![There’s a First Time for Everything For the first time in the history that we’ve conducted the “Good Year” polls of this sort, more people said this past year was […]](http://www.tssznews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/generic_sonic_tssz_tssznews_header.jpg "Poll: 55% Say 2013 Not a Good Year for Sonic")
There’s a First Time for Everything
For the first time in the history that we’ve conducted the “Good Year” polls of this sort, more people said this past year was not a good one for Sonic.
The margin was 10 percentage points, 55 percent nays to 45 percent with the yays. A total of 850 people voted.
The results also represent a 16 percentage point swing from last year, when 61 percent of those polled stated 2012 was a good year for Sonic.
With Sonic Lost World falling flat in its debut on Wii U and 3DS, plus the uncertain nature of the upcoming Sonic Boom television series and yet another reset in the Sonic comics prompted by Archie settling their lawsuit against Ken Penders, there hasn’t been a whole lot for Sonic fans to be euphoric about lately. Perhaps 2014 can bring about better things.
A new poll is now available to vote on. The above poll results can be discussed below in the comments.
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First of, I will judge if it was good year by looking at sales, reception and business decisions, NOT my personal opinion on SLW(which I have not played so stfu)
The Good
Sonic Dash became free to play and sold a lot
Sonic Jump sold well
Sonic in Smash
Remastered classic games preformed well and were critical successes…. That’s it
The Bad
Mario and Sonic bombed commercially and critically ( might be a good thing)
SLW as a whole did not help with Sonic’s bad reception outside the core base, which did not even get the game due to it being an exculsive on a currently dead console. It was aimed towards Nintendo fans instead of Sonic fans. It had mixed to negative reviews, few were positive. It divided and broke the fanbase even more than imaginable. It took too much cues from Mario (even Dark Lord Izuka admited this) which does not look good for a series that was basically Anti Mario. People, not the fanbase, probably would not like this because while the 90’s are over, Sonic will ALWAYS be remebered as the gaming giant that took down Nintendo(why else would he be in SSBB ?)Him copying Mario makes Sonic, Sonic Team, and SEGA look like sellouts. It does not help that Nintendo is now advertising their future games with free DLC/Sonic becoming more Nintendo-like. This screams sellout.
SLW also flopped. Hard
Sonic Dash being F2P does not really help with sales
Ken Penders, nuff said
DLC for All Stars Transformed exclusively to PC
Ken Pontac and Warren Graff admiting to knowing nothing about the framchise they are writing about, firther reflecting SEGA of Japan’s horrible treatment of the Sonic franchise since they did not even bother to tell them anything
Fan sites shuting down
Sonic boom having very low attendance
Takashi Izuka still has no idea about Sonic.
Long Story short, Not the worst year of Sonic, but definitely not a “good” year either
*Fixed so the spelling police wouldn’t attack me*😝
First of, I will judge if it was good year by looking at sales, reception and business decisions, NOT my personal opinion on SLW(which I have not played so stfu)
The Good
Sonic Dash became free to play and sold a lot
Sonic Jump sold well
Sonic in Smash
Remastered classic games preformed well and were critical successes…. That’s it
The Bad
Mario and Sonic bombed commercially and critically ( might be a good thing)
SLW as a whole did not help with Sonic’s bad reception outside the core base, which did not even get the game due to it being an exculsive on a currently dead console. It was aimed towards Nintendo fans instead of Sonic fans. It had mixed to negative reviews, few were positive. It divided and broke the fanbase even more than imaginable. It took too much cues from Mario (even Dark Lord Izuka admited this) which does not look good for a series that was basically Anti Mario. People, not the fanbase, probably would not like this because while the 90′s are over, Sonic will ALWAYS be remebered as the gaming giant that took down Nintendo(why else would he be in SSBB ?)Him copying Mario makes Sonic, Sonic Team, and SEGA look like sellouts. It does not help that Nintendo is now advertising their future games with free DLC/Sonic becoming more Nintendo-like. This screams sellout.
SLW also flopped. Hard
Sonic Dash being F2P does not really help with sales
Ken Penders, nuff said
DLC for All Stars Transformed exclusively to PC
Ken Pontac and Warren Graff admiting to knowing nothing about the franchise they are writing about, further reflecting SEGA of Japan’s horrible treatment of the Sonic franchise since they did not even bother to tell them anything about their most popular Lp
Fan sites shuting down
Sonic boom having very low attendance
Takashi Izuka still has no idea about Sonic.
Long Story short, Not the worst year of Sonic, but definitely not a “good” year either
The wii u isn’t failing.It is doing great,and awesome games like super mario 3D world,wind waker hd are out,and other titles like ssb4,mario kart 8 and donkey kong tropical freeze will sell awesome.
