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Akira Kitamura, who directed Megaman 1 and Megaman 2, made a Twitter account last month and has been answering questions about the games he worked on, including those two. He also apologized for Boobeam Trap, that infamous Megaman 2 boss. https://twitter.com/ak_blueprints/status/1772608781848903912 quote:I must sincerely apologize for this. sorry. There are reasons for this. It's a long story that I can't write here. I'll tell you when the time is right. 😆 A lot of the game design details is stuff that had come out elsewhere before, like Megaman originally being planned to be white and have a head that changes for each power. But when talking about the more thematic stuff and overall setting, as well about talking about it from a game design perspective, there's some stuff I haven't seen before. For example: https://twitter.com/ak_blueprints/status/1773755310987194713 quote:For Rockman, changing colors means fighting. But now that everything is over, that color is no longer necessary. I expressed this empty color change in a positive way by reflecting it on the changing seasons. It's a slightly abstract performance. Actually, I was planning to add a message to this video like the opening. disappointing. 😓
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ozxziD8HkM I wouldn't believe it; if you hit the url (https://flamefrit.com/en/) given for the game's (supposed) website on there, you only get the following now: "This web site is closed already. © INTI CREATES CO., LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED."
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Though if Inti’s going to keep making these kind of games I wouldn’t mind an iX3 (maybe this time with Kohaku’s sister playable) or a Kirin solo game following Gunvolt 3 The best way to enjoy the Gunvolt series in my opinion is to ignore the score attack mentality entirely and just abuse the poo poo out of Pervasion Larryb fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Vizuyos posted:Akira Kitamura, who directed Megaman 1 and Megaman 2, made a Twitter account last month and has been answering questions about the games he worked on, including those two. Flamefrit reminds me of a Ganbare Goemon clone.
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Here's a definitely-real new Inti game, currently out on Switch and coming to PC and Playstation later this month... a Gunvolt Ix-themed Suika Game clone, amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo0wtmHcZkk It has more music in it than that rhythm game they just put out, too...
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Just make a proper Gunvolt and/or iX game again please (I’d even take a Kirin spinoff)
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Apr 5, 2024 15:40
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wonder if Gunvolt 3 performed poorly. its been nearly two years since release and no word about a sequel but a bunch of cheap spinoffs. maybe iX 2 and GV3 releasing in the same year was too much
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hatty posted:wonder if Gunvolt 3 performed poorly. its been nearly two years since release and no word about a sequel but a bunch of cheap spinoffs. maybe iX 2 and GV3 releasing in the same year was too much And even iX2 was announced with barely any fanfare (and I think not long before its release to boot)
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hatty posted:wonder if Gunvolt 3 performed poorly. its been nearly two years since release and no word about a sequel but a bunch of cheap spinoffs. maybe iX 2 and GV3 releasing in the same year was too much They might just be burned out - GV3 was in development for a long time and the director ended up bringing in the Bloodstained Curse of the Moon guy to take over because he felt like he was out of ideas.
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Gunvolt really feels like it was hampering them a bit by the end. There was kind of an air of just being kind of tired of the mechanics/setting/characters to it, even if it played well.
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ImpAtom posted:Gunvolt really feels like it was hampering them a bit by the end. There was kind of an air of just being kind of tired of the mechanics/setting/characters to it, even if it played well. That’s even reflected in the third game where they suddenly jumped centuries into the future and sort of killed off the main character at the end (though there are ways around that, Joule was brought back with very little explanation after all)
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They actually did say they were talking a break from mainline gv/ix games for a while and were gonna try out different stuff for a while. Right now their main development focus seems to be on that cat game they've been posting a lot about.
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I'm just annoyed that the "out of ideas" card was even played and they hadn't yet made a single effort to actually follow up on the "true"/special/whatever you want to call it ending of GV2, instead trotting out the Copen games and whatever you want to call GV3. They had plot hooks right there and never followed up on them.
