Yeah but I would expect this site more than most to be talking about this game, but even this site is a letdown about this brilliant game.
Well unless Sonic isnt involved you don't get an 80 page talkback. You can't have a proper discussion on VF or any non sonic sega game without someone mentioning sonic this or that. And if you don't mention it the topic dies a quick death. But that really comes to the average age of most of the posters in here. which would be around 17-20 something. I'm way outside that age bracket and remember a time when Sega made games before sonic was a blue blink in anyone's eye. So its depressing to see that its hardly the big thing in the forums. Apart from the fact or in my case i'm still playing the game.
Val Chronicles I can sort of understand - It wasn't multi platform and it was on the PS3 at the time when the system was really expensive , plus its it was a game in a really limited genre. Vanquished I know , but I really don't consider that to be A SEGA game (please lets not get into a debate about it, I just don't)
It is one, A Sega second party game. In the fine tradition of many second party Sega games over the decades.
It doesn't matter if you do or not acept it as a sega game, the profits was the thing that sega would benefit from. or didn't as much in VANQUISH's case.
Maybe in Japan, but I doubt SOJ have much say on PR for the West Japan isn't the problem this game needs to sell well in the west . SEGA will spend millions and millions on pushing a game like Sonic (which don't really need a big push) and not spend anything on pushing a brand new IP (where it needs a big push) . I'm getting sick of this now, and this has been the case since the death of the DC , where SEGA's PR is totally and utterly inept.
TA, Sega is a centralised operation nowadays, SOJ has more control over Sega west (especially since SoE and SOA have merged) than they did under the wild west cowboy gold rush days of Kalinske's SOA. If Nagoshi is in charge of Sega's brand name that will include ALL Sega operations not just japan. And Nagoshi has had his run in with western Sega PR more than once so he's well aware that they need the change most of all.
Shame this game is a stunning achievement on almost every level and for me blows Gears III out of the water , can only imagine what the team could do with a sequel , shame then if this games bombs we'll never get to see it .I'm the 1st to have a pop at SEGA Japan and their next gen piple lines and games, but this game is just stunning and totally brilliant and the best SEGA Japan I've played since Orta (well maybe Yakuza II) - Its harks back to the SEGA of old :- Stunning next gen gfx, brilliant sound and where SEGA take an established genre and puts their own unique spin on it .
This game deservers so much more .
I won't disagree with that apart i'd say is the best Sega produced game since ORTA and the best Sega game i've played since RGG and that's down to originality or offering new elements in a estabilshed genre. Even though i don't think its a real finished product.
