A. Some out of touch foreign guy running an account who thinks that this is the hip way to advertise and talk about your product due to the language and culture barrier
B. Some out of touch guy trying to be hip and cool with the kids!!! YEAH. GNARLY LETS GO THROW EGGS AT MRS FINCHFIELDS HOUSE WOOOAAAAHHHHHH RADICAL DONT BE A BABY SEGAGRAFX DOES WHAT NINTENDEGA GEO DONT!!!! not realizing that marketing strategy has been like. out of date for nearly 20 years
cant help but kinda sympathize with em either way since judging by the commercial its clearly a local thing run by some old guy who wants to make his product look fun, the title of this article made me think it would be some "Piko interactive ceo saying all prototypes should be trashed" level a-holery on twitter or smth but this is kinda charming. I'm kinda endeared by it. like yeah you go grandpa stick it to the physical game buyersđ
Iâm. Mixed on this. Gameplay looks near perfect to how the snes version played, no complaints there. But man, the random metal slug and streets of rage sound effects really take me out of the whole thing, the game was perfectly fine without them and if they REALLY wanted to give enemies voice lines, they shouldâve used actual grunts and laughs from the movie.
Also I hope the strongman being at the end of the first screen is just a thing for the trailer/demo and not the final game cause if the levels are gonna be shortened and mixed around like that itâll be a HUGE turnoff from me
Still super invested in this tho! Cool to see ppl bringing one of the best Batman games to more platforms and the Christmas release date is just perfectđ
@Leynos series has always been a mixed bag. The first two arcade cabinet games were terrible, contra force is mediocre slop, 3 has those awful top down stages, the ps1 games are terrible and despite having fantastic tunnel stages and some of the best boss fights Iâve ever experienced in a run and gun contra 4âs actual level design left a lot to be desired personally. Also having limited continues and no proper save files or passwords in a 2007 ds game is inexcusable, Iâm all for making games hard but they should also be accessible, make that a feature for the hardest difficulties, not how the game is just by default.
Like how Konami is doing more with this series as of late. Operation galuga was amazing and Iâd kill to see 4, uprising and rebirth get modern updated ports â!
@KitsuneNight This! Sure, it was SLIGHTLY better technically with 2d effects but the system was super clunky to develop for, compared to the ps1 which was not only cheaper, but had a better range of capabilities, had a wide game library in all regions, and was much simpler and easy to create games for. This isnât even a knock against the Saturn, itâs probably my favorite Sega console, itâs just thereâs a very good reason the ps1 trampled both it and the n64 to a lesser extent on the market.
@axelhander the problem isnât that the ai theyâre using looks bad, the problem is they used ai to begin with instead of just hiring one of the 80 trillion artists that populate the world to do it
@slider1983 Earnest Evans was honestly ahead of its time, imo itâs the Freddy got fingered of video games since it predicted the recent slew of games all about overcoming weird janky physics like sprint, getting over it, steppy pants, goat simulator etc. always respected it for how weird and experimental it was.
Anne Futatabi just plain sucks though that game has 0 redeemable qualities outside of the cutscenesđ
@PopetheRev28 Their ceo believes prototype roms should be destroyed and abandoned because they âplay like crapâ and they use stolen fanart for some of their game releases on top of going after emulation communities so that theyâre releases are the only way to play the game.
Also their collections are crap, the Jim power one is held together with sticks and spit and bugged out to the point half the screen was glitched and torn out all because I used the save state featuređđ
praying that SNES the Mask game with the insane pixel art and hyper-cocaine-fueled gameplay gets widespread attention by the internet at some point as well, that whole thing is basically just pizza tower before pizza tower was a thing and it rocks
Iâm gonna be honest M2 should get hired to make games from the ground up more nowadays like with this and haunted castle revisited, imo itâs where they show their chops best especially with how poor their 4th generation console work tends to be unfortunately.
