Best sonic game ever made?

[Übermensch]

I have 2 and two 1/2 favourite sonic games. My personal favourites are Sonic Heroes and Sonic Generations + 1/2 of sonic adventure DX (I just didn't have enough time to experience the whole game) and sonic unleashed (just like with adventures dx, i didn't have time to play it). I like Generations, it had interesting story and the fact that you can play for young and old sonic just kept me keep on playing. The only thing i didn't like about generations are some act 2 levels, the rest is fine. But the one i love the most is sonic heroes. It's one of my most favourite games of all time. It had a nice story, you could pick 1 out of 4 teams which had their own story, in every team there were 3 characters (for e.g. team sonic had sonic (obviosly), knuckles and tails), each of them had something special: superspeed, power, and an ability to fly (every team had one of each kind) and etc.

What about your favourite sonic game/s, do you have any?

[nutcase gooner]

Sonic Adventure 2

[Dark Redshift]

Sonic Adventure 1 1998 version and Sonic Adventure 2 on Dreamcast and Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic 2006 as well, but only as a proper "best one ever made" once that debugged remake/remaster is out...

[Deaf Lepper]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Sonic Adventure 1 1998 version and Sonic Adventure 2 on Dreamcast and Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic 2006 as well, but only as a proper "best one ever made" once that debugged remake/remaster is out...

Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic 2006 are in your favorites? Good God.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by Musaranho:

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

Sonic Adventure 1 1998 version and Sonic Adventure 2 on Dreamcast and Shadow the Hedgehog. Sonic 2006 as well, but only as a proper "best one ever made" once that debugged remake/remaster is out...

Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic 2006 are in your favorites? Good God.

Surely you would already know that from previous posts I've made. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Shadow, Sonic 2006 and the Dreamcast versions of the Sonic Adventure games are my favourtie 3D Sonics, alongside Sonic R PC as that was my first ever Sonic game.

If you are shocked to find someone who actually likes those awesome games (Sonic 2006 slightly less so only due to it's unfinished state and ocassional bugs), then what business do you have being on the internet?

[Deaf Lepper]

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

then what business do you have being on the internet?

I guess you're right. I have no business here. Gonna call my ISP and cancel my subscription asap. Back to TV and Books I guess.

[Dark Redshift]

Originally posted by Musaranho:

Originally posted by Dark Redshift:

then what business do you have being on the internet?

I guess you're right. I have no business here. Gonna call my ISP and cancel my subscription asap. Back to TV and Books I guess.

There's always console gaming and handheld. I don't think you were really that shocked about my Sonic game preferences though so you're free to stay. Still looking forward to those remasters on PC and modern consoles. Maybe Sega could do ports of them on the Switch.

Ports or even Sonic 1 Steam style emulations of the Dreamcast versions could also be made for here and other platforms like Sega did with Mega Drive games, so long as they remove the grinding for Green Hill Zone and make it a bonus for beating all three stories, and make SA1 the 1998 version.

[The Devasia Mentality]

ShtH and S06 are up there as a couple of the absolute worst 3D Sonic titles ever published... but Sonic fans are all kinds of insane, hell my hatred of Sonic Heroes stems much deeper than those two games, but that doesn't make my blind to the fact that they're both unmitigatingly awful, and I see no reason to expalin why as it would be an entire internet's worth of redundancy.

I can't say I quite get why the Dreamcast versions of the adventure games are specifically that good to you especially with how dated and terrible the DC version of the first adventure game is with it's wonky as hell character models. I do love the Adventure games for their gameplay, but no matter how you look at it the presentation has aged poorly, modern updates or not.

Unfortunately as far as 3D games go I can't pick one that I think is all good because for any given thing a 3D games does right, it's offset by everything else it does wrong. Is it any wonder why sega is using Classic Sonic as a crutch when you can say that about every 3D sonic game they make? Gvie me a 3D game that gives Adventure 1's gameplay and of level design style, presentation like Unleashed, and story like Sonic 3, and MAYBE I'll actually care enough about the blue blur again.

As is though my vote for best Sonic game goes to Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

[Son Samurai]

Originally posted by The Devasia Mentality:

ShtH and S06 are up there as a couple of the absolute worst 3D Sonic titles ever published... but Sonic fans are all kinds of insane, hell my hatred of Sonic Heroes stems much deeper than those two games, but that doesn't make my blind to the fact that they're both unmitigatingly awful, and I see no reason to expalin why as it would be an entire internet's worth of redundancy.

I can't say I quite get why the Dreamcast versions of the adventure games are specifically that good to you especially with how dated and terrible the DC version of the first adventure game is with it's wonky as hell character models. I do love the Adventure games for their gameplay, but no matter how you look at it the presentation has aged poorly, modern updates or not.

Unfortunately as far as 3D games go I can't pick one that I think is all good because for any given thing a 3D games does right, it's offset by everything else it does wrong. Is it any wonder why sega is using Classic Sonic as a crutch when you can say that about every 3D sonic game they make? Gvie me a 3D game that gives Adventure 1's gameplay and of level design style, presentation like Unleashed, and story like Sonic 3, and MAYBE I'll actually care enough about the blue blur again.

