Sonic Reboot

• Sonic Team and Sega are looking to better monetize Sonic
  
• Potentially “massive” and “total” reboot
  
• Sega and Sonic Team are “committed” to the reboot
  
• Speed, platforming, and surreal environments will remain
  
• Sonic and Dr. Eggman’s rivalry will continue
  
• Both characters may undergo a makeover
  
• Everything else is up in the air and may see radical changes, including Tails
  
• May birth a new universe and characters
  
• New gameplay methods and gimmicks
  
• Zones would be massively expanded and become their own world
  
• Zones feature individual levels masked as missions
  
• Idea likened to Burnout Paradise
  
• Includes a brand-new engine
  
• Photo-realism is of no concern
  
• May aggressively pursue a collection model as part of the reboot
  
• Targeting the young audience that enjoys physical collectibles
  
• May require physical emblems and collectibles to unlock special features
  
• SEGA inspired by Skylanders’ success
  
• Physical toys and collectibles may have an interactive component with a new cartoon series
  
• May offer classic characters in-game as DLC
  

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Looking for more money? Awesome. Being committed is awesome too. The games sound like they'll more or less stay the same. There isn't a whole lot to change about Sonic's appearance, and it'll probably end up feeling too different. I couldn't really care about Eggman's since he's undergone a change already. They need to stay away from more characters and more universes, seeing as there are too many already. Zones being expanded sounds like the first Adventure game, the missions sounds like the second and the storybook games. Making a new game engine is a waste considering they've only run two games on it. This is probably one of the reasons Sega is losing money. I really don't care about the collection model, but I'd prefer it stay away from the Skylanders model. Physical emblems to unlock special features is stupid. I should be able to play everything in the game for the $60 I pay for it new. What may help is if Sega stops ignoring fans outside of Europe concerning this collectible stuff. North America didn't get the Generations collectors edition, Europe (and some other places)did. Not only that, there's a lot of Sonic merchandise in Europe. I'm sure trying to do better on those fronts would get them more money. They can do whatever they want with classic character DLC. I'm not the type to cry over green eyes.


Anyway, that's what I think. At least a lot of this is still in the air.

@_@ Too...much...information...

Wow, that's a lot of changes...

Wh- Why? Trying to copy Spyro? That's just dumb, Sonic's a more successful series. I do have a feeling that a "total" or "massive" reboot is an exaggeration.

sykog wrote:Wh- Why? Trying to copy Spyro? That's just dumb, Sonic's a more successful series. I do have a feeling that a "total" or "massive" reboot is an exaggeration.

It is a lot of change...

Hopefully this will surely bankrupt them
Aw who am I'm kidding Sonic fans will eat any shit up

This sounds like a late April fools joke.

Hmmm...I'm not so sure....but that's probably because I can't stand change.

I would probably get used to it, unless it is actually horrible.

The Sonic that was dead just died again.

I can deal with Sega trying and failing to bring back the franchise with games like Sonic Unleashed and Sonic 4 (that were just bad). But when Sonic Team throws away the franchise that is almost as old as I am, there is no excuse.

Oh, and platforming and speed DON'T GO TOGETHER. Speed happens so fast that platforming doesn't come into play.

Just when the games were getting better...

A redesign of the characters doesn't sit well with me, much less the idea of more characters in a bigger universe. There's already quite a crowd of characters as it is, why not just develop them further? Blaze, Cream, Marine, Vector, etc., they could, I think, use a lot more development to make them more intriguing to the stories. I would, however, be interested in how this whole collectibles system plays out. Hopefully it would not be completely mandatory to own a physical toy or something to keep progressing in the game, but rather to unlock little side quests or bonus things. You should not have to go out to a toy store and buy some little figure or something just to get one step closer to finishing the game, or even just to get one Chaos Emerald. A new cartoon show might be nice, if it proves different than Sonic X.

If zones are expanded, that's one good thing I like about this...

Unless it goes back to Adventure mode, there's nothing I like about it.

