It appears Sonic Generations doesn't suck...is the Sonic cycle doomed?

[lestatdark]

disolitude said:

lestatdark said:

disolitude said:

lestatdark said:
3DS version for me. To be fair, the Sonic cycle ended for me with Colours (and, *gasp*, I enjoyed both Secret Rings and Black Knight too), but it's nice to hear that Generations seems to be, at least critically, the best Sonic game since the start of the so called Sonic cycle.

I too liked secret rings, and even Sonic Unleashed to an extent. However it felt detivative and not what sonic games should be like.

Sonic Colors and Episode 4 were both good and true sonic games so yeah, cycle is long over. :)

Agreed about both Secret Rings, Unleashed and Black Knight being derivative as to what a Sonic game's experience is about, though I was commenting on my personal assessment of their quality. 

Colours and 4 Episode I were indeed very good true sonic games, and I'm very eager to play Generations  

Btw, since you're also a Dolphin user, we possibly agree that Colours on Dolphin = Visual marvel. Probably one of the most beautiful games, artistically, this gen.

Oh absolutely. Sega really pushed the wii with that game, and once you bump it up to 1080p and give it some AA...its astonishing. Kinda makes me wonder why WiiU won't have HD support for Wii games...most of them look great.

I agree, it's quite the shame, though I'd understand that the focus of Nintendo with the Wii U is with the new tech that future software will provide for the console and not getting the most of an upgraded quality from previous software, though they can always use the same strategy (which I don't applaud nor condone) of re-brandishing a re-releasing Wii games as HD collections/versions in the Wii U. 

In all cases, Emulation will always triumph, even with the upgraded tech of the Wii U, as there's no possibility of doing with a console what you can achieve with a dedicated PC. 1080p, 4xAA, 2x Native Resolution, 16x AF and even some of the upgrades like Per Pixel Lightning are just too taxing to be considered viable for a console.