neezTHEhuman

That gives sonic rings instead of him? Nah,

He's his own waifu

What's the lore behind the statue? 

The angel is said to be the previous savior of little planet but is unknown whether she is still alive so the inhabitants built a temple to house her statue inside to commemorate her until eggman took it over. It is until sonic uncovers this statue that it reveals a small hint of her state.

In the bad future, eggman just left the prototype of the statue that is in stardust speedway in the area somewhere just to mess with sonic.

I totally made this up.

I dig it! Surprised no one's created a fan character based on her....so far.

DAS ME! CROW!

CROW NO LIEK EGGMINS THO

The what? What're you all talking about?

@Waveshocker Sigma

This statue in wacky work bench zone

Well, it will probably never get back to where it was before Reddit and twitter, but if the new game was good or the pre-release hype of 2021 was promising this place could probably jump back a bit.

Adventure 3 maybe?

Twitter, Discord, YouTube, Twitch, and Reddit all going offline simultaneously, just like when the Nintendo forums closed down and everyone moved to here and the Sega forums en masse

What's interesting is that you can still make a large platform like SSMB nowadays, as Tails Channel proved, it's just not at the same level of constant engagement that the forums usually achieve. Everyone comes together from their different niches for the livestreams, news announcements, and events, but otherwise everyone pretty much chooses to stay in their preferred lanes as long as they want to otherwise

Probably a good half or more status updates never get any responses, so why bother?

The only time I can see SEGA stopping Sonic is when SEGA themselves die off, and I don't see that happening any more or less than any other notable video game company. 

If SEGA dies, Nintendo or another company will buy the rights to Sonic.  Just as when Rare which gave us Donkey Kong Country, Jet Force Gemini, Banjo Kazooie, and Perfect Dark got bought by Microsoft. 

Even Sonic Mania still had Iizuka involved in a pretty high capacity. Don't get your hopes up.

words cannot describe how much I hate these types of comments.

and not Tekno?

If I owned a pet squirrel/chipmunk hybrid, I'd call it Sally.

It should. I'm excited 😁

i know, to add chocolate to this sundae, SONIC GT IS GETTING AN UPDATE! it's one of my favorite sonic fangames of all time. everything you'd want in a sonic game is there and I LOVE IT!

Looks like we have a good showcase this year, a lot of them caught my eye. So yeah, I guess you could say I'm excited!

YOU EVEN GET TO PLAY AS MIGHTY. MIGHTY!

I'm always excited to see Sonic fangames

What about him?

Opinion on his channel? I enjoy his content and presentation style, kind of filling the void left by Cobanermani.

He's alright. I enjoy his content. Some awful jokes, but his channel is nice to watch in the background. 

Cobanermani is irritating to watch. Can't stand him. Has he stopped uploading?

Cobanermani is on hiatus and apparently dealing with personal issues.

Oh okay. 

Internet fame is a strange beast.

As you should. As you should.

They talk like normal human beings towards each other rather than exaggerated caricaturized overreactions, so by default that makes them some of the characters with the best chemistry in the series yeah lol

Honestly yeah. They work off each other surprisingly well despite how completely different from each other they are.

yeah i think they work well together. they did a neat thing where they sort of mirror each other but not as blatant or shallow as you'd expect, where sonic's this sort of high energy adrenaline junkie type while blaze is much more focused and controlled, but then you dig under the surface and blaze is not nearly as in control of herself as she acts while sonic is much harder to shake and generally keeps a clear head no matter how wild things get. that extra layer helps them bring out more nuance in each other.

plus it's one of the few relationships in the series where it feels like they fully respect each other as equals. it's not like tails or amy to sonic where they put him on a pedestal, or knuckles and shadow to sonic where their relationship's got an element of rivalry and they can be, to some extent, a threat to each other.

and then the end of rush is like, actual ship-launching material; both "stepping" closer, the hesitantly offered and enthusiastically accepted handshake, holding tighter and reaching out as they get pulled apart, all to a song about one person empowering another...it's a little cheesy but for a series that doesn't usually do romance, it's actually pretty effective.

its like manic pixie dream girl if the dream girl was a boy

@Diogenes your analysis is spot on and reveals exactly why the pairing appeals to me so much, also I'm glad someone credible like yourself interpreted the ending of Sonic Rush the same way I did! 

they're the COAT

I'll admit I'm not a serious shipper. I enjoy Sonouge because I feel like they balance out a lot but honestly if any ship was to ever become fully canon I wouldn't mind Sonaze. They honestly feel like they could be a genuinely healthy couple. 

I think it's for the best that you don't. Just being cautious.

damn I saw this late

I'm doin good. Havent been on here much these days because I'm generally not into Sonic as much anymore but life's chill. I'm glad I was able to leave an impression on at least one person with the sample research lol

do you have a showcase topic? ur research deserves to be archived on SSMB in some form! 

It is, even my mum got a Sonic video in her feed, and the shows she watches on Youtube are miles away from that.

That's the general trend tbh; it's just that Sonic fans being Sonic fans, tend to be more passionate than others. 

there was a time in the distant past where Sonic related content was more like this: 

@neezTHEhuman I miss this era 

@Osmium The guy who composed this went on to create the Super Meat Boy soundtrack.

I mean, it's been that way for awhile. Less young members coming in to replace older ones. Most kids that're sonic fans are probably just all on social media now.

Most people got into Sonic during either the Classic or Adventure era, subsequent releases just didn't capture the imagination of  newer generations of gamers.

People have been forced to leave due to over and unpleasant negativity. I know that because I've spoken to them.

Things are reasonably okay for now but once a new game is announced, it'll all turn to shit again.

There's just literally nothing Sonic related that really grabs me anymore, so I can't really talk about that.

I'm honestly burned out on talking about issues that I have with the franchise because I've said almost everything there is to say.

And I can't really talk to the people as often as I used to because they're either not on at the same time as me or just elsewhere now.

Still...it's just very weird to see this place now. been here for almost 10 years...it's like watching an old home become a ghost town.

when i joined, it was because it was the best place to talk about sonic online. nowadays i mostly just tweet about sonic when the mood strikes me, and frankly there hasn't been much to discourse about--the games have either been good or bad

Eh I feel like I've said everything I've said over the couple of years. Now there isn't anything much of interest for me to talk about on here anymore. That's why I've been quiet over the past couple of months.

I probably think its the same for everyone else, though it seems everyone else just talks more about Sonic more than anything else.

...it was. there hasn't been a 3D sonic game released since.

because iizuka broke the news at SXSW, we can make a safe bet that sonic team is involved in the next mainline game's development in some way, if not being the main developer.