Classic Sonic Board.

I have opinions about the Sonic games on the Genesis.

>>4044193
Share those too

Sonic is shit, has always been shit.

>>4044196

Thanks for sharing, now go to a Mario board.

2d sonic is actually pretty bad and full of obnoxious coin eating arcade machine design philosophies

This is not turning out how I expected at all.

>>4044202
Sanic raped me as a kid.

Sonic 1 Master System is the underrated gem of the classic Sonic games. It actually presents a challenge since you can't just pick your rings back up when you get hit, and the platforming is actually well done.

Too bad Sega only wants the public to remember the Game Gear version.

>>4044220
Wait, how is it credit feeding? As long as you have a single ring you're invincible.

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>Thinking you can make a decent Sonic thread on /vr/

Come on OP, first time here or what?

>>4044230
Yea, this isn't /v/. You're free to talk about Sonic.

The only Sonic game I liked is 2 on Mega Drive.

I found out about Super Sonic while visiting a friend's house. It blew my mind and I still wish more games would give you such things for completing sub objectives.

>>4044321
The thing is that most cool extras these days get revealed months before release due to the internet.

>>4044326

feels bad man.

sonic 3, and knuckles are superficial games that try way too hard

sonic spinball is creepy as fuck and nobody seems to acknowledge that

S1's okay.
Marble 3 sucks. Labyrinth 3 really sucks. Scrap Brain 3 really, really sucks.
Rest of the game is just decent.

S2's brilliant, up to and including Mystic Cave.
Quality tanks after that. Metropolis 3 really fucking sucks (supposedly, it's from a scrapped level and it got repainted as another Metropolis act, which might explain why it sucks so much). Sky Chase is pure filler and IIRC you can just park the Tornado in the top right corner or something and ignore everything. I hate Wing Fortress, mostly after getting launched straight into the abyss a couple times.
Final boss is retarded hard when locked on with S&K, not too bad otherwise.

CD's got some really jank stage design.
I probably enjoyed Quartz Quadrant the most, and that's a bit sad since it's a fairly straight shot to the end. Wacky Workbench has some ridiculously annoying platforming. Stardust Speedway's stage design is a complete mess.
I actually like Metallic Madness quite a bit, it's pretty cool other than the platforming bit at the start of act 3. I have no idea how to hit the final boss without getting hit myself. JP soundtrack is brilliant. US one is okay.

S3's pretty solid the whole way.
Marble Garden has issues (off-screen spike balls, obnoxious amount of crushers, walls that need the blue tops to pass through, act 2 boss), but that's probably the worst of it.
Oh, and Carnival Night 2 is too fucking long.

S&K is extremely solid the whole way, with the only particular issues being the absolute end of Lava Reef (where you can die by going the way you're supposed to before the camera unlocks) and Sandopolis 2 being a bit annoying (as a stage, I'm not even talking about the ghosts).
The S&K half is better than the S3 half.

Chaotix is gorgeous, sounds brilliant, and has awful stage design.
I can't stand the later acts of Amazing Arena one bit. Botanic Base and Speed Slider have the best stage design in the game, and it's still just okayish at best.
It's visibly unfinished overall.

>>4044226
Sonic 1 GG has really few issues, the first boss is the dumbest I can think of.
That being said, I've mostly played the SMS version for the larger screen area.

>>4044220
Sonic does exactly the opposite, and the ring system is explicitly designed to prevent players from being punished too severely for mistakes.

>>4044334

This is not an unpopular, shit opinions thread.

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>>4044192
The trilogy were my main childhood games.
I got a genesis 3 for christmas when I was ~4 years old and it came with Sonic Classics. One of my oldest memories is of me playing Oil Ocean Zone in our game room while my sister was playing house in her new Barbie-themed tent.

I didn't like the 1st game. It didn't have the spin dash, Tails, and it was slower so I just considered it the inferior game. (Still do, because 3 acts per zone is too many and I prefer the level design of the later games.)
I didn't even finish the first game until I was about 12. I kept losing at Labyrinth Zone, or would get bored or didn't have much time to play.

