Damn, is that a punishment or what? The only thing worse I can think of is if the game spit out the disk which landed back in the case which re-shrink wrapped itself and flew back to the store so you'd have to buy it all over again.
11:44 I guess Tails decided to suicide rather than to be subject of this shitty game. It's like: Sonic: Hey Tails, you wanna play Sonic '06? Tails: Uhhh...ooookay Sonic...I'll...be right back. *runs into the sea and kills himself*
+Vladski I see what you did there xD combining something good with disney and making it a video game can't be good :D *sound of angry fanboys in the distance*
That last life as tails with the bridge collapsing and their reactions was incredible. The sensitivity while controlling the characters looks way too high.
Mr. Rubix 64 Nah, Sonic 06 is still way worse than Sonic Boom. Sonic Boom is just mediocre, this is unfinished and borderline broken due to all the bugs.
KaBlamBandicoot64 What a way to start a game here is some old man you talk to and then go through about 10 loading screens for no reason then talk to the old man again to do some more loading screens.
Going back and watching this video again, I realised how much I love how James is pretty much an old grandpa when it comes to modern games. It's so delightful
Elisha Hahn Maybe it's because I was lucky, or that I was a little kid, but I QUICKLY got used to the control in sonic 06. It also taught me to save my progress.
I bought this game as a kid thinking it would be as good as Sonic Heroes. It was right after I finished watching Sonic X, and I was craving more Sonic action. When I finally played it, I slowly realized it wasn't going to be very good. I decided to trade the game back to gamestop.
ACACE10 oh shit dude... i haven't thought of that... XD. well if he's not going to do the new sonic games he might as well do the old ones like sonic R or sonic drift or sonic 3d blast. i mean the bad old ones.
"They should've just started you at Tails!" and then that cynical laugh and facial expression by James. Perfect. I love it. It's like Mike is the one who played the game, but James is the one saying "you're giving it too much credit" without saying a word.
I like how James manages to go in with a fairly open mind. He KNOWS the game is shit. He must know, unless he lived under a rock or something. Yet he doesn't automatically point out all the really ni-tpicky bad things in the game while ignoring some good things. I.e. he immediately admits that at least the camera is good. He doesn't insult the game before having a reason to do so.
From what I know, this game is indeed unfinished. Sega pressured Sonic Team for a holiday release of this game, ergo all of the flaws and glitches were not seen to. There are even unused components as well. Can't really fault the development team for this. If given enough time, perhaps the gameplay would have been better (and probably the story as well).
It drives me nuts that Mike said "bad music" at the end. The music in this game is FANTASTIC. It's the game's only real redeeming quality. I don't own it, but I listen to the soundtrack often. Three words: "Solaris Phase Two".
FourTheKids ...I don't quite agree with this. Yes, there are certain songs that I may like that you might not, but I certainly think there is OBJECTIVELY bad music (especially when it comes to video games.) And Sonic 06's soundtrack doesn't fall into this category. However, where I think there is some subjectivity here is weather or not you (or Mike, for that matter) likes/dislikes SONIC MUSIC in general. If you like Sonic music, there is no real way you can bash this game's soundtrack, as it is GOOD Sonic music. However, if you dislike Sonic music, then I totally believe that you might not like this soundtrack, and that's okay. I question your taste, but it's okay. Haha. In the end, I think Mike was just talking and not thinking. :P
Swaggless That's not true. Just because you like a type of music doesn't mean you like all of them. People judge the music by what it sounds like not what game series its from. I think this OST is nothing special. I find the music rather bland. Nothing remotely iconic or memorable as say the Genesis games or the early 3D Sonic games. It's not bad,but nothing to write home about. By your logic you should love Sonic Chronicles OST
I wonder how often James plays modern gaming consoles/games. While this is a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE game, a few of the points in which they got stuck or confused were pretty typical gaming conventions since the PS2-ish days, such as hub worlds to get into level stuff. Ah well, funny to see how bad the game is when one has no idea what they're doing.
MuikuliWander Not saying they were, just that I was curious as to how often James plays modern games, as some of the things (good design or not) were pretty typical design choices around the time of this release, so I didn't know many people who got stuck on such things.
Both the boys strike me as a bit old school when it comes to gaming. Myself, I still play stuff like Donkey Kong and Frogger. Now that's old school. Got me one of those 60 in 1 arcade cabinets. Fun fun fun! Thought I'd say hi seeing as you write so well. Very refreshing to see in the comments section. Have a good Christmas. Peace out bro.
