/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9380804
Disingenuous idiots like you are so fucking exhausting. You know what he meant dipshit. He's referring to the momentum of the game how your speed carries over between everything. Obviously Mario didn't have loop de loops that also kept track of how much speed you're picking up/losing.

>>9380468
The idea/reward of Sonic games comes exactly from the map memorization/skill required to -not- fall in pitfalls while going fast. I'm not a good sonic player, but I played Green Hill so much growing up that I can still go through it insanely fast, which feels good to do.

The reason why Mario is so fucking boring is because it's literally -just- a platformer. Even today, they don't try to do anything new. You just wahoo and jump around really slowly and that's basically it. I like to go faster in my games because it's more fun to test my reflexes and try achieve high speed than to run around at the speed of molasses.

On top of that, whether you like it or not, Sonic's success was also because he simply looked cooler than Mario. He still does.