Sega Announces new 2D Sonic title

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To all the bitching about dash pads:

side-ways springs.

in 90% of the levels.

same damn thing.


They'll always find something to complain about. Really, Sonic is trash. Not just the games, not just the company, but the fanbase as well. If you can even CALL it that. A fanbase.

you know im pretty sure he doesn't just mean something that boosts your speed. his issue is that in all the newer games its more about reaction time than exploration and platforming because the boost pads practically put the game on fucking rails

And about the fanbase, it's a clusterfuck. But why it shouldn't be? Sonic is just so divided between the classic games, the comics, cartoons, modern sonic, that it's pretty much impossible to the fans to ever come to a consense.

Think of it like this, there's Sonic 1, 2, 3 and CD. And pretend that those are the only Sonic games to ever exist. Each game is kind of different than the other one, level design-wise, graphics, and music. Some fans have more influence of one of those games, some prefer the music of one of these and the level design of others, etc. Asking them to create an ideal Sonic fangame based on those games would be hard because they'd all have to come to a consense about what elements will they take from each game, and it's impossible to have all elements from all of those games into one game, something will have to be out. Some prefer Sonic 1's simplicity, others prefer Sonic 3/K's complexity.

Okay, now stop pretending that those are the only Sonic games to ever exist and add in the Sonic cartoons and archie and fleetway comic books to the mix. Now ask them to create an ideal Sonic fangame. See my point?
There are way too many divisions, classic, western classic, modern, cartoons, comics, etc for the fanbase to ever come to a consense about what they like in a Sonic game and what they hate in a Sonic game. And inside those divisions there are sub-divisions as I already explained, and fans can have influence of multiple divisions and sub-divisions. So it'd be pretty much impossible to please the whole fanbase.