Sega is basically screwed already, why not go the extra mile to make it happen?

I agree with 84. They seem to be going down the drain already, might as well make it fun while it's happening.

84 wrote:Sega is basically screwed already, why not go the extra mile to make it happen?

Sure would put the icing on the cake and prove them wrong for the last 5 years.

Still, all of this is based on rumor, so we'll know something around E3, won't we?

More than likely. I've been hearing that since Sonic Retro isn't freaking out about it, it may be fake, especially after the Sonic Dimensions rumor, but still, it is worrisome. This wouldn't be the first time SEGA killed a studio or franchise in the name of selfishness.

3 months in to the year and SEGA's is well... been nuts.

I'm bored, so...

Sonic Team and Sega are looking to better monetize Sonic
This is good, Sonic is the best way for them to make money, so that should help them and the other franchises.
Potentially “massive” and “total” reboot
Boy, is that bad...but, if there was a time to reboot the series, Generations would be a nice end to it all. But at the same time, it's absolutely unnecessary because they have been rebooting the series since Sonic 06. Very subtly, but very effectively, and fans and gamers have been liking it a lot. A reboot would have been fine ten years ago. Even five. But now? Eh...too late for the fandom to be okay with it. Besides, all this will do is reboot the story, and why change that?
Sega and Sonic Team are “committed” to the reboot
SEGA is a duh, they're getting desperate and very crazy. Neo Sonic Team doesn't care, they just don't want to get fired in the layoff madness.
Speed, platforming, and surreal environments will remain
Well, considering we barely have them at all...zing. :P
Sonic and Dr. Eggman’s rivalry will continue
...Zing again?
Both characters may undergo a makeover
Because Long-Sonic and Real-Eggman was a great change, right? But I get it, Sonic Team wants to do some new stuff, they work on such tight restrictions (half by fans, half by SEGA).
Everything else is up in the air and may see radical changes, including Tails
Especially Tails...
May birth a new universe and characters
So now the reboot is giving us what everyone wants: new characters.
New gameplay methods and gimmicks
You did say you liked all that, right Sonic fans? No? But you said you liked guns! Just look at Modern Warfare 3!
Zones would be massively expanded and become their own world
...Mario Galaxy?
Zones feature individual levels masked as missions
...Don't we already do that?
Idea likened to Burnout Paradise
..........What?
Includes a brand-new engine
So...Sonic Team really loves making engines, huh?
Photo-realism is of no concern
What? So...don't worry about photo-realism? Hmm...I can only imagine that means the games are going to get realistic again, just like Naka wanted. So more Sonic 06 style again?
May aggressively pursue a collection model as part of the reboot
A what? Are they making a collection? After they make the collection uncanon...?
Targeting the young audience that enjoys physical collectibles
Why haven't they done that sooner?
May require physical emblems and collectibles to unlock special features
Not the best idea...but okay.
SEGA inspired by Skylanders’ success
Well, at least they were successful.
Physical toys and collectibles may have an interactive component with a new cartoon series
....So...if I take my Chao toy, and make it smack into my old Eggman car thing, will the show do it too?
May offer classic characters in-game as DLC
If they won't even do it now when we ask for it...

Now, with all this being said, and assuming it is true, keep in mind that Sonic Team and SEGA are supposed to be listening to the fans more, taking in their consideration. Notice that none of that was mentioned...

The Freedom Fighter wrote:Now, with all this being said, and assuming it is true, keep in mind that Sonic Team and SEGA are supposed to be listening to the fans more, taking in their consideration. Notice that none of that was mentioned...

Ya, that is kinda strange. Seems like they just wanna do their own thing.

What confuses me, is that Sonic Team has really been playing it safe recently, so why the random change?

Really, I doubt Sega actually cares about the fans' opinions as much as everyone wants to believe.

84 wrote:Really, I doubt Sega actually cares about the fans' opinions as much as everyone wants to believe.

They should if they like money.

Not really, many Sonic fans will buy anything that has been plastered with his face.