Rev Up Those Sonic Cycles

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To Grooveman: All of those major complaints were echoed over and over on Retro and even on Youtube. Aaron Weber browses Retro regularly and does take notes on what people are saying - it only depends on whether SEGA will actually bother to listen and fix or not.

You really can't say that the fanbase is uncommunicative. The same complaints that we see on Youtube and on reviews about Sonic 4 were echoed over and over before its release - how it didn't play like the classics, the wonky physics with no inertia in it. SEGA said that they'd be delaying the game to fix those issues (they didn't). Fuck, Sonic Retro reverse-engineered the classics and organized a whole Sonic Physics Guide and sent to SEGA.

So, you know, don't be sorry. They're not incompetent - they're either trying to do it (Sonic Generations) or doing a lazy game with almost no original content to it to cash in more money (Sonic 4)

Of course it depends on the game but for the most part I'm not one to take overall gameplay (as well as tiny bits and pieces of it) so seriously and complain constantly about it. I enjoy the game for what it is. I may be easily amused to an extent but I appreciate things.

But again just MHO and it's quite obvious the majority of this thread feels the opposite so whatev. We should just wait and see the game finished before we go all "this is just the demo but the whole game's gonna suck I'll never buy it the Spin Dash isn't exactly like the Genesis and I keep running into stuff and the Classic City Escape theme reeks wah". I think their intention for the gameplay was roughly "reminiscent of the Classic games but with a few tweaks" or such. Oh and my cousin got Sonic 4 and we had lots of fun so stop hating on it. :/ I genuinely did feel like I was watching a sort of "recreation" of the original. It was a good one. I intend no disrespect to anyone in this post, I just really felt the need to shout out my feelings. Why don't we relax a little and see what more they do with it. Chances are it'll turn out better than you're expecting. Also bring back a Black Knight level.

This is where it makes it seem pretty clear that no one ever reads my posts and decides to read over it and jump to the conclusion that I'm complaining about minor issues and that I hate the game and that I want everything exactly like the classics because I cannot accept anything that's unlike them ever.

You know, just like how doing any sort of criticism about Sonic 4 a while back was being bitchy, anal, and was only about green-eyed Sonic.

Why do I even care to explain causes and consequences of certain design choices and try to make people understand what is the concept of the original games and what exactly made them great. It's exactly the same as saying "I like it" and "I don't", or rather, the length of your post and how passionate you are about a subject = how unreasonable you are, right?