[General Discussion] Sonic the Hedgehog - Mediocre Madness!!!

^Eggman, RABicle, you never fail to make me roffle.

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Yuji Naka already said in an interview that he sees pokemon as his main opponent and wants Sonic to defeat that in popularity. Hence the childish attitude, the crappy anime, etc.

WHAT?! NO. YUJI YOU ARE FIRED. GIMME BACK MY BELOVED FRANCHISE.

You know what? I think partly the reason why Sonic has gotten weaker in games is because of the fans. Yeah, I said it. The younger crowd eats up everything, giving Sega the okay of letting their games suck (read: be mediocre like Shadow). The older crowd is at fault too, simply because most of them are angsty fanboys that argue amongst themselves on what they want on a Sonic game. Most of them want repeats of 3&K, some want some fucked up system that'd be hard to program for (Give him 100 unique moves! SERIOUSLY?!), and some say "screw the story!" Wow, thanks for giving us Sonic Heroes, you bastards.

Can't we have a GOOD story? GOOD gameplay? AWESOME villains? Use the old characters? Sega's either pandering to their fanbase when it shouldn't count or ignoring it when they should, if they just made things good and feel like Sonic, then we wouldn't have these problems.

Sonic himself shows no signs of dying, but if Sega doesn't get their act toggether we might not see anyone over the age of 13 playing anything more recent than Sonic Adventure 2.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by soniclover

Wow, that is the most accurate statement that I have ever heard. It really is.

So many fans are fighting over what they want and how they want it that Sonic Team doesn't even know what to do.

Quoted for fucking truth. It's bascially a summary of what I said.

Dear fans of Sonic Team:

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET THEM DECIDE ON SOMETHING GOOD THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT.

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Sin Ansem, you hit the nail right on the head. Let's do brunch sometime...

I'm glad we see eye to eye.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I think they put more effort into Shadow than they did with Riders.

But ten bucks says they ignore their beta testers.

They're also succumbing to marketing AND making the games much harder (just look at Riders, Advance 3 and Rush's bosses, for example) which is why the Sonic franchise seems to be pandering out and not as keen to our tastes. Why exactly the fanbase is praising Sonic as the pros hate him more and more is still confusing to me. I saw the opposite happen with Heroes... but from Shadow onward I'm seeing "ZOMG BEST SONIC EVAR" from fanboys and "ZOMG TEH N00 SAW-NIK SUX" from pro reviewers.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.