Sonic 06 is one of the worst games of the last generation. The whole game is a frustrating process of trial and error, wouldn't call it a design choice but rather a design fiasco.
+VYSUS Most of the bugs and glitches in the original release were fixed in the platinum hits version. Its just a much better version of sonic 06 than the original release.
Mike, the music isn't bad, I actually thought some tracks were pretty damn good. Everything else about this game is an abomination against humanity, of course.
I can't believe James played Sonic 06! My dream has come true!! Thank you, Mike! Now, If only AVGN did a full review of the game, My REAL dream would have come true.
It's funny they mention the game felt rushed at the end. Because the game was rushed to meet a Christmas deadline. If I'm remembering correctly as well, half of the team (or a large portion of it) was taken out of the project midway to focus on a Sonic title for the Wii (Sonic and the Secret Rings)
Guessing James and Mike don't know that this game never actually made it out of Beta. It's literally incomplete, Sonic Team came out and told the world they were rushed by SEGA, despite pleading for more time. You can really tell too. Entire areas untextured (like the HUB town, that's why it's so gray, it was supposed to have a lot more color), broken scripts get you killed constantly (falling through everything, etc), unfinished enemy AI, unfinished/unimplemented features (enemies and bosses don't behave as intended, instead standing around doing nothing for random periods), character animations either incomplete or missing, incomplete NPC models, a physics engine not fully utilized resulting in things like Shadow phasing through objects entirely in his levels, a bad story even by Sonic standards, the list goes on and on and on. Who knows if it would've been good had Sonic Team been given another year, but as it stands, SEGA rushed it out for Xmas 2006 and got this broken pile of glass shards. Oi, salva mia. It's both an interesting and unfortunate story. Maybe check that out, James/Mike, for more in-depth detail.
So, I'm a youngun', and the more I watch Let's Plays from James and Mike and Two Best Friends Play, the more I realize that I grew up as Sonic was dying. My first Sonic game was Sonic Adventure, which I loved and played all the time. It was all downhill from there. It's so weird to know that a franchise I always loved to death was apparently in its death throes when I started.
+Rei I actually enjoyed Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, years back. I liked the Chao breeding sidequest thing. And even Sonic Heroes was okay. This game though... I've never played it, but it looks like a broken, unfinished version of Sonic Adventure 3.
You guys have no idea. You didn't even see snowboarding uphill, nonsensical and nearly impossible boss battles (IT'S NO USE!), standing sideways... Not to mention, three campaigns that just don't make sense. Shadow riding a motorcycle, Silver and his ridiculous psychic controls... This game was beyond rushed and I doubt it was ever play tested. Like you guys said, it had potential and it was hyped to no end, but bad decisions and unforeseen problems got in the way, resulting in this piece of garbage.
I have "Sonic the Hedgehog's Ultimate Genesis Collection" on the XBOX 360. The game came out in 2004, and since it's Sega-oriented, there's a bunch of reviews of the people who work with Sega and Sonic Team, and several of the reviews are of people who were (at the time) chosen to develop and work on Sonic 06. It's funny because they say things like "When I found out I was chosen to work on the new Sonic the Hedgehog game, I was honored." and "We're going to reinvent Sonic and make him more appealing for modern audiences." (or something like that.)
The whole time I just wanted James to explode into an AVGN rage. "Sonic '06, LIKE PUKING ON A PILE OF SHIT" **falling through the ground as Tails** ASSSSSSSSS
I still consider this game criminally overrated. Too many people simply call it "weak" and "a bad Sonic game." NO! IT IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT IN EVERY FUCKING WAY!
I would agree, but he already addressed this in the previous James & Mike Monday stating that AVG is about older titles, and even though we are now starting next gen, it's still just not old enough of a title for AVGN. However, he did mention that he has TONS of requests for an AVGN episode on it, and maybe now that he has experienced how truly aweful this game his, maybe he'll reconsider. But don't get your hopes up.
Did Mike just say the game has bad...music...? The game where majority of Sonic fans hate, but can all agree on the music being good. Wow. I just can't. XD
It's so painfully obvious that James and Mike have never played, or even heard of the Sonic Adventure games. They're the missing link between classic Sonic and '06.
