Folks, I am as mad as HFIL. And for many reasons. Days ago, Sonic Colors released on the Wii and DS. And do you know why I'm fuming? According to MetaCritic, both games have the following score
Wii version: 78/100
DS version: 80/100
What happened? I haven't been disappointed in being disappointed since Viva Pinata was well received. In fact, I am fuming over these positive reviews from the following sources.
Vandal Online: We can say without hesitation than this is the best Sonic game for the Wii, and maybe the best Sonic 3D ever made.
Eurogamer Italy: Sonic Colours embraces everything a SEGA fan could ever hope for or dream. Platforming has rarely been so fun and engaging.
Nintendo Power: A fantastic game. Not just a step in the right direction, but an unequivocal success. In fact, it's the best entry in the series since the Blue Blur's 16-bit heyday. [Dec 2010, p.78]
IGN Sonic Colors is a dizzying combination of the distantly familiar memories of the first few Sonic titles combined with thoughtful new abilities and mostly well executed level design.
1UP: Despite some of the end-game content feeling designed to annoy the hell out of those who made it that far, the tally of cheap deaths can't detract from the facts: Sonic Colors is the best 3D Sonic game in ages.
GameSpot: Sonic Colours offers a mix of 3D action and classic Sonic side-scrolling with dazzling visuals and exhilarating platforming.
How dare they say its a good game. HOW DARE THEY! And how dare this game violates the Sacred Sonic Cycle.
Due to space reasons, you can click here to look at it.
Folks. The Sonic Cycle isn't a cycle to judge if a Sonic game will be bad. It is more than that. It is a relic that is meant to be respected and obeyed. This cycle is suppose to tell us that we need to remain in the status quo, even if it spreads to other franchises like Final Fantasy. To say that this game breaks the Sonic Cycle is blasphemy, even if they are right I still say its blasphemy.
But there is good news. At least 1 reviewer panned it: Jim Sterling of Destructoid.
Destructoid: Sonic Colors feels like a step right back into the same *CENSORED* this series has drowned in for the past decade. If I had to pick a color for this game, it would be brown, for very obvious reasons.
A good eye Jim for respecting and obeying the Sonic Cycle. I would praise you, if not for the fact that you GAVE THE DS VERSION A POSITIVE SCORE.
Destructoid(DS Version: Sonic Colors DS is the best Sonic game released this year. Easily.
STERLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING*Shakes Fist* What the heck were you doing? How dare you say that the game is the best Sonic game released this year and giving it a 85/100. I demand you strike 40 points off the score and state this
Sonic Colors DS is the best Sonic game released this year. But that's not saying much at all because even ET for the Atari is better than this hunk of stinky garbage
And the irony of these reviews is that Sonic Colors is now equal to the reviews of Sonic 4 Wii, which is higher than Sonic 4 for PS3 and 360. But something else has struck my nerve with Jim Sterling. FOllowing his reviews of both Sonic Games, this happened
For a sense of scale, I’m 6’2″, and yet if I laid down next to this image, I would only just about be tall enough to lick Sonic’s little furry *CENSORED*. You ever been to a convention and seen those giant canvas banners hanging from the wall? Yeah … now I have one in my rain-soaked back garden.For the record, I have a very short list of suspects who would have orchestrated this, and as soon as I work out what the Hell I’m going to DO with this thing, I will start working out how to get you *CENSORED* back.
Still, at least Sega has a better sense of humor about reviews than most Sonic fans.
Well I'm glad you have a sense of humor, because I DON'T! How dare you get something for doing a negative review of a video game. You should be ashamed of yourself. You and SEGA, Jim Sterling.
Actually, that does sound like a good idea. Tune in for when I review Sonic Colors and show how much this game bites in every way possible, and hope SEGA sends me something for my troubles.
Works Cited:
Meta Critic Sonic COlors Wii
Meta Critic Sonic Colors DS
TSSZ News(Original article at Destructoid
Friday, November 19, 2010
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Good News with bad news: Double trouble
And we're talking 2 tales from the highfront. One about the X-Box 360's answer to the Wii. And the other is about the newest Call of Duty.