@-wc- no worries, thatâs completely valid:>! Iâm just talking in the mindset of someone purely playing these games through collections and emulations nowadays. All viewpoints are valid!đ
@NinChocolate I wouldnât really say that about M2 either since they intentionally went out of their way to not include rondo or the European version of bloodlines on the Castlevania anniversary collection, nor the pc-engine cd Darius games for the Darius Cozmic collection console, on top of having no museum content for that awful collection either. Not to mention how every single one of their home console rereleases intentionally make none of the cheat codes originally coded into the game accessible. Another example albeit less egregious imo is how for the sega ages lineup a few years ago, they only ported the arcade version of Thunder force 3, rather than having the Sega Genesis version be available too. I like M2 as a company, but their rerelease track record is nowhere near as perfect as everyone hypes them up to be, IMO.
Working Designs were always a double edged sword. Sure, they were some of the first to localize more obscure Japanese games and bring them to the West/Eu, but at the same time, they did so by making so many unecessary changes to the gameplay that turned the games into miserable unfun slogs, because god forbid Little Jimmy try buying his games NOT through Blockbuster's Insanely sleezy rental pipelineđ!
@mjparker77 They should genuinely face a lawsuit for the way they handled the turrican anthologies, you should NOT get to just lie to your customers about your compilations being physical exclusive then silently drop them on the eshop once people actually start receiving their physical copies almost 2 years later.
Literally cannot be excited for this due to the fact ININ are an incompetent sloppy company who overprice their 30 yo rom compilations to exhorbent prices and lie to customers about physical game exclusivity. They can bite my a@$, they should be giving all these old arcade games to Ratalaika instead, since they're honest, put care into their compilations and don't give their rereleases the same price as a first party Nintendo game.
@RetroGames Real grown ups also donât make kickstarters for thousands of dollars if they wonât be able to make the product come to fruition. This is nothing on the backers being more intelligent with their money, itâs Tallarico being more intelligent with setting realistic goals and expectations.
@RetroGames He has lied about almost all of his accomplishments and stolen the credit from other people. I may not have done as much as him but thatâs not a hard pill to swallow since at least I donât throw my colleagues under the bus and take their creations in as my own every step of the way.
seems like another reminder that emulation will always be morally viable in this day and age.
If companies donât wanna give me access to their super old products that arenât available anymore, I feel perfectly justified to experience them through my own means! Something like switch emulators getting taken down I can understand, but no dmca takedown in the universe is gonna stop me from playing joy mech fight on my pc for freeđ
I simply donât understand why youâd pay 600 dollars for this outside of a collection, when mame is free and can run these games just as well. Itâs the same thing that happened with Paprium, in no way is spending hundreds of dollars on a Video Game just to play it remotely justifiable.
Iâm not too sad about Castlevania being Dormant since bloodstained is made by the ppl who worked under Konami and both curse of the moon games are up there with the classicvaniasâ peaks like rondo and bloodlines.
Ritual was rly good too even if it wasnât as good as the ds trilogy or aria!
At this point p much every dormant Konami franchise aside from the Hudson soft stuff and Gradius has a successor made by the people who worked on the originals, or people who understood what made the series work so well.
@NinChocolate This is being developed by success, whoâs cotton sequels have all been great from what Iâve seen, so I think weâre in good handsđ
They should add a âquebecgamersâ mode that halves the framerate and makes the audio super bassy and distorted so it constantly sounds like itâs taking place in a war zone
âNobody wants to see these old 3D games because they donât look impressiveâ Oh yeah like the games YALL make nowadays look like high art too and arenât overly ugly gray rtx bloomfests that donât even function properly 90% of the timeđđ
@MSaturn My problem with working designs was never their silly dialogue but the unnecessary changes in difficulty they made to their games that significantly lowered their fun factor just so little Jimmy would have to give the ceo of blockbuster money for his 5th wallet lol. Praying this collection gets rid of those nonsense gameplay tweaks.
