The author intentionally plays bad video games for your twisted amusement. Tonight's episode: Alpha Protocol
SEGA has made a mistake on one of their PDF forms which has inadvertently disclosed full sales numbers of some of the company’s key software releases.
Don't forget they've put a lot of these on gamepass and ps plus so you can add that money to it. Good to see Sega going strong
Happy for sega ! I was expecting some kind of showing of their newer games at game fest but maybe they’re keeling it for TGS? Crazy taxi and jet set needs a trailer or something soon !!!
Release Phantasy Star 5, Shining force 4 or Skies of Arcadia 2 and look at the number after.
Today, Sega announced its financial results for the full fiscal year that started in April 2024 and ended in March 2025.
I like what's on their legacy IP list, but there are still many more franchises they could revive. Shining Force and Chakan come to mind.
"That’s not how you launch a system".
I wish we lived in the Alternate Timeline where Sega was still a dominant force in the console space and it hadn't been Microsoft.
Saturn was a fantastic piece of kit... they just went a little too ambitious with its dual CPU setup. which turned a lot of developers off (at the time). The homebrew community have done some amazing work many years later, thanks to multichip experience. It is still the best platform for arcade fighters and shmups of all time. Dreamcast is a close 2nd though.
Yeah it was a interesting decision especially when looking at how dual CPU is considered a root cause of why the Jaguar was a failure.
Also the hardware rendered four sided polygons where the standard was three if they kept with triangle polygons I feel the systems development would have been easier to work with and we would have seen more third party ports in the west.
I think it was a victim of its time more than anything it saw huge success in Japan but the leadership and internal turmoil in the west meant games were not getting localised along with a focus on arcade like games were the PlayStation and later the N64 were pushing more in depth experiences over coin munching high score driven games.
I still enjoy my Saturn it was the first console I mowed lawns for and saved up for to purchase. I went so far as to purchase a used Saturn to run off an SD card. I even have a second Dreamcast modded to run off an SD card as well.
Maybe this speaks volumes about my taste but I personally enjoyed AP quite a bit. It was certainly flawed, clunky as hell, rough around every edge, but nonetheless a great game. Its ideas and the way the story played out were really amazing. I guess it all boils down to how willing you are to overlook some things and if you treasure gameplay vs the overall experience. The overall experience was great. Really was a mass effect in the spy world. Obsidian is a great developer who is usually crippled by tight deadlines, shitty management, and licensed games. New Vegas, Kotor 2, AP, were all damn good.
I played it too..... The most fun i had with the game was dying.
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I thought Alpha Protocol was good. It had great ideas that were simply undercooked.
It's still a shining example of player choice directing the story.
The writing itself was actually very good as well, which makes it even more impressive.
Oh well. Different tastes.
I enjoyed Alpha Protocol alot despite the some of the flawed gameplay. I blame Sega for not supporting it better.
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Seems better than Mass Effect 3.