Kill me now.

[flyboy_fox]

No. Noooo no no..... Argh!

Okay, SEGA, stop killing everything Sonic ever was ;_; Seriously. Stop it. NOW!!

I am pissed and upset. Yeah, maybe I don't have much of a life, to care so much... but... IT BUGS ME >O

Sonic is going to be 5'10" in the Next Gen Sonic game. They gave him human proportions and made him taller than I am! That's... not right! Sonic is supposed to be small... He was cool because he didn't need to be human-sized in order to kick butt. Having him be human-sized is just TOO weird. I just can't fathom it, to be honest.

There's also going to be a new rival hedgehog... a cream colored hedgehog that looks a lot like Sonic :\ Great, all we need, ANOTHER Sonic look-a-like rival character!

Oh, and Sonic is "the Iblis Trigger", some kinda chosen one who can summon the Devil or something. Jei said the whole plot is sounding like something out of a Final Fantasy game. Whilst FF may be very cool, Sonic is NOT FF. Gyah! It's like they're just... changing EVERYTHING about Sonic and the fandom. Right now I really can't see much 'old-school' about that game at all... in fact, it barely even feels like a Sonic game, aside from in name :\ Screw you, SEGA ._.

Oh yeah, and the fourth playable character in the new Sonic Rivals game for PSP has been confirmed as... wait for it... ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER!! 'Cause we need more new characters, oh yes. >.>

::Sigh:: This is not good. The Sonic fandom is heading in a direction that just feels so different from what I'm used to. There's not much left to cling to... it's all changed, all different... all so much the same as every other fandom out there now. It's so divorced from what it once was.

Gonna go mope now :\

Comments

Re: Heh...

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

I guess there's no pleasing all the fans all the time ^^;

I just really feel that changing his height to human proportions is just another step towards making him, and the whole Sonic universe, more human. And I don't like that at all. I noticed it worst of all in Shadow's game... the guns and cars... all the kinda of stuff you'd get in a game like GTA. BLEH! I don't like that the Sonic world suddenly became almost identical to our world, too. The Sonic Adventure games, whilst fun, bugged me a LOT because it was a world populated by humans. Humans. Everywhere. Cities. Cars. Just like our world. I just kinda feel like... why bother having animal heroes in a world that's just like our own?

I loved when the games only had one human in them - Eggman. He represented what humans have done to this planet. The main characters were always the animals. Whether anthro, or just little woodland creatures trapped inside the machines.

Suddenly it all became too much like our planet is now, too human-oriented. And THAT's what really bugs me.

Re: Heh...

[tallycola.livejournal.com]

I loved when the games only had one human in them - Eggman. He represented what humans have done to this planet. The main characters were always the animals. Whether anthro, or just little woodland creatures trapped inside the machines.

Yes! Thank you! Whenever I try to turn anyone onto SatAM I start with "It's got this *really great* environmentalist message you'll love". Because all my friends are hippie crybabies. ;)

Re: Heh...

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

The 90's rocked ^^ They just don't do cartoons like that anymore... but back then, there were a tonne of shows with awesome 'green planet' messages... and SatAM was one of the best ^^

Re: Heh...

[toysthatbreak.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's one of the main divergence points for us. I don't particularly enjoy or see a need to villify the human race, at least not to the degree that many other Sonic fans do. I think it makes the furry characters much more meaningful when they're placed in the context of a world where furries and humans live in harmony--they represent something different from the humans, and it creates interesting questions about the nature of humanity. I guess... My love of fiction ties to a longing to explore humanity. Not humanity as in flesh and blood humans so much as the human mind. And I view the furry characters as empowered humans--so the addition of unempowered humans just adds to the picture.

I'm just a different breed of fan, I suppose. Something about Sonic has always resonated with me, and that something hasn't left the series, it's simply changed, evolved into something new. I see the same darkness in the Post-Adventure games as I did in the Archie comics--the form it took was different, but its essence is the same. And that darkness, and the struggle between it and the light in each of the characters, is what makes the series enjoyable for me, so long as the light wins out in the end.

Re: Heh...

[flyboy-fox.livejournal.com]

It's not so much a case of villifying the human race... more a case of that I just don't feel there NEEDS to be humans everywhere ^^; Sonic was kind of an escape for me from the 'human' world... so the fact that the world they're in now is almost a replica of our own kinda ruins it for me.