"Sonic's the name, fail are my games"

Yo...how it be? Aight home skillets, lets get on with this shiznit.

 The Good:

First up be dem whacks at Sega, aight I'll stop the now. So Sega has officially announced that they realize their Sonic games suck. Good? Why is this good? Well as Alcoholics Anonymous labeled in its 12 step solution plan, "The first step to rehabilitation is admitting that you have a problem." Sega has been back-calling some of their games in Europe. As Joystiq said:

"Jurgen Post, Sega SVP of EMEA (that's Europe, the Middle East and Africa), told MCV, 'Any Sonic game with an average Metacritic has been de-listed,' continuing, 'We have to do this and increase the value of the brand. This will be very important when more big Sonic releases arrive in the future.'"

The newest Sonic games coming out are Sonic the Hedgehog 4, an episodic reboot of the classic sonic that people actually enjoyed. Sonic Colors, a version on the Wii and DS that is reminiscent of the secret rings and black night, both of which were pretty poor games, yet this game is actually looking to be a solid Sonic game. Finally, Sonic Free riders, a kinect game once again focusing on the skateboarding/snowboarding/air-boarding/whatever the hell it is boarding introduced in Sonic Riders.

Back on topic, any game with a low Metacritic score is being removed from selves in order to, "limit the supply" of these poor games. In addition, Sega is going to try to "strive for 80-percent-plus Metacritic" on all new games.


That's a pretty steep goal to top, I've always loved the blue blurs "Adventure" franchise and I hope Sonic comes back to be a franchise of notable worth, cause Sega sure as hell needs a good name to it's company again.


The Bad:

I will first and foremost disclaim that I have not played this game, yet I'm reporting the "popular opinion." From my expert sources (Being what Lance and the entire Internet has said) Medal of Honor sucks. As of right now, Medal of Honor is hovering at a collective average of 75 for 360, PS3, and PC. It's kinda sad, I was hoping for a game to kick Bobby Kotick's COD series right in the nuts. The game has been cited as having an incredibly short campaign with many frame-rate issues while the multiplayer still has these same issues and feels like a red headed step-child of MW2.

The Fugly:

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Another disclaimer: this fugly is awarded to this topic kind of in the way Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, meaning that its not exactly that this is ugly, but that this could turn out to be a disaster for video game retailers. The news being, Red box is planning on renting out video games. Yay cheap games! But oh no, bankrupting video game retailers possibly. Now I got a B in micro and macro economics, so I'm no expert. Yet I look at Blockbuster and I see what happened to movie rentals after Redbox and Netflicks and I compare it to Redbox and Gamestop, and it makes me slightly scared for Gamestop. Now honestly things really shouldn't be too bad as how Gamefly didn't ruin Gamestop or any other video game retailers. But I think this has a possibility of hurting the game industry. Most likely Im worrying about nothing, but if this actually happens, well then you heard it here first.

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