitting some ground spikes!!!
I wouldn't mind if this was downloadable via XBLA of PSN. I mean, if it's 2d sidescrolling again, I would feel better downloading it than buy it on a disc for some reason.
" I wouldn't mind if this was downloadable via XBLA of PSN. I mean, if it's 2d sidescrolling again, I would feel better downloading it than buy it on a disc for some reason. "
I think the reason you'd feel better about this is because there's less expectation to create gimmicks to pad out a short game in a downloadable title. In a game on XBLA and/or PSN, if it's an hour or two long, who gives a shit?
" I wouldn't mind if this was downloadable via XBLA of PSN. I mean, if it's 2d sidescrolling again, I would feel better downloading it than buy it on a disc for some reason. "
I think the reason you'd feel better about this is because there's less expectation to create gimmicks to pad out a short game in a downloadable title. In a game on XBLA and/or PSN, if it's an hour or two long, who gives a shit? "
Everytime Sega put out a shitty Sonic game, everyone said "they should just take it back to 2D". Sega has to realize that if they fuck this one up, Sonic is done forever.
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