[General Discussion] Sonic the Hedgehog - Mediocre Madness!!!

Sonic games have always been horribly mediocre. You can't seriously consider the hold right and jump occasionally mechanics of the Mega Drive games to be decent. Every level was trial and error because you moved so fast that you'd never learn where the enemy, spikes, cliff was until you suffered it's effects. These were piss poor games and your hazy 8 year old, have never played a video game before, memories cloud you're judgement.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh yes mandatory completion of horribly unplayable minigames greatly helps the game's depth.

And take another look at my post. I contradicted my statement that you could never learn the placement of obstacles when I added "till you suffer their effects." This means it's impossible to discover them first play through. It's not helped when Sonic will run off the side of the screen. WHo comes up with this shit?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Rhetorical but oh well.

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Originally Posted by Grubdog

Rab fails at fun, I don't see how childhood memories have anything to do with enjoying the old sonics when I enjoy Sonic Mega Collection just as much now, 2D Mario games are boring in comparison. UNF owned.

Fukn hate u.
Seriously I played my fair share of Sonic back in the day, mostly on Master System but Mega Drive too and I bought Mega Collection and it's a a piece of shit. Flickies Island is the best game on that disc, not Sonic 3D but the one where you play as flicky. Best.

I think the fact that not only do Nintendo get away with individually repackaging and re-releasing old school Mario games at inflated prices, while seeing those games sell and score better with reviews, than Sonic Gems/Mega Collection ever did prooves taht 2D Mario kicked arse.

Originally Posted by evilboris

Of course you do realize that what you said applies to every platformer at the time do you?

Hardly. 2D Sonic's emphasis was speed. Agree? Yes. It moved faster than any other platformer by far. Yet other patformers, with their slower pace allowed you to not only spot oncoming obstacles but react accordingly. I don't know anyone who managed to play Ren and Stimpy's Time Warp so quickly that they never noticed the oncoming enemy until they collided with it.

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