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PSA: If the Sonic community is being too overwhelming for your liking, ain't nothing wrong with taking a break.
You don't HAVE to engage with someone who is exhausting to be around.
Everyone is kind of miserable right now, so you gotta just roll with it.

This forum man. Why is it so negative? I mean, we have every reason to be negative, but can we be FANS too? Why are the most popular threads things like:
"How to improve Sonic!?"
"How to improve Sonic Characters!?"
"Sega SUCKS!!!"
"Shadow: TOOOO edgy?!"
"How they RUINED x...."
Look I've watched enough cookie cutter Sonic video essays. I've heard these opinions over and over and over and over and over and OVER again. For the most part I agree. But at some point it gets tiring hearing them and focusing on all these negative things about the franchise. And at some point you have to realize that the way you enjoyed a franchise may never be the status quo for it ever again.
Some of the more interesting topics never seem to get as much traction and that's such a shame. What is it that's so interesting about discussing the same stupid problems over and over again? Sharing your same thoughts over and over again? Like you guys are fans of this franchise, right? Rant over, I just want to see some more interesting topics here. Please. Just share some stuff you think is fun, cool, interesting, whatever.

It's funny, I feel like I've already seen enough about the Sonic movie sequel anyways. I already know I'll probably give it a watch, eventually. What I do want to see more of are Origins and Rangers.

This is funny. It looks like no more leaks.

Alright. Since people pointed out how cynical I've been I will talk about the GOOD things SEGA have done. And that's mostly from the business side of things  for themselves and not from the consumer perspective. Sega has ABSOLUTELY strengthened their brand and partnerships more so than ever before, they're in a good place in the public mind right now because of goodwill from things like the Sonic movie or crossovers like Mario & Sonic and also great partnerships like with Microsoft on PSO2 and NGS, not to mention their Gamepass releases and EGS partnerships (which regardless how you feel about them are making SEGA a lot of money). It's crazy how SEGA has seemed to basically become a bigger financial success despite having overall less active IPs and no hardware compared to their bigger competition.

>PCGamer made an article on FF Origin, it's the "wow ewww edgy melodrama garbage, I definitely have a definitive opinion on the whole game based on a 2-minute trailer"
>"Nomura is at fault of course"

...this is gonna be one of those videogames with "you can't like it because it's edgy and edgy = bad" consensus, huh. Can't wait to be ridiculed for liking it probably.

Also man, this hate boner for Nomura has just gotten out of hand. I understand not liking stuff he worked on, that's fine, but go out of your way to say Nomura should be fired or that he should never work on a videogame ever again despite him being one of the few people that pushed out good projects after the shitshow 7th gen was is both irrational and, frankly, makes you look like an asshole. And there's a lot of assholes.

Might as well fire Yosuke Saito then for producing Babylon's Fall, which looks arguably worse than FF Origin. Doesn't matter if he was able to make Square to allow Yoko Taro to make Nier series, which is now one of the more popular Square series.

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Ok, this is fucking adorable imaging the three of them balled up on top of each other.

Just got my first COVID vaccine!

On Twitter I find it funny people want the next Castlevania series to lighten up, while Sonic fans want their series to get darker. 
Its a cycle in every fandom. 

Does anyone else feel that SEGA is missing the point about making the Sonic games like Mario?  The reason why the Mario games are doing so well is because they are good, not just because of the gameplay style.  If SEGA just focused on making the Sonic games good again instead of trying to emulate a style from another game, then the Sonic games wouldn't be in the spot they are in now.

I always find it so nauseating whenever someone does the whole "my opinion is reflective of the whole fanbase because I said so".

One way I could see the movie series thread two Sonic Adventure movies together would be through Gerald Robotnik. He's this very omnipresent figure for a large amount of SA2 and it's implied he had inspiration from locations prior in the series.
This is just something I think they can expand on in the films.

Who else is waiting for that Sonic Movie sequel trailer to drop any time soon?

I guess the biggest thing the movie can do for Sonic in Japan is tell young kids that he's not just Mario's olympic games friend he actually has his own franchise.

I always get tickled when I read Japanese comments about Sonic, because its so funny how much their opinions line up with what the vocal American audience is saying.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12985657500A57372900&page=2390#comment-59741

It doesn't matter how much money an athlete makes. They're still human. They should be entitled to establish boundaries to accommodate their humanity. If Naomi Osaka doesn't want to speak to the media for the sake of her mental health, they should absolutely respect that boundary. The disgusting treatment towards her by the media and especially the Grand Slam body during the past few days is ableist, racist, and more than proved her point. They treated cockroaches with more respect than her, and because of that, one of the best athletes is forced to bow herself out. Shame on the Grand Slam body!

I know people wanted playable Tails, but it's a little weird seeing people act like they got snubbed by SEGA here. Like, nobody promised you a playable character

(link) Sega are to open theme parks in the UK, North America and Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmsfdQifa8&t
 

Hey!  I just did a top 10 list for my top 10 darkest Sonic the Hedgehog moments!  What are some of your darkest moments from the video games?
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A lot of Sonic fans dismiss the Switch and how it'll compromise the vision of the next game. And I'm just so annoyed at this.
Just because the Switch version will run worse doesn't mean its going to bring down the entire game. If it didn't bring down Subnautica, Witcher, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Doom Eternal, I don't see why Sonic is any different. If it is brought down, it'll be brought down by Sonic Team.

Just because the leak calls it the final boss doesn't mean it's the final boss of the game people!
 

I can't wait to see Sonic Rangers in action.

Are people seriously going into panic mode about SEGA confirming Sonic Rangers as the title because ONE 4chan leak had a lucky guess?
Guys, you do realize people who leak certain details that end being correct don’t get EVERYTHING correct? Right?

Can't wait for the inevitable "Why didn't the F4/X-Men help fight Thanos? Criticisms the Eternals are getting if theyre also revealed to have been around in the MCU all this time.

Huh, Roger's back? That's good to hear!