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Big Red Button Exodus was happening during Sonic Boom development
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TheLostBigBoss
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It's Sonic. What's left to even talk about when it comes to this abomination of a franchise?
Thank you good sir.
I don't even know why I post in these threads anymore. It constantly turns into this shit and it's really annoying.
Agreed.
Sonic has been doing pretty good for a few years, but the beginning of this console gen not so much. Thankfully the new game from the Generation team should be announced next year.
It's precum.
djplaeskool
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These Sonic threads always go to dark, dark places once fan art becomes involved...
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I saw Alleged Non Sonic Fans open for NOFX once.
Stereogatari
Banned
They could not have come up with a better name for this studio if they tried.
BOUNCEPAD!
Plenty seeing as how it has a new thread with post like yours every other week.
You know when Sonic threads follow the same flowchart of :
>Sonics dead
>why does Sega care about Sonic
>there hasn't been a good sonic game
>series died with Sanic friends
>looks like an OC
>*bad fanart*
You can get REALLY FUCKING ANNOYED at the same garbage spewed in every fucking thread
If I went into a Hyperdimension neptunia thread and said "this series is fucking garbage and the only people who enjoy this shit are creepy 20 year old Europeans" I would get banned on the spot, not only because it derails the thread, but because it's a broad generalization that no smart perso should make on GAF.
But yeah I'm sorry it's just sonic lol abomination lol
Leafhopper
Banned
Lets see..
I can get the jokes, its whatever sometimes its funny but damn this is old.
EDIT: The game probably wasn't going to be much better but I think it would be at least less broken.
- The typical people who haven't played a Sonic game in 10 or 15 years saying the franchise is bad with no experience to it since then.
- "Oh god why does Sonic need friends boo hoo"
- Horrible fan art
- The same jokes I seen many times
- To top it off making jokes during a time of a troubled development of a game but since it's Sonic its A-Ok
I can get the jokes, its whatever sometimes its funny but damn this is old.
EDIT: The game probably wasn't going to be much better but I think it would be at least less broken.
you forgot "pointless 'lol sonic cycle' drive-by posts, followed by 3 other people explaining how it hasn't been true in years"
I... wasn't talking about Secret Rings. Or anything in regards to game play. I was saying that Sonic 06 had a comparable situation to Sonic Boom in this context as many people involved with that game left mid-development, partially as most of the people that left did so to work on Secret Rings rather than trying to port 06 to the Wii. 06 was also rushed to the holiday market, much like how Boom felt.
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Yep.
Guys, is okay to mock Sonic but when people say "HUEHUEHUE the Devs wanted to bail out when saw what were working" is not exactly understanding about the realities of the industry or that this actually started as an ambitious game.
Why a game that started as an ambitious platformer using CryEngine 3 resulted in a product worse than Sonic06? Why did the game changed from multiplatform to WiiU exclusive mid development? Why Sega decided to take their chances and realese a shitty game of their corporate mascot?
Yeah Colours, Generations or Transformed were such an abomination.
But anyway...
For all the jokes and whatnot, it is pretty disappointing to see a development situation go this sideways, regardless of what's being worked on. It seems apparent to me that the television show and the inevitable Sonic Boom merchandising opportunities took precedence over starting with a quality video game as the base. I wonder how much the original plan needed to deviate, either from the developers' inability, mandates handed down by Sega, or perhaps even just poor oversight from the senior managers who potentially wound up leaving.
This actually has me thinking back to Retro Studios when they were first handed the Metroid project. Progress was pretty grim on all of their projects and the studio almost went under before Nintendo's higher-ups stepped in more directly, with the shift to first-person and the visors and all of the attention that was paid. Finally the devs who looked like a joke early came out with Metroid Prime, and now Retro is still considered one of Nintendo's finest development studios.
I guess the moral is that jumping to the gun and blaming the folks who remained at BRB for the final product might not be fair either, if their guidance had their foot out the door already. It's a sad story regardless of whoever's responsible.
Fox Mulder
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i only saw the giantbomb quick look. Pretty amazing to see such a shitty looking game using CryEngine.
That only makes it sexier.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Like Colonial Marines, it seems that Sega didn't have enough hands on with the project and should have stepped in to right the ship.
Hopefully the next time they outsource a game they actually keep tabs on it.
Hopefully the next time they outsource a game they actually keep tabs on it.
FreeMufasa
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Damn....I thought I was the only one who noticed this.
Yup. Sonic Generations was a great game.
Diablohead
Member
I want to know more about the development, why the visuals were dialed back so much, what happened to those next-gen looking areas we first saw, where did they go and why?
ULTROS!
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Is Sega being deliberate in terms of quality on the "3 exclusive Sonic titles for Wii U" thing? Like Wii U is dead = don't care on the development on these titles. Lost World and Boom got bad reviews and Sochi 2014 got criticized for being too similar to Mario and Sonic (aka nothing new).
Storybook games, Colors and Lost World are all the same team. Both console and handheld versions of Lost World share the same director as their version of Colors.
themagicalkitsune
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I think they were trying when they made Lost World. And it shows in the overall presentation (visuals, music, etc.) Plus the game does have some good in it. it just feels like several good, well meaning ideas that perhaps didn't work as well as they could have, and they attempted to have too many different gameplay styles, most of which weren't that good.
Spieler Eins
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Even the worst Sonic games usually have high production values. Lost World all of a sudden looked a generation behind the previous Sonic HD games and we all see what Sonic Boom has become. So it really feels like they were cheapening out on the deal and quickly dug up some cancelled leftovers or something.
Hence I also hope a real Colours/Generations successor still comes out multiplat next year (if not, I can give up hope)
TheBaronOfNA
Banned
Well, no doubt theu cheapened the deal along the way, but Sonic Lost Worlds actually tried a different art style (and probably accomodating the storybook team no fresh in HD development) and Sonic Boom started as multiplatform using CryEngine 3.
The company was founded 6 years ago. For like the first year or two there was like 2 people in it. Then they had to hire developers. I'm not sure where you're going with this.
Generations was a fantastic game. They should just make Generations 2. Stop hatin'
Hot Coldman
Banned
Fucking thank you.
Shit on Sonic all you want, just figure out how to do it without a trip to deviantart. It's weird. It makes you look weird. You're the one who bothered to google search "pregnant Sally" or whatever to say... I don't even know what that means. "SEGA is godawful at managing their brand and the developers, and this picture of Big the Cat making out with Jesus proves it?" NOPE. That's not a thing!
anyway yeah just pls kill the weird shit
Trevelyan9999
Banned
Man guys this is depressing......who here thinks Nintendo should just buy the Sonic I.P. and start from scratch with a *New* Sonic The Hedgehog game and give the character and worlds the extra care needed?
Nintendoga
Member
If there's one good thing about this maybe Unleashed's 2015 is coming.
Unleashed was the best Sonic game.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
I think that would be pretty shitty to everyone who doesn't own Nintendo platforms. Sonic gains nothing by going exclusive, as we've seen. I don't doubt Nintendo could do something special with Sonic, but there's still going Sonic games outside Boom.
Fox Mulder
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Generations was a fantastic game. They should just make Generations 2. Stop hatin'
I meant to play it before packing up my 360, but oh well. I hear that and the kart games are good.
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