Sega is taking legal action against YTMND

Wow a videogame company already fucking up a franchise telling the internets not to help them... now I've seen everything XD

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Conan-the-3rd

Ah so this explains Sega Megadrive collection's sudden no PAL'ness.

Are you serious? Wow not only is Sega mostly crap now, they appear to be losing any signs of a sense of humour -_-

They should be made to give up sonic the hegehog as a mascot or he's good as frecking dead at this rate >.>

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I understand your arguement Chronciler but at the same time I think the general feeling of people on this topic is "you're trying to sue users of the internet over being misleading about an already messed up franchise... lol"

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

"was one of the coolest things" is the operative words here. That rap does have some truths to it because the only people not picking up on the hidden messages in the games ARE the kids. Probably getting too deep into the history of here, but since going 3D *insert Sin Ansem "2D fanboy" insult here* in order to compete with Mario the Sonic franchise SEGA thought for some reason they also had to improve the story which is fair enough. This is where it went wrong though, not for going 3D but for how they went about it.

From day 1 they didn't know wether to try hardcore endrossing stories and extreme fights or aim the games for the kids. So instead they tried to do the god awful formula of hardcore cute! Creating such awkward scene gems such as:

Spoiler:

1. Changing the plot so it becomes superhero animals talking with the humans like something out of Disney Land
   
2. Omens of the end of the world but supporting characters being more concerned with "I can't find froggy! Help plz T_T"
   
3. scenes of shootouts but Sonic in the background pretty much saying "guns are wrong kids! They solve nothing!"
   
4. Amy supposed to be having a crush on Sonic but instead coming accross more like a bunny boiler
   
5. Swearing and killing off characters, but being removed from the games or censored as best as they can get away with to not to offend the kids in the west
   
6. Creating an evil twin who's not really evil, but then how do you make something like that accessible to the kids? Make him emo apparently...
   
7. interspecies relationships (Shadow and Maria, sonic 360 and some of Sonic X which is what pretty much caused this possible YTMND lawsuit in the first place)
   
8. Characters discretly staring at Rouges chest ever since she joined the games who's nothing more then some twisted fanservice character with a gem fettish... why lie? =P Then add Cream to somehow fix the hardcore/kid friendly balence...
   
   Main References Sonic Adventure 1, Sonic heroes, Shadow the Hegehog and Sonic 360
   

The point of this rant post you ask? Just pointing out I'm not a newer fan here. I'm aware of SEGA's far more credable origins and that they'll probably win this arguement if they get pissed off enough, but you're kidding yourself if you think they didn't bring it on themselves with how weird the Sonic characters and world has developed. It's kinda like reverse psycology, as long as people can get away with it SEGA will just be mocked even more now (i.e. this thread) until they learn from their mistakes.

Edit: damn I thought the spoiler tags would make the post take up less space -_-

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