New Sonic Game Announced: Will SEGA Get It Right This Time?

This news was pointed out to me, by a particular somebody... (I'll give you a hint, he is the only other person working on this blog currently and his name will give it away.)

But there is a NEW Sonic game coming out! IN HD! IN 2D! Holy mother of Swiss cheese!

Anyways, apparently Sega has listened to their fans and has released Sonic Unleashed, but this time keeping him on a short leash, for good measure.

Although this sounds like the game of the century for the Sonic Team, you have to consider their history... Their past games have not been exactly... well... excellent. This is because many people disagreed strongly to the 3D platforming torture that has been a new found tradition in recent sonic games, but according to the NEW TRAILER this game will be built "from scratch" to avoid their past mistakes.

To me, this is both a good thing and a bad thing. First off, SEGA cares WAAAY too much about story line, and in doing so, they tend to force gimmicks and extra, unneeded, game mechanics (cough werehog cough). This means that, there is a fairly strong chance that behind the "AWESOME 2D AND HD" is going to be something along the lines of "NEW WORLD, 7 MORE RARE STONES TO COLLECT, NEW CHARACTERS THAT MIGHT AS WELL BE THE SAME ONES BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL. FREAKING. ANNOYING." If Sega manages to avoid that, then the game can have a fighting chance.

Secondly, I actually enjoyed the "Hedgehog Engine" from Sonic Unleashed, it was GOOD. The fact that Sega is "rebuilding" their engine, means that there will not be any more sliding, drifting, boosting, and grinding... or at least none that are similar to Unleashed. Who knows, they might impliment an even better engine, but all I am saying, is that the previous engine was good enough, and I don't see why they would throw it out so fast.

Finally, take a look at this picture (which can be found on THIS teaser site):


The tile set looks a bit familiar... Could that add the chance that this whole game is actually a REMAKE? Who knows? Time will tell.

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Holy crap do you see that? It says "wii" in the URL!

PS3 Slim

Sonic here, and today I'm going to talk about the PS3 slim. For those of you who don't know already, the price of PS3 has been cut to $299 and has even received the "slim treatment" that the PS2 and PSP had. The new slim PS3 isn't as shiny as its fat predecessor, but is shorter and about 33% lighter. Good news for Sony is that they can cut manufacturing costs, good news for us is that we can get the PS3 at a cheaper price. Oh yeah I must say, the new PS3 looks pretty damn cool as well.

It's been a rough three years for Sony, but I think things are finally starting to look up for them. The PS3 has always been more expensive than the Xbox 360 and Wii, but at $299, it is comparable to the Xbox 360 Elite(which has also recently dropped to $299) and only $50 more expensive than the Wii. People will probably start to consider the PS3 more seriously when deciding which system to get because of its proximity in pricing.

In a recent gamefaqs poll, most people planned to buy(or receive as a gift) a PS3 out of any system. The poll can be seen here

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3590

What do you guys think? Will the PS3 rival the successes of the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii now that it's only $299?

AWESOME EDIT BY CHOZO YAAAAAAY

I honestly think that Sony is going straight up hill from here. You have to consider how they started back in E3 2006... Yeah Five-Hundred and Ninety-Nine USD. Now they dropped to HALF the price.

Another thing to consider is the Blu-Ray player it has, considering that it's one of the best out there, it's highly recommended that you get a ps3 if you don't already have one. The price for a flat-out Blu-Ray player is about 200+ USD. If you think about it, one hundred dollars more for a new game console is completely worth it.

Along side the values, the library the PS3 contains is rapidly gaining popularity: Little Big Planet, Metal Gear Solid 4, Fat Princess, Valkyria Chronicles... This is compared to the original set of titles that sparked the low opinion masses we know of.

If I had any money, I would most definitely go and get a PS3 slim myself. The price drop is the best thing Sony has done ever since the PS2.

Can't turn back now.

Chozo here, can't say I'm going to look back at this point in life and agree with it, but I currently have nothing better to do. I'm going to be Co-Pilot with Sonic for this jet of random gaming blogging. I'm just going to turn on the seat belt sign and hope for the best. On a brighter note, expect entertaining video game related topics, videos, and blog entries from us.