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IT'S TEA TIME!

Well, Sonic, Amy and Shadow are the only likely ones, seriously though, Shade, froggie and chip? I love chip as a character but I wouldn't want to play as him, whilst froggie, big, shade, vector and charmy all suck. And why play as tikal? just use knuckles.

That list seems to be made up entirely of characters that the majority of people hate, so either this is a stunt to get hype behind the Sonic-onlyness or Sega is completely and utterly retarded. (Although I wouldn't mind Amy if she never spoke, hovered around you when you met her, and got kidnapped by Metal Sonic)

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The real secret is that none of these characters are right, and once all the names are crossed off, the image will be unmasked to reveal none other than METAL SONIC: codenamed "Project Needlemouse".

This is a terrible way to induce Hype though. They already did the whole "SONIC IS THE ONLY PLAYABLE CHARACTER!" thing with Unleashed, and they didn't have to tease us with such an obvious fake out. This is childish.

Still, as much as I love Big and Vector, I sincerely hope the game stars "Sonic's new friend: Mr. Needlemouse"

Isn't Shade one of the villains in Chronicles? What the fuck.

well, she kinda turned good, which is something a lot of former sonic villains have become, but in all honesty she sucks, real bad IMO. Though people will rip of shadow and silver (and I dislike silver) but I have to admit they atleast have enough character to warrant them being around. Shade had no character at all.

No, I hope it's just Sonic.

It's just a normal countdown with names instead of a clock. How many names until Sonic? That's how long until a real update.

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I'm very cool.

What about espio? HE'S A FUCKING NINJA!

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Dude, if Void was in this game I'd piss myself. That would be AWESOME.

I wouldn't mind if they used their original idea from Unleashed and have optional missions as other characters (preferably keeping it to small varations on Running, like giving Tails the same sort of level but with more gaps to fly across, or giving Shadow more enemies.)

I didn't like their trend of shoving as many characters as possible into the games for most of the last decade, but I really don't think it's necessary to completely retcon the series so Sonic is the only character like a lot of people are saying.

I agree with JT, really. It's not the extra character that are the problem. It's the cramming of 15 different not-fun gameplay styles into one game, and then forcing you to play through them in order to unlock the missions that are actually FUN. Even in Unleashed, a game starring ONLY Sonic, they still decided to throw in a slowed down secondary gameplay style, simply to interrupt all the awesome day stages and remind you that Sonic Team hates you and doesn't want you to have fun.

Back in the day, you had to go through the same levels with the same objective, regardless of which character you chose. The only difference between the characters was what paths your abilities allowed you to take. THAT was brilliant. That added replay value. It's all this treasure-hunting, robot-riding, gun-toting, stetchy-arm-flailing bullshit that's brought the series so far downhill.

Sonic heroes!

Made you go through the same levels 4 times with each set of charaters in order to get to last story, and i could make an argument about shadow, but I'll save my brea...fingers.

by your reasoning that also rules "Shadow The Hedgehog" as a bad game... I absolutely loved it...Apart from the Emo rambling

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Having played Unleashed, the Werehog stages weren't that bad. They were pretty fucking hard, and that's why I didn't like some of them, but if you go into it with the mindset of "RAAAAH I ONLY WANT TO BE SONIC AND RUN FAST THIS IS TERRIBLE BEFORE I EVEN PLAY IT" then it'll be a bad experience.



But they didn't have different abilities, so it wasn't so much replay value as it was artificially lengthening the game. It was literally like playing the game on Normal, Hard, Easy, and Stupid, assuming you went left to right.



Rightfully so.

Because it is.

Yes it was terrible in places yes...Hold on what happened to just rushing through the level like sonic was about! That was cool!

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