09-29-2014, 11:18 AM
We all know that things happen in the video game industry that can make changes to how things are done. So this is the thread dedicated to speculations of 'what if' x didn't leave with Y(e.g if Square stayed with Nintendo for example). So here's how it works. Name what happened in the video game industry(but be serious about it) and explain what would happen if what occurred then didn't happen. Present the different outcome.
Knowing that Square and Nintendo went their separate ways after the SNES was finished. I sort of wondered. What would it be like if Square enix(then Squaresoft) stayed with Nintendo. We would have gotten the true sequel to Super Mario RPG(that would have included elements from the first game like characters that only appeared for that game). Paper mario and Mario and Luigi wouldn't have happened either way. Maybe they would have, but Square would have had a helping hand with it in some way(including references to Mario RPG in the games) Square would have likely developed a game of Zelda or even Metroid(since both games were referenced in Super Mario RPG).
If Nintendo went ahead with allowing Rare to develop Dinosaur Planet the way they intended it as, they would have had a success that would have renewed Rare's contract with Nintendo. Rare wouldn't have been bought by Microsoft. Rare would have had Kameo, Ghoulies, Donkey kong Racing, and Perfect Dark Zero released for the Nintendo gamecube instead of having one of the games scrapped(while the others got reworked into the Xbox console). And we would've had a proper Banjo kazooie sequel made for a Nintendo console and had Conker's Other Bad fur Day for the Wii(alright, this last one may be a bit stretching it, but its a 'what if' theory).
What do you got for 'what ifs' if something in the video game industry didn't occur that we all knew happened but would result into something completely different?
Knowing that Square and Nintendo went their separate ways after the SNES was finished. I sort of wondered. What would it be like if Square enix(then Squaresoft) stayed with Nintendo. We would have gotten the true sequel to Super Mario RPG(that would have included elements from the first game like characters that only appeared for that game). Paper mario and Mario and Luigi wouldn't have happened either way. Maybe they would have, but Square would have had a helping hand with it in some way(including references to Mario RPG in the games) Square would have likely developed a game of Zelda or even Metroid(since both games were referenced in Super Mario RPG).
If Nintendo went ahead with allowing Rare to develop Dinosaur Planet the way they intended it as, they would have had a success that would have renewed Rare's contract with Nintendo. Rare wouldn't have been bought by Microsoft. Rare would have had Kameo, Ghoulies, Donkey kong Racing, and Perfect Dark Zero released for the Nintendo gamecube instead of having one of the games scrapped(while the others got reworked into the Xbox console). And we would've had a proper Banjo kazooie sequel made for a Nintendo console and had Conker's Other Bad fur Day for the Wii(alright, this last one may be a bit stretching it, but its a 'what if' theory).
What do you got for 'what ifs' if something in the video game industry didn't occur that we all knew happened but would result into something completely different?