I know the second game by heart. I remember getting all of the chaos emeralds even with the Tails' AI screwing me over.

One time my older brother was playing and he made it to the final fight. That was a huge fucking deal at the time. But he started spazzing out, saying that he was losing because my sister and I were watching him play. So we got a ball of yarn and strung it to the outside of the room and told him to yank on it when he beat it so we could see the ending. We waited for a long time but he never beat it.

I used to borrow S3&k from a friend. I 100% every save file before returning it to him, I was in love with that game. I still play it every year. I also got to play Spinball and 3D Blast at his house, but don't have anything to say about them.

While I'm at it, I got the Sonic OVA tape for my ~6th birthday. I was so excited that I needed to watch it RIGHT NOW. So I did, and it was amazing. (It was just a family party. I wasn't ignoring friends or anything.) But during that time, the adults started serving cake and when the movie ended it was all gone. Probably my most emotionally complicated birthday, I was so happy with my gift but cried because I didn't get any cake.

...So there, OP. It's late and that's my big autistic Sonic the Hedgehog memories write-up. I hope you're happy.

Sonic 3 and Knuckles was the best sonic game and that's pretty sad

>>4044334
By the time you actually get anywhere in Spinball you're too frustrated to care about the creepy shit.

>>4044442
>But during that time, the adults started serving cake and when the movie ended it was all gone.
that is the saddest story ever

And man, the Sonic OVA really is fucking brilliant.
It's weird in all the right ways and is a brilliant portrayal of Sonic. Super light on details, and Sara was absolutely utterly redundant and very little would change if she wasn't present, but who fucking cares, it's got two really iconic fights, solid animation, and a standout soundtrack. Metal Sonic was the coolest fucking thing, and I'd wished he was in the games (didn't know about Sonic CD or Sonic the Fighters at the time).
the voice acting in the dub is awful but I still like it for whatever reason

>>4044603
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BK3G5fQGdo

>>4044341
Hey, if he wants to share his opinion, please let him.

>>4044337
For the most part, I really agree with you. I actually liked Stardust Speedway, however.

>>4044603
YOU MAY KNOW EVERYTHING I'M GOING TO DO, BUT THAT'S NOT GOING TO HELP YOU SINCE I KNOW EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING TO DO! STRANGE, ISN'T IT?!

Sonic 2 is and always was my favorite. Adding the spin dash added so much more speed and momentum to the game. The faster levels are so fun.

Also last year I made the upgrade to RGB SCART, and was amazed by how good it looks. Everything looked so sharp and the colors really popped.

The only bad parts of the game are the casino levels and the second stage in chemical plant zone.

>>4044202
>if you don't like Sonic, then it means you like Mario

>>4044192
Got stuck 5 whole minutes at Carnival Night at the barrel thing.

>>4045190
Just use the CPZ shortcut to avoid the rising water level

I can't finish sonic 3 half the time. Marble garden and carnival night suck, and because the levels are so much longer it's harder to push past them
&knuckles is what I usually play if I want to finish something in one sitting. All the levels are good at the very least, it has a better end and death egg is my all time favorite sonic level.

>>4045194
That was a joke.

Just letting you know.

>>4045521
What about Sky Sanctuary? That's my personal favorite.

I have to agree with you on Carnival Night and Marble. They both had mechanics frustrating to learn and use properly

& Knuckles isn't exempt from being frustrating either. Try Sandopolis Act 2 as Knuckles (Or even SONIC for that matter). I don't mind the ghosts but pretty much everything else makes me want to use level select instead.

>>4044337
>really jank stage design.
I appreciated CD more when I played it with the intent to explore the levels for the generators and projectors. Wish the future parts were utilized more though.

>>4046708
There's zero proof that Tails was meant to be in Chaotix.

>>4044192
Borrowed Sonic Chaos on the SMS from a friend once. Thought the game was weird and strange, didn't like it much.

