Favourite/Least Favourite Game Series.

[Hakudamashi]

My favourite game series is still Sonic the Hedgehog, but I'd be lying if I said my fondness isn't wavering with it's recent happenings.

It all started when I was but a wee lad, I got this one AMV through limewire that made me aware of the character's existence

After that, when I visited my cousin's house he had a Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog, I recognised the dood so I asked if I could play it, and Green Hill Zone was totally superspecialawesome. So I grew from just being aware of his existence to intrigue. However I grew up with a PlayStation and N64, so I wasn't able to own a Sonic game till 2005 when I got Sonic Heroes, but until then I played games like Crash Bandicoot, and some racing games, and Donkey Kong 64, and during this time I developed into quite the impatient gamer. I liked the games where I can just go finish the stage and move on, god knows Donkey Kong 64 annoyed my back then, I just messed around in the stages already unlocked till my brother progressed, he's the explorative type that liked to take things slow.

But anyway, I got the Sonic Heroes, first Sonic game, and I think first game in general that I got to own, payed for with my own money, and I totally loved it, the cheesy ass dialogue, the upbeat soundtrack, all the goddamn colours, and most importantly, going fast.
The next game of the franchise I bought after that was Sonic Advance 2, which I also enjoyed alot. Soon after I found out about Emulation I went to play Sonic Advance 1, 3, Sonic 3&K and Sonic Battle, and it more or less went uphill from there.

The main attraction to me, other than going fast, was that the Sonic games had an interesting take on difficulty. There was no difficulty setting you choose at the start, the enemies don't increase or decrease in health, and the level design doesn't get altered, rather, the difficult came from how well you could exploit a character's abilities to get to the end of the stage.
Sonic was the standard guy, he had many offensive options like his slide kick, homing attack, bounce attack and the like, but as far as mobility goes, he has nothing special. Sonic HAS to go through all the obstacles, all the traps, no way around it, just find the best path and stick with it.

Tails was exactly like Sonic, except he can fly, allowing him to skip past certain obstacles, and can reliably attack things above him

Knuckles had less offensive options, he jumped the lowest, and ran the slowest, but instead you get the ability to glide and climb walls. Great for exploring and finding hidden things in the level, but he's hard to use to just finishing a level.

Cream just breaks the game. She is Tails except she can cancel out of flight early, and has a long range attack that can go in all directions. She can't fly as long as Tails, but c'mon, being able to fly at all in a platformer is pretty busted

Amy can't jump into enemies...sometimes, so she has to use her hammer all the time to attack, but I'm not entirely sure if it's a glitch or what, but if you use the hammer on a spring, she gets launched twice as far.

Blaze is essentially Knuckles, except her glide...hover... thing is much easier to control, but she can't climb walls.


I also love the tone of the Sonic games, It's the silly kind of cool, it's serious, but not too serious, and when it's cheesy, it's really cheesy, but the fun kind of cheesy. Many consider it cringeworthy, but I love every second of it.


The soundtack for Sonic games have consistently been the best things I've ever heard, and what has more or less edged me to pay attention to video game soundtracks in general.
And really grew to love the Sonic cast, they're all very interesting and likeable to me, except Charmy fucking Bee.

Lord knows the franchise has had it's lows like Sonic ohfuckingsix, and I've had my share of dissapointments like Sonic 4, but I'm a man that judges a series based on the quality of good, not on the quantity of bad, and when Sonic does do something good, I enjoy it the most above everything else. I stick with it cause I believe in the potential it has... or at least, I did, until Sonic Colours happened...
They took the characters and stories to a new direction with it's new writers, gone are the 90's cheesy semi-serious storylines, now they're going for this wackyzanysiwwy comedy thing that I can't stand, and now I hate everyone, except Eggman, he's always cool.
I thought then that they'd at least stick to one style finally, the boost gameplay of Unleashed seems to be working out for them, so I thought they'd have finally found their groove, their identity, and that they'd stick with it and refine it, y'know, like a normal franchise, but then Lost World happened and they're back to their experimental ways. Now, I dun even know.

It was much simpler back in the day where Sonic fans were just split between Clasic fans and modern fans, but now that everything is canon cause fuck you Generations, we're genuinely split 7 ways between classic fans, unleashed fans, Rush fans, Riders fans, Lost World fans, Advance fans, and now Boom fans, each with it's own set of extremists and it's all just one big fucking mess...

At least the Archie comics are still awesome.

[Elija2]

I knew this thread sounded familiar...

My favourite series' are Jet Set Radio (duh), Mario, Sonic, Zero Escape, Tony Hawk, and SSX. If you expect me to write an essay for each one then you're crazy.

Least favourite? I dunno, probably some franchise I've never even played.

[Hakudamashi]

But that was General origins, this is specific.

[Elija2]

That's why I said it sounded familiar, specifically the Sonic AMV story.