Chapter 173: Get the Legend of the Pharaoh Heroes
Soon, Fengyun Game Software Company allocated a special team to start Fengyun's first independent game project in 1991, which was in charge of game planner Dong Doudou!
"Oh my God! Dongdoudou, I know! I was in a group with him at the Anime Academy, but I didn't expect to be an independent person in charge now! This is a familiar student, and he is extremely envious of his blockbuster.
"It's a newcomer...... Newcomers who have only been in for a year...... That's amazing! More old employees were shocked and reminded themselves that they should work hard, struggle, newcomers can come out, and their old employees should have greater opportunities!
"This guy ...... Woowoo...... A person ran away to Japan, doesn't he want me? After learning the news, half of the swallow in the capital was proud and happy, but the other half was a little worried, she gritted her teeth and made up her mind to learn Japanese hard, and strive to stand out from the Longteng Animation Magazine as soon as possible, go to Japan for further study, and get together with her lover!
This was a deliberate rumor, and under Yang Yun's hint, the news quickly spread throughout the company.
Yang Yun does this, on the one hand, he really cherishes his talent, and on the other hand, he also has a typical role, he wants to let all Longteng people see that as long as you have the strength, ability, and creativity, you can become a leader, get the support of the company, and develop the game you designed yourself in your dreams!
For a time, there was a wave of game innovation in Longteng Company!
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"Innovation?" Masayuki Kato felt a little annoyed by Yang Yun's proposal.
According to the contract, the two joint ventures Longteng Pharaoh Holding Company. It's just an MD platform port for the existing Pharaoh-controlled games "Isu" and "Legend of Heroes".
Transplantation is transplantation, if you have to innovate or something. That would involve changing the source code and redesigning the story. What's the difference between that and a remaster?
Is Long Teng's hand stretched too long? Masayuki Kato's dissatisfaction is also here!
Yang Yun nodded: "Yes, my proposal today is innovation." President Kato, to be honest, when we first signed the cooperation contract, I fell in love with the game Legend of Heroes. Don't worry, please listen to me first! β
Kato Masayuki looked nervous, and was shocked by Yang Yun Chiguoguo's words.
Yang Yun continued: "Longteng decided to create a joint venture with Pharaoh Kong, the main purpose is to fight against Nintendo's RPG camp. It's just that Enix's Dragon Quest occupies the right time and place, after a few years of precipitation. Its sales are simply too high, and its fame is the greatest. IMHO, these games controlled by the Pharaoh are definitely not its opponents at this stage, and now the only one that can become the opponent of Dragon Quest in the RPG game world is Final Fantasy. β
Masayuki Kato nodded and agreed: "Our Pharaoh Control is still a step late, and we should have thought of transplanting it to the home game console a few years in advance, if we joined forces with Sega two years in advance." Then the current TV game RPG market, it's hard to say! β
"Not really!" Yang Yun was a little distressed: "After Enix rejected me, I was worried that Square Enix would also reject me, so I would have no way out." After losing two major RPG games. Then the only thing that can compete with the two of them is the heroic legend! Luckily, Zuihou Square Enix was willing to join the Sega camp, so I had a lot less trouble. β
What the! It turns out that the heroic legend turned out to be a spare tire?
Masayuki Kato almost spurted out a mouthful of blood in a depressed mood!
weishenmeοΌ weishenme will be so! He weishenme will hear such a result!
Heroic legends are controlled by the pharaohs, and that's right. But only 1 generation has been released, and there is still a prefix of "Dragon Slayer: Legend of Heroes". How much Masayuki Kato hopes that this child can grow up, everyone knows. This is also an important reason for his cooperation with Longteng, which is an important step from PC to video games.
But it was precisely because of his own caution, for the sake of safety, that he held the child's hand and refused to let go, and thought that it was for the good of the child, but he didn't expect that because of this, Pharaoh Kong lost a chance to let the child be reborn, and lost the opportunity for Sega to help upgrade and repackage!
If it weren't for his stubborn persistence, it would have been Heroic Legends, not Final Fantasy, that would have been fully supported by Sega and Dragon Teng in the end!
For the first time, Masayuki Kato realized that he was a rather stupid person, hopelessly stupid!
He wanted to cry without tears, so he could only look at Yang Yun there and sigh to himself: "It's okay, the foundation of Final Fantasy is deeper, and the victory rate will be greater against the brave Dragon Quest." β
Gritting his teeth, Kato Masayuki asked tentatively, "What about our heroic legend?" β
Yang Yun blinked and asked strangely, "Isn't the Legend of Heroes being transplanted to MD?" β
Masayuki Kato almost fainted, how could he hear this answer? If he knew that this was the case, he would have fought to upgrade from a spare tire to a standard tire!
