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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
Agree that the generational gap is too broad to really make a strong list. Need to tighten the years a bit. Hard to compare Pac Man with N64 games.
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.
MGS should be in the S-Tier, if you read the article
They need to do Worms 5, a new full on 3D game, the ones they've been doing lately have kind of lost touch with all the little changes just to make it feel "new".
I loved the destruction of the map and the carnage you could unleash, imagine if they really stuck at it with the technology now available on this gen consoles. The battle between players when you had your own castle at other ends of the map was great to play.
Worms was OK in 3d, the best early game was Worms 2 since you could play online, and even using a dial-up connection it was relatively smooth since it was turn based. You could find people at all hours in the lobby, was pretty active for years.
WA/WWP were basically the same game. Though the fact you could play online with a custom tombstone, and custom full colour maps all auto sent to other players was cool at the time. You could literally make maps from photos or anything.
The newer 2D games seem to have less stuff you can customise than the early games, that should not be a thing.
That reminds me though, I found an old program called PWChat on my 20 year old HDD a little while back, you could go in rooms and spam ascii art with it, but it seems worms 2 servers aren't active anymore so the program is kinda useless now. Still.. a neat piece of history for a lost program.