And as E3 rolls around the corner once again, this is the time where I complain about the talking heads from Kotaku, GameSpot, G4TV, 1-Up as well as the fat slobs who try to look important by entering a loud room full of electronic devices and "swag" consisting of t-shirts, keychains, and cheap plastic crap. Wait, I thought E3 was supposed to be blocked to the public...apparently, they reversed on their decision when the angry masses battered open the doors to get inside so there was nothing they could do about it.
RUN RUN RUN TO E3 AS FAST AS YOU CAN!!!
So this is supposed to be the 13 games in Sega's booth this year . This list is from some guy on Kotaku and it doesn't have any sources or anything, but it sounds believeable to me. EDIT: Never mind, this list is on all the official Sega blogs. These are the games:
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Anarchy Reigns
Binary Domain
Captain America: Super Soldier
Crush3D
Guardian Heroes
House of the Dead Overkill: Extended
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Renegade Ops
Rise of Nightmares
Sega Rally Online Arcade
Shinobi
Sonic Generations
And...that list is completely underwhelming. Sonic Generations is the only thing really worth mentioning. They will probably reveal some new levels (maybe City Escape and a casino stage). Old-school Sega diehards will love HotD, Guardian Heroes, and Shinobi, so I like seeing Sega give a few old franchises a nod. We already have Sega Rally Online Arcade so if they rehash that, it would be stupid. The rest are just expendable to me. It's great to see more movie-based games (Captain America & Aliens) as well as Nagoshi's sparking gem of a masterpiece, Binary Domain. If Nagoshi is there, then someone please kick his ass for me.
This is terrible. I mean, really, who are the ones begging for a new Captain America?? Seriously? People want Captain America THAT badly??? Well I guess after Superman renounced his US citizenship, America needs a new hero. Superman, what a putz.
Yeah, this list may not be 100% correct, but do you really expect Sega to just pop out with a new Daytona or Shenmue game? Remember how we first discovered OutRun & Sega Rally Online Arcades? We found this name patents on these Korean websites. We've seen nothing about a new Daytona, Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, anything. I think Sega is banking all their chips on Sonic Generations, a game that they came out with a month before E3 so if Sega has another game up their sleeve, they'd probably have revealed it already. The ONLY surprise I can think of is Yu Suzuki popping up to announce Shenmue 3, but that old man is already over his head so don't count on it.
But if something BIG happens, then I'll admit my error. But I doubt it.
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As for the rest of E3, we can already tell what's going to happen. Microsoft is going to release more Kinect crap in another vain attempt to get the diehards to give it a shot. Sony will release the new PSP and apologize profusely for the server downage thanks to a mumbling Kaz Hirai (while everyone else makes fun of him for everything). Nintendo will cause gamers to faint with their new Cafe demo (which will probably be on par with the Xbox 360 but who cares, it's Nintendo, they are WINNERS regardless) and some 3DS games. Then something on Duke Nukem, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Soul Calibur, and Rage. Another E3, another waste of time, thank you, please come again.
BTW, this new Internet Explorer sucks horribly. It lags, my tabs mysteriously vanish for no reason, I'm constantly being logged out of Blogspot, and I can't even find out where the history is on this thing. Oh well, back to Firefox.
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
SEGA: Laughable Game Publisher Straight From The Gamer's Mouth
This is about a GameFAQs poll on Feb. 13, 2011. I followed this since last night and waited for all the votes to be cast before mentioning it.
The question was "Which major game publisher do you most trust to publish the best games?" Out of a polling sample from 70,938 voters, the results from best to worst are as follows (rounded to nearest number):
1. Nintendo (26%)
2. Square Enix (19%)
3. Activision Blizzard (11%)
4. Capcom (9%)
5. Sony (6%)
6. Electronic Arts (6%)
7. Konami (5%)
8. Take-Two Interactive (5%)
9. Ubisoft (4%)
10. Namco Bandai (2%)
11. Sega (1.24%)
12. THQ (1%)
Click here to see the poll. Surprised Valve is not on the list either but they'd rank in the half-way part most likely.
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Well, let me address a few things. One, the title is a bit of a misnomer cause you might as well say "Who's your favorite game company?" or something like that. Oh, and they use the word "Publisher" instead of "Developer" which took me a few glances to pick out. So Sega gets the benefit of games like Bayonetta and Vanquish here, but that maybe raised their percentage by 0.01-0.02% only for that same gain to be sucked away due to bad games like Full Auto and Iron Man 2.
There really isn't a whole lot to defend here. They're mostly right, even if you take the GameFAQs bias out of it. If you saw two anonymous game boxes lying on a table, one with a Nintendo sticker on it, the other with a Sega sticker, which one would you keep?
Do you know who I voted for? I voted for Sega. Yeah, me and 882 other sorry losers. Why? Cause of Sega Racers and cause of this:
I mean, really, I just don't buy into all these nerdgasms over Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid or whatever. You can grill me for that but I don't care. If Sega was to make a good racing game, I would check it out! Screw Mario Kart or Need for Speed or Chocobo Racing or whatever other crap you got. I'd enjoy a good Sega racer 10x more than your crappy little RPGs and stuff.
But really, you had Sega back in the 90's, the only company that could compete with Nintendo, on top of the world, but then crash-boom-wham-bomb-smack-dead. If they're not releasing some crappy Sonic game, it's a hackneyed rehash of some old ported game in a vain attempt to drum up some nostalgia factor, but the public doesn't buy it for more than a minute. Yes, you got Yakuza, Bayonetta, and hopefully some new good Sonic games, but that's enough.
