Top 3 best Sonic games by your opinion.

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

I was curious regarding which sonic games YOU think are the best. I'd like three because Sonic is too awesome to have one best game ^^ (Spinoffs are included)

I'll start~

>Sonic 3 and Knuckles

>Sonic Unleashed and

>Sonic Adventure 2

Yeah, go on.

Edited 29 Dec 2013 by sweet_lil_eliza

[Seviper the Fang Snake 368]

In a self appointed opinion I would say these 3 are my best.

1. Sonic Colors- It is one of the more decent sonic games after so many set backs.

2. Sonic Adventure- The first best 3d sonic game.

3. Sonic the hedgehog 1 - Can't have a list with out the original

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

How can I miss out the original :o

Nice list. Personally I never got to play sonic colours, but I wish I could, I've heard its awesome ^_^

[Shadow 43]

Ohwell, not that anyone agrees with me but here we go.

1. Sonic 3 and Knuckles

2. Sonic Unleashed

3. Sonic Rush Adventure

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

I feel bad I didn't get to play majority of awesome sonic games :|

[Lena Stan Account 60]

1. Sonic Heroes , The start of NMS.

2. Sonic Rivals , The game that returned me to playing sonic games, And the game that showed the name of NMS.

3. Sonic Colors , Everything in this game was good expect boss fights.

Edited 4 Jan 2014 by NMS

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

Not Shadow the Hedgehog anyone? No? Okay

Good, no fan girls :D

[Seviper the Fang Snake 368]

I personally liked shadow the hedgehog, gave shadow an interesting back story.

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

But in top three? Nah.

Of course it good, fangirling spoiled it

[Blue Comet 11]

Going to say:

1.Sonic Unleashed - Daytime stage anyone

2.The Sonic Adventure Series - I couldn`t decide which one so I put both.

3.Sonic 2,3 & Knuckles

Actually I like almost all of sonic games including the bad one.

[Delicious echidna 53]

1) Sonic advance 1,2,3

2) Sonic 4 (the full game )

3) sonic adventure (cute tikal is cute)

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

SONIC 4?

Congrats....

[NegaMetallix 27]

Hmm... Kinda hard for me to choose. I think mine would be:

#3) Sonic Adventure - I enjoy the different gameplay styles (besides one), and the story(s) are one of my favourites in the series, non-directional voice acting aside.

#2) Sonic Rush Adventure - The lack of voice acting gives me a great excuse to practice my voices... oh, and the gameplay's great, I guess. The story's decent, too.

#1) Sonic Generations - More specifically, the PC version. Such a wonderful selection of character and level mods make me always go back to play it again.

(I just want to clarify: Sonic 3&K comes dangerously close to Adventure for my #3 spot, but I always seem to go back to Adventure more than 3&K.)

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

I think finding 3 would be hard since there are many, but thanks for compromise. ^_^

WOOT! I have to play so many games D:

[Shadick1 3]

let see for me: Sonic generations

Sonic adventure

Sonic adventure 2

[Pearl98 6]

I'd have to say

1. Sonic Colours Wii version

2. Sonic 3 and Knuckles

And maybe Sonic Unleashed PS3 version

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

Highest right now is sonic adventure 2

[Skye Prower 386]

From my point of view:

1. Sonic Adventure: While not the best story or gameplay, I feel it’s the best all round package. Plus, I got lucky and the camera behaved itself. Oh yeah, and of course Tails kicking Robotnik’s ass twice in rapid succession to a greater degree than in SA2.

2. Sonic Generations: Of the games I’ve played, this one has the best gameplay.

3. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 + Knuckles: First Sonic game I played, and still a good game to boot.

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

Sonic adventure 2 still the highest.

[Skye Prower 386]

Is it, are you sure? What scoring system are you using? :P

[Geoffrey St John 175]

My top three are as followed

1: Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. The very first game I bought with my own money.

2: Sonic The Fighters: Three words Bean The Dynamite

3: Shadow the Hedgehog. Yes I picked it mainly because of the stage choices and the fact Sonic wasn't the main character.

