I think the HD2D trend is ok-ish.... for those older RPG of yesteryear.... it's great! Many of those older RPGS are locked to older hardware that's already on life support. After time they will no longer (legally) to play/own these games!!!
Sure we have emulation, but that's basically a huge Grey area that's mostly illegal.... (unless your dumping your own games collection to your own hard-drive and not sharing them with anyone) unless you bought said rooms directly from the publisher, which let's just face it, sega is the rare company in that regard. Sure other companies sell rooms electronically over the web to play in emulators with intention from day0 of development.
So with all that being said.... there are a fair good amount of games that could stand a little updating to make playable on current and next generation hardware. Hamster has been doing awesomly with the NeoGeo ip's, not through all of them yet, but they are getting there!!!
Vanillaware is one of those companies that wasn't mentioned in the article, that really stands out against what was going on from the 7th generation, believe they started the trend.... maybe?
Regardless, older RPGS definitely need it. Quite a few of the older sidescollers, shooters, beat em-ups, and the more obscure arcade games all make great candidates. I personally don't want to see all those old 2d games made 3d, because alot of them wouldn't translate very well without completely changing the games contexts.I could see using 2.5d translations of some of those older games. Even then, there's only so much we all will be willing to purchase without them being batched together in a collection.
If the industry is out of solid ideas, then, sure let's see what we can get that already worked... sometimes even not that well from the programming side. ... but graphically the games were great.
Let's not forget all the games that never left JP and there is literally 1,000s of those, all the way back to the Famicom, Famicom disk system, super Famicom, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance and so on just from a Nintendo aspect.... if you put NEC or Sega in that pile or SNK, Taito, Midway.... all those companies had awesome 2d games that we have hardly any access to just in the console releases.... the arcade games might as well be laced in unobtainium because emulation most times is the only way there.
I think the teams behind this are gonnangive us something we will be talking about in 20 years! Don't wanna get my hopes too high here, but I think we can trust their collective track records that this is gonna be a bad ass game!!!!
I really hope that the eshop adds a filter feature or at least a hide feature, even if we manually have to do it!!
Also, it would be great if the eshop was a little more informative with analytics of how many sales, ratings (👍👎🏻 in the very least), if not allow comments on games such as steam.... obviously with a heavy flagging of certain words and abusive language.
On a level of going further.... it would be nice for Nintendo to employ the quality seal again.... to designate between indys and 3rd party along with smaller game studios with as being FEATURED as they do with their Independent Showcases as they do.
Maybe even encorperating the software ratings as all physical games have in most countries.
I see what they did with this DLC and theb1st console war!!
I been holding out on getting this, because I was really hoping that the Lynx and Jaguar would have found some better representation... he'll even the ST and 5200 would have beenncool too.
But to mention the Intellivision and haven't done much with its representation coupled with basically all the very same games they been shoveling in every Atari Archives release since the PS1..... I am finding it difficult to pull the trigger
I'm tired of these game companies cheaping out on these collections!!! Tired of the dlc codes to get "the other half" of what I bought (or bought already).
Why is it the "Go To" for these guys?
Its not like those Switch cards are that terribly expensive and they (Capcom) are still trying to charge $70 elsewhere as the NEW "Normal".
They used to release 4 disk sets of games no worries.... why do we just settle for this?
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Re: Talking Point: Is It Time For HD-2D To Take A Break?
I think the HD2D trend is ok-ish.... for those older RPG of yesteryear.... it's great! Many of those older RPGS are locked to older hardware that's already on life support. After time they will no longer (legally) to play/own these games!!!
Sure we have emulation, but that's basically a huge Grey area that's mostly illegal.... (unless your dumping your own games collection to your own hard-drive and not sharing them with anyone) unless you bought said rooms directly from the publisher, which let's just face it, sega is the rare company in that regard. Sure other companies sell rooms electronically over the web to play in emulators with intention from day0 of development.
