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[L Thammy]

haha. sonic fans are the worst.

You're supposed to say that after bad porn, not a bad game.
The porn will come later.

EDIT: This is a weird post to be at the top of the page

 

[jb1234]

Is Sonic Generations the only Sonic platformer worth playing in the last decade? Sad, Sega.

 

[JordanN]

Sonic 06 actually beat this.

TheArabGamer redeemed?

 

[rdrr gnr]

Those reviews are bs, this is GOTY.

 

[Soulflarz]

Exactly what I expected.

 

[Unbounded]

Wow. I figured that the 3DS game would at least be somewhat decent.

What the heck happened?

 

[OrbitalBeard]

Is Sonic Generations the only Sonic platformer worth playing in the last decade? Sad, Sega.

Sonic Colors as well.

 

[StoopKid]

Leave sonic alone you freakin friks !

 

[Stimpack]

Soon to be Sonic Bomba. Sega did so good with Alien too, a shame this happened.

What hurts is that everyone saw this coming. Everyone.

 

[The Broken Ska Record]

Soon to be Sonic Bomba. Sega did so good with Alien too, a shame this happened.

They also did poorly with Aliens Colonial Marines. Maybe they'll pull an Alien Isolation and make a good game in the franchise after releasing a shit game.

 

[AniHawk]

Is Sonic Generations the only Sonic platformer worth playing in the last decade? Sad, Sega.

sonic colors and the sonic rush trilogy all ranged from decent to great.

 

[General Zechs]

Boom.

Perfect

 

[Timu]

Is Sonic Generations the only Sonic platformer worth playing in the last decade? Sad, Sega.

No, there are a few others.

 

[Seik]

Great week for gaming, isn't it?

Ubisoft humiliation over Assassin's Creed and Sonic going backward to being barely better than 06.

At least the coming games this month (DA:I, GTAV and Smash) will redeem this.

 

[Unbounded]

Is Sonic Generations the only Sonic platformer worth playing in the last decade? Sad, Sega.

Colors, Rush, and Rush Adventure, Sonic advance 3. (Came out in 2004. HA!)

 

[Aaron Strife]

They also did poorly with Aliens Colonial Marines. Maybe they'll pull an Alien Isolation and make a good game in the franchise after releasing a shit game.

Maybe Sonic Runners will be good

Or maybe it will suck

 

[Gambit 1138]

Stephen Frost should go back to game journalism instead of lying to people insisting that the game would be better than the early footage and leaks depecited

 

[AdanVC]

LOL!!!

Yeeeeeehawww!

 

[vazel]

Wow, even the 3DS version is getting trashed. What happened Sanzaru?

 

[Kirlia]

Sonic 06 actually beat this.

It beat the 3DS review. I really want to see what IGN gives the Wii U game.

 

[themagicalkitsune]

sonic colors and the sonic rush trilogy all ranged from decent to great.

There's a Sonic Rush 3?

Colors, Rush, and Rush Adventure, Sonic advance 3. (Came out in 2004. HA!)

Advance 3 came out in June 2004 though. Hard to realize it's over 10 years old.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

There's a Sonic Rush 3?

Colors DS is basically Rush 3

 

[Kirlia]

It's probably worth mentioning that Game Informer gave Sonic 2006 a 6.75 compared to the 4 they gave Sonic Boom.

 

[jb1234]

Colors, Rush, and Rush Adventure, Sonic advance 3. (Came out in 2004. HA!)

I should hunt those down...

 

[OnPoint]

It's probably worth mentioning that Game Informer gave Sonic 2006 a 6.75 compared to the 4 they gave Sonic Boom.

It's also worth noting that back then anything under a 7 in Game Informer was considered "bad". And they rarely gave anything of note anything less than a 7.

 

[krypt0nian]

Jesus. Just let the poor blue corpse lie already.

 

[L Thammy]

It's probably worth mentioning that Game Informer gave Sonic 2006 a 6.75 compared to the 4 they gave Sonic Boom.

Sonic 2006 came at the beginning of the gen, shortly after the PS3's launch. So maybe they were still in next gen hype mode.

 

[Kirlia]

It's also worth noting that back then anything under a 7 in Game Informer was considered "bad". And they rarely gave anything of note anything less than a 7.