"It'd be great to know if they gave me a bit more warning that I was going to switch to a different character" Sonic tells Tails to do a specific task, then the camera switches from Sonic to Tails, with Tails confirming his task. How isn't that sufficient warning about switching characters? And the intro should really only take about 5 minutes, including cutscenes and loading screens. Is it too much to repeat 5 minutes of gameplay, especially when you can skip all the cutscenes? All the game does is bring you back to immediately after you beat the previous level. But since there IS no previous level, the game starts you at the (short) intro.
It's nice to come here straight from the Sonic '06 Nerd videos (chronologically reversed watching) and see/hear some of the ideas originate _here,_ in this sit-down. Looking back, it's cool to see James' creative working process, a lot of gags in the AVGN video are generated in this casual playthrough.
***** To be fair I remember my first time playing this game I did awful. Mainly due to it's pretty terrible camera issues along with control issues and not to mention countless bugs.
Oh yeah, I definitely see the bugs and stuff. I'm surprised James didn't know about the homing attack until into Wave Ocean but I can't remember if he ever said he played the DC games.
This game shouldn't be named "Sonic the Hedgehog" but rather "Sonic: The Loading Bar 'Game' " or "Loading: The Loading Bar Screensaver" or "Sonic: The Butchering of a Legend".
Seriously. It's not often that when people say " this game loads too much!" or takes too long to load (Skyrim) that they are actually not exaggerating.
As a fan of Modern Sonic, I agree this game is utter shiet. The only decent thing was the music, everything else is a train wreck in slow motion over the course of 40 hours.
Hey kids, there's nothing more cool than playing a game with someone you like. But if someone tries to make you play my 2006 shitsterpeice, THAT'S NO GOOD!
Rule #1 of a Sonic game needs to be NO EFFING HUMANS BESIDES ROBOTNIK! The series should stay focused around trying to rescue all his animal buddies, and for extra sexy style points the game areas could use the same sort of checkerboard color patterns and saturated colors the original sidescrollers did.
Didn't we get that wish with Colors,Generations and lost world which was bound to flop. Yet Sonic Adventure 1 had humans, crappy cutscenes and people still praised it.
Like James & Mike Mondays? See more game playthroughs with Mike on Twitch!
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G1 Jazz, that fucker never stays up
This game sucks ass yes but ya'll suck ass at it too lol. The game obviously has a save mechanic ya'll aren't aware of.
Cinemassacre this looks the same as sonic for dreamcast
"Great Sonic! I'll be right back!"
*kills himself*
LMAOOO I noticed that too
Actually it’s “OK, Sonic”
@@SonicPlayer2004 you get it tho.
Legend says that guy at the shop is still talking.
Aggserp4 Welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome-- (x Infinite)
Not even a joke its just one looped animation. Lol.
The poor guy is stuck in an infinite loop, forever welcoming customers that aren't there
Lol
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Sonic the hedgehog? More like, Loading the game.
Paulino Garcia As if loading were it's only fault.
Pedro Juan As is, the load times are a mercy.
Paulino Garcia Loading Simulator 2007
***** ITS 2006 NOT 2007 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Paulino Garcia blast processing more like ass processing
My favorite part is when they have to start the whole game again. XD
LOOK AT JAMES FACE, LOOK AT THAT GODDAMMIT DEPRESSING FACE!
PercyandDuckfan94 Agreed. More games need to this.
Damn, is that a punishment or what? The only thing worse I can think of is if the game spit out the disk which landed back in the case which re-shrink wrapped itself and flew back to the store so you'd have to buy it all over again.
@@spartanoftheapex nice, i remember when james said that in the avgn episode
😂😂😂
23:01 I just love James' facial expression here. Sums the whole thing up perfectly.
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I love how usually J&M videos are more casual and chill but in this James started to become the avgn at times
That was some serious Tails Parkour action going on there. 21:15
*****
Shhhhh....
I knew you had to come back for more. Makes for some good holiday cheer doesn't it?
OHMAHGAWD HAI JOOHNNY
They should have made the parkour system in Sonic Lost World like that. Btw, your recent Link Between Worlds review was awesome.
JOHNNY!!!
11:44 I guess Tails decided to suicide rather than to be subject of this shitty game. It's like:
Sonic: Hey Tails, you wanna play Sonic '06?
Tails: Uhhh...ooookay Sonic...I'll...be right back. *runs into the sea and kills himself*
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Azumarill_TF2 I'm a fan of Pokémon to
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And thus Sonic.exe happened 🤔
Sonic: "Tails! Go ahead and push the gate switch so he doesn't get out!"
