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[Prince ByTor]

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[RedAuthar]

I get that Knuckles's design isn't that great....but honestly It isn't bad either.

[Uncle Ben]

Add a hat

[TheRedStranger]

 Sammy's old Empire of Dirt and his SoJ can burn...

 

 SoJ was "traumatized" when Madeline Shroder wrote out the creepy Madonna character and Sonic's corny appeals to a distorted steryotype of American tastes and made him more unique and timeless and gave him a continuity. Tom Kalinski and his American "Razor and Blades" model  of salesmanship and made Sonic and SEGA a house hold name with the Genisis/Sonic One bundle. The market crew forced Walmart's hand  by advertising the heck out of Arkansas (the heart of the big business) into selling the product despite Nintendo's blackmails to pull their own products if they sold SEGA's new system. Then they got the toy stores on their side, resisting Nintendo's dirty dealing Bottom line SoA made Sonic and SEGA what he was in design and publication, taking over the Market Share Nintendo had a monopoly on in the mid 90's. They helped broaden the industry, while SoJ and it's horrible business deals of constantly pumping hardware over quality software neutered the company by the time of the Saturn...The Dream Cast was doomed to fail because due to their technological myopia.

 

 Imagine what it would all be like if SoA stayed dominate and SoJ didn't fire Kalinski, the man who made the company sell in America (their target audience). He dared to question their bizzare hardware-fetish (Super Nintendo lasted longer than the CD-32X-Saturn). He told them to slow it down and to stick to one solid system so publishers could actually sell games for that said system for a profit rather than for the mere hardware.

 

SoA is hopefully coming back...SoA and Archie have been the only ones keeping Sonic alive despite all the emo Dopplegangers with guns and silly werehogs and lack of story. I hope SoA can give SoJ a stroke for all I care. Like Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead, someone made a good idea and didn't know what to do with it, then messed up a well-selling comic in it's prime (read the fan letter some time, some reviewers now say it has descended in a "Red-neck game of thrones" and Kirkman admitted himself in a interview he messed up with maiming Rick). Luckily Kirkman's butt was saved by AMC came along, capitalized, and made it sale big time. SoA might  just be SoJ's AMC...

[Juice16]

Honestly, the fact the Head of Sonic Team was traumatized by the designs makes me want this game even more. Sonic Team has been notorious for always messing up in some way shape or form, some aspect in every sonic game after the rushed Sonic 06 that makes each game just shy of excellent. It really comes down to if the thing they messed up matters to the overall quality of the game and most importantly, the gameplay. In Sonic Unleashed, it was poor implementation of the Werehog, (Which affects gameplay), Sonic Colors, gameplay was good but had such a bad story, Generations, Story could've been better, gameplay was too short, Sonic: Lost World: some of the level design was just bad. I'm looking forward to having a different company work on Sonic Boom, just because of the fact they don't have that track record of always messing something up (Either Major or Minor) in a game. Plus it's a return to the Adventure Style gameplay which I have been craving for years!

[Captain Sorzo]

I think I'm liking this game more and more. Heck, if Team Sonic doesn't like it, then I'm all in!

 

Headline: Sonic Boom Developers Designs ‘Traumatized’ Visiting Team Sonic Boss.

 

If official concept art is traumatic, it's a safe bet that a random browsing of DeviantArt would prove fatal.

 

On a more serious note, they're insane to try limiting the game to the Wii U, especially after the abysmal sales of Lost World. The install base just isn't there. It's not that I want the Wii U to fail (annoyed as I am at Nintendo being a generation behind in hardware specs twice in a row, the industry thrives on competition), but if Lost World is any indication Sonic's not about to help save it. Even if it means jumping through legal hoops regarding contracts with Nintendo, Sega needs to jump ship as soon as possible like almost every other third-party publisher out there. Giving Sonic Boom ports to 360/PS3 (and possibly their eighth gen counterparts, depending on how the graphics turn out) would be a solid first step in the right direction.

[Uncle Ben]

i think S.T. is afraid of what this game can become

[RedAuthar]

Jumping ship from Nintendo would prove fatal. No company is going to wNt to work with them if they don't hold to their contracts.

[Uncle Ben]

New Character: Sticks.

 

 

She's more annoying than Marine..... and Sticks.. STICKS?

[ILOVEVHS]

Mostly likely a Nickname, Ben. :/

Don't judge before the games and the show come out. We can't completely judge by just a behind the scenes video.

Why do all Sonic fans instantly HATE new characters?

[Uncle Ben]

Why do all Sonic fans instantly HATE new characters?

 

Because they add a new character every game. The last good new character was Blaze.

 

Though anyone else see a little bit of Tiny Tina from Borderlands 2 in her?

[LogiTeeka]

From what I've seen of her so far, I think I'm gonna enjoy Sticks. Her hyperactive rambling cracks me up.

 

I'm really looking forward to this show.

[ILOVEVHS]

Having finally had the time to watch the behind the scenes, I can say that, I'm REALLY looking forward to this new character. Particularly thanks to the Cuckoolander attitude.

[Speedy_25]

People don't know whether or not they will like a new Sonic character until they read more upon the character's background, and personality

[Uncle Ben]

New stuff: Sonic Boom for the Wii U will be called Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

 

 

3DS version will be called Shattered Crystal

 

 

Villain: Lyric

 

[Uncle Ben]

Huh, thats weird. It was working earlier....

[ILOVEVHS]

They were both pulled offline.

Amy's exclusive to Wii U and Sticks might be exclusive to 3DS.

Lyric has a cool design.

[Uncle Ben]

SEGA did it, dunno why though

[ILOVEVHS]

They may have been saving it for E3 and someone there made a mistake or leaked it.

[Uncle Ben]

Someone said it was getting bad reception but that doesnt sound likely to me