As the world continues to descend into madness, I find myself playing Sonic Adventure 2 again
It's just such a weird game. There are games that play better, and look better, and have better experiences... There are games that handle the whole virtual pet thing much more elegantly, even.
But there's just... something about it.
Something about the harebrained plot, the inconsistent game design, the chao garden, the unabashed way the game takes itself so seriously. If you took out just one small piece, then the entire thing would stop being incredible.
SA2 is great for the same reason that Twilight or MLP are great— the source material doesn't matter, because there's this recursive vibe that the community places around it that fills in all the holes. It's why we're still making Sonic OCs 20 years later
@RowanBerry wait, why doesn't the mlp source material matter?
@00dani It's not that it *can't* matter, it's that the community is the main focus. At the end of the day, MLP isn't particularly special in any way. It's the community that makes it so engaging.
@RowanBerry i - guess? idk, the source material is very special to me and a lot of the fandom surrounding it was. questionable to say the least
definitely there was some really good fanwork out there too but. idk
@00dani yeah that's fair. I didn't mean to imply that the show itself had no meaning, but that the scope of fandom overwhelms the scope of source material. Sorry
@RowanBerry do twilight fans make OCs?
@Primo Kind of? Twilight was more fanfiction-focused, probably because making your own version of Robert Pattinson doesn't have the same appeal as a personalized cartoon persona
@Primo And yet, 50 Shades of Grey ended up being basically that, so...
@RowanBerry I guess we can kind of count that?
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that SA2 is almost twenty years old??? What the fuck?