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[revbrandon]

Back when the Playstation was king, and the N64... well, it had Goldeneye, I was getting into RETROGAMES. Which is kind of funny, because I would be totally mortified to think of games as retro nowadays in the same kind of time frame I was looking at with big sparkly doe eyes behind rose-coloured glasses. Bringing together my skepticism towards

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[rosceau]

please let this happen to sonic the hedgehog
for the love of god that or merciful death

[revbrandon]

I don't know about that. I don't think Yuji Naka and the Sonic Team Souljaz have any idea how to make a Sonic game anymore. In fact, I don't really trust them to understand what makes a good game, period, anymore.

But... If there was a new Sonic game with a FANTASTIC MODULATION soundtrack, maybe that would change everything. Also: Millions of dead side characters.

[rorita]

Did Sonic Team EVER know how to make a good game? The best Sonics were made in America by STI....

[revbrandon]

Well I can't totally discount the first Sonic game! It's no Sonic 2, and usually I get bored somewhere around the Star Light Zone, but everything that was ever good about Sonic is there in some measure. Aside from that, uhh... Burning Rangers was supposed to be fun? Nights was kind of enjoyable if totally overvalued by devotees of a platform with a severe dearth of worthwhile games in that territory.

But really, I think I attribute most of my love of the early Sonic games to the soundtracks.

[rorita]

"I hope it sells a million and maybe more, and every company out there crams as much retro-styled material down my gullet as they can crank out until I hate video games forever."

I disagree, actually. Mega Man 9 shows a level of craftsmanship and brilliant design that few games of any era possess. If publishers decide retro is an easy, inexpensive route for more of the same shit, we'll just be buried under terrible games with a different visual style than modern terrible games.

[revbrandon]

I guess I should have qualified that, but then I realized that I shouldn't, because hating video games forever would be the best possible thing to happen to me.

[deadshrimpblues]

All I want is a third Ecco game to make the ending of the second one make sense. Defender of the Future does not exist in my reality. Give Ed Annunziata whatever the fuck he needs, gather the original group of Hungarian misfits back together, and let's go.