Project NeedleMouse - All New 2D Sonic game
 

Source and Teaser Trailer: All-new 2D Sonic rolling out in 2010 - News at GameSpot

Unbelievable. It appears all the bitching from the old-school 2D Sonic fans has finally been heard. I hope you all are happy. 2010 is going to be a damn good year.

No transformations, music minigames, QTEs, racing or card battling mechanics bolted in this time, I should hope.

New gimmick: Sonic to have lead shoes.

Open world gameplay...

Plotline: Big the Cat is dead. Sonic must race to the liquor store before it closes and he is consequently unable to get drunk in celebration.

Nope, no reason to be happy, and I'll tell you why--

Nobody with any sense said "man, Sonic has to go back to his 2D graphical roots to be good again." They wanted his old 2D gameplay, his old sense of speed, his old level designs, his old entourage that numbered one fucking fox.

Sega had the right idea with Sonic Advance and Sonic Rush, then lost most of their small gains in the ensuing sequels. So, no, I am not happy. I am approaching this with enormous skepticism and broad, all-encompassing apathy until I begin to hear the singing of its praises by longtime skeptics.

Or at least by people who did not try to defend Black Knight.

It's going to be, but not because of this.

Anyway, I'm somewhat excited about this. Sincerely hoping that the story won't turn to a burning wreck or like Qwarky said, no bullshit gimmicks and no lame as fuck characters.

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Until Sega proves otherwise, I'm going to remain skeptical that its previous trackrecord has finally been broken. I'd like to think they finally learned their lesson, but... well yeah.

Happy for what? They didn't show shit.

I hate you a lot sometimes, you know that?

Anyway confirming this to be as bad as Advance 2 until otherwise noted.

Good/evil meter.

There has been no indication that Sonic Team is still capable of producing a good Sonic game since Adventure.

I see no reason to believe this game will change that.

Also, what ever happened to those fan "HD" remakes of the older genesis games?

I wouldn't get your hopes up guys

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Or Speedy Gonzales, but I don't have photoshop here at work.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Sonic Rush basically a newish 2D Sonic game? Therefore, this isn't really a new thing, although it might be a welcome thing, if they manage not to screw it up.

A Sonic game with Picachu in a sombrero as the main character would be the most win ever.

Yeah, pretty much this. Also the Speedy Gonzales, but he's "offensive" or something. His stage in Loony Tunes GB was awesome, despite the stupid star dance thing.

So it looks like Pikachu in a Sombreo is going to be called Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 and is coming to all major consoles.

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I am guessing the success of the new Mario got to them eh?

Actually potentially interested in this. I'm not a super huge fan of the Sonic series, but I really enjoyed the first two games (and 3 and S&K to a lesser extent).

Wait what.

"We're making a new Sonic game that only stars Sonic. How awesome is that?!?"

::three months later::

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:|

Problem was never with the inclusion of friends anyway. It was with the inclusion of friends that sucked ass. Nothing wrong with Tails or Knuckles. In fact unless memory has betrayed me, I'd go so far as to say that Big the Cat was the only one from Sonic Adventure I thought was horribly tacked on. Oh... and the robot.

Maybe Sega thought that Tails was considered ancillary in the minds of Sonic fans and thought they'd ignore it.

It says "Featured," not necessarily who's playable. Could just be Eggman as the other character featured in the game.

I'm sure SuperSonic needs a new keyboard this morning.

Dammit, does nobody else realize that the other playable character IS Pikachu in a Sombrero? That shadow couldn't have been Sonic.

I need 2 new keyboards...and a mouse...and a monitor.

Their site has a shitload of countdowns next to the locks, so I'll definitely be keeping an eye out on those. Also, it's announced for Wiiware, XBLA, and PSN, but there's a 4th system that they have yet to announce it for.

Here's a big surprise: it'll be DSiWare or for PC.

I'm predicting App Store.

Maybe this is the big launch title the Phantom has been waiting for.

Sonic 4.

So they admit everything that came after Sonic 3 & Knuckles doesn't exist.

You say anything bad about E-102 Gamma and I'll cut you. Sonic's had a ton of terrible new characters over the years, pretty much all of them after Tails and Knuckles, but Gamma's levels were fun.

I've never been a big Sonic fan, so I don't really care about this one unless it turns out to be good. Rush and Rush Adventure were alright, so it's possible.

Surprise! Sega is releasing another video game system and this will be their launch title.

:|

The number one way to trick people into buying a bad game is to make it a numbered entry in a series that was once good.

I'll miss one thing from the 'everything' past S&K3: The Chao-raising mini-game. That thing was dangerously addictive.

The upshot of course being that they can only try it once.

Hear that, Sonic? This is it. Your last chance.

Italics.

Really? Could have fooled me.

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You know I'm talking about the sleight of hand of releasing plenty of unnumbered installments and then, after a long interlude, finally reverting to the old sequence in a triumphant cry of "Ah ah! But Now we mean business!"

And since 2003 there have been numerous FF spin offs but only one numbered game in 2006 and another one due out in a month. In both of those interludes there was piles upon piles of offshot shit. They've done it more than once. And it seems to be working for them.

And SEGA is going to do it more than once with Sonic. They've just got a much longer fuck-you-in-the-ass time frame going on. I'm sure as soon as they figure out it will work, they'll do it more often.

Since they've already put at least one Sonic game on there that wouldn't be at all surprising.

Also, Episode 1, really? I like how they've realised that no one will buy a full Sonic title any more, but if they release a regular sized game in 6 small chunks all priced $10, well what do you know.

I have more faith in Sonic Mario Kart Racing than this. I mean, yeah it's great and all that they've gone back to do a side-scrolling title and ditched the huge assortment of random characters they had, but they've been so out of touch with what made Sonic work for so long I doubt they can pull it off even when they're vaguely attempting the right thing. I'm willing to be proven wrong, I just don't see it happening.

Eh, the Rush games weren't too bad and the first Advance title was pretty decent, so it's not like they can't make a good 2D offering, they've just been too busy focusing on everything that's wrong with the series for entirely too long.

Leaked Gameplay Videos

It looks...okay. It just reminds me of the DS games except it's on one large screen instead of two little screens.

Yeah, I was watching a couple of those videos earlier. It seems like Sonic's sense of speed which made the first three games great seem to be lost in this... It's like he's just skipping along the course.

I almost feel sorry for the Chetards today. They never cope very well with our April Fools pranks at the best of times, this must be like hell for them.

The speed of the animation are too slow, as soon as it got that classic blurrfeet it looked quite good. But at the start up looks weird i agree.

Would it be uncharitable of me to suggest that if it bothers 'em so much, they're welcome to find another forum without such shenanigans? I am not saying I want anyone to leave, but then... I can't bring myself to feel too much sympathy for anyone who can't take a fucking joke.

Here's my nomination:

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The leaked video of the mine cart level is the worst fucking thing I've ever seen.

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I'm glad these tests of the system have proven educational :D

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I am touching your radio!

YOU FUCKER!

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I just can't stop blowing goats!

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