A New Reality: An alternate Console wars
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Winter 1997 - A fantastical bond
Sega and Bandai in talks for potential Merger
As sourced by Imagine Games Network (IGN)
As sourced by Imagine Games Network (IGN)
Besides the obvious news above, January was rather short of prominent titles released, especially compared to the month afterwards. The only major title released then was Blizzard's Diablo which, while successful both critically and commercially, was only available on the PC at launch. February, on the other hand, was a more expansive month in terms of releases, particularly on the UNES. In February, the UNES saw the release of Mario Kart 3D (the Second Mario Kart game in the new spinoff series), Blast Corps (a vehicular-based game developed by RareWare) and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (an FPS title developed by Acclaim based on the comic book character of the same name). In addition, February 7th saw the Japanese launch of Squaresoft's Final Fantasy VII, the newest (and set to be the most successful by far) entry in Square's Final Fantasy RPG series, set in a fantastical, Sci-fi based dystopia where the game's protagonist, Cloud Strife, must defeat the tyrannical Shinra Coorperation and the danger they pose to the planet of Gaia. As mentioned, the game was very successful in Japan, but whether or not it could grasp an audience in the west, if it even releases there, remains to be seen.
As far as other releases go, Capcom's Megaman 8, the newest entry in the original Megaman Saga, was released in the tale end of February, but only on the Playstation and Sega Saturn, leaving players questioning if Capcom were to release any games on the UNES, let alone ones based on Megaman. In addition, a sequel to Blizzard's Lost Vikings was released on the SNES in Europe and a game based on the movie Independence Day was released on the Playstation, Saturn, and PC.
[1] the majority of this information I gathered from cnet's report on the deal and is very much OTL. We'll see if the merger actually does make it or not.
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Etto..FF sold, even better all his competitors in snes. if anything was installbase helped it, but FF was selling better and better in the west
You could even argue, before the otaku boom of the new 10's, was the only RPG sold at all
Remove the footnote, keep the article as is it them, as they wonder in universe when would be release and how popular is being, that is being vague, in universe, just remove the footnote
The Megaman 8 release is essentially OTL. I wasn't sure if Capcom would release a 32-bit side scroller like MM8 on a 64-bit system like the N64/UNES so I pretty much just left it like that. I said this just to note that Capcom has not released any games on the UNES so far, but that doesn't necessarily mean they won't be releasing any games on it at all. I probably should've made that more clear.
OTL Legend Happened because Sony demanded a 3D Game for megaman as they thought 2D was passe(that was bernie stolar btw), here if sony don't want 2D games, Nintendo could took them, X4 could be Ultra Exclusive.(and both legends games sucked anyway)
I actually did not know that. In which case, I think you just gave me an idea.
That is something people forgot, Legends didn't happened in a vaccum, was because legends than Sony allowed 8 and X4 to be published at all...if anything nice i give you ideas buddy
Yeah, but I'm not really sure what to make for the next update. Idk, blame lack of ambition and school starting up
I've been thinking about either starting back with a new chapter or rebooting it altogether. I'm particularly partial to the latter as that could help fix some problems that this one had, but in the meantime, I'm still uncertain.