I'm not so concerned about ports, sometimes the lower end ones are cool. The Gyakuten Saiban / Ace Attorney games are "better" on DS but I'd like to play them on GBA anyway. And something like Puyo Puyo Fever is a very different experience on GBA vs other platforms.
one thing a B team could do is not follow what the home console did, and get away with doing whatever that B team wanted to do.
I don't want to be THAT guy, but you should really add Hamtaro: Ham-Ham HeartBreak to that list.
there are some genres that have been mature for a lot longer than others. Super mario bros 3 is basically the gold standard for how to do a 2d platformer and it came out in 1988. There are very few games on that level. Super mario world isn't even on that level. Yoshi's island? N? People still make shitty derivative platformers that fail to reach the level attained 35 years ago. Remember Super Meat Boy? It's just an N clone. Doesn't even do anything new. it's a bad game.
Based take. I beat that game for the first time fairly recently and there are so many knowledge checks I thought I was playing a Sonic game.
Almost every top ten list for the n64, is made of the same 10–15 games, because they are the only games worth playing. The issue with teh n64 is once you leave that top ten, the system is mostly dogshit, there's not really any hidden gems or weird low-budget experimental games worht playing like with the ps1, and saturn even. With the PS1, you could take ten people and their top ten list could be completely different. There' just so much good stuff on those systems.
Some cases it's like that. But most multiplatform games that got released on handhelds are either the most generic possible beat'em up/platformer you could make. Or they try too hard to force 3d game design onto a weak 2d handheld. Working within the limitions is the biggest indicator of quality for a game on weaker hardware. It's why you have so many shitty, FPS or Isometric games on the Game Boy, developers try to come up with ad hoc ways to make 3d style games on systems like the DS and Gba.
super mario world is tailor designed for a nine year old and a 13 year old pair of brothers to play the game, i think that was literally a design consideration by the team
See if you switch out N64 for Wii U this is true.
And there's plenty more to like that aren't really "top 15" calibur:
It's not hundreds or thousands of games, it's not got the breadth or depth of say PS1, but it's a really solid system, and I appreciate how different it is to play vs more modern consoles. It's bizzaro controller is so iconic.
I'll take 100 shitty handheld games over any modern mobile gacha/live service slop.
Don't forget about Tetris 64, the one with a heart rate monitor that's used in a mode.
Brief update but it looks like the team is now down to only 3 devsIt doesn't seem like the mod will be stopping development anytime soon as there's still 8 other active contributors who've already been helping to make updates, however it will definitely be a bit longer for updates now that 2 of the original devs are gone. Already their names have been removed from the credits on the main website.
Thanks for the mention. Currently working on Smash Pack Volume 2 focused on the Kino Casino
How likely will this mean that the mod gets abandoned in its entirety? Even if we assume that it'll be shadow developed by the same team like that one poster who talked about thier experience with one of the lead devs thinks so, the question would then come down to weither or not its going to be a lot harder to get or you'd basically have to know someone who knows one of the devs to even experience it.
Could be that the devs who left split into differnt team and make their own strain of the mod? But that's always the prelude to death for most projects. The orignal OP that bought up the drama said there was another big mod, so I could be they just combine going forward.
Did we play the same game? The grind in DQ is retarded. You have to spend the first 30 minutes grinding slimes to buy copper gear, before you can leave the starting area, only to repeat the process again for the next tier of weapons in the town over. The game is like 10–15 hours, but only 5 of those feel of value. I spent like 2–3 hours grinding wizards before I entered the Dragon lords castle and I was still underleveled and had to abuse save states to manipulate battles in my favor.
It's like a 3 hour game if you remove the grind and has no real purpose, story, or anything.
I think it still is technically, but most people have been moving towards ReTHAWed since there's more potential. Last time I tried THUGPRO there were a bit more levels but other than that it's mainly focused on online multiplayer and free-skate (no story mode)
No, the worst crime these days is transphobia (even though that was mentioned later in the post).
I would like to say that it is immensely faggy shit to try and remove developer credits over stupid beef. I have seen project forks be made persona non grata by any devs with skill back in the day for that kind of stunt.
There isn't much of a story to tell because there is very little to do(no side content, no classes, linear equipment progression), the game is open, but there's not much to it. And he strategies to grind aren't that much of a time saver. I tried to use as little help as possible, but I still checked a guide for the grind and there's nothing to really anything to help you, aside from grinding the wizards outside Cartlin in the late game(The dragon lord castle has good enemies, but it's too risky), and the castle spot early game(the scorpion nest you call it?), because both give "good" XP and they spawn right next to a town where you can heal. It still takes hours of grinding over the whole game. It's a game that's very shallow, and loves to waste your time to pad out the length. I'm sure in '86 it was fine, but it's complete garbage when DQ3/4 exist on the same system.