[Seviper the Fang Snake 368]

Great choices. (I played sonic the fighters first time last year on xbox 360, good game.)

[sweet_lil_Eliza 49]

Really. :)

Bean should be continued

[The Jest 45]

Tough call, ...But I think I managed to Narrow down three contenders.

MY TOP 3 SONIC GAMES:

3. Sonic 3 and Knuckles: ...Did I mention before that Knuckles was my favorite character in the franchise? Well he is, and I remember the first time I played as him right in this very game. ...Well, technically it was just Sonic and Knuckles at the time. I was a very little kid who couldn't really understand the whole Lock-on system and how it worked. Even if I did, I didn't have Sonic 3 as well.

I will confess, therefore, that Sonic 3 and Knuckles was a game I played REALLY late on the Sonic Mega Collection. (Which is the same game that made me interested in the comics thanks to its comic cover archive. ...On another note, I probably would have put Sonic Mega Collection here, but I can't help but think that would be cheating.)

However it was way worth the effort. Sonic 3 and Knuckles I say, with no hyperbole, is the formula perfected. It now had a save system, (Which, after Sonic 2, is a God-send.) the shields were diverse, the Emerald grabbing was much easier, (Screw Sonic 2's special stages. I know they're Iconic, but all the same I HATED those stages.) and with the double tap of the A button to become Super Sonic, you don't have to become him every time you jump.

There were a lot of good moments in that game that's forever etched in my memory. That first encounter of Knuckles and the may times he appeared to stop you, the first time seeing the hidden palace zone, going through the Sky Sanctuary for the first time as Mecha Sonic tries to stop you at every turn, that final fight at the Doomsday Zone as Hyper Sonic, and that's not even counting the play-through as Knuckles and the fun that made for me.

Playing as Knuckles was much more satisfying for me than the blue blur. Climbing on the walls and gliding for the first time was such a fantastic experience, and the different routes he took compared to Sonic were quite clever and in such a way that it's easy to believe that it's the path he took when Sonic was doing his thing at the same time. That final battle he had was satisfying in its own strange little way for the Echidna. This game is, without a doubt. my favorite game in the Genesis era, and I would pop it in any day.

2. Sonic Adventure 2: While this isn't my favorite of the Sonic games, I do recognize that Sonic Adventure 2, is the Pinnacle, the Summit, the Peak of the Sonic games right before the sudden downhill slope starting with Sonic Heroes (Sorry NMS.)

I remember when I first heard of this game in a game magazine. Way back when the Logo of the game was actually black-and-silver rather than the colorful logo it has now. Anybody remember that Logo? It was awesome, albeit blatant in its symbolism of what the game's about. I remember the screen shots of the game as I was reading it. It was actually just pictures of Sonic Adventures, one of them in particular being clearly of Speed Highway, but it was what I read that was so fascinating. About a Dark hedgehog without a name at the time, and Eggman being a playable and smashing up badniks. It blew my mind at the time to play as the villain.

I believe it was at that time that I was so fascinated with Sonic, that I wanted my ultimate goal to be a game designer and go to work at Sega as a designer and member of Sonic Team.

As time passed, more and more little details came out from the magazines and the commercials and I became more and more excited. Until one day I finally rented the game from the local video store near my father's house. I had it for about a week before I decided that I loved it, and beated it with my brother.

Needless to say I was quick to buy SA2B for the gamecube when it came out....Well, it was actually a Christmas gift, but I digress.

I was disappointed that the open world was removed, but I LOVED what they added in its place, that is, the Dark Side Story.

In terms of gameplay, I love that as well. I loved the original version of the three jobs in this game from Sonic Adventure (Sonic and Knuckles being Sonic and Knuckles Shadow and Rouge under the same roles, and Tails and Eggman basically being a better version of E-102.), so having them be in this was a treat.

