Actually, I liked Colors and Generations. They were some of the newer ones I actually liked.

My mistake.

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The voice acting admittedly sucked, but I have to disagree with you on the level design. I really like the levels.

The games are indeed lacking in some ways, but I still find them to be superior to the newer ones.
IE: Sonic Unleashed, Black Night, 2006, Secret Rings, and so on and so forth.

Colors and generations were actually good.

I liked both Colors and Generations, but the Adventure series really hit home with me. Especially the first one. Being able to play as your favorite characters in an expansive environment, each character with their own twists to gameplay. Not to mention the Chao Gardens.

People are overly harsh on Sonic 06' i mean i know the game is bad, but it was also rushed so thats likely a huge reason why it turned out so bad. Unless you guys also didnt like the story or something like that. I thought it was decent, i gave it a chance because it was rushed. I will say, no i didnt like it, but you have to consider the fact that it could have been better had it not been rushed.

@Luke-pi, i'd say pretty much every Sonic game, or video game in general has its flaws, its just that the apparent flaws in the Sonic Adventure titles i couldnt take with a grain of salt. While there are other Sonic games out there that i dont like, like the Secret Rings, Black Knight, 06', and Unleashed (slightly), the latter two at least kept me playing til the end. I have actually beaten SA1, but SA2, those Knuckles/Rouge levels completely ruined it for me. I would say that the game would have been much more fun if not for those levels.

See, this guy knows what I'm talking about.

@Thundaga
I actually really liked the knuckles and rouge levels. They were my personal favorites.
I love the feeling I got whenever I found that last piece of the Master Emerald. I don't get that feeling with most of the newer games.

I understand, but those levels were highly confusing for me. It was one of the later Rouge stages, the one in outer space, thats the one i couldnt beat.

the only reason I bought that game is the fact that silver's telekinesis can be used in game.
but silver was disappointing imo.

Even though if it was not rushed, the storyline for the game was so bad that they use solaris to go back in time to which none of the events you played ever happened, making this game completely pointless and a terrible filler to the series that its not even worth playing through at all.

Also the mechanics for some characters (Sonic's slow speed, Shadow's kick combo, Silver's Telekinesis, Tail's flight) Would have stayed intact even if the game was finished, meaning that it still would have sucked. Sonic 06 was supposed to be pretty much the sonic game we expected in its trailers (which looked way better than the game now itself). At the end, its just a half finished sonic game with really terrible mechanics and features to the franchise. I'd only pop it in my console just for the multiplayer so me and my friends can see some ridiculous crap going on in the game. Its funny and decent but it does not make me want to touch the game ever again. Also, for a rushed game, it would have been much better if they actually brought in all the characters you played in story mode to the game.. Just for the hell of it xD

Yeah now that you mention it, i remember that huge flaw in the plot... Hmm i always thought people hated the game more for its strange physics, which could have at least been fine tuned had the game not been rushed. It may still have been different for a Sonic game, but it could have been better.

Also the game messes up the continuity involving Blaze, since she is supposed to be from another dimension, not the future.

The reason I hated '06 was because the controls were broken, people asking you to do random s*** in the city was boring, and I spent way too much time at loading screens. Some of the other characters you had to play as really sucked as well. Knuckles and rouge were almost unplayable in that game, as they had this glitch where you always got stuck to a wall. Amy, Silver, Tails, etc, were all horrid.

tl;dr, This game, while judged a bit harshly, is still absolutely horrid.

Sonic 06 deserved the hate it got, many weird glitches,bad story, and boring gameplay are probably the worst parts of the game.
A bad game is bad, rushed or not. It's a good thing they were able to pick up the pieces with colors,unleashed, and generations.

To be Honest, Sonic games were best without a story mode. Take a look at Sonic CD: It explained the story through the help guide and it just went straight to the gameplay without any terrible story fillers.

THIS IS HOW GENERATION'S STORY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE!

Look at Sonic 4
The game's nostalgia and mechanics may be either bad or not implemented correctly but you just select a stage and it goes into the action with the story explained in the help or the store information.

Story mode in Sonic games are not bad... Its just.. Not needed.
Only the early gen sonic games had a good storyline. The rest were generic or just pointless

I just want Sonic 4: episode 2 to be game based and not have a storyline. Would really help alot

OK simply if they made a knuckles chaotix 2 now with out any treasure hunting bull they would make the perfect sega game

sonic 4 ep 1 they know they messed up after generations with classic i think they know what to fix

sonic 06 was bad but it still will hold a place in a lot peoples hearts i mean a lot of people said heros and shadow the hedgehog sucked both those games were great when you play a game you don't go based on someone else's opinion you use your own other wise you miss out on great things it may not be perfect but it still is good enough

plus 06 was rushed by microsoft that's what messed it up they wanted to have games for the 360 fast they were desperate and for that a game that had lots of potential was ruined and they couldn't just release the 360 version only with out pissing off ps3 fans so that helps explain that

that is people's main problem they can't seem to stand any of sonic's pals which i don't see whats wrong most have been around for years no one complained about them for that long until 06 which is stupid seeing as though you only play as 9 people and you only play like a couple of minutes as them and also games with story's get you more excited about them take halo and cod for example halo has a great story which makes people want to play it and its story over and over again cod has a crappy story which the only reason you might play it is so you could say you did sonic games may not have perfect stories but at least they try in the classic days when it was just stop eggman well until CD and above it felt like it could use a little something extra like an explanation of why he is doing this we know his friends were kidnapped but why did eggman do that they never even explained the purpose of the chaos emeralds and why there were only six while in sonic 2 there were 7