Isn't it kind of weird that Xbox got Spawn as it's special character? Wouldn't Master Chief have made a lot more sense?
Who cares?
>>12136539>/vr/ - Retro Games
>>12136504Especially when last gen we got a shitty Spawn game made by Sony.
>>12136504Master Chief wasn’t the defining Xbox mascot when the rights were being hashed out. Fans considered Halo Xbox’s definitive game before Microsoft themselves did
>>12136504See>>12136604 but I'm not sure who else they could've used to represent xbox. The guy from Tao Feng??
>>12136504How would Master Chief make sense in a melee/sword based fighting game?
>>12136604Yup, the green guy from Fuzion Frenzy was originally the Xbox mascot before Master Chief.
>>12136620Doesn't chief use this mini sword from like the assassins creed dood
4 player Spawn on Dreamcast, speaking personally.
>>12136504I've heard that the Xbox guest was going to be Kasumi from Dead or Alive, but Tecmo backed out at the last second. Namco was already working with Spawn's creator to create Necrid, so they just asked if they could use Spawn as a substitute and his creator said yes.
>>12136780>Kasumi from Dead or AliveWould have been amazing
>>12136683That sounds sick
>>12136504Halo wasn't the franchise it is today when soul caliber 2 came out but yeah spawn was a weird choice I thought
>>12136669The plasma sword wasn't a thing till halo 2 which came out 2 years after soul calibur 2
>>12136604When did SC2 begin development?
>>12136626I played an embarrassing amount of fusion frenzy in college. It lends itself to binge drinking with a group.
>>12136626Holy shit, who thought these character designs were appealing?
>>12136504>weird that Xbox got Spawn as it's special characterNO, because:1 supernes game1 psx game1 dreamcast game1 animate tv seriesiconic USA comicbook icon due to being made pure spite of big corpos like marvel.also mcfarlne toys and vidya are quite related.
>>12140201Port was probably getting started and getting licensing rights around mid-late 2002.
>>12142769So after Halo was already a smash hit?
>>12140540It was the early 2000's and it was an entirely western produced game. These designs and this art style was everywhere. Why are you on /vr/ if you can't remember the times from a mere 20 years ago? Xbox isn't even retro for purists.
>>12136504Spawn was not there to represent Xbox itselfMcFarlane Toys was making the tie-in figure line to SC2 so part of the deal was they get Spawn in and Necrid.
>>12136620Master makes a lot more sense than Heihachi, some old dude who has no weapons at all.
>>12142889>These designs and this art style was everywhereMaster Chief didn't look like that. This sort of intentionally ugly thing may have been popular in America but not in Australia.
>>12136626Is the perspective wonky, or does the girl on the left have a gigantic left foot?
>>12142889>Why are you on /vr/ if you can't remember the times from a mere 20 years ago?What a retarded line of thought>why are you on /vr/ if you want to explore the vast retro library? You should only blogpost about replaying Ocarina for the 100th time this year (27 years in a row).
>>12136504It was an interesting idea, but doomed to fail. At that time, only Nintendo had popular IPs. Sony had a bunch of iconic third-party games, and Xbox was just starting to make a name for itself. Even today, I would say that the situation remains more or less the same.
