User blog comment:Speeddasher/A challenge to fans of Sonic 2006/@comment-1669199-20120510223742/@comment-1669199-20120511022839

If you thought that I was implying you to be anti-Sonic, then allow me to clarify that it wasn't my intention.

Its not that big a deal to me, at least, if you can never understand why some people can actually like the game. Heck, even I admit that I was expecting to have a less than pleasant experience with Sonic 06 when I first played it and had some knowledge on all the backlash that got, but when I actually did play it... Simply put, I basically experienced what TV Tropes would call "Critical Backlash". While I can understand why they would irk someone, I still feel that a lot of the flaws in the game were a tad exaggerated, but again it would seem that I just have a higher level of tolerance than many other fellow gamers that I'm personally familiar with... Which also confuses me, really, but I've more or less come to terms with the fact that I may never understand why certain people are the way they are.

On a final note, I'm Uber happy that you aren't an elitist. I'm sorry, but there's just some fans in the fandoms I'm a part of who I think take their opinions on certain franchises way to seriously... To me, while I can understand the appeal of video games, especially the ones that we grew up with as kids, in the end they're only games and should be treated as such. There'll be games that you don't like, and sometimes a game series you like may go down in a direction that you don't want it to, but since change is one of those inevitble events in life I know full well that getting bitter and jaded over those changes won't help you in the long run. It would be simply best to expand your interests and move on, and there's nothing wrong with accepting what you love about the franchise which you may feel has declined in quality for some reason or another, whether it be a tv series or video game series. Nolstalgia can actually be a very nice thing as long as you don't allow it to turn poisonous to yourself and others.

Anyway, I'm done rambling.