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WTF Is Wrong With Sega?

Isaiah Taylor of The Brog believes we've endured the plethora of Sonic titles. Sega fans have put in their time. Why are the mid-to-higher budget titles getting the shaft at Sega?

Godmars2905582d ago

Yet put the sole blame of their and the Dreamcast's fall on Sony and the PS2?

Noctis Aftermath5582d ago

I agree with the article, sega really need to step up.

Hakimy5582d ago

its really about sega of america.the japanese company are releasing interesting games and in japan they sell well.the american branch is kinda weird,especially with their marketing and releases dates.that's what the problem is all about ;)

Redempteur5582d ago

sega wasn't like this before they dropped the dreamcast ..
they tried many things and were huge in arcade game and their support on consoles .

Now sega of america is gone. all we have now is a twisted version that nobody know where it's headed ..

Nothing but weird or bad decisions lately ...

blind-reaper5582d ago (Edited 5582d ago )

the exclusion of the bunch of minigames from yakuza 3 was a bummer (I almost didn't buy it because of that) but Im playing it right now, and I can only say it is pure fun it is totally worth playing.

br41n5c4n5582d ago

I'll never forget receiving the genesis on x-mas day......where's the magic?????

GameGambits5582d ago

The biggest 2 crimes they committed this generation are not getting more behind Resonance of Fate and Valkyria Chronicles. These games scream quality and polish that the JRPG genre has been in desperate need of ever since the PS2 era ended.

If one more JRPG comes out from SEGA that looks as good as those two titles did and they aren't pushing it hard, then I will get in touch with the developer myself and lay it down for them to jump ship. xD

Rockox5581d ago

WTF is wrong with that crotch shot?

A: Nothing.

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FishCake9T45582d ago

Sega are a joke. How many Sonic spin offs do you need?

Panthers5582d ago

No more than Mario spin offs.

Gun_Senshi5582d ago

all rpg fans know of Renosance of Fate. the demo on JP Store rocks. It plays better then WKC,SO and FFXIII

Godmars2905582d ago

This is more about for every good or great game Sega makes or produces, there are 4-5 if not more utter "WTF" piece of crap.

kancerkid5582d ago

In Sega's defense, this year, there do not seem to be too many optimum spots to release games.

RedPawn5582d ago

No offense to anyones taste, but Resonance of Fate is a complete ball of Boo Boo. Are we really that starved this Gen, I play that trash and can't believe my eyes. I had this game at the edge of my radar, forgetting about it till it came out. Tri Cresendo does a better job than Tri-Ace and they used to be the same entity.

That game is a no go.

Baka-akaB5581d ago

of course you mean offense .

If you didnt you'd come up with something better than "it sucks" and "i cant believe anyone is enjoying this" .

kancerkid5581d ago

@gamingsucksnow

Looks like Resonance of Fate is a little too hard for you, and you can't take it...

Maybe you should stick with FF13

Arvis_Jaggamar5575d ago

Thank you kancerkid, I was about to say the same thing.

It's frustrating that Resonance of Fate is being trashed because it's "too hard." It's complex, yes, but not unapproachably difficult. Once you get the hang of it, battles become supremely satisfying. More so than most video games, if you ask me.

-Arvis

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Premonition5582d ago

Offtopic whats with that pic for the story?

skip2mylou5582d ago

its from yakuza 3 i think which is from sega haha

Redempteur5581d ago

Yakuza 3 but it's part of the content that disapeared in the us/eu version

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The Real Enemy of Gaming Isn’t DEI. It’s the CEO

From Horse Armor to Mass Layoffs: The Price of Greed in Gaming. Inside the decades-long war on game workers and the players who defend them.

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jambola21d ago

maybe a real enemy is people who use terms like "the real enemy"
there can be more than 1 bad thing, t's not like a kids show with 1 big bad

senorfartcushion20d ago

This is very much a “dummy who volunteers themselves to the middle” comment.

