Sacked, Literally
Remember in October when we told you about some Sonic recognition via the cover of Guinness World Records 2011: Gamer’s Edition?
No more.
Demonstrated in the picture above from Amazon’s UK website, Sackboy from LittleBigPlanet has apparently taken the blue hedgehog’s place on the front cover. It’s a major coup, perhaps conveniently timed with the January release of LittleBigPlanet 2.
Considering Sonic didn’t have that bad a year in 2010, the switch is tough to comprehend. What’s more, it’s insult to injury, as Sonic won’t get the same recognition for his 20th anniversary as Mario did for his 25th.
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How the heck are Captain America and “generic Star Wars guy” even video game characters?
@XD375
That’s what I’m wondering. The entire cover is an awful joke at this point. I’m less upset about Sonic’s removal than I am about the senseless revision of the entire cover as a whole.
Wow, except for the Starcraft goin’ on in the background this cover is ASS.
Wow, Guinness just lost a buyer.
LMAO, they replace one of the most recognizable video game characters of all time with a superhero that I honestly haven’t seen in a single videogame and some Star Wars dude. GR cover EPIC FAIL. I mean, was the cover artist a Sonic troll, or simply didn’t like green eyes?
Although Sackboy being up there is awesome sauce.
Sackboy sucks LOL. He’s not even alive, just a sack.
Master Chief and Mario didn’t even make it in. If this cover is meant to represent major gaming icons it’s not doing it very well.
Not only is that not fair, but it’s also the reason why I’m writing an angry letter to Guinness World Records because they just upset a fan of the mascot that haven’t just had a rough few years, but deserved that cover more than any other videogame character. especially more that FUCKING SHITBOY!!!!!
Look I like LBP, but sonic deserves it WAY more and this shouldn’t be happening to him after all he’s been through.
WTF!!!
What happens to the real icons, sonic, mario, megaman?
Where in time we permit that overmuscle-shaped-generic-marines pass above all this classic characters?
It’s already bad enough that Guiness Book fo World Records is a bunch of biased nitwits, but do they need to show it on the cover too?
I’d maintain Sonic, replace the “random Star Wars character” by Starkiller and Captain America by Spider-man Noir from “Shattered Dimensions”.
wait– CAPTAIN AMERICA? In what game did it appear making real success? Marvel Ultimate Alliance? OH, COME ON!
you guys have to consider that sonic is just not a big name anymore, look at the sales every single platformer on wii is out selling it 5 to 1.
Sonic? Sonic? SOOOOOOOOOOOOOONIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCC!
Seriously though, this is ass. You’d AT LEAST think they’d out some characters on the cover who’ve had a good run for the last couple of years, like Ezio Audietore or Travis Touchdown. But they went and booted SONIC off for that sack? What an insult.
@joe
Every time you comment, you bash the franchise just because Sonic Colors wasn’t selling as much as it should.
Wasn’t it only months ago when good sales were treated more as an insult than a compliment. The games had terrible to mediocre ratings yet managed to sell past a million (even Sonic 06 managed to establish a “Platinum Hit”), thus establishing the franchise as a “cashcow” rather than “successful”.
Now, when a Sonic game has good ratings, people are bashing it BECAUSE it just happens to sell poorly rather than the actual quality. How ironic. XD
Sackboy is the most uninspired “Gamecharacter” i have ever seen…it´s freakin joke…
Seriously. Characters starring in a video game are not video game characters. That would be like putting Mickey or any random actor whose movie was poorly licensed into a shitty video game on there.
At least Sackboy is a video game character (with about as much personality as a SIM), but those other two are just hammering nails into the coffin for my faith in society.
@krazeeKidd102 why do you think sonic colors took a sales hit cause all the prevouse crappy games.
@Joe
That’s very true but completely and totally irrelevant.
Guinness isn’t about sales or popularity, it’s about records and recognition. Sonic is a big name classic icon no matter how much his brand image has been tarnished in recent years, and he certainly deserves to be up there more than a couple year old personality-less SACK and a couple of characters who aren’t even video-game related.
Even if Colors had sucked, these facts would remain true.
@joe
I don’t really care if Sonic Colors took a sales hit at all. That wasn’t even on my mind when Sonic Colors was first announced, nor was it on my mind when it was released. I was worried about ratings and the actual quality of the game. I personally think that’s more important than how much it sells (it already has the best pre-release sales of any console Sonic game in a while, so it will definetely increase in the long-run, and if it doesn’t, I probably wouldn’t give a shit anyways).
>_<!!!!!!!!!! WTF!!!!
i'm angry
Ok. i’ve seen it all now. You guys are kicking up a fuss over Sonic not gracing the cover of a book. Don’t any of you find this even a bit silly?
I just lost all my respect for Guinness and will never read another one of their books. Even if they change the cover back, my hatred still stands.
well sales do matter, thats why 360/ps3 owners havent got a real sonic game in 3 years, sonic colors is selling alote worst then unleashed so far.
@ChaoticFox while i agree with you, sonic has become a joke in the gaming industry, DKR, epic micky, epic yarn are out selling sonic colors by a huge margin
@Joe: Even so it is still a bit of an insult if you look at in terms of who he was replaced by it is a bit of an insult.
@ChoaticFox: Recognition can be seen in sales. If a sold several millions that would make it quite well known as they are countries with less amounts of people then units hypothetically sold.
@Joe
Sonic may be a joke, but not nearly as much of one as putting Captain America on a book of VIDEO GAME RECORDS
@ Sonic R
Then compare the sales of EVERY Sonic game to that of the handful of cameo games featuring Captain America, or even the LBP series, and you’ll notice a significant difference.
Only If this book were merely about the records of THIS CURRENT YEAR might it make your argument regarding sales marginally more valid.
How can they do this?! Give me an email address. This must be resolved. Let’s oppose this collectively, and see if they don’t change it back. This cover is gay.
@ChaoticFox:
You’re main problem seems to be that a character that was not born in the video game world in on the front cover of a book on video games. And while it’s true the only games Captain America had only featured in a few games (Marvel vs Capcom, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and the like) if they were successful then they deserve a place on the cover too. To ask another question, would you be complaining if they had put Batman on the front cover given that Arkham Asylum sold way more than quite a few Sonic games sold in the same period and Arkham City is one of the most anticipated games of 2011? Thing is guy, the games industry has changed and is a lot darker now than it was when plummers ran around magical mushroom lands searching for a princess and hedgehogs that could run real fast and talk could defeat one man’s robot army and save the world. Gaming is all about Call of Duty and being ultra realistic now, it’s just a shame some people have trouble dealing with that sometimes.
You’d think that they’d at LEAST put Mario on the cover. But no. -_-
Damn it Guinness…