When was Sonic fun?

"Sonic used to be a big dog in the game industry along with Mario. When the jump to 3D happened the blue hedgehog just couldn't keep pace. There have been a select amount of great Sonic titles but most gamers glance over them. Sonic Generations will grab the attention of gamers as Sega flashes the presence of the older Sonic with a pot belly. So we asked the Gameplay Today staff this week what their favorite Sonic game was..."

[ShyGuy13]

Never? :P

[AEtherbane]

You though you were being clever didnt you?

[Dart89]

Back in my childhood years.

[VG_Releaser]

Been a long.... loooooooooooooong time

[hazardman]

not as fun as my genesis days, but the new download is ok..here and there.

[zackacloud]

last fun in sonic adventure then the real sonic dead with dreamcast

[CNXN]

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle was pretty great put a lot of hours into that on the gamecube

[vickers500]

Agreed. SA2:B was a very fun game, and had some pretty cool music as well. Very fast paced.

[Quagmire]

It was always fun, just that the fun varies a bit in this current gen versions.

Can't believe how many people overlooked Sonic Colours.

[zackacloud]

A new question :

When FF was fun on consoles?

Wow

FFX so it been 10 years ago , right?

FFXII half fun.

FFXIII fun not consider in it dictionary( or i can say , what u talking about)

[a_bro]

when I had a Sega Mega Drive (aka genesis)

[midgard227]

sonic was best when it was 2d, it wasnt bad with sonic adventure 1 and 2, but the rest were meh.

sorta like mario, horrible transition to 3d. I know alot of people mario now, but nothing beats the original mario, and super mario world games. tho New super mario bros was good

[kramun]

Horrible transition to 3d? It's one of the best games of all time.

[bwazy]

I personally think that it was never fun. In my childhood I owned a SNES, where as my friend owned a SEGA. I never really enjoyed Sonic as much as his counterparts (aka Mario/Earthworm Jim/James Pond (LOL)). But hey it wouldn't have gotten to where it is if others didn't enjoy it.

[AdvanceWarsSgt]

Honestly, the Sonic Advance games for the GBA were the last Sonic games I truly enjoyed.

[NJShadow]

Sonic 3 + Knuckles. THE BEST SONIC GAME EVER... PERIOD.

[Wolfmoonstrike]

Agreed, that was the last time I had fun with sonic.

[stephmhishot]

16 bit Sonic. Unfortunately for the franchise, the speed of the game hasn't translated well to modern graphics. The classic 16 bit Sonic games will always have special place in my heart. I just wish the people behind the more recent games would just stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Let us run left to right, jump on Robotnik's robots, save the animals, collect rings and throw us a decent special stage or two.

[zackacloud]

That good point

sonic must be faster

[SoapShoes]

Dude have you played Unleashed or Colors? It's freaking fast in 3D, so fast that everything just blurs by. I'd say too fast.

Btw, Sonic wasn't always about just speed. Even on the 16 bit games there were many places where you had to slow down and actually platform. Labyrinth Zone on Sonic 1 was one level which was very slow paced.

[Wolfmoonstrike]

@Estranged what I think the devs and possibly newer gamers forget is that Sonic (while fast) wasn't about speed but momentum.

[Xander-RKoS]

Sounds like a lot of people only like the old Sonic games out of nostalgia.

[RockmanII7]

I like most sonic games, and I still play Sonic 1/2/3+K to this day but my favorite was Sonic 2.

[Kon]

Dunno. I was playing Mario back then

[lazertroy]

sonic adventure

[L6RD7BLU3]

It was fun when we didn't have fan fags like you lol. When everyone could enjoy games and not bitc* and moan ALL THE TIME. sadly those day's are over, everyone are fanboys, grammer officers I.E (N4G), and idiots. R.I.P the 90'S

[EverydayGuy]

Why can't they remake Sonic the Hedgehog 2 like this.

[Non_sequitur]

That was amazing. I wish someone would do a carnival zone from sonic 3.

[herukuti]

sonic never was fun; only the colors on screen were anything close to likable. proof? go play the sonic that was released on psn and tell me how fun that "game" is.

but, i do love the sega p* partnership.

[ChrisGTR1]

sonic 1,2 were awesome, after that it was all downhill.

[kesvalk]

the two sonic adventure games were pretty fun, sonic colors is very fun too..

just counting 3d console games, half the games were very fun:

adventures - fun
adventures 2 - fun
heroes - not fun
2006 - not fun
unleashed - not fun
colors - fun

a 50% margin, the rush games on the ds were pretty decent too...

[Wolfmoonstrike]

Sounds like a lot of people here didn't play Sonic till the Dreamcast+ age. Go back to the genesis day sonics and have some real fun.

[gumgum99]

1991, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2008 with the daytime levels, 2010, Come on now, there were a lot of fun years for him even with the bad apples.

I have my share of franchises that I was disappointed in as well, but I'm not gonna deny any of the years that they were fun either. This article doesn't seem to do that, so I disgress. Let's hope future years can put to rest some of these "questions" of The series' appeal.

[Sonic the Hedgehog]

Some people just need to check out the consoles.

[GreasyBacon32]

Sonic should have died long ago. Not only are his games becoming more and more terrible but he has totally fueled tons of disgusting furries to become even more disgusting.