Controversy! Archie vs SEGA

Though I watched my share of SatAM and occasionally thumbed through the comics, I don't really pick one over the other. Though I still think Sega could learn something from the comics in terms of story and we all agree that if Sega was smart they'd hire some comic writers to write the stories for their games, even with the lack of pivitol comic characters like Sally, they would still be able to write something more competent that what passes for story in most modern games.

Of course one downfall with liking the comics is, they're quite popular with the "furries" and it doesn't help when the artists tend to make characters like Sally and Bunnie a bit too "shapely" if you get my drift.

However I see that Silver has now been added to the Sonic comic universe, at least in this 30 year future spinoff when Sonic and Sally are married and Sonic's the king now. Though they must have weird hedgehog/squirell mutant children now. LOL Then again there's been plenty of cross species romance in the Sonic universe and as long as Sonic's not trying to bang a human, no one minds.

I have to say the games. I mean the comics had even more forgettable characters than the games. I almost always forget that Antonio guy... thing... whatever. :|

As bad as some of the games are, I at least can get a thrillride from some of them, so I'll stick with the games. ;)

The other thing the comics and cartoons did that I wish the current games still did was Mobius. One reason people love games like Mario and Zelda and World of Warcraft is that they take place in fantastic fantasy worlds you can get lost in. Before Sonic Adventure changed everything to be more in sync with the Japanese origins, in the US and Europe, Sonic lived on planet Mobius, a cool world with art deco trees and checkered cliffs where Robotnick was the only human (save for Snively in the cartoons of course) and everyone else were talking animals. Mobius was a fun fantasy world you could get lost in.

Then came Sonic Adventure and Mobius was gone. Robotnick was Eggman. At least with Princess Toadstool becoming Princess Peach, most just assume that the Princess is going by her first name now with her full name being Princess Peach Toadstool, but the Japanese developers wanted smooth continutiy between the series in Japan and the US now so we're stuck with Eggman Though I did like his redesign to make him look more like a scientist as opposed to a giant balloon man. But this is where some of the problems started because suddenly everyone in the US and Europe were like "what happened to Mobius?" "Eggman?" "Why does Sonic's world look more realistic?" "What's with all the humans wandering around?"

And that brings me to my point is that I wish the games would just say that Sonic's world is Mobius. I hate this alternate reality Earth crap. Sonic looks stupid hanging around with humans (want proof? Sonic X). Now I'm not saying Sonic's world can have humans, we need some justification for Eggman's presence I guess, but I want Sonic's world to be more exotic like the Mushroom Kingdom or Hyrule or Azeroth where you have various races of creatures all about. If Sonic's going to run around a city hub world talking to people, I want more anthropomorphs wandering around. It's looks incongruous and sloppy to have a blue, talking hedgehog wanding around a city full of nothing but people and no one surprised. And if talking animals are commonplace in Sonic's world, don't you think some would be living in the cities and if not that, wouldn't there be a village or town where all the animal residents live?

Comics all the way purely for the reason of consistency. Argue about quality all you may but what the comics have succeeded in over the games is being able to not consistently suck. The storylines are well thought out and the cast of characters, as large as they are, are well defined and don;t take the limelight away from the true protagonist of the series. Characters in the Archie continuity only act or appear when their pressence is actually called for. Most of the story arcs are intriguing and the action (especially with Tracey Yardley as the new artist) is very well drawn. It's like reading a stylish Saturday morning cartoon every month.

On the flip side, I no longer care about what comes out of the Video Game series. All I'm waiting for is for Bioware to finish the Chronicles story. Otherwise the games have been of sporadically low quality for about 4 years with no sign of improvement. The games are nothing but a cash-cow, the comics atleast maintain some form of quality control.

I'm neutral as I do enjoy the comics and I enjoy the games...

But right now...

I'm sliding toward the comics...

I don't really care as long as it's good.

I'm neutral as I do enjoy the comics and I enjoy the games...

But right now...

I'm sliding toward the comics...

Shadow_Olimar23

Let me guess: Because of Sonic '06, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic and the Black Knight, etc... 

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I'm neutral as I do enjoy the comics and I enjoy the games...

But right now...

I'm sliding toward the comics...

ktulu007

Let me guess: Because of Sonic '06, Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Unleashed, Sonic and the Black Knight, etc... 

Yes!