It's not a meme defending Sonic 06 at all...

it's not a meme defending Sonic 06 at all, but the beating of the dead horse's skeleton needs to stop after more than a decade since it's already 13 or 14 years since the game came out. plus, I feel IGN and the hate the game got as a whole while not directing the hate at what really went wrong with it helped give us Pontac and Graff and more mediocre Sonic games these days.

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Lost World is a good 3D platformer, it's just not much of a Sonic game

The only game that can put up a fight in terms of shit is Sonic boom. But even then its not half as poorly thought out and horribly executed like 06. And half the games in that shit image are side/spinoff games. Not mainline nor an intended revival of the series faggot.

I have a theory that whoever was in charge of sonic died some time after 3/K, and sonic team has jsut been running around like a headless chicken trying to replicate what made the original trilogy good while falling on their face every time

Spinball? Labyrinth? 3D blast? fucking CHAOTIX? hell these were EARLY in the sonic franchise and they were dogshit

Sonic 06 is still worse than all those, save for maybe Rise of Lyric

None of the other games was such a massive disaster it basically reshaped the franchise

Sonic 06 is the best sonic game

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Forgetting Pontac, Graff, and IGN helping do that more?

Shadow is worse than all of these.

3D Blast and Spinball might not be amazing, but they’re far from shit.

the thing is, the only games that even have a chance of competing with sonic '06 are side games, like sonic boom or that mario party ripoff one. Forces and Lost World are functioning video games, which immediately make them better than '06.

People can't forgive it because it was supposed to be a return to form sort of game.
Sonic Heroes was pretty good, and while Shadow was more ow the edge than usual, it was giving people hope that the series would make a strong comeback.
2006 was the franchise's 15 year anniversary, so people assumed that the 06 game would be phenomenal. Well it wasn't, which only made people believe if the Big 15 game was dogshit then the series would remain as such.
Year later and with releases like Boom they only reaffirmed people's belief that 06 was the indicator that the franchise was doomed.

None of those games are as bad as 06' aside from Rise of Lyric.
3D Blast and Lost World especially don't belong with the rest of that trash.

>Sonic Heroes was pretty good

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Sonic Heroes was shit.

Sonic has no good games.

All those games and Sonic '06 is still the worst.

Ok Arin.

>shadow was giving people hope
fucking how

06 was unironically better than mania:
>pic related was not its target audience
>it actually tried to move the franchise forward
>it had new content instead of copy-pasting levels verbatim from old games
most of 06's problems weren't even sonic team's fault. it was sega's fault for signing a retarded timed exclusivity/marketing deal with microsoft that forced them to have the game out by christmas, regardless of whether or not it was ready. classicucks can cope and seethe all they want, but they ruined the franchise more than 06 did.

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Sonic 06 only gets so much hate because of the loading screens. If it released today on PC where SSDs would help deal with that problem it would be rated much more highly. Not that highly because of the furfag shit, but still higher.

Spinball and 3D blast are not that bad. Lost world was good for 3 levels on 3ds at least.

I recently played 3D Blast and I got bored after the first zone. Its not THAT bad, but still. The soundtrack absolutely makes up for it though.

>Sonic Spinball and 3D Blast being on that list
Shitter/Bad at video games confirmed.

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>MUH PONTAC AND GRAFF
The sign of a sonic autist, they believe the writing actually matters in these games. The problem with sonic was, is, and always will be Sonic Team's utter incompetence.

The main level designer of the Classic games left around the Saturn era.

The only one in that image that's anywhere close to as bad as Sonic 06 is Sonic Boom.

God the Sonic fanbase's obsession with whining about YouTubers is so pathetic.

Bro sonic 3D blast is kino wtf is this image

it's nowhere near as pathetic as the sonic developers' obsession with pandering to them.

>Shitting on Sonic Labyrinth
You fucked up nigga and I'm coming for you.

I'm pretty sure the Kinect version of Sonic Riders is the absolute bottom for this series. And I'd rather play 06 then those shitty Sonic 4 episodes.

hey guys, OP here; this meme is not mine, it was made by someone i know who doesn't think 06 deserves the hate it gets, however, i posted it to prove a point for someone about making memes for circle-jerking groups in plebbit, so, thank you Zig Forums for helping me to prove the point.

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>>Spinball? Labyrinth? 3D blast? fucking CHAOTIX?
Spinball wasn't super exciting, but it wasn't particularly bad either and is clearly a spin-off title by their shitty western division at the time, so the expectations aren't very high to begin with. Labyrinth and 3D Blast are neither good or bad, they just exist. Chaotix is lowkey kind of good.

The hyperfocus on 06 to this day when no one even defends it anyways is bizarre, but the only game that's worse in opie's image is Boom.

Sonic 06 was Sega's biggest blunder with the series to that point. Before it came out, people were still pretty positive about Sonic as whole, but after that game he started to become the laughingstock of the industry.
Hell, there's been plenty of bad Sonic games after that, but none on that level of shittiness.

Sonic Shuffle is a pretty okay party game as long as you can convince three other people to play it with you. If even one computer is involved it fucking sucks.

>Sonic Heroes was pretty good
It was shit and got shit on as a result.
>Shadow was more ow the edge than usual, it was giving people hope that the series would make a strong comeback
On what Earth? because it wasn't this one. Again it was shit on relentlessly and rightly so.

The problem with sonic isn't pandering tard, it's that Sonic Team isn't talented enough anymore to make games worth playing.

Spinball is fine. It has great music. It's not terrible at all. Pinball and Sonic go together well.
Labyrinth is a genuinely fantastic game. Maybe try playing more than one time for longer than two minutes. Just two days ago I blasted through the port of it that came on Sonic Adventure DX and I still had a blast with it in 2020.
3D blast is jank as fuck. I would say it counts as bad but it's not the worst in the series. 3D Blast looks cool if you know how to get through the levels quickly. Same with Labyrinth, but Labyrinth has better level design probably because the stages are a bit more bite sized.

>shitting on 3D blast
you had a decent point until that

I would still say that 06 is the worst because of the impact it caused to the franchise. Looking at the games critically I'd say that 06 is better than stuff like Labyrinth, Free Riders and Boom.

However, 06 is what turned Sonic into a fucking joke and made it cool to hate on the franchise. Sonic still managed to have some credibility after the Heroes and Shadow shitshows, but 06 coming out at around the same time that Sonic autism was hitting its peak on the internet along with the hype for it leading up to release put the public opinion of the franchise in such a bad place that its still trying to crawl out of to this day.

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Its because 06 is the sort of game one would have expected to be good at the time, a big anniversary game, a reboot meant to put the series back on track, the first game on the new generation of consoles, people were actually excited before it came out. Its not just the shitty quality of the game that made it so memorable, it's that no one expected it to be so utterly terrible.

With Boom for instance, no one expects Sonic games to actually be worthwhile anymore, so no one really cares that it was shit.

Hey Shuffle is fun, fuck off

Sonic forces having a player insert character who gets to save the day and gets a lot of support and friendship from sonic is more akin to the Make a wish foundation sending Spiderman to visit hospital kids.
In contrast, Sonic 06 having a human princess fall in love with Sonic and kissing him is just uncomfortable and bizarrely misguided

Rise of Lyric is the only legitimate comparison, and even then the problem stemmed from designing the game for an Engine that wasn't supported by it's platform