The best Sonic game in 10 years

[17daysolderthannes]

Sonic Adventure.

Hey, you can love chocolate, vanilla AND strawberry without choosing just the one favourite. Either way you get delicious ice cream!

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED!?!?!??!?!

[Knuckle Duster]

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED!?!?!??!?!

"Neopolitan The Walrus" just got his own SonicTeam title.

[kool kitty89]

The emphasis was more on how good of a job they did turning classic Sonic action into an educational game that wasn't god awful to play. If I had a son, I would buy that shit in half a second. If you watch the videos on the website, you can even hookup the handheld game system to the computer and make your own customized spelling lists and stuff. So, if you were the age that you still take spelling tests, you could just put your list for the week into the Didj and play Sonic and make an A when the test came around. God I wish I had that, for me it was staring at a book going "GOD DAMMIT, I JUST WANT TO PLAY GAME GEAR!!!!"

Yeah, that does look like a pretty good conversion to edutainment (probably some of the best of that genre I've seen). The sound is a bit off, but actually seems better than the shitty GBA port.

[Tanegashima]

I wonder where the notion of "hey, this game is fun, I'll continue to play it forever" went? Now its like "these games are awful, 'whine whine where did my childhood memories go?"

They're just video games...thankfully, I have the ability to ignore them and continue playing my sega genesis.

I might also add that this disappointment is nothing new: I submit into evidence a summarized letter to Electronic Gaming Monthly from January 1994:

"I'm really tired of this concept of ''beating'' video games, I really wish games would go back to where they were when I was a kid, just trying to get a high score not all this complicated mess. Video games simply aren't fun to me anymore."

Huh...that seems really familiar, somehow.

[Flygon]

"Neopolitan The Walrus" just got his own SonicTeam title.

"Knuckle Duster" just earned a place in my signature.

[Cornugon]

but that blame lies with Bioware, as they can NOT make a good game. Just overhyped shit. Don't yell "Mass Effect" at me, Mass Effect is an interactive movie at best.

Ehh Baldur's Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights+addons? Some believe MDK2 was great (never played it though).
Even Shattered Steel was pretty decent aside from bugs.

But then again Jade Empire was poor so not all of their games are good no.

[matteus]

What on Earth makes this particular videogame character/series serious business? Grow the fuck up, people!

You use a forum based on a games console that deceased many moons ago and start asking it’s members to grow up … I laugh in your general direction.

[16-bit]

I'm actually really diggin' the new sprites they made for the Sonic 3 styled Sonic.

If I were ever to buy a Didj, this would be the reason I would, I mean I can have it teach me how to spell long and complicated words, that's a lot more than I can say about a lot of other games.

[Karakasa-Obake]

I'm actually really diggin' the new sprites they made for the Sonic 3 styled Sonic.

If I were ever to buy a Didj, this would be the reason I would, I mean I can have it teach me how to spell long and complicated words, that's a lot more than I can say about a lot of other games.

Or, obscenities. That's a good alternative.

[Iron Lizard]

Its like Wiz'N'Liz on speed.

[Rusty Venture]

I like the Sonic 3+K-ish sprites & shields in the Sonic 1+2 levels.

[Melf]

True, Sonic 360 tried to handle a plot bigger than it could take, had crappy load times for a modern gen game, and Silver was a horrible ripoff of the alien from Destroy All Humans, but when Sega hands you what you keep asking for- Sonic Advance, Sonic Rush- and you ignore it, why the hell should they listen to the "fans"?

Sonic Advance sold so well that it got 2 sequels and a few spin offs, and Sonic Rush sold almost 3 million copies and spawned a sequel. Why? Because they were two good 2D Sonic games and not the 3D crap Sega churns out every year. And again, you just proved my theory about Sega releasing a good 2D Sonic right after it releases a shitty 3D one. It's a digital apology!

Sonic Unleashed was their best effort, but it wasn't good enough. And why should Sega care?

Sonic Unleashed was good, until Sonic turned into a werehog. You know what made Sonic Adventure such a cool game? You played Sonic, and he ran and did platform stuff like he used to on the Genesis. Sega moved farther and farther away from that with each new game, and that's why Sonic sucks now.

If I were Sega, I'd try even MORE new things just to piss off the "fans" even more. You wanna cry, I'd give you a reason to cry.

I doubt it would really change things. Sonic games can't get any worse than they already are, and yet people STILL buy them!

Sonic Chronicles is pure shit, but that blame lies with Bioware, as they can NOT make a good game. Just overhyped shit. Don't yell "Mass Effect" at me, Mass Effect is an interactive movie at best.

Mass Effect was AWESOME, and if Sega could do half as well with Sonic, it would be a complete rebirth of the franchise.

[Elusive]

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED!?!?!??!?!

You know what I mean. Having more than one favourite - or even stranger, having an opinion on something beyond black-and-white - is where the win is at.

You use a forum based on a games console that deceased many moons ago and start asking it’s members to grow up … I laugh in your general direction.

Oh, you. We're all chums here.

Mass Effect was AWESOME, and if Sega could do half as well with Sonic, it would be a complete rebirth of the franchise.

Elusive's Sonic Cycle:
First info released - fans immediately question WHY it's not S3&K in 2.5D like their fanfiction. Series is widely condemned as dead.
More screens, trailer released - fans immediately seize on freeze-frames of pre-production gameplay to explain exactly HOW it's not S3&K in 2.5D. Moans and howls of "I WON'T BUY IT, SEGA IS FUCKING US AGAIN" heard across the blogosphere. Fan-artists begin cranking out 'ironic' Rule 34 dreck, spurred on by 'ironic' requests by 'ironic' fans with 'ironic' senses of humor. Series is still widely condemned as dead.
Game released - fans all proclaim "WE TOLD YOU SO", sit back smugly, buy the game anyway and complain how it's not S3&K in 2.5D. Series is still widely condemned as dead; the game ends up in the 6-7 range on Metacritic anyway. And so the cycle continues...

Mass Effect worked because it was a love letter to sci-fi fans. Having Humanity be the Ferengi of the galaxy instead of some kind of noble central-pillar species is kind of a refreshing idea.

[bohokii]

my alphabits keep spelling OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

those are cheerios ya moron


maybe they could make a mickey mouse castle of illusions and have al the enemies letters like the one stage with the evil scarlet letters

[Deo]

If I was 10 years younger and knew what the original Sonic games were, I would be begging my parents for one of those things.
I wonder if Sonic can spell adult words?