No Plans To Announce Any New Games At SXSW Sonic Panel

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1. Oh for fuck’s sake…

   1. Darn… You beat me to it!
      Stole the words right out of my mouth!

2. I have to give it to him for breaking it to people now instead of creating a massive trainwreck on the 19th as this would have been the 3rd time they created a false alarm. I suppose they could announce something ahead of it and so it in more detail there but that doesn’t fit as being breaking news nor a inside glimpse really.

   1. So it’s not really “derailing” the hype train so much as it is slowing the breaks early on? Well I guess that makes more sense, it would have been a lot worse if it was handled later. Slowly more and more people within Sega seem to be learning…

3. “Breaking news” but not a game? Is Sonic going to be merch only like Mega Man? Pessimism aside, I am actually curious as to what that means now.

   1. I could see them trying to make a huge deal about Sonic going hollywood because of that movie that all those sites acted like never existed until a few weeks ago may or may not be stuck in development hell.

   2. Plot twist: Sonic Team pulls a Kojima and announces a Sonic 90’s clothing collection rather than a classic game collection, lol. X)

4. “We have a big reveal and breaking news planned”
   “We’re not showing any new games, oh and forced Big joke again”

   Soooo, I think I can speak for a good number of us when I ask, WHAT’S THE FREAKING POINT THEN?

   Oh no no, lemme guess, you’re gonna give us Sonic Boom, meme shit, and OMG CLASSIZX for the whole thing.
   Yeah, screw that it’s the 25 anniversary and everyone just wants SOME detail to what is in store for what is the main game for their favorite series. Empty hyping is just the way to go alright…

   Hell, even Jojo had 2 actual teasers for the anime adaption of Diamond is Unbreakable .

   1. You probably won’t be enjoying that panel very much if you seriously thought this was secretly going to be something like that over the top Sonic Adventure press conference in 1998.
      “Sonic the Hedgehog is turning 25! After racing to the scene in 1991 on the “SEGA Genesis,” the little blue blur has seen it all: the great evolution of gaming – including the rise of online and mobile – international expansion, multiple TV series, and an ascension that’s made him an icon and veritable mascot of gaming itself. This panel will take an in-depth look at his Sonic’s rich history across gaming, TV, merchandise and more, giving fans an inside glimpse directly from key figures in Sonic’s history. Join us as we celebrate the past and look to the future!”

      1. I thought there’d at least be SOMETHING of interest here. But aside from more ego stroking, what is there here that’s related to “looking to the future”?
         I’m not expecting some big fanfare annoucement of it all, I just want some freaking concrete info already. So far, “Classic Classic, and more Classic plus Boom” isn’t really my cup of tea.

         1. Ego stroking at a 25th Anniversary Panel? Who could have seen that coming? X)”

5. An old woman once asked, “Where’s the beef?”, I ask, where’s the game?

   1. In the fridge next to the beef, but we’re out of milk. X3″

6. Yeah, I’ll be frank: I’m kinda over the official Sonic guys mocking the series and rolling out the Big the Cat joke. Especially when it’s part of a deflation of any sorts of expectations.

   1. @Rarefoil
      He’s mocking with kids gloves though and the things he’s stuck too have been pretty worthy of mocking like shoving a fishing game into a Sonic game something so ludicrous that if you told people around 1991 about it they’d swear it was satire.
      Look at the “Lost Cat” joke about the Werehog today it’s not really mean spirited, if it was me I’d have put something about having him put down if not claimed.

      1. Cuz Werehog is the spawn of Satan, everyone.
         Sure let’s not speak of how the wisps are arguably much worse than any of the night time stages.
         And nonetheless, it still feels painfully forced. and half his “jokes” are about as effective as the comedy in an episode to Teen TItans Go.
         Besides, it’s quite something to poke fun at Big, the Werehog, and others when Lost World, Boom’s TV show and games, and the constant string of iOS games are medicore compared to the former, at least to me and a good number of us who actually enjoy these parts of the series.

7. Yeah, I’m not sure where the “Breaking News” bit came from that Gamespot chose to put in their headline – but I don’t want people to get hyped up, only for us to not announce anything awesome there. (Besides Big’s Big Fishing Adventure 3, which will be pretty awesome in its own right.)

   The panel will be fun, educational, and we might hint a little bit at what’s to come – so go in with those expectations, and I think (hope!) you guys will really enjoy it!

   1. That feel when
      Webber knows about the next Sonic game but he can’t say anything. 😛 Thanks for the heads up, Aaron. Everyone here is taking things too seriously. If something doesn’t get announced, that’s okay — that’s what E3 is for. I hope you’ll be one of the officials to explain the game for when Sega shows off the game at the E3 show floor, just like you did with Sonic Generations. 🙂 Good luck to you!