Tails: "Okay, Sonic! I'll be right back!"
~falls in water and dies~
A THOUSAND TIMES
Wtf is this? Why even put Sonic in a world full of Final Fantasy characters? The style clashes so hard.
Garrette Good thing that Sonic Unleashed's humans are stylized instead
+Garrette I wonder who tough that it would be a good idea to use those assets that looks like some crappy beta version of the sims.
What's next? Disney and Final Fantasy?
+Vladski I see what you did there xD
combining something good with disney and making it a video game can't be good :D
*sound of angry fanboys in the distance*
+BricklordLP Well, it worked. With great gameplay, I might add.
"Ok, Sonic! I'll be right back!" *Goes for a swim and dies*
That last life as tails with the bridge collapsing and their reactions was incredible.
The sensitivity while controlling the characters looks way too high.
This game has since been surpassed by Sonic Boom, a truly worthy successor of the title of worst Sonic game
I have to disagree; they may both be glitchy pieces of shit, but at least Sonic Boom has half decent writing. Sonic 06 has no redeeming value.
Mr. Rubix 64 Nah, Sonic 06 is still way worse than Sonic Boom. Sonic Boom is just mediocre, this is unfinished and borderline broken due to all the bugs.
Swickful Lyric was critically panned just like sonic 06, they're both terrible in my opinion
Swickful disagree all you want, doesnt change the fact that both were terrible and terribly received by critics, look it up
Mr. Rubix 64 don't sonic boom have knuckles on steroids?
Whoever made this game must have really hated children...
Fun is infinite with Sega Enterprises
The Dark Slayer #⑥⑨ I HATE THAT IN SONIC CD
I'm the one who made this game
That's not very fair, sega rushed this game so it could be out for the Christmas sale
KaBlamBandicoot64 What a way to start a game here is some old man you talk to and then go through about 10 loading screens for no reason then talk to the old man again to do some more loading screens.
James: "HEY I'M ANGRY!"
Mike: "I'M NOT SO ANGRY!'
Both: "AAAND WEEE'RE THE ANGRY NERDS!"
"Yay"
Going back and watching this video again, I realised how much I love how James is pretty much an old grandpa when it comes to modern games. It's so delightful
If you think james is just bad at the game, you probably haven't played it yet.
He really is though.
Bro, I have played this game before and it is a nightmare trying to do the most simple tasks.
Elisha Hahn Maybe it's because I was lucky, or that I was a little kid, but I QUICKLY got used to the control in sonic 06. It also taught me to save my progress.
deltadragonoid225 I went back to the game store the next day and returned the trash lol
Elisha Hahn It really is trash. Though it is fun to mess around with the game breaking glitches. (When you get a feel for the game anyway.)
someone just gave us this game for Xmas and I almost hit them in the face. They must really hate us.
There are 7 things you didn't know about Sonic '06, Probably?
Didn’t ask, IGN.
"Okay sonic I'll be right back!"
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Bad music?! You must of not heard the soundtrack D:
Holy shit it's MsDBZbabe. Love the vids.
Jake Pope Oh thanks lol ^^
I bought this game as a kid thinking it would be as good as Sonic Heroes.
It was right after I finished watching Sonic X, and I was craving more Sonic action.
When I finally played it, I slowly realized it wasn't going to be very good.
I decided to trade the game back to gamestop.
What game did you buy after with the money
I brought back i bought this around 2010 had no idea it was bad.........i couldn't get passed level 1
PLEASE DO A AVGN EPISODE OF THIS GAME
+diyagheith1 even though 06 has been out for 9 years, still not old enough, give it about 5-7 more years.
ACACE10 really....... i also wanted him to do sonic boom
diyagheith1 have you not listened to the theme song "he's gonna take you back to the past". he looks at 3rd to 5th generation games.
ACACE10 oh shit dude... i haven't thought of that... XD. well if he's not going to do the new sonic games he might as well do the old ones like sonic R or sonic drift or sonic 3d blast. i mean the bad old ones.
+ACACE10 He made an exception for big rigs though.
If the Nerd decides to review more recent games, I think this should be what he starts with.
And an absolute favorite of the glitch gremlin.