@Jackburton1985 not really. Super double dragon and double dragon 3 were 16-bit, plus Iv has a lot of ugly cheap looking backgrounds which donât match the well drawn sprites of 1 and 2 on the nes. A franchise shouldnât only be 8-bit and âretroâ going forward.
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Re: "Only Zombies Buy Physical Games" Says Digital Code Retailer CDKeys
i see this as one of two things
either
A. Some out of touch foreign guy running an account who thinks that this is the hip way to advertise and talk about your product due to the language and culture barrier
B. Some out of touch guy trying to be hip and cool with the kids!!! YEAH. GNARLY LETS GO THROW EGGS AT MRS FINCHFIELDS HOUSE WOOOAAAAHHHHHH RADICAL DONT BE A BABY SEGAGRAFX DOES WHAT NINTENDEGA GEO DONT!!!! not realizing that marketing strategy has been like. out of date for nearly 20 years
cant help but kinda sympathize with em either way since judging by the commercial its clearly a local thing run by some old guy who wants to make his product look fun, the title of this article made me think it would be some "Piko interactive ceo saying all prototypes should be trashed" level a-holery on twitter or smth but this is kinda charming. I'm kinda endeared by it. like yeah you go grandpa stick it to the physical game buyersđ
Re: This Christmas, You'll Be Able To Play SNES Batman Returns On Your Genesis, For Free
Iâm. Mixed on this.
Gameplay looks near perfect to how the snes version played, no complaints there.
But man, the random metal slug and streets of rage sound effects really take me out of the whole thing, the game was perfectly fine without them and if they REALLY wanted to give enemies voice lines, they shouldâve used actual grunts and laughs from the movie.
Also I hope the strongman being at the end of the first screen is just a thing for the trailer/demo and not the final game cause if the levels are gonna be shortened and mixed around like that itâll be a HUGE turnoff from me
Still super invested in this tho! Cool to see ppl bringing one of the best Batman games to more platforms and the Christmas release date is just perfectđ
Re: How X8's Contra: Super Wall Storm Is Taking Konami's Series Into The Realm Of VR
@Leynos series has always been a mixed bag. The first two arcade cabinet games were terrible, contra force is mediocre slop, 3 has those awful top down stages, the ps1 games are terrible and despite having fantastic tunnel stages and some of the best boss fights Iâve ever experienced in a run and gun contra 4âs actual level design left a lot to be desired personally. Also having limited continues and no proper save files or passwords in a 2007 ds game is inexcusable, Iâm all for making games hard but they should also be accessible, make that a feature for the hardest difficulties, not how the game is just by default.
Re: How X8's Contra: Super Wall Storm Is Taking Konami's Series Into The Realm Of VR
Like how Konami is doing more with this series as of late. Operation galuga was amazing and Iâd kill to see 4, uprising and rebirth get modern updated ports â!
Re: Saturn Was "More Powerful Than PlayStation" Claims Argonaut Founder
@KitsuneNight This! Sure, it was SLIGHTLY better technically with 2d effects but the system was super clunky to develop for, compared to the ps1 which was not only cheaper, but had a better range of capabilities, had a wide game library in all regions, and was much simpler and easy to create games for. This isnât even a knock against the Saturn, itâs probably my favorite Sega console, itâs just thereâs a very good reason the ps1 trampled both it and the n64 to a lesser extent on the market.
