Mickey Mouse + Felix the Cat = Sonic

I never really understood Sonic's gimmick. So he's a hedgehog and he's super fast..It's not a big deal but I was never fond of him. Although the Chao Garden in SA2 was great.
 
Vrolik said:
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oh god what the fuck
 
yGray said:
I never really understood Sonic's gimmick. So he's a hedgehog and he's super fast..It's not a big deal but I was never fond of him. Although the Chao Garden in SA2 was great.
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The "gimmick" was that it was a pinball platformer. They dropped the pinball angle when he went 3D, though.
 
I never understood Mega Man's gimmick, so what, he's a robot that jumps and shoots stuff.

I never understood Mario's gimmick, so what, he's a plumber and jumps.

I never understood Pacman's gimmick, so what, he is a ball that eats stuff.
 
LiK said:
kids liked old cartoons and didn't even notice.
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I don't think kids care. Things can resonate with kids and not be solely be works of modern trend. Like I said in the Cuphead thread, I grew up in the 80s, but love me some Popeye, Betty Boop and Bimbo, Andy Panda and such. I also loved the old Universal horror monster movies(B&W, all the way). That didn't mean I didn't like stuff from my era. Yeah, I watched G.I. Joe, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and such, but my taste wasn't limited. I was open to anything, new or old, as long as it entertained me! I children are more open to things that most adults are.

Watching the FineBros's "Kids React" episode about DuckTales is pretty cool. Most don't even know it was an old cartoon, are dancing along to the opening theme and want to see more of it(it looks entertaining to them)! You have adults that nitpick certain things because of "nostalgia", when kids, and their unadulterated opinions, can appreciate something for what it is without that grow-up sense of stubbornness.
 
MagnaderAlpha said:
I don't think kids care. Things can resonate with kids and not be solely be works of modern trend. Like I said in the Cuphead thread, I grew up in the 80s, but love me some Popeye, Betty Boop and Bimbo, Andy Panda and such. I also loved the old Universal horror monster movies(B&W, all the way). That didn't mean I didn't like stuff from my era. Yeah, I watched G.I. Joe, Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and such, but my taste wasn't limited. I was open to anything, new or old, as long as it entertained me! I children are more open to things that most adults are.

Watching the FineBros's "Kids React" episode about DuckTales is pretty cool. Most don't even know it was an old cartoon, are dancing along to the opening theme and want to see more of it(it looks entertaining to them)! You have adults that nitpick certain things because of "nostalgia", when kids, and their unadulterated opinions, can appreciate something for what it is without that grow-up sense of stubbornness.
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I thought it was funny when I was reading an interview with Mike Judge after the Beavis & Butthead revival, and he mentioned that Justin Beiber had tweeted him about "being a big fan of the show from back when." Aside from that being impossible (the show went off the air when Beiber was an infant), it was just funny how teenage tastes really haven't changed all that much. I was huge into Beavis & Butthead when I was young, too.
 
Toparaman said:
I think it's pretty clear that the American Sonic is aesthetically inferior to the Japanese one. But maybe that's just me.

Not sure what Americans excelling at rubber hose cartoon style has to do with anything. The guy who drew American Sonic sure didn't excel at it.
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I'm sorry but I think the 2D version of Sonic in Adventure 1/2 was the best version.

Having this spin around your dreamcast making it look like a spindash was actually pretty cool in of itself too:

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Vrolik said:
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el oh el
 
Dr. Kitty Muffins said:
Given the nature of some Sonic fans, I was actually scared to open this thread. I was halfway expecting to see Mickey Mouse giving birth to Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Now that you've said those words on the Internet, someone's going to draw it.

You've damned us all.

edit: Wow, the damage was already done as I was typing my post.
 
MisterGrey3000 said:
It's kind of funny how Adventure Sonic's design ended up looking more dated than the one that was based off of early 20th century cartoon characters.
Did Sonic Team ever mention why they drastically redesigned the character?
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What I heard was that in moving over to higher-spec hardware and 3D Sonic games, Sega wanted to decisively merge the Japanese and American designs for Sonic into one so that the end result would please everybody, since they could no longer pass low-res spritework off as "yeah, that's totally the same as what's on the American box art". The redesign was Sega Japan/Sonic Team reinterpreting the American "attitude" Sonic into a Japanese design. The green eyes and extended limbs just came along for the ride, I guess.

I didn't have any idea about the Mickey Mouse influence, but the Felix influence was always pretty obvious.
 
Imru’ al-Qays;118851512 said:
Did Crash Bandicoot really have attitude, though? He was always portrayed as being kind of borderline simpleminded in the games.
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He was marketed that way, but anyone who has played the ND games knows that he was supposed to be a complete buffoon. It's always weird to see people compare him to Poochie; he has way more in common with Ed from "Edd Ed & Eddy"
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Wasn't Donkey Kong and Mario/Jumpman, weren't they in the entire vein of character based on heroic cartoon protagonists/monsters?

video games have been using cartoons as inspiration for character design from the beginning.
 
Winterfang said:
My personal favorite Sonic design is the one in the post Sonic 06 last gen era and before the Boom reboot.

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I don't think there's a more perfect modern redesign of a character. Keep the character fresh for years.

They did away with the grin, made the spiked a bit shorter and tight it up and it looks better than better. A testament to the great design is that people only complained about green eyes after like 10 years. Which is to this day the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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Buh. That face.. That plastered on face. It's like someone smashed a sphere in 3DStudioMax and just plastered it to his head. It looks like you could peel his face off, like it's just a flattened hunk of dough. It's awful, awful, awful! The blue part, his fur, if anything, should be overlapping the face, not the other way around. Buh!
 
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