MattTheHeckingMedicWeaboo g
Got your wish
"They should've just started you at Tails!" and then that cynical laugh and facial expression by James. Perfect. I love it. It's like Mike is the one who played the game, but James is the one saying "you're giving it too much credit" without saying a word.
11:45 "Okay, Sonic! I'll be right back!" **runs into the water**
Lol. This game is so bad even Tails doesn't want to be in it.
I remember watching my dad do the exact same thing...
I like how James manages to go in with a fairly open mind. He KNOWS the game is shit. He must know, unless he lived under a rock or something.
Yet he doesn't automatically point out all the really ni-tpicky bad things in the game while ignoring some good things.
I.e. he immediately admits that at least the camera is good. He doesn't insult the game before having a reason to do so.
That's because the one reviewing the game is James and not the nerd.
So.. superman 64 meets big rigs meets ass?
Nah, Big Rigs was fun in it's own respect. Just not the way it was meant to.
and that clusterfuck also meets final fantasy and pacific rim
Every time I see footage of Sonic 06, I can't help but marvel at how badly made and half-assed everything is.
When James said why he thinks this game will suck, im thinking to myself "he has no idea what he is in for"
From what I know, this game is indeed unfinished. Sega pressured Sonic Team for a holiday release of this game, ergo all of the flaws and glitches were not seen to. There are even unused components as well. Can't really fault the development team for this. If given enough time, perhaps the gameplay would have been better (and probably the story as well).
It's all sega's fault, plain and simple, everyone knows, it's no big secret
I miss james and Mike Mondays
Me too, bro.
An AVGN episode of this game would be glorious.
we're gonna have to wait for like 20 years when james is like 60 years old.
clubroblox3893 Does James look like a 40 year old man to you?
halo2untouchable \hes in his late thirties i think.
clubroblox3893 He's 33 :p
It drives me nuts that Mike said "bad music" at the end. The music in this game is FANTASTIC. It's the game's only real redeeming quality. I don't own it, but I listen to the soundtrack often. Three words: "Solaris Phase Two".
the music is bad lol, you mad?
Alex Patton
No, because you know it isn't true, Alex. ;)
Music is subjective thus meaning your comment is invalid.
FourTheKids
...I don't quite agree with this. Yes, there are certain songs that I may like that you might not, but I certainly think there is OBJECTIVELY bad music (especially when it comes to video games.) And Sonic 06's soundtrack doesn't fall into this category.
However, where I think there is some subjectivity here is weather or not you (or Mike, for that matter) likes/dislikes SONIC MUSIC in general. If you like Sonic music, there is no real way you can bash this game's soundtrack, as it is GOOD Sonic music. However, if you dislike Sonic music, then I totally believe that you might not like this soundtrack, and that's okay. I question your taste, but it's okay. Haha.
In the end, I think Mike was just talking and not thinking. :P
Swaggless That's not true. Just because you like a type of music doesn't mean you like all of them. People judge the music by what it sounds like not what game series its from. I think this OST is nothing special. I find the music rather bland. Nothing remotely iconic or memorable as say the Genesis games or the early 3D Sonic games. It's not bad,but nothing to write home about. By your logic you should love Sonic Chronicles OST
I wonder how often James plays modern gaming consoles/games. While this is a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE game, a few of the points in which they got stuck or confused were pretty typical gaming conventions since the PS2-ish days, such as hub worlds to get into level stuff. Ah well, funny to see how bad the game is when one has no idea what they're doing.
It doesn't mean that those were good design choices.
MuikuliWander
Not saying they were, just that I was curious as to how often James plays modern games, as some of the things (good design or not) were pretty typical design choices around the time of this release, so I didn't know many people who got stuck on such things.
Both the boys strike me as a bit old school when it comes to gaming. Myself, I still play stuff like Donkey Kong and Frogger. Now that's old school. Got me one of those 60 in 1 arcade cabinets. Fun fun fun! Thought I'd say hi seeing as you write so well. Very refreshing to see in the comments section. Have a good Christmas. Peace out bro.
I'm fairly certain that they know what a video game is.
Sonic 06 is one of the worst games of the last generation. The whole game is a frustrating process of trial and error, wouldn't call it a design choice but rather a design fiasco.
lol, people defending the game.
crazy people
Denial can be an ugly thing.
I like this game.
I agree the original release is terrible. But the platinum hits version is good.
Mike the Nintendo Master
whats the difference?
+VYSUS Most of the bugs and glitches in the original release were fixed in the platinum hits version. Its just a much better version of sonic 06 than the original release.