Re: Accusations Of AI Art Deflate Archer Maclean's DropZone 40th Anniversary Announcement
@PinballBuzzbro Well, Whaddya know?đđđđ
Re: Accusations Of AI Art Deflate Archer Maclean's DropZone 40th Anniversary Announcement
@axelhander the problem isnât that the ai theyâre using looks bad, the problem is they used ai to begin with instead of just hiring one of the 80 trillion artists that populate the world to do it
Re: Accusations Of AI Art Deflate Archer Maclean's DropZone 40th Anniversary Announcement
If he isnât gonna put the effort in to pay an artist for cover art, I shouldnât be expected to put the effort into buying his gameđ
Re: Random: Donkey Kong Country's 'Aquatic Ambience' Gets Impressive Mega Man-Style Remix
That DK sprite is repulsive but everything else about this is really well made, props to the guy behind it all lol
Re: 'Sony: Year By Year' Book To Celebrate Seven Decades Of The Japanese Tech Giant
The PS5 chapter is just a bunch of blank pages
Re: Genesis Cult Classics El Viento And Earnest Evans Are Making A Comeback
@slider1983 Earnest Evans was honestly ahead of its time, imo itâs the Freddy got fingered of video games since it predicted the recent slew of games all about overcoming weird janky physics like sprint, getting over it, steppy pants, goat simulator etc. always respected it for how weird and experimental it was.
Anne Futatabi just plain sucks though that game has 0 redeemable qualities outside of the cutscenesđ
Re: Genesis Cult Classics El Viento And Earnest Evans Are Making A Comeback
WAIT OMG I LOVE THIS TRILOGY ITS MAKING A COMEBAC-
âEdia, the Japanese company behind recent re-releases of Valis and Tenshi No Uta-â
âŠOh.
Re: Bleem, The Company That Took On Sony And Won, Is Crowdfunding For The "Largest Retro Gaming Project" Ever
@PopetheRev28 Their ceo believes prototype roms should be destroyed and abandoned because they âplay like crapâ and they use stolen fanart for some of their game releases on top of going after emulation communities so that theyâre releases are the only way to play the game.
Also their collections are crap, the Jim power one is held together with sticks and spit and bugged out to the point half the screen was glitched and torn out all because I used the save state featuređđ
Re: Two Lost Sega Channel Games Have Been Found And Preserved
That is the hardest title screen I've ever seen for a video game ngl
Re: Piglet's Big Game Gets Compared To Resident Evil And Silent Hill, Starts Selling For Big Bucks
praying that SNES the Mask game with the insane pixel art and hyper-cocaine-fueled gameplay gets widespread attention by the internet at some point as well, that whole thing is basically just pizza tower before pizza tower was a thing and it rocks
Re: Epic Games Is Totally Chill About You Downloading Unreal And Unreal Tournament For Nothing
Epic my GOATS
Re: We Now Have Our First Images Of M2's New 'Night Striker' Game
This looks absolutely perfect omg
Iâm gonna be honest M2 should get hired to make games from the ground up more nowadays like with this and haunted castle revisited, imo itâs where they show their chops best especially with how poor their 4th generation console work tends to be unfortunately.
Re: A New Night Striker Game Is In Development At M2
IM GOING TO EXPLODE
Re: Irem's Arcade Bomberman Comes To FPGA Platforms
And I thought the turbografx box art was bad!
Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"
@-wc- no worries, thatâs completely valid:>! Iâm just talking in the mindset of someone purely playing these games through collections and emulations nowadays. All viewpoints are valid!đ
Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"
@NinChocolate I wouldnât really say that about M2 either since they intentionally went out of their way to not include rondo or the European version of bloodlines on the Castlevania anniversary collection, nor the pc-engine cd Darius games for the Darius Cozmic collection console, on top of having no museum content for that awful collection either. Not to mention how every single one of their home console rereleases intentionally make none of the cheat codes originally coded into the game accessible. Another example albeit less egregious imo is how for the sega ages lineup a few years ago, they only ported the arcade version of Thunder force 3, rather than having the Sega Genesis version be available too. I like M2 as a company, but their rerelease track record is nowhere near as perfect as everyone hypes them up to be, IMO.
