Thread 11948319

Did Sega of America produce anything worthwhile for the Saturn? Sega Away team seemed to create nothing but shit. Even in the areas that were perfected on the Genesis like Platformers and sports games they still fuck up with shit like Bug and NFL 97

blame Sega of Japan. Bug was meant to be a sonic title (which would have worked way better) but were denied by them.

>>11948319 (OP)
The only thing I only about this game is that it was endorsed by Steven Spielberg for some reason

>>11948319 (OP)
>Did Sega of America produce anything worthwhile for the Saturn?
I don't even remember them producing anything worthwhile for the Mega Drive.

>>11948327
Bug’s gameplay isn’t really appealing though. That version of 2.5D platforming never caught on for a reason

>>11948351
Even that turned out to be a hoax.

>>11948327
>Bug was meant to be a sonic title
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

>>11948365
This comes from a 2019 interview with David Warhol, producer at Realtime Associates who is credited in Bug!
https://youtu.be/lWJ_7jX_Wx0?si=0ST6a20EYFCY7ufg&t=656 (from 10:56 onward)

>>11948365 I underlined the key parts since you seem to be to retarded to use google

You have to respect these guys for making this shit game with only assembly and constantly evolving, poorly designed hardware, and no documentation.

>did america make a good console game prior to 1996

uh no

>its… le disco Bug with platform shoes! In psychedelic hippie land!!
Western boomers thought this was the most hilarious and original concept ever.

>>11948638
If this was a Goemon game you would say it's funny and original.

>>11948664
Unironically because it'd be through the skewed lens of Japanese devs

CONGO

>>11948319 (OP)
SegaSoft published this, developed by Appaloosa Interactive (people who made Ecco the Dolphin games). Cool game. Can't think of any American developed ones though for Saturn. I kinda liked Bug games as a kid but knew they weren't great even then. The 3D was the most interesting part really.
>>11948446
Earthworm Jim
NHL 94
Road Rash 2
Comix Zone

If I had played Bug as a kid I'd probably think it's pretty good. I only ever tried the demo for Bug Too. At least Vimm's thinks its great.

>>11948908
>AI slop overview
Please cut your dick off

>>11948919
Read the filename hamsterman

>>11948393
Whoa, neat. Sounded like some urban legend crap but it seems legit after all.

>>11948850
That's a man in a suit.

>>11948319 (OP)
bro, i have some bad news...
nobody produced anything worthwhile for the saturn.

>>11948850
As in the killer apes movie?

>>11949114
“Quit eating my SESAME CAKE!”

>>11948327
Change the character for sonic and the game would still be unremarkable

>>11948319 (OP)
They tried making a new Eternal Champions and Comix Zone 2, but they both got shot down. Instead they wasted several million dollars on an FMV adventure that got canned after it was finished (it got leaked online and it's really as bad as it sounds like).

Congo isn't an FPS game, it's an FMV rail shooter that just happens to not be FMV or on-rails.

>>11951909
It may not be a console selling game like Nigs into Queers or Clockwork Kike 2: every damn time, but Bug Jew! Is a great 3d walkformer.

>>11952001
What did you mean by this?

>>11948908
yikes

>>11948850
Is that a sequel to Congo Bongo?

>>11948327
>which would have worked way better
PFFFFTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>11948908
>Gaygle AI is Dobson

>>11948319 (OP)
They tried to make a few titles but the short story is that Yuji Naka found a way to fuck everything up because he didn't want his own games to be overshadowed.
Then Bernie Stolar got hired on to oversee the Saturn, and we all know what happened after that.

>>11948408
It seems rather silly how Sega of America didn't even have access to the company's development tools, but I guess that's what happens when you're a Japanese company trying to erase any and all evidence that you were in fact an American company that profited off of WWII's military leisure market before selling your name to the very country you fought against.

>>11948908
This is why we don't use AI for anything other than coom porn images. The only two American-developed games in that summary are Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Lucasarts) and Rock 'n Roll Racing (Silicon & Synapse, who later became Blizzard)

>>11948327
Hudson and Red Company took a fat crap on whatever westies were making at the time.
Had SoA brought it over and promoted both games, with a few additional tweaks, these would have been major hits in America.

But NO, they're insistant that their fish eyed shovelware and the eurojank marble madness/mappy clone were the golden bullet for the platform. This is a game for a fucking $399 console, it better look like something to dive several hours into.

>>11948908
>Jap, based on a british film
>made by brits
>Jap, literally urban Dragon Quest instead of the medieval pulp fantasy
>made by Brits
>Killer Instinct: brits
Americacas will worship tiny rice cock but not realize we hauled their asses during their early rough years.

>>11948952
No that's a real monkey!