I never liked Sonic either. I like taking my time on platformers checking the level and whatnot, and Sonic was so fast that I couldn't enjoy it.

Never owning a machine to play calmly on my own at home might have something to do with that, though.

Good point, I was always at someone's house when I played.

A year ago I picked up a Genesis collection on DVD rom with the 1st three Sonics but on a small computer monitor it suffers too.

Thanks for the contribution, there, pal. But all was about remakes, and REVIVING those titles, not selling them as is in emulationed environment... Read what i posted at the beginning. Sega Australia was stopped dry, while trying to create REMAKES of all those good old games. Everything cancelled, drowned, dead...

Well, in fact you can :p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI

I missed that one. I saw where they tried to put 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag, but that only worked when they took the water out and THAT'S CHEATING!

Sega is against gaming.

They also folded a paper 10+ times, by adding steam to a really large thin piece of paper, then afterwards using a paving rig...

I seriously question them sometimes...

Pretty much my first thought.

I mean, Sega has a lot of problems now, but they are not all that bad. Although as a Wii U owner I would appreciate them putting the Shining Force games on Wii U's Virtual Console. Actually it would be cool for them to make a new Shining Force game, and a new Shenmue, and port Saturn games to the VC, and a new proper Phantasy Star... But all that aside they are not that bad.

for science !!

That's a series that has always been iffy for me. Don't get me wrong, I loved it... the 4th game on Genesis, with cutscenes and images interlaced throughout the game. I've tried to play the previous installments and they fall flat, especially when it comes to trying to control the combat as your guys tend to attack guys at random.

Then there's Phantasy Star Online, which although was fun in it's own way on single player, felt like a slow grind fest.... playing co-op didn't help too much either (Naturally this is long since the servers went down).

A good game at the quality (or better) of the 4th game I would heavily appreciate.

4 is definitely my favourite, I only own one Online game and the first PS for Master System (the Wii version thereof), but I adored PSIV. I've not played too many 16 bit RPG's, but that one was by far the most compelling of them all. So, something like that indeed would be amazing. However, JRPG reinventions have been a bit iffy I suppose, like a few years back with all the games being pushed out in rapid succession on the 360. Regardless I would like to see it, if it's great then that would be fantastic, if not I get to do my second favorite thing: complain.

It does make your thread title a little bit.... confusing. Sega does not seem to be against good old gaming, but against remakes. Considering the flak remakes tend to get anyway...

IT'S DINO!

IT'S JUNGLE!

IT'S WUH-JU-WAH!!

"OH NO!!"

Well 4 offered quite a few things the other ones didn't, including who you wanted to attack (preferred) and macros (faster grinding for weaker monsters/areas). But honestly it was the pictures/cutscenes that pulled me into the RPG genre of JRPG's, if not for those then i probably wouldn't have held any real interest in any series long after i started. I mean, sure a lot of the Final Fantasy cut scenes were interesting, but watching sprites do pre-programmed animation sequences that you'd seen through all the fighting scenes quickly gets uninteresting, while having new custom hand-drawn scenes that help tell the story and give you an image of the current events (as when monsters break out of the mines to attack you) you felt more involved, more so than QTE's today or fully animated scenes because it's more like a comic book where you read the entire page and then move to the next one.

I don't know... Maybe as technology has evolved the very things that made older games great was lost... Something vital... The creativity and forcing the hardware to it's limits when it wasn't involved in anything 3D.

Sega against GOG? Paranoid much?!