If a Tree Falls in the Forest…
Last year, the almost universally panned 2006 Sonic the Hedgehog was made available via Microsoft’s XBOX360 Games on Demand service. It afforded a download-only option for anyone who wished to play the game, at a cost of $19.99 plus tax.
This week, we’ve learned via a News Tip the game is no longer available for purchase, without rhyme or reason. TSSZ News reader NeKit tells us the full game is no longer available for purchase be it through the XBOX 360 console portal or via the game’s listing on XBOX.com.
The game’s DLC remains available for purchase and download. No reason has been given for the main game’s removal. Most troubling from all this is that anyone who wishes to play the much maligned titles will now have to show his or her face next to a local retailer’s bargain bin, as rummaging ensues.
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Shadow and Rouge were a couple in 2006? Seriously? Who the fuck saw that in the story? (I’m wondering how many of you are just simply reading too much into it.)
@Yamishi: I’m betting that it was the Elise/Sonic romance that got the title canned from being downloadable in the first place, and I’m EXTREMELY surprised that no one mentioned that before you did!
I mean seriously. A human and a hedgehog? I’d imagine human childbirth is painful enough without the fetuses being spiky.
@stan432231
Ah, yeah I figured it would be an arrangement akin to that. I wonder how much it costs to keep something up. Is the equation something like “Data_size x days_available = content_cost”?
So like this is the only Sonic game I bought and sold without rebuying it at a later date.
Well, at least this game is better then Sonic Rivals 2, that’s for sure. I rather see Shadow/Rouge be canon then Knuckles/Rouge, because there is no way that rivals will ever develop into a couple despite what fanfic writers want them to be (Knuckles does not like Rouge since she is his rival).
@Haru
Yes they were (Well, this game had the most hints of Shadow and Rouge being a couple as opposed to all the other games they’re in). Rouge even said to Shadow in one of the scenes that even the world turns against him, she will always be on his side. Too bad Sonic 2006′s storyline “never happened” in the series’ canon. We can only hope for a remake of this game (with all the bugs removed) sometime in the next several years.
This is better than unleashed in my opinion
Ok so i half to disagree with most comments on this blog while i do fell this game is low on the list of my fav sonics and i agree it does have many problems i still have a respect for the game. people worked long on this game and due to budgets and other timeing issues it never got a proper finish which is a shame cause it had tons of potencial now im a huge sonic fan i admit (ps. sonic adventure 1 and 2 are perfect to me shame on anyone who insults them cause there not true sonic fans) but i can also admit if a games not very good and againe while this is not my fondest memories of sonic and does not come close to the adventure games i still enjoyed alot of aspects of the game and have come to respect it where it almost has so many issues that the good shines though!! like crises city great level and alot of later levels includeing the castle at the end were fun fairly fast and the gliches did not bother or affect my gameplay at all I think alot of people just pick up a game and never finish it which i dont think there entitled to a true review of a game unless they do. All in all whatever people might think is ok but dont bash it thats way lame and a true gamer would try to find the good in it instead of point out all the bad. ps. sonic unleashed may have gotten horrible reviews but that was a great game amazeing daytime levels and gameplay any sonic fan can see that.
pps. just cause you played classic sonic does not make you a sonic fan nor does only playing resident evil make you a horror game fan.