"It goes back to cutscenes after one death?"
Yeah, if you, you know, edit out how your lives dropped from 4 to 0.
The reaction at 12:08 when it starts over is priceless, lol.
Mike, the music isn't bad, I actually thought some tracks were pretty damn good.
Everything else about this game is an abomination against humanity, of course.
I think the music in this game is quite fantastic, it's the only good think about it really.
It's like Castlevania II
Predator459 The background song in Soliena is just a slowed down version of the main Star Wars theme but played on a midi accordion.
22:27
*WHAT THE FUCK!? WHAT THE F*(dies of laughter)
My favourite part
NO Mike, I call foul.
Sonic 06 is god-horrendously shitty, but the music in the game is NOT shitty.
"I don't remember people in Sonic games..."
*Dr. Robotnik?*
He's not a people, he's a Robotnik
***** sonic adventure?
Damnit, I wanted you two to get to the cutscene before the final boss. I wanted to see James react to that ONE scene.
He's gonna take you back to '06
This game will make you die in four weeks
He's gonna take you back to 06
To play the shitty games that suck dicks
Alex Koopa he rather have a hairy hedgehog going down his throat and down it with beer.
He'd rather have a mephiles take a diarrhea dump in his ear
Alex Koopa He's the angriest hedgehog you've ever heard...
Sam Rosenblum Travel and Gaming
he's the angry sega nerd
James Rolfe- The only person in the world to not die at the "jumping-on-planks-in-the-air" section on his first try.
It really wasn't that hard....
It was a joke.
*****
Not hard, but also not entirely obvious that you need to be jumping.
What about me.
Just imagine AVGN's reaction to the Silver battle.
Imagine no more.
I can't believe James played Sonic 06!
My dream has come true!! Thank you, Mike!
Now, If only AVGN did a full review of the game,
My REAL dream would have come true.
***** it isn't too new now to do a avgn review of it
It's funny they mention the game felt rushed at the end. Because the game was rushed to meet a Christmas deadline. If I'm remembering correctly as well, half of the team (or a large portion of it) was taken out of the project midway to focus on a Sonic title for the Wii (Sonic and the Secret Rings)
I was getting frustrated just watching this, I probably would have broken something if I actually played it.
Guessing James and Mike don't know that this game never actually made it out of Beta. It's literally incomplete, Sonic Team came out and told the world they were rushed by SEGA, despite pleading for more time. You can really tell too. Entire areas untextured (like the HUB town, that's why it's so gray, it was supposed to have a lot more color), broken scripts get you killed constantly (falling through everything, etc), unfinished enemy AI, unfinished/unimplemented features (enemies and bosses don't behave as intended, instead standing around doing nothing for random periods), character animations either incomplete or missing, incomplete NPC models, a physics engine not fully utilized resulting in things like Shadow phasing through objects entirely in his levels, a bad story even by Sonic standards, the list goes on and on and on. Who knows if it would've been good had Sonic Team been given another year, but as it stands, SEGA rushed it out for Xmas 2006 and got this broken pile of glass shards. Oi, salva mia. It's both an interesting and unfortunate story. Maybe check that out, James/Mike, for more in-depth detail.
XD Been dying to see you guys fuck about in this
ALPHA! :D
***** Howdy do :D
Just wait and see when they play Ride to hell Retribution! o_O
Sup AOS
I was reading this on my phone and my thumb covered the last three words when I was scrolling down. I went "wtf did I just read!?"
They need to revisit this game someday; they've barely scraped the surface on how shit this game is.
it'll be an avgn episode in due time...
Elaborate?
Ciaran Grainger
Really? I gave up about where they did too
Second most glitchy game ever made! Coming in very closely behind Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
Be warned video gamers, this is one of the Glitch Gremlin's favorite games to fuck up.
"Bad music"
Hey. That's the only good thing about it :p
Sonic is super fast usually, but this game is the exact opposite with the loading times.
It's obviously because the 360 doesn't have blast processing
I love how they fail to mention the old shoemaker guy's derpy arm movements.
14:25 TO 14:53 Lol, I love how confused James is about dying once then back to cut scenes.
So, I'm a youngun', and the more I watch Let's Plays from James and Mike and Two Best Friends Play, the more I realize that I grew up as Sonic was dying. My first Sonic game was Sonic Adventure, which I loved and played all the time. It was all downhill from there. It's so weird to know that a franchise I always loved to death was apparently in its death throes when I started.