The first half of Sonic 1 and 2 on the MD is perfection as far as I'm concerned.

>>4047039
>Borrowed Sonic Chaos on the SMS from a friend once. Thought the game was weird and strange, didn't like it much.
I've noticed it lags and eat inputs like hell. Maybe the physics engine they tried to pull off was too advanced for the hardware, or maybe it's just shit programming.

>>4047039
While I agree the MD games are great (And Sonic CD) I don't think they're perfection.

But that's just me, and I believe no game is perfect.

>>4047029

Tails' palette and frame definitions remain in the final game and Wechidna has his move-set in the prototype, it's him any way you look at it. Specifically WHY his shit remains there is debated of course, I've always figured Sonic & Tails were intended to be the 'reward' for beating the game before they ran out of development time and scrapped it.

>>4047029
No one said there was. Tails was meant to be in Sonic Crackers, but when the project became Knuckles Chaotix, it's very clear that they no longer intended for Sonic and Tails to be in the game, so Sonic was replaced with Mighty and Tails was mostly removed.

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Who HOYPE for Mania?

>>4047796
Not retro, fuck off

>>4047803
Fan games are retro, sperglord.

>>4047820
>Fan games
Exactly, that's all that Sanic Mania is.

>>4047803
Since /vr/ can have threads about Another Metroid 2 Remake, we can also discuss Sonic Mania here.

>>4047835

You say that like it's a bad thing, the 'fan game' division should be leading Sonic Team with how good their work is.

>>4047848
So that DID set a precedent, I tried warning you, bros.

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Only Sonic games I've played are 1&2 for the Game Gear

Axe me anything

>>4048428
Why would you intentionally subject yourself to the inferior versions of those games? Everyone knows that the Master System Sonic 1 and 2 are best.

>>4044192
Why are Sonic bonus stages so bullshit?
Sonic team gives you like one or two simple stages then ramp them up like crazy.

Will admit I had to savescum most of Sonic 2's ones. Especially the last one, which you have to be virtually perfect on, or else you'll fail half way in and have to do it all again even with save scumming.

Sonic 2's is harder if you have Tails with you ontop. He's so fucking slow to react to everything he's almost guaranteed to fuck you over, especially if he's ended up infront of you. You jump, he jumps. Goddamn little furry motherfucker, get back into your place in line you fuck.

Then you got Sonic 1's "hey lets just throw you straight into a bunch of bullshit with mad physics clusterfuck", and Sonic 3's infuriating blue spheres where if you fuck up even once, it's like "fuck you. Do it all over shithead".

And Sonic CD? That's one of the worst ones of all.

Sonic steers like a fucking tank and you got to hit those flying fucks dead on and they fly around with little rhyme or reason and you get stuck in geometry and shit.

All absolutely infuriating.

>>4044192
Sonic 2 and sonic 3 and knuckles are the only good sonic games. sonic 1 is way to slow for a sonic game and everything after sonic 3 and knuckles is shit.

>>4044334
Spinball is fucking awesome, especially for such a low-budget mini game.

>>4047029
>There's zero proof that Tails was meant to be in Chaotix.

But there's plenty that he *was* in it at some point.

>>4047796
I'm not giving a shit unless they release a Saturn port.

>>4047796

Too much re-used content.

Between Sonic Genertations, Sonic 4, Sonic Mania, Classic Sonic in Forces,Archie comics jerking off classic Sonic, and Green Hill being in every game, I've had my fill of classic Sonic for a fucking lifetime.

I like classic Sonic well enough, but I'm a modernfag too, I don't even give a shit.

>>4049274

Sonic 1 special stages aren't that hard and Sonic 3 is babby mode. I'll give you that Sonic 2 is bullshit but that's mainly due to them thinking fake 3D was actually a good idea when you can't fucking see shit unless the path is completely straight.

You want real bullshit, Sonic Advance has the worst fucking special stages I've ever seen. You're basically screwed if you don't nail that stupid trick in the circle of rings at the end.