Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1031724-20160901000706/@comment-679780-20160903014932

KillRoy231 wrote: Speaking of Metal Sonic, what if these "minor alterations to the timeline", if they happen, set it so that he is still alive? What if it's their way of resurrecting him coz they decided they wanted to use him again? Because he was completely destroyed in Generations (while a body was left in CD for Eggman to revive him with elecricity). Though they could always just have Eggman build another one, after all, 200 years in the future Eggman Nega built Metal Sonic 3.0, who's Metal Sonic 2.0? Well my guess is that if Sonic was to restore the timeline, he would need to prevent Dr. Eggman from making Death Egg mk.II and to do that will have to erase Sonic 4 from his own timeline to make sure the other games in his timeline are secured.

I bet Sega themselves wish to axe Sonic 4, given it's listed as a mainstream canon game, and if Death Egg mk.II will be in Sonic '17 it make sense Sonic would choose to erase Sonic 4 to restore his entire timeline.

Sonic 4 came out years after Sonic Adventure. In yet Metal Sonic shows up to race in Sonic R (I'm sure thats main continuity, I forgot to add it to my timelines) and in Sonic Adventure. What I'm getting at it's fate for Metal Sonic to be salvaged, or at least replaced with 2.0 as the "Modern" Metal Sonic one way or another.

Again I'm highly pressuming. For all we know Sonic '17 will have Dr. Eggman repairing the Time Eater somehow and using that for time travel shenanigans. I hope not, such a story seems out the @$$.

KillRoy231 wrote: Anyway I'm seeing lots of speculation for what it's going to be about, I guess we'll wait and see. I really hope they don't erase all the previous games If it does, the story could be about Sonic trying to bring those games back.