Easily Final Fantasy IV its one of the best games in the franchise and one of the best games on the SNES. Not to mention that the remake on the DS is one of the best remakes ever made and one of the best games on the DS.

If you have that breadth of experience, I genuinely don't understand your opinion. On what possible merits could you rank Sonic Generations as the best?

The issue with Sonic is that when you're going fast its more about watching rather than playing, and when you slow down the actual platforming is mediocre.

Sonic Generations over Galaxy? I guess to be fair I haven't played Sonic Generations. I don't think I've played Sonic since Adventure 2.

This thread series gives us a great opportunity to talk about a large variety of games that we love from across the decades. Instead, certain people have decided to bitch about other people’s experiences and tastes—namely for Sega and Sonic games.

Even if I agree with your point, I just can't help but smile I bit when I read all the Sonic-bashing that is going on.

I agree for the most part, but Sonic was one of the better platformers. The memorable Sonic games were also published between 1991 and 1994 at the time there wasn't really competition from Nintendo - SMW 1990, DKC 1994 - nobody seems care about Sonic games released 1995 and onwards after we had Donkey Kong games and Yoshi's Island. So I don't think it's about nostalgia that much as it is about the first Sonic games being the best platformers that we had when they were realased.

Quite simple: Replayability. Sonic Generations offers an abundance of branching paths and approaches to its levels, that demands multiple playthroughs to find the optimal stragegy. Unlike many other 3D platformers it does not have a lot of filler content. I can't think of a 3D platformer that has as consistently brilliant level design as Sonic Generations does. Really, the only zone that is not great to amazing is the last one (Planet Wisp), and even that one is still good.
I like games that make me feel like an absolute force when I master the mechanics and memorize the levels. Mirror's Edge and some 3D Mario games do that really well too, but Sonic Generations does it best.

There's 3 titles from 1991 that are on my Top 50 list: Final Fantasy IV, Super Castlevania IV and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, what a great year! My vote went to ALttP since it ranks higher among those excellent titles.

It also gives us a reason to question why certain games are so highly regarded. I mean thats pretty much the only thing that gets a conversation going. Most just list their game of choice and never comes back. I think its great to talk about all aspects of classic games.