You mean Life Is Strange-type games? Only a few on PC, none on the mainstream consoles. There have been a few visual novel-type games but those are closer to Ace Attorney-style games and not strictly narrative games.
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You mean Life Is Strange-type games? Only a few on PC, none on the mainstream consoles. There have been a few visual novel-type games but those are closer to Ace Attorney-style games and not strictly narrative games.
So when's Samurai Jack coming out TTL? I found the ending WAAAYYYYY too bitter though the finale as a whole is great. I know it's supposed to be bittersweet, but its way too bitter once fridge horror sinks in. I would have preferred a heroic sacrifice by either Jack or Ashi instead or maybe Jack is forced to go back to the past himself without Ashi, no TTGL knockoff, and as such I hope that this is the case in your version. Nevertheless I feel that TTL's Samurai Jack should take the serialized approach from the start and be much darker.
BTW, with a Gore victory, what's the Green Party's reputation like TTL assuming Nader still ran and got the same degree of success?
BTW, with a Gore victory, what's the Green Party's reputation like TTL assuming Nader still ran and got the same degree of success?
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I've got bad news....the show ends after three seasons ITTL and never gets revived. Part of that is because it gets squeezed out by shows like Spy School and a few other big action cartoons the network picks up in the mid 2000s. Part of it is because Genndy Tartakovsky starts working on superhero cartoons in the late 2000s and never looks back.
More coverage of this in the next kids' TV update, but yeah... Samurai Jack gets screwed over a bit in this timeline.
Oh, well by that definition there have been games like that already, stuff like Syrielle, etc. It's also a major part of the upcoming Thrillseekers, at least the story mode anyway. So yeah, compared to OTL there have been a few. There'll be more as the sixth generation progresses.
Does it at least get a proper ending? ALos...Gendy working on superhero cartoons? That sounds FUCKING AMAZING. Looks like action cartoons may have a bright future ITTL.
At least either give it a proper ending, OR maybe have the movie plan succeed TTL and we got a movie.
Also I presume we will hear about the Clone Wars in the KOTOR update or the ROTS one, right(since we're told it exists, but we haven't heard about it)?
One more thing...by the time the TL ends, will the stigma around mental illness have eased somewhat, most likely due to a backlash against negative media representation and more people speaking out?
Also I presume we will hear about the Clone Wars in the KOTOR update or the ROTS one, right(since we're told it exists, but we haven't heard about it)?
One more thing...by the time the TL ends, will the stigma around mental illness have eased somewhat, most likely due to a backlash against negative media representation and more people speaking out?
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It doesn't
Unfortunately this isn't a complete 100% utopia, and Samurai Jack's fate is one of the things that suffers a bit. We will definitely hear about Clone Wars, yes. Probably in the ROTS update. Maybe in the KOTOR update if I need to fill it out a bit.
And yes, by present day ITTL, the autism stigma has significantly died down from what it was, though unfortunately there are more anti-vaxxers. However, anti-vax sentiment is in RAPID decline as of TTL 2017 due to someone in particular speaking out against it in a big way. Revealing that would be spoilers.
Hey there everybody, I've been lurking around the Player Two Start thread a long time and finally decided to make an account to post with.
We've gotten to a point in the timeline where I wanted to ask about two book franchises that were big parts of my childhood and have recently made a comeback in other media in OTL:
- I seem to recall a post in Player Two Start stating A Series of Unfortunate Events was butterflied away. Does anybody know if I'm remembering correctly?
- I also wanted to ask if the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series would still exist in TTL. Since it started as a web comic before a book series I was thinking it might not survive how different the Internet ITTL is.
We've gotten to a point in the timeline where I wanted to ask about two book franchises that were big parts of my childhood and have recently made a comeback in other media in OTL:
- I seem to recall a post in Player Two Start stating A Series of Unfortunate Events was butterflied away. Does anybody know if I'm remembering correctly?
- I also wanted to ask if the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series would still exist in TTL. Since it started as a web comic before a book series I was thinking it might not survive how different the Internet ITTL is.
Correct, that's butterflied away.
Yes, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is butterflied as well. Jeff Kinney is working as a staffer on Neopets as of TTL 2004.
So, I know I kinda talked about it a bit earlier while bringing up Hasbro Interactive, but what's going on with X-COM at the moment? I know from reading Player Two Start that X-COM hasn't been butterflied, but what becomes of the series after that? There are almost half a dozen games between 1995 and 2001 that seem unaccounted for (seven games if you count the two planned Hasbro X-COM games). The series was pretty quiet until over a decade later in 2012 with Enemy Unknown in OTL. But was there ever any attempt to try and bring back the series earlier ITTL? Plus, who would end up with the rights? Does it stay with Hasbro or go to someone else? If X-COM stays quiet, maybe another game takes up the mantle?
I mean Valkyria Chronicles did have some XCOM-equse elements to it AND it's a SEGA property. Granted, VC came out in 2008 so that's a ways off from where we are currently, but I could totally see that coming out on the Katana's successor with Online Play to become a killer-app. But again, that's just me speculating.
I mean Valkyria Chronicles did have some XCOM-equse elements to it AND it's a SEGA property. Granted, VC came out in 2008 so that's a ways off from where we are currently, but I could totally see that coming out on the Katana's successor with Online Play to become a killer-app. But again, that's just me speculating.
The next console XCOM game is XCOM Luna, which comes out on the Ultra Nintendo in January 2004. After that is XCOM Supernova, for the Game Boy Nova, in June 2004. Neither game has a lot of hype behind it, as the series has largely been confined to the PC aside from the occasional console port, and we don't cover too many PC games except for the most significant ones (the game goes for console games, the ones we cover in the timeline are about 30% of the total games released). So yeah, XCOM is still around but it hasn't been huge. The two console titles are Hasbro's attempt to push the series in preparation of a possible re-launch for the sixth gen consoles, but Luna comes WAY too late in the Ultra's lifespan to make much of a splash, and Supernova is somewhat of a critical disappointment (they tried to make a new game using the old PC interface but kind of botch it).
Looking at how they were formed and that seems vulnerable to butterflies in numerous ways. I'm going to say no.
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