How Remakes Could Change Sonic Forever 

I can't wait till City Escape is reused as much as Greenhill

Despite what people say I think there is an element in fans that crave nostalgia. I think that was made pretty clear after the explosion of excitement over the potential of a Sonic Heroes remake. Since we're still very early into this new era it's hard to say what identity the franchise will carve out for itself. Shadow Generations is the next step in that journey, but remakes could help provide some solace to longtime fans and introduce new fans while we explore this new path for Sonic.

I do think a Sonic Heroes remake makes the most sense considering it’s one of the few Sonic games that isn’t as easily accessible in its current form. While it does technically have a PC port, mods are required to just get it to work on modern day computers. And it is not available to play on current platforms like SA1, SA2, and the recent Sonic games. Plus, it hasn’t aged the best in terms of mechanics and controls. I hope if SEGA and Sonic Team do attempt a Sonic Heroes remake, they do it from the ground up. With brand new controls, graphics, and quality of life improvements. I would also like to see brand new cutscenes and the story slightly revamped. Some of the character fights felt forced. (Just look at Team Dark vs. Team Chaotix.) And I would like to see Neo Metal Sonic given more prominence in the plot. We only see him in cutscenes. We don’t see how he rose to power and obtained his freedom from the doctor. We also don’t get a boss fight with Neo Metal either since he immediately transforms into Metal Madness upon his reveal. I feel like it’s a waste of a cool design. Especially since Neo Metal has never returned after Heroes outside of the comics. I would like to see SEGA and Sonic Team tackle more remakes/remasters along with brand new titles. But I hope they give them the proper time and resources to make them great and worth checking out. We don’t need a repeat of Colors Ultimate where it released in an unfinished state with half-hearted additions. I also hope they don’t somehow botch Sonic and Shadow Generations either since I’m genuinely looking forward to that.

I think we're in the sort of age where Sonic Team and Sega are recognising that the people who grew up with the 2000s era Sonic titles have grown up and would have nostalgia for the entries around that time, flawed with age as some may be. Just as it was the classic trilogy's time to be referenced for a while, I think we're entering a renaissance of Adventure era content with Frontiers and Shadow Generations as the start. Above all, I really HOPE that even if we don't get straight up remakes we do see remasters and ports, a lot of titles would be money printers if rereleased on the Switch for example (as the biggest Sonic install base casually).

Other than the Adventures + Heroes and Shadow, there's other games from the Saturn era which could (and should) definitely have a facelift. Sonic 3D with high res sprites would look like a dream, and would sell very well digitally if priced right. Sonic R with 60fps+, global illumination and maybe new models (and hopefully some restored content from the prototypes/beta) would also sell very well, if priced adequately. SEGA can also take smaller steps and remake or remaster these smaller games, to get a better footing about how to do this, before jumping head first into gigantic projects like remaking SA1 or SA2

I agree with most of this video except the idea that the adventure games aged poorly. If you busted out a Dreamcast and a crt for them, you would be amazed at how beautiful the games look and feel. Only thing a remake needs to do is improve graphics, fix and smooth out wall collisions and maybe lower the sensitivity at high speed

Personally I don’t know if sega will ever want to make adventure. There are lots of similarities in gameplay structure to sonic adventure 1 with sonic 06 such as multiple playable characters, open exploitable world with entry points into zones, npcs, overarching story etc. however it would be nice to get a remake of 06 from sega to show what could have been and to show they have truly moved on from being scared of 06. Maybe then we will see an offical adventure 3 (as opposed to sonic 06 which in some ways feels like a spiritual adventure 3)

i love this copium filled video it scares me cause sega is dumb so i doubt it but this is also a very realistic outcome at the same time.

Very insightful. Honestly the games I thought they would most likely remake are the Adventures, since they have the most fans, but Heroes could also get one. But I also thought remasters or rereleases were more likely since the Adventure games already had in the ps360 era, so this would require less effort and is harder to mess up quality wise, and even though they are not that good, they do have lots of mods to provide definitive experiences. It would be easier to rerelease these on newer consoles, so I’m actually surprised they haven’t done this yet.

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I hope we get a Shadow the Hedgehog Remake and Sonic 06 Remake. I feel like these 2 need it the most over something like SA 1&2. A remake of Shadow the Hedgehog could help a lot by just making 1 definitive story because it was all over the place with letting you choose good or bad. None of them no matter in which order just always felt off. Just so many inconsistencies. Sonic 06 I felt could of been amazing if they finished it, Project 06 is proof of it too. The world they had for it was very also interesting, just that the art style was ugly to look at. A few tweaks for the story added and it could easily be the best Sonic game today.

Are there plans to add Sonic IDW villains to Sonic cybernetic

I don't know why people want remakes. We've seen Sonic team fumble literally every game they make after Generations. Just because they jingle Shadow shaped keys since 2006 you assume it'll be good. The Generations team didn't come back till now for a reason.