I don’t see Sega smearing off Western Devs from making Sonic games. Not when two of the best games in the series was western developed. They have to look into getting their in-house western devs to do it than outsourcing.
There’s Sumo Digital.
And I’m looking at WayForward’s development history and I can’t find a Japanese property that they got handed.
Contra 4
Sonic Boom is the worst thing to happen to Sonic since the creation of deviantart.
I don’t think WayForward has touched much Japanese stuff, I see they did Contra 4 as mentiond above me. But I think Po was just hinting at when it comes to shit like Platformers, beat em ups or etc, that they are more than a qualified company to go to for outsourcing
WayForward are hacks. They constantly beg for money despite having some amazingly popular licensings like Adventure time, regular show and disney
WayForward are developers… and much like the peeps in the Videogame thread like to remind me when I shit on terrible games and their budgets, the developer has no say in the budget-- only the Publisher does.
Developers also get paid in beans, unless they have a Metacritic score above 80% for said project, then they get enough cash to not have to close.
This is why they can do a shit ton of licensed shit, but need money for stuff like Shovel Knight and Shantae.
The whole damn system is fucked right up, and the people most important to this industry(the devs) get paid the least out of everyone.
Whoa whoa whoa…NOTHING is as bad as Deviantart.
WayForward is very competent with their licensed work. The Adventure Time and Regular Show games are fun. The outsourcing they done for major publishers have been good for the most part.
Ayy purple gem all over again. At least he can’t stick to walls anymore. Because he can’t glide. Or wall climb.
BACK TO SONIC 3.
Why is it that when we talk about sonic outdoing its past games it couldn’t be the genesis games but instead it has to be fucking 06 in terms of awefulness.
Spoiler
And here I thought Sonic Boom was actually showing some promise. Oh well…
Wow Sega…this is completely unacceptable. I didn’t think it could possibly get any lower than 06 but by golly wanted to prove to the world that yes…there was a Sonic game that you could publish and put out that could be far worse. Nobody tested this game for glitches, it’s pretty clear as day and you knew what you were putting out there. You could have easily have delayed this game to at least make it decent but you just chose to put it out half finished. How incredibly shitty of you. Then you don’t send reviewers copies of the game like like they won’t go out and get one to personally take a shit on it.
Seriously…why even spend that money license CryEngine if you’re not even gonna give too shits about the game? You could have had BRB shit this out on a far less budget.
Sonic’s already a wounded brand and Sega just has to dump more salt on him
Mortons Salt Zone 1
It’s a tough pill to swallow, but that’s probably true. I feel like they lost sight of what made Sonic fun in the first place.
The community knows what’s up, though: Sonic 2 HD is rebooted, mods everywhere (good and bad, to be fair), ports of the classic games for Android/iOS, etc. I don’t know what the fuck Sega’s doing, though.
I know that Sonic 2 was developed in the West. What was the other game?
Sonic 3
Judging from the title change, Sonic Boom turned out to be shite?
Mad disappointed. Was expecting Naughty Dog golden platform years type swag…