Sonic Rides a Skateboard, Crushes Hopes and Dreams

It's inevitable.
Sonic Team knows damn well how to handle the 3D levels, they just refuse to do it correctly.

It's Sega, what do you expect? A good Sonic game will come once Half Life 2: Episode 3 comes out.

Episode 3 released last year?

Sega, its time to end Sonic and focus on some of your more neglected franchise

Its been over nearly 15 years since we last saw vectorman

Jet Set [insert name here]

Omg sign me the hell up for a Skies sequel!

thats a very contradictory statement. over nearly 15 years?

The first board has no wheels. It’s a snowboard.

There should be a rule of Trilogies established, few IP's make it past their third incarnation before they turn to crap - it's by the fourth sequel that companies just begin throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks, just look at Capcom who are criminal for doing this with the beat-em up and survival horror sequels they release on a bi-yearly basis. - Maybe Half Life 3 and Episode 3 will be the same game, the final chapter than Valve badly doesn't want to screw up?

Sorry meant to reply to TheJx4's comment but can't delete/move it

@MaryBee: Cute cat.

That's Ceiling Cat. He watches you masturbate...

In Soviet Russia Ceiling Cat masturbates you…

De-Ting is hogging this award but what the heck: nominated for The People Speak. Better keep an eye on the ceiling from now on.

Wait, so....it's not masturbation anymore...

I haven't replied in the thread but it's a good one - it's possible that a game comes out of the sonic franchise yet that doesn't wreck on impact - but this wont be it.

I'm just going to assume you have no clue what Sonic Colors is.

Haayyyyyyyyyyyyloooooooooooooo Reich.
Terrible game.

I think this game looks kinda neat.

Better keep this Sonic riding a skateboard idea away from Activision.

Ugh, what sega has done is put the skateboard community another 2 years, we tried so hard to eliminate chain wallets and TH: Ride, now this!?!

Chain wallets? I thought only Rednecks used chained wallets. (I can talk, I is one!)

Rednecks and mid-90's skateboarders (I can talk also, I live in FL). Trying hard to get well off suburban kids fro PBR is another mission.

Well, as long as they don’t start thinking of family reunions as a good place to pick-up chicks, I think they can drink whatever they want.

true tiny but, to me, it's the principle of the matter

You mean that's NOT the place to pick-up chicks?
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To quote Jeff Foxworthy: “If you think a family reunion is a good place to pick-up chicks, you might be a Redneck.”

Sonic lives in San Fransisco? How can Dr Robotnik build his machines paying some of the highest state taxes in the country?

They’re imported by North Korean smugglers/black marketers.

That explains how a spinning hedgehog can so easily destroy them then.

This doesn't surprise me considering that that level is based on the first level from SA2 (which, despite all you haters, I actually enjoyed a lot). My main worry about the game is that it seems like half of it is just old levels with new graphics. It's perfectly fine if the levels are themed like the old games, but it looks like lazy level design to me when half of it is actually the same exact levels I played as a kid with just a new coat of paint.

You can call always call it a remake.

That skateboarding section at the tail end reminded me of Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil's hoverboarding sections.

Man, now THAT'S a series that should have more sequels by now.

You know I am a huge sonic fan but this skateboard nor the snowboard really offends me. By the looks they are quick little moments of speed and for what little its worth they don't stick around that long to seem to be to annoying. Sonic's character by nature of what little there is of it. IS a daredevil complex. Loves the thrills and the gags and don't forget chili dogs. I don't see the need to be up in arms about this. From what I have seen so far the game looks like it could still be very promising. I mean at least its not a GUN because who in there right mind would think a Gun would be a great addition to the sonic universe :)

To tell the truth I only ever played Sonic on the Sega Genesis that a friend loaned me. I could get about halfway through before game over. I never fell in love with the Hedgehog, but I have no reason to hate him either. For you and all the fans of the blue blur I hope this game does not suck, in fact I hope it rocks just like you remember the old ones doing.

Exactly Merlin. Sonic rode a snowboard in sonic 3 and everyone thought it was cool but nowadays so called Sonic fans are desperate to complain about anything they can.

and I hate to say it but it's clear these people are hating on something that's so insignificant and stupid (and arguably would be a fun novelty power up) because they're expecting this game to capture a sense of fun and wonder the Sonic games made them experience as a child, but they clearly can't do that anymore because no matter how fun the game is whether it's staying 100% true to the past or not the game isn't going to be able to reverse the fact that they've developed into cynical a-holes who have to make huge deals about nothing to make themselves feel relevant and insightful.

Of course we as actual fans want some new stuff in it, if we didn't want anything new I'd just fire up Sonic's Genesis Collection.

I remember sonic's face on the insert 25 cents on the older arcade screens reminding me that Sonic says no to drugs lol