recursivelyenumerable, just play Sonic 1-3/K and skip over to Colours/Generations. hat's probably the least-painful way to get through the series. That is, if you even get past Sonic 1, haha.
No shame in my game, I do hate how the series devolved into furry porn and fanfiction, plus decades of terrible games with very few exceptions. I mean Disney and Looney Tunes characters may have had the creepy too but with Sonic it became the majority of the audience that isn't children.
Same. I hate the furry fanbase, but that doesn't change that I think some of the games are pretty good. I distance myself far far far away from that shit.
It's probably because I didn't like Sonic Adventure much, or a lot of the games during the PS2/DC era. And for a lot of people, Sonic Adventure 1/2 were their first Sonic games, which introduced a lot of stuff like spoken dialogue in cutscenes, "deep lore", multiple characters interacting with each other a la an RPG, etc. to the series. I didn't care because it's a platformer and that is generally unnecessary to me in a game that I could probably 100% in 6-10 hours. But a lot of people ate that stuff up and that represented Sonic to them since that's their first exposure to it: Sonic then became a story-based, character-focused kind of series... so we get people who ate the terrible games up, made fanfiction and fanart, and whatever. I don't get it, and I don't think I ever will.
That ain't Sonic to me since I grew up with the ones on the Genesis (+Sonic CD on the PC), and whatever games I did like post-PS2 had good mechanics like Colours or Generations (or even Unleashed's day levels) and were less focused on a narrative. It's one of those series where there feels like there are more bad games than good (and you could certainly argue that is the case), but whenever there are good games, they feel like they handle nicely and I enjoy learning how to speedrun them. I don't like letting shitty fanbases influence what I play and what I don't. That's dumb.
