Valkyria Chronicles ships to retailers in North America
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, News, North America, Sony PlayStation 3. Tagged with Valkyria Chronicles.
We’ve got some good news, and for some of you we’ve got some bad news. Want the good news first, right? Okay. Sega has announced that Valkyria Chronicles, arguably the company’s most-anticipated RPG in like forever, has now shipped to retailers across North America.
That means all of you need to go out first thing and buy up all the copies you can.
Now time for the bad news. Sega won’t throw in a free copy of the Valkyria Chronicles yaoi manga with your purchase of the game. However, Graham is still holding out hope that a translated version will hit soon!
Welcome to the new Sega Nerds
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, News. Tagged with Sega Nerds.
Ever since we made our move to b5 earlier this year, we heard your cries for a better site design. To be perfectly honest, we agreed with you - we never liked the design much either, but I told you it was only temporary, and now we’re proving it.
That’s right - Sega Nerds is back to being completely independent, and our new design has been finished and is now fully implemented!
What does this mean now that we’re back to our former glory? Well, aside from the awesome new layout, we also got an updated releases page and comment avatars! We’ll still keep you up to date on the most current Sega news, continue to do our very best at reviewing every Sega game and keep making gay jokes about Graham.
Also, be sure to keep an eye on the forums, because there will be some changes going on there, too! As always, if you encounter any problems navigating through the site, be sure to let us know so we can check into it.
Comments posted since about a week ago were not brought over, unfortunately. Also, there may be a few rendering bugs in Internet Explorer 6, which we will do our best to smooth out in the near future. In the meantime, you can do yourself a favor by either upgrading to IE7, or switching to a newer superior browser.
Thanks again for reading Sega Nerds, your best source for everything Sega!
Retro-review: Shadow the Hedgehog
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Retro, Review, Sonic. Tagged with Shadow the Hedgehog.
Being a Sega Nerd hasn’t been exactly easy over the past decade. It seems Sega has done just as much, if not more, to hurt itself than it has to better the company that once dominated the video game industry alongside Nintendo. Perhaps the company’s most embarrassing moment was when it unleashed Shadow the Hedgehog upon the gaming masses in November 2005.
Unofficially, that was the day the Sonic franchise reached rock bottom, but no one can deny that Shadow the Hedgehog officially sucked. Well, many Sega Nerds probably saved themselves the punishment and skipped this mockery of their beloved franchise, and God bless them for having the wisdom to do so.
However, there are those of us who, for reasons even unbeknownst to ourselves, enjoy tormenting ourselves with unspeakable horrors. We, the unfortunate souls who have actually played Shadow the Hedgehog through to the bitter end, have been to the farthest reaches of hell and came back to tell the tale. After recently experiencing this spawn of Satan, I can attest that this game is even worse than you can imagine.
How to use Tails, Amy in Sonic Chronicles
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Nintendo DS, Sonic. Tagged with Sonic Chronicles.
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If you’ve been following the Sonic Chronicles’ Video Insider Episodes, you have a head start in how to best utilize the playable characters in Bioware’s newest RPG.
The newest episode explains how players can best use Tails and Amy.For some reason, this video just made me depressed. I’ve been really excited for this game for a long time, but listening to the narrarator try to explain the game, only reminds me of how corny this series has become, especially for those of us who grew up playing the first couple Sonic games and are now well into our late 20s and early 30s.
Sonic Chronicles will be one of those games I enjoy in the inner sanctums of my home where I’m safe from the mockery that my friends and family will undoubtedly give me if they see me playing.
Sega Nerds adopts new review system
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Nathan, News, Review. Tagged with site-news.
Hello my fellow Sega Nerds, Chris here, the editor of this fine site. I haven’t posted very much over the past few months, but that doesn’t mean that the team and I haven’t been hard at work behind the scenes, striving to make the site a better place for all of you.