The last story was satisfying as far as endings are concerned, but it was even more than that. ...As I said, I wanted to be a game designer for Sega, but my real motivation for it didn't come until this very area of the game. It was because of the final boss of this game that I wanted to make a Sonic Adventure 3. It was because of it that my character, Red the Alternate, was born. With that said...if Sonic Adventure 2, it's last story especially, didn't exist... I wouldn't be the RPing forum-goer I am today. I have this game to thank for being the person I am, and it will ALWAYS have place in my heart for that.

1. Sonic Adventure: ...I want to take you guys back...Back to the late 90s/early 2000s. Back then, I was a HUGE fan of Sonic. I was a divorce-kid. I lived with my mother, but went with my father on the weekends. My mom's house had the SNES and eventually N64, while my Dad had the Sega Genesis. He also had the Sega CD, but I didn't know what that was at the time, and didn't see any games for it even if I did.

One of the games I had at the time, was Sonic and Knuckles, and Sonic 2. I even watched that Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog show. Though I always loved Knuckles as my favorite character. I think one of the major reasons at the time was that he was red, my favorite color, but I'm getting off-track. I was reading a game magazine, only to find a preview of a new sonic game filled with screenshots of it. Imagine my surprise when I saw that it was not only a new Sonic game, but a new Sonic game in 3-D. Remember that at the time, the closest Sonic ever had to that point was 3-D blast and Sonic Jam, the latter I never even heard of at the time. So seeing a Sonic game in full-on 3-D was the greatest thing I ever saw. I can still remember the screen shot of a 3-D Knuckles gliding through the night sky. (Pretty sure it was in the area of Station Square that gets you into Casinopolis, in case you're wondering...)That alone made me want to get this game, but it was on a console I never even heard of at the time, the Dreamcast. I wasn't really a rich kid, so I never was able to buy a Dreamcast for years. But I went to the video game store most of the time, and played the game there on those demo-areas. I remember that I was in the Mystic Ruins by the time I played there, and fought the Egg Hornet for the first time. I remember the first time I saw Chaos, and was so confused when Sonic said that he fought him the other day. I remember at the time I had no idea what I was suppose to do afterwards and I couldn't play long enough anyways to find out.

Days and months past, I got a small guide of Sonic's path in a magazine (And finally saw what I was suppose to do after the Egg Hornet.), kept seeing it played in game stores, and eventually, I got a Dreamcast. Though Sonic Adventures itself was difficult to find mostly because all we could find are crappy used copies. So instead, I lived off playing a demo off a demo CD of Sonic Adventures. Playing that awesome intro to the game, Seeing the cutscenes and demos playing, playing Emerald Coast over and over again, I loved every second. Yeah, it was repetitive, but it was a bit of the game I wanted to play for a while, it was a taste of things to come and I couldn't get enough of it.

Eventually, finally, we got an actual version of the game. But even then it was an adventure in of itself to actually beat it. Not because it was difficult, but because the copy we had was scratched to the point of not being playable. Even when we got a new one, we didn't have a VMU, so every hour my brother and I played, we'd have to play a new game. Repeating constantly over and over, and you'd think that may tire my mind of that game, and that might have been true for my brother, but me? It actually was one of the only times I ever got pumped in trying to beat a game. The more I had to stop and start over, the more it made me want to go faster and faster to get closer and closer to the end. By the time I got a VMU I knew the fastest way to get E-102 as a playable character by heart. It's also a fun fact that I didn't know about the concept of the Auto-save at the time, so everytime it auto-saved, I was always confused thinking the game froze, and even when I didn't, I never really got that used to it.

Moving onto the actual game play, Everyone in this game plays understandably enough. Sonic's fast as ever, Tails' flying's useful enough, Knuckles can climb, glide, and now dig and punch, Amy's slow as hell but makes up for it with her hammer, Big is also slow but makes up for it with... Umm... a-and E-102's stages are quite frankly my second favorite.

