graphic sucks lol, auto-aiming is a dumb mechanic, sega can't do anything right they should quit.

personanly, i love all sonic games, just hate the werewolf or w/e it is lvls in sonic unleashed.

Personally I think the Genesis games are the absolute limit of what Sonic can be. They could just stop making new games, but then where's the money in that?

Comic number 400

Before it was released I thought the complaining about physics was an exaggeration, but Sonic stops rolling downhill by himself as if he was in a level surface. Since rolling is one of the three main things that Sonic do (the others being running and jumping), it doesn't seem right.

@SigmaSilver Exactly. The fans seem to be happy with Sonic Fan Remix, so it isn't quite as Jo says. Sonic 4 should've been more like it. Of course, a it shouldn't just copy older games, but it should use similar physics, mechanics and level design. I think homing attacks are a good addition, though.

Jo! YOU FORGOT TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR THE 400th POST!

then again... this is pritty good.

[url=#user_comment_46087]@SpikeWT[/url]: Yeah, that's the main issue I have with the game when I tried the demo. As for graphics, I think they captured the 16-bit era look well since they do have to make them look alright in "HD".

Old game mechanics don't just get old and ugly, that's just stupid. The problem is that for some reason people think every modern game needs to use the modern technology to be good. High-end-3D-graphics, motion captured animations, surround sound and so on - this thinking is so wrong and sad...

One of the biggest problems with Sonic 4's physics is you need to hold left or right to keep momentum. There are some other huge glaring issues but that has to do partly with level design.

psh, I still like side scrolling games.

And if the newer generation doesn't like them, why did New Super Mario Bros Wii do so well?

[url=#user_comment_46080]@Shrug[/url]: I hated megaman 9. It's just another generic megaman 2 rom hack. 8 is far superior.

What do you do Sonic? Here's what, trust the fans

http://kotaku.com/5670258/did-sonic-fans-just-release-a-better-sonic-the-hedgehog-hd

@VG-Alchemist

I disagree, mega man 9 showed it can work wonders if done right.

@~X~: I don't know who max force is, and I'm 26.

Mario: Master troll.

Honestly though, I think the reason why Sonic fans are always so hostile is because the games they want to like are deemed some of the worst ever made. Sonic 4 is so far decent, but it doesn't make up for the years of crap.

Also, Sonic Fan Remix.

I'm no Sonic fan (having never played any of the "real" Sonics), but I think it's more that they're not good games. I don't have any nostalgia-tinted glasses, but when I finally watched a Let's Play of Sonic 3 I was completely blown away.

Also, the homing attack is genius, double-jumps aside.

That mario is a spy.

Sadly, Unleashed got it half-right--from what I've seen, the Day missions are the closest to classic style in the 3D-based Sonics I've yet seen.

Maybe if Sega actually *did* release a game designed like the classic Genesis ones the fans wouldn't be complaining. Instead they release a game with controls that handle like molasses and 'homing attack' on the same blasted button as Jump, which screws up those of us who have learned to double-jump

The Sonic franchise is dead. You can tell because of Sonic Colors. It's essentially an admission by SEGA that the people who have any remaining nostalgia for Sonic are no longer buying their BS and they need to sell to kids.

Only official sonic games suck nowadays.
May I direct your attention at the following:
http://www.destructoid.com/sonic-fan-remix-project-demo-now-available

[url=#user_comment_46058]@Matthius[/url]: Trine is the very definition of niche.

People don't outgrow Genres that easily, it is more that these dimwits don't get that Sequels CAN'T bring their childhood back. It's not the games fault that one did have more fun with stuff as a kid.

Ahh the new sonic game is the game I was waiting for a long time >.< they are finally doing a game like the old ones and without any weird thing in the game like escalibur or turning him in a werewolf or something else >.<

Sonic 4 FTW!!

Younger generations can go and hung themselves or learn to play real games, 2D plataformers FTW!!

Recent side-scrolling's game ?
Trine ? <3

Also: http://www.captainsnes.com/2003/03/01/288-marios-drug-related-past-revealed-2/

(If you don't know who Max Force is, you're probably too young to be reading Nerf Now anyways)

Heh heh heh heh: http://neko.crowdedstreet.net/stuff/lol.png

...and Sonic has addiction to rings.

[url=#user_comment_46046]@anonymous[/url] what? do you mean he's a mafioso? I mean, Mario is a mushroom user, while Sonic prefer speed

Let's see... How shall I put this?

Sonic 4 = Sonic Rush with "enhancements".
There's other problems, but I'm sure other people'll get to those in due time.

@Brian - I'd like to point out both of those games were sold as fully-packaged commercial games, not "downloadable" games.

Will they ever get it right? Or is Sonic just outta gas?

well he is italian

And this is why the sonic cycle exists.

Also

Mario = RED
Sonic = BLU

My biggest complaint about Sonic 4 is that it's RIDICULOUSLY OVERPRICED.

Also WHERE'S THE MULTIPLAYER?

Also THAT SPECIAL ZONE ALWAYS SUCKED, YOU KNOW.

Pay back for the blackmailing photos.

Either way sega lost sonic fans due to the guys who made the last 'good' one didn't leave a blue print for future developers to copy and paste like the mario guys.

Mario a hater, I knew it!

[url=#user_comment_46025]@Griff[/url]: I'll join you in that. Sonic 4 just strikes me as "off", like... the physics is wrong. Sonic Colours just feels right, looking at it. Hooray for the Sonic Cycle and our perpetuation of it.

Take a look at NEW Super Mario Bros for DS and Wii and tell me that 2D platformers can't be popular and highly-rated anymore. Both sold extremely well.
That's what happens when a company and game evolve WITH their audience. NSMB kept the core Mario gameplay and wonky physics while improving too.

Hey, were you on the ChHa server today?

herpasaurus your right bout that.

Honestly I wasn't looking forward to sonic 4, played demo, and hated it.
I think sonic colors might be good though.

I think that there are a lot of Sonic fans who are happy to have a new game, even though probably no one is entirely and completely satisfied by it (the way that, for example, HL2 is basically universally loved).

However, these fans are drowned out by all the whiners, sadly.

That's Mario's evil doppelganger, right?

@The Lawlmeister: Well, there is always the 500th one right?

It''s your 400'th comic man, and you're not even gonna commemorate it? WHAT THE FU-