Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5903643-20161215232743/@comment-24658561-20161221143629

Erik.wallace.395 wrote: NipsterXLI wrote: I like your thinking, Rainbowser. I think there are four main rules of being a Sonic fan, and this could apply to any other franchise/team as well.

1. You should know some history about the franchise.

2. It is recommended that you play a few Sonic games so you know what you're getting into and to come up with feasible reasons for why you like/dislike said game.

3. You need to be informed of franchise news (for instance, episode and game release dates)

4. (And this is probably the most important) You gotta stick with the franchise through the good times and bad times. I became a fan at age 8 and have followed this rule since. 1: Literally every Sunday from January to June, I would search "Sonic the Hedgehog" on Google, & gather tons of info on the franchise.

2: I have 4 games: Sonic Colors, Rise of Lyric, Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, & Sonic Dash 2.

I dislike Sonic Colors, & Rise of Lyric because they're both too hard to beat. The Wii version of All-Stars Racing is good. Sonic Dash 2 is AWESOME!

3: ALWAYS INFORMED! I still need to watch "The Biggest Fan" & "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Worse-er". PLEASE NO SPOILERS!

4: I've always stuck with the franchise through good times, but never bad times. I became a fan at age 18 (This wasn't in my childhood.) & have followed this rule since.

I wouldn't count the apps because they're not full-fletched games and can be downloaded for free on any smartphone. Pokémon Go has been downloaded by so many people and most of them aren't even Pokémon fans. Sonic SEGA All-Stars isn't really a Sonic game either, just like Super Smash Bros isn't a Mario game. They just use the name of Sonic because he's the most well-known brand of SEGA, just like how Super Mario Bros is the most well-known brand name of Nintendo. Rise of Lyric is a little tricky because it doesn't resemble Sonic in any way other than the face on the cover. The gameplay, the graphics, the mechanics, the characters, the universe, all of that is almost entirely different. If I had to compare it to Mario, it would be the Doki Doki Panic kind of case where the characters were cut out and put into this game that has nothing to do with anything. Sonic Colors definitely counts though. So you have a Wii, huh? You can download Sonic 1-3 and Sonic&Knuckles via the e-shop's Virtual Console. Just get one of those Nintendo money cards for the e-shop and you can turn them into Wii Points.

You don't have to keep up with and approve of everything in order to be a "trve fan", but you should at least know what's currently going on. I don't approve of Sonic Boom in general, in fact, I think it really, really sucks, but I do know that it's currently airing its second season and that's enough for me to know. You should check out more different versions of the franchise. The way you put it sounds like you only know post-2010 Sonic. The episodes of the other Sonic cartoons as well as some of the comics can be found online.

About the good and bad times thing: Don't let those big-ass internet reviewers fool you. Sonic is going through a very bad time right now, worse than the time around the release of Sonic 06. The games barely sell, Sonic Boom failed miserably and people still don't shut up about an unifinished game that came out 10 years ago and has nothing to do with anything we get today, but still sold Platinum. In fact, now they're starting to trashtalk the games that came out almost 20 years ago that were originally considered good by many people and then make the claim that "Sonic was never good to begin with.". SEGA has become desperate enough to colaborate with the likes of Angry Birds and Hello Kitty, for god's sake. Putting Sonic and Hello Kitty together is the equivalent of putting Mario and Bayonetta together. You just don't do that.