Oh boy a new sonic game and look! its for the Wii!

[molotovwars]

You all love to talk shit. I don't know how suited Sonic is for a sword, and I haven't played the recent Sonic games because I don't have any of the next gen systems, but that trailer looked very well done. How it plays may differ, but you declare it shit when in actually the trailer looks impressive.

[Chrono]

You all love to talk shit. I don't know how suited Sonic is for a sword, and I haven't played the recent Sonic games because I don't have any of the next gen systems, but that trailer looked very well done. How it plays may differ, but you declare it shit when in actually the trailer looks impressive.

What was that you said Chrono?

[nickfil]

You all love to talk shit. I don't know how suited Sonic is for a sword, and I haven't played the recent Sonic games because I don't have any of the next gen systems, but that trailer looked very well done. How it plays may differ, but you declare it shit when in actually the trailer looks impressive.

What was that you said Chrono?

That is hardly fair. Chrono can go back in time and change it.

I am a hater that would love to be told whats what and play a great game. I love the sonic franchise, but i will NEVER EVER buy a sonic game on release date without hearing reviews and seeing gameplay first. Hell, I'm starting to edge into that way of thinking for all games, but it is especially true of sonic. YOU HEAR THAT GAMES!? YOU ARE ALL CRAP AND I HATE YOU UNTIL YOU PROVE OTHERWISE!!!!

god- i'm turning into mozgus.

[Haoie]

Sonic in 3D.

Just not a good mix!!

[arion]

So why is it that there are freeware sonic games out there that are closer to the source material while sega seems to be moving further and further away.

Maybe it's time sega did what capcom did with megaman make a new sonic in 16bit available through downloads. I would buy Sonic 4

[Jrecee]

I've been saying that forever. But I imagine they'd even screw that up. Looking at the Sonic Rush games and even the sidescrolling parts of Sonic Unleashed, nobody at Sega could have possibly played the original 3(4) games. I didn't feel like I was playing Sonic Unleashed (I downloaded the demo, didn't buy it) I just felt like I was sort of watching it. Anybody see the new Hulk movie where bruce says "I don't think I can control it. . . but maybe I can aim it", that's what I feel like when I play all these new sonic games. Sonic advance 2 did the same thing, although they fixed it a lot with SA3. It seems like every game they come up with now they have to make it FASTER and it gets to where it's so fast that the game is over in 20 minutes so they pad it with rediculous load times and boring alternative game styles. If they went and looked at the level design of the old sonic's maybe they'd realize the levels need to be a balance of running and platforming. And they actually need to SLOW the game down.

[Snickerd00dle]

it really comes down to greed, i mean, say what you will about nintendo, but the mario franchise is still amazing, galaxies was a kick ass game, sega just wants to make money and will put out a new sonic game every year, no matter what, thank you nintendo for making me wait every 5 years for a mario game

[Jrecee]

I dunno, I think mario is as whored out as sonic, if not more. Although all the games he gets tossed into are usually at least decent quality. The difference with sonic is that there's really no "core" sonic games anymore. Back in the day you could say Sonic 1 and Sonic & Knuckles were core sonic games, whereas sonic spinball or bean machine were cash-ins or spinoffs. And in the dreamcast days the adventure series seemed to be the core games. But now there's no real cohesion. All the games feel like one-offs. Sonic and the secret rings? Sonic the hedgehog (360)? Sonic Unleashed? How about Sonic Adventure 3. . .

[MrPopo]

Oooo, how about they get the artists from Vanillaware and then find the credits list from S&K and kidnap the level designers from the list and make a game like that.

[SpaceBooger]

Dude, I'm telling you that swords make everything better!
My reasons are in my earlier post...
Come-on have you ever seen a wine bottle opened with a sword - fricken sweet!

At least that seems to be Sega's take.
I think that Sega is trying to improve the game more than "whore it out." If Sega was all about whoring it out they would be making sequels to all of their successful games with almost carbon copies - especially the retro ones.