Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-665531-20130417222341/@comment-5883269-20130504001711

Salnax wrote:

Wijata Mateusz wrote: What about other unreleased games for example unreleased Crash Bandicoot sequel that was planned to be released in 2010 or Sonic X-treme ??? The Crash Bandicoot series has been too vulnerable to butterflies for that sequel to still exist. As for Sonic Xtreme... it could exist, but the project looks like it would have never been completed even if the Saturn was a success. And even if it did come out, it simply does not look to have been a promising game. Umm About Crash Bandicoot... that is more relative, again unlike OTL Crash was less pushed mostly because was pushed by Universal Alone.

And about the curious Case of Sonic Xtreme...that game was the posterchild of trouble production, the game was intended to be made by SEGA of America, Sega Techinical Institute(STI, the creator of Chamaleon Kid,Vector Man and Comix Zone) but they found a lot of issues making the game  3D, they want to use the NiGHTS into Dream Engine(who was pretty good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w55Upe8yOYQ) but them Yuji Naka feel they were plagarize their work(how don't know...jealous of the american project?) and vetoed the use of the Engine. That make the project miss headline along headline and the main programmer fell ill for the whole overwork and almost die, that was pretty sad.

Don't Know... Maybe Naka will have a change of heart?

And About Cancelled game...In OTL SEGA originally want to created another Phantasy Star for the MEGA-CD called Phantasy Star: The Return of Alice, the project was later moved to Saturn when enter into development help, because their lead 'managers' aka Reiko Kodama and Yuji Naka were pretty bussy(Kodama with the Resident Evil Clone called Dead Fear and Naka with Burning Rangers and Sonic RPG... Who later become Sonic Adventure), here without either project(Dead Fear was canned because they still keep Resident Evil and Naka wil have more time thanks to less thigh Scheduele time) maybe they will try to make the game as Sega Saturn Flagship RPG(to counter FF) and the last traditional game before enter the 'Online' Series.