>360 version is barely playable, while PS3 version is unplayable because of how much slowdown it hasHow did Sonic survive this game?
A lot of bad games and movies still get by through merchandising.
>>730701415Secret Rings, Unleashed, and Rush Adventure were already in development and would've been released regardless. While Unleashed wasn't actually good, there was enough in there to sustain the "maybe NEXT game will be when Sonic Team pulls their heads out of their asses!" cycle that had been going on since Adventure, meaning 06 was an individual disaster but not one that caused long-term brand issues.
>>730701415never underestimate the sonic fanbase's inability to have any kind of standards and buy the latest sonicteam turd in droves
>>730701573Someone needs to post the greentext where sonic boom (iirc it was boom) was so bad for a brief moment it obliterated autism.
>>730701415Because Sega had a ton of funding and wasn't willing to give up on Sonic. They also went overboard with production values on Unleashed to try and prove 06 was a fluke to the public. It might've worked if they weren't still retarded and included the dumb fucking werehog. But they still weren't willing to give up then and made Colors.
>>730701415It didn’t all the real fans like me left once yuji naka left. This game is the best of the modern sonic games and one of the worst games of all times. Sonic effectively ended with this game. Specially now that you have woke Sega and that Archie Americano writer faggot ruining everything. The series is dead it raped corpse belongs to faggots and groomers. Fuck Sega. Play the fan remake on pC and ignore everything after.
>>730701532>06 was an individual disaster but not one that caused long-term brand issues06 has been ridiculed for nearly 20 years and the response to it and Shadow 05 among specifically western media (and to a lesser extent Storybook duology and Unleashed) had a direct impact on the way Sonic games were put together for 15 years until Frontiers finally went back on some of those things (vocal boss themes, multiple playable characters via update 3, a somewhat serious plot) and Shadow Generations doubled down on them.
>>730702041Western jounos had been whining about Sonic since it went third party, Sega would've done that even if 06 had been cancelled when the Secret Rings dev split happened, simply because Nintendo sales accounted for the majority of Sonic sales before Colors was greenlit specifically to appeal to Nintendo consumers.
>>730701415>still has YouTube videos claiming it's secretly good
It's good
>>730701532>meaning 06 was an individual disaster but not one that caused long-term brand issues.Mate, 06 completely destroyed Sonic's brand in the west, especially as the culmination of a trend in decreasing quality starting with the Adventure games. The only people who don't understand this are zoomers who weren't old enough to perceive this at the time and had their first experiences of Sonic criticism through Youtube videos in the 2010s. Which has led to them retardedly thinking Youtubers created Sonic's modern reputation and not, you know, Sonic himself.
>>730702508see >>730702328I'm not interested in being lectured by a self-hating zoomer when I literally grew up with the series since the 90s. 06 was the bottoming out of the series' reputation, but Sonic was the journos' favorite whipping boy (mostly deservedly) since the GameCube. 06's reception didn't happen in a vacuum, and it was because of that context that the series could bounce back into "still bad but not a total disaster" that it was in before 06. If anything the insistence that it was 06 specifically is proof of having opinions regurgitated through YouTube.
>>730703293Kill yourself, faggot shill.
>>730703293fuck off spammer
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>>730701532>Secret Rings, Unleashed, and Rush Adventure were already in development and would've been released regardless.This. Sonic still had prestige but you're wrong in that 06 was the game that tanked Sonic's reputation as a whole, not just a one-and-done disaster. the GBA port of Sonic 1 was also a disaster. Sonic took some heavy hits in 2006 and it really hasn't recovered from them, merchandising and sales be damned. SEGA still hasn't gotten with the program with Sonic even after they were given a golden goose in 2016.
Sonic Unleashed.Sonic Colors being entirely made of Unleashed Day levels.Sonic Generations perfecting Unleashed Day levels AND reviving interest in Classic Sonic.Sonic Mania giving Classic purists something to play.Paramount Sonic being fixed by the artist who worked on Sonic Mania, and convincing people to watch the movies.Frontiers catering to now nostalgic 2000s Sonic fans.Finally, Frontiers being successful enough to restore Sega's faith in the brand.
He basically didn't. Sonic did not get shit outside of Unleashed until Generations. The franchise was basically dead in the water until Mania.
>>730701415I'm gonna say it's because the rage market wasn't as big as it is now. Like nowadays, any john, jack, and joe shmoe could film a video ripping on something, get hooked into the algorithm, and then make a hundred thousand dollars, so now everyone is hating on things way more than they ever did to try to make that money. In a sense, something that was genuinely considered one of the worst games of all time and was relentlessly mocked by everyone at the time and decades later is somehow less of a nuclear bomb to companies back then than releasing a mediocre game--or even just a game with minor flaws--is today, as there's more haters and more incentive for haters to jump on that shit more.
>>730702872>Sonic was the journos' favorite whipping boy (mostly deservedly) since the GameCubeIf anything they were too generous.
>>730706452>a major release every 2-3 years and a huge slew of spinoffs is "not getting shit" ????
Sonic hasn't been good since Sonic 3. Mania is just a romhack sold you.Anyone saying otherwise is a furry.
He TANKED it with sheer charisma.
>>730701415Because of furrys and youtubers
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21984201/>Relationship between Sonic hedgehog protein, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and oxidative stress in autism spectrum disorders >We report here that the serum levels of Sonic hedgehog (SHH) protein and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) might be linked to oxidative stress in ASD>In addition, we found significantly higher levels of serum Sonic hedgehog protein in children with mild as well as severe form of autism.
>Xbox 360 and PS3 versions barely playableBut they announced a PC port, and it runs just fine? At least the PC port I have does.
>>730712715>Nothing ruins video encoding more than Sonic game's constantly moving backgrounds
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>>730701415Sonicgoys love eating shit.