      1. I think Aaron knows nothing about the 25th anniversary game. Now that he’s here he can actually clear this up. Aaron Webber have you seen the 25th anniversary game or not? It’s not actually spoiling anything to tell us if you have seen the game after all.

   2. Well you could always talk about that other game, Mario’s Bitch err Mario and Sonic 2016. I’m sure that’s something everyone wants to see and play.

      1. Ok, 1) Is this the real Ken Penders? 2) I don’t know whether to laugh or rage at that comment. 3) When did TSSZ suddenly become the beacon of everyone involved with Sonic in some shape or form? At this point the only people who haven’t jumped in are the top guys from Japan.

         Wait…could I actually summon Mike Pollock if I believed with all my heart? O3O””

         Um, well, anyway. I actually look forward to these games and like the concept of Sonic and Mario competing against each other, so either way, guess I’m still a bit salty at that…whoever you are…

      2. Ken, shouldn’t you be busy shaving that mustache of yours?

   3. Aaron, I hope all these dank memes will be worth it in the end!

   4. Mister Webber, are you saying that Big’s Big Fishing Adventure 3 is a real game? Like, not a joke art or simple animation but a true game?

      1. It’s not impossible…

         1. Are you sure? Because I’m not…

8. GameSpot seemed to create the most diabolical hype trap yet. It takes a will of titanium not to give into its hype. 😉 I just keep this thought in my head…things are about to get a little more interesting. Just be patient 😛

9. Christ, I just want an announcement. I’m not happy until there is at least a god dang teaser trailer. Just put a trailer out for Christ’s sake! Is it that hard

   1. Is it hard to wait until the trailer comes out? I mean jeez. What if it’s scheduled to come out say July? Why show it now just because you’re anxious? Pfft.

   2. “Is it that hard” ummm it very possibly could be yes, You don’t know what goes on behind the scenes. And if the games not ready they sure as hell aren’t gonna put a trailer out. Calm yourself and wait, I suggest going to another a franchise for now until we finally see what’s behind closed doors. I suggest Pokemon because it’s thier 20th and a lot of great stuff has been happening

10. E3 2016

    That’s your final deadline.

11. Ok i think i understand now. Tease/hint at panel. (Like a screenshot, teaser trailer, concept art or something.) Actual reveal a couple days later on the 21st. This plan sounds pretty acceptable. I hope thats how it works out. Im wwwaaaaiiittiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnggggggggg!

    1. don’t expect 25th Sonic anniversary game. It will suck. I assure. Look at Sega’s game develop ability! look at Sega’s financial status!, Look at Sega’s main business!.

       1. SEGA also completely reworked their entire Internal Game Development process, last year. So if they’re gonna make a turn around in quality, now will be the time.

          1. Consider that most games have a minimum development time of around 2 years: if the game comes out this year (or early next), that development restructure would be smack dab in the middle of this game’s development. That could be potentially disastrous, possibly even more damaging than Sega’s old development process.

          2. @ Skai Cyan: You know, unless it’s been in development since two games ago, like almost every other Sonic game. Generations was started around the time Unleashed was finished and Lost World was picked up roughly some time between those two. If whatever this game is was started around after Colors, or between Generations and Lost World at the latest, then I don’t think development time will be that much of a concern, that would have been at least 4 years. We should just be concerned about how they managed that time and whether Sega may be pushing them a little bit early now.

12. Who knows, maybe this is for the better. Is SEGA finally done rushing games out the door? 😀 Excited!!

    1. Well, hopefully…Guess we’ll just have to wait and see…. :/

13. @RobotHobo64
    Forced Werehog segments with their poor God of War clone combat and tendency for annoying platforming over bottomless pits versus powerups that in Colors were only truly required mostly for collecting certain red rings oh my what a tough call. The terribly forced and annoying wisps in Lost World are a product of terrible design almost to the point that I wonder if anyone who actually worked on Colors had anything to do with that game.. Even then they can’t compare to the god awfulness of something like Dragon Road Night Act 2.
    This supposed good amount of people enjoyed the Werehog then Unleashed wasn’t large enough to stop that game from becoming the Alamo of asymmetric gameplay styles in Sonic games.
    Considering the attention that the Sonic social media accounts have gotten I’d say his jokes are highly effective. You give it a couple years and I bet you’ll start seeing digs at the more recent things like the Deadly Six and scarves.

    @Aaron Webber
    No clue where they pulled “Join us as we celebrate the past and look to the future with breaking news and an inside glimpse at what fans can expect in this milestone year,” from? It’s not on the SXSW page and they don’t bother source the quote and simply attribute it to Sega.

