Sonic the Hedgehog Discussion Thread

[Every Heart]

*couldn't find one, so I made one*

So, here's a place to talk about the Sonic games. (In otherwords, it's ok to talk about the anime, but it should mostly be about the games only)

Note: When discussing spoilers(especially ones from Secret Rings and Sonic Next Gen PS3/Xbox 360) put spoiler tags on them please.

Now for my official two cents to the Sonic franchise:

Sonic the Hedgehog came out on the exact same year(hell, exact same month) as the year/month I was born. My family has pretty much grown up with Sonic and have known it pretty well, nearly buying every game that didn't sound like it would suck.(Almost never bought the GBA Sonic games)

My first favorite character was Tails. (I was estatic about Sonic Adventure DX when you could play a story dedicated to just him) His original voice also sounds a lot better than the one in the PS3 game. But I liked him because A. He's kawaii. B. He tries really hard to be as good as Sonic and to do things on his own. and C. He actually succeeds in that area in DX. (and yet he somehow goes back to being the "Sonic, wait for me!!" in future games after that...*shakes head in disapproval*) I think I also like him for his intelligence, especially in robotics(rivals that of Eggmans)

Then when they introduced Shadow in SA2, I was also very happy to see this new addition to the Sonic family. Not that I didn't like Sonic or anything, but I'm more into either dark themed characters or cute characters.

However, Sonic does gain the ability to transform in Darkspine Sonic in Secret

Rings, which is like the alter version of Super Sonic and gives him a darker appearence. 

The only flaw with this is that he still has the same personality he would usually have 

instead of being evil, but if he is either pushed too hard or stays too long in the form, then his personality might shift

Anyway, Shadow is my absolute favorite character, followed by Tails. His dark outlook, his mysterious past(becomes even more mysterious when he suffers from amnesia after SA2) and the fact that he feels the same about Sonic as I do: grudgingly accepting of the annoying blue hedgehog.

My favorite game would have to be the Next Gen game, followed by SA2 and Shadow the Hedgehog. In Next Gen, they introduced my now third favorite character, Mephiles(villian of the game). Voiced by Dan Green, who does Yugioh's Yugi and Yami Yugi, plus Knuckles the Echidna, he is similar in appearence to Shadow, except with blue instead of red streaks. He has been considered the most truly evil character in the entire series of Sonic and was the first villian to kill another character. (Don't bother disproving this, as this includes deaths that weren't sending characters to other dimensions, time paradoxs, or other crap like that)

The reason he's the most evil was that the character he killed was Sonic the 

Hedgehog himself, who was later resurrected by the chaos emeralds and a kiss from 

Elise, the princess in the game, who Sonic had developed feelings for (and vice versa). 

After the death of Mephiles and Iblis, time was changed to where they never met each 

other, so they didn't know each other and never had feelings for each other. <--What a 

load of donkey crap.

Yeah...anyway, discuss?

[Ragnarok Prinny]

Well... I'm a really good Sonic... So... I really liked Sonic the hedgehog 1 and SA2 (Sonic Adventure 2)... I really like Sonic and Shadow... Well... I like all the chars... Without them there wouldn't be Sonic... So yea...

[Squ@ll]

Hey nice job typing all of that Lol...Well I am not such a big fan of sonic but I really like Knuckles mainly cause he can glide..I didn't watch the anime so much but I got into it mainly cause of the game on Gba called Sonic adventure 2 . I know this game is outdated but it is one of my favorite platformer games on Gba..

[Silh]

The Sonic series stopped being good after Sonic Battle.

[XIII Heartless]

I've made about three of these, they will always be moved to the back as people continue to lose interest after two days or so. But as you can see in my sig, I'm a big fan, too.

[Jinx]

I've played all the first 3 Sonic games. Then skip ahead played CD, and Sonic Adventure. Those were some good memories, but then I picked up Sonic Heros that was the worst game from Sega I ever got.
Yeah I'll always remember the old sonic games could Sega is doing a bad job with the newer one's *coughSonicforPS3 cough*. I feel like ever since Sonic went Multi it was bad for business, and it made others mad as well. Cause they keep giving us these rip-off games Sonic Riders anyone.

[Koji]

I been a fan of Sonic for years. I always loved it because the games were highspeed. The first 2 were really good. Sonic 3D wasnt so fun. I liked the series Sonic Underground. The music was awesome in that show, as well as in the game, Sonic Heroes. Sonic is one of the coolest game characters ever.

Shadow also happens to be one of my favorite characters but I dont say it often because I get critism about "That emo hedgehog", since nowadays virtually anything dark is "emo" to most people on the net.

[Haku]

I would have to say that back in the day I was a real Sonic fan, I liked the games including ones like Sonic 2 for the Sega but now the Sonic games have been a real disappointment to me. I think that the series started to go downhill after Sonic Raiders, I mean I thought the game was excellent but it only needed slight improvements. Now on the other hand they are starting to make horrible games like Shadow the Hedgehog I'm still having nightmares after playing that one with its horrible controls and bad camera and I even thought that the Secret Rings game wasn't all that good either I mean the grahics were great but everything else just collasped to me. I'm hoping in the near future though that Sega does get the Sonic game series back on track.

[Every Heart]

The first Sonic games were good, especially Sonic Adventure DX and SA2. But with games like Sonic Riders and the GBA games, it went slightly downhill for them. Shadow the Hedgehog would of been good if they didn't have the crappy camera thing going on, and I welcome the two games for PS3 and Wii because of graphics and storyline. As far as gameplay of those two games though, I'm not too sure of what to think of it sense I haven't played them very much.

[Josiah]

I've been such a huge Sonic fan ever since It became a habit to watch my older brother play Sega games, when I was like 4, lol. I was infatuated with sonic! >.> Not in that way though! =O

[Zaraki]

I thought shadow was really cool in Sonic adventure 2 battle but in shadow the hedgehog....eh not so much. I just didnt like the fact that he got a gun. why the fcuk would shadow use a gun when he has all these awsome powers. but yeah other then the adventure series I only really liked the 2d sonic games.

[EeL]

I personally hate what they're doing to the games now, I loved them back in the day but now they are just getting lamer and lamer. The best one IMO is the one on the Dreamcast...

[Every Heart]

What do you think of the villains they have been putting into the games? I think Eggman is pretty good in the sense that he is able to still going despite the fact that Sonic foils his evil plots every single time.

Chaos from Sonic Adventure was pretty cool, Black Doom was a bit...uhh...well...interesting to say the least, Nega Eggman was a bit of a pain, Erazor from the Wii game was kinda lame and too easy to beat in the end, and Solaris was ok, even though the only thing I like about it was that it was the fused combination of Iblis and Mephiles.(I luv him. *glomps Mephiles*)

[Zaraki]

They should of just had one villan. eggman. He does have the master plan.

[EeL]

I agree with you Zaraki, Eggman is the best boss there is and probably ever will be in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe...