What is it with Sonic and autists?

What is it with Sonic and autists?

Is there something about the design that appeals to them?

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I heard someone describe it once that Sonic has a floating fanbase. No matter how old those people end up getting, they still stay the same age.

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Also bright simple colors, anthro-animals, attitude (especially Shadow's), baysplosions and easy OC-templates add up to quite the correct list of appeals. Sanic '06 throwing in some Final Fantasy as well was some serious icing too.

I ain't defending Sonic autists by why is it they're the ones with a reputation when Nintendo fags are just as bad.

Really go to R34 and see how many people want to fuck actual pokemon

Sonic fanbase doesn't have much more autists than a lot of other fanbases, like for example Pokemon, Harry Potter, Teen Titans or Kingdom Hearts ones.
It is just Sonic gather a lot of attention with its flops, so the fanbase was actively studied.

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Also simple, easy to understand personalities and motivations. Sonic is cool and fast, Tails can fly and build things, Knuckles is the strong one, etc.

Apparently there's lots of autistic christian Sonic fans too because it's one of the few franchises deemed to be 'alright' for them to play by their parents.

No, what attracts the autists is the easy opportunity to call other people autists.

Sonic fandom has more outliers, like Chris-chan and Penders, people easy to make fun of.
It didn't help that they made some real shit like Sonic 06 and Shadow the Hedgehog.

...Has anyone ever introduced chris-chan to penders?

>attitude (especially Shadow's)

God, I fucking hate Shadow. Every autistic fan is always sucking his cock and saying he's the coolest character ever, but he's just a corny asshole. And he will just keep showing up in every game and show forever because people like him so much.

>HE'S NOT USING THE CLASSIC DESIGN. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The better question is that Why did Sonic still get shitted on by everyone in this day and age?

Theres a good copypasta about christcucks preventing their kids from playing anything cooler than sonic so those kids really attached on to sonics "totally cool" persona and world to escape the boring humdrum of their basic bitch autismic lives.

Better start posting it.

>Shadow
no more gods
no more graves

It comes down to some very simple things.

Sonic is popular with kids. A key aspect of autism is the lack of mental growth as the person ages. So things that appealed to them as a kid because of their simplistic morality and colorful characters continue to appeal to them as adults.

Another thing autists like are patterns. Sonic is full of patterns. The plots themselves are patterns, with each game basically being Robotnik doing something evil and Sonic gathering a bunch of emeralds to stop him. The characters are patterns: [Character] the [Animal], then take Sonic's basic frame and draw characteristics of their animal on top, give him a signature color, and you're done.

Kids also love creating characters and their own stories. I don't know an exact reason but it's probably something you yourself did as a kid too. Sonic, being made up of those patterns, is really easy to create your own characters and stories for. Again, autists basically being kids unable to grow up continue doing that into adulthood.

Probably the most distinctive thing about the Sonic franchise, though, is that starting with Sonic Adventure 2 and the early 2000's Sonic comics there started to be a bizarrely self-serious and expansive mythology in the games, which probably mirrored stories autists were starting to come up with for their OCs as they got older. You had a literal dark Sonic recolor introduced, this weird predestination thing with Sonic being prophesized, a whole mythology behind Knuckles, Robotnik becoming some sort of legacy character, and so on. This famously continued with Sonic 06 and Shadow the Hedgehog.

Ironically DBZ is equally popular with autists for all the exact same reasons but people try to ignore it for some reason.

Continued mediocrity
Even when they get some good games like Colors and Generations, and a pretty good show like Boom, it's surrounded in just as many terrible games.

Because the games suck. It's like how people shit on the star wars prequels so much. People only care about them being shit so much because the original trilogy was so fucking massive.

The megadrive era of Sonic was amazing, Sonic was really on top of the world for awhile. For a long time now the games have been very hit and miss. I don't think any of the post genesis games can match the megadrive ones for sheer quality, but even beyond that, the games have gotten pretty mediocre ever since Sega got out of consoles. Sonic 06 is the pinnacle of this decline, but the quality in general has been pretty low.

I say that as a pretty hardcore sonic fan.

yeah that may be all well and true but you know that there's some group out their dedicated to that noise Yoshis make when they jump

Don't get me wrong, lots of fandoms have people like that, it's just they haven't made a name for themselves

> some group out their dedicated to that noise Yoshis make when they jump
The thought alone is disgusting

Do you think Yoshi gets embarrassed when he poo's out eggs haha

>but he's just a corny asshole
Hey, he had a rough past.
If you get to know he is pretty nice. He likes his bike and flowers.

Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 06, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric and Game Grumps.
Other than those games (and about 5 horrible spin-off titles), it is pretty solid franchise. And Arin got his silly vendetta against this franchise.

Why do people care about the Game grumps at all? They're incredibly not funny, also shit at video games.

Fucking Slowbeef beat Sonic 06 in a 10th of the time it took them to do it.

Game grumps died when Jon left. It was never anything special, and Arin was always unfunny, but Jon had good chemistry with him.
I think people cling on to it because Arin was relevant at some point.

Incredibly simple geometric designs means anyone can make fanart of it. And even the shittiest designed fan OC can fit the art style

I do kinda like Dan. He is an idiot, but kinda likeable.

Sonic's whole premise is that he's the epitome of cool and for a lot of people who grew up with the original games, liking Sonic was the last time any of them were part of something that everyone liked, so they just stuck with it. They're personalities became defined as "that guy who likes Sonic" and let it bleed into literally everything. If Pokemon or Minecraft were to collapse like Sonic did, you'd see the same thing with them.

Unleashed, black knight, the adventure games have aged like milk. Even the supposed "good" 3d sonic games post adventure are mediocre at best.

I don't have anything against Dan, but he doesn't bounce off of Arin the same way Jon did.

Not sure about black night,

But Unleashed, Adventure 1 and Adventure 2 are all flawed but have great stuff in them. Honestly Adventure 1 is my second favourite game of all time, slightly behind Sonic 3.

Usually when people say a game has aged terribly, it's because that genre of games are moved on and the standards of become much much higher for those kinds of games. The problem is there's very little other games like sonic, almost none really. If you really like the speed and platforming in Sonic Adventure but don't like all the bugs, the shitty cutscnes or the graphics, then what else do you play? There's nothing else like sonic. If you don;t like mario, there's endless mario derivatives to play like rayman or what have you, but who has made a game influenced by the success of sonic?

I think that's part of why the fanbase has held so strong. The best sonic games are pretty unique among gaming and it's likely if you like what's special about them, you'll have a hard time finding something else like it to play instead.

>Sonic autists
Broken fanbase that's divided between tweenage 13 year old girls on DA, purists who only praise the fucking genesis era and think every game should just be playing through green hill zone over and over, and everybody else who just wants to enjoy the series without bullshit from everybody else.

>Nintendo autists
Smug self important shitlords who cite Moviebob and "TEH CONSOLE WARZ" as their go-to justification for why Sonic was never good and naively believe Nintendo does nothing wrong. Any attempt to point out otherwise (Virtual Boy, the scrapped Mario moba, etc) will result in bitch fits

>Final Fantasy autists
Edgelords who praise 7 the most, proclaim Sephiroth their idol and write walkthroughs on the wiki with tryhard humor that only 12 year olds laugh at that does fuckall to tell you where you're supposed to go next.

>Megaman autists
Only ever play the first six games with maybe 9 and 10 if they get bored while naively clinging to hope that Capcom will finally bridge the gap between time periods even when their lord and saviour inafune cucked them out of money through his bootleg's kickstarter.

Why is this even a Sup Forums thread when really all vidyagame fanbases have retards in them?