First off, last week, Microsoft released the new Kinect accessory for the X-Box 360. The system is more of a glorified eye camera, but it seems this so-called glorified eye camera may be doing better than planned, despite getting some criticism. This device, that replaces the controller with a new gimmick...YOU, have sold almost half a million in its first week.
If you've been listening to any sort of Xbox official at Microsoft, you know the company expects Kinect to be something like the Super Bowl, the second coming of Christ, and , all wrapped up into one amazing product which will sell through the roof. Microsoft has poured $500 million into a promotional campaign for Kinect, more than any Xbox product of the past. It also says it plans to sell more Kinects in its first two months than any game console has ever sold in the same period of time.
So, in that context, is 480,000 all that amazing? It's nearly on par with the pace of PlayStation Move, which currently tilts the global sales scales at around 2.5 million. The Move was released in September.
Unfortunately, those numbers come from VGChartz, because the NPD is too lazy to release sales numbers of accessories like Move. Cnet believes that Kinect could outsell Move by the end of the holiday.
IDC, which conducted a survey in September with more than 750 "core" console gamers, expects that Microsoft will sell 2.5 million to 3 million Kinect units in the United States in the fourth quarter. It expects Sony to sell 2 million to 2.25 million Move units here in the same period.
Good News for X-Box, bad news for Playstation, Nintendo, and anti-Motion gamers who sit on their butts all day gaming while getting fatter and fatter.
On the homefront, Call of Duty: Black Ops. While reviews aren't as good as Modern Warfare 2, sales wise seem to be different.
Forget what you've heard about Call of Duty Black Ops' PC bugs and Cuba-baiting for a moment. Publisher Activision Blizzard just tapped the wire to brag that their latest first-person shooter has officially put the screws to Modern Warfare 2's first-day sales figures, outselling its record-breaking predecessor by a record-shattering 16 percent.
So much for fears the franchise's success rose and fell on Infinity Ward's watch. Developed by Activision series alternate Treyarch, Black Ops pulled in $360 million in North American and UK sales during its first 24 hours.
Good news for Activision Blizzard, Treyarch and FPS fans. Bad news for Reviewers, Infinity Ward and Halo fans. While Halo Reach sold an impressive number, Call of Duty left Master Chief and friends out in the cold and if 2007 wasn't the end of Bungie's child, then 2010 may as well be that end.
Works Cited
I4U
CNet
Yahoo News
First off, last week, Microsoft released the new Kinect accessory for the X-Box 360. The system is more of a glorified eye camera, but it seems this so-called glorified eye camera may be doing better than planned, despite getting some criticism. This device, that replaces the controller with a new gimmick...YOU, have sold almost half a million in its first week.
If you've been listening to any sort of Xbox official at Microsoft, you know the company expects Kinect to be something like the Super Bowl, the second coming of Christ, and , all wrapped up into one amazing product which will sell through the roof. Microsoft has poured $500 million into a promotional campaign for Kinect, more than any Xbox product of the past. It also says it plans to sell more Kinects in its first two months than any game console has ever sold in the same period of time.
So, in that context, is 480,000 all that amazing? It's nearly on par with the pace of PlayStation Move, which currently tilts the global sales scales at around 2.5 million. The Move was released in September.
Unfortunately, those numbers come from VGChartz, because the NPD is too lazy to release sales numbers of accessories like Move. Cnet believes that Kinect could outsell Move by the end of the holiday.
IDC, which conducted a survey in September with more than 750 "core" console gamers, expects that Microsoft will sell 2.5 million to 3 million Kinect units in the United States in the fourth quarter. It expects Sony to sell 2 million to 2.25 million Move units here in the same period.
Good News for X-Box, bad news for Playstation, Nintendo, and anti-Motion gamers who sit on their butts all day gaming while getting fatter and fatter.
On the homefront, Call of Duty: Black Ops. While reviews aren't as good as Modern Warfare 2, sales wise seem to be different.
Forget what you've heard about Call of Duty Black Ops' PC bugs and Cuba-baiting for a moment. Publisher Activision Blizzard just tapped the wire to brag that their latest first-person shooter has officially put the screws to Modern Warfare 2's first-day sales figures, outselling its record-breaking predecessor by a record-shattering 16 percent.
