Pre-Rec: Sonic, The Most Overrated Game Ever?

When I saw "Most overrated game" my brain immediately thought "Last of Us"

Vince Pacella

What is that theme playing during the credits? Noticed it on a couple Pre Rec videos and I absolutely love it!

John Wescott

Awesome job as always guys! Coincidentially, I was at a "Console Wars" panel at SDCC and the SEGA executives talked about the marketing of Sonic and how he was almost literally created to be Sega's "Mario", like you guys said, so you're spot on. Here's the panel if you care to watch it: <a href="http://youtu.be/1Dm62xb8rIA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/1Dm62xb8rIA</a>

Francisco Gonzalez

Have to give you props for attempting such a bold topic. Great Video!

There are rabbits inside the robots because the robots are powered by rabbit shit, obviously. Come on now!

William Sircin

That swearing compilation was soooo epic and hilarious...I truly felt your pain and frustration. I also loved the meta at the beginning -- deciding the scope of the project after it has already completed...I had a bit of a Mythbusters moment there. The self-referential way you handled it was much more creative than them though IMO...it was definitely a "breash of freth air" (so to speak). :-) These videos are turning out to be really good: they have honest and intelligent discussion, lots of great humour, and two people who judge games based on their merits and not the hype. You've already hit a good stride, and I'm interested in seeing what new games and ideas that...END!

Rory Tate

Still love the ending.

I actually did a spit take watching the "speed kills" segment where you do nothing by die. I remember that's why I hated sonic. I felt shitty afterwards.

You guys are awesome but you are pretty much wrong throughout the video here. It looks like you guys are just bad players. Did you even manage to beat any of the games without the chaos emeralds? All of the Sonic games are fairly easy and should be beatable in a few hours. You can spend weeks mastering each level and getting all of the chaos emeralds though so there is some depth. You can play levels in two ways: blast through them as fast as possible for time bonus or go slower and find 1ups and extra rings. Neither play method is "broken". The original marketing campaign (and actually the entire character design) were both created to match the already work in progress game engine and level designs. Sonic was absolutely developed to compete with Mario but lots of great things have their basis in competition - so what?

These pre-rec videos are pretty good. The old game station videos were good too, but back and forth banter between Jack and Rich is better.

Josh