Random Thoughts Thread - Sega Edition!

[SEGA RedWolf]

I'll just leave this here.

[max_cady]

The new Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit gave something along the lines of a seizure.

[crackdude]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj1m5VpegC8[/youtube]


NUMBAA OOONNEE

[crackdude]

[Centrale]

In Space Harrier, there are bonus levels in which you jump onto the back of the friendly dragon Euria and fly through the Fantasy Zone landscape, trying to hit as many trees and bushes as possible for bonus points.  It's challenging because Euria is a long serpentine dragon who arcs and dips, so you can't quite see what's coming up all the time.  You just have to take your best guess and get as much as you can, knowing that, inevitably, you can't get it all.

Sega uses a similar method to decide which games to bring to the West.

[Kori-Maru]

Watched some episodes from the Sakura Wars TV series and my God it's a bit more violent than I thought it would be, even than the games. One episode was about the Anti-Kouma Group before The Floral Assault Unit existed, and demons where slicing and dicing soldiers in half and the guy with the white hair who's also the villian from the first game begging for the demon's power was obliterated DBZ style.

[max_cady]

If SEGA is planning on releasing Anarchy Reigns in January at bargain bin price, I can only make a few assumptions...

January was the same month in which the original Bayonetta game was released, so it has this valid symbolism.
The question is: why the low price?

It seems SEGA probably looked at Anarchy Reigns and might have actually put it on the shelf when they were reassessing their IPs and future releases, most likely because they sort'of knew internally that it was going to be a bomb.

I can't piece together step 2 (South Park reference), but it seems like SEGA decided to write off the game, but releasing it as budget price.

[Barry the Nomad]

I think it just isn't a title that fits a $60 or even $50 price point. Transformed is $40, and I'd say that's a perfect price. Perhaps they're planning to release Bayonetta DLC for $5? Bumping the price up?

[Aki-at]

Actually SEGA has been pretty sensible recently with pricing. Viking was exceptionally priced as only £9.99 for a PC port, whilst most of the time I would have expected something around £14.99 to £19.99. Super Monkey Ball Banana Splitz is £14.99 and as Barry mentioned, Transformed is at £24.99.

I really wished publishers smarted up about pricing earlier. Not everything needs to match the price of a AAA title and I think we will see this with how well titles like Viking are doing and how I expect to see something like Transformed being a big seller this Christmas.

[MadeManG74]

I think it just isn't a title that fits a $60 or even $50 price point. Transformed is $40, and I'd say that's a perfect price. Perhaps they're planning to release Bayonetta DLC for $5? Bumping the price up?

If there's one thing I've learnt from this generation about DLC, it's if it isn't pre-made before the game is released and doesn't come out within a month or two or release the the game is NEVER getting an update or DLC.

Unless it's cowadoody.

Anyway, I think it probably also has to do with Sega shutting down a lot of their distribution arms around the world (like Sega Australia), and re-evaluating their release schedule around the time AR was meant to release. I'm glad it's coming at a cheap price.

[Barry the Nomad]

Bumping the thread with a stupid thought I had when playing Sonic Rush Adventure:

Marine is the only anthropomorphic animal friend of Sonic's to never be playable in a game. Princess Elise was also not playable, but she's not an animal friend (yeah yeah, human's are animals). Even so, at least Sonic awkwardly carried Elise in some levels, so you could say you were controlling her in a sense.

Chip wasn't playable, though he wasn't technically an animal friend, he was Light Gaia. Just thought it was a funny thought. Even one-offs like Tikal and Chaos came back for SA2: Battle in multiplayer, and you could play as them. But not poor annoying Marine.

[semmie]

me and my homey made a new invention how to play megadrive in virtual reality. imma make a utube video soon and shw u guys

another thing is i played gain ground of the sega master system and accidently did a cheat.
when suddenly i went to internet and that cheat actually exists. what a coincedence

[Trippled]

One day I was bored, I was looking through a few Japanese Twitter accounts of Sega people such as Hideki Naganuma or the AMPort Team.

a few of the most interresting I could decipher through Google Translator...

Naganuma said to be a JSR3, it needs to be famous like Sonic, Yakuza or Monkey Ball.

The AMPort Team would love to have Sega Race TV, R-Tuned and Border Break to have a digital port (upcoming games?)

Digital could be huge for them.

They want most of the catalouge out there, but Sega has different priorities right now.

If I were head at Sega I threw a 200 man team over there, have an english community guy, and have an awesome arcade port of a game that we either never played or got a proper port of, monthly. Like a magazine.

[Barry the Nomad]

I'd think the popularity of JSR HD and the fact that every All-Stars/Superstars game features JSR prominently shows that JSR is a popular franchise. Rerelease JSRF to HD consoles, and if the sales are good, create a JSR3. 

[crackdude]

I'm starting to think I'm running out of fun with my Dreamcast.
Can't find any games left that I truly enjoy.


The end of an era I suppose.