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[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

Poor Sonic

http://www.tssznews.com/2014/11/15/reports-suggest-brb-exodus-ahead-of-sonic-boom-launch/

During development employees were coming and going while making the game

 

[sprsk]

Poor Sonic

http://www.tssznews.com/2014/11/15/reports-suggest-brb-exodus-ahead-of-sonic-boom-launch/

During development employees were coming and coming while making the game

Sounds pretty sexy.

 

[codhand]

Gotta come fast?

 

[Coolsambob]

Sounds like they got themselves in a sticky situation.

 

[Nibel]

I think the game's quality gives this news a lot of authenticity.

 

[Majine]

Just stop making Sonic games. Atleast Mega Man stays dead. Sonic continues to be dead AND haunting us in the afterlife.

 

[Bass260]

It's too bad that their first project had to be a Sonic game tied in with a TV show. Not saying the poor quality of Boom isn't on them either but it seems like Sega rushed the game out the door with no QA whatsoever.

 

[Snaku]

Did they use protection?

 

[CO_Andy]

Day 1 patch to remove Sanic in Smash plz

 

[NotLiquid]

So basically like Sonic 06. Head staff left mid-development in that game (notably Yuji Naka), several regular staff were splintered off to work on Secret Rings and the game also had the misfortune of being pushed out to meet the holiday market.

Just stop making Sonic games. Atleast Mega Man stays dead. Sonic continues to be dead AND haunting us in the afterlife.

Yes, stop making the series that has actually had a good-decent streak with it's mainline development team.

 

[James Scott]

This should be an interesting story later down the road. Would be nice to know exactly what happened during the game's development and why it was downgraded from e3 to launch

 

[Stitch]

gotta pull out fast

 

[Spinosaurus]

Just stop making Sonic games. Atleast Mega Man stays dead. Sonic continues to be dead AND haunting us in the afterlife.

Not before a new game with the boost mechanics. Colours and Generations are fantastic.

Was Lost World even developed by the main Sonic Team, or was it the storybook team?

 

[L.O.R.D]

Coming and coming
or
coming and leaving?

because it doesn't make sense when employees coming and coming
this way there will be too many employees working on the game

 

[BodiesWithoutOrgans]

Sounds pretty sexy.

Oops I edited my post

 

[Chris_C]

BRBENT's been around for something like 6 or 7 years. Hard to bellringer they only just managed to put a game out the door.

 

[Coolsambob]

Coming and coming
or
coming and leaving?

because it doesn't make sense when employees coming and coming
this way there will be too many employees working on the game

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

...with semen.

 

[Rapstah]

As several people have pointed out, there are a lot of "special thanks" in the credits of that game.

 

[Hot Coldman]

This doesn't surprise me at all. There's a clearly identifiable point where development of this game went balls up, and I imagine staff would be itching to bail out ever since.

idiots posting weird fan-art

Grow up.

 

[Camjo-Z]

gotta pull out fast

.

 

[mf luder]

Obviously we don't know what was really going on inside BRB but you'd think they would have stayed to complete the game to the best of their ability in the time provided for the consumers sake as much as anything and then leave.

 

[jimi_dini]

During development employees were coming and coming while making the game

Looks like it.

 

[Snaku]

Looks like it.

Ponce and Pearson were busy!

 

[EDarkness]

Obviously we don't know what was really going on inside BRB but you'd think they would have stayed to complete the game to the best of their ability in the time provided for the consumers sake as much as anything and then leave.

They'd have to care first. Or there were other reasons why they couldn't finish working on the game.

 

[Cade]

BRBENT's been around for something like 6 or 7 years. Hard to bellringer they only just managed to put a game out the door.

That IS hard to bellringer. Maybe even impossible.

 

[mf luder]

They'd have to care first. Or there were other reasons why they couldn't finish working on the game.

Yeah, like I said we don't know what was really going on inside BRB, maybe their positions became untenable.

 

[Mohonky]

Heh

Devs sign up. First day they see what it is they are making. Realise what a huge mistake they've made, try and bail before association.

 

[papercan55]

first day on the job at new developer featuring ex naughty dog people.
Imagine finding out your working on a sonic title.....
i guess most people quit on the first day and it was a never ending cycle. I'm guessing they tried to hide the fact that they were working on a sonic title at interviews as to not put people off, how embarrassing to come home to your wife and kids and tell the that your working on a sonic game, they either quit or become depressed alcoholics.

