Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25416444-20160207150009/@comment-24658561-20160209183545

Well, I personally think that the people who celebrate every single game no matter how bad it is are even worse than the ones criticizing everything. Criticism is usually a good thing and if Sonic games like Sonic 06 and Rise of Lyric are glitchy as f*ck it's the duty of a true fan to point it out so the creators know what went wrong. It's something a good fandom SHOULD do. MLP is one of the biggest and most beloved recent cartoons and there are tons of online reviewers calling out episodes like "Boast Busters" and "One Bad Apple" and explain why exactly they are garbage. And guess what? Most of these people are fans of the show themselves. They are not intending to make it look bad, or you for enjoying one of those episodes, they just want the show they love to be good. Even the Mario fandom (you know, that fandom that is assumed to love every game with a fat italian plumber in it?) doesn't want games like New Super Mario Bros 2 or Paper Mario: Sticker Star or Yoshi's New Island, they want good games. Even games that aren't bad have their flaws pointed out. Mario&Luigi: Paper Jam is a lot of fun, but the story is bland and offers no new characters to enjoy. BUT!: If there was a game similar to PJB gameplay-wise with a good story and interesting characters it could overshadow every Mario&Luigi that has existed to this day. But enough about the functional fandoms, why doesn't this work with Sonic? The thing is, the concept above only works when the fans have similar idea of what's. And we don't. And why? Because SEGA thinks it's a good idea to do drastic changes pretty much every new game. The Sonic franchise has barely any series and the ones it does have usually don't have more than two games and are discontinued by now. In comparison, Mario has lots of series and only few stand-alone games. And since most of these series are active to this day, it's much easier to say: "This new game doesn't look like I'm gonna like it, I'll just wait for the next game of a series I do like." Sonic fans on the other hand are forced to eat the one thing SEGA decides to give them. Right now, they're forcing Sonic Boom down everyone's throat, the only non-Boom content we got was Runners and that's just a mobile app. At this point, it's nearly impossible to be a Sonic fan without liking Sonic Boom. If Nintendo did something like that with, let's say Mario&Luigi, Mario fans who don't like the Mario&Luigi games will get really, really pissed. The only people to blame for the terrible state of the fandom are the people at SEGA who make those dumb business decisions. And the only people to blame for the absolutely unnecessary hatred older Sonic games got recently are those big Youtubers who made it "cool" to hate on Sonic, no matter what he does.