Sega Discussing Pure 2D Sonic for Consoles

OMG I will cry if they announce Sonc the Hedgehog 4.

It would need to be with the S3&K engine though and not like the GBA graphics.

( Edited 07.02.2009 01:58 by wAyNe - sTaRT )

I hope by 2D they mean 3D but side-scrolling like the old games [like Sonic Rush but with a 3D background too] so it won't be underusing the graphics engine like it was a Virtual Console game.
I'm totally for the returning to the old though!

they should either (A: Make any Sonic game 2-D speedy-sidescroller-only) or (B: NEVER MAKE A SONIC GAME AGAIN! There is a difference between "Breaking the mold" and cheap badly implemented ideas!)

I'll definitely buy it. Do it Sega!

Nice! Time for the "New Sonic the Hedgehog." Maybe a new power up will be a mushroom that makes Sonic gigantic.

Sweet! The modern Sonic games suck a lot, so a return to form would be great.

Martin_ said:
Sweet! The modern Sonic games suck a lot, so a return to form would be great.

If they can't make you happy with the Advance or Rush series, what makes you think Sonic 4 will be any different? It'll still be the same team working on it, the level design might suck and have a huge lack of robots like newer Sonic games.

I'm just worried that as soon as Sonic 4 is announced, everyone will think they can't go wrong with the game, when yes, they can.

Wonder if they got the idea from megaman 9, going back to 2d style

Still would be awesome if they did decide to bring a 2d sonic game out

SuperLink said:

Except Rush and Unleashed didn't suck, especially Rush.

If they can't make you happy with the Advance or Rush series, what makes you think Sonic 4 will be any different? It'll still be the same team working on it, the level design might suck and have a huge lack of robots like newer Sonic games.

I'm just worried that as soon as Sonic 4 is announced, everyone will think they can't go wrong with the game, when yes, they can.

Agreed. The Advance & Rush series were the next best thing to the original Sonic games and if they just continued to make them for the rest of Sonics career, I'd be totally cool with that. It would be nice though to see a game go back to the original series... But I'd wonder how they would fit all of those damn sidekicks in a new game?

Would be awesome, and please, please revert to regular animal-type badnicks and level-specific enemies.

In recent games there have been this - a few regular looking enemies, but mainly you get those same mechs over and over and over.

jb said:
In recent games there have been this - a few regular looking enemies, but mainly you get those same mechs over and over and over.