Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

I debated making a thread about the fire emblem debacle but it looks like we all internalized the conversation and reached the same conclusion so good job SB thats why I still hang around here. Because weve had every conversation there is to have about video games and just cant even anymore.

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Damn it Ronnoc now I’m hype for something that will never be

Oh boy an exclusive theme FILLED with copyright text.

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Possibly of interest to @diplo?

http://indiegames.com/2016/01/detournement_and_the_experimen.html

Sigh. Please click the link, I don’t know why the URL is getting swallowed up with a generic indigames.com banner

Not like this game actually needed to be remastered, but I like the idea of picking up a bird that flew straight into a glass window, healing its wounds and then setting it free to try and fly once more.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/25/valkyria-chronicles-remastered-coming-west

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That story might as well read “Sega’s Western branch to extend olive branch again, Western gamers to ignore it again”

Also, just cancel PSO2 in the West already, like, officially come out and kill it, for the love of God

We haven’t had a anime RTS have we?

Unless Kingdom Under Fire is that I don’t know what that is

KUF is Korean and, therefore, doesn’t contain enough pure animes to register as anime on the anime scale

Anyway

4-player online co-op, game’s already good

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those lines were all really really bad.

Feels like they’re using City at War as a starting point which sounds like a not bad idea for a turtles game. I also like how Platinum is always finding a reason to keep using Mad World styled chainsaws.

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IDW design. Cheap Platinum Cash in? Ugh I don’t care, I’m sold. My irrational love of all things TMNT has me getting this day one. Who’s playing with me? I call Donny.

I watched like ten hours of Transformers Devastation on stream on the hardest difficulty and, like, that shit was good. It made me wish I’d grown up with Transformers because of how good the fanservice was. The fifty-something streamer was having a ball and I felt great vicariously. Really obscure character that only you remember? Now they get a badass boss fight. I only barely had exposure to TMNT as a kid, but I’m incredibly psyched for this.

Devastation was also kind of a fanservice fest for Platinum fans? It functioned as a sort of Platinum Mechanics All-Stars title. Vanquish speed and shooting, Bayonetta’s Witch Time, etc. I wouldn’t say it’s high art, but it’s good shit.

I’d say KUF is more musou than RTS as well.

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The Shredder says “tonight” and does not continue on to say “we dine on turtle soup!”

minus one star from review

this looks pleasingly decent (compared to PoE and wasteland 2) – I really like how they went from boring baldur’s gate style combat to a much smaller group of heavily designed turn-based encounters, even if that means the combat may not be consistently the main draw like divinity original sin – but it also seems like exactly the wrong kind of game to play in such an early alpha state.

regardless, I have a much higher degree of confidence in this now than I did a few months ago.

I hope there are alternate turtle costumes/styles because I was never a fan of the face structure of the turtles the way Mateus Santolouco did them on his run of the IDW comic which is what this style mostly looks like. Not that I don’t also enjoy cartoony turtles but they just didn’t feel like the matched up with everything else around them.