Whenever a new Sonic game comes out these days, there’s a bit of a collective groan due to many disappointments in the past. With Sonic Colors and Sonic Generations, the franchise has regained some measure of dignity, and the All Stars Racing games are also rather good. But whenever mobile Sonic titles come up, a bit of that pessimism does show. With this particular title though, not as much whining is required.
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Like many people, I work with crappy computers at work. I have noticed that gamers are capable of working around tech issues and get stuff done.
They need less guidance with software updates or new software that gets implemented.
Decades of buggy, incomplete games really help with problem solving.
yeh, work pcs are shiiit
where i work, all pcs are still windows 7 haha.
all of the programs are so old and outdated it hurts.
but that issue will stay that way as not everyone is familiar with pcs and the older generation is ... more or less helpless with them haha. not all of them of course but most of them
When the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise releases a game on console, sales figures often show an impressive turnout of loyal fans ready to support the series. Unfortunately, the same does not seem to be true for mobile releases, as the last five Sonic titles have made $8.7 million in revenue combined, while Sonic Dash, released in 2013, has made nearly $11 million on its own.
The title isn't really upfront. Sonic Dash made more than the last 5 MOBILE games combined. It isn't compared to console/pc releases.
Sonic Mania.....the rest of the Sonic games over the last 20+ years need to be deleted.
Nonsense. Have you played them all?
The Sonic series must be the only classic series at this point where gamers refuse to allow it to be more than 2D sprites. I just don't get it, I don't see the same complaints about other classic games series. Everybody seems to want a modern look for those games, but Sonic? Nope, Sonic must be 2D sprites only forever for no real reason.
Could be because 90% of the 3D Sonic games were really poor. It didn't help that the first ever 3D Sonic game was shockingly bad compared to Mario 64 it's main rival back then. (Now they aren't even considered rivals because the quality of Sonic fell off a cliff apart from a few games or parts of them)
I think the issue with the 3d sonic games was speed. Sonic was all about speed and running. The 3d ones changed this and I don't think speole liked it. Mario was a bit drffernt in terms of the speed of Mario was slower and when Nintendo made mario 64 it felt like a Mario game.
Sonic adventure 1 & 2 were great games imo for sonic and worked well because they changed it up mixing speed with other characters.
Games after that did not feel like sonic until lost world (for me anyway)
I think this is the main issue with 3d sonic games is they are all hit and miss. Where it seems no matter what Nintendo do with Mario it seems to work.
@mcstorm
Sonic was never all about speed, it was more about platforming and finding shortcuts throughout the levels. Sonic's 2D games were never really that fast, you would actually be punished for going too fast, especially in Sonic 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
If anything, Sonic's 3D games are much faster paced. In Sonic Adventure 1, you could use Sonic's spin dash which made Sonic move faster than we had seen at the time. When they added boost gameplay, Sonic games became all about speed and precision timing.
What the heck? No. Sonic Generations was amazing as well. Having grown up on Sonic 1-3&Knuckles. I think Generations was better than Mania. Granted, Mania was fantastic. It just felt a bit too short, and Generations had amazing levels in both 2D and 3D perspective. Which gave extra value to every stage. If there's one Sonic game I want... It's Generations 2.
Also, special mention to Sonic Adventure 2. That certainly should not be "deleted" as it fits into your 20 year bracket for purging as well.
I thought Mania was great. The DLC expanded it abit too. Content wise. For my liking there are too many different Sonic games released and the content is bad because of it overall.
They need to.scale back. Not have so many different types of Sonic game/character/look and work on what people really want.
@PyroMessiah86
"Not have so many different types of Sonic game/character/look and work on what people really want."
This is another thing Sonic games are unfairly criticised for. Every other long running game series has been allowed to evolve and branch out into different styles of game play. Mario, for example, is churned out so often with Nintendo at this point but nobody bats an eyelid. There must be over 10 different types of games with Mario on the Switch at this point.
Sega releases a spinoff Sonic game once in a while and people complain. It's like I have been saying for years now, people are stuck in the past when it comes to Sonic games. If you let the series evolve and move on, maybe you would enjoy it more.
@SegaGamer
You're obviously a big Sega and Sonic fan. Fair play I can understand that. They released lots of classics over the years.
Though the bottom line really is that with Sonic there are now more 'misses' than 'hits' in the series and that needs to be accepted and addressed by Sega.
Sonic the Hedgehog and Pac-Man will crossover into each other's mobile games for the next month. Which means Sonic will be present in Bandai Namco’s Pac-Man iOS/Android game. Moreover, Pac-Man and spouse Ms Pac-Man will be playable characters in Sonic Dash.
That’s the third time I saw these characters crossover with each other
I’m also excited to see Ms Pac-Man still be utilized as it seems Namco has done their best not to include her in anything nowadays
Which is odd to say the least, considering in the late 90's she had her own full-fledged game.
