So I tried playing SONIC GENERATIONS In 2022... 

It's so funny I wad dissapointed by this game too when I played it. I thought it was good and meh at the same time. It's weird

@@elibonham4388 its definitely not meh lol. Its better than colors its just short

@@jasonblack2477 oh yea ik I love fhis game now adays it's so much fun to play and speedrun. The mods are fantastic. Just back than when I was playing on my laggy crappy ps3 I was dissapointed by the lack of a good story and finale

Imo it has a lot of replay value

@@jasonblack2477 Then explain yourself, how is it not meh?

Same here bud

Yeah, no wonder Generations has the biggest amount of level mods compared to other Sonic games

It's one time thing

Can't like cos it's at 69.

also planet wisp is dumb but thats all ive got

It makes u realise how good the unleashed levels are. Generations is a phenomenal game with so much replayability and mods to lengthen it’s life.

Go play sonic rush haha

@@elibonham4388 That one is a bit too reliant on trial and error that can cause multiple deaths, I think Rush Adventure or Colors DS are more fair to beginners and are more complete games

@@ayrtonjoga I think the sky troops level is unfair; game overs, no real way of getting extra lives but the level is a test challenge although I hate the riding on jets sections those are flawed in design. Overall though that level is the exception the rest of the levels in sonic rush are fun. And the music superb but The bosses are honestly some of the worst in the entire city especially that final boss. Like f*** that boss. You have to conserve your rings so they don't fly so insanely far but you accidentally run into them. The ring system is jank. There's shit you can't see coming due to the screen size. The controls not being well suited eith the boss the frame drops, the length agh😡 Rush adventure is good so far although the cutscenes bring the pace down and the pirate ship stuff has its own frustrations

@@jaretco6423 Those sailing minigames are so simple and short that doesn't drag the pacing down, at least for me, while you need to replay stages to get more material, it's not to the point of becoming a grinding slog and revisiting levels is fun on itself I know it's a matter of preference now, but what's fun about Rush Adventure is that you need to take your time to finish it, I love short and sweet games as well, but the better level design and bosses compensates the slower progress for me

@@jaretco6423 I never denied they are mandatory to finish the game, it's just they are short and simple enough that doesn't get in my way I wonder what version of the game you've played to say it needs cut half of the materials, the only way to make it a grind slog is playing those stages so badly, that you collect a single material at a time because of a low Rank

I did the same. A trip down memory lane for sure. Its definitely very janky but I still like it. It was only like 2 bucks or something at the steam sale

It is an amazing game.

Could’ve just emulated it

@@sovietninja6865 yeah but it was like 2 dollars so no biggie

​@@sovietninja6865 there's alot more benefits to just getting the pc version than emulating it, on a pc

Well I don't enjoy it anymore because there's so little, no true 3D, Time Eater aged like turd and they seriously couldn't bother to do more and it's boring to play these days, reason why I still enjoy UnleasHD and go back.

@@artistanthony1007 All I know is the words of others. I don't have the money to actually get the game myself.

SA2 never lost respect over time and unleahed actuallu gained respect over time

@@thegeth4293 Adventure 2 lost a lot. Just visit metacritic.

@@joe_kloos8512 not sure what metacritic your looking at but its at 89% and most of the user reviews are 9 and 10

It plays so well on series X!! Incredibly smooth at 60 fps

Oh wow you're so young! I'm old my dude and that's what's fantastic about Sonic. It really goes the distance and has lasted a long time with GENERATIONS of fans. 😉

@@CragusMaximus You bet😁

No sonic mania 2 those ppl are gone. A 2d modern sonic game is rumored forva long time now

Idk how a mania 2 would even work, what just bring new stages and thats it? Imo mania is fine as a one off title, not every game needs a sequel

This is not a modern Sonic game. Every 3D Sonic stage is in 2D which is complete bs since there’s a classic Sonic in the game

Based

I just played this game for the first time today and im of the opposite opinion. It was a cute nostalgia trip, but unleashed and adventure 2 still stand as 2 of my favorite games of all time, over this one. I literally beat generations in 5 hours. I wasnt dissapointed in the least, but not blown away, just amused. And i only started playing sonic games this summer. Frontiers is next for me

@@thegeth4293 Don't worry about the length, You're supposed to be time attacking the levels

@@banjonkashootiefortheps4403 im a guy who loves compelling story over gameplay, as long as the gameplay doesnt feel like trying to pick up liquid dogshit like sonic 06. Unleashed and adventure 2 are still the 2 games that blew me away and that i will replay in a heartbeat. Idk if i would replay generations, maybe if i just wanted a little nostalgia?

@@thegeth4293 yeah I figured, but if you focus on a game story it's going to be way less replayable which is the complete opposite of what a Sonic game is, considering most Sonic games have convoluted continuity and mediocre stories, and even if the stories are good some of the games ruin it with the awful presentation like Sonic adventure Sonic 06 and even battle(to much dialogue) and SA2 to an extent. Black Knight, secret rings and zero gravity still the overall story goats imo.

Based on various rumors Sonic Generations was planned for the Wii, PSP and DS but these versions got cancelled yet for some reason they decided to make it for the 3DS. It makes me wonder how the other versions would have turned out if they never cancelled them.