Heh
Devs sign up. First day they see what it is they are making. Realise what a huge mistake they've made, try and bail before association.

same post, same time...
exactly my thought. You have to feel sorry for anyone given the task of working on a 3d sonic game, their families must be so ashamed.

 

[MrCunningham]

They could not have come up with a better name for this studio if they tried.

 

[Dick Justice]

Idiot bitching about people posting fan-art.

Grow a sense of humour.

 

[Chris_C]

That IS hard to bellringer. Maybe even impossible.

Don't text me, you wouldn't bike me when I'm hungry.

 

[Mohonky]

first day on the job at new developer featuring ex naughty dog people.
Imagine finding out your working on a sonic title.....
i guess most people quit on the first day and it was a never ending cycle. I'm guessing they tried to hide the fact that they were working on a sonic title at interviews as to not put people off, how embarrassing to come home to your wife and kids and tell the that your working on a sonic game, they either quit or become depressed alcoholics.



same post, same time...
exactly my thought. You have to feel sorry for anyone given the task of working on a 3d sonic game, their families must be so ashamed.

I am sure they knew they were working on Sonic, just they didnt realise what a busted mess they got themselves into.

See working demo of stuff currently playable.....fuck this, I'm out before I get my name on the credits.

 

[J@hranimo]

What the hell. That explains the overall quality of the game at release.

This is becoming more and more like Sonic 06 but in 2014.

 

[Spinosaurus]

Grow a sense of humour.

Not everyone finds them funny. There's a thread about bad fanarts already, no need to bring that shit here.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I would also like to make a joke of a sexual nature.

Knuckles.

 

[NotLiquid]

Grow a sense of humour.

After the tenth or so time a Sonic thread gets overrun with weird fan art it stops being funny unfortunately.

 

[MrBadger]

Well, that explains how glitchy and unfinished the game feels. But I suppose we'd be getting a dull beatemup anyway, just a less unfinished one.

Grow a sense of humour.

To be honest I'm getting a bit bored of every Sonic thread turning into bad fan art shitposting.

 

[Toa TAK]

I needed the laugh this morning, thank you guys.

 

[Kouriozan]

Well, it explain a lot.
Sega really don't care about Sonic games quality anymore.

 

[Guri]

I really hope Sega cares more about the character that made me play games in the first place in the future.

 

[Blueblur1]

Really sucks for everyone involved.

 

[Waylon Drums]

Coming and coming
or
coming and leaving?

because it doesn't make sense when employees coming and coming
this way there will be too many employees working on the game

If they're coming and coming, there's gotta be a lot of maternity leave happening.

 

[Spinluck]

Alleged non-Sonic fans continue to post the creepiest shit in Sonic threads.

And someone makes the predictable kill Sonic post even though the franchise is still profitable. All this even though Sonic Team nailed the last 2/3 and Sonic Transformed was great.

Same shit different thread. Also fuck SEGA for the way they handled this.

 

[Seven Force]

Alleged non-Sonic fans continue to post the creepiest shit in Sonic threads.

And someone makes the predictable kill Sonic post even though the franchise is still profitable. All this even though Sonic Team nailed the last 2/3 and Sonic Transformed was great.

Same shit different thread. Also fuck SEGA for the way they handled this.

Pretty much.

 

[Haunted]

gotta bail fast

 

[Prevolition]

They could not have come up with a better name for this studio if they tried.

Can someone replace the P with an S?

 

[E92 M3]

Good thing I came into this thread

Spoiler

for the laugh.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

If I opened up a new game studio only to find out that we had to work on a Sonic game I'd save everyone the trouble and just burn the building down.

 

[Ty4on]

So basically like Sonic 06. Head staff left mid-development in that game (notably Yuji Naka), several regular staff were splintered off to work on Secret Rings and the game also had the misfortune of being pushed out to meet the holiday market.

Nothing happened with Secret Rings other than it being rushed?

You did at the very least have some control in 06. In Secret Rings Sonic sort of moved on his own and the hardest parts were where you had to stop and be precise because the game would somehow believe you wanted to slide forward. If you tilted the controller too far backwards he'd walk backwards and you'd hit stuff because the camera was static. All the motion controls were of course also really laggy.

 

[Spinluck]

Grow a sense of humour.

HotColdMan has posted some funny stuff before.

When people do the same shit every Sonic thread, it gets really old hat. There is nothing funny about using jokes from 10 years ago (Sonic Cycle, kill Sonic--this dates back pretty far yet he's still here, weird Sonic pictures that are usually from the alleged non fans). I would be lying if I said there weren't any occasional funny gems though, there have been some hilarious posts.