Today, I’d like to introduce something we’ve been talking about internally for about half a year. We’ve never been very happy with the way the majority of gaming sites and publications review games - more specifically, how they score the games they review.
Fellow Sega Nerd Nathan was kind enough to provide the following reasons why we’re going in a new direction.
New Sonic Unleashed info revealed in Portugese magazine
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Multi-platform, Sonic. Tagged with Sonic Unleashed.
MaxiConsolas, a popular Portugese video game magazine, has published a new Sonic Unleashed preview this month with some juicy new tidbits about the hotly anticipated title. The preview revealed that, like in Sonic and the Secret Rings, Sonic’s abilities will be able to be improved through experience points gained throughout the game.
The magazine also confirmed that Sonic’s other friends, including Tails, will be playable during mini-games throughout the game. Other locales that will be present in the game will New York and China.
In their impressions of the game, they were impressed with the camera and how the Hedgehog Engine handles the transitions between 2D and 3D, but they noted some noticeable slowdown at some points.
 
[Thanks for the tip and images, yusaku!]
Crazy Taxi: Double Punch on its way to Japan
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Japan, Sony PSP. Tagged with Crazy Taxi.
I had no idea that Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars still has yet to release in Japan, despite the fact that it was released in North America and Europe in August and September, respectively. However, in the move to Japan, the game has received a name change - instead of Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars, it’s now known as Crazy Taxi: Double Punch. I’m not really sure what that’s supposed to mean, but the sexual innuendo is definitely there, so it may help the game sell better in Japan.
The above video is the Japanese debut trailer for the game that will ship in the region Aug. 14.
Gamestop offers Sonic Chronicles pre-order bonus
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Nintendo DS, North America, Sonic. Tagged with Gamestop, Pre-order, Sonic Chronicles.
Sega and Gamestop have been teaming up to offer us quite a bit of pre-order bonuses for awhile now, and they’re at it again. For those who pre-order Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood online or in-store, you’ll get a stylus three-pack featuring Sonic, Knuckles and Shade when the game is released.
It’s not like any of us Sega Nerds really needed a reason to pre-order the game; I think it’s fair to say we’re all pretty excited about Sega and Bioware teaming up for a Sonic RPG. But for those of you who love to collect this kind of stuff, we’re sure you’re salivating as you’re reading this news.
According to Sonic Chronicles’ Gamestop page, there’s a limited supply of the stylus packs, so get ‘em while they’re available! Gamestop lists the DS title to ship Sept. 30.
[Thanks for the tip, Shadiwulf!]
Sega Deals: The Golden Compass (360) $10 at Amazon
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Microsoft Xbox 360. Tagged with Golden Compass, Sega Deals.
There’s some games that aren’t very good, but because you can find them so cheap, it’s hard not to buy them. I’m not sure if The Golden Compass is that game for you, but Amazon is currently offering the licensed game for only $10.
To be perfectly honest, I thought the game was pretty bad, giving it a 4/10 when I reviewed it. At the time, this is what I had to say about the game:
In the end, The Golden Compass is an entirely forgettable experience, bogged down by boring platforming, sluggish controls and blasphemously bad story telling. Even though this game is clearly geared towards the younger crowd, you’d do yourself and your child or younger siblings well by saving the $60 and going to watch the movie or buy the book.
However, with that $50 price drop, you might want to think about giving it a shot, especially if you have a young child who’s time needs occupying.
[Image from Sega]
Site News: Our forums are back… sort of
Posted by Graham. Filed under Chris, G, George, Hudson, James, Nathan, News. Tagged with Site Talk.
Apologies are in order to everyone.
As many of you know, our forums had been down for the last few days. Unfortunately, it was completely out of our hands, as there was a hardware failure in the servers where the forums are stored.
For the more perceptive of you, you will have noticed that our forums are back up. Our resident forums “housekeeper,” TOGGI3, has the forums up and running again, but unfortunately, he was unable to recover the posts that had been made.