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Post by Shadow Master on Jul 28, 2022 1:56:54 GMT
Double Dragon on the NES was the first video game my brother and I ever played.
The coolest mode however was mode B. The primitive 1 on 1 versus fight mode where players could play as the Lee brothers OR select one of the enemies.
A revolutionary concept at the time that predated Super Street Fighter II Champion edition by about 5 years.
Unfortunately, players had no choice but to select the same character (Lee vs Lee, Abobo vs Abobo etc) making the novelty wear off rather quickly.
There have been multiple ports and Double Dragon remasters over the years, but I'd love the original Mode B to allow players to face off with different
fighters. That's one of my dream revivals.
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Post by Shadow Master on Aug 30, 2022 13:57:38 GMT
After the release of the much-maligned Soul Calibur V, Namco did some damage control and retconned the Soul series. The result was Soul Calibur VI, which is essentially a
remaster of the Sega Dreamcast port.
As much as I enjoyed Soul Calibur, I think it's only fitting chronologically for Namco to resurrect Soul Calibur II next. Bring back the original costumes, stages and storY.
I can't believe it's been almost 20 years...
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Post by Nth on Aug 30, 2022 20:17:58 GMT
With the first inklings of fall in the air and Halloween soon coming I was reminded of how much I love Manhunt. I would like to see Manhunt make a comeback or at the very least have Manhunt and Manhunt 2 remastered and bundled into an uncensored Director's Cut edition.
Also I was recently remembering the Kane & Lynch games. I think a Kane & Lynch reboot could work. Start over with an all new game but the same characters. Kane & Lynch also take place in the Hitman universe so potential crossover as well.
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Post by BakFu on Aug 30, 2022 21:29:50 GMT
I really liked the original manhunt, it felt a bit like a tech demo for GTA San Andreas, but the creepy atmosphere and the stark violence of the game were very compelling. I was disgusted when they gutted and neutered the second game very shortly before release, and fuzzed out the kill scenes. Remasters and a sequel would be sweet!
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Post by Nth on Aug 30, 2022 23:26:34 GMT
I really liked the original manhunt, it felt a bit like a tech demo for GTA San Andreas, but the creepy atmosphere and the stark violence of the game were very compelling. I was disgusted when they gutted and neutered the second game very shortly before release, and fuzzed out the kill scenes. Remasters and a sequel would be sweet! I didn't even finish Manhunt 2 with the censorship filter. I tried several methods people had devised of playing it without the filter, but never got any of them to work.
The first game had me from the very first day Rockstar launched the website where you could view locations through cameras and hear, presumably a hunt in progress. I remember freaking my brother out leaving the webpage open where the audio would make creepy sounds and eventually you would hear someone whisper 'Oh god, I gotta get kill.'
The audio design of the game was so fantastic and it absolutely captured an unsettling atmosphere that made me very tense the entire time I played.
I was already a huge fan of the Tenchu games and Manhunt was essentially Tenchu with a different skin so I never completely got why some people thought it was so controversial beyond the whole snuff film aspect of it. It was no more violent than Tenchu which also offered a brutal array of dispatching enemies.
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Post by BakFu on Aug 31, 2022 0:54:06 GMT
I think what screwed it for fans was Rockstar trying for a big, controversial release on the Wii. Unfortunately, the only people that were on the Wii at that time were hard core Nintendo fans, and the billion other grannies and kiddies that came for Wii sports and stayed for the endless waves of inane, branded shovelware. Someone got their panties in a twist over the idea that grandma and Jrs nunchuck wiimote could be used as a garrotte wire, then they neutered it by scrambling the kill scenes. I never bothered trying the game, all that was left was what someone decided was okay for me to consume. I’ve never played games on pc, so I missed out on the patches to fix the game.
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Post by BakFu on Jul 22, 2023 18:36:02 GMT
Is there any room / necessity for a Shinobi revisit? Maybe a new, 2.5D side scroller? A foray into a 3-D realm (post ps2 Shinobi / Kuniochi(nightshade))? We have great indies like Mark of the Ninja and Katana Zero, and a pile of 3D games, but does the OG ninja deserve another run?
Also, please make a sequel to Shadow Complex! If you’re a fan of side scrolling, “metroidvania” (shudder) style games, please try this, and convince the amazing team that put this banger together to issue a successor!
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