But back on subject:this has been a very “meh” year for sonic.if you look game wise it’s been a great year.you’ve got sonic jump,and sonic dash doing amazing.and the excellent Sonic 1 and 2 remakes are excellent.Sonic Lost World wasn’t the worst sonic game in a while,and sonic the hedgehog 3D came out.Over all i say this was a great year for gaming in general.with the ps4,and x-bone out,plus the wii u getting some steam,and awesome games like a link between worlds and super mario 3D world were released,This was a good year for me as a gamer and a sonic fan.
This year wasn’t great for Sonic but nothing can top 2006.
I consider this Sonic’s worst year since Unleashed, but it’s still not quite that bad. Sure, Lost World flopped one way or another, but I remained interested in what Sonic Team’s next move will be.
When you really think about it, was 2013 really a good year for anything? I mean anything?
Certainly not for me.. I don’t think this was a bad year for Sonic (I personally like SLW) but it wasn’t their best. Nothing can top 2006.. XD
it was a stale year haha
I’m “meh” about this since I tend to stay away from people’s opinions swaying me and that I don’t even have a WiiU to play Sonic Lost World on.
Heh, overall, the gameplay looks like something fun. I like trying new gameplay styles, especially when it’s Sonic-related. Nothing ever really gave me a sour taste in my mouth…yet.
I didn’t want to say anything about Sonic Lost World until I got the game, but now that I have it I feel free to share my thoughts.
One thing to note is that the story is getting better. There were actual story arcs and depths within the cut-scenes, and they actually encouraged me to keep playing. The levels weren’t that different from one another and I’m not the biggest fan of the “tube” idea, but the story was so fun to watch I had to keep playing to see what will happen next.
I was actually surprised with the story because I did not expect it to be interesting. Looking at recent games like Sonic Generations & Sonic Colors, I expected a cheesy/ light story that just seem like fillers so the level choice can somewhat make sense. The jokes in Sonic Colors were the most irratating thing about the game because NONE of them were funny. But I actually enjoyed the jokes in this game because they were ACTUALLY FUNNY. Plus the game had it’s serious moments to (sort of).
My biggest complaint is that this game is played way too much like a mario game. Each mario game is the same fricken thing when it comes to world order. It’s not always in this order but it’s usually like: first is a grassy classic iconic first level world, then a dessert, then tropical, then snowy, then a cloud world, and they ALWAYS have the last world based around a volcano theme. This idea gets really boring and repetitive and it’s the reason why I don’t really buy mario games any more, because once you’ve played one, you’ve played them all. This is what I’m afraid of because I really hope Sonic doesn’t become like this. Sonic goes from setting to setting all the time. One game his first stage is in san fransisco (SA2), one game it’s a beach (SA), one game it’s greece (Sonic Unleashed), and one game it’s at an amusement park (Sonic Colors). I’ve always like the sonic franchise because you never know what to expect. I gaurante the next mario game will start with a grassy level and end with a volcano level, and I don’t want that BS of having the same level settings in every game to happen to Sonic.
I would say this is a good Sonic game, but just a one time thing. Advise I would give to SEGA is to stop trying to be like Mario & nintendo. People buy Sonic games because they give them joy that Mario games can never do. Remember, SEGA does what nintendon’t.
I really hope for the best for Sonic, and hope he stays true to himself in the next game.
Your thoughts mirror what the majority of people are saying, though I’m going to defend Mario by saying that its consistency is a good thing. They are getting stale from a technical standpoint (I swear, if another NSMB comes out, I’m going to vomit), but when you buy a Mario game, you know it’s going to be a solid game with little to no learning curve, and people don’t want to spend time learning new controls- they want to dive right into the game. The most divisive Mario games, SMB2 and Sunshine, are also the most different.
All this is to say that I think Lost World’s biggest flaw is that it tries to set itself apart, but not always in the right way- unnecessary changes to homing attack, running, wisps, etc. At the same time, it copies Mario for what people don’t like about that series- the tired level tropes. There’s a solid game there, but people take one look at SLW, and think “this is something new that I don’t want to learn how to play”.
Yay because we have Hidden Palace. =P
I got SLW for Christmas, and I’m genuinely having a blast on it so far. Looks like it’s just me…
its ad that bc o slow the every new sonic game suck argument comes up. when just last year critics were saying the newest sonic games are going a step in the right direction they completely discount the franchises achievements of last year and the year before like they are flip flopping or something.
im not too surprised this year bc sonic kinda has a history of transitioning badly to new consoles. but im sure that could be fixed if sega took more time on their games =\. idk
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its sad that bc of slw the every new sonic game sucks argument comes up. when just last year critics were saying the newest sonic games are going a step in the right direction they completely discount the franchises achievements of last year and the year before like they are flip flopping or something.
im not too surprised this year bc sonic kinda has a history of transitioning badly to new consoles. but im sure that could be fixed if sega took more time on their games =\. idk
2013 was the year I finally understood that Sonic as I knew him is no more. He’s been reduced to a shallow americanized sell out, his games can never seem to move beyond the average status anymore.
The comics are a joke that does nothing but portray him as a idiot man child in need of a woman to bail him out and his current Japanese creators don’t even care about him beyond using his image to sell their latest product.