Originally posted by AmethystViper:There wasn't a problem with these games up until Arin Hanson of Game Grumps started showing his true colors during his Sonic '06 Let's Play when JonTron used to be with him. TL DR: People didn't have as much of problem with these games before, but thanks to angry losers and cowards that have nothing better to do but to force their opinions on video games on the internet, this is why you have so many douchebags bashing these games and much more standing up for them.
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Then you have Ikaruga the Contrarian Troll who has been going around Steam forums pushing his crappy "opinions" - and it's not just Sonic games, he has been doing this crap on games like Doom, Half-Life, Blood, and many others - while spreading the same toxicity on because he's a coward and troll with no life, having the audacity to project gatekeeping fans, and would go as far as censoring people like me that destroyed his "arguments" along with his self-serving ego. It's safe to say that Game Grumps and ProJared are honestly no better than DarkSydePhill when it comes to Sonic the Hedgehog games and just want to demonized something many hold in high regard just to get people to bandwagon and blindly bash those games, which sadly has been damaging the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise's reputation and why we have uninspired crap like Sonic Forces.
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All this coming from the guy who just came out of a sex scandal he got himself involved with his audience while cheating on his girlfriend behind her back with her two-timing friend. "the game is should just be about Sonic", "the mech/treasure hunting levels suck", "why can't I move beyond a circular boss arena"), writing Sonic Adventure 2 off as "people only like this game because nostalgia, it aged badly" when some people can tell you the game does hold up it's just the later ports broke things that weren't an issue in the original Dreamcast release, and his arguments of "the game aged badly" stems from him sucking at the game. They did more-or-less the same stunt with Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, but then ProJared decided to push his "opinions" about the game, cherry-picking "issues" that are beyond stupid (e.g. Then they also had the nerve to doxx and harass a GameFAQs user over a walkthrough for the game that Arin decided to use, and while the walkthrough's author later admitted he did a bad job, it didn't stop Arin and Danny from exposing the guy's real name in public and encouraging their audience to cyberbully the poor guy, and then later brushing off what they did as "no big deal".
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Later JonTron left Game Grumps and got replaced with Danny and the Game Grumps eventually did get to playing Sonic Adventure DX on the GameCube and Arin went out of his way to make the game look bad on purpose to manipulate Danny (and their sheep fanbase) by exploiting glitches in the game that easily avoidable as long as you don't break the scripted sequences.
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Arin got offended that Jon didn't he didn't hate the Sonic Adventure games, tried to push his "Sonic Adventure is just as terrible as Sonic '06" opinions onto Jon, and would even as far as turning off Sonic '06 just to show Sonic Adventure is "bad", while Jon, who played the Adventure games and enjoyed them, at least tried to dispute Arin's claims civilly. There wasn't a problem with these games up until Arin Hanson of Game Grumps started showing his true colors during his Sonic '06 Let's Play when JonTron used to be with him.