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@Blast16 funny coincidence ur pfp is the mega drive because I was about to pop in and say that this looks cool but the m2 genesis Darius port will always be the best way to play the og imo lol.

@bluemage1989 yeah god forbid people want to get paid and be able to keep themselves afloat what a preposterous thought🙄

this isnt just about this one dev, its about how companies and rich pigs in general will start more and more relying on ai so they dont have to pay any of their workers while still being able to abuse them, and choices like this just further encourage that crap to happen.

@axelhander I dont care that he used AI art thats not my focus, I'm just pissed he didn't hire an actual artist to do these for him instead. As someone who may or may not be into doing lewd art myself i can say there are a LOT of us who would love to do similar looking pieces to what he generated for really affordable prices, so him just resorting to a machine that slaps preexisting art together instead of using the money his game makes to hire actual artists who could use the money is incredibly frustrating to see, especially with the way the world is nowadays where ceos and rich people are already trampling us artists under their feet every chance they get.

The ai art is bad enough but those awful clickbaity gooner-bait ad images alone are enough to make sure I’ll never buy this game and give the creator my money, at the very most I’ll pirate it and refuse to spread the word of the game if I DO end up enjoying it.

@PopetheRev28 I mean, fighting back in the courts can work like that too! Just give em’ the good ol’ Harvey Dent treatment if yaknowwhaddimsayin’

This is the first time I’ve seen Peter Molyneux’s name outside of those bits on Oneyplays where they imitate Guru Larry lol

How fitting that the figure line where everyone has no mouth and must scream relies on power hungry trigger happy ai to do its bidding

Buying like 50 copies of this on steam and gifting them to every single person I know like the misfit toys at the end of Rudolph LMFAO

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 buyers😭

I’m. 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 should’ve 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 it’ll 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 perfect😂

@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 I’ve ever experienced in a run and gun contra 4’s 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, I’m 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 I’d kill to see 4, uprising and rebirth get modern updated ports “!

@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 isn’t even a knock against the Saturn, it’s probably my favorite Sega console, it’s just there’s a very good reason the ps1 trampled both it and the n64 to a lesser extent on the market.

@PinballBuzzbro Well, Whaddya know?😂😂😂😂

@axelhander the problem isn’t that the ai they’re 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

If he isn’t gonna put the effort in to pay an artist for cover art, I shouldn’t be expected to put the effort into buying his game😂

That DK sprite is repulsive but everything else about this is really well made, props to the guy behind it all lol

The PS5 chapter is just a bunch of blank pages

@slider1983 Earnest Evans was honestly ahead of its time, imo it’s 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 cutscenes😂

WAIT OMG I LOVE THIS TRILOGY ITS MAKING A COMEBAC-

“Edia, the Japanese company behind recent re-releases of Valis and Tenshi No Uta-“

…Oh.

@PopetheRev28 Their ceo believes prototype roms should be destroyed and abandoned because they “play like crap” and they use stolen fanart for some of their game releases on top of going after emulation communities so that they’re 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 feature😂💀

That is the hardest title screen I've ever seen for a video game ngl

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

Epic my GOATS

This looks absolutely perfect omg

I’m gonna be honest M2 should get hired to make games from the ground up more nowadays like with this and haunted castle revisited, imo it’s where they show their chops best especially with how poor their 4th generation console work tends to be unfortunately.

IM GOING TO EXPLODE

And I thought the turbografx box art was bad!

@-wc- no worries, that’s completely valid:>! I’m just talking in the mindset of someone purely playing these games through collections and emulations nowadays. All viewpoints are valid!👍

@NinChocolate I wouldn’t 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 pipeline😃!

@axelhander Ok Grandpa let's get you your meds

this whole thing is making the Amico look like Shovel Knight in comparison dear god

Not huge on them still keeping the corny “tails has been kidnapped!!11” plot line but otherwise this looks insanely cool!

Hope that Lamborghini gets totaled

@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.

I'll stick with MAME.

@RetroGames Real grown ups also don’t make kickstarters for thousands of dollars if they won’t be able to make the product come to fruition. This is nothing on the backers being more intelligent with their money, it’s 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 that’s not a hard pill to swallow since at least I don’t throw my colleagues under the bus and take their creations in as my own every step of the way.

This will either be shockingly great or one of the worst films of the decade with no inbetween

He plays and loses a single game then begins claiming he won 5 world championships in a row

seems like another reminder that emulation will always be morally viable in this day and age.

If companies don’t wanna give me access to their super old products that aren’t 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 free😂

Wow this looks cool, will probably check it out when it’s finish-

Allen o’ Neil carrying the mech on just his shoulders

I NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME NOW

this looks rly cool! im all for it long as they make it easily accessible unlike what that psychopath Fonz did with Craprium lol

I simply don’t understand why you’d pay 600 dollars for this outside of a collection, when mame is free and can run these games just as well. It’s 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.

“Even the in-game ai art is drawn by a human person!”

What

I’m 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 classicvanias’ peaks like rondo and bloodlines.

Ritual was rly good too even if it wasn’t 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, who’s cotton sequels have all been great from what I’ve seen, so I think we’re in good hands👍

They should add a “quebecgamers” mode that halves the framerate and makes the audio super bassy and distorted so it constantly sounds like it’s taking place in a war zone

“Nobody wants to see these old 3D games because they don’t look impressive”
Oh yeah like the games YALL make nowadays look like high art too and aren’t overly ugly gray rtx bloomfests that don’t even function properly 90% of the time💀😂

I’d also love to see wanpaku graffiti get a 16 bit remake since I always loved the ideas in that game