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Although Ill admit, Chaos controlling through levels at breakneck speed was pretty awesome.Irony itself that the two main special powers of the game are against the game itself, since if you use them, you'll either miss an objective or kill someone you shouldn't.
Pssh, if only those segments were as entertaining as Big Rigs, maybe the game would have benefitedExactly. It was so bad it's bad, while Big Rigs was so bad it's good.
the homosexual undertones have stopped being undertones in CS and gone full bloom. Especially in Jin's bad end where he rapes Ragna.I just started CT, 10 minutes into Ragna's story, and what the [tornado fang] is this? Jin's such a little bastard to do something like that?
Maybe, maybe not. But again, I think the main thing is that Namco has to "get things right at home first". As much as Western fans like to belly-ache about how they've had it bad, the Japanese fan base hasn't exactly been pleased as punch these last few years either. Ever since the start of this console generation, they've been subjected to the franchise jumping all over the damn place, from console to console, like a flea on a hot brick. The result? It made it literally impossible for most fans to be able to follow the series with any sense of reliability. They've even had to deal with the "betrayal" of the franchise having a major title going to the "foreigner system" X360, only to then come to the PS3 a year later. Cue raging, as per the image I posted in my OP.That puts Namco's own faulty decisions to blame. Unlike Yakuza, which is pretty much one of the most japanese culture-heavy games we've had on this side (specially since it bothers with a serious and halfway realistic movie plot with japanese-looking characters instead of anime characters with impossibly slim bodies and coloured whiter than albinos, as well as activities, celebrities, brands and stores from there), Tales' games have as much appeal as any other JRPG on the market. It's not the game's quality, but bad management decisions that have made it unsuccessful in both sides.
So, for right now? Namco's main mission should be focusing on the Japanese PS3, and doing more to "earn the trust" of those are who their most important customer base. Because if they can't get the Japanese fans to rally behind them again, the franchise is definitely going to die, and then everything else is pretty much moot. Assuming they're able to achieve that much, THEN maybe they can start thinking about westward localization again. But to say that this is an entirely different situation for how it is with something like RGG/Yakuza, is an understatement.
Vehicles there had a hell of a lot more momentum than in STHH though. when it went forward, I actually felt like I was speeding up forward.It's not a car game, but it's got the responsibility of having vehicles that handle well with its terrain and levels, which it didn't. I can name quite alot of action games that had small vehicle sections that controlled far better than Sonic 06's ones. And the vehicles on Shadow the Hedgehog? That was pretty much Big Rigs tier.
I have played car games. but Sonic isnt a car game. it has vehicles at some random points, but by no means is it car oriented.
in any case, each to his own. I like the vehicle handling in 06 much better than STHH
I'd play Tales series over Final Fantasy anyday, though I kinda fond of WRPGs.Final Fantasy isn't very western, it just has more success. The Tales games, not being constant sequels and each one being pretty much a new story with a new subtitle, have the same chance pretty much every single new JRPG has in the US, plus the fan-appeal, which isn't very large, but exists. It has potencial.
For the US marketing, I think they still prefer Final Fantasy because it's more 'western' than any JRPGs and not to mention the fanbases. It'll be hard for the Tales series to be popular in the US.
though I found SHadow to be fun, and his vehicles handled how a proper vehicle should handle.You don't usually play vehicle-based games, do you? I actually never found stuff more buggy than those cars/bikes. I ended up going on foot.
Whenever someone does something stupid, I point at them and blurt out: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.That must be seriously obnoxious in real life. Not to mention it's the same thing as those retarded schoolgirls who say "lol" and "roffle" without being on the net.
that WAS pretty annoying. but I didnt need to be damaged... I would just keep trying till it let me.Everything about the game was annoying. Every single section, every single mission, pretty much every single tiny thing about it was badly done. I can't even walk around with Shadow with his team because it makes the whole game slowdown in a very considerable degree. And let's not forget Tails' attack. The least aimeable and least useable attack in history.
That much remains to be seen. Logical progression is one thing, and I believe the genre is doing well enough in that respect. Really, the main issue that fighting game developers could stand to really work on, is decent (possibly universal) netcode standard for the sake of console users, especially in the West. That single aspect is the most pressing issue that fans cry about, more than anything else.All it takes is a tiny executive decision in one of the companies, to set the big structure going. The game industry is volatile with new ideas right now. Any tiny bit of crazy will set fire to any volatile conservative standard. This one's in danger of getting burnt up anytime. And considering the potencial for evolution, I can see this idea pass by anyone.
Otherwise, again, there's no real need or want for significant, "game-changing" evolution, when the main base that the likes of Namco and Capcom butter their bread is more or less happy with things.
If fighting games didn't die off through its supposed "decline" (which in itself is a half-truth, because fighting games still thrived in Asia even when most in the West thought the scene was "dead"), then I don't believe the genre is any real danger. Not when the likes of Tekken and Gundam Vs. still make Namco and Capcom millions in arcade sales in Asia alone.I'm not saying it's in any current danger, but you never know what the future will bring, and unevolving entertainment can only sustain itself for so long.
And that my friend, is what a troll sounds like. Listen. Everyone has their opinion on something. So why can't we just drop this and get back to the subject on hand? Meaning Sonic Colors.A troll is someone who bothers others to get them mad. I just stated my argument, and what I thought.
I actually found Heroes an interesting game. Though I'm with you on the whole low-quality boss encounter and the repetitive enemies. The storyline was pretty decent. SA1 was pretty much the same thing with the whole "Robotnik's convoluted plan to make Eggmanland." thing. Heroes was a different approach with the wholeStoryline was decent? SA1 had at least the decency of giving us an old prophecy told to us by random events and a more-or-less coherent narrative when told by several people, as well as NPCs which had their own little stories happening around them. Heroes was basically something thrown up just to put everyone together and to make them go as teams on levels. It was AWFUL.thing.(click to show/hide)
Also, Shadow was a good character. If I remember correctly, Sega brought him back because the fans loved him so much. Also, E-123 was pretty badass. (Gamma was cool too, but...)
The one thing I hated about Heroes was how ridiculously long the levels were and how if you wanted to get an A-Rank, you pretty much couldn't miss a level up and you pretty much couldn't get hit at all if you wanted the ring bonus. Not to mention how just plain ridiculous the extra missions were. Like Team Dark's "defeat 100 enemies in Casino Park" thing. Which to this day I haven't bothered with. Also, it wouldn't have killed them to make the CG scenes a bit better. The artwork of those scenes was horrendous.
Bottom line, each game has it's ups and downs. Personally Sonic 06 wouldn't have been such a bad game if it weren't for the bugs and glitches. It had an epic storyline and decent gameplay.
Again, fighting games have done this sort of thing differently. Always have and likely always will.Never say never. =P Seriously, we don't even know if fighting games will last a whole lot longer if they keep thriving in a closed-off environment.
Even Mortal Kombat, the most "American" of the fighting game lot, has not had a demo of this sort.
