Board Thread:Speculation, Theories, and Rumors/@comment-26167440-20160406232859/@comment-24658561-20161105184120

Vicky 95 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote My guess he is low piority on Sonic Teams interest.

And for some reason, the fandom likes to tease him most of the time. Dunno why. Sonic Team always puts the good stuffs on low priority. It's why their recent games weren't so good. They cut Silver out of the Sonic Boom games, they cut out Blaze too, and the next thing you'll know they might cut out Shadow from future games, then they'll cut cut cut until there isn't a good character to include. In the end, it'll be just Sonic and his hot dog against Eggman. Not to mention what they did to Knuckles in Sonic Boom. Just when you think you're beginning to like a character, he gets a total makeover that doesn't fit him. What's wrong with old Knuckles? Old Knuckles is funny, too.

Tails and Knuckles have Super forms too and we haven't seen those in decades. Burning Blaze hasn't showed up since Sonic Rush Adventure either. I guess Super forms are just SEGA's way of saying: "Look at this cool new character! They are so awesome they can go Super!" And after that, they've outlived their usefulness and get shoved to the sidelines. It happened to Knuckles, it happened to Blaze and it happened to Silver. Shadow is kind of an exception because he's so popular, but he hasn't gone Super in an official Sonic game since 06 either. I blame it on the current direction of the franchise as Shadow, the real Shadow and not the upside down carricature we saw in Boom, isn't suited for a comedy game like Colors, Lost World or Boom. Neither are Silver, Blaze and the original Knuckles who is an introverted loner and takes his job very seriously. There is nothing wrong with Silver, Blaze and the old Knuckles as characters, SEGA just decided that they don't need them anymore aside from a bit of nostalgia pandering for Blaze and Silver fans in games like Generations or Dash.

And this is the problem here. SEGA set their priorities on stuff that isn't worth it. Youtube Poops are my way of getting a good laugh at literal stupid sh*t, I don't need a videogame that people were payed for making for that. Any Sonic YTP of Peter Knetter makes me laugh harder than any actual Sonic game or TV show ever did. I didn't play Sonic when I was little, so Green Hill Zone and celebrating Classic Sonic as if he was Jesus don't do anything for me. Sonic has the potential to be a great franchise like TMNT, but no, we need more standard comedy to be hip with the crowd of people who do nothing but make fun of Sonic. Screw identity and making the franchise memorable and unique! Who needs an identity if you can have "baldiemacnozehaiir" or "ringz omnomnomnomnom"?