DoA Volley Ball == 2003

LOL, poor Ozy. Shen Mue2X is worth making your GF to commit a homicide on you (j/k) Either way, I guess you'll be having a good gaming holiday. =) Me, I'll be happy with Ikaruga and two King of Fighter games for DC.

btw, Steel Battalion is Tekki, right?

 

yup, same thing.

 

Shenmue 2x, by all accounts, isn't worth dieing for. SEGA just isn't trying any more. The company deserves every bad thing that's happening to it.

 

Angry Pants: I've heard generally positive things, myself. I loved the first game, mind you..

 

Well,

Jet Set Radio Future and GUNVALKYRIE were amazing. Sega GT 2002 is the best playing racer ever made (but lacks tracks and should have had better graphics) and NFL 2K3 and NBA 2K3 are the best football and basketball games ever made. Even then, I agree that Sega is slacking. Only 5 AAA games in one year is pretty uncommon for Sega.

Shenmue II is a DC port. That means it will be subpar by Xbox standards (visually and control-wise), but it still looks like a solid sequel in the series. I'm still pretty excited about it.

Panzer Dragoon looks utterly amazing - ships in January.

 

Original ? Its a good port of the Arcade Monkey Ball. It doesn't even have the Banana stick in the GC version.

 

Didn't Monkey Ball come out in 2001 in Japanese arcades? And then Super Monkey Ball soon thereafter?

Either way, the game is creative.. yet very very simplistic. This is where its strength lies.

 

Its alright, prefer Virtua Tennis though.

 

Beach Spikers is indeed a good game. Tough it's single player doesn't last very long. It took my less than 3 days (I wasn't playing all day) to unlock all the features and costumes.
But the multiplayer is very addictive. Because of it's intuitive controlls even people new to the game can pick it up and play at a decent level (that avoids that newbies are getting frustrated). The multiplayer is already a classic when playing with my friends. A small negative side note: It would have been cool if Sega had included more multiplayer modes. I'd have liked to see a multiplayer tournament mode, etc.

My score would be about 8.5/10.0, maybe just a tad higher.


Edit: Ups, BTW everyone forgot Sega Soccer Slam (GCN).

 

I really don't think there all AAA titles, maybe a couple of them but deffinately not all 5.

 

JSRF is not a skating game. It is a platformer with strong puzzle elements and wonky controls. That the characters happen to be on roller blades is completely coincidental as far as gameplay is concerned.

 

Give Sega some slack. You can't expect them to change their entire dedicated platform overnight. They've just survived another bankrupcy, so I expect them to pull themselves to "DC level quality/quantity output" sometime soon.

And, it's not new that many Sega games got crappy reviews. There quite a lot of bad reviews for many Sega games back in DC days too. I don't care about what Famitsu,EGM and GameSpot US think anyway. (At least GameSpot Japan have some decency)

It's funny that the series that opened the new envelope of next generation graphics (Shen Mue) is now considered dated...funny Sure, X-box can do better than that, but so what, I've never seen any other games paying this much level of attention like Shen Mue series. (only Morrowind comes close) Oh, well, with those crappy reviews...sales will probably be abysmal and there won't be Shen Mue3 anymore. sigh...

 

here's gamespot's review:

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/reviews/0,10867,2909414,00.html

that site is losing it

 

They've been losing it for quite some time. I've heard quite a few impressions of this game now from people who have bought it and they're loving it.

Both Jeff and Greg are such spotty, inconsistent reviewers.

 

I wonder why noone said they've been 'loosing it' when they reviewed Getaway? Or War of the Monsters?

If someone doesn't have the same taste in games as you, it doesn't mean he's wrong. Live with it, it's quite simple really.

Besides, if they think the game is shallow, it *shocker!* just might be! What did anyone expected from this? A game of the year?

 

There's no need to get defensive Marconelly.

DoAX just got a 9.2 from IGN and it's scoring 8/10 + from most other sites/publications. Sounds like another Gamespot review bias again.

The Getaway by contrast was widely regarded everywhere as a 7.5/10 game.

I'm surprised too that DoAX turned out to be a better game than The Getaway, but that's life in the big city. I imagine The Getaway will still outsell DoAX by 7 to 1 anyway.

 

Granted, I haven't played the game at all, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Gamespot's review was spot-on. Not a single preview I've seen has given details of how the actual gameplay works, and if that isn't a warning sign after all this time, I don't know what is.

As for me, I got Beach Spikers for the Cube last November and from what I've read about DOA Volleyball so far, it was a good decision.

Kolgar