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There's actually a copy of the Resident Evil 2 beta ("RE1.5") out there, but the guy who has it refuses to do anything with it because he has the only known copy in the world and he doesn't want to devalue it. He has a whole Youtube channel dedicated to Playstation games, I forget what it is now. I remember hearing about what a childish douche he was to some Resident Evil fansite.

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Sonic The Motherfucking Hedgehog CD

I never touched a SEGA CD in my life. The only games I played during my childhood were Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Knuckles and 3D Blast. For years I've been told that Sonic CD was the greatest Sonic game ever made. I've read magazines that said CD was the shit. Top 100 list where CD was put on top of the other games.

Everyone was hyping this game up to the fucking stars.

And then I finally got a hold of this game (Totally legit).

Holy fuck what a disappointment.

What was so good about this game? What made it so great?

Was it the graphics?

They were nice for the time yes, but they still held a repetitive feel to them. It looked like a slightly more detailed version of Sonic 1. The graphical look was nice, but nothing to go "HOLY SHIT!" about.

Was it the music?

My first play through was with the American music. Years later, I tried again with the Japanese music. Either way, the music sounds great alone, but with the actual game, what the fuck. Maybe it's the CD quality music mixed with the ye old graphics of yesterday that just never made a connection with the levels with me, or maybe it was because it just didn't fit to begin with. Whatever the case, neither soundtrack is awesome, both suck, get a life.

Was it the gameplay?

Hey look, I'm playing Sonic 1 + Shitty Spindash and Charge Run move. What was introduced here wasn't that great. That's why it was scrapped or improved in later games. Spindash was awful. Peel-Out was too, and Time Travel was stupid. None of these features could be used well because of the shitty level layouts of spikes/ledge/wall/monitor/badnik blocking your path every second.

Was it the levels?

No.

No. No. No. P.P.A may disagree and say that they're all brilliantly designed and suited for time attacking, but you know what? Fuck him. CD had paths everywhere but the goal. The entire shit was a maze with the sole purpose of making the level seem long but really aren't. (Looking at you Wacky Workbench). Sonic 1 had some nice level design, Sonic 2 was more linear but still made sense, Sonic 3 and Knuckles got it right. CD fucked it up. Anyone who disagrees is a faggot (In b4 Tweaker deletes post).

Bosses sucked too.

Now in the grand scale of things, Sonic CD is a fine game, better than most other shitty platformers out there today. But my main rage is that this game is credited as the best of the Sonic games from the Genesis era, overshadowing that of Sonic 3 and Knuckles, a superior game in all the right ways. Sonic CD is not. It's a subpar game when compared to all the other ones and deserves none of the credit it gets.