    1. Oh so it’s good in Colors yet Lost World it’s bad? Please. They were annoying in BOTH Colors and Lost World. I’ll take a secondary gameplay style I can actually take time to learn as opposed to flail around with a wisps for the 5 seconds I control it. Not to mention stupid decisions like forcing the Lightspeed Dash to the Green Wisps, why can I just unlock it or have it from the START like any other Sonic game? And dare I get started on how for being the “Best 3D Sonic game” about 80% of it is boring 2D sections?
       And why not poke fun at stuff like Lost World and Boom NOW whist it’s fresh? Almost everyone HATES these iterations of the Sonic series. Hell, I’d be happy even if they poked fun at Chronicles and a lot of the early dumb Archie moments. That holds MUCH more comedy gold than the constant memes and Adventure jokes.

       1. Um…or we could all just agree to disagree while the rest of us silently enjoys/dislikes both of the things you two are pointlessly bashing each other about? Honestly I think anything is fair game to make fun of when it comes to Sonic, cause in Webber’s case it’s usually all in good fun. I mean, there’s plenty to choose from, from the quirky mouth movements of Adventure to the ridiculousness of calling out universal copyright laws.

          There’s a considerable difference between joking about a game or mechanic and just plain thrashing it. So I really think you guys aught to chill out a bit, because things are getting hotter in here than Crimson Carnival’s night sections , which for the record were WAY more frustrating than Dragon Road Night Act 2, and I actually LIKE the Werehog stages so that’s saying something. See? It’s possible to both like something AND make fun of it. And in the end isn’t that what makes us Sonic fans? X)”

14. As I predicted.
    By the way I assure that 25th Sonic game will horrible. Sega is not capable to make good Sonic games considering current Sega’s status and recent Sega games.

    R. I. P Sonic
    1991-2016 (Sonic Boom fire and ice will be last Sonic Game xD)

    1. Why’d you post this twice? and I refer to my earlier reply.

15. GASP :O That censored person in the pic is me, Ryan Schneckloth. Oh my gosh, my life is officially made.

16. Well that hype train derailed quickly. 😛

    Still, there’s always a chance that they could still tease or hint at it like they mentioned earlier, so we might not be getting nothing, just less than something. Which is still something…just a crumb of it though.

    But maybe they might give more details about the Sonic movie, I mean after being silent about it for so long it would be nice to what progress has been made, if any.

    I’d just hope that their idea of “breaking news” isn’t more tidbits about other merchandise plans they have. I mean I’d love more Sonic swag, but I don’t want that to dominate the panel, seeing as how it is literally the only info about the anniversary celebration we have been getting so far.

17. Hoping for something related to the movie. Maybe the director and casting will be announced, along with a logo, and a more specific release date.

18. Instead of getting so pissed why don’t you just occupy your time with another franchise? That’s what I’ve been doing with Pokemon. Being so pissy will not help. The fanbase is negative enough as it is

    1. @DARKCLOUD1267

       That’s exactly what I’m doing, but I’m still checking the news once a day, so if the regular Aaron-styled bullshitting happens instead of actual constructive news that of course pisses me off.

       Give me a reason to be positive and I’ll be. The age of gracious prevision is long gone.
       If they have nothing to show or announce why in the holy fuck are they attending an event instead of focusing on the super-duper secret something and ONLY….ONLY contact us or disclose ANYTHING when the time has come. They have been doing this for months, telling us in each to wait for the next one because THEN THERE’LL DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING, only to tell us that “EH? NO CHANGED OUR MINDZ LOLOOL BIGDACATADVENTUR3GTGFAST”.

       Certainly not a pleasing or fan-friendly mindset, I can tell that much. How about shutting up completely and focusing on your work? It’d be much easier than continuously talking about something that you can’t talk about anyway.

       TALKING ABOUT NOTHING IZ FUN! 😀

       1. How about both of you quit getting pissy at each other instead? Telling each other to basically shut up does not help matters.

       2. Or you know just calm down a bit. I mean it’s not like this is the first time they have done this before. There have always been big teases, big “we can’t discuss that at THIS event quite yet” announcements, and a considerable waiting time for the actual announcements. But did they never reveal what was happening? Did those games never get released? Did all that patience get nothing to show for it? No, they did reveal those things after a bit of a wait, we did get those games, and our patience always got rewarded in some manner.

