Oh Sonic... here we go again...

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Sonic Fans: Most unpleaseable things in the universe

I redirect you to my post

People are criticizing the ones that didn't like the game as retarded Sonic fans.

While the same people criticized the ones that liked the Sonic games that came out before Sonic 4 as retarded Sonic fans.


It's like calling someone a "retarded Sonic fan" automatically wins your arguments because they're retarded Sonic fans anyway so why bother arguing.

if it was a year ago you'd say "Sonic Fans: most pleasurable things in the universe"

"durr hurr durr it is so fun to make fun of sonic fans because they just take everything that SEGA throws at their faces oh and they are also unpleasable as fuck they never take anything that SEGA throws at their faces"


and i don't think you even read my post at all so

:I

Anyway, redirecting to my other post some pages back, I clearly said that

I can actually understand why people can like it, even with all of my complaints, it is a solid game, and you can easily not notice or overlook some of the things I said here if you're not too much of a Sonic enthusiast or if you're doing exactly what the designer wants you to do. But, for myself, Sonic 4 is an even bigger letdown than I thought it was going to be.

It is a solid game, it is very playable, it looks and plays much much better than abominations like Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic 2k6, and even better than Sonic Unleashed (if it wasn't for the really dumb Werehog segments anyway). If you're not like me and you play this game like the designer intended you to, using a lot of spin-dashes and jump-dashes instead of trying to play it as Sonic 1, you'll probably like it a lot. But as I said, they had all of the resources to make this game really really great and they just discarded all of them, and personally, as a fan, it bothers me way too much how it discards the main element of the classics: Momentum. It bothers me that a game that released 15 years later does not improve or add almost anything upon the originals, and instead, take elements out. And it also bothers me how SEGA keeps marketing this image like they're specially doing for their fans and they're listening to them when it's very clear they aren't.

Also, I legitimately really liked Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure, and I think Sonic Colors is probably going to be the absolute best experience of Sonic in the 3D realm. But none of those games actually behaved like the classics or tried to put the game design of the classics and improve upon it, but they did have their own game design that worked really well. So Sonic 4 came out and it was the perfect chance to do so. But they didn't. They changed the game design so that it would work more similar to the modern ones, probably because they don't know how to do the classic way, and didn't change or add anything new, and tried to still sell it like it's classic, by adding and taking out stuff from the gameplay to just look more classic, but that doesn't always work, resulting in just bad design because the designer didn't think of how would the player would play the game if the player doesn't exactly follow what he wants him to do.