I, as a sonic fan was shocked to learn of yuji naka's plan to end the sonic franchise in April's issue of game informer please bare in mind i wrote it word for word:
"I admit to being a little saddened when I left sega to form my own studio, but not because i was abandoning the company and co-workers who had supported me for years. I was dismayed that I did not fulfill my ultimate goal: to kill sonic the hedgehog.
I had made significant process: abysmal titles like sonic shuffle and shadow the hedgehog went a long way to erode confidence and test the limits of gamers patience. However, the job was far from done. Before I left sega, I secretly met with sonic team to deliver one final directive: the sonic franchise must die, no matter the cost.
They embraced their mission with alarming enthusiasm. The team devised terrible and incongruous concepts, then cobbled them haphazardly into a loose approximations of games. they expanded the cast of sonic's repulsive anthropomorphic friends included hedgehog-on-human romance, and even threw him on a hover board-twice! I was overjoy."This is barely even playable", I laughed as i played sonic and the secret rings."Mission accomplished". I hadn't counted on you, the gamers, ruining my plans. No matter how hard Sonic Team tries to create a game not even a die hard sonic fan could love, you stupid goons keep buying this garbage. Seriously, turned sonic into a "werehog", whatever the hell that is. Think about that a second: what part of "werehog" sounds even remotely not stupid? That doesn't matter to you, apparently. As long as it has it has sonic(or one of his insipid friends). You'll eat it right up and ask for seconds, this is my plea: stop. I beg of you, let sonic die with some dignity. Don't make the team suffer the humiliation of creating yet another game where sonic transforms into some kind of genie or dragon.......or something with a magic butt. because that's where things are going, and if that doesn't stop you, heaven help us all."
i was upset to here of this news that the past games were an attempt to get people to hate sonic and end the games and if you feel the some, please reply and maybe we can do something about it
May I have a link to this article somewhere online or a scan of the page, not that I don't believe you, but I always want to check the source before I buy in to a story or not.
...and this is a fairly unbelievable article to begin with-
Oh. Wait.
April. Issue.
You just got April Fooled.
No offense, but I think you have to be REALLY gullible, young, or uneducated to believe in that article. It's OBVIOUSLY a joke.
when it comes to sonic i don't joke but ooo well... i feel better now ha ha ha ha ha
Don't make the team suffer the humiliation of creating yet another game where sonic transforms into some kind of genie or dragon.......or something with a magic butt. because that's where things are going, and if that doesn't stop you, heaven help us all.
I clicked this thinking it was something about sports cars. Why did SEGA pick Naka as the guy to hype instead of Oshima or Yasuhara?
Because as Sonic was to be the exact opposite of Mario, Naka was the opposite of Miyamoto? =p
That arguably had a big role in killing SEGA as a first party, since Naka basically vetoed Sonic X-Treme, which may have helped Saturn in the US and Europe.
So LOL @ "Naka gets what Naka wants." They sure got a lot of value by pampering him didn't they?
He didn't veto Sonic X-Treme. SoJ was putting a lot of pressure on the American developers and Sonic Team kind of resented them and was throwing obstacles at them, like demanding the entire game run in the boss fight engine.
Naka's personal backstab was refusing to let them use the NiGHTS engine.
LAWL @ some people having actually taken this 'hidden plan' crap seriously
Naka's personal backstab was refusing to let them use the NiGHTS engine.
Which, by all accounts, put the final nail in X-treme's coffin. Everything that had been created with the engine had to be scrapped, and there was no chance they could redo it in the amount of time they had.
Did Naka ever give a reason why SoA couldn't use the NiGHTS engine, or did he just do it because he could get away with it?
I have to disagree. The completed levels of Sonic Extreme didn't use the Nights engine at all. Naka's refusal to let them use his engine was a set-back, but can't really be called the final nail.
---the-Krayon
I once read that he had a huge amount of pride with NiGHTS, often considering it his masterpiece and was fiercly protective of it, which is why the sequel couldn't happen while he was with the company.
I cannot find the place I read this, however, so I cannot claim it as valid.
I hate to bring this back...but for whatever reason I can't find a more recent thread with Naka's name on it. D'oh! http://www.1up.com/news/s...-dreaming-of-dreamcast-2
You could of made your own thread.
Nah...wasn't really worth an entire thread. Besides i've got a history of creating threads that only generate like...3 or 4 responses. >.>
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hyper you made me cry >_<
i read the first post thinking it was real and cried NO MORE SONIC?!!!!
i'm happy that wasnt real <drying tears> i love sonic too much... and i'm with GT you really should've made a new thread <hugs hyper> it doesnt matter how many reply to it dear as long as its something we all enjoy reading. and that kiwi game looks so adorable btw 
its for babies, finally a kids game i can win. though i wish there was a clearer pic of that ivy the kiwi. i dont know a lot of sonic team games but a new hero is such big cool news id think.
xD! Oh wow...sorry sonicsfan1991. But it's not that the number of replies matters to me either...just why move some other topic to another page when there's already one...somewhat on the subject of one I would make. You know? I'm sure anew thread sucks up more bandwidth than a single post, yea?
ehhhhhhhhhh i feel guilty now after making a new thread.
but i suppose it doesnt matter if it takes too much badwidth right? ... not that i know what that is but i'm guessing from how you made it seem its the memory for the site.
XD and call me mada, hyper. you're one of my top favorite members here feel free to use my real name.
Nah, don't feel guilty, it's cool. And yea...you are pretty much right on that bandwidth guess. Good job! lol And thanks, mada, that's nice of you to say. Feel free to call me Neal.
P.S. Mada is a really neat name. It's unique...I haven't heard it before.
thanks neal and you're name is very cool XD mine is just adam backwards really, my dad wanted a boy.
about the game "Ivy the Kiwi" here's a youtube trailer on the game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8dJ3XPDljk
the game play is basically, kiwi is a chick that keeps walking forward and you build it a path and protect it... you're kinda the guardian angel. which is funny XD cause i seen a game that plays like this before but with a human baby... it was "baby's day out", the one with the movie about a baby getting lost in the city alone. in the game you play as the angel protecting him a lot like this kiwi game.
but honestly i would love it if it comes on the DS, its really not good enough to be a Wii game but something fun to play id' think if you're bored. i also have a problem with the colors its a very depressing color for a children's game, it should be colorful. but i'd play it.
Hahaha oh no, i'm sure that isn't the case. If anything...Adam is Mada spelled backwards. 😛 But hey this game(Ivy the Kiwi) totally reminds me of something i've seen before too. Can't quite recall it right now though. And they made a "Baby Day's Out" game? Wow...that must've been...interesting. >.> lol
WISE FROM YOUR GRAVE.
Hahaha oh no, i'm sure that isn't the case. If anything...Adam is Mada spelled backwards. 😛
XD that's a cool way to look at it. but you know i always thought it would have been neat if i had a twin brother named adam. though there's no actually proof mada is a girl's name.
as for baby's day out here's the gameplay on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hlb3amsIjE&feature=related
Bahahahahah! Yes, yes Matt...it's an old topic, I know. 😛 And hey that would be neat if you had a twin bro, indeed. But that Baby's Day Out game...is interesting. It says it was never actually released though. Heh! As for if Mada is a girl's name or not...who's to say what name belongs to what sex anyway, ya know?
waaaaaaaaa you're super nice for not teasing me about my name i really find it odd. and its funny the game wasnt released i'm pretty sure i played it >_< ... now that i think about it isnt the first game to come up with an idea like this is lemmins? its such an odd genre