The real enemy is a common phrase, people use it all the time.

Calm down.

jambola20d ago

i'm very calm
you seem very upset however

Notellin19d ago

You don't seem calm at all. Don't take this so seriously, you seem desperate responding to others defending your opinion that lacks any value or critical thought.

jambola19d ago

stop projecting
i'm not desperately dong anything, i'm tapping at keys on my keyboard bud

PapaBop19d ago

It's not like kids show with one bad guy? I present to you.. Bobby Kotick

ABizzel119d ago (Edited 19d ago )

DEI was never the problem and it was an ignorant take to begin with.

DEI is why games like Kena Bridge of Spirits, South of Midnight, and Ghost of Tsushima exist.

DEI is why we have a huge resurgence in Japanese, Chineses, and Korean developers producing games like Stellar Blade, Black Myth, and why Nintendo & Sony exist.

DEI is why more and more games have HUGE accessibility options with both Sony and MS fully behind this.

DEI was never a bad thing, the entire purpose of DEI is representation of all people, genders, disabilities, etc…

The problem was people used DEI as a default derogatory term to describe what they believed was forced representation, which allowed colorist, racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobic, and xenophobic fools to run away with the negative DEI narrative.

jambola19d ago

you don't get to decide other people's motivations
sorry to break it to you

ABizzel118d ago (Edited 18d ago )

To each their own, however, nothing you said invalidates why some people take offense to DEI incorrectly.

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Sciurus_vulgaris21d ago

Executives seem to often have an obsession with perpetual revenue growth. There is always a finite amount of consumers for a product regardless of growth. Additionally, over investment is another serious issue in gaming.

Killer2020UK20d ago

The fact that they also rarely have any real expertise in game development compounds things. They'll look at what's been successful elsewhere, lack the knowledge to properly understand why they have been successful and then force a team to 'reproduce' their badly interpreted idea of that success.

We see it so often with sequels to games that were successful too. The team are left well alone, they have a break through hit and all of sudden the money men descend on the IP and completely railroad the dev team's ideas. Usually winds up being 'make the same game but MORE'

LoveSpuds19d ago

This is true throughout all of the corporate and public sector organisations to be honest. CEO's generally move amongst the corporate world without any need to have experience of a particular industry, they simply need to rely on their senior leadership credentials. A CEO of a retail giant will just as easily transition to a CEO role in the energy sector for example.

Not defending CEOs here to be clear, I think it's a huge part of the reason the western world is so fucked up. CEOs don't need to care about the sector they work in, in fact it's better if they don't care if they want to screw everyone to make profits.

GhostScholar20d ago

Companies don’t hire executives to break even. If the goal is breaking even then why start the company in the first place.

Soy20d ago

That's understood; it's getting record profits and expecting to always beat those record profits, and seeing anything less as a total failure. Then they lay people off and raise prices to reach those record profit levels again, just to sate shareholders. It's setting expectations way too high just to spike share prices, then inevitably falling short. It's feeling entitled to being more successful than everyone else. It's the CEOs doing all this to boost their own bonuses.

ABizzel119d ago

Growth benefits the company’s profits and therefore the company’s stock if publicly traded, which pleases the shareholders making them more and more rich, which is why Growth is always at the forefront of the vast majority of any publicly traded company.

More growth = More Money and the people at the top want all the money they can get. I can’t really blame them anyone would love to see their profits go from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, to multi-millions it’s almost like a gambling addiction.

