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- BioWare and Sega Team Up! SONIC RPG!
- Posted About 1 year ago by Gamervision
Sega and BioWare will be making a baby for the Nintendo DS. We could write a long description of the press release, but instead of that, here it is.
“SEGA ANNOUNCES BIOWARE WILL CREATE SONIC ROLE PLAYING GAME FOR THE NINTENDO DS
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (June 21, 2007)—SEGA© of America, Inc., SEGA® Europe, Ltd., and Canada-based developer studio BioWare® Corp. today announced a partnership to create a new video game based on the classic SEGA flagship icon Sonic The Hedgehog. The exact name of the game is undetermined, and it will ship in 2008.
"BioWare is one of the hottest names in RPG development in the world," said Simon Jeffery, President and COO, SEGA of America, Inc. "Everyone at SEGA has huge confidence that Sonic is in the safest of hands, and that BioWare can create the ultimate handheld RPG experience for gamers of all ages."
BioWare is the award-winning independent developer that has created some of the world's best-selling titles including the Baldur's Gate™ and Neverwinter Nights™ series, the 2003 Game of the Year, Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™ and the 2005 RPG of the Year, Jade Empire.™ BioWare is currently developing one of the most anticipated next-generation titles of 2007, Mass Effect.™
"We're thrilled to be working with SEGA on Sonic, one of the industry's most enduring and compelling icons," said Greg Zeschuk, president of BioWare. "As huge fans of Sonic ourselves, we're committed to delivering a truly amazing story-driven experience within the Sonic universe, focusing on capturing the character's broad appeal and placing him in a completely original adventure," added Ray Muzyka, chief executive officer of BioWare.
The relationship with BioWare reinforces SEGA's increased emphasis on Western content development for Western audiences. In the past few years SEGA has announced partnerships with developers Bizarre Creations, Gas Powered Games, Monolith Productions, Obsidian Entertainment, Planet Moon Studios, Pseudo Interactive and Silicon Knights. SEGA has also acquired development studios The Creative Assembly, Secret Level and Sports Interactive.”
Before we jump here to conclusions about exactly how badly it will suck let us remember Super Mario RPG. Made by joint efforts between Square (pre-suck) and Nintendo (pre-Tingle), the RPG sold well and is still adored by fans.
Any ideas on what you expect?
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Ive never ever considered the mass of sonic characters as RPG material. For some reason, the Sonic universe (IMO) just lacks the charm and intelligence of the TRUE Mario Universe. There is no code of continuity. (I may be ignoring Mario 2 right now, but at least I know how hippocritical I'm being)
Just because Super Mario RPG was good doesn't mean that this won't be a disaster. I don't think Nintendo would have let Super Mario RPG be a disaster.
All this being said, I LIKE Bioware. I think the NWN single player combat system is amazing. I did manage to beat a red dragon boss solo at level 13 or 15 by using every single item in my inventory. Though riduculous by DND standards, in game it felt right. That's how I knew the game was perfectly paced. Boss battles should be terrifying and intense.
Bioware has a way of pacing their games so they are very challenging, but not impossible. Sonic games are generally very easy and not demanding of the player. It will be interesting, if nothing else, to see how Bioware will resolve the inherent problems with this.
This is either going to be a fun little romp, or a gigantic disaster. Personally I don't think Sonic and the RPG genre can gel, but we'll just have to wait and see.
Well, Sega can't make a good Sonic game anymore, so they have to contract it out. I can't think of a bad BioWare game, but it is hard to imagine how this game will turn out.
Sonic casts Magic Missle (into the darkness!!!)
I bet it sucks
Nope. No need to think about anything. It sucks.
this is just... weird.