Welcome to Your Doom

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:42 am

So I just read on Magicbox that Sega America cancelled the US release of the new Altered Beast. Granted, this means nothing to me because the game looks like a load of ass and the original was a load of ass 15 years ago in the first place. But I'm very curious to know what facilitated this decision. Did they provide a reason, and if not, some speculation, perhaps?

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:00 am

The US release? So it's still coming out in Japan?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:41 am

And Europe, apparently.

aso · Post by **aso** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:04 am

The official reason for the cancellation is that "Sega is more particular about the titles it ships in the US." This seems to suggest that the game, which releases in Japan on January 27, is not shaping up well.

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:11 am

Europe release! Yosh!

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:03 pm

I sincerely doubt quality control is a concern. Seems to me like it's the sort of thing that would hold up alright in sales, probably better than in Japan or Europe.

This is a baffling announcement to me.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:46 pm

Also even if it sold poorly, it probably would sell well enough to make some sort of profit considering the game is already completed anyway.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:05 pm

That sucks. I probably would have bought it too.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:35 pm

Yeah, seriously. This isn't exactly the type of game that takes hundreds of workers to translate... and the voices are already done in English, right?

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:35 pm

Am I the only one here who thinks it looks like hog nuts?

I guess maybe they figured it would conflict with Spikeout, which seems to me an even weirder license to peel off the bottom of the barrel.

Double-S- · Post by **Double-S-** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:37 pm

Well, you have to love the nostalgia, even if it's nostalgia of what was a terrible game even when it came out.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:40 pm

Who cares if it looks like hog nuts? The original Altered Beast looked like cancerous decaying hog nuts.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:16 pm

By "looks", I mean "looks like it's going to play".

Though the original Altered Beast did also play very similar to cancerous decaying hog nuts.

Kishi · Post by **Kishi** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:59 pm

Double-S- wrote:Well, you have to love the nostalgia, even if it's nostalgia of what was a terrible game even when it came out.

From what's been shown in trailers, there's very little in this game to even try to evoke nostalgia. It's a shame, really, because if it <i>had</i> centered upon centurion zombies pow-ering up on "spirit balls" collected from dead mini-cerberi in their quest to save Athena from <strike>Hades</strike> Neff, god of the underworld, I know <i>I</i> certainly would have bought it.

Protodude · Post by **Protodude** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:44 pm

My friend used to call Altered Beast Beast Wars for some reason. True story.

The Scarlet Scorpion · Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:43 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:I sincerely doubt quality control is a concern. Seems to me like it's the sort of thing that would hold up alright in sales, probably better than in Japan or Europe.

This is a baffling announcement to me.

Maybe the game really did retain the homoerotic undertones of the original version, and SoA was worried John Ashcroft would eat them, or something.

In short, I haven't a bloody clue, either.

The Scarlet Scorpion · Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:54 pm

Protodude wrote:My friend used to call Altered Beast Beast Wars for some reason. True story.

*Fanboy Rage.*

How dare he confuse "Altered Beast" with a "Transformers" series! ARGH!

*/Fanboy.*

Sorry about that, it's just that I l0v0rz "Beast Wars"; it's hella cool.

I mean, what's not to love about alien robots traveling through time and space to beat the crap out of each other? And one of them has nice hooters.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:33 am

Wich of them?!! You must be joking!

Segata · Post by **Segata** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:05 pm

I was thinking this would have been a political thread.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:30 pm

Altered Beast was the first game I ever played, and even as a 3 year old, thumb sucking, booger eating toddler, I thought the two main characters were totally gay for each other.

DarkPrime · Post by **DarkPrime** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:27 pm

Brazillian Cara wrote:Wich of them?!! You must be joking!

Blackarachnia. http://tfu.info/2000/Maximal/Blackarach ... achnia.htm

I'm a Transformers fan (G1 only), but I have never thought of them that way. The first time I found Optimus/Megatron slash, a little part of me died.

*goes back to lurking*