Let's talk about Nintendo. Employees who work at Nintendo vs. employees who work at Sega...what's the difference? Cause I know that the employees at Sega have opposable thumbs (I think). Is it a lack of resources, skill, or motivation that's holding these guys back? I'm starting to think so. Like I said before (and I still believe it), Nintendo is in Cruise Control--they make another Mario or Zelda game, it's an instant hit, Nintendo is God-like, nothing can stop them, etc. So why does Sega even BOTHER anymore?
Just looking around and I see another example of a great Nintendo product...
Sega should do what Nintendon't. MAKE A GOOD DAYTONA USA GAME CAUSE NINTENDO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE A TRADITIONAL RACING GAME. There, that's one Achilles Heel that Nintendo has. Oh wait, no one likes good racing games anymore, my bad. But at least there's urinal games that Nintendo won't touch. Yeah, Nintendo is making motion control hardware, Sega is making urinal hardware, makes sense, right. Oh, and pachinko machines, there you go Sega, a hall of fame lineup right there! Sticking it to Nintendo.
Oh, and one more thing. SEGA LOST TO NAMCO. Wtf. I mean, what's Namco doing nowadays besides that crap Ridger Racer Unbounded game? Pushing that Body & Brain Connection game that's basically Nintendo's Brain Age for the Kinect? Not saying the game is bad, but where's the hallmark titles out of Namco, like...uh, Soul Calibur, Time Crisis, Tekken...Klonoa...?
And lol THQ, what are they doing on this list...? Hey, Sega didn't come in dead last, so if there's a slight victory to be gained here, it's this.
EDIT: I know in the past that I didn't really "care" about all these popularity lists (i.e. best games ever made), but this isn't just a list, this has to do with Sega's ineptitude altogether.
The question was "Which major game publisher do you most trust to publish the best games?" Out of a polling sample from 70,938 voters, the results from best to worst are as follows (rounded to nearest number):
1. Nintendo (26%)
2. Square Enix (19%)
3. Activision Blizzard (11%)
4. Capcom (9%)
5. Sony (6%)
6. Electronic Arts (6%)
7. Konami (5%)
8. Take-Two Interactive (5%)
9. Ubisoft (4%)
10. Namco Bandai (2%)
11. Sega (1.24%)
12. THQ (1%)
Click here to see the poll. Surprised Valve is not on the list either but they'd rank in the half-way part most likely.
...
Well, let me address a few things. One, the title is a bit of a misnomer cause you might as well say "Who's your favorite game company?" or something like that. Oh, and they use the word "Publisher" instead of "Developer" which took me a few glances to pick out. So Sega gets the benefit of games like Bayonetta and Vanquish here, but that maybe raised their percentage by 0.01-0.02% only for that same gain to be sucked away due to bad games like Full Auto and Iron Man 2.
There really isn't a whole lot to defend here. They're mostly right, even if you take the GameFAQs bias out of it. If you saw two anonymous game boxes lying on a table, one with a Nintendo sticker on it, the other with a Sega sticker, which one would you keep?
Do you know who I voted for? I voted for Sega. Yeah, me and 882 other sorry losers. Why? Cause of Sega Racers and cause of this:
I mean, really, I just don't buy into all these nerdgasms over Final Fantasy or Metal Gear Solid or whatever. You can grill me for that but I don't care. If Sega was to make a good racing game, I would check it out! Screw Mario Kart or Need for Speed or Chocobo Racing or whatever other crap you got. I'd enjoy a good Sega racer 10x more than your crappy little RPGs and stuff.
But really, you had Sega back in the 90's, the only company that could compete with Nintendo, on top of the world, but then crash-boom-wham-bomb-smack-dead. If they're not releasing some crappy Sonic game, it's a hackneyed rehash of some old ported game in a vain attempt to drum up some nostalgia factor, but the public doesn't buy it for more than a minute. Yes, you got Yakuza, Bayonetta, and hopefully some new good Sonic games, but that's enough.
Let's talk about Nintendo. Employees who work at Nintendo vs. employees who work at Sega...what's the difference? Cause I know that the employees at Sega have opposable thumbs (I think). Is it a lack of resources, skill, or motivation that's holding these guys back? I'm starting to think so. Like I said before (and I still believe it), Nintendo is in Cruise Control--they make another Mario or Zelda game, it's an instant hit, Nintendo is God-like, nothing can stop them, etc. So why does Sega even BOTHER anymore?
Just looking around and I see another example of a great Nintendo product...
Sega should do what Nintendon't. MAKE A GOOD DAYTONA USA GAME CAUSE NINTENDO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO MAKE A TRADITIONAL RACING GAME. There, that's one Achilles Heel that Nintendo has. Oh wait, no one likes good racing games anymore, my bad. But at least there's urinal games that Nintendo won't touch. Yeah, Nintendo is making motion control hardware, Sega is making urinal hardware, makes sense, right. Oh, and pachinko machines, there you go Sega, a hall of fame lineup right there! Sticking it to Nintendo.
Oh, and one more thing. SEGA LOST TO NAMCO. Wtf. I mean, what's Namco doing nowadays besides that crap Ridger Racer Unbounded game? Pushing that Body & Brain Connection game that's basically Nintendo's Brain Age for the Kinect? Not saying the game is bad, but where's the hallmark titles out of Namco, like...uh, Soul Calibur, Time Crisis, Tekken...Klonoa...?
Dr. Kawashima works for the highest bidder.
EDIT: I know in the past that I didn't really "care" about all these popularity lists (i.e. best games ever made), but this isn't just a list, this has to do with Sega's ineptitude altogether.
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