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Saw the trailer a few days ago, and honestly could not be more excited. Looks like the Sonic game we've all been clamoring for for AGES. The graphics, the soundtrack, the color palette, the sprite animations. Looks simply amazing in all facets. I can't wait until Spring!
I'm glad they're paying attention to the soundtrack too. Dare I say it, the Sonic cycle will be broken with this game.
HOWEVER, even though we'll like it, I bet the mainstream press will hate/be ok with it because they're all too young to remember what made the early Sonics great.
Double post because I'm a bad person.
Haven't seen any direct feed videos in this thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ7tEK6gglI
IGN have proven they hate Sonic.
I don't think IGN itself has, just the millenials on it's spinoff channel. I think this is their way to attempt to get more views, by bashing a popular series, then attacking it's fandom. The more you spread this, thankfully in this case not linking directly to the video itself, the more attention it gets.
However, the fact that the video itself has way the hell more dislikes(so far 2,058) than likes(so far 76), and is almost nothing but negative comments in favor of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, on the internet, shows how strong the Sonic IP is. (If 5 cartoons, and a comic book series that's been going strong since the '90's[you know, the point in time in which if Marvel didn't sell their movie rights to Sony and Fox, they'd have been bankrupt, because that's how poor the industry was doing at the time], didn't already prove it).
It's really time to look at the internet for the inconsequential thing that it really is. There's no rising sentiment about Sonic 1 being a bad game, it's just being more vocalized by the same few geeks, who can't understand the concept of wanting to return to a game to master it's mechanics. Even at that, there are interviews where Shigeru Miyamoto himself has said that, despite finding it rough around the edges, he still finds Sonic 1 to be a good game. If that's a guy these kinds of people can't take at face value, who are anyone to begin to suggest that his games are the best in return?
This faux return to the 16-bit console wars needs to end(or, at least we need to stop paying attention to it, just because a minority of nerds want to keep it going). It had it's day, and the only one that matters now, is whatever happens between Nintendo, Sony, & Microsoft. Even if, like myself, you stopped(or kind of, but still mostly stopped) caring about games beyond that era.
The only thing that matters here is that Sega seems to be on the right track in general, but especially with their key franchise. Especially considering they seem to be up financially, this fiscal year:
http://segabits.com/blog/2016/08/02/...ing-in-future/
I'd actually been spending the time looking at reaction videos. It's always interesting to see people get pleasantly shocked by something like this(or favorite characters showing up in a crossover game, or something).Quote:
Originally Posted by Blades
Big talk from a group of sexless neckbeards.Quote:
Originally Posted by miru
I guess Sega stopped paying them.
Sonic fandom is by far one of the worst fandoms on the Internet, up there with comic book geeks.
Games are great though, however I have to agree with Shiggy about Sonic 1 being rough around the edges, Sonic 2 is a far superior game to me.
Didn't we just have this conversation a few weeks ago?
It's hilarious to me that people who get virtual blowjobs from virtual hookers in GTA act all high and mighty about people who like playing games about a fast hedgehog.
Let's dispel the myth that IGN doesn't know what they're doing.
Were them fuckers being serious? "Sonic was never a good franchise"? WTF are they on about?
Reaction was swift. The original IGN video got 81 likes and .... 2241 dislikes! :p
If there is one thing that is overrated its "professional" video game reviews!
Got a link to the original video so I can follow suit with a dislike and a snarky comment?
Sure! :D
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmMCjYKvaQ
Thanks. I would rep, but must spread some first ;)
I really want to imprint those four fucktard's faces on the back of my mind so that I know not to trust a single opinion spewed from their diarrhea holes.
Haha, wow, that video was straight stupid and reminded me why I don't watch people sit around and talk about video games - it's just honestly a waste of time.
But in all seriousness, if there truly is a hell then I sincerely hope that the hottest corners of its endless inferno are reserved for Nazis, terrorists, pedophiles, John Tesh, and these Sonic-hating scumbags.
People actually listen to podcasts?
I'll never understand why when it comes to video games, you get four random 26-year old hipsters in a room and talk for an hour and everybody thinks it's some valid legitimate opinion worth listening to. Crossfire on CNN had less biased content.