Ironically, while Sonic is looking his finest in this game, Sega's CG work far outshines this stuff.

The rendered cutscenes to both Riders and Secret Rings are absolutely ace.

Zero Gravity trailer for reference;
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23879.html

You do realise this is stuff ONLY published on the game's official "dev diary" site, right?

That all major media sites including this one actually GO there and grab the images and mirror them here?


I haven't seen a single bit of deliberate advertising on this game, and it's honestly something Nintendo are shit at. Corruption came out to almost no fanfare whatsoever.

Now there's a sentiment I can agree with. I wouldn't neccessarily apply it to a fighting game though. I won't be too titsed off because I know what characters are in the next Virtua Fighter, or what levels, or if Jeffry will finally kill that shark.. or... whale... or whatever it was.

With something like Assassin's Creed it's much more grating though, I really hope they realise what kind of exposition they're putting that game through, and have plenty of variety and twists in there. They've already alluded to some of course, but the last time I felt like I do about that game it was GRAW, and I'll be damned if the entire game didn't look and feel essentially exactly the same.

The whole "avoiding looking at pictures" piece of advice is actually pretty good. I've seen a few of the earlier vids of Mario Galaxy and then gone on a complete.. living in a box underground style celibacy thing with that, and it really does work. But really, it's mainly because Nintendo don't really get involved in the whole hype thing. There's usually just a fuckload of shots published by sites everywhere as soon as they get a new build, with no "filtering" of what you SHOULD be seeing. Apart from this, of course, being contents on an official site.

With Ubisoft I trust them to be on the ball with presentations and stuff, and it's one of the major events of the year when you get to watch live coverage from some show and they're blowing everybody away with it. Thing is, they've been blowing people away a number of times now, and they seem to be using eerily similar explosives every time, creating concern that it'll be a loud - but monotonous - bang in the end.

So yeah, I agree with this last, uncharacteristically well articulated point. Maybe it's the point you've been trying to make all along, but you sort of drowned it in the yelling and the sounding like a bit of a tit.

A nipple then I guess.