by Sonikku » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:37 am
I miss the Sega of old. They could seemingly do no wrong in the 16 bit era. But then you had Sega of America pushing the 32X add on for the Genesis because the Sega CD was not enough. And you had Sega of Japan pushing the Sega Saturn. To think, they nearly green lit the Sega Neptune on top of it all, but thankfully killed it soon after a working prototype was made. They confused the hell out of their fans and those that got either (or both, *cough*) got burned. The left hand did not know what the right hand was doing and the body as a whole was all the poorer for it. Years later when they released the Dreamcast there were so many people still feeling burned from the add on fiasco of years previous that the system was largely ignored before falling into total obscurity. A pity. As it's my favorite system. >_> Besides the SNES anyway.
I don't care very much for the Sega of today. They ship unfinished garbage before it's finished. How Sonic 360 and Shadow The Hedgehog. (He's Sonic. But with a gun because that's what kids go for these days. Plus he's X-TREEEEEME!! *yawn*) got to be platinum titles is any ones guess. >_> But, for whatever reason Sega is richer for it. They took nothing but staggering losses when putting out Shenmue and the like, just a big shame. Speaking of which, we'll probably never even see the end of that saga. Sega and Yu Suzuki seem large finished. Sega is not in the business of finishing a potentially unprofitable game series for the sake of it's fans, those days are behind them. The price of saving Sega's life merely came at the cost of it's soul.