Why are Sonic games always so rushed? Can't they just scale back their scope?
>>737612905gotta get that sweet christmas sales money
>>737613049You can just make the game smaller
>>737615181And make it beatable in an hour instead of an hour and half?
devs are retarded and *actually* try to make sonic fast, so, distance over time, sonic maps are fucking disgustingly huge, like, 30 seconds of a modern boost-shit sonic stage is one skyrim maps worth of running.
>>737612905>Why are Sonic games always so rushed?He's just too fast.
>>737612905>Why are Sonic games always so rushed?Because he doesn't have the pressure of having to sell a single flagship console anymore. He devolved from being a triple A series to double A or even B series. All of the talent also left during the Sammy hostile take-over. At least Sammy had the good grace to buy all of Sega instead of salvaging it in parts. Sonic will never be as good as he used to be. His series ended with Adventure 2.
>>737615279Yes.
>>737612905they're hardly rushed, it's more like sega keeps fucking sabotaging them on top of retarded management.>sonic 06 lost half of its team to a failed wii port that would get turned into secret rings, another chunk to yuji naka quitting and taking folks with him, and then had to turn a ps3-developed game into a 360 launch title for christmas rush>team manages to get some staff and genuine talent together for unleashed and churn about to generations for 4 years>immediately get fucking gutted and disemboweled as your talent are put elsewhere in the company like the mario & sonic olympics games, or left the company entirely like the unleashed head level designer going to nintendo>have to hire a bunch of fresh-faced new interns from the ground up for lost world to start from almost fresh and pretend it's a new style for sonic>mangle that mess into being boost very, very sloppily as you add even MORE interns on, while the previous ones become new heads of development portions>all the while execs and sega keep having you try to next-gen-ify the engine and keep developing it for years on end the entire time>forces blatantly had rewrites and various development issues because nothing could be firmly decided while having to prep/gimp hedgehog engine 2 for switch hardware>frontiers itself seemingly had not only another big bout of engine upgrading still hampered by switch but also a complete mismanagement clusterfuck of absolutely zero solid ideas in how to handle themselves for the longest whilefuck's sake, forces took 4 years but had like one proper year of production, frontiers took five years and one was pre-production, two were engine development and the remaining two were directionless development before they finally got their shit together barely.this is just plain bad management that has no idea what they should actually be gunning for, and a sega seniority tenure of idiots that simply cannot be replaced.
>>737619594You're definitely correct about bad management, but rushing development obviously still plays a factor towards the end whenever they DO get their shit together long enough to make a fucking game, since they inevitably have limited time to get anything done by that point.Sega's management is so laughably bad that even if you gave Sonic to competent developers they'd still find a way to fuck things up for them. The only way to save Sonic is to have him get away from Sega entirely, but that's never happening, and the movies have already proven that they don't even need to make games anymore to make money with the IP. Slowly but surely, the games will be little more than an afterthought for whatever ongoing movies or shows are currently happening. (And fans at that time will tell you this is a good thing.)
>>737619594Have you forgot about Sonic Rangers?
Sonic Rushed
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