So much for fears the franchise's success rose and fell on Infinity Ward's watch. Developed by Activision series alternate Treyarch, Black Ops pulled in $360 million in North American and UK sales during its first 24 hours.
Good news for Activision Blizzard, Treyarch and FPS fans. Bad news for Reviewers, Infinity Ward and Halo fans. While Halo Reach sold an impressive number, Call of Duty left Master Chief and friends out in the cold and if 2007 wasn't the end of Bungie's child, then 2010 may as well be that end.
Works Cited
I4U
CNet
Yahoo News
Monday, November 1, 2010
Fear remains in gaming.
While the blasphemer Jon Stewart was successful in showing reason over fear over the weekend at the rally(CURSE YOU JON FOR HURTING MY IDOL STEPHEN COLBERT), fear continues to rear its ugly head. In this case, it's the Supreme Court hearing over the case between the Video Game industry and the state of California.
The soon-to-be-ex-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and California Assemblyman Leland Yee are looking to ban the sale of video games to minors. So far, the industry sued and was able to prove to each court that the law itself was unconstitutional.
The law itself states this
(A) Comes within all of the following descriptions:
(i) A reasonable person, considering the game as a whole, would
find appeals to a deviant or morbid interest of minors.
(ii) It is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the
community as to what is suitable for minors.
(iii) It causes the game, as a whole, to lack serious literary,
artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
(B) Enables the player to virtually inflict serious injury upon
images of human beings or characters with substantially human
characteristics in a manner which is especially heinous, cruel, or
depraved in that it involves torture or serious physical abuse to the
victim.
That law itself sounds alot like the Miller Test, which labels what is considered Obscene, which itself is not free speech. That didn't stop the Westboro Baptist Church from picketing funerals(Speaking of which, they are also having a Supreme Court case against Albert Snyder, who sued originally over the former picketing the funeral of Snyder's deceased son).
Now you're thinking "Oh, but the courts will declare it unconstitutional." THINK AGAIN! Despite the backings of groups like the ACLU and the United States Chamber of Commerce to companies like Activision and Microsoft, this case could go ether way. And should the courts rule in favor of Leland Yee, the results would mean that sales of violent video games to kids would be a crime. That alone would make brick and mortar retails scared like Shaggy and Scooby when they encounter the Creeper to sell almost any game that has a form of violence in it.
Arguments begin tomorrow morning on election day. If you want more, go to the link provided below.
In other news that others have reported on, Keiji Inafune left Capcom
*Insert people screaming here*
For more info on the case, you can look it up at Kotaku
The soon-to-be-ex-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and California Assemblyman Leland Yee are looking to ban the sale of video games to minors. So far, the industry sued and was able to prove to each court that the law itself was unconstitutional.
The law itself states this
(A) Comes within all of the following descriptions:
(i) A reasonable person, considering the game as a whole, would
find appeals to a deviant or morbid interest of minors.
(ii) It is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the
community as to what is suitable for minors.
(iii) It causes the game, as a whole, to lack serious literary,
artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
(B) Enables the player to virtually inflict serious injury upon
images of human beings or characters with substantially human
characteristics in a manner which is especially heinous, cruel, or
depraved in that it involves torture or serious physical abuse to the
victim.
That law itself sounds alot like the Miller Test, which labels what is considered Obscene, which itself is not free speech. That didn't stop the Westboro Baptist Church from picketing funerals(Speaking of which, they are also having a Supreme Court case against Albert Snyder, who sued originally over the former picketing the funeral of Snyder's deceased son).
Now you're thinking "Oh, but the courts will declare it unconstitutional." THINK AGAIN! Despite the backings of groups like the ACLU and the United States Chamber of Commerce to companies like Activision and Microsoft, this case could go ether way. And should the courts rule in favor of Leland Yee, the results would mean that sales of violent video games to kids would be a crime. That alone would make brick and mortar retails scared like Shaggy and Scooby when they encounter the Creeper to sell almost any game that has a form of violence in it.
Arguments begin tomorrow morning on election day. If you want more, go to the link provided below.
In other news that others have reported on, Keiji Inafune left Capcom
*Insert people screaming here*
For more info on the case, you can look it up at Kotaku
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