Does Sonic Team still deserve to be worshipped

[Gutsman]

Sonic Team has gone way downhill since their glory days of Nights and Burning Rangers on the Saturn. These days they only seem to be able to make incredibly buggy, glitchy, games like PSO, and platform games that re-use the same buggy engine over and over again. When I tried Billy Hatcher, I got the same wall/collision bugs I saw in Sonic Adventure.

It seems to me unless you are a dumb PSO fanatic, or own a Gamecube, you don't have much reason to like the current Sonic Team...

[Chux]

Get out the asbestos armor kid.

Sure, I'm not as much as a fanatic as I used to be, I dont think they need to be railed on. PSO, and Sonic games are still fun to me today.

[Gutsman]

They have great game designers/artists, but horrible programmers, IMHO. Maybe they should hire some better programmers from Namco.

[Teddman]

I would have considered this until recently... They were looking like nothing more than a port house until Sonic Heroes and Billy Hatcher were revealed.

Those games are terrific, so they're back on the pedastal...

[Frogacuda]

Originally posted by Gutsman
They have great game designers/artists, but horrible programmers, IMHO. Maybe they should hire some better programmers from Namco.

That might be fair. I haven't seen much tech wizardry out of their japanese offices. Sonic Team Hawaii can impress though.

[Cheebs]

Originally posted by Gutsman
It seems to me unless you are a dumb PSO fanatic, or own a Gamecube, you don't have much reason to like the current Sonic Team...

Unless you own a Gamecube, you don't have much reason to like the current EAD, either. Sooooo...I guess they suck too.

[Captain Canuck]

PSO, Chu CHu Rocket, SA1 & 2, and Samba rocked!. Then there's something like a transition period from 1st party to third party. PSO EP2 still rocked though and the 2nd half of it is brand new BTW. Now they got Billy Hatcher, Card Battle, and Sonic Heroes. Give them some slack.

It's almost as if they get more slack than entire companies. Koei hasn't made much besides Dynasty Warriors, Square has Kingdoma Hearts and FFX THIS GEN(japan they have FF online etc though). It's not like Namco has much more next gen games then they do either.

[StriderKyo]

Aside from the fact that people with Pro Action Replays can "hack" the game, what's more glitchy about PSO than any other online game?

[Captain Canuck]

SA2 was solid technically BTW.

[FirstBlood]

For this generation, we'll have to wait until Billy Hatcher and the new Sonic Game to make a fair judgement.

But from just their DC games, i'd say they deserve all the credit they get.