is speed ALL Sonic needs?

[JD_Slasha]

@Slasha
Well, Super Tails was sort of lame... Hyper Knuckles, I miss, however. Also, I miss being able to play as Super Sonic whenever I collected 100 rings, instead of this OMG END OF THE WORLD SUPAH SONIC GOOO crap. Ah, well.

I completely agree TBM. It was awesome in Sonic 2 when Super Sonic first appeared and pretty much owned everything on screen. It's getting really really cliche having the last fight in the game have a super appear (Sonic, Shadow, or even "Blaze" I've heard)... I'm expecting the end of every new Sonic game to have some super form of a main hero fighting some doomsday enemy.

I haven't liked too many newer Sonic games very much.... I've played all the
3d ones (cept' for Sonic Riders... >.>... pure freakin crap man...) and the only one I "enjoyed" was the orginal Sonic Adventure. It was and still is the only 3D Sonic game so far that had a bit of that old school feel. (I mean when Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles jumped, they rolled into a ball and made that weird high pitched sound... and Tails could fly/hover... TAILS COULD FLY/HOVER!) Lately most of the newer Sonic games tend to forget the little things like that. Also Tails could be played as and had a much bigger role (if you haven't noticed I'm a big Tails fan) as did Knuckles. In a lot of the newer Sonic games both of them are usually just support characters, or their skills are greatly handicapped.


I don't mind some of the new characters (cept' Big.... KILL BIG. Fortheluva...) A part of me kinda' likes Shadow... but Sega adding yet ANOTHER hedgehog... whats his name Silver? That's waaay to much now (what is it now? 4 hedgehogs?!) They expand the SOnic universe, but I do see how Sega's just trying too hard.

I've also played some of the newer 2D Sonic games. They were "okay" in my opinion.... the only one that really stands out to me was Sonic Advance 3. The partner system there was very interesting.

I really hope Sega will realize what they're slowly doing to the Sonic franchise; killing it. Why is Mario still a gaming favorite? Because Nintendo doesn't drown the gamer with a million new characters (there are some, but it doesn't drag down gameplay), they don't try something to completely revamp how the franchise is played (maybe innovate it, but never completely revamp) and in general they stay true to the roots of their franchise.

 

[Dopples]

Sonic Adventure 2 is when the series started dying for me. When I first saw Shadow, I thought, ok, it's not TOO bad. But then I saw Rouge...and...well, lemme just say, wow. Also, You got to play as Eggman? wtf? He's supposed to be the boss, not the guy in a robot you control EXACTLY like Tails.

 

[JD_Slasha]

Yeah it really bugged me how Tails was in a mech...

 

[LegacyComplete]

when u say sonic, i think "hedgehog".......

 

[TheBlackMarket]

@Slasha
Two extra hedgehogs, actually. One is apparently Shadow's...shadow. Damn it, Sonic Team...

@Vraptorx
Spin off or not, making a shitty game is inexcusable.

1) When Sonic jumps when he runs he should go more than 3 feet and when he lands he shouldn't start off slow again

True.

2) Sonic, Tails, Knux and maybe Shadow and Espio for playable characters although Shadow does make a good mid boss

Shadow is dead. Leave him in his outerspace grave.

3) I like the Super idea where it isn't just a final boss thing
Yes.

4) many many levels for each character (like 30 for each)
Sounds cool, but it could end up being very tedious...

5) NO FREAKING GLITCHES
Thank you. I wish I could see this out of Sonic team, but it's a pretty lofty goal that few if any games can and have met.

6) it should be frantic even at a slow pace. Shadow's game had that. Granted it wasn't the best Sonic game but at least it got that right.
I'll give you that. Just... Shadow needs to stop existing.

 

[JD_Slasha]

Wouldn't it be four hedgehogs up to date now tho? SOnic, Shadow, Amy, and that new one Silver?

Wait-- so Silver is Shadow's... shadow? O_O;;;

 

[TheBlackMarket]

No, Silver is unrelated. There's another one.

Sonic, Shadow, Silver, Amy, Shadow's Shadow.

 

[JD_Slasha]

WHat?! Why would Sega team do that?! ::cries::

Seriously tho.. they're milking Shadow for all he's worth aren't they?

 

[VRaptorX]

come on. Shadow's game wasn't that bad. It was definatly better than Heroes and about even with SA2 IMO.

 

[Mercutio]

They need to bring back the robot Sonic from the genesis games haha.

 

[Yeyinde]

Ahh, Silver Sonic(2) and Mecha Sonic(S&K)... Fun times fighting them.
15 seconds beating Silver Sonic too

 

[Xilef]

Those boses were the best. They're in sonic adventure in those glass tubes. (I have sonic adventure for pc)
Also, I spotted cream floating in the background.
My favorite sonic game of all time was sonic 3 & Knuckles. It had great characters, it played like a sonic game, good mini games, looked beautifull, amzing bosses, and the 2 player co-op was fun, and the best part, it had a legendary story of how knuckles fits into the series. I love that game so much. I do think speed is what makes a sonic game. Sonic team were selling out with: Sonic R, Sonic Fighters, Sonic Riders. They were the most un-fun games out there. They were probably as bad as Dr. Mario.

 

[Rain]

Sonic Team sold there souls to the devil for more versions of shadow...

"OMG it's Shadow's, Shadow's, Shadow's, Shadow!!!"

This new silver guy seems to be a bit pathetic to be honest, in order to make a popular game they seem to think it's needed to add another character every game, who’s going to be next? Big the cats twin sister Fat Cat?!


Sigh...

Anyway, rant over, I think the original three sonic games were by far the greatest, and to make the top of the cartridge removable so that you could play mini games based on the code of other games... Genius!!!

 

[Dopples]

Just curious, could someone find me a pic of this...Silver Hedgehog? I can't find any on a google image search, and I wanna see it's lameness.

 

[Rain]

Spoiler: Silver

http://i.i.com.com/cnet.g2/images/2006/215/929717_20060804_screen028.jpg[/IMG]

I've seen worse sonic characters, they just don't need any more though

 

[Dopples]

So it's Shadow recolored? Stupid.

 

[Rain]

So it's Shadow recolored? Stupid.

Pretty much, they just said " What's the opposite of evil and Black? Oh yeah! Evil and white!"

Well, I assume he's evil, all new sonic characters are at first lol

EDIT: Just Wiki'd him, here's the info

Silver on Wikipedia

 

[Dopples]

Ok, so he's a mix of Sonic and Shadow...lamer still.

 

[TheBlackMarket]

@felixio
Cream floats in the background in all the versions of SA that were ported from the Dreamcast.

 

[JD_Slasha]

They need to bring back the robot Sonic from the genesis games haha.

Well... technically he did reappear in Heroes... but I'm still pretending that game doesn't exist.