          You’re ranting about this as if it’s a new thing they are doing, but the fact of the matter is that it is a normal and predictable process and once you realize that, you also realize how ridiculous it is to get worked up over not learning anything. If anything, they are still acknowledging that they plan to talk about it at least a little bit. There are companies who have gone months without even acknowledging a game that they promised to an entire audience *coughcoughKingdomHeartsUnchainedXEnglishReleasecoughcough*, so if you really want to rant about not getting “anything”, then maybe you should try occupying your time with even more franchises outside of this one. Be Adventurous. Be patient. And more importantly, be calm. I’m not saying don’t complain at all, just don’t unload your whole magazine of rage like that, it’s not very constructive.

19. I’m telling you folks, If the new Sonic game isn’t announced by March 21st we should all expect an early April announcement!
    Which would be great for me because I voted for April in that old poll here on TSSZ!
    No, I don’t think it’s gonna be on April 1st!

    1. I don’t know, April 1st does tend to be when most big announcements take place. Plus wasn’t that a hint in one of the number things they did anyway? Seems like that’s where the evidence is pointing to.

       1. Yeah for Big’s fishing adventure sure.
          Yes I believe that Aaron is telling the truth and Big’s fishing adventure is actually a thing that Sega is working on!

          1. If so it’ll have to be the first two games then, unless they are planning on releasing each one as a digital episodic trilogy every year or so. X)”

20. “Sega should quit rushing out games! Look at 06 and RoL!”
    “Come on, Sega! Hurry up and give us a game already!”

    ^ Seems legit.

21. Shut up Andrew.

22. I don’t, and will never, understand the reasoning behind getting so upset, and so worked up, over the lack of news. ‘No news is good news’, as they have said in the past — and in this case, what that means is they aren’t rushing junk out the gate just to appease the fanbase and pull them over to their side, because that’s exactly what they’ve done before, and that has never worked out well. See Sonic ’06, Sonic Boom, etc.

    We need to be patient, and just take it easy. It’s better for our health. We live in an age where we desire all information pretty much immediately, and I know that I’m bad about that sometimes, too — I grew up into this age from when it was taking hold back in the late 90s, early 2000s! But, this stuff takes time — it’s -supposed- to take time, an idea that SEGA has long been unable to truly understand.

    And if they finally understand it, now, I don’t want to push them into falling back into old habits.

    Let us wait for a little while longer – we may be in store for something great.

    1. Because Sega and Sonic team have a piss poor track record. Who truly has confidence in them at this point?

       People are hoping the future will be discussed at this event, but already they’ve decided to not talk about the future title (if there even is one) at all. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of Sega/Sonic Team refusing to tell their fans their future plans or discuss future games. It’s really friggin annoying. We’re the customers, and they can’t even telk us what to expect or what to look forward to? It’s total BS.

    2. And when its Boom and it sucks, we can always play the latest next-gen Socket, High Seas Havoc, Mr. Nuts, Tempo, Kaio: King of Pirates, Gex, Chameleon Twist, Klonoa, and Banjo-Kazooie games!

       Oh wait, we can’t! Because those don’t exist! I know this seems like a good year for Nintendo, but there aren’t too many options for a Sonic substitute (and it can’t just be a standalone game like Freedom Planet, which only appeals to certain genders). What other franchise has both fast-paced speed, platforming, a long history, full-dialog voice-acting, a recognizable brand, and a cast of playable characters to choose from

       1. “Certain genders”? Lol, I’m pretty sure you can be whoever and whatever you want to enjoy that game, I don’t think gender had anything to do with that. X3″

    3. Yeah I have been noticing this whole bi-polar attitude with the fan base when it comes to this kind of thing. One minute everyone will be complaining that Sega doesn’t let Sonic Team have enough time to complete the games, then the next minute they will be complaining about Sega not pushing all of the news out the window right away as soon as they start hinting stuff. If Sega is trying to take their time with Sonic, one way or the other, I’d rather just wait and see what my patience rewards me with. There are certainly more silent companies out there anyway, so Sega isn’t even being the most tight-lipped about this sort of thing if you ask me.

23. Everyone here is so angry… but what if Aaron Webber just said this as a means of damage control? I could be wrong, but previous comments made it sound like something worthwhile would be announced here. Idk, just speculating.

24. Then I am not interested. Danielle out…

25. Then you have NOTHING to announce, and are wasting everyone’s time.

    Then again, I don’t know what else I expect… I keep coming hear hoping to hear about a new Sonic game, but I am always thoroughly disappointed.

    1. Dude it’s only march. Relax. Remember generations announcement? Or Colors? We didn’t get those until a few months before the games releases. Generations was announced in May, brought out in November.
       Be patient because of course there will be a game. Besides the 25th anniversary doesn’t have to be out on his actual birthday. Generations wasn’t, 06 wasn’t, Adventure 2 wasn’t. All were released around the holidays. Which also makes sense. Don’t give up just yet.

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