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[Segata Sanshiro]

If you're counting on SEGA to do anything other than a ROM collection and not somehow fuck it up, you're hoping for too much.

 

[Rlan]

Oh if it's anything like the other Sonic collections, they'll add some very stuipd ways of unlocking games - like playing a game 20 times or some bullshit.

The Genesis collection did miss out on TJ&E games, Streets of Rage games, Outrun games, Shining Force titles, out side of those I can't see much more people would actually care for, or that they'd be allowed to use (like Castle of Illusion)

 

[Poimandres]

First 4 Sonic games + CD + Chaotix and I'll buy.

 

[Agent X]

Stealth, a hacker very well renowned in the Sonic community, proved that it can be done by one man, in a month or two, without the source code. Sega, with the company's entire resource base, GBA development kits, and Sonic 1 source code, only managed to make a cartridge-shaped pile of fecal matter in more than that time.

Holy crap, that is awesome. It's even more impressive when you consider that it's a one-man homebrew.

Why not make it a SEGA collection, with Genesis, Master System, and older Arcade titles on there?

I think that would be great. I've already got the Sega Genesis Collection on PSP, but I wouldn't mind an expanded Sega compilation that adds some Genesis games they omitted on the previous collection, along with Master System games, a few Sega CD or 32X hits on there, and especially some of their great arcade games.

 

[SonicMegaDrive]

To be like the popular first Sonic, it will have no Spin Dash, unless you pay $2. Want Tails? $3.

Yeah!

Make it so, Sega!!!

Spoiler

Yeah, I realize you were trying to be funny.

 

[Bizzyb]

Sonic CD or bust

 

[twinturbo2]

But its called Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.....

So? I don't think it matters much. Sega could call it Sonic's Hot Buttered Ass for all I care...

Oh, forgot one. Chaotix. Even though I heard it sucks, Sega should put it in there for completionist's sake.

I'm surprised it's going to be just another Genesis collection.

Why not make it a SEGA collection, with Genesis, Master System, and older Arcade titles on there?

I mentioned a while back that a racing game compilation would be tits. I should dig up that thread and see how I laid it out...

 

[SabinFigaro]

Sega: "We can't fit Sonic CD on a DVD with all the Genesis games, so there's no way we'll be able to fit it on a BD either. Make sure to buy Sonic Gems Collection+ next year!"

 

[Teknoman]

If they did put Sonic CD or even 3d blast, both better have the "better" soundtracks.

 

[BlazeHedgehog]

Then I guess it's just a thing that we have to agree to disagree.

What made Sonic what he was (back in the Mega Drive/Genesis era), to me? A mixture of great platforming action, accentuated by clever level design that played to Sonic's "speedy pinball" like nature, combined with a physics engine that brought it all together, and made it all a tight package deal.

I think any one can clearly see that "Classic Sonic" is never coming back. I've long since accepted that notion, much as I wish otherwise.

...Doesn't make the fact that I find myself often struggling to give these new games of his a fair shot a chore in itself. "Dashing" and "Tricking"? Honestly, don't do anything for me. I would have rather Dimps had done more to focus on things that I believe actual mattered, like more in the way of solid level design. That was definitely the story in Rush 1, and because it did a lot to tick me off (besides that awesome OST), that's why I personally haven't been in any hurry to rush out and buy the sequel.

If they're your bag, fine. But they're certainly not mine.

Here's the deal, though:

The Sonic you remember? That was 15 years ago. That was a Sonic for a different era. Like that era, that Sonic is gone. Just like comparing Super Mario World to Super Mario Galaxy and coming up with a massive, mile-long list of changes to the character and the gameplay, Sonic has changed with the times.

Sonic Rush is Sonic for this era. You are no doubt disappointed in it because you're looking for 1990's Sonic. Obviously, you're disappointed, because Sonic Rush isn't 1990's Sonic - but as its own game, it's fun. I'll take a fun Sonic game over one that simply jerks my nostalgia-boner.

What I'm trying to say is, if the Rush gameplay was attached to a franchise that wasn't Sonic, I'd go so far to say you may enjoy it there. There wouldn't be any "This isn't Classic Sonic, so it's wrong" to get in the way of simply enjoying the game itself.

Treading in to deja vu territory, I think the last time Sega was truly "cool" in my eyes in that sort of edgy, Sonic-the-Hedgehog-way was with the original Jet Set Radio. And Sonic Rush, in a number of ways, melds Sonic with Jet Set Radio's style; the first game's music, the constant tricking, the subtle cel-shading...

I think that's the direction Sonic definitely needs to head in.

 

[itxaka]

Did nobody noticed that Splinter cell is on that list for 03/03/09 !!!!!!

 

[The Chosen]

I want to see Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 thrown in there for good measure. I can't be arsed setting up my Dreamcast.

 

[B.K.]

I wish they'd put the arcade game in the set too. I always wanted to play that game.

 

[Angelcurio]

I will bite when decide to make a Sonic Adventure collection

 

[MoxManiac]

I'll get it. I was going to get the sonic mega collection but I heard it has BC problems with PS3.

 

[Android18a]

Hmm.

If this game

= Sonic Jam Enhancements
= Sonic Jam Extras (Full sound test, game ads, extra bonus movies)
= Spin-offs (Spinball, Sonic 3D) in addition to main games
= Ristar
= Decent Bonus content

Then Game = Do Want.

 

[DrFunk]

Sonic CD or bust

Sega

Listen to this man

 

[CitizenCope]

Anyone picking this up?
Grabbing it on the way home for the 360. Look forward to playing some classics over the weekend.

 

[PataHikari]

Anyone picking this up?
Grabbing it on the way home for the 360. Look forward to playing some classics over the weekend.

I have it on PS3.

Having been an SNES child, it has an absurd amount of game's I've never played.

I'm looking foreword to Phantasy Star series and Shining Force.

 

[Soakedjunk]

I picked it up at Fry's at lunch today. I can't deny 720p Genesis classics - not to mention trophy support. You can't go wrong.

 

[mochuuu]

picking up for phantasy star collection