Sonic the Hedgehog Thread

Its pretty good. It like an updated sonic 1. My only complant is that there is no Super Sonic. :( If you plan on getting it and you have either a Gamecube or modded/JPN PS2, I'd recomend getting Sonic Gem Collections. You'll definitlly get more game for you buck. :D It has Sonic the Fighters, Sonic CD, Sonic R, a majority of the game gear games that weren't in Mega Collection, plus Vectorman 1 and 2. If you find the JPN version, it also has Bonanza Brothers and all 3 Streets of Rage (aka Bare Knuckle). :D
 
this is all the sonic you will ever need...



7:16 PM [Bryguy83] peole 7:16 PM [Bryguy83] how sick is this 7:17 PM [Bryguy83] robotnick makes sonic be able to cum out copies of himself and he fuckes his copies 7:17 PM [Bryguy83] sonic 7:18 PM [Bryguy83] has sex with himself
 
HUGE Sonic fan, btw. Beware: long message


FAI, Sonic CD is THE BEST SONIC GAME OF ALL TIME. Period.

If you are late to the game, do yourselves a favor and play it. It STILL serves as the best example of a fun, "pure Sonic" (w/out any other friends) game 15 years later.

This game blew my mind wide open when I was young. My parents would be thankful (PSYCH), but Sonic CD is not only the reason I'm hooked on video games, but also why I am an artist and a wannabe musician too. Yeah, I'm dead serious when I say this game literally changed my life. Well, anyway, back to the subject.....

The game mechanics are what make Sonic CD really shine. The time mechanic to me was a stroke of genius that added a huge layer of depth to the game -- it gave you a fun reason to play it over and over, rather than just "if I feel like it". For example to those that don't know, in this game you could time-travel. Each stage was just like any other old-school sonic stage, except they were littered with spinning signs (like the ones you pass to complete the level) that say "Past", "Present", or "Future". It's been a while since I played it, but if you pass a sign and travel a full speed for a certain amount of seconds, you disappear in blinding flash of light and travel to whatever time listed on said sign (kinda like the Mandalorian in Back to the Future. I think that's the car's name).

Each "time period" of a certain level was basically a remix of the original, with new music and redone colors and background, and sometimes, new enemies as well. Each stage had 4 different versions (past,present,good and bad futures), to which you could technically say it was the biggest standalone old-school Sonic game ever (without counting linking two games together (like Sonic 3 & Knux).

I loved it, because it gave the game an air of mystery and wonder, like I couldn't wait to see the next time period and see how much it changed from the present, especially the good future. It was fun, too, because the levels themselves changed to where certain areas and abilities can only be reached by going to a certain timeframe, and the good future could only be reached by destroying a certain amount of Robotnik's machines located throughout various points of the "past" stage version.

And this is just one part of the game. I also personally believe the stage design in this game is alot more fun and geared towards speed than any other old-school sonic game. Sonic 2, for example, as much as I loved it, always pissed me off because of the fact that I couldn't go fast for too long without running into a wall and coming to a complete stop. Its a trait that all old-school sonic games share, but comes much less often in Sonic CD than other games, giving you a true sense of speed.

I'm not even going to get into the other parts of the game, I could write (literally) for hours...like the graphics (beautiful, just check out Stardust Speedway when you play the game), cool bosses (best example, the original Metal Sonic race), or MUSIC (top 10 game soundtrack of all time, and I'm talking BOTH versions).

Whoever mentions Sonic CD really unleashed a beast w/in me.


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Oh, and btw, Sonic Unleashed, while not perfect, is alot of fun, even with the werehog parts! I should know because I actually BEAT THE GAME (to any naysayers who haven't even really picked it up long enough to criticize it). The werehog parts were done well enough to keep players interested -- while the platforming bits were frustrating at times and displayed the worse parts of the game (for example, certain areas of a stage with an unnatural camera view would screw up controls and cause an unfair death), it was still ok, and the fighting parts were alot of fun, b/c of all of the combos and other cool abilities Sonic Team gave him. To me, they should have had Knuckles (who never gets any Sonic Team love) instead of Werehog, and it would have been much better received, and maybe even praised (it basically would be Sonic and Knux 2).

The daytime bits were pretty much Sonic perfection -- this is what I have been waiting for since Sonic Adventure 2 first came out. They really give you a sense of speed (I mean, you literally move through the screen faster than in most racing games!) and did a great job on it.

At the end of it all, Sonic Unleashed is basically Sonic Adventure (1) with more and better Sonic (daytime) bits, and less friends. If you like SA1, then there is no reason you shouldn't like SU just as much or more.
 
i'll be honest I don't think I'll ever give a 3d sonic game a chance ever unless i hear massive hype. I played Sonic Adventures 2...i was very "meh" on my review. Mechanics were bland and brings me back to my homing spin attack and on rails bitch. Had some cool parts, but the cutesy characters made me wish I had Shadows gun in hindsight...maybe then I'd have tolerated the asinine idea.

My real bitch goes out to Sonic and the Secret Rings...I kid you not...I excitedly bought this title and returned it within 2 hours and asked how the manager couldn't have given me a heads up as to how god damn awful it was. It was like being offered an enema (which you payed for nonetheless)...without being told what it was or to what the experience really entailed (side note: Don't take medical procedures on whim of doctors suggestion without questioning what the hot nurse is going to do with that glove). Seriously it's probably one of the worst games I've ever played. The controls were crap. Steering was a bitch, speed control was a bitch, and dear god if you had to walk backwards you had to sit there long enough for your wife to launch out 2 kids. I mean he runs faster than a Kenyan on crack going forwards but has the velocity of a fat kid trying to get to a Dunkin Donuts at the top of a hill...He'll make it...but it's going to be a slow and painful experience to watch. I clearly remember having to jump onto a small platform which required a mere vertical jump and a slight nudge forward and had to watch my blue spaz rocket a mile away at the slightest twitch of my wiimote...15 times...15 fuckin times! Which also meant I had to walk backwards a mile...15 times...I felt like babies on crutches were passing me (also another fun time to have Shadows gun).

The worst part...the music. Now I'm a bit of a music Nazi (firm belief 98% of ALL bands formed after 1996 suck complete donkey balls...52% of which enjoy the sucking of suckable donkey ball brand donkey balls)...but there's a line of quality they crossed. If your emo, love generic rock, and have the taste of a My Chemical Romance fan inbred with a Jrock fan...you might be the one person who actually downloaded the soundtrack...congratulations Bob of New Hampshire. It's angst rock...about as bad as angst rock gets. The worst part is not so much how bad it is, but the fact that you can complete a level REALLY quick (assuming you don't have to do the forward backwards mambo for 45minutes)...which then results to you returning to the main screen to find the next level. You'll hear that fucking main screen title music (which is the worst song of the entire collection, fancy them odds) about 80 times easy before you finish the game. It'll make you want to kill yourself and sonic just to make it end...and hell maybe the guys hired to play the damned dribble...or maybe just them and spare me and the fantastic blue crack head that shared it's heroine needle of video gaming with me in my childhood. But fuck them...really...they need to be shot (I'm a bit determined to find a use for Shadow to have a gun...hang in there buddy)
 
People have lost all faith in Sonic Team. Even with this trailer people are already saying that Sega is just crying wolf again with this one. Personally, if DIMPS is not in charge of this new 2D project, I DON'T have faith in this title. I won't until it's released and play it for myself.
 
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