Sonic the Hedgehog Discussion Thread

[Haku]

I really think that they should come up with a much different villain for the Sonic games, I mean Eggman was alright but he's getting kinda boring with the same tactics again and again.

[Mighty]

Sonic you say?

I'm an old school Sonic fan; grew up idolizing the damn hedgehog. Still very much apart of many of the bigger Sonic communities out there.. Despite this fandom, I'm not a big fan of all that Sonic has produced in recent years: Sonic Heroes was mediocre, Shadow was atrocious and Next Gen was potential wasted. The Dimp games (Advance -Rush) and Secret Rings were the gems amongst the rough though. Secret Rings really took Sonic in the right direction in terms of 3d, and I can't wait to see if they refine the faults that it had in a sequel. If they worked out the kinks, I think that Secret Ring's gameplay is something that make the originals proud. The Adventure games had their amazing spots, but even those couldn't compare to the perfection of the original Sonic games.

I've played nearly every Sonic game, except some of the ones that are literally impossible to play (Sonic Wakku Patrol Car, Cosmic Fighter etc) and some of the newer ones that have been out of my reach (Rivals). Sonic CD happens to be my favorite Sonic game amongst the bunch, it combines the speed and level design that Sonic trademarked, but Sonic 1-K all are in my favorite 20 games ever. My favorite character is Mighty (Hey, look at that!) but I like a lot of the original characters. Other characters, I have my likes and dislikes; I'm not much of a fan of the anime stereotypes they've been producing in recent titles.

I'm looking forward to Rush Adventure, though I have my reserves: Dimps isn't making it and it's Sega's first 2d Sonic platformer since Chaotix. Should be interesting to say the least. Also, Sonic and Mario at the Olympics? Could be fun I suppose.

[Haku]

I would really like to see the series back on track because now its been made painfully obvious that Sega doesn't have a clue what a good Sonic game should be like. After Shadow and the Sonic game on the 360 I had given up on all hope of a reasonable game, because if Sega doesn't do something soon they are really going to become less known in the gaming industry for any type of game anymore not just the Sonic series.

[OmniChaos]

I really like Shadow the Hedgehog, putting the camera thing aside, pretty good game play. Loved the fact that you could choose the games outcome. Black Doom was an okay villian, not too hard. Diablon(I think that was his name) and Sonic were annoying, but not hard. Eggman's fight was really fun. Devil Doom was a really good finish. Much better then FinalHazard was. Another thing was that I liked the darker aspect of the game. It was one of the games where it felt like the world could be destroied at any second. I liked that the also brought the ARK back into the storyline...

Shadow is probablly my favorite character. Eggman's my second. I like his voice, it sounds funny =P. Anyways, it would be a real shock if Eggman actually took over the world in one of the games and created the Eggman Empire. <- I also like how he always blabs on about that. =]

[Mighty]

I felt Shadow was a big "Screw you" to Sonic fans. IMO it wasn't a fan service game, it was a shallow attempt on Sonic Team's part to make a quick buck off of naive kids who like to think they're playing mature games. I say "think" because there wasn't a mature thing about Shadow The Hedgehog, if anything it was the most immature Sonic title in years (Maybe less than Shuffle...). The game literally went out of it's way to make Shadow seem like a "bad ass" by making him say damn (The emphasis was ridiculous in parts) and shooting big guns. It was a cheap attempt to make the series appeal to kid who aren't of age to play games like GTA, but still want to. I found myself disgusted after seeing some of the publicity stunts and interviews they did prior to the game release, most of which they were just grasping at straws to relate Shadow to the "troubled" youth of today. IMO, the game killed anything that was remotely good about the character Shadow. Luckily, Shadow happened to be the best of 3 gameplays in Next Gen; So he's not bottomed out just yet.

If the game was at least average I would of looked over these travesties, but the game was nothing more than a scaled down, glitched out version of the Sonic Adv speed levels. Easily one of the worst Sonic games, and even games in general.

[Haku]

The only thing that I would have to say that I liked about Shadow the Hedgehog was that of the multiple paths and endings other than that everything else just collasped.

[Ragnarok Prinny]

Yea... Shadow had a good concept of choosing yer side... But it failed in the gameplay though... And camera angles too... But.. As a Sonic fan I did enjoyed it... But hey... I can play as a hedgehog samurai...
I wish I a 360 since I wanted to play Next-Gen...

[Haku]

What really upset me about Shadow the Hedgehog was that of him using the firearms. I mean that idea I thought was okay at first because you really didn't have to fight with that many enemies but most of the time you were going around looking for some more ammo instead of doing what all Sonic games should be like running really fast, so I thought that this really slowed down the fun aspect of it.

[Josiah]

I didn't really like Shadow all that much... He was just an imitation of Sonic, with a bad-arse attitude... I always wanted Sonic to be one-of-a-kind and Shadow ruined that, lol. Other than that, he was okay in a few of the game... NOT Shadow the Hedgehog though... >.<

[Every Heart]

I like Shadow mostly because he's the complete opposite of Sonic, but not in the emo sense.

But I couldn't really grasp "Silver the Hedgehog". He was overconfident (more than Sonic, which I didn't think was possible) and his name didn't seem very original. I mean, look at Sonic, Shadow, and Mephiles.

Sonic: Named for his "sonic speed". Makes perfect sense.
Shadow: Dark personality and is quite like a shadow. Makes sense, but not as good as Sonic's.
Mephiles: Most original there. Mephiles also means "Satan". Makes loads of sense there, but if that's Sega's attempt to draw teenagers in, then that's just desperate.

And now you have Silver, named because he's...silver.

[Haku]

I really didn't like the way they put the silver hedgehog in the 360 game I think that he had some sort of psychic powers that he could use another bad idea for Sega.

[Mighty]

Silver's premise seemed fun at first, but as the levels progress you start to see that his entire gameplay is a mediocre mess.

[Josiah]

Haven't played any Next-Gen Sonic game, but even when I first saw the guy, I thought he was just going to be somewhat lame. =\

[Haku]

All of the levels in the Sonic for the 360 are all basically the same except that you can play as some of the less known characters in the series.

[Josiah]

Wow. >_> I'm sorry, but that's a big disappointment. =[ If they can somehow bring Sonic back Sonic it's 2-D feeling, and atmosphere, I believe they can bring Sonic back to it's former glory... MAYBE! ^(v.v)^