The Games of 2018 - what's coming and will it be any good? - The Bear and Badger

Kow

Pretty sure you made most of those up.

Facewon

Steam stalk me bitch.

Facewon

Facewon wrote:

Checking my steam wishlist, pending checking actual eta....

Unworthy

Feudal alloy

EITR

Escape the loop

Strange Telephone

Death's Gambit (PS4 too fyi)

Lost Ember. (Out on everything. Looks like Journey/Abzu with more animals.

Also, darksiders 3 unless its a 2019/vapourware.

Facewon

I had a real anti 2d thing for a while. Just felt lazy as a design choice and part of retro for the sake of it. Also less inclined for 2d on console for some reason.

Somehow though, in the context of steam and on laptop, I'm a freakin fiend for metroidvania.

What a funny old brain.

Tempy

Lazy design choice is a real weird angle to take on it.

Facewon

Facewon wrote:

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What a funny old brain.

Facewon

I dunno, for every spellunky, splosion man and hollow knight, there's a gazillion shit knock offs. Especially when xbla was young.

I refuse to do any legwork on this, btw.

Don't come at me with "facts."

Escape

You can 2D anything with facts.

I agree with you

Escape

I mean, I replayed Donkey Kong Country last year and loved it; mostly. Super Mario World, not nearly as much.

hylian_elf

I played SMW a bit recently on my mini snes and it’s as great as it was in 1992. DKC was always shit though wasn’t it?

retroking1981

Overrated but not shit.

2, Returns and TF are all great though. Never played the 3rd.

Moot_Geeza

I underrated DKC at the time, without playing it. I probably settled on 84% or thereabouts. Deep down it was mutton, I managed to convince myself. I played through it on GBA a few years ago and it's actually a very good game. Not in the same class as SMW, but batting well for the B team.

JonB

It came out alongside Yoshi's Island, and received all the attention for its fancy graphical style when the game itself was ordinary. Always an injustice.

It's not horrible to play, just uninspiring. Whenever they had a space to fill they threw more barrels at it.

stonechalice

Donkey Kong Country was released in November 94' and Yoshi's Island in August 95'.

Just so you know.

Yoshi's was praised for its graphics at the time too, it was just so late in the SNES's life and the PlayStation had been out six months.

JonB

stonechalice wrote:

Donkey Kong Country was released in November 94' and Yoshi's Island in August 95'. Just so you know.

So it was, seemed closer in my memory. Perhaps the comparison was more of a thing in magazines.

Moot_Geeza

Tropical Freeze is probably the best non-indie straight 2D platformer for a good decade or two. I didn't go deep with NSMBU though. Or cross reference the internet when I started typing this post.

Kow

Was just playing DKC on the Snes mini over Christmas. Looks terrible and plays terrible. But I guess a lot of that is the unkindness of time.

retroking1981

JonB wrote:

Donkey Kong Country was released in November 94' and Yoshi's Island in August 95'. Just so you know.

So it was, seemed closer in my memory. Perhaps the comparison was more of a thing in magazines.

It was, and it upset Miyamoto from what I remember.

DK was still big, 2 came out Christmas 95 so Yoshi was sandwitched between two much bigger selling games, which were arguably inferior.

retroking1981

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Tropical Freeze is probably the best non-indie straight 2D platformer for a good decade or two. I didn't go deep with NSMBU though. Or cross reference the internet when I started typing this post.

Retro outdid Rare fosho, although like I stated earlier, 2 is legit.

Moot_Geeza

I should play it at some point but I find it hard not to sulk about the dodgy GBA cart I bought on Ebay whenever it's mentioned.

JonB

retroking1981 wrote:

Donkey Kong Country was released in November 94' and Yoshi's Island in August 95'. Just so you know.

So it was, seemed closer in my memory. Perhaps the comparison was more of a thing in magazines.

It was, and it upset Miyamoto from what I remember. DK was still big, 2 came out Christmas 95 so Yoshi was sandwitched between two much bigger selling games, which were arguably inferior.

Ah right. Seems like Yoshi didn't come out in Europe till Jan 96, so the comparisons would've been between that and DKC2, which was released just before. Makes more sense now.

WorKid

NSMBU is brilliant. With the L DLC it's a tremendous package.

pantyfire

Was 2017 a storming year?

yourfavouriteuncle

If you had access to PS4 maybe.

If you had access to PS4 and a Switch then absolutely.

If you had access to just an Xbox then oh Microsoft please give us more than just yearly multiplats

poprock

Assuming they actually do happen, I’ll buy Forza Horizon 4 and Soul Calibur 6. Bloody depressing that they’re both just franchise continuations, though.

Might this be the year Formula Fusion makes it to consoles? Feels like I paid for it years ago when the Kickstarter was running.

Moot_Geeza

I'm expecting a Trials announcement soon, for release later in the year. Surely they've made enough ridiculous mistakes with the Fusion updates to realise that steering clear of of the bollocks is the way forward.

Kernowgaz

Talking of Donkey Kong Country, anyone seen this Digital Foundry making of video? And has Killer Instinct

Nina

Just saw a mention of
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, multiplatform.

Looks like a "spiritual successor" to Castlevania, started as a kickstarter, got loads of money and has one of the original Castlevania people working on it. Could be fun.

Escape

I hate Yoshi's Island! With its pastel-explosion palette it's busier than Fred West's living room, whereas DKC's still quite nice to look at. I didn't like Returns or Tropical Freeze, though.

retroking1981

Kernowgaz wrote:

Talking of Donkey Kong Country, anyone seen this Digital Foundry making of video? And has Killer Instinct

Nice video, I miss RARE.

Went down a rabbit hole there and have been watching DF retro videos for the last couple of hours. I should go to bed but there's an hour long episode on DOOM ports from the 90s, I'm gonna suffer tomorrow at work.

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