Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5075791-20150215214712/@comment-24067999-20150218170300

Mystic Monkey wrote:

MobianTheAngel wrote:

Mystic Monkey wrote: If there is one thing I learned from being a Sonic fan, no one outside our fandom seems to like Sonic as much to a point that no matter how awesome of a game Sega may make for the series, it is either the "game that kill/save Sonic."

Every time! I bet the next Sonic games that comes out, it will have reviews saying how it is the game that will save the Sonic series or regarded as $#!7. And when it comes to the next game, it happens all over again. It's as if Sonic's reputation always resets to 0 in the video game business. That or only the negative points count. Yeah, It happens to me. Even in college, we have this video game room where people can bring consols and games and everytime I go in playing a Sonic game, no matter what it is, I always get people yelling across the room of how "BAD" Sonic is and how the franchise sucks.

People ask me, "what game are you playing/going to play" after I'm sighning out a station for my Wii-U and once I mention somthing like "Sonic Boom" I always get that trollish smile on someone's face as they joke with their friend beside them ("what to afraid to tell it to my fae?") saying things, "That's a horrible game! Have you watched the Game Grumps version of it? There are so many glitches! Sonic games suck!" I'll admit that some Sonic games suck but not all of them. It's just reviewers seem to look down on Sonic regardless of his reputation.

One year they go "BEST SONIC GAME YET! WILL SAVE THE SERIES! 5/10!" and the next main Sonic game "TERRIBLE! COMPLETELY RUINED THE SERIES! 3/10!" the next game after they will still think Sega's beating a dead horse or say "HOPE FOR SONIC YET! 6/10!" And people claim SEGA is the one who doesn't care.

I honestly do find it anoying that when it comes to Sonic games, the grey area is nonexistsent. People always demand Sonic games to be amazing and if they don't meet that quota, then they are automaticaly terrible no matter what redeeming qualities the games have.

All Sonic games have redeeming qualities. The problem is that people, for some reason, refuse to acknoledge that and instead always focus on the bad and nothing but the bad.