Could new Sonic game be most polished ever?

[Barry the Nomad]

True. My bad.

Shadow was their bad, not yours. Don't shoulder the blame.

[Mengels7]

Shadow was their bad, not yours. Don't shoulder the blame.

First Sonic game I pirated. Played about 10 minutes of it. Felt no guilt, felt no desire to ever play again.

[crackdude]

Yuji Naka is awww-right.

[Kuronoa]

I'm not worried about the levels of polish put into the games anymore. I'm more concerned how they can combat expectations because they created a new side of the fanbase where if it isn't Unleashed formula it sucks to them.

[CrazyT]

I want them to get the game feel right once again. Prioritize sonic's movement and polish it to perfection to the extent most can get behind it. To me that would mean using sonic adventure 1 as reference. But we'll see

[crackdude]

I just want Sonic Adventure 3 with Sonic/Shadow and optional Knuckles. I want it to say "& KNUCKLES" when I choose Knuckles and to hear a Hunnid P snip saying "I don't chuckle" to confirm selection.

I want an online Chao market place and online tournaments. More Chao breeding trees. An iPhone app that allows you to play Chao Adventure 3 on the loo.

Crush 40 has to be on the soundtrack, and Eggman should be named Robotnik. Nights needs a cameo on the casino level (there HAS to be a casino level). Upon game completion unlock Big Adventure 3, complete with online leaderboards.

Level editor.

[George]

Might make a interesting video to talk about what the ideal Sonic 25th game would be. To me would just be a Generations 2.0+. Sonic Modern/Classic Sonic levels + Classic Tails/Modern Tails + Classic Knuckles/Modern Knuckles levels. But this takes more of the approach of Sonic Runners as they play the same levels, just in different ways. As for the hub world, this time its a big city instead of just a 2D hub objective thing. Lots of unlockables. All new levels with a few callbacks.

I think this way its still Adventure like, but still building instead of just changing it to a different formula.

That would be A+ stuff right there.

[crackdude]

Let's combine our ideas, but with Shadow instead of Tails.

[Tad]

It's nothing without a Seaman reference.

[crackdude]

What if one of the levels of Big Adventure 3 involves catching a seaman while he insults you?

[Tad]

GOTY.

[Barry the Nomad]

I understand the hate Sonic Lost World gets, but I feel it is mainly directed at it because it is the followup to Generations and because it does too many Nintendo-y Mario-esque things when it really should be trying to be a SEGA-y Sonic-esque game. Still, given it is not actually the followup, from a development standpoint, to Generations and it was released as a Wii U exclusive and thus aimed more for the Mario crowd it really isn't as bad as some say.

It is incredibly solid in terms of how polished it feels. Nothing really felt off or broken like, say, Sonic '06 or Sonic Adventure were (the former had no excuse, the latter did seeing as it was a launch title and an early high speeds platformer for that generation).

Story was weak and childish, but then again this is a kid-friendly franchise on a kid-friendly platform. I thought the art direction and music was top notch!

In terms of what they have planned for 2016 (and trust me, they DO have something planned), I feel as though it will be as polished as Generations or Lost World was. Likely more than Generations given the amount of time they have had. I am very optimistic.

[Team Andromeda]

It is incredibly solid in terms of how polished it feels. Nothing really felt off or broken like, say, Sonic '06 or Sonic Adventure were (the former had no excuse, the latter did seeing as it was a launch title and an early high speeds platformer for that generation).

Story was weak and childish, but then again this is a kid-friendly franchise on a kid-friendly platform. I thought the art direction and music was top notch!

In its own right the game was fantastic, with some great levels and design in there. It just didn't really feel or sound like a Sonic game to me. I really hope Sonic Team do well with the new Sonic game,and really start to get back to the day when they were seen as the elite studio inside SEGA, even by staff that worked in SEGA.

[Phantasos]

I thought the art direction and music was top notch

Pretty much the best aspects of Lost World, yeah. There was nothing broken about the gameplay since like you said, it was very polished but nothing about it was particularly fun. They tried to mix it with Mario elements that Mario does much better anyway so it just fell flat.

Dat music, though.

[Barry the Nomad]

One major problem I had with Lost World is that they had this parkour system and rarely used it. That was the one thing the 3DS version did well, was presenting later stages that required the parkour. It was no Mirror's Edge or anything, but still could have been utilized more.