I hadn’t seen that, thats pretty cool. I like transformers but im not like super up on the collectables.
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I got it because Ghostbusters. I’m not a Transformers fan, but I do appreciate them.
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Well, guess I shouldn’t be surprised at another Sonic Kart game. I’ll forever continue to hold out for a modern attempt at Sonic R… =P
Team Sonic Racing wasn’t awful, but it was underwhelming after Racing Transformed. I’m wondering if the gimmick for Cross Worlds will be something like the latest Ratchet and Clank, where you’re instantly jumping from world to world (i.e. race track to race track) as you go along.
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An interesting interview. Here’s hoping everything works out well.
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If anyone is interested in the whole Ken Penders Vs Archie Comics debacle this video is a really great exploration of the whole thing. It almost makes me feel some respect for Penders. Almost.
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Thought of y’all when I saw this:
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100% worth it for those that don’t have them yet!
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According to this article SEGA is considering a Netflix-styler service for it’s games.
There’s no clarification as to what will be on it. It could be older games, it could be newer games, it could be both. While I’m not against the idea as such, if they were to do it I think they’d have to be very careful with how it’s presented.
I could see this being great for their back catalogue, giving players access to hundreds of awesome games that haven’t seen a re-release, like Skies of Arcadia or Alisa Dragoon. Only think is I don’t know how big the audience for that would be.
Conversely, I think if it was only new games it might be a mistake, as people aren’t gonna want to pay for multiple services that basically do the same thing. I’m not sure how much business SEGA gets through Game Pass, but I’d imagine they’d lose that.
If it was both I guess it’d appeal to more people, but I’d worry it’s just fragment things too much as has happened with TV streaming.
It’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, happens.
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Every publisher wants to have their own subscription service because they can make more money off us by having us describe continually. The problem with this strategy is that most people can only subscribe to a handful of service and have to be increasingly selective of which of those services are worth continually paying into. I find it really hard to justify paying a single publisher a monthly fee which is why I wouldn’t pay into any of the big AAA subscription services. I find it hard enough to justify Game Pass, and that has games from many different publishers and developers.
This is exactly what I think will, and is sort of starting to, happen.
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I remember this sort of rumor surfacing back when Sega announced new games for Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Shinobi, Golden Axe, etc. (People called it a Fortnite-style model, since Fortnite is actually several games in a hub now from what I understand.) I’m definitely not for this, but it is the direction that the wind is blowing. If there’s enough games and the cost isn’t too high, I could see such a subscription service doing okay with its niche audience. I can in no way envision it being a massive success though. And it’s rare for big companies to expect anything less than that for big projects of this sort.
I’d personally love to see a bunch of classic Sega arcade games brought back… but specifically stuff with 3D polygonal graphics. Late 90s, early 00s fare (and beyond). I know it’s possible, since they’ve been throwing in a game or two of that sort in their latest Yakuza / Like a Dragon games. And of course, I’m always down for Saturn and Dreamcast titles returning, but I have to assume they’d do zero of the former, and the same ol’ same 'ol handful of the latter. (But please, prove me wrong, Sega.)
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And of course, I’m always down for Saturn and Dreamcast titles returning, but I have to assume they’d do zero of the former, and the same ol’ same 'ol handful of the latter. (But please, prove me wrong, Sega.)
Yeah, this is what worries me too, that it’ll just be the same games we’ve seen re-teleased umpteen times.
They know emulators for post-Mega Drive titles exist, I can’t imagine it’d be hard for SEGA to develop one of their own to run Saturn and Dream ast games, as well as arcade titles.
They’ve been talking so much about their back catalogue lately it makes me hope they’ll look deeper than the usual titles. Bringing back Jet Set Radio and Shinobi was a bit of a surprise, so you never know…
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The perfect Christmas jumper doesn’t exist…
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So turns out the film’s being set on Earth was a studio mandate.
So then you get drafted to write a Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Why was the choice made to have Sonic on Earth at the start of the story, rather than see him on his home planet?
That came down from the American studio. That was the weird thing we were all handed – us and [director] Jeff [Fowler] and the producers. The studio wanted it to be on Earth, because they just thought people wouldn’t want to see it if it was set on some weird fantasy planet. But Sega was like, “Well, Sonic’s not from Earth, though.” We were kind of like, “All right, I guess we can solve that problem.”
More proof, as if it was needed, that studio execs have no idea what they’re on about.
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Sonic Xtreme would have been good.
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In regards to? Sorry, not following.
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It’s just a statement, as is. They should have made that game.
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But Sega was like, “Well, Sonic’s not from Earth, though.”
Is that the first time they’ve made an official statement about that? =P Normally everyone seems to want to dance around the issue and not settle on anything in particular. Maybe that’s changing now though.
Regarding Sonic X-Treme, I’ve long held the unpopular opinion that it never looked good. It’s flashy for the time I suppose, but all footage of it looked incredibly un-fun to actually play. And the making of the game was one of the biggest crapshoots in the history of game development, by all accounts. This was one of the very rare times Sega actually made the sensible decision and cancelled a clear failure, instead of forcing it out for a Christmas release, quality control be damned. A lesson they failed to remember multiple times in the future, to their great detriment.
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