Ah... Yeah, many in the Sonic fandom don't have any appreciation for that kind of artsiness. On the other hand, many of us do.
As for treating an upcoming game like the presidential election... hasn't the Sonic fandom always done that?
And the Sonic/Mario thing... you can't expect all these little kids who were in diapers during the Nintendo/Sega drama to appreciate this. They just don't remember. To them, it sounds like a shitty game, because they think the purpose of it is to be an entertaining game. They have no context, they don't know what it means to anyone who was around during the 90s. And half of us who WERE around then don't remember.
Of course they're going to wank about this; by virtue of cross-company cooperation this is almost gauranteed to, in an absolute gameplay and story sense, suck in comparison to normal Sonic games, and many younger fans will think this a waste of Sega's time. But Sonic v. Mario doesn't mean to them what it means to us, and is it really fair to fault them?
...and is it really fair to imply that we're all like that?
Sorry if I got wanky on you, I just got this impression that you meant that Sonic fans were artistically illiterate, and I'm glad that impression was wrong.
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Date: 2007-07-12 09:38 pm (UTC)As for treating an upcoming game like the presidential election... hasn't the Sonic fandom always done that?
And the Sonic/Mario thing... you can't expect all these little kids who were in diapers during the Nintendo/Sega drama to appreciate this. They just don't remember. To them, it sounds like a shitty game, because they think the purpose of it is to be an entertaining game. They have no context, they don't know what it means to anyone who was around during the 90s. And half of us who WERE around then don't remember.
Of course they're going to wank about this; by virtue of cross-company cooperation this is almost gauranteed to, in an absolute gameplay and story sense, suck in comparison to normal Sonic games, and many younger fans will think this a waste of Sega's time. But Sonic v. Mario doesn't mean to them what it means to us, and is it really fair to fault them?
...and is it really fair to imply that we're all like that?
Sorry if I got wanky on you, I just got this impression that you meant that Sonic fans were artistically illiterate, and I'm glad that impression was wrong.