Well, continuing to return to the proposition of innovation, Kato Masayuki rubbed his temples and asked with difficulty: "So what does President Yang say about innovation, what do we need to do with Pharaoh Control?" What exactly does innovation mean? β
Just wait for you to say this!
Pretend, less for Lao Tzu! There is no benefit, all of them are reluctant, and now that they hear that it is beneficial, they take the initiative to ask for it, right?
Yang Yun smiled secretly in his heart, and his face was very serious: "Well, if President Kato agrees, I can arrange for some people to come over and learn the production of RPG games on the PC side." As you know, PC and video game production have commonalities in the underlying code, but there are also a lot of differences, our people are inexperienced, and we need a lot of guidance from Pharaoh to brainstorm and innovate together. β
Masayuki Kato hesitated for a moment and didn't dare to agree on the spot.
This is a training for Pharaoh to do PC game production for free, for Pharaoh Kong, working with Longteng is also dancing with wolves, and it is beautiful when dancing together, but I don't know if at some point, this wolf will turn his head and bite him.
Yang Yun sighed in his heart, the characteristic of Pharaoh Control is that the steps are too small, the leader has no guts, everything has to be considered, after thinking about it, the opportunity will leave, seeing that the TV game is booming, it took 2 years before it was decided to transplant the PC game to the TV game console platform, this is the most haode example!
Can you stop Dragon from entering the PC game without cooperation? Joke! Yang Yun has 20 other people working in EA Labs!
Many leaders of Japanese game companies have a vision like this!
Masayuki Kato was a little puzzled: "You mean, Longteng wants to join in and prepare to innovate on the Legend of Heroes game?" β
Yang Yun nodded: "That's right!" That's how we worked with Square Enix, I sent over 40 staff members to take over 3/4 of the script design and low-level coding for Final Fantasy 4, and 15 of them joined the core design team. In fact, the development of Legend of Heroes 2 can also be used in this form of cooperation! β
40 people! Square Enix, this bastard, they allowed so many people to join!
Masayuki Kato was completely speechless, 40 people, which is more than the entire R&D department of Pharaoh Control, and since Square Enix agreed, what reason did Pharaoh Control have to refuse?
Yang Yun hit the railway while it was hot: "The current version of the Legend of Heroes is actually the 6th part of the Dragon Slayer, right?" You weishenme want to make it a separate game series, weishenme is not named "Dragon-Slayer: Another-Story"? Because you know for yourselves, Legend of Heroes has the potential to become a series game!
Think about it, President Kato, are you willing to cooperate with us Longteng for innovative and in-depth development, and jointly develop Legend of Heroes 2, making it a classic masterpiece in RPG games with the same status as the Final Fantasy series, or willing to become an unknown opponent of the Final Fantasy series on the way to RPG dominance, and eventually become an unpopular game with hundreds of thousands of sales, you should think about it yourself! β
"But ......" Kato Masayuki thought of Long Teng's previous guarantee, Yang Yun promised that he would never make RPG games like Isu and Legend of Heroes to compete with Pharaoh Kong, and he suddenly woke up to this condition, which is flawed!
Yes, although Dragon Teng is now involved in Final Fantasy, this is a work on the video game platform, and it has nothing to do with the PC side for the time being, so it is not a breach of contract.
But in the future, after Final Fantasy dominates RPGs, will Pharaoh Control really be able to stop them from attacking the PC side in a big way? The validity period of this contract is 3 years, or Kato Masayuki took the initiative to ask for it, because he thinks that Nintendo and Sega will definitely be able to decide the winner within 3 years, and he will choose again at that time!
And now it seems that 3 years later, Final Fantasy's PC porting is inevitable, and Masayuki Kato dug a hole for himself and tied a countdown bomb to his body!
"President Yang, please give me a moment to think about it!" Masayuki Kato didn't dare to say no, and he needed to continue to convince the other executives in the company.
However, Pharaoh Holdings eventually passed the decision, and after a heated argument with other executives of the company, Pharaoh Holdings added 20 new Chinese employees to the company's headquarters, joined the development of Legend of Heroes 2, and accepted Yang Yun's suggestion to separate Legend of Heroes from Dragon Slayer and officially become a separate brand.
However, this incident aroused the dissatisfaction of the chief designer of the Pharaoh Control, Takeo Kiya, and among the high-level Pharaoh Control, the opposition of the Takeo Kiya was the loudest and the strongest.
Nothing else, because Legend of Heroes is a version of his game Dragon Slayer series, all of which are his own sons!
He felt as if he had been forcibly robbed of a part of his wealth, and he was very unhappy! (To be continued......)