Why has Sega been unable to match this?

They have with Generations, Unleashed, Heroes, and Colors

Also Mania

Skipping huge parts of the levels in SA1 is so fun. I need to make a webm of playing Windy Valley as Tails by maneuvering through loading zones.

While Sega truly hadn't managed to make a Sonic game that was on-par with Adventure 2 until Mania, Adventure 2 is still mediocre at best.

I have no fucking clue why anyone holds it up on a pedestal, its all over the place and doesn't really know what it wants to be.

SA2 is bad, though? Adventure was a lot better.

my guess is that it came at the tail end of the virtual pet craze

You mean in how terrible it is? Sonic 06 managed to be just as bad as SA2 was. And even a bit worse in some areas, if you can believe it.

>I have no fucking clue why anyone holds it up on a pedestal

nostalgia is an ugly thing

I also have nostalgia for it, I played it a ton on the GC when it came out, but I recognized even then it was a mediocre game and just didn't hold up to the Genesis games in terms of production quality and having a cohesive vision and set of core systems.

Sonic 06 reboot when?

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SA1 is better but even then it's a 6/10 at best.

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I have said it numerous times in the past and I will yet again. There has never ever been a good 3D Sonic game.

inb4 someone unironically thinks colors and generations were 3d

Anyone who paid for Forces expecting something good deserves what they got. We already knew months ahead of time that the game would be mediocre from what little gameplay they showed off.

Would love to seem them remake all their failed titles and make them crazy good suddenly.
Imagine the Storybook games but good.

I'd say it's a good to great game, not medicore.

>Sonic
City Escape, Metal Harbor, and Green forest are all fantastic missions
Pyramid Cave and Final Rush are good/great
Crazy Gadget is Bad

>Shadow
Radical Highway and White Jungle are fantastic
Sky Rail is good/great
Final Chase is decent/servicable

>Eggman
Cosmic Wall is fantastic
Weapon's bed is good/great
Iron Gate, Lost Colony, Sand ocean are decent/servicable

>Knuckles
Pumpkin Hill and Meteor Herd are fantastic
Wild Canyon is good/great
Death chamber is decent/servicable
Aquatic Mine is bad

>Tails
Mission Street is good/great
Route 101, Prison Lane and Hidden base are decent/servicable
Eternal Engine is bad

>Rouge
Dry Lagoon is good/great
Security Hall, Route 280 and Egg Quarters is decent/servicable
Mad Space is bad

Cannon's Core is probably averagging out to good overall.

So combined, most missions are either fantastic are good/great, a little less as many are decent/servicable, and you have a few bad ones. So overall on average, the game's soemwhere between decent and good also then have the chao garden, all of the alternate missions, the MP mode, the fucking 10/10 soundtrack, etc, which bumps it up further.

See above. The game's at least a 7/10, i'd argue closer to ajn 8/10.

>SA1 is better

lolno, pretty much all of Amy and big's campaigns are bad to decent AT BEST; and while Gamma is decent, and Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are all good, they all share stages and the gameplay expirence is a lot less distinct. The chao garden is also way less fleshed out and there's not a whole mission system.

fdsfsd

>defending tails/eggman stages

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Sonic Adventure 3 WHEN?

>SEGA
Sega are the publishers.

you what, not a single tails/eggman level is outright bad, at worst they are boring, and some like Cosmic Wall and Weapon's bed are outright great.

they tried once under budget and under staffed, failed, then never tried again