It perplexes me how big every fucking Sonic thread on GAF gets tons of responses. Every time a new Sonic game gets announced, there's a shitload of replies with some people genuinely getting excited and thinking it will be a good game for once. The game releases and their expectations are crushed, which is the Sonic cycle we all know. Here's the baffling part: why does it surprise people that a Sonic game sucks when that has always been the case?
Sonic is the best example of a product of its era, meaning that the only appeal it had couldn't survive past the 90's. Yeah, the character still is popular (I recognize he has an iconic design), but the concepts and mechanics of this franchise are obsolete nowadays. Every Sonic game I've played before the recent garbage ones is just bad. Sonic has always been trial and error game design, which is the worst. Going fast and falling into pits, hitting spikes, bouncing around like a pinball ball, losing your rings, that is not any fun.
A lot of people say that Sonic CD and the recent Generations are great games, so I played them, and they are still the same shit it has always been. It doesn't surprise me why the developers of this poor franchise keep adding new elements to the games to see if they can inject some life into it, but is just a lost cause.
People say that in order to have a good Sonic game, the developers have to go back to the basics of the "good" games. Ask yourself this, even if they do that, nowadays, would they be able to produce anything above an average game?
What you think GAF? As a character, I think Sonic is pretty nice (except the Boom atrocity), but the mainline Sonic games have always been bad in my opinion.
Do you think that, nostalgia aside, Sonic was ever good?
PS: I'd say that the best thing Sonic has appeared on are the Smash games, and the excellent Sonic Racing All-Stars Transformed, so the character has potential as something completely different than what it was in the past.
