Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

[Omegajak]

All I'm saying Koop, and to anyone else who see's problems with modern is that it's easy to call SEGA lazy, but when you think about who Sonic is and what he does, I mean outside of the realm of the Genesis games you were given because that's the interpretation and rendition we were given as kids not the personification of who Sonic is and what he does.

I think you kinda missed what he was getting at. He wants more freedom to run around, stop, look, and appreciate the world and not just have a one-way path with a series of timed boosts and jumps. Sonic Adventure did that just fine. Sonic Adventure 2 did it. For all the wrong they did, Heroes, Shadow, and Sonic 06 still did it.

Sonic Colors, gave you a beautiful world, with great settings...and refused to let you explore it. Planet Wisp is a great example: it looks beautiful, and the beginning of the first stage sets you down in a beautiful, wide 3D field that looks like you could run all over the place...by the end, you're circling a 2D path, chaining jumps around a boring construction site setting that looks made up of the same generic girders and blocks we've seen in games since DK Arcade. Why restrict players from looking around when you set your game in an amusement park?

I don't see it losing Sonic's personality either, if you really want to go there. "Speed" fits Sonic. So does "Freedom"; doing what you want.

Before I retort Clutch, I need to clarify something the team behind Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2 were they two different teams or the same team?

I hear you and Koops plea, but think about it logically the only way to make modern have more freedom we'd be going back to Adventure and with the current track record that'd probably be the best improvement. I stand behind the game dev team though, because if I was going back to Adventure I'd have to make the worlds 2 times bigger and I'd need more time to develop more ideas on how to make Modern able to venture pretty much everywhere in 3D space without reducing his velocity.

Though, if this is a time attack game where having the most rings in the shortest time between the beginning and the end of the Zone why don't I just create a game where the deviations are minor but doing different things net's the player more rings but a higher time? I think that's where generations modern is going. The different paths are more miniscule but can either slow you down and give you more rings or speed you up and you reach the goal faster.

Sonic is speed AND freedom, speed is his freedom he can go anywhere and see anything and he loves nothing more than getting there fast and seeing something new.

I understand perfectly and I feel the same way, I'd rather have awesome exploration AND speed not one over the other, but I don't see from what they currently have with modern is a bad thing. In fact since the first Greenhill Zone it's always been very basic and easy to speed through, maybe the exploration get's more major for Modern in later levels? I think it'd be best to wait and see another Modern Zone before we start finding faults.