Sonic Megathread

[Nickakyoin]

Are there any good Sonic Lost World mods improvements for the PC version? The settings and optimization are horrid. I feel even on Wii U it runs and performs better.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

My, what a versatile product!

I think Mania got a similar ad. I prefer it over "Sega does".

Are there any good Sonic Lost World mods improvements for the PC version? The settings and optimization are horrid. I feel even on Wii U it runs and performs better.

I thought that since the Wii U wasn't that powerful the port would've been perfect but alas.

Even modding is way more limited than Generation's.

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Team Chaotix kinda got relegated to spin-off games rather than being relevant to the mainline ones sadly.

And nowadays Team Hooligans are missing in action (aside from Nack/Fang)

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[Dodgykebaab]

Ah yes, Sonic the Hedgehog. Of all the window decoration, he was one of the best!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

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Ah yes, Sonic the Hedgehog. Of all the window decoration, he was one of the best!

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I wish Sega sold these for real.


Also notice how his quills were thicker. He's more of a needlemouse there

On a more similar note: Sonic's Modern design predated Sonic Adventure as he made a cameo in Sega Bass Fishing

 

[evercaptor]

I've been making a concerted effort to like Sonic CD the past week and I have to say that now I'm picking up its rhythm, I'm really enjoying it. I think i played like 5 minutes on the gems collection as a kid, a single play on the 2011 reissue on xbox360, but i've beaten it 4 times this week and i'm really starting to feel it the way i do the other 2d sonic games I grew up with.

 

[Mr. SyS]

>Mega thread
If you have a 6th gen console you can't go wrong with Mega Collection.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I've been making a concerted effort to like Sonic CD the past week and I have to say that now I'm picking up its rhythm, I'm really enjoying it. I think i played like 5 minutes on the gems collection as a kid, a single play on the 2011 reissue on xbox360, but i've beaten it 4 times this week and i'm really starting to feel it the way i do the other 2d sonic games I grew up with.
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Honestly the only thing CD's remaster really needed was a proper stage select and Knuckles + Amy playable in a second playthrough.

Truly one of the best way to appreciate the game

 

[evercaptor]

Honestly the only thing CD's remaster really needed was a proper stage select and Knuckles + Amy playable in a second playthrough.

Truly one of the best way to appreciate the game

That's how i've been playing it (via origins+ so knux and amy are playable) and playing through with each of them so i'm building the sonic cd muscle memory like i have for 1, 2 and 3c. I really enjoyed how the main game prioritises really exploring the map and then the time trials are there for that Sonic speed rush and so both can really flourish and the maps facilitate that, too.

That miracle edition looks interesting, I'm gonna have to follow up with that when i've finished my cd vision quest.

 

[Nickakyoin]

Am I going to be that insane? Maybe.
Half of these games aren't necessarily bad, otherwise (Advance trilogy, Shadow Generations obv, the first Riders etc.)

(Also forgot to add Sonic Crossworld Racings, but that one is safe).

 

[waterxwraith]

I've been making a concerted effort to like Sonic CD the past week and I have to say that now I'm picking up its rhythm, I'm really enjoying it. I think i played like 5 minutes on the gems collection as a kid, a single play on the 2011 reissue on xbox360, but i've beaten it 4 times this week and i'm really starting to feel it the way i do the other 2d sonic games I grew up with.
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hell yeah, I fell for the marketing as a kid when Gems Collection dropped and when I played through Sonic CD for the first time I was mesmerized and fell in love immediately. Glad to see more people giving it it's flowers these days.

 

[evercaptor]

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Am I going to be that insane? Maybe.
Half of these games aren't necessarily bad, otherwise (Advance trilogy, Shadow Generations obv, the first Riders etc.)

(Also forgot to add Sonic Crossworld Racings, but that one is safe).

I eill day that i loved Sonic 3D flickies island (mega drive) as a kid. I don't think I'm in the majority here, but I also really like R and The fighters. Good luck on your quest!

hell yeah, I fell for the marketing as a kid when Gems Collection dropped and when I played through Sonic CD for the first time I was mesmerized and fell in love immediately. Glad to see more people giving it it's flowers these days.

