EmmBee

This is a bit of a late reply, but I'm not sure why you brought this up in reply to my post? I was just explaining what I saw back when Transformed came out. I'm not trying to insinuate there are problems with STR *because* of what happened, if that's what you're trying to say.

I recall a bit of that stuff. Lots of people seemed upset with that fan poll they were doing, like a few distinct people really drilled him on the character choices of the game and exclusions he was making to the poll at the time. I also remember some users there being upset about the DLC characters, that some felt General Winter and Willimus weren't fitting additions. Kinda sucks providing free content to your users, only to have so many of them tell you "nothing would be better than this", huh?

It's likely because of THQ Nordic trying to utilize IPs from the original THQ. You're probably going to see a lot more random ports out of nowhere in the next year. We already know they have plans to port old Nickelodeon games to modern systems.

I think it's important to remember that Sonic games are primarily made for kids and their writing is pretty typical for something intended for kids.

I remember browsing certain fansites back in the day solely to listen to some of the music that would play on them. One site I recall had MIDI versions of both Twinkle Park and Egg Hornet from SA1. The character profiles for the characters would list all of these odd minor details about them, like their interests and dislikes. One detail I thought was odd was how Eggman was listed as having red eyes, probably just because of AoStH, but having only played a couple games at the time I was wondering where they were getting that. How and where they were able to see behind his glasses.

I remember that, but I recall him saying something about animating dresses being the problem. But it's not like a game like that would've needed Smash Bros-like physics for dresses. And 3D World eventually did it no problem so it always sounded like a bullshit reason. That is if I'm remembering that right. It's kind of been a while.

I do kind of hate how long they've dragged this teaser out. I recall there being gameplay at least by the second trailer for Transformed. But I guess we're at least guaranteed to see it action by E3, or at this rate, leaked by then anyway.

Most of the negative reception towards Tangle came before her debut issue even came out, at least from my observations here on this forum. Some people reacted negatively to her reveal, how her silhouette resembled Sally, and then some others reacted negatively to the amount of focus she had in promotional material. I heard a lot of people saying how she'd be the main focus of the issue, with how Blaze was more in the background of promo stuff.

You know what's weird to me? When games are announced and they've already got box art made for it. It felt like back in the day you'd have to wait a while for that stuff to show up.

Man, they just did a big countdown with Super Sonic Racing playing just to play a video they played earlier. Sega streams are always all over the place all the time.

You're free to have your own opinion, but you seem hung up on very minor aspects of the short. And I'm pretty sure the intro isn't just a "just because" reference to Sonic 3 either, it's calling back to the Sonic Mania intro and the HBH digging up the Ruby.

I think the unfortunate truth is that Sega's properties just aren't a big enough draw these days. They've pretty much been kept alive by games like these, so it's a shame, but not surprising. A big issue with Sega properties I feel is the fact that not a lot of them have readily available assets for use in a game. Sumo would have to create a lot of new models and environments from scratch and the cost of that may not be seen as worth it. With Sonic it may be easier to repurpose stuff. I mean I guess that's all under the assumption that models from ASRT aren't seen as too outdated for use in a game these days. I feel like asset creation was always a big point when the game devs would talk about adding so and so series to the game. As for me, I could go either way with a kart racer. I'd prefer another Sega All-Stars, but I wouldn't mind a new Sonic-focused one.