What hazard do you hate the most in Sonic?

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On gamegear at least. Sonic 2 GG was the only Sonic game I played as a kid where it was a miracle to make it past the first stage. I knew where every single secret free life box was in Underground zone just so I'd have enough to beat the boss.

That said as far this thread goes I find Water much more annoying than death pits. (I actually don't really mind death pits unless its Sonic Advance 2 where you already don't have control over your player as it is. It creates tension in platform section.)

 

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yeah everybody knows already, but still. I FUCKING HATE the badniks from Metropolis Zone. They are ALWAYS positioned in the worst place: Slicers where you have to jump from a nut, Shellcrakers where you can't jump over them and Asterons in narrow corridors where you can't avoid them. I still can't get over that, and along with some instant-death parts, Metropolis Zone really deserves to be the hardest level of Sonic 2.

 

This is the sole reason I stopped playing Sonic 2 for nearly a year, when I was younger. Lmfao.

 

Ahahah, how could anyone who's played any of the new games pick anything but 'bottomless pits'? XD

 

Hazardous objects tend to be extremely deadly, but bottomless pits take the cake as they are and always will be annoying. It's one of the things that stops the modern Sonic games from being as fun as the old school games.

Exactly. And s'up Lostgame, long time no see, although I'd be surprised if you remembered me. Probably only Robjoe does.

 

I voted Hazardous objects - Namely the CNZ barrel and everything sharp and pointy in MGZ.

I could never figure out the barrel when I was younger. I remember thinking at one point that the stationary ones would eventually start moving

And then, 4 years later, I finally figure out how that fucker worked. I hated myself for not trying the up and down buttons earlier :v:



Marble Garden is full of spikes. First time I played S3K I got to MGZ with 7 lives or so and ended the boss with 2. :v:

 

In the 3D games, I think the worst hazard is the camera.

 

Or the entire game of Sonic 06.

Bottomless pits are a staple to platformers, sure, but I think the Sonic games could do just fine without them. Sure, we wouldn't have levels like Wing Fortress Zone from Sonic 2 ... but you know what? Fuck Wing Fortress Zone. That level pissed me off to no-end when I was a child.

 

I agree. Except with the Wing Fortress part. I used to be good at Wing Fortress, now whenever I play it I fuck it up continually, LOL.

Sonic '06 had bottomless pits EVERYWHERE, a lot of glitches, and terrible load times.

 

Sonic's faster pace of gameplay works better when bottomless pits are kept to a minumum, yes, but in 3D they tend to be used to cover the areas that exist outside of a level's bounds. Not just in Sonic—it was done in Mario 64, too, and it happens in pretty much any platforming stage that isn't surrounded by walls of some kind.

But I digress. The only time a bottomless pit irritates me is when it kills me unfairly. Wing Fortess is not such a case, as you have a fair shot at all the platforming. The only irritating thing for me is that stupid booster pad that only boosts you forward properly when you let go of the d-pad—something you don't know until it actually kills you because you didn't.

 

There was a lot of that sort of thing in Sonic '06.

 

I know it seems cliché to say bottomless pits, but I know I have my reason so here it is...

They make me suck.

Something about the pressure of the bottomless pit makes me play like garbage. If lava's below me, I still play pretty damn well. Any obstacle below me won't make me feel under the same amount of pressure, but tell me if I fall I'm gonna die, I usually manage to push a button on accidentally or time things completely wrong because I sometimes get nervous about it. Unless I have a massive abundance of lives... which I tend to do.

 

No, that's a different case—poor control. I mean in Wing Fortress, there's this booster thing that's supposed to shoot you across a pit, but if you're still holding forward, it sputters out and shoots you forward a grand total of two inches, dropping you in to the pit.