Sonic's success is about more than a questionable redesign.
We can all agree that Sonic and his buddies have too many wraps around their hands and feet in the upcoming Sonic Boom. But when The Blunder Busters looked closer, there are some strong indicators--beyond gameplay, beyond 'roided-out Knuckles--that Sonic Boom is SEGA's greatest effort to revitalize the franchise in a long while. Here's why it might work.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
Sega claims Super Mario Bros. Wonder's launch overshadowed Sonic Superstars, affecting sales. Sega remains hopeful for a turnaround.
SEGA in victim mode for many years.. blaming others for doing good never questioning themselves.. no need to be marketing effort to know that releasing a bit of the same sonic at the same time as a very creative and perfectly executed 2D mario would hurt the sales.. well SEGA have one of the most amateur marketing people in the industry
Even when Sega were still in the console business Sonic couldn't compete in terms of sales with Mario. Sonic is hot ragain and Sega still managed to fuck up. Quite the accomplishment.
A lot of bad Sonic games over the years. After Sonic Adventure 2, although Sonic Adventure was better, Sonic died. Apart from the Sonic Racing, that's pretty much it. Sonic Frontiers, SEGA should've knocked out Sonic Adventure 3. These SEGA collections have been knocking around for too long. There's been too much dumbness at SEGA.
Sonic is great but he is nothing when compared to Mario. Nintendo just knows how to utilize Mario better like Mario Maker, Super Smash, Mario Kart, Mario RPG, Mario Paint. Sonic is not a utilizable enough like Mario. Mario can be adapted to different games. Sonic is pretty much run, run, run. Sure Sonic has his own other games but again he is nothing when compared to Mario.
You all say you are excited about a new Sonic game and then when it is actually released you are back hating it again. The same will happen with Sonic Boom, you will be all positive at first and then you will be back to bashing it again.
There has never been anything really wrong with newer Sonic games, it's just that so many people are stuck in the past and get all caught up in nostalgia. If these newer Sonic games weren't actually called Sonic then these games would have nothing but positive reviews.
Generations was tons of fun and (just my opinion deal with it)Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is one of the best kart racers out there. But yes there have been some flops but it all hasn't been doom and gloom for the franchise.
The only problem I have with the new look is how Knuckles looks, he just looks plain weird. I think the other characters look fine though.
Somebody better check Knuckles for PED's. We dont want him to drag gaming into the Steroid Scandals that plague other sports.
Haven't felt good about a Sonic game in a long time. This looks good though, real good. Hope it can bring back the nostalgia of my childhood where all I did was play sonic.
Like the character revamps as well.