Alright, so...we're back. Happy Easter and have a great day.
Let's cut to the chase--there's a couple of reasons why I've been posting less. The main thing I've been at work for a month already. It's a 9-hour workday (includes the 1-hour lunch) in a office with a bunch of nerds floating about. I'm adding new features to the game but just last week, I've had to play the role of that guy who needs to find the needle in a haystack--basically, solve an easy chicken-shit problem that takes days worth of trial and error to crack and every passing hour puts your job security even more in jeopardy. I'm kinda bummed out about work now but I'm hanging in there. Only a matter of time before I get the experience to work at Sumo Digital, I pray to God...
And even worse is that there's really nothing going on Sega-wise... We got The 90's Arcade Racer plugging along without me. I'm still bitter about that. Then there's Sega All-Stars Racing which is getting a patch to fix all the bugs and the difficulty issues but that doesn't change the fact the game has devolved into talking about two things--glitches (they're still at 'em) and tier lists. The mystery DLC character hasn't been revealed yet and still, if that's the only extra character we'll ever get, that's a bit of a letdown IMO. Then there's the Supermodel emulator which has basically stalled (Bart's getting a Doctorate, give him a break). And, well...it's up to me to pull things outta my ass now.
There was also a rainstorm in Orlando which was a 30-minute hurricane that descended upon my house...really strange cause there was a very tiny red blip over where I was. Huh, okay so it's worth posting about.
Let's cut to the chase--there's a couple of reasons why I've been posting less. The main thing I've been at work for a month already. It's a 9-hour workday (includes the 1-hour lunch) in a office with a bunch of nerds floating about. I'm adding new features to the game but just last week, I've had to play the role of that guy who needs to find the needle in a haystack--basically, solve an easy chicken-shit problem that takes days worth of trial and error to crack and every passing hour puts your job security even more in jeopardy. I'm kinda bummed out about work now but I'm hanging in there. Only a matter of time before I get the experience to work at Sumo Digital, I pray to God...
And even worse is that there's really nothing going on Sega-wise... We got The 90's Arcade Racer plugging along without me. I'm still bitter about that. Then there's Sega All-Stars Racing which is getting a patch to fix all the bugs and the difficulty issues but that doesn't change the fact the game has devolved into talking about two things--glitches (they're still at 'em) and tier lists. The mystery DLC character hasn't been revealed yet and still, if that's the only extra character we'll ever get, that's a bit of a letdown IMO. Then there's the Supermodel emulator which has basically stalled (Bart's getting a Doctorate, give him a break). And, well...it's up to me to pull things outta my ass now.
There was also a rainstorm in Orlando which was a 30-minute hurricane that descended upon my house...really strange cause there was a very tiny red blip over where I was. Huh, okay so it's worth posting about.
But anyway, it's really the little things now that get me by these days. Like driving to the airport to pick up a friend while accelerating around the terminal blasting AC/DC and Metallica. God forbid I drive 10 MPH over the speed limit but it was good fun to pretend to be a NASCAR driver. Then there was this--on a simple trip up the road to a Checkers drive-thru, I drove through a verdant wavy part of International Drive by the convention center, near the Dave & Buster's I visited twice already. And what I experienced was rather wonderful...
I wish I saw more happy things like this in my racing games. More trees, more colors, more fancy architecture, more blinking signs (like those in Scud Race and Daytona 2 that flash "3 LAPS TO GO"...why don't they have those anymore???). And how funny is it that I'm near the place that inspired the Sega-AM2 crew to make Daytona 2 as colorful as it is. Check out the Saturn Magazine Interview with Makoto Osaki and how he mentions going to Daytona International Speedway and then Disney World & Universal Studios (on this page). I'm so close to where this magic happened and yet I feel like all these game designers are trying to beat me down. It's like...people don't even try to make their racing games feel good anymore--it's basically "let's make it as gritty realistic as we can and drown out all the fun." Boo, hiss, go away bad game designers...
On the other hand, Eutechnyx may not be as bad as we thought...
But one more thing, I was on my way to work one day when I found this fun-tastic van next to me. Tell that Aggressive Appliances of Orlando didn't take AGES to get that good, did it...???
Want to talk about the NASCAR stuff going on (like Joey Logano who "killed" Denny Hamlin) and other garbage later. Like THIS:
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