Thread 718844334

>>718844334 (OP)
nah. once upon a time, more kids knew who Sonic was than Mickey Mouse.

Freddy Fazbear is bigger than Sonic now.

>>718844334 (OP)
80% of it is due to people who have no interest in video games and just watched the movies, and even then he still got stomped out by mario

>>718844982
>>718845159
>comparing sonic to other ips out of nowhere
this is why the goalpost is always moving

>>718845268
Trying to guage popularity by comparing something to other things that are popular is common, Anon

So popular you retards need to samefag and bump your own threads?

Why is Sonic's model so garbage

>>718845341
>Why is [UNGRATEFUL BIGOTRY]
ummmm the billion dollar company doesn't owe you anything sweatie :^)

>>718844334 (OP)
Its really not. The movies were hits and werent utter embarassments like the most recent mario movie but Sonic was way bigger when Sonic Adventure 2 Battle came out. It had a lot of new stuff people were happy to see and obsess over.

Now its just an IP people are used to getting seen fucked over like Megaman and Digimon.

Reminder that the crunch culture that led to 06 being a shitty underbaked disaster was there since Sonic 2

>>718845337
There was nothing to talk about Sonic-related in 2021; this post means nothing.

Sonic does feel more mainstream now than ever.

A lot of the Sonic merch that exists now didn't when I was young. Plus there were no Hollywood movies, just an anime movie and cartoons on TV.

>>718844334 (OP)
Too bad Sonic games are still dogshit

>>718845787
and there's nothing to talk about now lmao
isn't your next game shilling fucking nickelodeon cartoons? what a fucking joke.

>>718844334 (OP)
Sonic only appeals to that generation of people that still reminiscent about the 90s, and the 30% of them that managed to have kids.

Sonic's popularity is on the downward spiral, in part because Sega retardedly changed the timeless aesthetic of Sonic into 90s and early 2000s punk which no longer has the same appeal

>>718845826
I wish Sonic figures weren't so fucking rare tho

Also, Shadow the Hedgehog was unironically a metaphor about Luciferian Apotheosis, becoming one's own god by integrating your higher spiritual being into your lower animalistic being - Shadow only becomes a God and become as powerful as the Devil when he completes all the story arcs, from hero Messiah to evil Satanic conqueror.

Don't believe me? Every story sequence in the game was given a title, read the names of it.

Luciferian Apotheosis is kino, you should try it some time.

Also

>Let's give Shadow the Hedgehog Marilyn Manson Lucifer wings

>>718844334 (OP)
If Sonic's popularity is at its peak why did Shadow's game underperform then?

>>718848449
I'm talking about the 2005 game "Shadow the Hedgehog" btw

>>718848463
It sold more units than the original Sonic Generations what are you talking about

>>718848463
Because it's boostslop instead of open zone kino

>>718848449
I wish Shadow Generations wasn't Shadow Lost World with a boost. Story and everything else looks cool, just dont like the engine. They should have just used the Gens engine

>>718846994
>There's nothing to talk about, including the game that's going to be released in a month. Oh, there's an open play test next week? Nope, nothing to talk about, there's also an animation coming? Nope, nothing to talk about.
Just because you're retarded and don't know how to have a conversation doesn't mean there isn't anything to discuss.

>>718848584
You're taking my semi-schizo slop seriously? I appreciate it, anon

Sega was like this with the original Sonic Generations and Sonic Mania - somehow, someway some really smart fan gets involved and comes up with fascinating ideas, then Sega comes in and says
>Whoa whoa slow down bucko, that's a bit too risky, make sure you include Green Hill Zone part 1654, the original Sonic jingle, a casino level, and Dr Eggman's chainball weapon, we don't want to alienate people by trying something new

So blame Sega, they've always done this shit

>>718848463
>If Sonic's popularity is at its peak why did Shadow's game underperform then?
It's Sonic Generations all over again with extra DLC, what the fuck are you talking about?

>>718848860
I actually like the stage picks. I just hate the Lost World engine that they've been using since Forces. Also dont really like the little QTE's in the stages, just makes the replay value go down imo

>>718848584
They were also like this even with Sonic Adventure 2.

>We need to include Green Hill Zone guys, we can't alienate people

>>718844334 (OP)
Back in the days, Sonic was a genuine rival to Mario in popularity.
These days he's getting beaten by Kirby.
Any seeming increase is just gaming as a whole becoming more mainstream.

>>718849061
Let me tell you something, Sonic Generations was the best Sonic game made at that point since Sonic Adventure 2, better than Colors.

So I'm not hating, but the entire game felt like it was about to burst with imagination and callbacks like Sonic Mania and Sega rushed it / made some stupid executive decisions to prevent that from happening.

There's just parts of the game that really feel incomplete like the special character missions, the trophies, and some of the stage choices were dumb - did we need a Sonic Colors callback when that game just came out? Did we really need chemical plant zone?

The bosses felt incomplete too - the final battle was dogshit.

And I feel like they wanted to do a giant Chthonic monster of the week and Sega came in last second and said "nope it has to be eggman"

>>718849093
This one was cool because at the time Green hill wasn't shown since Sonic 1

>>718849437
I guess that's fair - Sonic was taking a progressively darker and more realistic direction until Sonic Heroes, before devolving into 06

>>718849421
Back then that stuff was new though, we may be sick of Green Hill and Chemical Plant now but back in 2011 that was fresh. The final boss was...alright i guess, the one thing i dont like is the fucking Sonic 4 song of all songs playing when they turned Super