FoolInjection

Well before I got any unlocks I used to change the weapon camo dependant on the level between woodland and desert. 

Then I got digital and started using that more.

I agree with zeus though the blue tiger camo just doesn't look right.

"ps3 versions the best"

I don't hate EA... I just don't like there "If we can't beat'em, BUY'EM" mentality.

Taking over control of almost all the major sports franchises by shelling out for exclusivity rights to drive the competition into things like All Pro Football 2k8 or Just plain buying up the studios like they are trying to do with Take Two right now for GTA... If they get 2KSports then EA Sports will be the only game in town for all your sporting needs.  Only Konami and the Pro Evo Soccer series will be able to escape this problem.

They never release patches to fix anything that's wrong with there games.  The daily tournament in Tiger 07, which came with an achievement for completeing one, wasn't working from the day and hour I got it so that achievement was never possible.

I also hate how they charge for unlocks on the Marketplace.  You paid £50 for this game... by giving us MORE money we will take away your need to actually even play it.

Last major gripe I have with them is because they run there own servers separate from that of Microsoft's Xbox Live ones... they can basiclly shut off online play for any game they wish whenever they want.  Back to Tiger 07 for example... As its been out for a while now 08 has been released and 09 on the way... 07 is no longer playable online so any of the online achievements are now impossible to ever atain.  Shit if your hard on cash and you play games on a budget... you can pick up this game for £20 but you'll never be able to get all the gamer points for it.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 on the Mega Drive/Genesis.  I was at a friends house, he had that game, I didn't have a Mega Drive at the time I was playing Super Mario All-Stars on the SNES, he puts that on and I was sold.

Amazing to think that back in what 1993 when I first saw it on screen I was like DUUUUUUUDE... THE GRAPHICS ARE FRICKIN AWESOME... and then pestered my parents to get me one for Chrimbo.

And that whole thing you mentioned, about the "way cool" goth-references and grinding, stinks of your favourite band selling their soul to the record companies; it's more about accessibility than quality control; sales, not suave.  Which is why you have Sonic running like a girl or becoming a werewolf.  Those are not good ideas.  The kiddy Sonic market will buy them.  But they are not good.

The best iteration of Sonic I've seen in ages actually appears in a Mario game (Smash Bros Brawl).  That is a pretty good summary of the state of affairs regarding the Sega and Nintendo mascots I guess."

"I bought Superman 64. It's one of the few Nintendo 64 games I still own. I only got past the first part once after trying many times, and I got no farther. Even as a child, I knew that game was absolute trash."

Penny Racers on the PS1.  Oh man was that ever a pile of total spanners.  Thank god it was more or less a freebie from Sony.

But that's demographics.  Search for Sonic on a community like DeviantArt.  You'll be inundated with drawings by fourteen year olds, of new! really! cool! hedgehogs, borne from their imagination in the vein of Shadow or this new abomination, Silver the Hedgehog.  Pregnant two-tailed foxes.  Or, worse yet, you'll see the growing popularity of the sideshows.  Big the Cat, Amy Rose, the vamp chick (none of which really stand up to classic Tails & Knuckles) making out with each other.  And there lies the problem.  Sonic remains a game marketed to kiddies - albeit a new generation - and so the games have a very low standard to reach; furthermore, these kids have no recollection of the Good Old Days.  To them, Sonic wielding a sword  might seem perfectly legit.

We've grown up, but the games, the marketing, has not.  It's no wonder that most Sonic games since Dreamcast have fallen short of our expectations: we expect Sonic to be as fast, slick and full of attitude, speeding through levels only to come into contact with some massive new Robotnik invention.  We don't expect Sonic to be standing around conversing with humans.

But kids are buying these games.  Kids probably love Silver the Hedgehog.  If Sega and Sonic Team is still making a buck from watered down, neutered versions of their landmark character, who am I to criticise them, really?"

"GTA's 100% achievement seems impossible to me. I don't have enough commitment =P"

"That would depend on the burger young padawan."