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How do you prefer your Sonic games? 2D or 3D?

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conduit:
I grew up playing Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Adventure 2 on Gamecube constantly. Same goes for the Sonic Mega Collection and the Sonic Advance games. All of which I have, regrettably, relinquished ownership of throughout the years. If younger me had the foresight to hold onto them all I would have, especially the Sonic Advance games.

2D Sonic would be my go to, without question. I've never felt compelled to play most of the non-SA entries. That's not to say 3D Sonic doesn't have its place despite its inconsistencies, like so many other 2D-centric games that hastily stumbled into the third dimension.

telekill:
Having played most Sonic games and being there from the first, I'm going to say the 2D games are superior. Most the Game Gear and Genesis games were good if not great. Dreamcast's Sonic Adventure was fun regardless of its flaws. It showed a lot of promise of what could be done in the 3D space.

Then it all went downhill from there.

Once Sega was done with Dreamcast, the slope was steep and the 3D Sonic games were essentially trash. The 2D GBA games were decent, getting back to fundamentals. Then Generations was a decent outing. The 2.5D Sonic 4 was a mess. It wasn't until Mania that I really decided to give Sonic another chance though.

The last few Sonic games haven't been bad. My son is now huge into Sonic. We picked up Origins so he's played or watched most the 2D games. He enjoyed Frontiers until it got to be difficult in later levels. He really enjoyed Superstars. Now he's looking forward to Sonic x Shadow. He also loves the comics, cartoons, and movies.

The torch is passed, so to speak. While I'm not big into the 3D Sonic games, my son enjoys them and in turn that makes me happy.

My wife and I already have his Christmas planned out, with going to see the new Sonic 3 movie, the Sonic x Shadow game and I'm even creating him a Sonic shadowbox that will have a complete copy of the original release from Genesis. Check out my gallery here for an idea of what it will be. It's been a couple years since I last made one, but it's coming along.

dhaabi:

--- Quote from: Cartagia on August 31, 2024, 09:43:51 pm ---I'm not that big of a Sonic fan, in general, but I do think the 2D games are pretty much better across the board.  There might be a couple of decent 3D games, but more of them are just kinda broken messes than not.

--- End quote ---

This is exactly my opinion. Sonic as a franchise has never interested me, but the 2D entries (generally) seem much more successful from a gameplay and design perspective.

wolff242:
Def 2-D. Not the biggest fan either. I had the original on the Genesis. Never got very far, lol, my brother was quite good at it though.

alligo:
2D personally.

This is the general opinion which is quite shared but the 3D Sonic games are bad.

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