Quote Originally Posted by Alan Heer View Post
I think sometime we need to discuss why the 3d Sonic games have been so bad. I think it has to do with the transition from sidescrolling to 3rd person. Sonic and mario were considered rivals back in the day, but which one has been the more successful transition? Mario of course. Why hasn't sonic transitioned correctly? I think the problem maybe fundamental to why the sidescroller sonic games are so popular, but the 3d sonic games are decent to downright garbage. I think it may be safe to say that for the time being, sonic should stay sidescrolling and should avoid the 3d until sega can figure out what they are doing wrong. Perhaps they can ask Nintendo what they did right for mario or are the fundamentals too different?



Sonic and Knuckles had a slot on top that allowed it to conbine with other sonic games similar to how a gameshark or game genie had a slot on top. Sonic 3 was so big they had to split it into two games. So you could combine Sonic 3 with Sonic and Knuckles to have the uberness that is also known as Sonic 3 and Knuckles, just like the game was made to be played. You could also combine it with sonic 2 to play the entire 2nd game as knuckles. If you combined it with the first game and did something, you could play all of the bonus levels from 3 as sonic, tails, or knuckles. Also did you know Michael Jackson did the music for Sonic 3?
Oh no, sorry, I meant that has to be my answer since I couldn't think of anything else. Hence the shrugging smilie. I can totally see how I could get misunderstood though.