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Grand Moff Birdin wrote: Genesjs wrote: E.T. for sure. I've never had the luxury of playing the game myself (I wasn't even alive when that game came out), but I've seen/heard enough about it through documentaries and gameplay footage to know that the game is deserving of the scorn it got upon its initial release, and the scorn it still gets. From a technical standpoint, Sonic 06 is virtually a masterpiece compared to E.T. -- let that sink in for a moment.

E.T. was filled with game-breaking bugs, mainly due to it having had only weeks' worth of development time put into it along with obvious lack of beta testing, and that's not going into the overall content of the game itself. Sure, development issues existed for Sonic 06, but the lack of effort put into E.T. is considered legendary for a reason.

Normally I try to be respectful of opinions, but if you've done a decent amount of research into the E.T. game (or even somehow played the game itself through like a digital ROM/Emulator or something) and played/done sufficient research on Sonic 06 yet still consider the latter to be the worse game of the two, I must say -- I think there is something seriously wrong with you. I would probably never be able to understand how anyone could tell me with a straight face, while taking everything about both games and what they have to offer into consideration, how Sonic 06 could be considered the worse game of the two. Sonic 06 was a colossal disappointment, maybe, but an absolute disaster, especially compared to E.T.? As bad as Sonic 06's problems were, it never contributed to another video game crash and had excess copies put into a landfill due to poor sales (in fact, Sonic 06 sold enough copies to earn itself into Greatest Hits/Platinum Family Hits lists and the like).

EDIT: Also, I have a question for the author of this blog, Grand Moff Birdin: At the end of your blog you ask us "why didn't Sonic '06 cause a crash?" -- what I'd like to know is why you think it didn't cause a crash, or (better yet) why the possibility of a crash should've even existed in the first place, because SEGA back in 2006 wasn't exactly a corporate giant in the gaming industry anymore. Sure, Sonic is a huge franchise of theirs, but huge enough to have affected the whole industry to such a degree that Sonic 06 could've caused, or at least contributed to, an actual crash, especially taking into consideration all the other big competition it had that year (it had TONS in 2006, all of which were big titles to some degree or another that were raking in the dough for the developers/publishers who made and distributed them. One I can think off the top of my head was a Grand Theft Auto game or two)? Seriously, what exactly do you think on this particular point? well i forgot Nintendo was still sucessful at the time.

Is that the only reason?