Sonic Games are met with unfair bias

[amp316]

richardhutnik said:

amp316 said:
The problem is that they are met with unfair bias.

Look. You're so biased against Sonic that you didn't even mention Sonic and the Black Knight.

Seriously though, there is some truth to what Majin says. It seems as though Sega feels that they have to have a gimmick in order to sell their game. Sonic Unleashed was great except for the horrible Werehog levels which were in over half of the game and in Sonic and the Black Knight they felt the need to give him a sword. Now I am as big a Sonic fan as any and did enjoy those two games, but they would have been much better if the gimmicks didn't exist.

Mario does stuff like this, and it isn't as much of an issue at all.  Ok, it isn't done to the same extent as you have with Sonic, but still Mario goes all over and does sports and also adds new play mechics and so on.  It is entirely possible with Sonic that Sonic's character isn't one you can add a bunch of stuff to.  Sonic is a fairly simple character with speed as the main attraction.  Have him do more and it turns people off.

Yes, there are Mario Sports games and party games and things like that, but the actual series usually just implements new mechanics and not over the top gimmicks.  The only Mario game that I can think of that really strayed from the norm is Mario Sunshine, with FLUDD, and we know how well that was received.  My point is that I don't think fans would really care that much if a new move or two was introduced in each Sonic game, but when each game plays completely different altogether and the only common factors are the speed and ring collecting, it sometimes doesn't feel like the same franchise at all.  I the major problem recently with the Sonic series is that people want more of a familiarity with how it plays.