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they left it off the ps3 version too.
Fucking lame.
I had no idea that you could play as metal sonic in Sonic Advnture DX
the story to sonic adventure was horrid. It would be better if I could use metal sonic to kill those stupid water drop looking things
I think I miss Sonic Team more than Sonic himself. Also, Smilebit.
Sometimes I miss Sonic Team to the extent that I get perverted thoughts about trying one of the more recent Sonic console games, but I know that's probably not a good idea.
I thought Sonic Rush was pretty good though. I tried to play Sonic Rush Adventure but there were too many story elements before the actual game started and black fluid started spurting out of my nose like it did with the guy in District 9, so I had to stop.
I'll throw my hat in the ring to show support for Sonic Rush as well (It's good to hear Rush Adventure seems to have some fans here as well, I'll have to play that sooner or later). I also liked Sonic Advance a lot, too.
Sonic Adventure 2 is a hard one for me to judge. I liked it even though there were a lot of elements I hated (Primarily how they fucked up Knuckles/Rouge's Emerald radar from tracking all three emeralds at the same time like in SA1). The speed stages were still good and I liked the shooting stages of Tails and Eggman.
The point were I really started being disappointed in the series was either with Sonic Advance 2 or Sonic Heroes (Whichever came first). Sonic Advance 2 had level designs that put me to sleep and Sonic Heroes had it's heart in the right place by focusing on speed stages but fucked it up with awkwardly needing to switch between members of your party.
Sonic Unleashed would have been a decent game if it wasn't for the damn story levels between the action. Yeah, the Werehog was not pleasant, but wasn't a deal breaker (Besides being conceptually stupid, it played like a simpler God of War - not something I want in a Sonic game, but not terrible to actually play). Running around a 3D level hub spending 30 minutes taking a MacGuffin from point A to point B just to play a three minute action stage is what fucking killed it. Even the Wii version, which did away with most of that shit, still had too much of it.
I still think there is hope for Sonic, but I do think it needs a complete overhaul again and to return back towards it's roots. I'm not counting on this happening, but I'm still hopeful. Sega also needs to remove their milking machine from Poor Sonic's teets and stop branding everything with Sonic as their goto guy (Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, Sonic & Sega Allstar Racing, etc).
Love Gametap's quick Sonic History documentary - the original design for Sonic was awesome.
This pretty much sums it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
And Sonic CD is still the best real platformer ever.
So a man that complains about how easy modern platformers is going to nominate Sonic CD, the one with the easiest bosses next to S&K, as the best real plat former?
You're a silly man Yoshi. A silly man!
I like that he was essentially Super Bill Clinton in MJ's clothes and he was dating Madonna.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geen
All Sonic bosses are easy. CD had the best music, and I liked the time mechanic. And "modern platformers" is an oxymoron. The genre is essentially dead unless you expand the shit out of the genre like some people like to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Truth. It's bad enough when the media does it but I'm pretty disgusted TNL favoured Mario by a huge margin in the top 10 voting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Because no one has fond, unjaded memories of playing a Mario game, right ?