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Re: Interview: "I Was Not Sure We Were Going To Pull It Off" - Cyan's Rand Miller On Remaking Riven From The Ground Up

Fallingshadow

Great interview loved the whole myst series. The Real shame here is a suspect this may not sell well. The minimum spec for this are sadly very high. I suspect it will be quite a few years before most users get to play this.

Having worked on PC games myself the first rule you learn is lower spec games sell far better.

It won't work on my personal PC. Hopefully this comes to Console soon. Still waitng on the Myst remake on Playstation.

Re: Saturn Radiant Silvergun Just Got A Major Fan-Made Update

Fallingshadow

The modes added in by the other version and changes they made where not very good. The base saturn version is still the best version why on earth you would want to do add.

The guardian heroes re-release had simlar issues the translation lossed a lot of it's punch. But the issue their was working design did the saturn translation not sega.

Re: Konami's Jackal Hits Arcade Archives On Switch And PS4 This Week

Fallingshadow

once or twice games have been delayed by a day or so that said mighty guy has a store page but never came out on PS4.

https://store.playstation.com/en-gb/concept/10009365

I suspect hamster only submit each game once to sony for submission as the first time is always free. If the game fails they don't resubmit due to the cost it incurred.

Jackal is not out on PS4 or switch yet so it might just be a delay

Re: Atari Purchases The Intellivision Brand, But Not The Delayed Amico Console

Fallingshadow

The atari arcade rights have been with midway since 1996. Which is now owned by warner bros. They won't get them back that's for sure. Embracer where not putting a company back togehter they where just buying up everything and then leveraging the increased value of the company to get more captail then buying another company rince and repeat. It now why they are in a total mess.

Re: Atari Purchases The Intellivision Brand, But Not The Delayed Amico Console

Fallingshadow

@Zeebor15 Not making the list public to begin with makes sense. I imagine it will take a while to untangle the rights and work out what they really have. e.g in some case they may only have the name etc. Plenty of companies like to use smoke and mirrors to hide what they really have in a sale.

Having worked for a publisher myself in the past I know rights can be a very murky issue. The Atari games I am most fond of are games like APB from the late 80's early 90's and the rights to that are now with warner bros.

I know of a few cases wher larger multimedia companies do acquire rights to some games and then just set on them.

Re: Is It Time To Change The Narrative On The Sega Saturn?

Fallingshadow

As someone that has been a saturn owner since christmas 1996. I still think it's a great console. Games like Virtua Fighter 2 and Dead or Alive prove the saturn could do better 3D than the playstation. I think Taromaru is a bit overrated the game is quite short as well. Stellar Assault SS is one great import that never seems to get that much love.

I believe the saturn was sega most successful console in japan?

Re: CEX Is Launching Its Own Repair Service For Retro Consoles

Fallingshadow

As a reminder if you consle is in warrenty you should alway use the offical repair service. Not sure how I feel about CEX the are the main villain for controlling the retro prices at the moment.

I have a broken saturn model 2 modded which I been told is unfixable in the past.

My bro's japanese snes recently failed we think it's the gpu it still works but all the colours are wrong on screen

Re: Flashback: How Saturn's Memory Expansion Carts Made It The King Of 2D Fighters

Fallingshadow

Something not mentioned is that the saturn version of kof95 was so close to the arcade. This caused some backlash by neo geo fans as the saturn version was better than the neo geo cd version and a few fans questioned what was the point of owning a neo geo cd. Hence why later Kof's on the saturn where more inline with the neo geo CD versions. The rom cart would have allowed them to be near perfect.

Re: Poll: Should Retro Game Remasters Carry Warnings About "Offensive" Content?

Fallingshadow

@mariteaux I totally agrees history should not be censored in any way. We need to learn from the mistakes of the past or we will be doomed to repeat them. I don't see the point of this warning indeed if they feel the need to have them they should be in the store before purchase. That said Timeextenstion has missed the point here tomb raider has been released based on the openlara version and not the orignal as this is a recreation.

Yet Sunset Riders, Commandos 2, and Street Fighter 2 have all been released with censorship in recent version. Arcade Archives even delisted super sidekicks 2 games due to it containing references to Taiwan and the Republic of China.

This is far worse as they failed to mention the fact the games where censored. Pinball FX also censored a number of Midway tables but at least they mention the fact as this was due to ratings issues.

Re: To Make Sense Of Xbox Multiplatform Rumours, We Need Only Look To The Past

Fallingshadow

Sega going multi format was a complete mess and left their fans in no man land. Releasing games on different formats was a complete disaster. Virtua fighter 4 ps2, spikeout xbox, billy hatacher gamecube. They needed to release games on just one format or all. Indeed sega tried to get microsoft to included dreamcast support Chairman Isao Okawa at the time even met with Bill Gates.

Re: UK Newspaper The Guardian Ranks 'Daytona USA' As Sega's Greatest Arcade Game

Fallingshadow

I have to agree with this list Daytona USA is still one of the best racers and one of the few that allowed 40 cars on screen at once.The original Sega Rally is close but all the other poster fail to name a better sega racer. Daytona 2 and sega rally 2 where let downs. Virtua racing was good not great. touring car was the same. The original outrun is a classic but failed to have the impact of daytona in terms of the stages. Scud race was good. At this point your now into the more obscure racers like le mans or indy 500 both of which I only ever saw in one arcade. I doubt most of the poster ever played them.

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