IGN re-writes Sonic history
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Retro, Sonic. Tagged with Dreamcast, IGN, Shadow.
We can all make mistakes, and as a result we try not to berate fellow journalists, or game sites here too much on Sega Nerds, unless we feel they really need to have a good kick up the arse, or maybe a little educating. And in this case perhaps both need to be applied.
While one, keen-eyed, Sega Nerd was browsing IGN, looking at the old Sonic Adventure 2 review, he clicked on the character biography link for Shadow the Hedgehog (let’s call that a moment of madness on his part).
Amongst the small blurb about who Shadow is, and what role he plays within the game, IGN has some ‘Quotes’ from the character and small pieces of ‘Trivia.’
“Trivia: Shadow the Hedgehog was supposedly supposed to be Sega’s original mascot, however, they scrapped him in favor of Sonic, it was not until the release of Sonic Adventure that they reached back into their files to pull out Shadow as Sonic’s nemesis for Sonic Adventure 2″
What?! Shadow the Hedgehog was supposed to be Sega’s original mascot?
We aren’t sure quite where they got that piece of information, (one member suggests out of their ass) but I’m pretty sure anyone at this site could tell you that it is quite false.
While I’m sure many IGN readers, and even Sega fans won’t ever care enough to look at Shadows biography page, there is still a large number of crazed Shadow fans out there, and the last thing we need is them spouting off how “Shadow was meant to be Sega’s number one. Sonic sucks!”
Hopefully someone at IGN is reading this and will change it, and maybe double-check their ‘facts’ before posting them up. Click here, if you really want to read IGN’s versioon of Shadows biography.
[Special Thanks: Dr. Sega Monkey Via The Forums]
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Comments on this article
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“Last Modified by: Iverson-IGN on May 27, 2008 10:17 PDT
Posted by: Shade_daeori_Vylaar on May 26, 2008 18:16 PDT”
If we use the Tornado we can still catch the bastard!
crackdude
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 5:25 am.
This is why I don’t trust IGN anymore and use them purely as a video and screenshot dump.
TRAViS
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 5:41 am.
Oh my god-_-
Shark
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 6:18 am.
unbelievable
City Hunter
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 7:05 am.
All hail Shadow, recolours rise again!
Aki-at
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 7:49 am.
Nnnnnah, I wrote a Sonic the Hedgehog retrospective for 1UP some few years ago, which involved me talking to Sega’s higher-ups about the creation of the character. It’s true some other animals were considered (bunny, squirrel), but there was no mention of an emo hedgehog.
Nadia
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 8:04 am.
Also remember, a pitdog, a fat man (Who later became Robotnik/Eggman, no wonder he hates Sonic so much) and Mighty (From Knuckles Choatix) was also in consideration.
Aki-at
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 8:06 am.
Fucking LOL!!
Amazing. That was purely amazing. Well done IGN. You did your homework *gold star in your notebook*
DiGi Valentine
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 8:31 am.
Of course a quality website like IGN also knows other SEGA facts that we don’t. Did you know that “Alex the Kid” is in Sega Superstars Tennis?
http://wii.ign.com/articles/860/860591p2.html
RC
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 9:08 am.
Shadow must die! “Alex the Kid” FTW!
;DDDDD
T+
Storm!
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am.
Hahaha, absolute idiots. Though I’m pretty sure that is just some guy who posted it on to see what would happen, or to fool people or something. Either way, the actual fans will know it’s not true at all.
Cold Dog
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 9:36 am.
Wasn’t Alex the Kid an outlaw in the wild west? :)
emmett The Crab
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 10:18 am.
No, that was Joe Musashi. Professional American Ninja Cowboy.
Kogen
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 10:40 am.
IGN isn’t that bad…. is it?
CaptainUlt
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 11:01 am.
They obviously want to please the retarded fans Shadow has, just like Sega.
landman
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 11:55 am.
I have nothing against Shadow (I actually like him, though I just pretend his awesome death in SA2 stayed an awesome DEATH), but this is complete bull. Well done, IGN. Give me another reason to hate your guts.
Dub
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm.
“Ristar was meant to be Sega’s number one. Shadow sucks!â€
^I mean, seriously…who cares?
…How they can say if Ristar
or Shadow or what ever…
could make an appearence before Sonic, that character could or could not become SEGA’s #1 instead of Sonic.