My most favorite of these characters being, of course, Knuckles. They mimicked Knuckles' play style in SA2, which was understandable, but THIS was the one that perfected it for me. The concept of his stages are to find missing pieces of the Master Emerald. 3 per level, and by using a radar to detect them, making his levels be basically be a big game of Hot-and-cold. In SA2, they made the colors on the radar green, yellow, and red. But in SA, we had Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink, and Red. The more color variety in the game, the easier it was to tell whether or not it was close. I can understand that they probably removed them for challenge reasons, but I can assure you, blood was spilled on Pumpkin Hill. -_- This version of the treasure-hunting was more relaxing and can be quite fun.

On a related note, Casinopolis will always be my personal favorite stage in the game. It was fun as Sonic, maybe not quite as Tails but still not baf, and I got a chuckle out of destroying that giant golden statue of Sonic as Knuckles. Sometimes just for the hell of it. XD

But overall, I liked everyone's playstyle, ...Yes, even Big's when I figured out what I was supposed to do, though it took a while to get to that point.

Each character was likable in their own little ways. Sonic stages were exactly what you'd expect, the races of Tails was thrilling, the Knuckles stages were fun and almost relaxing, the Amy stages were an interesting experiment, (And there's something about just walking around in the middle of it all not really giving a Darn that really makes me feel good.) Big's was frustrating but understandable enough once you got into the hang of things, and E-102 was just, plain, fun.

The last story and the overall plot, I'll admit looking back at it now, I didn't find as good as the second game, but it was still pretty impressive. As a Knuckles fan, to see a past civilization of echidnas like Knuckles was really a treat, and I was quite interested in the story of Tikal and Chaos.

But what really sealed the deal with me, was the overworlds, the three areas that connected the games' stages and was filled with people to actually talk to. They were all such fascinating overworlds to explore, from the big city to the mysterious jungles, and Angel Island and even the Egg Carrier was such an awesome ship to explore. It had the same levels on it, yes, but they're all done in different patterns in the game and only Sonic goes through all but one of them. Each and every time as well, the levels are designed specifically for every character that walks into it, yet at the same time they don't ever change the level's design. (...Big being the exception in one or two stages.) The levels of these games are made in such a way that they don't need to change anything on them to make them fit any one character specifically.

This is why I will forever stand by what I say about Sonic Heroes' levels being crap. Oh, I don't mean in design, every team play the exact same way so their design is understandable. (They even changed a few for Chaotix, and I respect that.) I mean that the PATTERN is crap. The exact same stages, and the exact same bosses at the exact same time. I will forever stand by that as fact, because this game did it right. Some of the bosses in Sonic Adventure were the same bosses done by different characters. Yes, they were at the same time as well usually, but they had a reason to be done like that, and in at least one case it was more 3 characters taking turns fighting a particular boss. Also, I'll admit that I definitely applaud Sega for trying the same system and what-not in Sonic 06, and in that regard they did well mimicking this game's style of overworlds and stages, ...But it's Sonic 06.

Sonic Adventures is my favorite Sonic game of all time, and I don't think Sega is ever going to make a game quite like it, as Sonic 06 clearly showed. The music was awesome, the game play was awesome the story was good and the levels and overworld were AWESOME.

Even as my Dreamcast is gone, auctioned off with everything in our storage unit when we couldn't pay those jerks, the same copy of Sonic Adventures from that time with one has never left my room, even after I bought Sonic Adventures DX Director's Cut, I will still keep the original in my collection. This game was the symbol of my childhood, a representation of everything that was good to me in those days. It's one of those things that's priceless to you; a treasure that you have that nobody considers one. I wouldn't sell it for the world even if it was an actual treasure. Even without the means to play it, Sonic Adventures shall always be in my collection, and my heart, until the day I die.

Thank you for reading. :D

[Delicious echidna 53]

A word of advice my friend : Dreamcast emulators do exist.And they works quite well. I'm sure we can rig up your cd player to actually read you game disc.

Also,Dreamcasts are devalued. You can have one for 10 bucks. So, if you see one, you'll have your chance of buying it.