What does /v/ wants from the next Open Zone Sonic game?
>>719420582A Devil Trigger or Drive Form type mechanic
>>719420818Super Sonic would be a cool DT mechanic. It would make Sonic invincible but the Chaos Emerald gauge would deplete quicker when you get hit.
>>719421004Fucking Genius, that shit sounds so cool
>>719420582Are thee games fun? I bought the newest 2D one and it was ok
>>719421291Sonic Mania and Sonic X Shadow Generations are really good
Sonic aesthetics
>>719420582Less platforms and rails floating in the air and more ramps to do tricks off of
>>719421328>Sonic X Shadow GenerationsYeah that's the one I played
>>719421291Superstars is patently mediocre. The newest one, Shadow Generations is slightly jank/ low scope but it's a good time.
>>719421291Frontiers is decent if you can get it below $20. However its not worth $60.
>>719420582>smaller open zones with less " prefab floating shit" challenges in lieu of handcrafted level design>actual Sonic aesthetics>levels that aren't just cobbled together Gens assets>less focus on combat>more NPCs, even if they're just generics lifted from the Forces OC maker>a city open zone area>never ever: humans
>>719421656The overworld design was so dogshit and lazy it really pisses me off. Couldn't be bothered to make it more suitable for Sonic and have terrain with slopes and ramps. You know, a place where Sonic can actually move fast in? Cuz what really helps is a rocky map filled with plateaus. You can tell they just autogenerated some random terrain from a noise map and called it a day. FUCK.
>>719422304Maybe I'm retarded but I think it's difficult to design good platforming challenges for the Open Zone.It's easy to say that they should make a giant Green Hill Zone that spans all 360 directions but actually realizing that idea is surprisingly hard to conceptualize.
>>719422482Sonic Team actually made clay models of those islands during development
>>719423089>Iizuka is in the Sonic HQ cafeteria eating lunch when his coworkers enter the room>"Iizuka-san, where have you been? We need the plans for the level design. You were supposed to submit them last week!">Iizuka turns away in panic. He has a plan and quickly throws his plate of rice paste onto the table>"I-it's right here! See?">"Hmm, whatever. Okay boys, just scan this in and put it in the game already. We're a month behind schedule!"This is the only scenario I will accept. I refuse to believe they would bother sculpting this generic crap and think it's genuinely good.
>>719420582Draw distance would be nice
>>719422482>Muh Gotta go Fast memeStop. This shit killed Sonic. Frontiers isnt perfect but its a step in the right direction. Sonic is a platformer.
>>719423089That looks less like some carefully made model and more like a lump of clay they found on the side of the road. Plus if you're not going to design the islands with typical Sonic ideas than you might as well just use some randomly generated map do it for them.
I'd really prefer if we got a game like Spark 3 or Rollin' Rascal. Or really just about anything but a big empty bunch of fucking nothing.Shadow Generations was good, at least.
>>719421291Sonic Mania was fun. Shadow Generations was pretty good. Superstars is...ok. Dream Team is decent but iOS exclusive.Everything else, either emulate or find a fan fix/port. If it's newer than 2011 and I didn't mention it, it's shit.
>>719423089Jesus Christ, are they stupid?Not for using clay, I just mean that "model" is awful.
>>719423974You can already go fast in Frontiers. There's literally an infinite boost button. Play the game before falseflagging you retard
>>719420582I want a male human character who steps in front of Sonic and makes out with Amy Rose, and undresses her and you see him and her doing it, and you realize her hymen was already broken because human men.
>>719423834They added the floating rails and platforms in the last year of development because playtesters found the game boring
>>719423089Makes me think of Xenoblade's development.Takahashi and Honne spent over a week crafting a model to showcase their idea to the dev team. They brought staff in to act as real life references, they discussed how the habitats should be constructed on the gods and what poses would be most effective, and they made both figures high detail to really give the other devs things to look at and ponder and question.And then they only kept the basic ideas when making the game because the point of the models was to start a discussion, not map design.
>>719424979Froniters places more emphasis on platforming challenges. The boost button and speed take a backseat and only exists so mongoloids like you can say they went fast in a Sonic game.
Playing Sonic x Shadow Generations right now and getting these S ranks is pretty hard. I think I'm just going to look up a guide for all the collectables but doing the S ranks on my own has been fun.
Shadow of the Lost Kingdom. Shadow in Atlantis stopping Black Doom from making an army of mutant fish monsters.
>>719425490>platforming challengesGod I wish
How about some actual fucking level design instead of tossing a bunch of blocks and rails in the sky?How about making it look like a Sonic game instead of ugly dogshit?How about instead of these korok ripoffs they just use chao? Was this a spite move? Sure seems like it, especially since they become Chaos people. Whoever wrote that should commit hara-kiri for my enjoyment.
>>719425945Ian wrote it in and they said "great idea!" and ignored almost all of his other input. Strange lads.
>>719426569Hm, I suppose whoever approved it should also commit hara-kiri.
>>719420582I want Ian to stop forcing Amy not being interested in Sonic, virtue signaling asshole.
>>719420582Better models
>>719420582city enviroments, better enemy encounters and the option to modify sonic's stats if they are going to keep the combat and the rpg mechanics
Oh yeah, I hate the card thing as well. Bring back the hammer.
>>719420582just make it shadow generations hub world then ok it's alright
>>719425203ARE WE DEADASS?!???!?
>>719420582NPC filled towns like in Sonic Adventure and 06
>>719428147I would kill for that actually
>>719425203>Instead of making the field better they added springs and railsJesus.
>>719427513omgggg her legs are hot
>>719427513I think they just need better lighting or shaders to emulate a cartoony look. The default realistic lighting doesn't work for Sonic. It's sad because they even made their own rendering engine called the "Hedgehog Engine" but it just looks like a Unity game.
>>719420582the impossible
I'm playing Sonic X Shadow Generations and it's giving the same feeling that I got when I played Armoured Core 6 in that I love when games just have stages instead of being some open world slop or single continual campaign. We need more stage based video games.
