AkumajoBelmont

Well, it kinda does. Blur was excellent. Geometry Wars 2 was brilliant. The new James Bond is pretty decent too. It's not like they fell from grace or anything. Bizarre have always been pretty consistent... you buy a Bizarre Creations game, you know you're getting something good. I liked The Club too... that game was awesome. Probably a bit too different for most peeps tastes, but it was good. EDIT: It's just a shame to see such talent hanging in the balance. It's purely sales that's behind all this... there's no real question of their talent.

Yeah, and it sucks. I love how all these companies from my teen gaming years are dropping off like flies. Not.

http://www.1up.com/news/activision-shuts-bizarre-creations-budcat I am devastated. Bizarre Creations have been a mainstay in gaming all throughout my youth. Their Dreamcast games, Fur Fighters and Metropolis Street Racer, were golden; the PGR series I have always adored; and I don't think I even need to spell out what this could mean for Geometry Wars. Blur was an under-appreciated gem, poorly marketed and software sales were dismal; but the game itself was fantastic. If this all comes to pass, it'll be a sad, sad day. A sad, sad day indeed.

against my better judgment, I brought Sonic Colours yesterday... all the great reviews it's been getting had me curious, and the video's looked stunning. And what a relief... it's an excellent game. See what happens? Sonic Colours... the only Sonic game released for years that HASN'T vowed to take Sonic back to it's roots, and it turns out fine. There's a lot to love in that game... and those 8-bit tracks are TO DIE FOR. For me, it's absolutely the best Sonic game in a long, long time. Honest.

Wow man, and I really don't know what to say, apart from you are very, very welcome

Good memory! At one point, I did have a sample of SEDUCTiON's track in there, though I removed it in the last few WIPs. That said, I pretty much owe the entire existence of this ReMix to SEDUCTiON. It was while I was listening to that track that all the lyrics came to me, and it all started from there. It's still my absolute fave ReMix of Wily 1. Thank you all for the extremely kind comments! Glad that you all seem to like it!

Hahahahaha !!! Wow, that's the best review I could have ever hoped for hahaha! I salute you

Yeah, but at least the screen boot-up screen isn't that horrible shade of white with a green-ish tinge to it... it always made my TV look like it was broken and dirty...

Completely agree. Definitely in my top 5 ReMixes of the year for SURE.

Overly simplified? Isn't the point of a UI to BE simple? I find it a lot cleaner. The old interface was starting to feel dated, and this update fixed that for me. I really like it... a lot of it just makes sense. I think it's really well done. It's not too different... rather it's more refined. I like it

absolutely adore it. Totally get the gay bar thing... especially the lyrics 'if you're pink, get the fuck out of town'. This would go off in some of the clubs out this way. But man, there is not a single track of yours I do not absolutely fawn over. Got nothing critical to say... love it

Yeah, I brought 4 recently haha Nah, didn't like the second cause thee characters looked kinda wrong, but yeah, love it now And the game runs in 720p through an Xbox 360

Agreed. Oh, and JCvgluvr, I AM a very open-minded person. I want to try a like things. I give things MORE than one chance often. You obviously very much want to lump me in that category of 'Sonic Fanboy'... but you're wrong. You can't make statements like without knowing me. I realise that all I am to you is just text on a screen, but seriously. I like to think I know the difference between something that's half decent, and something bad. And those games were bad. Hell, I use to hate Soul Calibur 2 until this year... don't know why, just did. Things can change. But, at the moment, I just cannot tolerate most new sonic titles because they are just counter-intuitive when it comes to controls, and feel plain wrong.

And that was my SECOND OC ReMix ever

Actually found it because I was looking for Ice Cap remixes... first OC ReMix track I ever listened to was McVaffe's 'Icecapped'... the love affair began then

