Decline Mighty No. 9 - It's better than nothing.

[Machocruz]

I'd rather see a KS for a traditional Castlevania styled game, with 8 directional whip, Michiru Yamane or Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo soundtrack, branching paths, Dragon's Crown quality 'sprites' and backgrounds. It's pretty much been the dream since consoles went HD, but Konami doesn't have the sack to do it. They'll just pump out GoW clones with generic fantasy music from now on.

 

[evdk]

. It's cool to see the Japanese have finally started to take to the crowdfunding idea. It should be interesting to see how they do with it.

 

[dunno lah]

I'd rather see a KS for a traditional Castlevania styled game, with 8 directional whip, Michiru Yamane or Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo soundtrack, branching paths, Dragon's Crown quality 'sprites' and backgrounds. It's pretty much been the dream since consoles went HD, but Konami doesn't have the sack to do it. They'll just pump out GoW clones with generic fantasy music from now on.

Should I punch you some more? :D

 

[Caim]

For those of you with a Classic Mega Man itch to scratch, I know of a pair of games that might be interesting to you.

First is Day in the Limelight, a series where you play as the Robot Masters from Mega Man 1, 2 and 3 through the stages of Mega Man 2, 3 and 4. The first two games are done, the third is WIP.

The second is for you old-school shooter fans: Mega Man 8-bit Death Match is a multiplayer FPS based on a mod for the DOOM 2 engine. This one is designed for multiplayer, but there is a single player mode with bot support. The game is not done yet, characters from up to Mega Man 8 are in the game alongside their weapons. This also includes a number of more obscure MM characters such as the special bosses from the Gameboy MM bosses. So if you like how DOOM 2 plays you might like this.

 

[AngryEddy]

He doesn't look at all like the old megaman at all.
Not that it could. But I really dislike his happy kid look. Which kind of reminds of "teen in mecha saves the world".

Maybe I'm just too attached to this:

Well, even though you can imagine those basic graphics however you want (it's the reason people who are allergic to weeaboo can play Final Fantasy 1), apart from the early american NES covers it was long decided that the above actually represents this.

As for me, I prefer redesigns that don't stray so far from the original that it becomes something else entirely. Like this, for example.

MM8 was always my favorite MM game. From what I remember, the soundtrack was really good, and there was an element of loss and betrayal in the plot as well. Mid to late 90's for videogames had a good theme going there for a minute.

 

[Gurkog]

How come RPS and Shitaco haven't made a stink about how this project is another example of the Patriarchy oppressing women by labeling the female protagonist as 'Call girl'?

 

[groke]

How come RPS and Shitaco haven't made a stink about how this project is another example of the Patriarchy oppressing women by labeling the female protagonist as 'Call girl'?

Because they're all a bunch of early 90's console fags. This is holy ground for them; it's probably causing them considerable cognitive dissonance to deal with it, especially alongside the fact that:

Call was not imbued with the human characteristics that make Beck unique, so she’s more of a pure robot

lulz. I expect a mention in Cockseesian's next video though.

 

[kaizoku]

just checking my KS... starred projects and 2h to go
browsing updates...

* hate the art direction
* not excited about the prototype

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MEGA MAN 2 COMPOSER TAKASHI TATEISHI IS OFFICIALLY ON BOARD FOR MIGHTY NO. 9!!!!!! :D

C&C time

 

[Caim]

Fans are upset because the girlfriend of one of the developers has been appointed as community manager, and she mentioned she had some ideas (just ideas) about having female characters in the game.

The people interpreted this as THE FEMINAZIS ARE GONNA TAKE AWAY OUR BALLS.

 

[deuxhero]

And used her powers to vandalize the postings of someone who politely disagreed with her and played only 1 Megaman game.

Yeah, I'd be pissed if I donated too.

 

[Valestein]

Thankfully, there's a good deal of blacklash against this cunt on the forum with several users demanding she be canned and some have even withdrawn their donation I heard.

 

[Ninjerk]

Is there a writeup of these shenanigans?

 

[Dexter]

Is there a writeup of these shenanigans?

