and yes, about 95% of the games i've played are lucky if they are mediocre. i don't think anyone should apologise for bad stuff in games just because oh heck it's a video game. if this stuff i don't like was part of what made a game a game, then okay i probably just shouldn't bother with the video game forum, but i can think of a few games which are legitimately interesting, fun or enjoyable to play and didn't make me sick every five seconds. like half life 2, shadow of the collossus, deus ex or killer 7. these games aren't perfect at all, they pretty much all have, for example, bits of misogyny that they would definitely be better off without, but the difference is these games are not aiming to insult your intelligence, they are not aiming to be utterly generic. the actual gameplay mechanics are really only something i consider if i am able to get past the initial torrent of shit that most games hurtle towards me before the title screen has loaded.


if your issue is that i seem to have high standards or i'm impossible to please then no this isn't the case. i just expect something more from a game than a minimum effort generic copy of a game which was terrible in the first place but sold. i truly have many much better things to do with my time than this stuff and so does everybody else in the whole world so i keep posting in these topics because it might convince somebody or at least make them aware that no, you don't need to put up with the nasal pop-rock soundtracks, the hedgehog with attitude, the parade of zero dimensional new characters each game in this series brings in, the total insult that this game is to anyone over the age of let's say 14 who spends their money on it thus encouraging further iterations.

Sonic can have a plot. Unfortunately the plot in the comic books is, well, COMIC BOOK WRITING. I know I'm applying a huge fucking stereotype to DECADES of literature but, comic books can be pretty fucking ridiculous and Sonic wasn't a big exception. It was generally pretty competent though I think they eventually fell into the HES DEAD NO WAIT THAT WAS A CLONE AND ALSO HES DEAD BUT NO HES BACK FROM THE DEAD shit. For the record, I read from the first issue up to like #75 or something which was like 5 or 6 years worth of issues. They killed Robotnik in issue 50 I think, which was a pretty cool arc to me back then, but then it got all dramatic and there was this absurd Robotnik clone plot or something which eventually lead to the introduction of Eggman who you see in all the modern Sonic games.