On Episodic Gaming…By Locke on February 17th, 2010
Sonic 4 is the newest of games to be branched into this kind of marketing. Although it seems like a ploy for Sega to make us pay for the same thing four or five times, it ends up great for us because this time it seems that Sega has finally lived up to their word. Fanboys however have already begun screaming heresy at the game, even thought it is turning out to be exactly what they wanted. I personally loved all the sonic games to some extent, even the 3D ones which I will admit were poor examples of the franchise. There were moments of win glimmering in the dust, however, that made the games fun and memorable to me. Yes they had bad cameras. Yes they introduced us to some annoying characters. Yes these games are plagued with annoying bugs. But when it boils down to it, Sonic Adventure, and every other game after that was fun for me. Episodic gaming gives us the chance to try before we buy. I don’t think that someone out there will be conned into buying two episodes of one series only to be foiled and hate the third. There will be no raging fanboy screaming about how Episode 3 ruined the game. It’s all going to be the same quality if not better through-out the game. People will be able to complain about Episode One and give time for the developers to address these issues and improve it by Episode 2 or 3 without having to wait two or three years. I’m looking at you Valve. |