11:45 Best part Tails "Ok sonic i will be right back" walks into water "AHHAHHAHA"
Still the worst Sonic fanfiction ever.
"If you want to save your friends, solve my maze." --Lex Luthor
LOL... poor Sonic... he's trapped in Superman64...@6:56
i think they blew their budget on the opening FMV because that honestly looked quite beautiful despite its age.
James should try Sonic Adventure for Dreamcast and see what he thinks. It was well received back in the day.
+Rei I actually enjoyed Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, years back. I liked the Chao breeding sidequest thing. And even Sonic Heroes was okay. This game though... I've never played it, but it looks like a broken, unfinished version of Sonic Adventure 3.
+B DeWit Oh you don't even know man... This game is hell on Earth and it is glitchy as fuck
+Rei He has played it before, just never did a video about it.
but SA1 was actually good. at least, compared to this game now a days.
+360Ragequit sonic heros is sonic adventure 3. This game has nothing to do with sonic adventure
You have no idea, James and Mike.
This game gets so much worse. You pretty much seen the "best" Sonic '06 has to offer.
I want him to play as silver
You guys have no idea. You didn't even see snowboarding uphill, nonsensical and nearly impossible boss battles (IT'S NO USE!), standing sideways... Not to mention, three campaigns that just don't make sense. Shadow riding a motorcycle, Silver and his ridiculous psychic controls... This game was beyond rushed and I doubt it was ever play tested. Like you guys said, it had potential and it was hyped to no end, but bad decisions and unforeseen problems got in the way, resulting in this piece of garbage.
I have "Sonic the Hedgehog's Ultimate Genesis Collection" on the XBOX 360. The game came out in 2004, and since it's Sega-oriented, there's a bunch of reviews of the people who work with Sega and Sonic Team, and several of the reviews are of people who were (at the time) chosen to develop and work on Sonic 06. It's funny because they say things like "When I found out I was chosen to work on the new Sonic the Hedgehog game, I was honored." and "We're going to reinvent Sonic and make him more appealing for modern audiences." (or something like that.)
PikaMewPokeTrainer
And then they didn't finish the game proper.
awmehgoddd No, they didn't, haha
+PikaMewPokeTrainer Nitpick, but that came out in 2009.
+Rebekah Mellinger The Xbox 360 didn't even come out until 2005, though.
Top 10 photos taken right before disaster
Sonic The LoadHog xD
+Technology Spotlight Lol.
Kinky
sonic slow ass
Load the loadload
The whole time I just wanted James to explode into an AVGN rage.
"Sonic '06, LIKE PUKING ON A PILE OF SHIT"
**falling through the ground as Tails**
ASSSSSSSSS
When he is james he shouldnt act as the AVGN which is rather more of a OC of him.
lampenpam I know, but it would've been funny.
Give it 20 years.
Sonic '06 - Angry Video Game Nerd
I still consider this game criminally overrated. Too many people simply call it "weak" and "a bad Sonic game." NO! IT IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT IN EVERY FUCKING WAY!
Woah, it's not every day you see James & Mike playing a modern game.
What do you mean by modern? :3 It was old before it came out :3
TheHollowMoon By his standards, this is modern.
Gencoil true. I guess.
"Look Dad! An imitation of a much better game!"
"Don't acknowledge it."
This would make a great AVGN episode, especially when he gets to "Its no Use!"
He's already said its too new to be an AVGN episode =/
years do go by
Game is almost a decade old.
PessOmist It wasn't even out yet when AVGN started, how can you say it's not too old?
I would agree, but he already addressed this in the previous James & Mike Monday stating that AVG is about older titles, and even though we are now starting next gen, it's still just not old enough of a title for AVGN. However, he did mention that he has TONS of requests for an AVGN episode on it, and maybe now that he has experienced how truly aweful this game his, maybe he'll reconsider. But don't get your hopes up.
James & mike should play Sonic adventure & Sonic adventure 2. Waaay better than sonic 06.
Did Mike just say the game has bad...music...?
The game where majority of Sonic fans hate, but can all agree on the music being good.
Wow. I just can't. XD
It's so painfully obvious that James and Mike have never played, or even heard of the Sonic Adventure games. They're the missing link between classic Sonic and '06.
Imagine James reaction if somebody told him the games story.
