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Message: [QUOTE="TamagotchiTamaHero24, post: 98406, member: 215120"] Whoops! Sorry for the misinfo on Sonic 2. I would also like to apologize for crediting them as the folks behind VectorMan. That was actually a group known as Blue Sky Software. In truth, it seems SEGA had a very poor time managing their U.S. staff for game creation. There was a lot of talented artists, animators, and composers that made up a bulk of the workforce on STI, but looking back at their game library it’s notable to see just how many projects were left unreleased. Their actual history is marked by a constant bunch of games that would be pitched, then cancelled. It seems they were the masters of “cool on paper, not in execution”. I still love two of their games, Comix Zone and Sonic Spinball, which I think show off rather well what their game design style actually was. Their talent was young and hungry, often pushing radical art designs and gritty sound directions, which both games share. They had a talent for making games with satisfying character controllers, solid visual presentation, and grungy soundtracks, but often poor level design and unfair overall gameplay. This is even evident in Die Hard Arcade, which I’ve played on an actual arcade unit. Some enemies will just… hit you. Even if you’re playing well. Still, the game is probably one of their most fun! In no small part, I’d imagine, thanks to the involvement of Sega AM1 in the project. It even is, unless I’m mistaken, one of the earlier 3D titles to include QTE sequences, adding a cinematic shake up to the best em up gameplay. As a whole, after educating myself on their output, I don’t think we lost something special with them. Rather, I wish SEGA of America would have sought to acquire smaller developers that made well received, American software. Not to merge them, but rather to keep a more stable group of developers that were ensured to work on SEGA’s consoles. [automerge]1740592505[/automerge] Actually, I have a question. Given the more positive, though still mixed, reception of their output, was there any reason why Traveller’s Tales was never asked to do a mainline Sonic title on Saturn? I’d assume it would be a combination of factors, but they were able to weave some magic with Sonic R for the system, being one of the more impressive 3D efforts from outside of Sega AM2 (who were clearly the masters of that console). Really, my theory is that it would’ve been too late in the Saturn’s life by the time they began, as the North American Saturn market collapsed in 1998, with Sonic Team already working on full scale Sonic Adventure development by that time anyway. [/QUOTE]

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