New Sonic game "Sonic Unleashed" (first pics/video)

[Push Upstairs]

Here is hoping they ditch all 10,000 friends/enemies Sonic has acquired since "Sonic Adventure" and just focus on Sonic. I really didn't like SA much, but the pure Sonic running around stuff wasn't half bad.

[otoko]

Here is hoping they ditch all 10,000 friends/enemies Sonic has acquired since "Sonic Adventure" and just focus on Sonic. I really didn't like SA much, but the pure Sonic running around stuff wasn't half bad.

I liked SA but after that... Bleh.. I agree with Push.. Please bring me back to the years of Genesis. I know it's pretty impossible though.

Back to my genesis...

[G-Boobie]

This is not an attack or a flame... Can someone please explain to me the love of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, post genesis? Is it just nostalgia? It has to be nostalgia.

[Snapple]

This is not an attack or a flame... Can someone please explain to me the love of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, post genesis? Is it just nostalgia? It has to be nostalgia.

Well, the problem is that most of the Sonic games post-Genesis HAVE sucked. Sonic fans know this. The concept is still there though. If Mario can go from 2D to 3D no problem, then Sonic can, too. They just keep bogging the games down with things like bad controls, or stupid exploration, or forcing you to play as these horrible non-Sonic characters in boring/crappy levels.

I'll stand by the first Sonic Adventure. It did a lot of good stuff, and many of the Sonic levels did maintain the Sonic "feel." It was great speed, great hopping around and beautiful graphics. Fun levels. Good soundtrack. There were a few things that weren't so great (the Knuckles levels, wandering around the town area), but I think a lot of us know that the potential for an awesome Sonic game is there. They just keep missing the mark.

The video in the first post represents a lot of stuff that could potentially make a good, next-gen Sonic game. The return to a lot of 2D side action mixed with the 3D parts. The fact that there are no friendly characters there except for Sonic. It looks good. If you don't think so, then I don't know how to express it.

People want a good Sonic game because it was an outstanding franchise, and nothing has taken its place. Nothing else has really filled that "speed platforming" void other than the Sonic franchise, and so it would be great to see Sonic make a triumphant return, to fill that void again. They've taken a beloved franchise and practically ruined it completely, but you can't make people stop being Sonic fans. It doesn't mean they like every entry in the series, but they'll keep looking forward to the next one, hoping it will finally redeem the franchise.

And how can people not be interested in what Sonic does next, even if you've abandoned the series? He's one of the most important characters in video game history, for better and for worse. That's the best I can do at answering your question. I hope I made sense, because it's 5 am, and I'm not totally "with it."

[G-Boobie]

Good answer, and thank you.

[HYB]

I have been waiting for a good Sonic game since SA2. I have no idea why people put SA2 down so much, it's a great game, and it's so much more polished than SA (in my opinion, I've played the hell out of those games).

This game honestly does look promising, even though it has that Sonic heroesy feel in the level designs. I don't really love Sonic's model in this, the ears look way off to me and such but that's nitpicking about graphics. I love how they seemed to go back to using the old Eggman model though, the new design he had in StH06 blowed. Now if they just based the models on SA2, ditched the characters post SA2 and made the games from sonic heroes and so on non-canonical, we'd have an epic game.

[Overbite]

thsi is going to suck all kinds of nuts and you know it

[Push Upstairs]

I have been waiting for a good Sonic game since SA2. I have no idea why people put SA2 down so much, it's a great game, and it's so much more polished than SA (in my opinion, I've played the hell out of those games).

I owned SA2 and I just got bored with it. I blame the Knuckles levels, I also blame having to play as a bunch of different characters to "finish" the game.