- 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.
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