Not really involved with the project so I have not much idea of what is going on, but Ian Miles Cheong is apparently on the case: http://www.gameranx.com/features/id...-9-kickstarter-explodes-with-misogynist-rage/
He linked to a video summary that seems to make more sense than his article though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDSfUJBCj0&hd=1

 

[Whisky]

ugh, ian miles cheong, that insufferable twat.

Well, being a founder of the Codex does strange things to a man.

 

[Caim]

More like you need to be of a certain... disposition to found the Codex, no?

 

[Tehdagah]

Fans are upset because the girlfriend of one of the developers has been appointed as community manager, and she mentioned she had some ideas (just ideas) about having female characters in the game.

The people interpreted this as THE FEMINAZIS ARE GONNA TAKE AWAY OUR BALLS.

So we have not only a SJW feminist, but also a nepotist?

 

[Spectacle]

They should have stuck with an all Japanese crew, then nothing like this would ever have happened.

 

[Caim]

Um, that shit doesn't solve anything. It runs away from the gender role stuff instead of dealing with it.

 

[Jasede]

I'd rather this, I'd rather that, blablabla.

This looks fucking great. Love the concept art.

Edit: successful Japanese Kickstarter (and holy shit at their all-star team) opens the doors to Chrono Trigger 2, etc. This thread / link made my day.

Heck, once done with Drakengard 3, they might Kickstart Nier 2...

 

[Caim]

Heck, once done with Drakensang 3, they might Kickstart Nier 2...

I don't know the story of Nier, but didn't that game have an extremely definitive "true ending"?

 

[Jasede]

Very, but there's a lot more you could tell, and even if not, by Nier 2 I mean the same thing as I mean with Chrono Trigger 2: a spiritual sequel, not really a continuation. Nier has a completely different mood from Drakengard and I'd like it if that mood could be captured again, maybe varied.

 

[Fat Dragon]

Jasede I highly doubt Square Enix would ever allow for a new proper Nier or Crhnono Trigger, they're determined to drag all of their ips into irrelevancy with mobile shit these days.

 

[Whisky]

Heck, once done with Drakensang 3, they might Kickstart Nier 2...

I don't know the story of Nier, but didn't that game have an extremely definitive "true ending"?

Very, but there's a lot more you could tell, and even if not, by Nier 2 I mean the same thing as I mean with Chrono Trigger 2: a spiritual sequel, not really a continuation. Nier has a completely different mood from Drakengard and I'd like it if that mood could be captured again, maybe varied.

It does have a definitive ending but...

Spoiler

A prequel would be cool.

Set during the last days of humanity before the Replicant program is activated. There's a whole ton of backstory events during that time mentioned in the game itself and Grimoire Nier, humanity's last stand against disease and monstrosities that seeped through from Caim's world, and whatnot. It could be really cool.

And depressing, since we all know exactly what happens to humanity.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Um, that shit doesn't solve anything. It runs away from the gender role stuff instead of dealing with it.

Not necessarily, friend. Once we all see each other as sexless genderless blobs of meat, gender roles will disappear out of obsolescence. If it doesn't exist, you don't need to think about it.

...now, what about them Megamans, uh?

 

[Sul]

It goes like this: project is successfully backed, then random Lebanese woman that lives in Japan introduces herself to the community at first as community manager (the person that tells the devs what the backers want) and later as designer. She posts a horrible concept art (horrible in the sense of retarded art style, not badly drawn) and suggests that main character's gender should be flipped. Backers starts to get suspicious and research her history and discovers that she is one of them crazy social justice warriors. Even worse, she never played Megaman before and only got the job because of her boyfriend.
Then people, concerned about the project they invested, starts to ask questions regarding her involvement with the project, she ignores them (remember, she is the CM, her job is to answer these questions) and only answers to the most inane questions ("what is your favorite pie?" and similar stuff). The community starts to get nervous, mods starts to edit or simply delete whole threads without explanation and no one wants to provide an answer. Bans everywhere and now the place is worse than Bioware forums.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDSfUJBCj0