Another fangasm of Sonic
 

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I know... I have high hopes for the hedgehog but I'll be damned if the fans aren't doing more with him than anyone else.

That is too awesome-looking to be released(As in it will never be finished). It really is.

This is exactly the kind of thing that's going to generate a C&D, then subsequently mountains of fans looking to the heavens and wailing like they never saw it coming.

Yeah, it looks good enough, but they're remaking old levels and using at least one character that's not theirs. The law's on the books, people.

I'm just going to finish this by saying if they'd just use their own character and put the same effort into it, they could make piles of money and avoid all the legal trouble and losing everything they've already done.



As much as I know people are going to want to tear me apart for saying this, I'm ceasing to have sympathy for these projects. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. These people have talent up the wazoo, and they're wasting it on projects that overall have a success rate of about zero. If they'd just put all of it into their own unique project, they could have something really great and reap the benefits of it.

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden showed me the error of my ways regarding fan games, but Blues is right in that this game is gonna get shut down harder than a fat kid hitting on his high school teacher.

The one thing I thought everybody would learn from Crimson Echoes being shut down was to not bother putting these things up on the web until they are completely finished.

Shows what I know.

This just makes me so disappointed to see that kind of awesomeness and then realize it will probably never happen . . .

It makes me disappointed to see that obviously skilled programmers are wasting their time trying to resurrect a franchise they don't own only to be thanked by its owners in the form of having their project shut down by threats of lawsuit.

This bothers me a bit, if only because it comes off as SEGA and businesses in general being the bad guys in in such situations like all the people who ever do fan games are doing the IP owners a favor somehow.

I mean I'm pretty sure it's not intentional, but that said attitude is so pervasive on a subconscious level truly concerns me.

Actually Sega LOVES the fangames community.
They don't care how many times Emerald Hill gets remade in countless fan made game engines.

Hell, Sega has spotlighted Tweaker's Sonic 1 Megamix at one point which is essentially a rom hack of Sonic 1 (Which is AWESOME! Srsly, go play it now!).

This won't get shut down at all... it will most likely be spotlighted by Ruby Eclipse on the Sega blog.

The only downside to this is, like most epic Sonic fan made games is it will take forever to get made and come out 6 years from now... much like Sonic Robo Blast 2 or Sonic: Time Attacked.

*did not know that*

In that case, this game may actually have a chance. I honestly don't know how I feel about that. It's never come up before. XD

Although if it does get shut down, I'm going to be the last person to be surprised.