SEGA I LOVE YOU I'M SORRY FOR THINKING YOU SUCKED

[Prpl_Mage]

Wait, didn't team sonic do Phantasy star online?

[Bluhman]

Yuji Naka, founder of Sonic Team, himself did it. However, the base formula for PSO was done back in 2000, when Sonic Team was still actually pretty good (EX: Sonic Adventure 1 and 2). I don't know how PSO is updated for each episode or whatever. Or even how it plays. It's a damn MMO. It's repetitive grinding and ****, it's not that hard to make fun for some people. In fact, MMO's don't play like sonic at all. The people at sonic team could easily be really good at making RPGs or something and fail at any other gameplay style (kind of like Squaresoft.) **** I don't know. For all I know, PSO could've been dropped by Sonic Team and picked back up by some other people.

Are you sure your news source is reliable though, archem? Alpha footage would suggest otherwise.

This current version looks shitty, but you have to remember, it's an alpha. If you know how buggy betas can be, then raise the bugginess of a beta to the 10th and you have alpha. Compare to the Sonic 2 alpha.

[Archem]

****, I just realized that I posted "Team Sonic".

I should fix that.

Are you sure your news source is reliable though, archem?

This particular source is usually very reliable, but for the sake of covering my ***, here's something to look at.

I'm aware that the Sonic Team logo is on most Sonic 4 media, though. Odds are, they're just there to get undue credit. It happens.

Also, Dimps (the development studio in-charge) has already made a couple of Sonic games in the fairly recent past. They've been for Nintendo handhelds, and have been more positively reviewed than the nonsense Sonic Team's been meddling with.

[Bluhman]

Yeah, it's not like I didn't read the article. I just saw the alpha footage and saw it said 'sonic team'. Though, interestingly, on dimps games, too (Sonic Advance series), the Sonic Team logo shows up anyway.

DF, you're going to need to try harder to convince me that this could possibly be anything but stupid.

Valiere, you suck.

[Cerebus]

Meh. To be honest, it doesn't look that good. And hug-headbutt attacks? Umh...

[Valiere]

Shouldn't a shooting star be able to...I dunno...float or fly or something?

And not just when he swings on a magical doorstop.

[Archem]

Shouldn't a plumber have, like, tools or something? Perhaps toilets that need unclogging?

Video games in the 80s/90s don't need to follow your logic. That's half the fun in them.

[fruckert]

I always wondered why Mario just doesn't beat everything with a pipe wrench.

[Valiere]

Yeah, but he goes down pipes. There's tenuous plumbing-related activity.

[Bluhman]

Welp, Ristar certainly does shoot between planets when given the opportunity to, so there you go.

[Darkfox]

Welp, Ristar certainly does shoot between planets when given the opportunity to, so there you go.

True that. XD

[Ratty524]

I need to check out the Mega Drive version of Ristar, just because I like comparing the localized with the originals

It's kind of hard for Sega to survive in the gaming industry without their own platform unless they work with other consoles.  UNLESS of course they decide to get back on their own system, when they seemed to have done substantially better.....  Hmm.  Maybe Nintendo allows Sega to publish for their consoles just so they can sabotage the products as an act of 20-year-stale vengeance?  People are petty like that.

Sonic needs to do something for sure.  Whatever happened to Princess Sally, Tails, and the rest of the gang?  Espio, the headphones-crocodile guy, that other guy, and the like?  Sega needs to get their shyte together before their company goes under entirely.

FYI Princess Sally, or any of the characters that were exclusive to the comics and American TV shows are not truly canon to the game series. They barely have the same settings as in the games, too.
Sega tried to bring back Chaotix with Sonic Heroes and their appearance in the Sonic X cartoons, but they kind of fucked them up. They removed Mighty the Armadillo, which I guess wasn't their choice since Mighty's creator quit the team and took his copyrights with him, and they made Charmy annoying (he was originally 16, but now he's 6) and from there I guess they got kind of shoved into the category of "Annoying extra Sonic characters that should die in a fire", kind of like Big the Cat and Silver (Well deserved...)

As the for consoles, I think the reason why SEGA's systems failed was more along the side of terrible marketing rather than functionality. SEGA's last two systems were almost ahead of their times, but in turn they were more expensive than other systems like the Playstation and N64. There were also some embarrassing flaws that kind of killed SEGA's chance of competing with other companies. I don't think they'll go back to making systems any time soon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Saturn#Performance_in_the_marketplace
If Wikipedia is right, then Sony also did a good job at kicking the sh*t out of SEGA.

[HobomasterXXX]

All the Sonic characters who aren't Tails, Sonic, Knuckles or Robotnik are redundant and should be removed like the cancerous mass they are.

[Ben]

knuckles and tails can eat a dick too

[fruckert]

For the longest time I thought that Knuckles was a girl.
Until I heard him speak in...that crappy psuedo adventure game where you control three characters at once on the Xbox (I don't know why we got it).