Re: Lunar Remastered Won't (Currently) Include The Original English Voice Acting, But It's Been Offered "For Cheap"
Working Designs were always a double edged sword. Sure, they were some of the first to localize more obscure Japanese games and bring them to the West/Eu, but at the same time, they did so by making so many unecessary changes to the gameplay that turned the games into miserable unfun slogs, because god forbid Little Jimmy try buying his games NOT through Blockbuster's Insanely sleezy rental pipelineđ!
Re: SuperSega Explains Why It Produces Such "Crappy" Videos, Says It's Afraid Analogue Will Steal Its Ideas
@axelhander Ok Grandpa let's get you your meds
Re: SuperSega Explains Why It Produces Such "Crappy" Videos, Says It's Afraid Analogue Will Steal Its Ideas
this whole thing is making the Amico look like Shovel Knight in comparison dear god
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is Getting An Impressive Fan-Made Remake On Master System And Game Gear
Not huge on them still keeping the corny âtails has been kidnapped!!11â plot line but otherwise this looks insanely cool!
Re: Confusion Reigns As SuperSega Pre-Orders Get Charged For The Full Amount
Hope that Lamborghini gets totaled
Re: Irem Collection Volume 2 Finally Gets Western Release Date After Delay
@mjparker77 They should genuinely face a lawsuit for the way they handled the turrican anthologies, you should NOT get to just lie to your customers about your compilations being physical exclusive then silently drop them on the eshop once people actually start receiving their physical copies almost 2 years later.
Re: Irem Collection Volume 2 Finally Gets Western Release Date After Delay
Literally cannot be excited for this due to the fact ININ are an incompetent sloppy company who overprice their 30 yo rom compilations to exhorbent prices and lie to customers about physical game exclusivity. They can bite my a@$, they should be giving all these old arcade games to Ratalaika instead, since they're honest, put care into their compilations and don't give their rereleases the same price as a first party Nintendo game.
I'll stick with MAME.
Re: After The Epic Failure Of The Intellivision Amico, Tommy Tallarico's New Goal Is Becoming A Backgammon Legend
@RetroGames Real grown ups also donât make kickstarters for thousands of dollars if they wonât be able to make the product come to fruition. This is nothing on the backers being more intelligent with their money, itâs Tallarico being more intelligent with setting realistic goals and expectations.
Re: After The Epic Failure Of The Intellivision Amico, Tommy Tallarico's New Goal Is Becoming A Backgammon Legend
@RetroGames He has lied about almost all of his accomplishments and stolen the credit from other people. I may not have done as much as him but thatâs not a hard pill to swallow since at least I donât throw my colleagues under the bus and take their creations in as my own every step of the way.
Re: The Oregon Trail Is Getting A "Barbie-Style" Movie Adaptation
This will either be shockingly great or one of the worst films of the decade with no inbetween
Re: After The Epic Failure Of The Intellivision Amico, Tommy Tallarico's New Goal Is Becoming A Backgammon Legend
He plays and loses a single game then begins claiming he won 5 world championships in a row
Re: The US Copyright Office Doesn't Want To Give You Access To Video Game History
seems like another reminder that emulation will always be morally viable in this day and age.
If companies donât wanna give me access to their super old products that arenât available anymore, I feel perfectly justified to experience them through my own means! Something like switch emulators getting taken down I can understand, but no dmca takedown in the universe is gonna stop me from playing joy mech fight on my pc for freeđ
Re: New Metal Slug Fangame Swaps The Series's Firearms For Lightsabers
Wow this looks cool, will probably check it out when itâs finish-
Allen oâ Neil carrying the mech on just his shoulders
I NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME NOW
Re: Triple Impact Is A Promising New SNES Beat 'Em Up
this looks rly cool! im all for it long as they make it easily accessible unlike what that psychopath Fonz did with Craprium lol
Re: Taito Arcade Memories Volume 2, An SD Card With ROMs On, Is Now Selling For Crazy Money
I simply donât understand why youâd pay 600 dollars for this outside of a collection, when mame is free and can run these games just as well. Itâs the same thing that happened with Paprium, in no way is spending hundreds of dollars on a Video Game just to play it remotely justifiable.