But it also goes to show someone how morals can go out the window for a lot of these people, and how amazing some CEOs are when they catch this early and provide a balance solution that takes complete care of their employees across the board while keeping the business sustainable IE: Insomniac Games ALWAYS on the best places to work list. The rest of the industry could learn.

jambola21d ago

honestly, the "real" enemy of gaming, is ourselves
if nobody bought horse armor, shitty dlc would have died almost overnight
if we stood firm and nobody bought games from companies that were bad with layoffs, it would be solved
we're the idiots supporting awful business practices, we are the ones enouraging it

TiredGamer20d ago

I think the reality that we don't want to convince ourselves of is that without the rise of "horse armor" and DLC, game budgets would have essentially stagnated (smaller teams/smaller games), or game prices would have risen much more dramatically than they have. There was an incessant drive for bigger worlds, infinite detail, and hundreds of hours of "gameplay" over the last two decades, that while perhaps a natural evolution of things, needed a suitable funding stream to accomplish.

HyperMoused19d ago

What...CEOs make tens of millions and that doesnt include SLT etc etc...we now have multiple editions of games, in game currency, MT's, battle passes.....and what do we get..worse game than what was coming out 20 years ago....dont drink the cool aid, its this nickel and dime crap that is absolutely leading us to gaming destruction.

senorfartcushion20d ago

This is the worst possible answer to this conundrum. Blaming the masses is blaming the only people who are constantly “told” to buy.

Consumers are the only ones not to blame here. People make their own choices all the time. Disney movies are bombing and DEInis being blamed. Has that been enough to put Disney out of business? No and it never will.

Christopher20d ago

Disagree. Businesses are able to do what they do because people are bad consumers and don't think critically about purchases. Disney got away with doing shit stuff for years and it's just the last year where people got tired of it. It's not like it didn't work for 5 years or so for Disney to do the things they've done. They'll just move onto another way to get people to see movies and it will be just as bad but more profitable until people wake up and realize it.

TiredGamer20d ago

Consumerism drives business behavior. It's not so much "blaming" as it is observing behavior. The point I'm making is that the direction that games have gone are driven by the spending. Consumers are spending on DLC and they are driving the expectation of more glitz and padded out (lengthier) games. If they continue to pay, they will continue to drive that direction until a threshold is reached that forces a change in behavior.

senorfartcushion20d ago

Corporate advertising is the most powerful force on the planet.

This is N4G for god sake, every day there are arguments between people who are Team Xbox and Team PlayStation because they’ve been convinced that having an identity built on paying money to Sony and Microsoft matters more than having one as individual gamers who can play whatever they want.

And THEN we get to the corporate advertising part: to play whatever you want is to sink MORE into the advertising pits, making it so that you can more than one specific product.

jambola20d ago

ah you're right
they were told to buy it, it's clearly impossible to avoid that
if enough people stopped supporting, it would stop
disney not stopping would only be because enough people didn't stop

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victorMaje20d ago

Agreed. I’ve been saying for years, announce you won’t be buying the upcoming game because of the practices of the previous game, then you only have to stick to your guns once, see how quickly things change for the better.

We have to unite in what we shouldn’t purchase.

jambola20d ago

just imagine a world, fifa came out worse, nobody buys the next one until they see proof it's better and stick to it
or games being forced online for single player and nobody buys it
things would change so fast

HyperMoused19d ago

Just like scooby doo, you have shown us the real monsters are us

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Inverno20d ago

Greed and greedy people have and always will be the main issue for everything wrong in the world. Everything is a product to be exploited for monetary gain. Even when there are things that could help progress us along for the sake of making our lives easier that thing must be exploited for monetary gains. Anything that tells you otherwise is propaganda to make you complicit.

coolfool20d ago

I've never thought "DEI" (although the way most people use it doesn't match it's real definition) is the problem with games. Good games have continued to be good when they have a diverse cast, and likewise, bad games have continued to be bad. There isn't a credible example I've seen where a diverse cast has been the direct cause of a game being bad.

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I subscribed to this not knowing about how some of the proceeds go to St. Judes.

Really cool that some of the money goes there.

Even if people don't subscribe to the mag, it might bring people to the charity.

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One of the main charities my wife and I donate to. They help a lot of children and being a parent of 5 children I can’t imagine what those parents go through. I’ll probably get a sub to GI because of St Jude and of course because I love video games.

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