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Everyone's been sending Q&As about Bernie's
departure. Alas, I have no answers.
Concerning
the DC in Canada
I AM HERE TO TELL YOU, NOT EVERY STORE WILL HAVE THEM
BEFORE SEPT. 9th!
Most Compucentre's are franchised, we don't all carry the
same things! I too work in a Compucentre (in Sask.), and while
I havn't been in to work for a few days, we might not get our
Dreamcasts before 9.9.99 (okay, maybe the day before...), so
PLEASE don't flood your local Compucentre looking for
Dreamcasts! We have a small store as it is (about the same
size as a small electronics store tht rhymes with "Fadio
Hack"), and the last thing we need is 200 people a day looking
for something we don't have yet, and leaving angry! Please,
CALL first!
Hax, Anarchist of the Great White North
PS. What we DO have is a 30 min, video of Dreamcast game
clips running on a constant loop at the front of the
store
Anoop says: There you go, folks . . . I don't live
anywhere near Canada, so I can't verify any of the stuff
people tell me. I'm just merely passing on the information I'm
given to you.
Wanna show off
the DC's capabilities?
What launch title(s) shows off the Dreamcast's graphic
ability to the fullest? What's the one game I should get that
will wow my friends the most and get them to buy Dreamcasts?
Also, are there any titles that use bump mapping?
Will Sega be releasing a demo disc that shows off what it
can do? (kinda like Sony's trotting T-Rex and spinning cube
demo disc)
Thanks!
Navarro
Anoop Suggests: I'd have to suggest Soul Calibur,
Trickstyle, Ready 2 Rumble, and NFL 2K as the titles that
would most impress your buddies.
A demo disk will be included with the system, but it will
feature just a bunch of games.
Deepness of
Soul
Calibur
I remember when Playstation launched and how everyone
was drooling at the graphics of Battle Arena Toshinden even
though Saturn's Virtua Fighter 1 had far superior gameplay.
Should I worry about Soul Calibur being too glossy and
gorgeous? Is the gameplay there? Is it as deep as VF3?
Navarro
I'm not really the person to ask which fighting
game is deeper, as I absolutely suck at fighting games (I buy
them all, though), but I'd have to say that Soul Calibur isn't
a parallel of Tohshinden. I wasn't impressed at all with
Tohshinden back when it was released in 1995, so I think my
opinion may hold some weight here.
Surfing the web
on the
DC
Do you know if you will be able to surf the www on the
dreamcast like you can with webtv?
Thank You,
Larry D. Stamper
Yes. That's all I know, folks, so don't ask
Is this an EVA
Q&A session or a Sega Q&A session?
Dear anoop,
ign scifi had an article listing all the scifi movies to be
released until 2005 in the US. In whats was the summer of
2001, I believe, they listed the Neon Genesis Evangelion:
Death +Rebirth (or maybe just rebirth, i forget) as having a
US release. If this happens, and i hope it will cause i hate
watching the movie subtitled and they would dub it for a
theatrical release, would SEGA also release a Neon Genesis
dreamcast game to go along with it since they funded it?? if
you know anything about this please tell, if not please find
out. also, how did N64 get a neon genesis game if SEGA owns
the rights?? thanks for answering my questions.
~Curse
P.S. ANGEL 13 RULES!!!
No word on whether the release of the Eva movie in
America will result in a real Eva game for the Dreamcast, but
I believe Bandai owns the game rights to the Eva series. Sega
was a sponsor for the show, I believe (which is maybe on of
the reasons why you see Asuka playing Sega-brand video games
on Sega-brand televisions).
I too have difficulty understanding Bandai's logic in
releasing the Eva game for the N64 when it should have come
out for the PlayStation or Dreamcast. I think I'm going to
start an anti-Bandai webpage.
The DC's crappy
controller
Well, as we all know, the Dreamcast controller has its
design flaws (understatement alert!). Although Nyko solves the
problem for fighting games by (as I understand it) giving
access to R and L on the face of the controller, some games
are STILL unplayable on the DC controller... not because of
layout, but because of lack of buttons. Can you imagine a
playable control setup for Forsaken on the DC? Now, both
Genesis and Playstation showed us that an improved controller
CAN be made available during the course of a system's life.
Any chance of this happening in the case of DC?
Juan.
PS: by the way, I AM making fun of the DC, again, despite
having already reserved it...
I suppose there's a good chance Sega will upgrade
the controller at some point. However, keep in mind that in
both the case of the Genesis and PlayStation, the new
controllers were rarely (if ever) required for a game. So,
developers are most often going to be forced to work with the
current controller setup.
What really concerns me about the controller issue is that
Sega should have thought about it BEFORE releasing the
Dreamcast. It's almost as if they looked at the N64 and
determined that one of the reason it was a success in America
was because of how the controller looks, and that's how the DC
controller became what it is today. Very, very scary . .
..
Why? Oh why did
they axe the man?
I take it as a shock that Sega decided to get rid of
Mr. Stolar at such a time. Personally, I think he was doing a
great job and should have stayed with the company. Whats your
take on it ??? Distressed Bernie Supporter
I think I'll quote an industry insider yesterday
upon having learned of the news: "Boy, he must have really
farted in someone's car." I think the car in Bernie's case
belongs to some of the higher-ups at Sega of Japan who were
kinda ticked-off upon reading a particular quote by Stolar in
the most recent issue of Games Business.
Working Designs
Working for Sega?
Since Bernie Stolar is not working for Sega anymore,
does this mean that Working Designs would now at least think
of making games for the Dreamcast?
Just a thought.
Will
Victor Ireland had this to say on the 'net:
"Money isn't really the issue, but the possibility of doing
at least *some* Dreamcast is at least open now."
Hmm . . .
This guy's
asking for it . . ..
Do you think in any way Zelda would make it to
dreamcast? Just think if it did! How SWEET it would be! It
would be mass! So will it come to DC? -
SuperNCHT
Once in a while, someone sends in a Q&A that
just screams "Stupid Dumb Letter of the Day" (note that I've
changed the category from "stupid dumb idiot" to "stupid dumb
letter"). Your letter wins today's award, SuperNCHT. Zelda
will never appear on the Dreamcast. NEVER!
NEVER!
send your letters to: mailto:dreamcast_qa@ign.com
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