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Giant Bomb #22 | Drew, F*** This Tank
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The people who funded Mighty No. 9 seem to be getting exactly the product they deserve. A kind of mess of a megaman clone with tacked on multiplayer online that no one wants and yet keeps delaying the product. I'm kinda sad that Inafune seems to be such a bad project manger, because Red Ash looks like something I'd be interested in conceptually.
God I hope this Mighty No. 9 stank doesn't bleed onto Bloodstained, though. That game actually looks cool.
I didn't know Dan had an alt account
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1213775
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1213775
Twin Tails
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Really liked that whole thing.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Felix Lighter
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Dark Souls should have had a boss that was a tiny person with a sword and shield that would just run and roll around hacking at your ankles. Turn the tables to let you realize how frustrated the giant bosses always were when fighting the player.
i really am enjoying it a whole lot. combat is especially satisfying, turning around in the last second to block an incoming shot is a ton of fun
the only thing i would maybe criticise is the puzzle design which overall is a bit by-the-book but otherwise, it's refreshingly devoid of bloat
Maybe deserve is the wrong word, but they absolutely should've expected this result going in.
That game looks exactly as bad now as it did in concept. Anyone who through money at it should've known what they were getting from the get go. Only hilarious surprise has been the tacked on co-op delaying it to hell. The seemingly kinda poor quality to the actual game has always been a feature.
I've personally funded DFA, Amplitude and Republique and only Amplitude really turned out as I hoped. That's the risk with Kickstarter, though, and I always knew there was a decent chance DFA and Republique weren't going to be as good as I'd hoped.
TheMrPliskin
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Big props to the Half Life 1 port as well.
Yeah, not sure why they deserve it.
And holy shit, if you want to talk about doing a crowdfunding pitch correctly then Indivisible is the best example.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Graphics always looked eh but I'm not sure if people expected the massive delays and tacked on multiplayer stuff.
You get a pretty dope documentary out of DFA though which I felt was like what the whole thing would be about if it didn't explode the way it did.
I mean, I dunno. I remember the FPS in VersaLife dropping to the teens and lower. Its an ok port, for the PS2. Id never suggest it nowadays.
saveweyard
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I've tried to get into the Witcher series like 4 times now. Theoretically it should be a game I like. Just something about it hasn't clicked for me.
The delays and multiplayer stuff are garbage for sure, but the fact the game itself looks bad can't be taken as a surprise. It's looked bad from the concept art phase. Nothing about that game has screamed quality to me. The whole kickstarter felt slapdash and poorly run as well, so I guess the fact the project became a mess can't be a huge surprise either. They couldn't even run a funding campaign well.
Sure, Red Ash came later and showed us what an actual high profile garbage fire kickstarter looks like, but that doesn't cover up that MNo9 has always seemed like a mess.
Thats the point of those little guys in the cathedral and other places
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I also funded indivisible is because it's dope to see some representation of my birthplace.
South-east asian mythology is pretty ripe for adapting. As long as you like a lot of ghosts based around abortions and stillbirth.
Mister Negative
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I've been keeping an eye on it on steam for a while now, it seems like a real charmer. I might have to give it a go soon, but I also kind of want to wait until it's done.
saveweyard
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Here's a sentence I never thought I'd say: I'm so excited for Snooker tomorrow.
Mythology in general is pretty underrepresented in games outside of Japanese Gacha stuff. There's more you could do in Greek mythology than God of War. There's certainly more awesome stuff that can come out of Hindu and Shinto mythology. You also have stuff like Meso-american mythology and south-east asian like you mentioned that get zero representation at all.
Chinese(and Asian to a greater extent) literature isn't really pushed onto people in their youth as much as stuff like Shakespeare.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I really want to see someone attempt a game based on the dream of the red chamber.
stump sock
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I own a Super Monkey Daibouken famicom cart
giant_frying_pan
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Me too! The final is delicately poised at 10-7 to Selby, but Junhui battled back after losing the first six straight frames.
Should be a cracker!