Hey, it was only .25 away from that fabled 7. I was also kind of surprised that the game even scored THAT HIGH when the GI review came out (I remember them giving Sonic Rush Adventure something like a 7.25).

Sonic 2006 came at the beginning of the gen, shortly after the PS3's launch. So maybe they were still in next gen hype mode.

True. But I remember the Second Opinion being something like a 5.75; still higher than the Sonic Boom review!

 

[RagnarokX]

Crazy glitches

Clipping through scenery during cutscenes:

Amy's magic hammer:

Nope

 

[MormaPope]

Terrible Sonic games like this and Sonic 2006 are almost comforting, in a really morbid sense. There's something refreshing about being legitimately puzzled and intrigued by a title like this.

 

[RoboPlato]

A 4 from Game Informer? Holy crap. I don't think I've seen below an 8 from them.

 

[jackissocool]

I actually hoped for the 3DS version cause Sanzaru did such a great job with Sly 5. I suspect both games were rushed by Sega, cause Sanzaru are good developers.

 

[OnPoint]

Hey, it was only .25 away from that fabled 7. I was also kind of surprised that the game even scored THAT HIGH when the GI review came out (I remember them giving Sonic Rush Adventure something like a 7.25).

I paid a lot of attention to review scores back then, and I'm telling you, under a 7 was bad news. It was so rare for anything that had an actual name attached to it. They really did their best to rate from 10 - 7, with anything less being varying degrees of bad.

 

[Derphoof]

SEGA.

It's time to stop making Sonic games.

 

[Spinluck]

What a waste of a game.

Call me when Sonic Team makes something on PS4, XB1, PC.

SEGA.

It's time to stop making Sonic games.

They didn't make this one.

 

[Averon]

What is it about the Sonic franchise that makes it so hard for developers to create a decent game out of it?

 

[themagicalkitsune]

Also it just dawned on me by mentioning advance 3: in a matter of days (Nov. 21), Super Mario 64 DS is gonna be 10 years old. Yeah, the remake / port / game-thing-that-looks-like-past-game-thing-w/e of SM64 will be a decade old. ._.

 

[AniHawk]

SEGA.

It's time to stop making Sonic games.

that seems to be the big problem with these two.

 

[illmatic22]

TBH I sorta like how the jumping glitch makes Knuckles the main character.

 

[AniHawk]

Also it just dawned on me by mentioning advance 3: in a matter of days (Nov. 21), Super Mario 64 DS is gonna be 10 years old. Yeah, the remake / port / game-thing-that-looks-like-past-game-thing-w/e of SM64 will be a decade old. ._.

fun fact - super mario 64 sold 11.63 million copies from 1996-2003. super mario 64 ds sold 11.03 million copies from 2004-2014.

nintendo should put out super mario 64 ds 3d and just keep the train going.

 

[Kirlia]

I paid a lot of attention to review scores back then, and I'm telling you, under a 7 was bad news. It was so rare for anything that had an actual name attached to it. They really did their best to rate from 10 - 7, with anything less being varying degrees of bad.

Yeah...the lower the score, the more snark there typically was. Things seem to have changed a bit there, if the Sonic Boom review was any indication (or maybe the author of that review is a bit more polite and to the point than other GI reviewers).

 

[imrblankie]

Maybe Sonic Runners will be good

Or maybe it will suck

The Sonic Cycle

 

[MattKeil]

Bored of the Rings is an actual thing, by the way.

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

Is Sonic Generations the only Sonic platformer worth playing in the last decade? Sad, Sega.

Sonic Lost World is definitely worth playing IMO. The game wasn't great, but I hope Sega builds on that formula rather than the Generations/Colors formula.

 

[Psyrgery ES]

Party Hard!

 

[AwakenedCloud]

This game is laughable.

Watch the ending cutscene, the animation in it is comparable to an amateur fan project. Seeing as this entry is based off of a cartoon, there couldn't be a bigger red flag that this game was written off a looong time ago.

 

[Canon]

This has potential. It's better to be bad than it is to be average. At least it will get some sales for those who are curious about its suckage.

 

[RagnarokX]

Party Hard!

 

[jb1234]

Clipping through scenery during cutscenes:

To be fair, is there anyone who actually watches Sonic cutscenes? They are uniformly terrible.

 

[imrblankie]

God I actually forgot about this