With hype once again building to the imminent releases of Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces, can these be the games that break a much-loathed cycle?
Sonic the Hedgehog has a long and turbulent history in videogames, but which are the best games featuring the blue bur?
Generations over Mania? Please… Generations doesnt have any new ideas in the levels/bosses.
Also a top 7 of Sonic games shouldn’t have any 3D crap and contain at least one of the 8-bit titles.
Sonic CD getting snubbed is weird. Number 1 is definitely interchangable between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.
Nothing wrong with putting Generations over Mania. Generations had a lot more to it. Mania was just a bit too short, despite how amazing it was. They're both top-tier Sonic games though.
I don't think mania was to short given 1,2,3, knuckles were between 1 and 3 hours long.
Mania was 5 hours roughly
However i say the originals feel more repayable because they are so short
The 8 bit games were pretty bad overall do you mean the 16 bit ones
Nope. Sonic 1 & 2 on the master system were great. Dont confuse these with the game gear versions either.
Top 7 for me
7 cd
6 mania
5 Frontiers
4 sonic 3
3 sonic 1
2 sonic and knuckles
1 sonic 2
Sometimes I feel like the Sonic Advanced games just didn’t exist with how much it’s always forgotten 😭
Even as a Sonic fan, I didn't really care for those games, and getting the Chaos Emeralds were freakin' horrible. Even with an emulator and save states, I didn't have the desire to try. I also didn't like most of the levels or bosses either. Unfortunately, DiMPs aren't good at making Sonic games.
RPCSX, the newly announced PS4 emulator made by the wonderful people behind RPCS3, was shown running Sonic Mania at a whopping 45 FPS.
Really cool, hopefully, they can advance with this emulator pretty quickly. Their work with the RPCS3 was amazing given how notoriously hard that console architecture is.
Correction: it runs the intro screen and then turns into a green mess. Still cool progress, but who approves this garbage with click-bait titles?
Interesting watching this advance it might take a few more years but the community will be very thankful in the end after all Sony may have given us full PS4 backwards compatibility in the ps5 but they still haven't given us 60 fps patches and modes for a number of popular games like bloodborne.
I can however see Sony taking a stance against this emulator unlike rpcs3 which was emulating the PS3 as the PS3 was off store shelves and many games had no legal purchase route given psn doesn't have then entire PS3 library available. PS4 is quite different
Own this from PS Plus. How ironic people spend their precious time, hours of their life they will never get back, trying to get games to run on hardware it’s not intended to when they could easily play it another way. For free no less. Every day things get more odd.
The divide between both iterations of Sonic is now reaching spin-off territory, and the way Sega is handling it is both a blessing and a curse.
That depends on the kind of games that come afterwards
Doubtful. Sega and Sonic Team have shown over the years how incompetent they can be with one of their bigger franchises if not biggest. Hopefully both games knock it out of the park and any follow ups continue the trend but this is Sega and Sonic we are talking about. Neither of their track records have been all that hot lately. For every good turn of fortunes there seems to be several missteps that follow it. Sonic Mania is day 1 for me while Sonic Forces will be a wait and see. Forces is growing on me though as it combines classic Sonic and 3D Sonic games as well as having a create a hero feature which looks like it might be deeper than I thought it would be.
There's been tons of "let's try this again" moments for Sonic but it always results in the same thing; one semi-good title that sheds lights of hope but then all releases after ruin it.
In this case, Mania looks fairly good and Forces looks like it could be quite hit-or-miss. Remaining hopeful but SEGA has to right the Sonic ship permanently in the right direction after so many failures.
Sonic Mania is looking very promising.
Personally not sure about Sonic Forces. They keep dragging 3D Sonic into a more realistic world, which to me simply isn't interesting.
Really wish they'd announce a new Sonic and Sega All-Star Racing game though... Transformed was very good and a lot of fun, plus it just celebrated Sega in the best possible way.
Mania needs to be its own series just from the footage.. I hope it continues.. Forces is meh