The Sonic Syndrome

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:54 am

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... icSyndrome

Apparently there's a name for it now. The series has literally become infamous. In the baddest way possible.

jenkins · Post by **jenkins** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:15 am

Maybe, but it's a fair point which (I think) everyone here agrees on. Sonic has never been as good in 3-D as in 2-D, and since Advance 2, the 2-D games have gone down too (note: I still haven't played Rush, so don't blast me for calling it bad--I'm not).

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:25 pm

It's not bad, but your statement still applies; it's gone down. It's fun, yes, just nowhere NEAR as fun as the Genesis games.

Honestly, I don't know what to say. I've said it a million times, and what good has it done? I mean, fine, you guys would be more educated (or at least privy to some damn fine discussion), but it's not going to change anything in the end... at this point, I don't know WHAT will. I've stopped buying the console Sonic games ever since SA2 (save Secret Rings, which was okay but I've played FAR better, and admittedly I snagged Heroes for a fiver...), but they STILL sell, so it obviously isn't helping. I suppose Sonic X's popularity didn't help matters; now all the KIDS want to play the games, no matter how shitty they are.

Also, I dunno if this matters or not, but a recent GameFAQs poll asked people what character they wanted to see in Brawl. You would THINK Sonic would be the lead... and he is. But BARELY. Only a few hundred votes behind is Cloud. Perhaps this is an indication of Sonic's waning popularity... or just that SquareFAQs is as retarded as ever, who knows. (I mean, seriously, CLOUD. There are far more interesting characters from that series - Christ, from Final Fantasy VII itself - that would make better candidates, honestly.)

Yami CJMErl · Post by **Yami CJMErl** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:43 pm

Shadow Hog wrote:Also, I dunno if this matters or not, but a recent GameFAQs poll asked people what character they wanted to see in Brawl. You would THINK Sonic would be the lead... and he is. But BARELY. Only a few hundred votes behind is Cloud. Perhaps this is an indication of Sonic's waning popularity... or just that SquareFAQs is as retarded as ever, who knows. (I mean, seriously, CLOUD. There are far more interesting characters from that series - Christ, from Final Fantasy VII itself - that would make better candidates, honestly.)

See, I personally blame the "SquareFAQs" or whatever you called it--it's already been said by Sakurai HIMSELF that the only third-party characters that have even a SLIVER of a chance on getting into SSBB are those who have starred in a game or game series on a Nintendo console.

Repeat after me, people:

CLOUD WAS FROM A PLAYSTATION-ONLY GAME, THEREFORE HE'S AUTOMATICALLY INELIGIBLE. AS ARE SEPHIROTH, TIFA, AND ALL THOSE OTHER WEIRDOS FROM FFVII.

Ngangbius · Post by **Ngangbius** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:35 pm

To be fair, Cloud did appear in KH:CoM on the GBA.

This doesn't mean that I support Cloud appearing on SSB:B.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:47 pm

Oh man, after such a BOLD statement, what an akward moment.

Lately I've been playing a lot of Mario 64. Damn, what a fine game it is. I don't even care there aren't any mushrooms in it.

cjmcray · Post by **cjmcray** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:09 pm

There's green 1Up mushrooms, if I recall.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:26 pm

SM64DS had red mushrooms, too, although they basically were that game's equivalent of Mega Mushrooms.

Yami CJMErl · Post by **Yami CJMErl** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:33 pm

Ngangbius wrote:To be fair, Cloud did appear in KH:CoM on the GBA.

Okay, so he made a cameo, I was wrong, I eat crow, etc. He's still got virtually NO chance of getting in Brawl, especially compared to characters like Sonic and MegaMan.

Shadow Hog · Post by **Shadow Hog** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:38 pm

If it means anything (it won't), Cloud won by around 100 votes.

<a href="http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html ... 2">This</a> would be the poll in question. Notice that very few of the candidates were actually FEASIBLE... but still, Cloud. >_>

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Sat May 26, 2007 4:25 am

Wow. Now that's a stupid list.

I think it would be easier to have Ryu from Street Fighter than any of those, excluding Sonic and Megaman of course...

Damn... I kinda hate this new generation of "gamers"...

Rob-Bert · Post by **Rob-Bert** » Sat May 26, 2007 8:11 am

As do I, and I'm only 15. I dunno, I got into video games at an early age, and never really fancied doing what other kids did. These days, gaming is so mainstream that it's lost most of the value it had back when it was niche. I remember witnessing the dawn of this age back when Microsoft entered the console race. I was verbally slammed and ridiculed by my fellow 5th graders simply for not caring about the Xbox.

Sorry, I just slipped into "reminiscing mode" there.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Sat May 26, 2007 8:44 am

Ritz · Post by **Ritz** » Sat May 26, 2007 9:55 am

Holic tries, but he can't compete with GG!'s emotes.

Opa-Opa · Post by **Opa-Opa** » Sat May 26, 2007 11:54 am

Segaholic2 wrote:

If you stare at it long enough, it looks like he's actually eating all those tiny faces.

Post by **Delphine** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:05 pm

I was going to comment on this, but then I spent over an hour perusing the site and forgot what I was going to say.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:13 pm

Yeah, it's incredibly satisfying to have every convention of videogames, literature, television, and film categorized by snappy title.

Black Rook · Post by **Black Rook** » Sat May 26, 2007 4:26 pm

Delphine wrote:I was going to comment on this, but then I spent over an hour perusing the site and forgot what I was going to say.

Same thing happened to me, except replace "an hour" with "several hours."

gr4yJ4Y · Post by **gr4yJ4Y** » Sat May 26, 2007 8:23 pm

Rob-Bert wrote:As do I, and I'm only 15. I dunno, I got into video games at an early age, and never really fancied doing what other kids did. These days, gaming is so mainstream that it's lost most of the value it had back when it was niche. I remember witnessing the dawn of this age back when Microsoft entered the console race. I was verbally slammed and ridiculed by my fellow 5th graders simply for not caring about the Xbox.

Sorry, I just slipped into "reminiscing mode" there.

This just made me feel really old...

Rob-Bert · Post by **Rob-Bert** » Sun May 27, 2007 8:19 am

Sorry about that. At least it's good to know that not all of this generation thinks that way, right?

Majestic Joey · Post by **Majestic Joey** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:19 am

I hate these bitchez at my high school that say, "you like old school games? yeah, me too, I love pac man."

Fucking emo poser bitches makes me want to beat the shit out of them, or just kick their ass in street fighter.

Black Rook · Post by **Black Rook** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:15 am

Majestic Joey wrote:Fucking emo poser bitches makes me want to beat the shit out of them, or just kick their ass in street fighter.

Show them no mercy.

Majestic Joey · Post by **Majestic Joey** » Sun May 27, 2007 4:23 pm

for show

Ritz · Post by **Ritz** » Sun May 27, 2007 5:09 pm

Majestic Joey wrote:I hate these bitchez at my high school that say, "you like old school games? yeah, me too, I love pac man."

At least your school makes an effort; you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who cares out here.

Radrappy · Post by **Radrappy** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:27 am

This is complete bullshit. It's like Sonic Adventure never even fucking existed to these people.

Dreamcast died
Sega Purchased
Sonic Team dissolved

the end.