Honestly, I think this is kind of brilliant. They actually went out of their way include something that they knew a large majority of their fanbase sort of wanted (presumably based on the myriad fangames starring Sonic fan characers) but didn't even dare to hope - much less ask - for. In spite of the fact that they almost certainly KNEW that they'd be ridiculed for years on end just for even thinking to include it.
Really, how often do game companies actually do that? Super Mario Maker was pretty much the only time Nintendo ever did anything of the sort, and even then they felt the need to increase the demand themselves by cracking down on Mario fangame developers. Don't get me wrong, Nintendo innovates, but they innovate on their own terms, and they tend to take forever to
un-innovate when their ideas go wrong. Sega, on the other hand, is both making a full-on, mainline game that completely embraces people's desire to insert themselves into the Sonic universe AND managing to maintain a friendly relationship with the loyal fans who inspired them to do it in the first place.
Nintendo may release more quality games, and Nintendo may be more reliable, and Nintendo may be more respectable in a lot of ways, but if there's any AAA game developer that does anything CLOSE to listening to its fans and caring about what they want, it's definitely Sega.
Mit wrote:
ive yet to see a counterargument to this being included beyond something immature about sonic OCs and furries
And that's the worst part, really. 50% of the people who are against the character creator call it either autism, a fetish, or a meme (none of which make any sense in any way whatsoever) and the other half just make "jokes" in which they simply reference the fact that there are a large number of Sonic OC drawings on Deviantart without offering any sort of witty conclusion or thoughtfully rye remark. Yup, fan characters sure are a popular concept that existed previously and some of them are pretty bad! That isn't...even a joke.
I don't even care that much about the Sonic fanbase and in a way I have a bit of disdain for the furry community at large (in spite of the fact that I've designed some humanoid species that could be roughly classified as "furries") and yet it STILL kind of peeves me off for just how mind-numbingly stupid it is. Never before have I seen such an epidemic of mindless flippancy; everyone wants to make the joke, and yet not a single person has the punchline.
Honestly, I think this is kind of brilliant. They actually went out of their way include something that they knew a large majority of their fanbase sort of wanted (presumably based on the myriad fangames starring Sonic fan characers) but didn't even dare to hope - much less ask - for. In spite of the fact that they almost certainly KNEW that they'd be ridiculed for years on end just for even thinking to include it.
Really, how often do game companies actually do that? Super Mario Maker was pretty much the only time Nintendo ever did anything of the sort, and even then they felt the need to increase the demand themselves by cracking down on Mario fangame developers. Don't get me wrong, Nintendo innovates, but they innovate on their own terms, and they tend to take forever to [i]un-innovate[/i] when their ideas go wrong. Sega, on the other hand, is both making a full-on, mainline game that completely embraces people's desire to insert themselves into the Sonic universe AND managing to maintain a friendly relationship with the loyal fans who inspired them to do it in the first place.
Nintendo may release more quality games, and Nintendo may be more reliable, and Nintendo may be more respectable in a lot of ways, but if there's any AAA game developer that does anything CLOSE to listening to its fans and caring about what they want, it's definitely Sega.
[quote="Mit"]ive yet to see a counterargument to this being included beyond something immature about sonic OCs and furries[/quote] And that's the worst part, really. 50% of the people who are against the character creator call it either autism, a fetish, or a meme (none of which make any sense in any way whatsoever) and the other half just make "jokes" in which they simply reference the fact that there are a large number of Sonic OC drawings on Deviantart without offering any sort of witty conclusion or thoughtfully rye remark. Yup, fan characters sure are a popular concept that existed previously and some of them are pretty bad! That isn't...even a joke.
I don't even care that much about the Sonic fanbase and in a way I have a bit of disdain for the furry community at large (in spite of the fact that I've designed some humanoid species that could be roughly classified as "furries") and yet it STILL kind of peeves me off for just how mind-numbingly stupid it is. Never before have I seen such an epidemic of mindless flippancy; everyone wants to make the joke, and yet not a single person has the punchline.