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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 20, 2009 22:32:09 GMT -5
Yup. I wrote up something real quick to the Flashback article and added several screens. Thanks all!
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Post by Gilder on Aug 24, 2009 1:02:19 GMT -5
Should the Flashback article be moved from Individual games to series?
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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 24, 2009 1:05:33 GMT -5
Indeed. It covers the sequel, so it isn't an individual game anymore.
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Post by drpepperfan on Aug 28, 2013 11:03:26 GMT -5
New remake for Xbox 360 directed by Paul Cuisset has come out. I've heard mixed thoughts on it. Anyone played it?
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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 28, 2013 11:07:32 GMT -5
I thought it was coming out for the PC on the same day and was expecting to buy that one, but no one knows what happened to that?
I want to play it, but nearly everything I've heard about it is negative, and that the version of the original game included is badly ported. Like, the screen is tiny and they framed it in an arcade cabinet, even though it was never an arcade game (and doesn't play like one at all.)
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Flashback
Aug 28, 2013 11:46:59 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by derboo on Aug 28, 2013 11:46:59 GMT -5
Played the trial on 360. The controls feel nothing like the original. That might sound like a plus for many, but everythings feels much too light-weight, and it really doesn't translate well into the animations. It all feels really cheap. I do like the Abuse-style 360 degrees shooting, but instead of the menacing tribal warriors the first stage was just full of annoying flying robots; FAR too much filler combat there.
So yeah, overall pretty bad in my book.
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Post by drpepperfan on Aug 28, 2013 11:57:32 GMT -5
I thought it was coming out for the PC on the same day and was expecting to buy that one, but no one knows what happened to that? I want to play it, but nearly everything I've heard about it is negative, and that the version of the original game included is badly ported. Like, the screen is tiny and they framed it in an arcade cabinet, even though it was never an arcade game (and doesn't play like one at all.) It also lacks any music in the emulated version at all. So yeah.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Mar 15, 2015 16:11:26 GMT -5
Finished the remake just today, I didn't find it bad at all, even if I agree with derboo's consideration about how light and floaty Conrad feels, and considering it's a budget title the visuals, while obviously less charcteristic, are quite good, as is the optimization (something that it cannot be always taken for granted with UE3). The main problem is that it feels just... bland. It's also quite easy, even if you can deactivate a lot of indicators Conrad has many more capabilities at hand. The variety of enemies seems lower and the upgradeable stats are just one lousy, unneded mechanic.
The locations and most of the overall progression stay true to the original, while the plot has some modifications: interestingly Sonia, Conrad's love interest in the manual's comic, factors in the storyline here. Unfortunately Conrad has been made quite unlikeable. The way the original is included is not only stupid, it forces an incredibly lousy control scheme - at lerast with the keyboard, it's practically unplayable.
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Post by Maliki on Sept 30, 2017 9:37:59 GMT -5
Not sure if this is worth the change, but it stands out to me.
Flashback: The Quest for Identity - Genesis, SNES, IBM PC, Amiga, Macintosh, Archimedes, Sega CD, 3DO, Jaguar, CD-i, PC-98, FM-Towns, iOS (1993)
The iOS 1993, when it would of been System 7 (or Mac OS 7 so the connection is easier for readers to understand).
iOS was not a thing till 2007 and is a mobile OS.
edit: I missed the 'Macintosh' in the list of releases. Still wondering about the 1993.
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Post by Weasel on Sept 30, 2017 9:50:08 GMT -5
The given year of a game in an article is generally for the game's first appearance. Otherwise it'd read more like (1993/1994/1995/2007/2008).
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Post by Maliki on Sept 30, 2017 9:56:53 GMT -5
Oh, I see what you are saying now. So then it actually had an iOS release.. Makes much more sense now
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Post by edmonddantes on Oct 30, 2018 18:06:09 GMT -5
So, I own the PC CD-ROM version of this game... which I used to own boxed, but I got it before I was in the habit of saving everything so wound up losing it. That sucks. I never had the comic book manual.
One oddity is the PC CD-ROM version--my copy, at least--came with a sampler of three songs by some band called Orange 9MM, who apparently had something to do with the game itself (they're even mentioned on the main game's CD so its not just some random disc shoved in the box). I have no idea who these people are or what the cross-promotion was about though. Just seems weird. The PC version doesn't have much music.
One weird thing is that I remember the game having issues on actual hardware (it was one of those where you had to disable the CPU internal cache to get the various timing routines to run at the proper speed--this largely had to do with making it detect my sound card) but in Dosbox, it doesn't seem to care abou the cycle settings or anything and just works... except that the install process doesn't create ALL the necessary files in the directory you specify, instead only creating a go.bat file (its supposed to also generate a configuration and a copy of the install, its also supposed to go through sound setup when you first install it but it doesn't in Dosbox). What's that about?
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Dec 6, 2018 15:18:16 GMT -5
The game has got a surprise 25th anniversary edition on GOG. Looks like your "typical" rerelease that allows to play the game both in its original form, or with modern touches like remastered audio, graphical filters and a "rewind" function, plus some extras and apparently even two new cutscenes (dunno if brand new or recovered from the cutting floor at the time). Whatever the quality of the new content, I'm sure it will make the original more justice than the 20th anniversary remake.
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Post by dsparil on Dec 6, 2018 15:29:47 GMT -5
It's been out on Switch since the summertime. Just starting to come out on other platforms now.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Dec 7, 2018 6:25:29 GMT -5
I had a buddy who absolutely loved Fade to Black, the weird full 3d PSX sequel.
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