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Post by dsparil on Jun 9, 2024 18:40:52 GMT -5
The show was from 1991 so probably not. There's actually a few based on it, but it's called Toxic Crusaders. I vaguely remember the Genesis game, but I doubt any of them are actually good.
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Post by spanky on Jun 9, 2024 19:59:19 GMT -5
excelsior I think I'm just jaded a bit, I was underwhelmed by Shredder's Revenge and what I'm seeing from these games popping up in it's wake aren't impressing me. SoR 4 was great though! dsparil Y'know...despite being jaded, I do have quite a soft spot for mid 90s Saturday morning cartoons. I'd probably get it. Woody Alien 2 I love the Toxic Avenger movies (at least 1 and 4) and a gruesomely over the top violent game based on the films would be awesome. I also completely forgot they made a new Battletoads.
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Post by lurker on Jun 9, 2024 22:04:11 GMT -5
Hopefully it gets fixed in the full version, but I had trouble with the Toxic Crusaders demo refusing to recognize my Pro controller as anything other than two separate joycons.
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Post by excelsior on Jun 10, 2024 1:50:11 GMT -5
What the heck is Extreme Dinosaurs? I'm obviously too old for some of these. I grew up with Thundercats and Masters of the Universe. It's pretty shocking we never got those beat-em-ups back in the day. It's time to correct this mistake. Let's bring on the 80's cheese.
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Post by lurker on Jun 10, 2024 18:52:23 GMT -5
And now for Not Donkey Kong Country...
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Post by spanky on Jun 11, 2024 6:32:40 GMT -5
Man, these homage/clone games are getting really blatant aren't they?
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Post by lurker on Jun 11, 2024 11:53:12 GMT -5
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Post by personman on Jun 11, 2024 12:42:15 GMT -5
Not DKC with a dash of Crash too. Eh, could be alright. Expedition 33 does look kinda neat though I have a feeling its plot will end up eye rolling somehow though that can still be fun. I'll keep an eye out for them. Speaking of homages though that goofy Bloodborne kart racer fan game actually got released recently! Just with a barely legally distinct coat of paint lol: store.steampowered.com/app/2930160/Nightmare_Kart/ Most importantly its free.
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Post by retr0gamer on Jun 11, 2024 14:25:58 GMT -5
The plot really seems to let these western jrpgs style games down. Every time one gets hype like chain of echoes or sea of stars, the plot really drags it down. Just badly paced and too self serious. They need a bit of the anime silliness that jrpgs had. The only one that got the balance right was Undertale.
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Post by JDarkside on Jun 11, 2024 16:52:20 GMT -5
I can't fully agree. They're not that different from actual Japanese RPGs. What they *are* different from is the Mother series and the odd offshoot of evolution it inspired in things like Okage: Shadow King and such. 33 genuinely feels like a FF or Lost Odyssey style thing from just the trailer there, maybe even a Shadowhearts (the first one, and that PS1 game made before it it is a sequel to). The one part that does feel off is a similar reason FFVXI felt off - the ongoing influence of the Game of Thrones TV show creeping in where it adds little.
Ironically, western made CRPGs are showing more variety than western studios trying their hands at turn based Japanese RPGs these days. Age of Decadence and Tyranny use a bronze age theme with a fantasy twist, the two Pathfinder games use interesting and vibrant parts of the lore for the campaigns and their core factions (WotR's trip to the Abyss being a highlight art design wise), and Baldur's Gate 3 had a great deal of levity and comedy to balance its darker elements. There's also been really interesting things coming out of the smaller scale scene, like Sovereign Citizen (steampunk fantasy the way of Disco Elysium in terms of gameplay) and Pendula Swing (non-violent game set in a 1920s fantasy America sort of setting).
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Post by lurker on Jun 11, 2024 21:56:55 GMT -5
That EpicDB thing that just launched appears to be extremely leaky.
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Post by dsparil on Jun 12, 2024 10:09:05 GMT -5
Reviews of SMT Vengeance are starting to come out, and it seems like it really is "V with a story this time" instead of "V with some tacked on new bits". Looking forward to grabbing it in a few days. Still haven't touch much of TTYD as my love of Picross really is that much stronger.
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Post by excelsior on Jun 12, 2024 10:19:57 GMT -5
Yeah, my hubbo wants it, but he has a few games on the go so I think I'll hang fire a bit before picking it up for him.
When you've really got the Picross bug, you start seeing everything as Picross puzzles. The wallpaper, furniture; people. Sometimes, all I see is a logic puzzle waiting to be solved.
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Post by lurker on Jun 12, 2024 13:15:43 GMT -5
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Post by excelsior on Jun 13, 2024 3:42:12 GMT -5
Hopefully it offers a good improvement over Trials of Mana, which I see as being held back by its status as a remake. Square Enix has thrown a lot of ideas at the wall in order to establish a breakthrough new mid-range RPG series and so far nothing has stuck. The JRPG market as a whole seems to be difficult to penetrate for new IP so I think the Mana revival looks to be their best opportunity.
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