OL wrote: I've just never understood the concept of Sonic characters driving cars.
It's like having Aquaman driving a boat, or relegating Superman to the cockpit of a plane.
OL wrote: I've just never understood the concept of Sonic characters driving cars.
It's like having Aquaman driving a boat, or relegating Superman to the cockpit of a plane.
Kintor wrote:It's mainly for gameplay balance. Sonic characters are all fast compared to other platformers but there is a vast difference between those speeds. The top tier characters like Sonic, Shadow and Blaze would be unbeatable in a fair race and nobody would want to play the other characters. Much more straightforward to give everyone cars, going all the way back to Sonic Drift in 1994.
sand4fish wrote: I don't follow your logic... It's like saying powerful SF characters according to lore like M.Bison, Akuma and Evil Ryu should have their arms tied up during a fight against average Joes like Dan, Birdie and Sakura, so the players can have a fair competitive match gameplay wise.
Kintor wrote:Street Fighter works from a gameplay perspective because it was always designed with multiplayer in mind. Even Street Fighter's single player mode is really just multiplayer with an AI controlling the opponent. Sonic is different though, these are single player games with often wildly different levels of speed and platforming abilities. Sonic Adventure makes this the most obvious, Sonic and Tails are so incredibly fast compared to Amy and Big that it wouldn't even be a contest. This is why giving everyone cars (or hover boards in the case of Sonic Riders) is the best compromise, no need to contradict the already established single player mechanics.
sand4fish wrote: It's already a contradiction having Sonic himself needing a car for a race. Besides the developers missed a big opportunity with the Sonic universe in these spin-offs IMO, as they could have made these racing games unique presentation wise at least by having these characters race on foot instead of being another Mario Kart lookalike. If you are so set in tying up lore to actual gameplay, just make the slow characters race on jetpacks or armor suits like how I'd imagine Robotnik doing it in the core games while leave Sonic unleash his key feature by running on foot.
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