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

[HobomasterXXX]

knuckles and tails can eat a dick too

I like Knuckles. Although he made every level in Sonic 3 and relevant counterparts a cakewalk.

[Avnas]

Shouldn't a shooting star be able to...I dunno...float or fly or something?

And not just when he swings on a magical doorstop.

Inertia.

[Valiere]

I actually don't have a beef with most of the characters. These are my issues.

1. Having both anthromorphic animals AND humans in the world. Pick one or the other. Yes, I know this means Robotnik's out, but it's better than running around on your stubby little furry legs doing fetch quests for full-sized human beings (as in Sonic Chronicles).

2. Way too many characters per game...Just develop the ones you have instead of adding more...

3. A gazillion versions of Sonic. There's Sonic. There's pink Sonic. There's robo-Sonic. White Sonic. Black Sonic. In that crappy cartoon, there was a trio of Sonics. Why???

4. The super saiyan thing they do is just idiotic.

[zuhane]

I despise Sonic, even the earlier ones. Mario is just better is every way, shape and form.

1. The characters are absolutely hateful. They're either suggestive skanks, brainless small
girls or jocks with no personality.
2. Why do they want chaos emeralds? They're just crystals that give you stupid powers.
3. It's trial and error. Certain levels involve enemies or traps which are actually physically
impossible to avoid the first time round.
4. You just hold -> for 5 minutes every level, rarely doing any jumping or using any skill.
5. Every game ever made > Sonic.

[Cerebus]

5. Every game ever made > Sonic.

Have you ever tried Turbo Turtle?
I've seen this game on a GBA Emulator. Played about 5 minutes. Never want to play it again.
Lame puzzle game where you move a turtle shell around a level to collect I don't remember what, and falling/dying/whatever makes you start the whole level every times.

I've never been a Sonic fan either, though. I don't like his presence in Brawl, especially since nearly all his attacks look the same from what I've seen.

[Darkfox]

1. Having both anthromorphic animals AND humans in the world. Pick one or the other. Yes, I know this means Robotnik's out, but it's better than running around on your stubby little furry legs doing fetch quests for full-sized human beings (as in Sonic Chronicles).

But I do this, mix multiple character types in a world... then again... mine look more human and have some reason as to WHY.

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

BIG NEWS: SONIC 4 IS NOT BEING DEVELOPED BY SONIC TEAM.

The leaked footage suggests that they did. This is weird.

[Valiere]

It's probably for the best. The only Sonic games in the last decade or so that critics even cared for were Sonic Advance and the Sonic Rush series......which weren't made by the Sonic Team. They were developed by Dimps, the same team that's doing Sonic 4. Which means the Sonic Team's been behind every single Sonic game that's sucked for a long time.

[Avnas]

4. You just hold -> for 5 minutes every level, rarely doing any jumping or using any skill.

This is a common misconception. Most of the levels, especially in the older games, had traps, platforming and branching paths which made it varied and fun to play. The 3d games tried to mimic this but only SA1 and 2 (and Unleashed's day stages) really made it feel like you were playing a Sonic game and not some shitty cash-in. Secret Rings was okay. I liked it, but I'll take SA2 over it anyday.

[Archem]

The leaked footage suggests that they did. This is weird.

We've gone over this.

[HobomasterXXX]

I despise Sonic, even the earlier ones. Mario is just better is every way, shape and form.

1. The characters are absolutely hateful. They're either suggestive skanks, brainless small
girls or jocks with no personality.

Because Mario characters have so much personality, it just bleeds from every orifice. Unless we're talking the Mario RPGs, noone in Mario has any personality at all, really.

2. Why do they want chaos emeralds? They're just crystals that give you stupid powers.

Doesn't every villain in everything ever just seek power, in the end?

3. It's trial and error. Certain levels involve enemies or traps which are actually physically
impossible to avoid the first time round.

This is just wrong.

4. You just hold -> for 5 minutes every level, rarely doing any jumping or using any skill.

Maybe if you're playing Sonic Heroes.

5. Every game ever made > Sonic.

Shaq Fu is better than Sonic? Huh.

[Archem]

Nice counter-point.

[carmen]

I happen to heart sonic. and hate how his image has been whored out.

but sonic 3 and SaK? omg. so good.

and I'll tell you why.
because sonic is a bad ***.

[Prpl_Mage]

Because Mario characters have so much personality, it just bleeds from every orifice. Unless we're talking the Mario RPGs, noone in Mario has any personality at all, really.

Well, at least they don't speak... They are what you make them pretty much. That's what kinda ruins Sonic for me, they added a bunch of characters and these characters have horrible one-liners, voice overs and seem to be more about the image of a cool/stereotypical  highschool kid than an actual character.
Sure the Toads in the mario games speak and no one likes that guy.

Also, Shadow the hedgehog made me bury all hope for a good Sonic game. When you mix three worlds like that in hopes of creating awesome I feel sorry for them.

[carmen]

I HATE shadow the hedgehog too.

honestly? I'd like it if they just forgot everything they did after sonic and knuckles.

except sonic advanced...that was kinda cool