Gaming in a parallel universe (aka 'The What If thread')

[Dogg Thang]

Meh, the crash of 83 is overstated to be honest.

Yeah, in THIS universe. Stay out of my parallel universe, spoilsport!

[toythatkills]

Hitler wins World War 2. In 1999, SEGA release the Traumbesetz?ng

[Neon Ignition]

And as a result of his victory EA make Beetle Adventure Racing instead of Need for Speed... dammit, that did happen.

[nakamura]

The majority of Playstation 2 haters that contstantly bemoan the few early titles with jaggies actually learn what anti aliasing actually is. (no one on here!)

[Sketcz]

Halo not getting the attention it deserved.

Deserved?!

Now I know we're in an alternate reality. I don't care what anyone says, if you'd been playing FPS games for a few years, and knew the genre, then Halo had to be one of the most regressive, disappointing, abysmal examples available. As the first game I had on my shiny new Xbox I was bitterly disappointed. My absolute hatred for Halo is so intense as to be difficult to articulate. I will never understand why everyone doesn't utterly despise it. There's nothing there!

[Team Andromeda]

Yes, I'm blaming Square for the death of the Dreamcast.

.I don't know why SEGA killed the DC with their piss poor management of the 32bit war. Speaking of which if SEGA had gotten Square on the Saturn, that would have been the end of SONY PS in Japan


Anyway it would have been fun to see Atari keep the Amiga rights and chipset

[Goemon]

Street Fighter 2 didn't have the bug that allowed you to cancel moves into another.

People 'got' Shenmue and we were now up to Shenmue 6 - The Confrontation

[nakamura]

People 'got' Shenmue and we were now up to Shenmue 6 - The Confrontation

Shemue was good.

[Ady]

Deserved?!

Now I know we're in an alternate reality. I don't care what anyone says, if you'd been playing FPS games for a few years, and knew the genre, then Halo had to be one of the most regressive, disappointing, abysmal examples available. As the first game I had on my shiny new Xbox I was bitterly disappointed. My absolute hatred for Halo is so intense as to be difficult to articulate. I will never understand why everyone doesn't utterly despise it. There's nothing there!

At the time it came out, it was a worthy and influential FPS whether you personally liked it or not.

There are plenty of games I despise that are well thought of amongst gamers, too.

Anyway, back OT, here's another:

Nintendo decide to continue working alongside Sony. The Nintendo PlayStation is born and the Nintendo/Sony merger happily ticks along until Sony drops its contractual bombshell and Nintendo's cherished IP becomes property of Sony. As a result, Nintendo is forced into a position of only creating software for whatever hardware Sony puts out. The influential Mario 64 becomes Mario PSX on the Nintendo PlayStation 2, whose hardware is dictated by Sony at this point. Thus, there is no analogue or camera buttons, and the game turns out to be more of a 2.5D affair with loading times and FMV cut scenes.

Sony buys Rare, which becomes part of SCEE.

[kryss]

Nintendo decide to continue working alongside Sony. The Nintendo PlayStation is born and the Nintendo/Sony merger happily ticks along until Sony drops its contractual bombshell and Nintendo's cherished IP becomes property of Sony. As a result, Nintendo is forced into a position of only creating software for whatever hardware Sony puts out. The influential Mario 64 becomes Mario PSX on the Nintendo PlayStation 2, whose hardware is dictated by Sony at this point. Thus, there is no analogue or camera buttons, and the game turns out to be more of a 2.5D affair with loading times and FMV cut scenes.

Sony buys Rare, which becomes part of SCEE.

Quinn! How long until the timer is ready?! I hate this universe!

[Decider-VT]

Nintendo lose their court case against Universal, which forces ownership of Donkey Kong to the latter. Universal subsequently buys the whole company, leaving Nintendo live out the rest of their days making games based on movie licences, before quietly folding. Howard Lincoln continues his legal career; Hiroshi Yamauchi commits suicide. Shigeru Miyamoto remains obscure, though he is later found doodling dinosaurs, turtles and plants on the walls of his padded cell. The PC Engine subsequently rules the world.

I don't care what anyone says, if you'd been playing FPS games for a few years, and knew the genre, then Halo had to be one of the most regressive, disappointing, abysmal examples available. As the first game I had on my shiny new Xbox I was bitterly disappointed. My absolute hatred for Halo is so intense as to be difficult to articulate. I will never understand why everyone doesn't utterly despise it. There's nothing there!

I'm... not alone?