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I've been watching a lot of old internet videos mostly from the heydays of internet commentators. Internet Aristocrat, TOGProfessor, Realm Wars just to name a few because I'm just so interested in early Youtube gaming and the commentary community. I've noticed that whenever a commentary on a Sonic fanboy comes up it is mostly summed up with them bitching about very trivial things (the glory days of the utterly devastating fandom) you know the time of green eyes and everyone being mad over Sonic 4 and thinking the way to show frustration is the boycott and buy Sonic 1 on the genesis.

But I also noticed a similar arguement when it comes to these fans defending the games or in general whenever a gaming commentary comes up I always hear this at one point in a video

"Everyone knows that it is the gameplay that really matters"

And if you ask me this came from people who had no real arguments to begin with. Thinking of it this way isn't that a give in to the medium?.....I mean gaming is an interactive experience and clearly the activity you'd want to focus on more is the gameplay. But what these people neglect is other aspects that make games unique in their very own way like the look, feel or even the narrative which do play a big role in how players interact with each game. In terms of the graphics I'd say there's a reason why gaming has had such a huge evolution because as games got better and better the makers were able to add more to them. Games weren't always about how they played even in the 80s and 90s most of them had narratives and a distinct look and feel to them. If gameplay is so important then why did the look get better along with it because after all if how a game plays is the only thing that should matter then why not just stop evolution all together or never had it in the first place we could have just stuck with the old Atari days which were nothing but games that were played for their gameplay but no one is really nostalgic for those games. People like to say the graphics don't matter and no one needs story when some of the more nostalgic games people like to bring up from the 80s and 90s had distinct graphics and even a narrative attached to them but some people celebrate those years and just the years of awesome gamplay and forget everything else. I know this is a generalized argument but I don't mean everyone it is just a pretty discordant arguement whenever I hear sonic fans say the only thing that Sega should care about is how the games play and dodge everything else as if they didn't help the progression of the series in some way.

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I've been watching a lot of old internet videos mostly from the heydays of internet commentators. Internet Aristocrat, TOGProfessor, Realm Wars just to name a few because I'm just so interested in early Youtube gaming and the commentary community. I've noticed that whenever a commentary on a Sonic fanboy comes up it is mostly summed up with them bitching about very trivial things (the glory days of the utterly devastating fandom) you know the time of green eyes and everyone being mad over Sonic 4 and thinking the way to show frustration is the boycott and buy Sonic 1 on the genesis.

But I also noticed a similar arguement when it comes to these fans defending the games or in general whenever a gaming commentary comes up I always hear this at one point in a video

"Everyone knows that it is the gameplay that really matters"

And if you ask me this came from people who had no real arguments to begin with. Thinking of it this way isn't that a give in to the medium?.....I mean gaming is an interactive experience and clearly the activity you'd want to focus on more is the gameplay. But what these people neglect is other aspects that make games unique in their very own way like the look, feel or even the narrative which do play a big role in how players interact with each game. In terms of the graphics I'd say there's a reason why gaming has had such a huge evolution because as games got better and better the makers were able to add more to them. Games weren't always about how they played even in the 80s and 90s most of them had narratives and a distinct look and feel to them. If gameplay is so important then why did the look get better along with it because after all if how a game plays is the only thing that should matter then why not just stop evolution all together or never had it in the first place we could have just stuck with the old Atari days which were nothing but games that were played for their gameplay but no one is really nostalgic for those games. People like to say the graphics don't matter and no one needs story when some of the more nostalgic games people like to bring up from the 80s and 90s had distinct graphics and even a narrative attached to them but some people celebrate those years and just the years of awesome gamplay and forget everything else. I know this is a generalized argument but I don't mean everyone it is just a pretty discordant arguement whenever I hear sonic fans say the only thing that Sega should care about is how the games play and dodge everything else as if they didn't help the progression of the series in some way.