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curl-6 on 02 August 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
curl-6 said:
Only if Grand Theft Auto has had it's name legally changed to "Sonic"


This is a thread about most overrated game, not the most awesomest.

Obviously, since it didn't have "Resident Evil 4" in the title... :p



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curl-6 on 02 August 2014

On topic though, Sonic has never been great.

Even the Genesis entries suffered from the franchise's fundamental problem; when its going fast, it's more a cutscene than a game, and when it slows down, it lacks the tight controls a platformer needs to excel.



jamesmarkus87 on 02 August 2014

Love Sonic 1
Love Sonic 2
Love Sonic 3
Love Sonic & Knuckles



brendude13 on 02 August 2014

Certainly not.

The 2D games are absolute classics, and the Adventure games are the best platformers out there in my opinion.



Ultrashroomz on 03 August 2014

Definitely not.



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AZWification on 03 August 2014
curl-6 said:

On topic though, Sonic has never been great.

Even the Genesis entries suffered from the franchise's fundamental problem; when its going fast, it's more a cutscene than a game, and when it slows down, it lacks the tight controls a platformer needs to excel.

I don't really get this complaint.. I can play the Genesis games just fine everytime I want to slowdown! Platforming has never been an issue for me in the 2D games ( the 3D games on the other hand? Yeah.....). :-/



                
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Cream147 on 03 August 2014

I've beat Sonic 1 about 100 times, Sonic 2 about 20 times, S3K about 5 times. I've sunk hundreds and hundreds of hours into SADX and SA2B. No, I don't think these games are overrated.



Nicklesbe on 03 August 2014

The most over rated game of all time was E.T. periode. The game companies, the movie studios, everyone hyped the shit out of that POS and saying it was an experience just like the movie. Know what happened? As well as being the most over rated game of all time it was also the worst game of all time and is infamous for being so and was eventually buried in a landfill. I heard recently some people were trying to dig them up recently and even tho the game is complete trash it's infamy and history has made it a hugely profitable collectors item.



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Squeezol on 03 August 2014
curl-6 said:

On topic though, Sonic has never been great.

Even the Genesis entries suffered from the franchise's fundamental problem; when its going fast, it's more a cutscene than a game, and when it slows down, it lacks the tight controls a platformer needs to excel.

How is going fast like a cutscene? If you're going fast you have to concentrate even more or else you'll bump into something and slow down. The originals had good enough controls for platforming as well.. This isn't the franchise's problem at all, let alone the fundamental one. One of the actual problems has been, and still is, the direction the franchise wants to go in its 3D games.



curl-6 on 03 August 2014
Squeezol said:
curl-6 said:

On topic though, Sonic has never been great.

Even the Genesis entries suffered from the franchise's fundamental problem; when its going fast, it's more a cutscene than a game, and when it slows down, it lacks the tight controls a platformer needs to excel.

How is going fast like a cutscene? If you're going fast you have to concentrate even more or else you'll bump into something and slow down. The originals had good enough controls for platforming as well.. This isn't the franchise's problem at all, let alone the fundamental one. One of the actual problems has been, and still is, the direction the franchise wants to go in its 3D games.

When Sonic goes fast, he frequently goes so fast control is out of the question. You're just watching him speed through loop the loops with no interactivity.