So with all that being said.... there are a fair good amount of games that could stand a little updating to make playable on current and next generation hardware. Hamster has been doing awesomly with the NeoGeo ip's, not through all of them yet, but they are getting there!!!
Vanillaware is one of those companies that wasn't mentioned in the article, that really stands out against what was going on from the 7th generation, believe they started the trend.... maybe?
Regardless, older RPGS definitely need it. Quite a few of the older sidescollers, shooters, beat em-ups, and the more obscure arcade games all make great candidates. I personally don't want to see all those old 2d games made 3d, because alot of them wouldn't translate very well without completely changing the games contexts.I could see using 2.5d translations of some of those older games. Even then, there's only so much we all will be willing to purchase without them being batched together in a collection.
If the industry is out of solid ideas, then, sure let's see what we can get that already worked... sometimes even not that well from the programming side. ... but graphically the games were great.
Let's not forget all the games that never left JP and there is literally 1,000s of those, all the way back to the Famicom, Famicom disk system, super Famicom, Gameboy/Gameboy Advance and so on just from a Nintendo aspect.... if you put NEC or Sega in that pile or SNK, Taito, Midway.... all those companies had awesome 2d games that we have hardly any access to just in the console releases.... the arcade games might as well be laced in unobtainium because emulation most times is the only way there.
Re: New Side-Scroller Entry In Legendary Ninja Gaiden Series Announced For Switch
I think the teams behind this are gonnangive us something we will be talking about in 20 years! Don't wanna get my hopes too high here, but I think we can trust their collective track records that this is gonna be a bad ass game!!!!
Re: Nintendo Switch Online's NES And Genesis Apps Get Updated To Fancy New NPLN Servers
@JDCII I doubt we'll ever see an eshop like the Wii days ever again.
We are more likely to see Sega dump the whole Genesis catalog up on NSO far before you can buy super hang-on by itself.
Re: Nintendo Now Officially Owns 100% Of Monolith Soft
It will be really cool if all of their games made it over to Switch²!!!!
"The home of Xenosaga"
God I'd love to see updated versions of all those PS2 games!! They looked great then and would look better now. They really pushed the PS2 hard too.
*fingers crossed
Re: Opinion: Nintendo Needs To Let Us Block The Crap On Switch 2's eShop
I really hope that the eshop adds a filter feature or at least a hide feature, even if we manually have to do it!!
Also, it would be great if the eshop was a little more informative with analytics of how many sales, ratings (👍👎🏻 in the very least), if not allow comments on games such as steam.... obviously with a heavy flagging of certain words and abusive language.
On a level of going further.... it would be nice for Nintendo to employ the quality seal again.... to designate between indys and 3rd party along with smaller game studios with as being FEATURED as they do with their Independent Showcases as they do.
Maybe even encorperating the software ratings as all physical games have in most countries.
Re: Every New Game In Atari 50's Final DLC Expansion Has Been Revealed
I see what they did with this DLC and theb1st console war!!
I been holding out on getting this, because I was really hoping that the Lynx and Jaguar would have found some better representation... he'll even the ST and 5200 would have beenncool too.
But to mention the Intellivision and haven't done much with its representation coupled with basically all the very same games they been shoveling in every Atari Archives release since the PS1..... I am finding it difficult to pull the trigger
Re: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants
Am I the only one that thinks $30 for an iPhone port (albeit with some extras) is asking a little much?
Anyone buy this on iPhone? Did it cost $30 over there?
Re: Monster Hunter Stories Physical Collection Includes A Download Code (US)
I'm tired of these game companies cheaping out on these collections!!! Tired of the dlc codes to get "the other half" of what I bought (or bought already).
Why is it the "Go To" for these guys?
Its not like those Switch cards are that terribly expensive and they (Capcom) are still trying to charge $70 elsewhere as the NEW "Normal".
They used to release 4 disk sets of games no worries.... why do we just settle for this?