I'm kinda shocked how hard it is to find a non-annotated translation of some of that stuff. Trying to read Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, etc. is actually pretty tricky if you can't read Chinese.
Obviously it doesn't help that a lot of these great works are huge and would be massive undertakings to really translate.
I'm kinda shocked no one's tried to do a straight up Journey to the West adaptation in game form. That's exactly the kind of thing I would expect to see a weird JRPG or something attempt.
Slightly-related, but I'd also love to see more serious historical games. I'd love to see an RPG or adventure game set in Three Kingdoms era China or Sengoku Japan. It's kinda sad that those amazing settings are purely the domain of over the top Dynasty Warriors style games.
BreezyLimbo
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i'm so sorry
While not exactly what you are thinking of, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West seemed to scratch an itch for some people.
I've always wanted to read The Water Margin, for some reason.
stump sock
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280 yen!
EdReedFan20
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Crazy thing is Crash in the Late 90's/Early 00's had a Q Score that was actually higher than Mario's. It's decline seems to coincide with Naughty Dog and PlayStation ending their work with the franchise. I wonder if Sony bought the rights from Universal Interactive Studios, if Crash would have stayed that popular. Instead, Universal Interactive Studios moved on from their Sony deal. They eventually became Vivendi Universal Games (following Vivendi's purchase of Universal). Vivendi eventually sold off Universal and Vivendi Universal Games became Vivendi Games. Vivendi Games then merged with Activision (with Vivendi renaming itself to Blizzard Entertainment, one of their subsidiaries), to become Activision Blizzard. This is how Activision now owns both Crash and Spyro.
Enslaved is awesome and that's exactly why I want to see more games do that kind of thing.
BreezyLimbo
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Just means they're more well known @_@ And Q-score is a US based scoring system, so it doesn't take into account Marios popularity in Japan.
EdReedFan20
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Yeah, I know. I just find that staggering. Though, I suppose part of that was not really knowing many PlayStation owners around then. Everyone I knew had N64, so PlayStation games were somewhat unknown. Plus, we got the internet later than most (2002). PS2 (got it in 2001) was my first real experience with PlayStation.
MassiveNights
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They are pretty good at picking music
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh my god the first two minutes of that Alienation QL
Jeff and Vinny the best
Jeff and Vinny the best
funkystudent
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Loved Crash as a kid and I think those PS1 games still hold up ok today gameplay wise. They designed around their limitations well.
The PS1 wasnt ready for full 3D platformers and the ones it had are so awkward to play these days. The corridor levels + 2.5 levels make those games kind of timeless.
Plus CTR is a simply amazing racer.
I just dont know how a new, good crash game gets made in thise day and age. Activision would just take a Skylanders B team to do it. And I just dont buy any of the "sony is getting the rights" talk. Thats been going around for 3 years!
And this is also probably true.
Jak 1 is just behind the Mario Galaxy's for me in the list of GOAT 3D platformers.
The PS1 wasnt ready for full 3D platformers and the ones it had are so awkward to play these days. The corridor levels + 2.5 levels make those games kind of timeless.
Plus CTR is a simply amazing racer.
I just dont know how a new, good crash game gets made in thise day and age. Activision would just take a Skylanders B team to do it. And I just dont buy any of the "sony is getting the rights" talk. Thats been going around for 3 years!
And this is also probably true.
Jak 1 is just behind the Mario Galaxy's for me in the list of GOAT 3D platformers.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I mean, this is just obvious.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Listening to Film and 40's, Drew has some legit good Voice acting skills. With some training, he could legit be a voice actor.
Twin Tails
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Next troy baker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS4nRaBVkV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS4nRaBVkV0
Death Metalist
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It's obvious when you listen to him throwing quotes from movies over the years at all the right moments.
Salty Catfish
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It's pretty ridiculous. His Otacon is spot-on.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Also his superlative rendition of pacman's voice.
BreezyLimbo
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Well that's comedic timing, a whole other skill~
Yeah, between his timing and his impressions, I'd be surprised if he never took Improv in high school or college.
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