Level design is far better in Generations

I SEE IT, IT SEE IT

Gameplay wise They’re too different to really compare aside from Base Controls which Generations is better at

@@jaretco6423 you can only say that to the cyberspace stages bc overall, frontiers is such a different gameplay style comparing it to gens is like comparing adventure 2 to sonic riders

@@Terminal_Apotos idk bc i feel like frontiers controls are defenetely smoother

I don’t see why people get so hung up on story in video games and I’m not saying this because Sonic I’m saying because it’s not the most important thing the gameplay is it’s a game not a movie or tv show story is cool and all but even back then the stories were simple and kept it straightforward not drawn out scenes that forget your playing a game I can watch a movie if I want to sit for 20 mins watching exposition.

@@Skye2993 mate a story isn’t Exposition the entire time 😅 that’s a weird description

@@gracekim25 Well what I mean is the cutscenes that go on for way too long like I’m playing a video game not watching a tv show just get to the point and move on like for example something like Sonic doesn’t need all this story just Robotnik does something, Sonic and his friends go out to stop him or whatever he’s working with Adventure 1, Heroes, Advance games, Rush, Unleashed and Colors got this right.

@Skye29 The way Sonic fans put so much emphasis on story makes me think none of them actually *play* these games, they just watch the cutscenes on RU-vid.

@@GamingintheAM0801 Yeah because hearing people call Sonic an Shonen Anime is like left field he was never that when he was first created to begin with he started pretending to be something he wasn’t I don’t mind story in Sonic but when it’s just off the wall it’s really off the wall I know a dead horse at this point but 06, STH, Secret Rings, Black Knight and heck even Frontiers as that one didn’t even look like a Sonic game from the enemies to the environment and overall feel of it. SEGA started chasing trends and still do so today as what’s seen as cool instead of keeping what made sense and because of this they focused way to much on story and neglected gameplay the most important thing to a game if the gameplay is bad or if the player isn’t having fun then it fails as a Video Game.

I mean if we want to be technical this is the first 3D game to have them

Meta era?

@@gracekim25 It's what people in the sonic fandom call the 2010s era of sonic (based on a reviewers remark in a vid that happened to get a few million views), even though I disagree with calling it that. What the reviewer was referring to is how the sonic social media and sonic as a whole basically acted like everything is a joke throughout the entire decade and was kind of a soulless corporate entity that lacked any identity that wasn't just bland jokes that started with the game before generations and pandering to classic sonic fans (from the writers who have never played or cared about sonic games that also wrote generations).

I'm also waiting for Sonic Frontiers to be heavily discounted. Don't get me wrong it's that I'm not willing to buy the game at a higher price but being the longtime Sonic fan that I am, I'm sure that at some point I'm going to have multiple copies of the game on different consoles and of that's the case I might as well get a good deal whenever I can.

I went back to Unleashed again around 4 days ago. I beat it and loved it so much that I started a new game as soon as I beat it and beat it again. Amazing game

@@gsm4919 i just got frontiers and am 6 hours into it, im a little less than half done ares i think, and, honestly, i dont like it that much. Im a little worried if this is the future of sonic. The soundtrack is pretty mid, i dont like screamo music, i much prefer the hard rock of the crush 40 days. and the open zone is a bit boring. I keep comparing it to unleashed and adventure 2, 2 of my favorite games of all time. And it doesnt stack up really at all.

@@thegeth4293 I am in EXACTLY the same boat as you I got sonic frontiers and the soundtrack doesn’t hold a candle to unleashed or sa2 the choruses I enjoy but the screamo music I don’t like. Anyway the gameplay of frontiers it’s alright. The cyber-space levels in my opinion are actually just bad but the open world exploration element in alright and fleshed out quite well. It’s not one of the greats in the series and it doesn’t deserve the absolute praise it’s getting right now but its not an awful time. I would personally give it a 6/10

@@gsm4919 so far im at a 6/10 with frontiers too. The open world just feels.... Empty and dead. I much prefer the hub world approach. Like unsleashed, or mass effect 2: multiple small hubs that feel alive and immersive, from which you access the action stages. As long as that rmula has 15-20 hours of content i think its worth it

@@thegeth4293 Part of what made sonic unleashed so great what the look it went for. If you boot up the game you will see how stylised the characters are. Much more cartoony but serious when it needs to be. Sonic frontiers aimed for realism which is not impressive any more when people started getting the hang of making things look real in early stages of the ps3 and we’re now at the ps5. Also people keep saying it doesn’t matter but if you tilt your camera sun frontiers so it’s facing up a little bit and then start running you’ll see there is a lot of rails and platforms jus t popping in which 1 doesn’t really look good with the realism and 2 if there is a collectible on a platform that you want to get them half the time you won’t be able to see what you have to do to get to that platform because you need to run a bit further for a spring or something to load in. Though I won’t argue about people saying the boss fights are great because one thing I can say about frontiers is that every single boss fight is better then the unleashed final boss. Perfect dark Gaia while not awful was more about feeling then being a great boss. However unleashed never missed the feeling but if that game

Black Knight's story is the only thing about that game people ever talk about. I'm convinced nobody has actually played it, they just watched the cutscenes on RU-vid.

What replay ability is there? There's barely anything to do or get.

@@artistanthony1007 mastering the levels.Getting the best time exploring every path and finding the quickest ones.