Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-2202259-20191010124259/@comment-2202259-20191011005148

Personally I'm a fan of all eras of Sonic except the long lasting 2010s era. I don't see anything wrong with fancharacters, artwork that at times can be seen as porn, or having a passionate community personally. Most fanbases have those things from what I understand, although yeah outsiders just can't understand some series like Sonic. I personally blame the outsiders for why the series changed so drastically a decade ago in Sonic's case.

MLP is currently marathoning its way to the series finale tomorrow, so I'm not sure how that will effect the MLP Community. The internet didn't really become mainstream until nearly 20 years ago. The 1st Console War I was a part of was 6th Gen & even then it wasn't that big of a deal compared to how people usually claim the 4th Gen Console War was. 5th Gen Console war took place mostly before I was even in school. From what I understand the console wars exhausted themselves more each generation to where 8th Gen wasn't worth debating.

I didn't think there would be any conflict over eye coloration for Sonic until Sonic 4 came out in 2010. We all know that was nothing more than Sonic 1 HD Remixed with Homing Attack. I wasn't expecting such conflict in regards to the series among fans or that the series would constantly try to change itself so much back when I became a fan of the series. I never thought the different playstyles with different characters concept would be so hated online.

We both formed different opinions as long term fans of the series when it came to Generations yet we can agree to disagree. I thought the just playing as 2 Sonics was silly & wasn't a fan of how cartoonish the game felt. I was under the impression that Sonic Team was trying to move the series forward & confused in those days 8 years ago by why they would make the game feel like a halfbaked nostalgia trip.

It wasn't until more recently that I came to learn why Generations was the way it was. Sonic Team didn't know how to progress the series forward & didn't have the time or the resources to go all out with Sonic Generations. Part of me wonders what it would have been like if Sonic Generations happened without the 2010s direction change for the series & before Sonic Colors came out. I like to think that there would have been more story such as Sonic being upset that Eggman meddled with History to try to make it so that most of his friends never became his friends. We could have gotten Eggman Land for a Penultimate Stage with some new stage having to do with time & space distorted as the Final Stage.