So, it is not important if Shadow
was ready to be the main character
of Sonic Team’s first Sonic Title
or not.
Anyway, I love Shadow too
but Sonic is the bigger one for me.
Regards, Alimn
alimn
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 1:14 pm.
I didn’t realize anyone liked Shadow until some dork at the local LAN place started raving about him and I laughed and was like “you’re kidding right?” Turns out he wasn’t. I died a little inside.
Mark
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 9:47 pm.
Congrats Mark, you have now met people with poor taste!
*Ducks and dodges incoming Shadow fans*
Aki-at
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 10:28 pm.
The majority of Shadow’s fans are kids whose first Sonic game was Sonic Adventure 2 for Gamecube…
RC
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 10:39 pm.
That type also finds the original Sonic games boring. Not all of them, of course, but I have come in contact with quite a number. Guess it’s too little drama for the new recruits of the current generation. Who can blame them? It seems every high rated game these days comes with its own would-be badass toating a gun and using cliche oneliners.
Personally, I find it all shallow and boring.
Dub
Posted June 7th, 2008 at 11:18 pm.
Looks like the idiot who wrote that has been playing Sonic 1 MegaMix for a long time XP, good thing he didn’t mention Mighty because he was supposed to be Sega’s mascot.
Well waddya expect from IGN readers X/.
3thmthm
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 2:09 am.
STOP FLAMING IGN!!
Jogb
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 8:43 am.
Well, he’s not going to stop being hated, anytime soon. What, with him (along with Omega and Shade) being playable in Sonic Chronicles. Maybe they’ll get over it, one day.
Pur
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 12:31 pm.
sank you
mido6680
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 12:44 pm.
senk you
mido6680
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 12:45 pm.
I stopped reading IGN a while ago. They have no idea what they’re talking about. I also recently dropped EGM because they don’t know what they’re doing either.
They said that Shadow didn’t have a chance to be in a game until SA2?? What about Sonic 2? They could have dropped Tails! Or maybe S3&K? It could have been S3&S! This is so dumb. IGN sucks out loud. I can’t believe their readership hasn’t gone down more.
Gamerschoice
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pm.
Wow. Flaming a good reviewing site because of one mistake. That’s just… fanboyish.
1UP > IGN > GameSpot (Please don’t tell me you like GameSpot.)
CaptainUlt
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 6:17 pm.
I find that my opinions are usually more in line with IGN than any other reviewer. Gamespot is not a review site as far as I’m concerned, and 1UP/EGM reviewers are too harsh. Then again, I’m getting extremely sick of reviewers throwing out 10/10s like they’re candy just because they’re stupid, hype-fueling fanboys.
Anyway….. Everyone knows Sonic was blue because of the Sega logo.
shinneri
Posted June 8th, 2008 at 9:01 pm.
Okay, here’s my opinon:
1UP > IGN > GoNintendo > GameSpy > VC-Reviews > Electronic Gaming Monthly > Nintendo Power > GameSpot
CaptainUlt
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 7:22 am.
How about this:
1up = IGN = EGM = GameSpot = etc.
They all equally suck. *shot*
Dr. SEGA Monkey
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 8:17 am.
Dr SEGA Monkey has the right idea.
Aki-at
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 9:30 am.
Aki-at has the right idea about Dr. SEGA Monkey’s right idea.
Dub
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am.
@ CaptainUlt
“Wow. Flaming a good reviewing site because of one mistake. That’s just… fanboyish.”
-We do try not to sound like fanboys - and we know sites/people can make mistakes.
But I think everyone should be able to expect a certain amount of accuracy, especially from the bigger sites.
-And especially as it’s such an obvious mistake!
Graham
Posted June 9th, 2008 at 4:02 pm.
Dr. Sega Monkey, you fail hard.
CaptainUlt
Posted June 10th, 2008 at 7:34 am.
Do you work for IGN or something?
Dr. SEGA Monkey
Posted June 10th, 2008 at 9:10 am.
@Dub: You’ve got the right idea of the right idea I had of Dr. SEGA Monkey’s right idea.
Also Dr. SEGA Monkey succeeds so hard, it over turns any fail.
Aki-at
Posted June 10th, 2008 at 9:45 am.