This one made me laugh out loud more often than the past 39

Well, I will say this. Several action RPGs havbe featured talking weapons, like Dark Cloud. So that part doesn’t shoot down my hopes. The fact that they are doing this with Sonic is what is killing it for me.
Unleashed STILL looks good to me (since… let’s face it, werehog sequences look like old school brawlers and hardly anyone is making those anymore) but my problem with the Sonic stages is a common misconception with the Sonic series as a whole. The older games WEREN’T just running and running and running. This is something Sonic Rush screwed up on. Only about 10% of Sonic 1-4 were the fast speed sequences. Most of it was very methodocialy platforming. Sonic Unleashed seems to have brought the “reward sequences” of speed back… but the platforming core is missing.
All in all, I’d say I treat Sonic games like I do NOA announcements. They aren’t making Sonic and the Black Knight for me. I’m not their audience. And since I’m not their audience (and one of the many who felt Sonic and the Secret Rings was a tragic miss), I can’t really get offended or disappointed. For Sonic Unleashed, however… I am that audience. That thing just screams old school goodness.

Despite constant rumors or even official announcements, no one will make a Sonic game until the year 2018 when Sonic 4 will be announced for the Nintendo Dolphin (They will pretend that Sonic games stopped at 3.) It will be classic 2D Sonic style and thoroughly awesome.

That would be impossible! The Nintendo Dolphin would be incapable of playing 2d games because they scrapped the controller long ago for complete motion control and virtual reality (granted with various attachments to the VR headpiece to allow for greater realism in the “virtual” reality, therefore making the “virtual” part disappear. (The Dolphin Toaster, for the Cooking Unspecified-Parent series. (Whoops! Politics!))

Oh, come on. If Nintendo ever scrapped 2D capabilities they would have to stop selling us the same games over and over again. How many times did you buy Super Mario World? Super Mario Bros. 3? The Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the Past? I’ve bought all of them 3 times. I am sure I will buy them again in the future. They’ll always have the “classics” because morons like me will buy it again so I don’t have to take 10 minutes to setup the SNES.