Amen to that! ;_; the Sega Genisis was my fist game console and sonic was my first game on it *sighs* good times lost

I agree to a point. While I do enjoy a few of the newer ones, they can't seem to put any originality into them.

Oh wow how this brings me back to the old cartoon days.. and I kinda agree.. sonic doesn't quite feel as much as he did back then.

I think Sonic gave his final breath on Sonic CD(?) it was awesome and some of the course made you wonder how the hell did you just do that.
Sonic Adventure 2 was fun....but i just played it for the Chaos....ahh...the chaos...

Sega was one of those companies that didn't survive the jump to 3D. They excelled at 2D work, but Sonic has been running on the same broken 3D engine for about 6-7 years now. Not to mention the fact it's become "mainstream", and mainstream anime work just gets anally raped until it bleeds the very soul out.

I really enjoyed SA2:B on the GC. I could see through it's flaws and, honestly, it felt like the most well-done 3D Sonic. It was still glitch ridden and buggy though =/

I think that's possibly the exception.. I don't know what sega did, but sa2b actually felt.. good.

Must have been the one game that used lube before ass raping you.

i so agree with you hun tho i liked Sonic Adventure none of the NEW age piles of S... even match up to genesis

Pretty much my opinion. Loved the genesis games (and Sonic CD), hate the entire franchise now.

Man speaks the truth.

I keep on playing sonic 1 and 2 on my psp every now and then =3
Amen to emulators ^_^

Ever since the end of Genesis, there's been no good games except Sonic Adventure, but not the second. The second I didnt like to play all too well.

Still have my genesis though, and I still play Sonic 3 & Knuckles faithfully on it.

+fav

Space Harrier

It's hard to run as fast as possible through a level when 90% of it is comprised of a bottomless pit, and there's only short floating islands to move around on.

half of the level's just cinematics! JUST KEEP HOLDING UP!

Like Sonic games were ever consisently fast in the first place.

The game speed was moderated since 1991.

NASTY, son.

Sonic 2, had the second controller and would make invincible Tails do all the hard work.

best strategy ever.

someone should make paper sonico

you know, I thought of that several times... it'd be pisser.

Dang, something spinning that fast hitting ya? Talk about papercuts from hell, man!!!

true dat

Not so much as Sonic, but the whole damn company died with Isao Okawa. As much of a Sega fan the boss is, they kept fuckin' up too much. So being dropped to bitch-mode and making games for everyone else you'd think would be the lesson they needed.

Yet, I see that shit aint having any effect on 'em^^

Man, they gotta remember who they are. Get back to the roots and shit.

Most def!

...but word is bond if I tell ya, I dont miss 'em:(

They fucked up waaay too hard n' heavy man. Until they can really show that they wont be prone to the same bullshit they did during & prior to the DC, everyone's disposition towards them will pretty much be "fuck you cats"

I was a die hard sega fan (since master system) and hell I can't figure out why they messed up this bad with the franchise. So from a while ago until someone other than Yu Suzuki's AM2 team can make some sort of kickass game, the company doesn't deserve to be called SEGA, just Service Games.

exactly, everything they made since the genesis has been shit, which is why not a single character past sonic, tails, knuckles and eggman are liked!

its just cool to hate the new sonic games for some reason. yet half of the furries draws all the sonic characters including the new ones from the games they apparently hate :P

Only Amy (who showed up before Knuckles), Big and possibly Cream are "widely" disliked.

yeah, I was being sarcastic. everyone claims that everything since the genesis has been shit and isnt really sonic, yet theyre constantly drawing stuff from the new games

I've played and enjoyed all the Sonic games up until Shadow The Hedgehog which was fun if a bit tedious at times. (I honestly don't understand why everyone hates Heroes, I thought it felt very much like the classic Sonic, and the team system is actually effective if you know... um... try to use it.)

While the new sonic games in 3D haven't been great, at least the blue boy is alive and kicking. I mean, as far as I've ever heard from anyone, the handheld 2D sonic games have been a hit. And as much bitching and complaining as people do, the new characters get quite enough exposure here at FA to at least justify them in that dimension. X3

Now 360 was awful (which is funny because in level design and story aspects, it was actually pretty cool, it's just that the engine sucked awfully) and I haven't played Riders, but I do want to try out the new Sonic for the Wii.

The picture itself, though, is absolutely awesome. X3 The old sonic worlds were quite fanciful, and one wonders how such structures formed naturally. XD

I can't wait to see this one colored.

Sonic, look out!

THEY NEED TO BRING CHAO BACK >:[

This pic reminds me of Sonic CD
DO THE FIGURE 8 MOVE!

FUCKITY FUCKING FUCK WHY ARE THERE SPARKLES FOLOWING HIM SHIT WOW THAT'S FUCKING CRAZY ZOOOOOOOOOM

INTO THE PAST!

I really really need to play them old games again. ):

Awesome pic as always, dude.

The picture itself is drawn well, but the theme/comments that followed I could've done without. "Spirit" is nothing more than a glorified term to hold something in higher regard, typically blanketted by nostalgia.

"Spirit" did not make the older Sonic games so good, competent developing did; that's where SEGA's problem lies with 3D Sonic today. (The handheld games, though not made by them, are actually decent.)

Maybe. But whose to say that back when the developing was good, the developers also had real interest in the game? Whose to say that they cared more before than they did now? That's spirit as far as I can see!

(agreed, the handhelds aren't too bad. c'ept sonic advance 3. that one came outta the oven way too quick.)

Talent and ability beats out spirit any day. You can have all the "spirit" in the world, if the gameplay falls short, "spirit" won't help it at all.

And for the most part, whether you liked it or not, Advance 3 was the best ouf of the GBA titles.

Enh, I don't think so. Advance 3 was allright, but was far from technically sound.

THAT game had the old gusto, the old feel of the series... but it lacked proper programming like woah.

I loved old school Sonic too. ;3 Especially the first Sonic the Hedgehog. *sighs* Ah, good times. ;3

Nice

Personaly, The Sonic franchise was cool since the begining, along with other series. It's the SonicX episodes that I find... that they made Sonic like Goku.

Once they started including terrible voice acting and even worse camera angles, it's alll gone downhill.

Though, I did like sonic adventure 2, and Rush wasn't bad at all.

Sonic adventure 2 is really good. Sonic adventure one wasn't bad exept for the males' mouths.
Rush... Well... That's just a Knock out for me, I dared myself to get all ranks S because I loved it so much... I wasn't able to get that rank against the bosses yet. Can't wait for Sonic Rush Adventures! XD