The irony. A day after I post an article about how miserable "fans" should shut their mealy mouths, here comes the Sonic Furry Brigade to ruin everybody's day. In what is perhaps one of the most pathetic fanboy petitions I've ever seen, a group is urging people to buy the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the day of Sonic 4's release, as a show of protest against Sega's franchise reboot.
The group, having only seen several seconds of leaked, unfinished gameplay, now declares that Sonic 4 is not exactly what they want out of a game, and are buying Sonic 1 in a bid to show Sega that they basically just want a remake and not a new game at all. At least, that's the message they'll definitely be sending. Here's their ridiculous statement:
Fans of the sonic series are like most sega fans, we want their old games brought back to the glory days when sega was pretty much the power in video games. Seeing the gameplay of sonic 4 has made many of us realize what we already knew, Sonic 4 will simply not be anywhere near as good as the original sonic games. Either way, We will decide to finally show sega what the fans truly want. A real sonic 4, as long as sonic 4 stays the way it is, we will not buy it, we will in fact buy sonic 1 on release in protest of sonic 4, till we end up with a re tool, or change, we want sonic in hd, not sonic RUSH HD. We will not buy a future sonic game, till we get a true successor to sonic 1/2.
The gameplay released so far does not make Sonic 4 look like Sonic Rush at all. It looks closer to Sonic Advance than Sonic Rush in terms of pacing and that game was, in my mind, a true successor to the old school games. I've seen nothing in the leaked footage or screens so far to tell me that this game will be anything like rush. As always, self-proclaimed fans of a series display that they know dick-all about the thing they claim to love. These people should hang up their furry costumes in shame.
Will buy SONIC 1 on SONIC 4 release [ipetitions, thanks Jer]
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8:00 AM on 02.25.2010
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If you're such a big fan, won't you already have Sonic 1?
They certainly did a good job at losing all credibility instantly.
They certainly did a good job at losing all credibility instantly.
Sheesh.
I mean, I say this as a gamer, but good lord do I hate gamers sometimes. Pick your goddamn battles. Protip: Sonic the Hedgehog is never worth fighting for.
But you really shouldn't pay attention to them - they are a vocal minority. Most people do want some improvements made over the original sonic.
You see why SquareEnix won't re-make FFVII? It's because of nonsense like this - fans who believe they have a right to tell how a company, which they most probably have no shares in, how to develop a game.
If the old sonic fans don't like what they see, fine don't buy it. It's well within your rights. But to act all indignant and cause a fuss is petty, silly, and ungrateful behavior.
To all whiny fans - unless you PERSONALLY own SHARES in Sega, shut up. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to put up any money towards developing it. If you are so desperate to see a good Sonic game, then why don't you and your friends get together and make a video-game company and buy the rights from SEGA?
Simply put - you DON'T have a right to tell people how to spend THEIR money, making THEIR game. You DON'T have any right to tell SEGA what to do, just because you bought Sonic 1 and liked it. You DON'T have a right to expect a company to bend to your whim.
You DO have a right NOT to buy it. Sure. And if you don't like the game, I suggest you don't! That's why I do with games I don't like! I don't buy them! Not that hard to do genius! How hard is it to NOT buy something?
Don't like it? Don't buy it! But don't get all indignant and bossy and noisy.
Furthermore, people just need to chill out. Judging by the enemies and bosses, I wouldn't be surprised to see the other episodes actually be HD Remixes of Sonic 1 and 2, maybe even 3 and Kunckles (OH MAN, HD LAVA REEF ZONE!). Even if they're not, this still looks awesome, and I will still be buying it.
People just love to complain. The funny thing is that while these people say this shit now after seeing a grand total of like 3 minutes of gameplay, they will still buy the game. I dont care that they say they wont right now. They will in the end. At least, they most likely will if they're nearly as big of "fans" as they claim to be.
what the FUCK is going on (or not going on) in these people's lives that they have the time and energy to get this bent out of shape over a Sonic the Hedgehog game - or any video game for that matter!?
don't get me wrong, i'm just as much of a gaming enthusiast as the next guy on this site, and i'd like to get my hands on a "trye" Sonic game too. but at 25-30 years old i would expect a lot of these people to have career; spouses; bills to pay; maybe, like myself, even children. is the future of the Sonic the-effing-Hedgehog franchise really a priority? this is the kind of shit that makes me ashamed to be a grown-ass man who plays video games sometimes.
lol, yeah right. Every single one of them will end up buying sonic 4.
Honestly, this could (or rather should) be viral marketing if SEGA was smart/devious. It'll raise sales tremendously.
As they always do! Well isn't irony just grand...
"Fap Fap sonic series bla bla sega fans, fap fap old games bla bla bla glory days fap sega bitch bitch bitch. fap fap fap 4 fap fap bitch moan fap, Sonic 4 bla bla fap SOMEONE PLEASE MARKET ME MY CHILDHOOD BACK fap fap original sonic games. Fap fap fap fans truly want. A real sonic 4, as in Sonic 2 with better graphics so we can complain about it not being new, we will not buy it, we will bitch and there is no way to satisfy us, till we end up with something that is impossible to make, we want sonic in hd as long as it's the same game but different, not sonic RUSH HD, because that isn't Sonic 2 which is the only Sonic game we want but different. We WILL ALWAYS buy future sonic games, till we get sonic 2 again.
The best are all the people who are signing and saying "This petition will fail," and "No one will ever sign this."
Umm...dickbags. You just signed it.
That's the beauty of internet petitions. They almost always devolve into YouTube comments without a video.
Retro throwbacks are welcome, IMO, like MegaMan 9 and 10, but not every series revival or reboot needs to be done in the same vein. I like the way Sonic 4 is shaping up right now, maybe (I haven't decided for sure how I feel about it yet) excluding the fact that it'll be episodic.
I've loved Sonic games since I got the first one as a kid, and I'm stoked that a true Sonic 4 is on its way... seriously people who complain after minimal gameplay video need to shut the fuck up... I wonder how these people behave in real life... Probably more armchair rebels at work.
They know it won't make a difference and have no other way to tell them off directly.