What was the marketting around gems collection? We stopped getting playstation mags after the ps1 so i was out of the loop

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I eill day that i loved Sonic 3D flickies island (mega drive) as a kid. I don't think I'm in the majority here, but I also really like R and The fighters. Good luck on your quest!

3D Blast Director's Cut and Sonic R PC with mods help a lot.

I am bad with The Fighters despite the good OST and cute graphics.

 

[waterxwraith]

I eill day that i loved Sonic 3D flickies island (mega drive) as a kid. I don't think I'm in the majority here, but I also really like R and The fighters. Good luck on your quest!

What was the marketting around gems collection? We stopped getting playstation mags after the ps1 so i was out of the loop

I was a kid, so things are fuzzy but I remember magazine ads and posters at toys r us and shit about Sonic CD being the crazy "lost" sonic game few have ever experienced, I also distinctly remember some advertising calling it a "masterpiece".

I don't disagree.

 

[Miles Miles]

I was a kid, so things are fuzzy but I remember magazine ads and posters at toys r us and shit about Sonic CD being the crazy "lost" sonic game few have ever experienced, I also distinctly remember some advertising calling it a "masterpiece".

I don't disagree.

Sonic CD isn't even that lost of a game. It sold 1.5 million copies. I personally think it's the worst classic Sonic game, but that doesn't mean I think it's bad. It's just the worst of an amazing bunch. The JP OST is certainly a masterpiece though!

 

[waterxwraith]

Sonic CD isn't even that lost of a game. It sold 1.5 million copies. I personally think it's the worst classic Sonic game, but that doesn't mean I think it's bad. It's just the worst of an amazing bunch. The JP OST is certainly a masterpiece though!

I don't think Sonic CD is the worst, I put it above 1 and 2 and on par with 3&K.

 

[Miles Miles]

I don't think Sonic CD is the worst, I put it above 1 and 2 and on par with 3&K.

1, 2 and 3K are all way better than CD.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

Gotta agree.

IMO Sonic CD is fine but it's not better than 2 or 3. I can maybe see the argument that it's better than 1 based on the level design and visuals alone, but even then, Sonic CD almost feels like an unrelated game due to the different design direction the team took compared with Sonic 2.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

about Sonic CD being the crazy "lost" sonic game few have ever experienced

When I was younger I've played a bit of it (on emulator I think) and saw videos yet somehow I didn't know the title for at least a decade and a half.

1, 2 and 3K are all way better than CD.

I gotta disagree about Sonic 1.


Yes, Green Hills and Starlight are great zones but overall the level design of CD is above. No bottomless pits (outside of Metallic Madness), no spike bug and having 4 variations of each levels is a better thing (especially when Tidal Tempest and Metallic Madness are better than Labyrinth and Scrap Brain). Marble and Labyrinth were tediously slow whereas Sonic CD has a more open level design.

The only things Sonic 1 did better were probably the bosses (CD's were more like puzzles than proper fights).

Sonic 2 and 3&K are obviously better.

On a side note: Sonic 2 is probably seen as the best of the "pentalogy" simply because of how improved it was whereas Sonic 3, while also being great, didn't bring anything big to the table like the Spin Dash or the Two Acts level structure. I still think that the zones of standalone 3 are still long enough to compensate for the halved amount of levels.

 

[waterxwraith]

1, 2 and 3K are all way better than CD.

Sonic 1 being better than CD is crazy, thats not a take I could agree with on my worst day.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

On a side note: Sonic 2 is probably seen as the best of the "pentalogy" simply because of how improved it was whereas Sonic 3, while also being great, didn't bring anything big to the table like the Spin Dash or the Two Acts level structure. I still think that the zones of standalone 3 are still long enough to compensate for the halved amount of levels.

Overall I do think Sonic 2 is the best game in the original series. It has some of the best music and visual design, it was a huge upgrade over Sonic 1, and by Sonic 3 I just felt like the levels had got too big and full of stuff. It was like an iteration of 2, rather than a huge upgrade like we had the first time around.

That said, while I prefere the visuals and music of 2, I have to acknowldge that there is some beautiful work in both the audio and video department of 3&K.

I know which game I'm going to keep going back to, but I also know that it's because it was the first one I played and loved as a kid.

 

[Guinea]

I love sonk he fast and cool.

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I love sonk he fast and cool.