My First Video Game Post (Blogger, 2012)

See: I always knew my shit

over the past few months i have played may games that are in a first person perspective (Skyrim, Portal 2, Borderlands, Doom 3, and Half Life). those are all excellent games...but something popped out (especially) in doom 3 and half-life: Platforming in first person sucks. I can be having a perfectly great time...then i have to jump a bunch of gaps with precision timing. even worse then falling to your death is falling down to that place you were 15 minutes ago. You have to spend 15 minutes walking back...all the enemies are dead. Its boring. I love platforming games. You need to be able to see your character to effectively navigate the platforming idea. look at Mario and sonic- you can always see them.

Since this is a random rant anyway, we need to talk about sonic. Here's the deal with sonic: sonic is fast. That's why sonic isn't Mario, that's why sega does what nintendont. at NO POINT EVER should sonic slow down. It started with the water levels in the original genesis games, and mutated into horrible puzzle sequences in the later post dreamcast 3d outings (its been rough for the hedgehog since about 2001). it is really simple why we all loved Sonic in the first place- SONIC IS FAST. Most sonic games blow these days, but i'I'I've been having a blast with Sonic and all stars racing transformed... its fast. It's so fun that we may be able to forgive sega for sonic r.

NINTENDO- please buy Sega, and let Sega make games. Let Sega make Sega games. I've also played dreamcast a lot lately. these days, huge gaming companies just fall back on the old properties, and put out a triple A title annually. Sega took risks (many of which doomed the company). Sega has that quality, kind of like the grateful dead...Take risks, sometimes you make shit, but when it's good it's really good. Operating without a net... end rant.