Originally Posted by boo boo

Wrong, while Sonic Heroes and Shadow The Hedgehog were luckluster overall (but still pretty playable), and Sonic Riders was just horrible, the two Sonic Adventure games for the Dreamcast (and later ported to the Gamecube) however were f*cking awesome, save the consistantly annoying camera which is a problem for 3D platformers in general, everything else was in good form... It was actually a promising start for the series in a 3D environment which unfortunately didn't carry on to later games like it should have.

Sonic next gen was a disapointment, but I have high hopes for Sonic & The Secret Rings which will be coming out for the Wii this March... Indeed the series needs more "juice" (as Sonic himself would put it) and I think if Sonic Team were to bring in some new blood that would do the trick, since there are some fresh faces working on S&TSR hopefully we will see some major improvements, the game itself looks like it will be a great change of pace for the series, perhaps it will be the "real" reinvention of the series that Sonic next gen promised it was going to be but didn't live up to that title.

The 2D games will always reign supreme, even newer ones like Sonic Rush, which mixs 2D and 3D together in a rather creative way.

Overall the 3D games lack the magic of the 16-bit originals, but they are far from bad, all they need is some improvement, and Sonic would fare in a 3D environment perfectly.

Ethan, if you want to play the old school games (and since you're a Gamecube owner) then you should get Sonic Mega Collection and Sonic Gems Collection, the latter is worth it for Sonic CD alone.