I am a Sonic kid to this day. The bad games fuck, the good games are gems, and the boring games are fun to shit on, there's no other franchise that let you play with imperfection as Sonic. I think everyone should have something that inspire them to ignore the real life blues.
But I like good things as well so together with Sonic I like Megaman and everything balances out (please make another one, 11 was 6 years ago...).