Re: A new Sonic game on the horizon?
I didn´t see a problem with the Sonic Riders games. I´d rather have those which at least try to be unique, over the gazillion Mario Kart copy-cats out there.
Heck, even after the Sonic Riders bashing, Sega made the all stars racing one, which is a lot more like Mario Kart, and pretty much everyone considered it WIN, or at least way better than the riders games. I think people just make the "mascot racing games must be like Mario Kart to be good" assumption, so they didn´t even give the Riders games a genuine try other than playing them a few minutes, maybe an hour, and continue the endless bawwwww-ing.
Also, it´s kinda ironic to read the "sonic is meant to be a platformer only" type of replies in a forum about a franchise that involves an insane amount of different genres and games, other than platformers, despite starting as platforming only too.
On-Topic: Sonic Colours looks promising, especially because they actually tried with the stage designs, other than making them entire speedways like recent games did. It has the infamous boost, yes, but at least there are items and alternate paths, and stuff involved in the stages, which is better than the "mash the boost button" type of sonic games both unleashed games were. The only thing I can complain from what I see on the videos is that there are only egg pawns (and their respective variations). A little more of enemy variety would be good.
PS: The non-Scratch bird guy is Jet, and he was in the first Sonic riders, and some other Sonic sport titles too (he´s kinda like Sega´s Waluigi, really)
As for the voices... I just don´t get Sega. First, they fire the entire original voice cast instead of replacing the only actor that died. Now that the new actors were getting the hang of their characters, they fire them for no good reason.
Good thing that they are keeping Mike Pollock at least. That guy is a great Eggman, and even got the guts to say the infamous pingas line in an interview.