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They should just make Mighty Gunvolt Burst 2, MGB was way better than any of the regular ASG/LAiX games I played.
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https://twitter.com/ak_blueprints/status/1778773793017897138 the secret to why you'll just sometimes randomly fall off those floating platforms in Ice Man's stage when you try to jump on or off of them
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We knew it was when they were shooting, not actually random, but it's good to see the exact reason laid out like that
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Only trust your magnet beam. The floating heads will never help you.
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https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1780561330262651109 It's cool that there's several old megaman designers talking about different games out there right now.
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Yeah well Strike Chain is fiddly enough to use even as a weapon against large targets, fishing a 1up out of a slightly out of line hole like that is asking a bit much.
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skill issue
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Needing the 1UP is a skill issue in and of itself
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hatty posted:Needing the 1UP is a skill issue in and of itself collect everything
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Dabir posted:Yeah well Strike Chain is fiddly enough to use even as a weapon against large targets, fishing a 1up out of a slightly out of line hole like that is asking a bit much. They did also post an image explaining the problem:  Since "being able to grab items with the chain" was part of the Strike Chain's design, they'd really wanted to have at least one spot where the player wouldn't be able to get an item without using it. But because the Strike Chain comes out exactly at buster height, it's impossible to line up a 1-tile-high gap such that X can fire the chain through it while standing. In both A and C, the chain hits the wall at the edge of the gap. But if they increased the size of the gap to 2 tiles like in B, X would be able to air-dash in and get the items without using the chain.
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Tbh it feels like you could mitigate the problem by just not having the 1up at the exact end of the chain’s length, but they were putting out Megaman games at a pretty rapid pace so I get why that would fall through the cracks.
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They should have made the gap two tiles wide but lined the top or bottom with spikes
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Someone figured out how to access Mega Man 10's scrapped co-op mode from an old X360 build: https://www.rockman-corner.com/2024/04/how-to-enable-and-play-mega-man-10-s.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PO6McAl2DE
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Locking the good version of the weapons behind co op is some bullshit.
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That feature makes some of 10's design make more sense. What a wild thing to get scrapped!
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Wow, yeah, "Mega Man 10 had good weapons, they were just part of a scrapped feature" is a hell of a thing to find out.
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"Thunder Wool becomes a screen clear! And so does Chill Spike for some reason! Commando Bomb gets remote control! Water Shield has homing capability!" "What about Wheel Cutter?" "It gets a little bigger."
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Yep, even super thunder wool still sucks. Super chill spike does the same thing faster and doesn't get blocked by the moles lol.SkeletonHero posted:"What about Wheel Cutter?" it's hard to tell from the video, but it looks like you can use it to chainsaw enemies. I think the normal version just vanishes on enemy contact.
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Wheel Cutter lets you go up walls. Which is cool even if it's useful no where in the game.
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SkeletonHero posted:Commando Bomb gets remote control!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE7K4w5d8f4 Inti Creates Gold Archive, coming to Switch in Japan for 3278yen - this is a physical compilation containing Mighty Gunvolt (which hasn't been available on Switch before now), Mighty Gunvolt Burst (with all DLC) and Puzzmix (that Gunvolt-themed suika game clone they just released). In case you forgot, Mighty Gunvolt Burst is the game where they basically remade a bunch of Mighty no.9 in 2D and made it actually fun. PaletteSwappedNinja fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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That's underselling it, MGB also has that really good build your own weapon system that I don't think I've seen anywhere else.
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Mighty Gunvolt was ok and the final boss was basically a sneak preview of the then upcoming ASG2 but yeah, Burst was way better (and I think sort of canon as the GV portion near as I can tell happens at some point DURING Gunvolt 2) and the customization system basically let you make the game as hard or as easy as you wanted Also I see they’ve gone back to the original title (for some reason they rereleased Burst on PlayStation and Xbox a while back as “Gal Gunvolt”) I wouldn’t mind seeing them try to make another game in a similar vein honestly Larryb fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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