Once could also argue the fact that I don't think that there are said dirty-sonic fanboys in this thread... just people worried about the continued mishandling of a once unstoppable franchise. The Sonic series, for years, has been in steep decline. And it's not only in threads such as this where people have voiced their concern for not only the franchise, but for SEGA and Sonic Team in general. it's come up time and time again in print media, online gaming publications, TV, hell even within the industry itself... I tried, again, last night to play Sonic Unleashed... with an open mind, thinking that I could somehow find something of worth in that title. I couldn't do it. Same goes for Sonic 4... I just couldn't get past the odd mechanics. I could handle it if these games felt different... if they just displayed a little consistency. But the only consistency most recent Sonic games contain is that they all feel completely misguided at best, and nigh on broken at worst. The same cannot be said for franchises of a similar age that are still in the public eye. Bionic Commando Re-Armed got what was great about the original title. New Mario titles, whether 2D or 3D, still understand what makes the franchise great. OutRun 2 contained drastically different mechanics than the original OutRun, but it, above all else, knew what made and OutRun game so great... a total and welcome evolution of a classic franchise that brought the name OutRun back with complete and utter vengeance. SEGA got a lot right in Sonic 4. Overall atmosphere was that of a Sonic game. But when you break it down, all the atmosphere and superficial similarities in the world don't count for anything when the fundamentals just aren't there. If SEGA had got it right, people would be singing there praises back and forth till the cows come home. But right now, there isn't that buzz. At all. It's like the game got a weeks worth of publicity, and now, it's just disappeared into the quagmire of forgotten downloadable titles. For a game that recieved so much pre-release hype and buzz, none of that momentum has been retained following the release of the game. Kinda ironic that...

So, discounting two opposing, yet equally valid possible points of view, for an impartial middle-ground that really couldn't give a shit is the way to go, eh?

So fans of a series (a series that has constantly been on the downward spiral for the last 10 years) are supposed to fawn over a game that some people tell them is the return to form they've been waiting for, but really isn't? Who are you to say what 'the fanbase' should get? Their a 'fanbase' for a reason. They're the reason the series is still going at all. And I bet you that 'fanbase' is a lot more forgiving than you think. I admit, I love the Sonic games of yesterday. I also adored Sonic Adventure. I really enjoyed Sonic Heroes. The Sonic Advance games were good up until the third title. Even Sonic and the Secret Rings was ok. But I'm supposed to forgive a sub-par game that don't forget, SEGA in it's infinite wisdom, decided to label the FOURTH installment of the series? That is INVITING a comparison. And, having labelled the game as the fourth installment, you think it would have more in common with the original games than a superficial resemblance and a use of the same perspective. In my opinion, Sonic 4 doesn't even hold a candle to the plethora of other platformers that the title shares the stage with on services such as XBLA. Sure, some Sonic fans are whingey, annoying little bitches. However, there are those of us out there that are just passionate. I feel the same way about the CastleVania series... which has yet to really do me wrong. The same goes for Halo, the Grandia series, Streets of Rage and more. You know when something is off in one of your favourite series of games. It doesn't make you shallow, fickle, or any of those other clichéd and automated 'Sonic Fan' insults. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion... but you'd think that those that actually enjoy the gamess would actually know a little about the series. And that doesn't come purely from nostalgia, though things like that do play a part. Mostly, it comes from a passion for things that one likes. Geez...

So I'm not allowed to like something a lot. Awesome. That means I know nothing about the franchise and I should listen to someone who doesn't like the franchise tell me what I want.

No, I offered you MY hat to eat

I understand your POV, but I'm gonna have to disagree. Regardless, the mechanics you mentioned are the mechanics that Sonic was born into... it's what made Sonic, well Sonic. I have played the originals probably more than any other game franchise, and to do a numbered, sequel and have it so different, is kinda misguided. It's not really a matter of preference... there's plenty more ways that a new Sonic title could be expanded whilst keeping to the core mechanics that made the originals so satisfying. If they called it Sonic Rush HD or something similar, then I don't think the backlash would have been anywhere near as harsh. People can say what they like about Sonic fans being vocal and 'never being satisfied'... but how can we be? If this is the best they could come up with, then that's a real cause for concern.

Not blinded by nostalgia at all: http://sonicfanremix.com/ I have a hat you can eat.

Point is, that Sonic Fan Remix looks like the game that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 should have been. Kinda ironic/poetic/whatever that this demo comes out just after the release of Sonic 4

Yup! But they're not. Companies like Valve are rather rare, unfortunately...

And Sega, Sonic Team and Dimps got owned... Hard: http://sonicresearch.org/sonicfanremix/ There's a demo in that link too... downloading it now. Just by watching the YouTube video, it already looks like everything Sonic 4 should have been. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeVa1oeif0s&feature=player_embedded