Whatever Happened to Sonic

[NeoZeedeater]

I have fond, unjaded memories of both series.

[Yoshi]

Unjaded is overrated.

[Frogacuda]

Sonic and Knuckles is just fine. I think people get upset with it because most of the bosses are nonstandard (I'm looking at you, big stone asshole that jumps to his death into a sand pit) and it doesn't have anything new to it. It is just Sonic 3.5+easy. It is better if you go in know it is levels left out of 3. And Flying battery is great.

It felt very expansion packy and and uneven to me. The great parts were great, but the shitty levels kind of kill the whole experience for me.

[Frogacuda]

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.

This is so completely not true. It's still a major genre. It just isn't the dominant genre like it once was.

[Pineapple]

Sonic is overrated.

[Yoshi]

This is so completely not true. It's still a major genre. It just isn't the dominant genre like it once was.

Then you're expanding the genre again. Because I can't name five true platform console games from 2009. And if a genre moves to portables, it is dead by definition.

[Yoshi]

To answered buttplant's thread title though, Sonic is probably off trying to figure out where the extra "n" in "happenned" came from.

[Dyne]

And if a genre moves to portables, it is dead by definition.

You'll word anything to make yourself not seem wrong.

[Frogacuda]

Then you're expanding the genre again. Because I can't name five true platform console games from 2009. And if a genre moves to portables, it is dead by definition.

Trine, New Super Mario Bros, Mirror's Edge, Splosion Man, Braid, Grappling Hook, A Boy and His Blob...

I know it's not a huge genre, but it seems fairly vital to me, still.

[mollipen]

And if a genre moves to portables, it is dead by definition.

The best selling piece of hardware of the current generation (by a large margin) is a portable; we (as in you) need to start to understand that portables are no longer the half-assed side projects they used to be.