SEGA I LOVE YOU I'M SORRY FOR THINKING YOU SUCKED

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

I think people need a video to fully understand how awkward and uncomfortable this is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuaGFmcS2Rk&feature=related

Ugh I couldt even watch a minute of it, voice acting sucks.

[Darkfox]

Yeah I was very defending of this project til it's revealing today.

I gotta say it sucks as what I can see of it now. They should've done sprites instead of 3D if they wanted to go back to roots, and get rid off stupid homing attacks, and stick to either wii mote (side) and classic support.

The only thing I can hope up for is because of the bonus stage looks almost like the original sonic 1 and the music is actually quite enjoying. Otherwise this is looking like fail.

Sega, if you're not gonna do something good with Sonic; kill him off. While he has some dignity left.

Yeah... I hear you... they should have stuck to the classic moves of spindash and jumps and etc. No homing attacks and crap like that. And why 3D? Because they already have thousands of their stock models laying around so they can be lazy bastards about it. Fail indeed.

Edit: OH GOD! VAL! IT BURRNS!

[Archem]

I think people need a video to fully understand how awkward and uncomfortable this is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuaGFmcS2Rk&feature=related

Only the best from SEGA.

[Valiere]

Ugh I couldt even watch a minute of it, voice acting sucks.

Elise. Smile?

[Nandez]

Makes me think of the Megaman X games on PS2

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

Elise. Smile?

I think my wall just cracked.

[Avnas]

It hardly counts when you're doing self imposed challanges like no rings.

It's not a self-imposed challenge. There are no rings on that stage.

EDIT: WE KNOW SONIC 2006 IS HORRIBLE. CAN WE GET OVER IT kthxbai

[fruckert]

I think people need a video to fully understand how awkward and uncomfortable this is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuaGFmcS2Rk&feature=related

The terribly sad thing is how positive the comments are.

[X_marks_the_ed]

The terribly sad thing is Youtube.

Fixed.

[Valiere]

EDIT: WE KNOW SONIC 2006 IS HORRIBLE. CAN WE GET OVER IT kthxbai

Somebody sounds a little touchy about Sonic 2006! A fan of the big blue ball, aintcha?

[Avnas]

yep

I actually enjoyed all of the Sonic games (except for Spinball on Game Gear and Sonic 2006)
I'm a bit over it now, but I'll probably buy this one.

[Red Giant]

I love how that trailer wants me to forget about 15 years of crappy sonic games.

1991. 1992. 1994. then someotherstuffmayhavehappenedANYWAY 2010.

[Archem]

15 years of crappy sonic games.

Jesus Christ, I never realized just how long we've been dealing with these monstrosities.

[Darkfox]

I love how that trailer wants me to forget about 15 years of crappy sonic games.

1991. 1992. 1994. then someotherstuffmayhavehappenedANYWAY 2010.

So true. XD It is like "Ummm... nothing to see there... *cough* then 2010 happened! The other years didn't exist! What? Those OTHER Sonic games? Screw you! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! WE ARE THE OWNERS AND MASTERS! YOU WANT THE TRUTH!? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! And THEN 2010 happened! AND WE INCLUDED THE HOMING ATTACK! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Okay, maybe a bit over-dramatic but you get the idea.

[Ratty524]

Ive beat 1, and 2. I didnt finish three because I lost interest. Landstalker and spinball distracted me. I did finish spinball too, which was harder then sonic 2's boss fight.
I was a kid when that noise came out. I remember your 'impossible boss fight'. I remember it taking me a sunday afternoon to finish the fight. hard, yes....but not anywhere close to my top 10 hardest.

And none of that changes that fact that sonic just ripped off other platformers, and made it faster to hid the suck.

Every game rips off another game. You think Mario was the first platformer to not base itself on others?

There is no such thing as originality. All ideas are based on something else. The only thing that makes anything "original" is how one interprets the idea through their product. You seem to confuse this with copying.
The Sonic series started the way it did because, with the success of the Mario series, the formulas proved to work for making a successful game. What made sonic not as generic as Alex Kid, however, was that Sega added elements of fast-paced gameplay, a distinctive graphic style and music with the levels, multiple endings, etc. Sonic simply borrowed its game play elements the same way as every other game has. Even the first arcade game, Pong, is basically a computer-made clone of ping pong.
My point here is that the reason you have provided for saying that Sonic never deserved its popularity is really bad, considering the points above.

Anyway, I think SEGA's management has kind of gone down the shitter. I tend to notice that Sonic is not the only series that is failing, but a majority of their other franchises as well. I never played it, but I DOUBT NiGHTS on the Sega Saturn was as clunky, bland, and over all mediocre as the well-awaited sequel. Also, I'm hoping to get this game if they fix the damn running animation, to make it actually look like a running animation.