Re: Lovish Is A New 8-Bit-Inspired Action Adventure Coming To Steam Early Next Year
âEven the in-game ai art is drawn by a human person!â
What
Re: Castlevania: Nocturne Director Hints Season 3 Will Only Happen If You Support Season 2
Iâm not too sad about Castlevania being Dormant since bloodstained is made by the ppl who worked under Konami and both curse of the moon games are up there with the classicvaniasâ peaks like rondo and bloodlines.
Ritual was rly good too even if it wasnât as good as the ds trilogy or aria!
At this point p much every dormant Konami franchise aside from the Hudson soft stuff and Gradius has a successor made by the people who worked on the originals, or people who understood what made the series work so well.
Re: Classic Shmup Series Sonic Wings / Aero Fighters Is Getting A New Entry
@NinChocolate This is being developed by success, whoâs cotton sequels have all been great from what Iâve seen, so I think weâre in good handsđ
Re: Hotel Mario, One Of Mario's "Worst Games", Is Getting A Fan-Made Upgrade
They should add a âquebecgamersâ mode that halves the framerate and makes the audio super bassy and distorted so it constantly sounds like itâs taking place in a war zone
Re: Don't Hold Your Breath For A Tekken Collection
âNobody wants to see these old 3D games because they donât look impressiveâ
Oh yeah like the games YALL make nowadays look like high art too and arenât overly ugly gray rtx bloomfests that donât even function properly 90% of the timeđđ
Re: Namco's Splatterhouse Is Getting An Unofficial Mega Drive / Genesis Port
Iâd also love to see wanpaku graffiti get a 16 bit remake since I always loved the ideas in that game
Re: Jaleco's 'Saiyƫki World', 'Magic John', & 'Pizza Pop!' Are Coming To Nintendo Switch
I hate that jaiyuki world box art.
I hate it so much.
Re: Jaleco's 'Saiyƫki World', 'Magic John', & 'Pizza Pop!' Are Coming To Nintendo Switch
@HammerGalladeBro Fun fact! It was one of the first games developed by arc system works!
Yes
THAT Arc System Works
Re: Lunar Fans Have Noticed Something Interesting About The Upcoming Remaster
@MSaturn My problem with working designs was never their silly dialogue but the unnecessary changes in difficulty they made to their games that significantly lowered their fun factor just so little Jimmy would have to give the ceo of blockbuster money for his 5th wallet lol. Praying this collection gets rid of those nonsense gameplay tweaks.
Re: Double Dragon Artist Says Double Dragon Revive Is "Cheap" And "Shows No Respect" To The Series
@wiiware Fight'n rage and streets of rage remake too!
also Rita's Rewind omg h ohgoghuuu ouggghb that game looks so good omfg
Re: Double Dragon Artist Says Double Dragon Revive Is "Cheap" And "Shows No Respect" To The Series
Idk I think the game looks cool. Iâd rather a series try something new like this instead of being stuck in âso retro!â Purgatory forever lol
Re: Double Dragon Artist Says Double Dragon Revive Is "Cheap" And "Shows No Respect" To The Series
@Jackburton1985 not really. Super double dragon and double dragon 3 were 16-bit, plus Iv has a lot of ugly cheap looking backgrounds which donât match the well drawn sprites of 1 and 2 on the nes. A franchise shouldnât only be 8-bit and âretroâ going forward.
Re: Sega's Rent-A-Hero Is Making A Comeback With The Addition Of Web3 Nonsense
You know, sega going out of business doesnât sound too bad rn
Re: Music: Story Of Thor's Vinyl Debut Is Yuzo Koshiro At His 16-bit Best
was never huge on beyond oasis' ost tbh. Felt way too simplistic and bland but that's no shade to Yuzo or anyone who likes itđ.
My favorite work of his is easily super adventure island lol.