It all makes sense now.

Read this article that was posted by sonicphc at the offcial site:

http://wii.kombo.com/article.php?artid=13450

It all makes sense now doesn't it? The low quality of the recent games. The Sonic Team is made up by a bunch of unfufilled designers who are sick of making Sonic games mainly because the fat cats at Sega are barking at them to make as many as possible knowing that even if they suck, kids and die hard Sonic fans will still buy them as long as Sonic's mug is slapped on it (though if that's the case why haven't they made 10 more Shadow games? not that I'm complaining mind you) Hence the recent Nights sequel which was meant to be a break from the glut of Sonic games they were forced to work on.

No where was this more prevalent than in the disaster of 2006, you know the one. Anyone who played it, even the nutjobs who think its' the best game Evarr!! couldn't help but notice the lack of polish. Constant load screens, glitch graphics, camera spazes, etc. Even things that they promised would be in the game, that were missing. I remember them saying Sonic06 would have this day/night thing going on during the hub worlds like Zelda does. That was missing from the final game as well as all those moves you could buy for Sonic from the shop, that didn't work. The developers admitted themselves that the game was unfinished and Sega said they had to have it out for the holiday season and PS3 launch.

So if the Sonic Team is sick of Sonic, here's my idea. Dissolve the Sonic Team, or fire everyone in it and find people who actually WANT to make a good Sonic game like Dimps. Look at Unleashed for the Wii/PS2. Guess who made those great day stages? Dimps who also made the superperb Sonic Rush series. They know how to make a good Sonic game in both 2D and 3D as we've seen with Unleashed's day stages. Better yet, give everyone a couple years off from making Sonic games.

Of course I always dream of Miyamoto making a Sonic game but he's too busy right now trying to convince everyone that Wii Music isn't sh--.

Seems like the real solution would be to fire whoever is responsible for overworking and slave-driving Sonic Team so much and give them like a year or two without having to make a single Sonic game.  After thinking about how many games there have been, I have to say that I can't really blame them for being sick of it.

If that was the case, I would think they would be working even harder to make good games.

If that was the case, I would think they would be working even harder to make good games.

Shadow_of_Kirby

That's the thing. It's not so much the developers as the Publishers. Publishers are the root of all evil in gaming. Publishers care nothing of quality, just about money. Publishers are the reason the Wii is full of crap shovelware games. Publishers are the reason we are getting 10 Guitar Heroes a year now and as Publishers, Sega knows that even if a Sonic game is crap, fans will not only buy it but then defend it even it is a horrid mess of a game.

The developers want to probably make a great Sonic game but then they never get enough time to polish it because the publishers want it out by said date. As was the case with Sonic Next Gen. Then what happens? You get developers who are tired of being pushed at a breakneck pace, being told to make this number of games in this amount of time knowning that they don't get a realistic window of time to really polish the game and once upon a time the Sonic Team made something besides Sonic games. Nights, Billy Hatcher, Ristar all of these were things to allow the Sonic Team to expand themselves as opposed to just being a Sonic shovelware generator.

these are all great ideas.

heres hoping that the group of publishers dissolve, or at least take a step bacjk and rethink things. then have DIMPS become part of the team, then put up "Now Hiring" signs. ;)