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Which game do you play the most in Sonic Mega Collection?

  • Sonic 1

    Votes: 28 4.5%

  • Sonic 2

    Votes: 112 18.1%

  • Sonic 3 and Knuckles

    Votes: 245 39.5%

  • Sonic 3D Blast

    Votes: 23 3.7%

  • Sonic Spinball

    Votes: 24 3.9%

  • Dr. Robotnik's Meanbean Machine

    Votes: 89 14.4%

  • they're all good in my opinion

    Votes: 99 16.0%
  • Total voters
    620
MirageKai said:
Or knowing ian hes lying about the mandates and don't want to write a good story. Like cmon rules that are only beneficial to the writers nor they shouldn't even been public....even these so called "mandates" are contradict by frontiers recent story.
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You're forgetting that Sega is notorious for being retarded in everything except existing (and even that's only continued because their gambler masters allow it).
 
MirageKai said:
Or knowing ian hes lying about the mandates and don't want to write a good story. Like cmon rules that are only beneficial to the writers nor they shouldn't even been public....even these so called "mandates" are contradict by frontiers recent story.
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I think it's more a problem of communication. Ian is kind of isolated from the japan team, since he's on a different continent and there's also a language barrier at play. I sincerely doubt every staff member with a hand in writing gives their input whenever he has a question, so if he asks something that there's lots of ambiguity about (for example, "did the end of Sonic '06 lead into Rush, or did it somehow go Rush->'06->Rush Adventure?"), and there is no consensus among Sonic Team, he might genuinely get different answers depending on who he's talking to. And I doubt he only has one point of contact at Sonic Team (especially with how he's been integrated more into the series' writing since Frontiers), since even Superstars and Frontiers had different people in charge of the writing, so it's not like there's only one person acting as a writer on the japanese side (even as roles tend to shift).

There's also just the fact that things tend to change behind the scenes. Writers might run with an assumption about the world that never technically gets confirmed in the games (even if they're made with it in mind), but then they change their mind later and this change is confirmed in canon material. For example, multiple sources stated that Two Worlds was canon, and games tended to either show human societies or Mobian* societies but never both, and Sonic X outright had the two separate worlds as a plot point. It was then changed to "humans live on continents and Mobians* live on smaller islands" in TailsTube, and this technically doesn't contradict what's been pre-established; although past games were clearly made with Two Worlds in mind, they never showed anything that explicitly contradicted the interpretation that humans and Mobians share the same planet, so nothing has to be retroactively changed to support that new piece of canon.

It's also kind of just a good practice in writing to leave things open-ended if you don't need to nail them down for what you're currently writing. For example, when a series has a character ambiguously die off-screen to leave open the possibility of their return if the writers ever come up with a good idea for it (like Starline). This might be why we can only ever get sparse, inconsistent answers about Blaze's exact origin; whether '06 or Rush comes first chronologically is totally inconsequential to the current games, and if they ever think of a good story involving her in the future, they'd be cursing themselves if it was based off of one origin but they'd already canonized the other one prematurely. There's no reason to shoot their future selves in the foot when the only thing it would solve right now is satisfying some turbonerd asking obscure lore questions.
*not sure what the official term for them is atm

TL;DR: It's likely that Flynn is actually relaying things to us exactly as he heard them, and that there are multiple rational reasons that anything not already explicitly confirmed in a game could be subject to change behind the scenes, and he's just working with the bits he's told.
 
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Speaking as someone who's been in the fandom since the early 2000's, the fanbase really loves a scapegoat. It was Iizuka at first, then everyone heard about how he stuck his neck out for the devs of Frontiers (to get them a delay) and suddenly all the bile that was directed towards him dried up.

Ian's going through the same cycle right now. The fact he has a podcast and is a very public figure just makes it that much easier for people to twist his words.
 
Saw this posted recently, so I want you guys to share my pain.
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Oh and this.
It's another retarded #elsagate channel focused on sonic. Fucking hate these bitches.
 
Mossy Trash Panda said:
Well fam, it's finally happened. The Sonic fandom has pulled a Steven Universe, and got someone to kill themselves over a ship of all things.
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You'd be surprised with how common fake suicides/pushing other kids to kill themselves is in the side of the fanbase that does Sonic character roleplay on twitter and discord.
 
Mossy Trash Panda said:
Well fam, it's finally happened. The Sonic fandom has pulled a Steven Universe, and got someone to kill themselves over a ship of all things.
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I'm not gonna believe it until I see hard evidence but no matter what i'm not surprised, the sonic fandom and faggots who engage in shipping of any sort have always been the most mentally unstable people ever
 
starborn427614 said:
Sonic Rumble's finally been revealed.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Em6-SjjaYQE
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You know, a battle royal Sonic game WOULD be a good idea, given how people love to speedrun the fuck out of the games. But the presentation looks... bleh. The art direction has that "this is for drooling 1 year old toddlers" look.

Once again it seems like Sega is late to the party where even the bandwagon is blowing dust in their face.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
You know, a battle royal Sonic game WOULD be a good idea, given how people love to speedrun the fuck out of the games. But the presentation looks... bleh. The art direction has that "this is for drooling 1 year old toddlers" look.

Once again it seems like Sega is late to the party where even the bandwagon is blowing dust in their face.
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I'll agree that SEGA's always been a Johnny-come-lately, but at the same time this is probably going to be like crack for some fans. Especially since the majority of other mobile Sonic titles are infinite runners.
 
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