Tails 'OK Sonic! I'll be right back!' *dies*
That seems fairly canonical to Sonic 2 ;)
"It'd be great to know if they gave me a bit more warning that I was going to switch to a different character"
Sonic tells Tails to do a specific task, then the camera switches from Sonic to Tails, with Tails confirming his task. How isn't that sufficient warning about switching characters? And the intro should really only take about 5 minutes, including cutscenes and loading screens. Is it too much to repeat 5 minutes of gameplay, especially when you can skip all the cutscenes? All the game does is bring you back to immediately after you beat the previous level. But since there IS no previous level, the game starts you at the (short) intro.
It's nice to come here straight from the Sonic '06 Nerd videos (chronologically reversed watching) and see/hear some of the ideas originate _here,_ in this sit-down. Looking back, it's cool to see James' creative working process, a lot of gags in the AVGN video are generated in this casual playthrough.
I bet if he dies one more time he needs to buy the game again.
Wow, James is even worse than the grumps
Well he hasn't played this particular game before but Sonic games are pretty simple to play, so it is a bit irksome.
....How? What? Why? I.... inconcievable...
sora8711 Sucks I know.
***** To be fair I remember my first time playing this game I did awful. Mainly due to it's pretty terrible camera issues along with control issues and not to mention countless bugs.
Oh yeah, I definitely see the bugs and stuff. I'm surprised James didn't know about the homing attack until into Wave Ocean but I can't remember if he ever said he played the DC games.
"The whole fucking game is a programming mistake" 2/10 -Mike Matei
This game shouldn't be named "Sonic the Hedgehog" but rather "Sonic: The Loading Bar 'Game' " or "Loading: The Loading Bar Screensaver" or "Sonic: The Butchering of a Legend".
Loading Bar Simulator.
Or "Reason why you shouldn't force your game for a Christmas release"
Seriously. It's not often that when people say " this game loads too much!" or takes too long to load (Skyrim) that they are actually not exaggerating.
Mike: WHAT?!! THE WHOLE F*CKING GAME
James: ehehheheheha
It's like lakitu holding the camera in Mario 64. Without Lakitu, THERE WOULD BE NO GAME. He also cant go through rocks
No doubt. The world would've been a lot different if Lakitu didn't show up for work that day.
This game is almost 10 years old, holy shit!
+Ricky Dargence I guess a proper AVGN review is now long overdue...?
I remember playing this on my sister's ps3 then i was 10,boy time sure flies then you having "fun"!
Ricky Dargence now more than 10 years
It almost 16 years old now
Back from the future to say it's almost 18 years old
this deserves a sonic episode of AVGN, so bad he is.
As a fan of Modern Sonic, I agree this game is utter shiet. The only decent thing was the music, everything else is a train wreck in slow motion over the course of 40 hours.
Hey kids, there's nothing more cool than playing a game with someone you like. But if someone tries to make you play my 2006 shitsterpeice, THAT'S NO GOOD!
"I like how the right stick controls the camera"
*James Rolfe 2013*
Right? Like every other modern game in existence
I wouldn't say the game has bad music, it's actually the only good thing about Sonic 06
Good music is usually a prerequisite for a Sonic game.
Of course this game is slow, after all, it doesn't have blast processing.
Rule #1 of a Sonic game needs to be NO EFFING HUMANS BESIDES ROBOTNIK!
The series should stay focused around trying to rescue all his animal buddies, and for extra sexy style points the game areas could use the same sort of checkerboard color patterns and saturated colors the original sidescrollers did.
Didn't we get that wish with Colors,Generations and lost world which was bound to flop. Yet Sonic Adventure 1 had humans, crappy cutscenes and people still praised it.
Im just gonna talk like one of those NPCs when I don't want to talk at work.
James reminds me of a 50 year old who's new to modern gaming, and I love that. :3
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Wow much loading, so sonic, no continue, such old man
Oh man, this is miserable, I love it. Best episode yet.
Good video like always. Had me laughing so hard. Especially the part when James accidentally pushes Tails into the water. Haha
Trying to play this game? IT'S NO USE!
TAKE THIS!
HOW ABOUT THIS ONE?
THIS WILL END IT!
I like it!
*the world explodes*
(No joke. I need it.)
Once you get used to the bugs, it actually gets a bit fun. Frustrating, but still fun.
I got to the snowboarding level before I couldn't take it anymore.
Go back to Dota.