As is though my vote for best Sonic game goes to Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles was a game so awesome, it couldn't be contained in one game!!!

My favorites would go:

1) Sonic 3 & Knuckles
2) Sonic 2
3) Either Sonic Rush or Sonic CD

Sonic just doesn't work that well in 3d no matter what they try.

[DJsquare3 (NebulaNyx)]

Originally posted by Son Samurai:

Originally posted by The Devasia Mentality:

ShtH and S06 are up there as a couple of the absolute worst 3D Sonic titles ever published... but Sonic fans are all kinds of insane, hell my hatred of Sonic Heroes stems much deeper than those two games, but that doesn't make my blind to the fact that they're both unmitigatingly awful, and I see no reason to expalin why as it would be an entire internet's worth of redundancy.

I can't say I quite get why the Dreamcast versions of the adventure games are specifically that good to you especially with how dated and terrible the DC version of the first adventure game is with it's wonky as hell character models. I do love the Adventure games for their gameplay, but no matter how you look at it the presentation has aged poorly, modern updates or not.

Unfortunately as far as 3D games go I can't pick one that I think is all good because for any given thing a 3D games does right, it's offset by everything else it does wrong. Is it any wonder why sega is using Classic Sonic as a crutch when you can say that about every 3D sonic game they make? Gvie me a 3D game that gives Adventure 1's gameplay and of level design style, presentation like Unleashed, and story like Sonic 3, and MAYBE I'll actually care enough about the blue blur again.

As is though my vote for best Sonic game goes to Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Sonic 3 & Knuckles was a game so awesome, it couldn't be contained in one game!!!

My favorites would go:

1) Sonic 3 & Knuckles
2) Sonic 2
3) Either Sonic Rush or Sonic CD

Sonic just doesn't work that well in 3d no matter what they try.

I have to disagree. I love the 3D stages in games Like Unleashed, Clours and Generations. They manage to capture the sense of speed that sonic is known for in a way that 2D levels cant do. I love both types of levels to be honest but the 3D ones just feel more open and I enoy that much more.

[Son Samurai]

Originally posted by DJsquare3 (Nebula):

Originally posted by Son Samurai:

Sonic 3 & Knuckles was a game so awesome, it couldn't be contained in one game!!!

My favorites would go:

1) Sonic 3 & Knuckles
2) Sonic 2
3) Either Sonic Rush or Sonic CD

Sonic just doesn't work that well in 3d no matter what they try.

I have to disagree. I love the 3D stages in games Like Unleashed, Clours and Generations. They manage to capture the sense of speed that sonic is known for in a way that 2D levels cant do. I love both types of levels to be honest but the 3D ones just feel more open and I enoy that much more.

Don't get me wrong, I like the 3d stages too but it seems like the newer games have that one random obstacle that always slows you down ( an enemy in an odd place, random pit in the middle of a city ). The older games had it too but it seems to happen more often than not and only in a place where you wanna boost and go FAST!!!

I think generations did minimize that as much as they could but if I could get a section where I could boost for like 30 seconds and take in the environment, I would be sold.

[Deaf Lepper]

I think Sonic Adventure 1 has the best level design of the 3D games.

Of course I'm talking about the Sonic levels.

[The Devasia Mentality]

Personally the speed of the boost era games, while exilerating in it's own way(at least in Unleashed), ruins a lot of the explorative platforming I love about older Sonic games like 3&K, and I feel like Adventure 1(with the exception of big) captured a better balance and controled alot more naturally, it's just that everything else about the game aged like sh*t. Going fast is a selling point of Sonic that I get, but the boost era games are too straitforward and easy, and I'm never inclined to play them more than once before moving on to a Sonic game with more variety and open level designs... like Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

[Deaf Lepper]

Originally posted by The Devasia Mentality:

Personally the speed of the boost era games, while exilerating in it's own way(at least in Unleashed), ruins a lot of the explorative platforming I love about older Sonic games like 3&K, and I feel like Adventure 1(with the exception of big) captured a better balance and controled alot more naturally, it's just that everything else about the game aged like sh*t. Going fast is a selling point of Sonic that I get, but the boost era games are too straitforward and easy, and I'm never inclined to play them more than once before moving on to a Sonic game with more variety and open level designs... like Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

I really don't like the boost sections in Generations, precisely because I have no control whatsoever. He just bumps into walls and enemies and suffers nothing. In those moments my suspension of disbelief doesn't hold up (I can take a blue hedghehog running around, but I can't take the ludicrousness of these boost sections). Also I can't see ♥♥♥♥ because it's all a blur.

Sonic Adventure felt fast enough for me, and I had great control even when spindashing. It had the perfect blend between running and platforming. In generations, you don't. If you go the upper route, it's fast but not much control to it. If you go the lower route, there's a lot of platforming of the boring type.

[P4nda]

Sonic Unleashed.

[TheJR]

Sonic Adventure1/2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic Riders Zero Gravity, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic&TBK, Sonic Colors, Sonic Generations