Sonic is the very first taste of complete escapism for these autismos, as the world of sonic is all animals and barely any humans (aside from Robotnik and GUN) present. So its a colorful fantasy world with none of our real world problems with mostly static character personalities. This creates an environment that ultimately never changes, giving these autists something to cling to.

Sonic's main appeal is that is a rabbit hole: there is so much goddamn merchandise and media for someone to take in, and the world is always getting new characters. Sonic will never stop growing, which is why they like it.

>the scrapped Mario moba

This is exactly why that fan design for Boom Shadow, where he looked exactly the same but wore a Hawaiian shirt, was so genius. That one tacky addition immediately cuts through all his edge and hangs a huge lampshade on his behavior, making him way easier to stomach for people who don't like him.

Only a member of all those fandoms combined would have knowledge of that much autistic behaviour.

Do Final Fantasy autists still exist? I haven't heard from them in years.
I feel like Kingdom hearts is the new shit hotness.

>Megaman autists
The worst i've ever met in person, got mad at me for backing Shantae instead of Mighty number 9

Unleashed (unless you are talking about PS2/Wii version) has pretty great day levels.
Black Knight still got the best music and presentation out of all 3D games and it's concept is fun.
Adventure 1 is still pretty fine game outside of wonky camera. SA2 dated a bit too much though, yeah.
And you forgetting about 2D titles and other spin-offs. Sonic Advance 1 is great and so is the Rush series. First two Riders games is pretty fun to race with friends.
Sure, there were mediocre titles like Sonic Heroes or Lost World, but overall franchise wasn't that bad.

I'm not really a big nintendo guy, but I knew a dude who literally did all of the shit I said nintendo autists do. I pretty much stopped talking to him when he tried to defend Jake Goldman and justify pedophilia as A-OK.

>Do Final Fantasy autists still exist?
They're kind of scattered here and there and mostly just keep to themselves. Although I know of at least one guy who shits on any game that isn't 13, and flies into tard rages anytime someone says his waifu Lightning has no personality.

Hey, man...I also play Mega Man 7 and 8, I got no problem with them.

Also, fuck Inafune.

>the scrapped Mario moba,
Was this really a thing?

I swear that DBZ, Sanic and Pokemon are the holy trinity of devianart austim fanbases.
Though shows like Naruto and /mlp/ also draw em in.
I think if a show has nostalgia value, easily exploitable lore, repetition, some kind of shipping and has a template for oc design it attracts a certain kind of fan. Especially when they get to together and echochamber one another.

CWC could onehit KO Penders. At the very least people read and will continue to read his (or her now?) terrible sonic oc comics, even if it's just to rip on them. And the CWC fanbase will pay thousands for a soiled striped shirt.

Penders seems like he's struggling to get his awful looking Lara-Su comic off the ground.

The whold Advanced series is great. Advanced 1 is the real Sonic 4 in the kind of gameplay progressions made and the increase in characters to 4.

>and flies into tard rages anytime someone says his waifu Lightning has no personality.
wew

are you saying you DON'T want to fuck pokemon?

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It was and then I think it tanked.

Not to mention Sonic Passions

reddit.com/r/pokeporn

Why are normies scared of their site when theirs is worse?

>Sonic's arms aren't blue

As someone who was actually diagnosed with Autism at the age of five, I couldn't care less about Sonic. I mean, he's designed well and there is 90's nostalgia, yeah, but the video games are kind of dumb except for their music (have fun working to gather all those rings until you hit one spike and you lose all your points). I read a couple issues of the comics as a kid and loved the ice cream bars with Sonic's head, but that's it, really.


Really pisses me off that the mental condition that prevents me from joining the military, doing jobs that require a certain work speed and makes school a complete struggle without extended time allowances or ed tech help is an epic meme that makes people compare me to absolute weirdos like Chris Chan, Elliot Rodger, Diaperchu or other laughing stocks.

Mario autists actually get shit done though and are a lot tamer.

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