Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

[Rökkan]

You can always play Sonic CD and 1-3 right?

This is the most retarded argument, just fyi.

Yes, I can. But I won't be replaying these games every fucking time when I want a new experience that builds upon the basis of those games/improves upon them.

You can always play your favorite games too, why fucking demand games that builds upon those, right? You can always just play Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, why ask for a game that inspires on some of the elements of those two games to create a new one, right? Why have Super Mario Galaxy 2 if you can play the first one? It's not like Super Mario Galaxy 2 had really great new levels, new abilities and ideas, and was a game as good or better than the original, right?

Or you know, I could be content with just a really good game. Like Colors was.

I agree with Iceman on the sonic alone thing.

While I don't /dislike/ sonic being the only playable character, I like the option of having other characters to play as.

This is one of the reasons why Sonic 1 and Sonic CD are my least favorite games from the Genesis era. They're not bad games by any stretch, but imo they just aren't as good as the others. Of course, there are other (much more significant) reasons, but the fact that sonic is the only playable character is still a factor.

(before rokkan gets angry at the sonic cd comment, don't forget that i replayed it during nostalgia week and loved it; i just personally don't rank it as high as S2 and S3K.)

i'm not angry, I know you enjoyed Sonic CD, gosh.

I agree with you on Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Playing as both Sonic and Knuckles and going on different paths does add to replayability, and makes the game overall bigger and even more enjoyable.

But Tails doesn't really add much to Sonic 2 or Sonic 3. It does add on Sonic 3, but only for beginners - because it's Sonic in "Easy Mode". But not really for better players, playing as Tails gives you the same levels and everything than Sonic, just that Tails can "cheat" and fly to get to places easier. But on Sonic 2, it's just a sprite swap, it doesn't add anything to the game.

Now, if you're talking about Sonic and Tails co-op, then IDK. Because going with a CPU isn't co-op, it's more like "have a dork CPU that kills you"-op, and the last time I went co-op with a friend was a long time ago. I need to play Sonic 2 or 3 with a skilled player and see how does cooperative play helps on stages. I know that if both players run on the screw thing on Metropolis, it goes way faster than just one player running on it, don't know if the rest of the game is designed so that two players, in cooperation, can succeed better at it and do things that one player alone can't.

Besides hitting the boss first and letting the other player fucking die or something.