{"id":978,"date":"2003-05-23T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-23T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2003\/05\/backal-notes\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T00:16:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T04:16:51","slug":"backal-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2003\/05\/backal-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Backal notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>So. Games of the show? In no order, I proclaim thusly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/castlevania\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Lament of Innocence<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/gradius5\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Gradius V<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/bethesda\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Call of Cthulu<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/sammy\/index.html target=\"_blank\"><i>Demolishfist<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/sega\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Sonic Heroes<\/i><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those of you out there with copies of <i>Aria of Sorrow<\/i> (I&#8217;m talking to Doug and maybe Justin Freeman here), have you looked at the instruction booklet? It&#8217;s prettier than it needs to be! I count that as an extra-duper plus!<\/p>\n<p>But then, I guess any halfway decent instruction booklet is bound to impress me, coming (as I am) off of a nigh-lifelong string of Sega systems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So Sega&#8217;s about to kill off at least five of their ten dev teams. Care to take bets on who? Hint: It&#8217;s not gonna&#8217; be <b>AM2<\/b> or <b>Sonicteam<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p><b>Hitmaker<\/b>&#8216;s president is going to become the next president of Sega, so they&#8217;re still in. <b>Amusement Vision<\/b> is responsible for all of Sega&#8217;s hardware, and is Sega&#8217;s primary link to Nintando. Plus, the AV head is in charge of all consumer development at Sega, last I heard. <b>Overworks<\/b> has Sakura Taisen, so there&#8217;s no getting rid of them.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves <b>Wow<\/b>, <b>Sega Rosso<\/b>, <b>Smilebit<\/b>, <b>UGA<\/b>, and <b>Wavemaster<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>We can get rid of Sega Rosso and lose&#8230; nothing. Wow is amusing to have around just on account of how charmingly awful they can be. I do wonder about Wavemaster, as they&#8217;re responsible for nearly all of the sound and music in nearly everything that Sega does.<\/p>\n<p>What really bums me is the Smilebit and UGA probability. These are probably my two favourite Sega teams &#8212; and yet they&#8217;re also probably amongst the least profitable, on account of how artsy they are. Most of Smilebit&#8217;s stuff has flubbed over the last couple of years, in some cases more inexplicably than in others. UGA&#8217;s stuff is just plain anticommercial.<\/p>\n<p>Still, these guys embody &#8212; at least for me &#8212; the heart of what Sega is.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I was so concerned about the Sammy merger is that Sammy intended to mess around with Sega&#8217;s dev teams. Looks like it&#8217;s gonna&#8217; happen anyway, though. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve a feeling this mandate came from CRI. <\/p>\n<p>Grr. Fie and demons.<\/p>\n<p>Still resting. Will write up the rest of the E3 stuff for IC later tonight.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Bethesda wants to send me games! <\/p>\n<p><b>Another note:<\/b> Dammit, I guess I need to buy a PS2. Given the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/snk\">S<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/snk\/svc.html\">N<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insertcredit.com\/news\/e3_2003\/snk\/index2.html\">K<\/a> support, the 3D-AGES stuff, <i>Lament of Innocence<\/i>, and a swath of other junk I can&#8217;t remember offhand, it doesn&#8217;t seem like I can avoid it any longer.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Games of the show? 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