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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G6d1A2row6I

We're going to need a bigger  :drill:

I know the words to the song now.

Your arms are broken!

God, some of you might need a reference link for that from an old timer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSdSzSqLys

ALSO THIS MAKES ME REALLY, REALLY HAPPY.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/xantista/blog/2013/03/22/woo-hoo-ducktales-is-back

They are not stopping on trying to make this the best damned remake of a cult-classic.  They got the surviving-voice cast back together, the animators, EVERYONE.   :drill:

I thought you were going to post the really fucked up take on the opening by Fatal Farm.

Naw, but I should have :(

the FUCK did I just watch

hoo boy

I don't know, but I need some /r/aww to cleanse my brain now   :uhrr:

Yegolev, don't even. That stuff is the shit that has been fueling your internet experience since 96.

Oh fuck yes.

Obligatory:

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

i need new shorts

I have a ton of nostalgia for the NES version of this as one of the best licensed games of that era.  The gameplay looks exactly the same.

Man I haven't noticed Schild post this much in ages.  Who knew all it took was RG being a dick and a duck tales remake to bring him back.

I am looking forward to pogo-sticking around while filling up my money bin.

Capcom also announced at PAX another "remake"
Not on the same scale as ducktales but it's the old D&D arcade beat em up games.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQQ3zq4x4Kw

That was remastered footage?  Did they use the same computers from the days of yore too?

Whoah.

Priming my brain to unhear my native language is a trip.

(http://i.imgur.com/6dACF4P.png)

Also, 7 minutes of gameplay footage:  http://www.twitch.tv/capcomunity/b/380890544

This is one of those things you just buy. I wish I could get it for my arcade cab. I might have to turn my cab into a computer when I get a new place.

 :drill:

Played the ever loving shit out of this game when I was a kid.  Can't wait to hear the voice acting.

I'm really curious how they handle the soundtrack.  After all, it produced what most consider one of the best NES era songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF32DRg9opA

Wow. I'm not sure how long it's been since I last heard that tune - it must have been something like twenty years - yet I remember every last bit of it. I miss the days when games had tunes like that, ones that actually stuck in your brain, ones you could whistle along to. In fact, I often find myself whistling or humming to tunes from old games like that, not realizing what I'm doing until someone else starts asking about it. Can't say I've been doing the same for any recently released games. :/

Like so many other things in gaming, this is holywood's fault. They moved away from Wagnerian motifs a couple decades ago, and now that every dev house is trying to make interactive movies we're no longer getting strong thematic compositions.

THIS.  :ye_gods:

I feel like after the internet being, well, the internet for the last 15 years there is nothing about the Fatal Farm Ducktales opening that should make someone go "... the fuck?!" It's just not out there enough. Not even a little bit in the realm of out there.

Yes, but you are broken.

He's right.  I've seen much weirder shit, but not of that vintage.

The other thing I've got going on this side of my keyboard is that I not only missed Duck Tales, I'm not sure I have ever heard of it.  If I have, it wasn't anything like "internet neckbeards give seven thumbs up" like what I'm seeing here; maybe an ad on TV at best.  So the weirdest part for me is (in my mind) a random licensed game from 1989 having a highly-anticipated remake in 2013, as well as a cult following complete with proto-4chan video.

It's very weird, I'll give you that.  I remember playing DuckTales and it was annoying, frustrating and largely felt like most of the other Nintendo games of that genre.  A cash grab action platformer that paled in comparison to Mario <version> or even a dozen other platformers.

In fact, I distinctly remember my siblings and I figured out the easiest way to beat the game was just to pogo across the entire board. Much like beating Top Gun was all about "climb left and wait for the landing."

I'm with you two old farts. I was old enough when Duck Tales came out that I didn't give a shit about the show, and I didn't have an NES so my knowledge of games on that system are secondhand.

You guys are old and bitter, I would have never guessed!  :why_so_serious:


Is that would of?

would have?

would of?


They both sound wrong to me now.

I'm nearly as old, but I'm pretty sure I saw every Duck Tales episode in existence.  Hell, I even watched Darkwing Duck.  I would blame this on my little brother, but I watched cartoons after school for a long time.  In Phoenix, you want to be indoors 90% of the time or you risk sun stroke.

I don't remember it being a bad platformer, but I was pretty terrible at the genre as a kid.  I never did beat it, but I'm pretty sure my brother a neighborhood friend did.

I'll buy this as long as the price isn't too high.  I don't pay top dollar for nostalgia.

Make me a Talespin game and I'm in.

I am right with you. I didn't even know this game existed, so I'm highly dubious that people keep telling me that it was one of the most popular platformers of all time.

At least in my area, the game was pretty popular when it came out.  Of course I was 10 at the time so I was more or less in the right age bracket.  Obviously I wouldn't have known it at the time, but a lot of the people that worked on this game are the same people that did the Mega Man games.

I remember liking it when it came out, as did most of my friends, but we were all 6 or 7 and loved the cartoon as well.

"would never have", I'd have said.

Still wondering how they did the market research in this. I'm pretty sure the last decade, not a single minute was spent by gamers saying 'We need a HD remake of Ducktales platformer.'

Hell, with Ubisoft going blobber Might & Magic X - I guess nothing surprises me anymore. Perhaps there will be a TMNT HD soon.

At least it wasn't Kickstarted ^^

I wouldn't be surprised if WayForward approached Capcom with the idea.  These are the same guys that did the A Boy and His Blob (an even more obscure NES game than DuckTales) for the Wii because the director was a fan of the original.  Seems like they do a lot of work with other companies franchises, like their recent Double Dragon Neon.

That's already a thing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles:_Turtles_in_Time_Re-Shelled)

Duck Tales was pretty popular and a lot of people have fond memories of it. That said this is clearly not driven by market forces and customer demand.

I don't see this as a bad thing. If the game industry followed "customer demands" to the letter we would get no new games other than Call of Duty/Battlefield/TheSims/EASportgame<insertyear> sequels.

I agree.

Personally I find it kind of annoying when people mix game criticism with "but will it sell?" talk. (Not accusing anyone here of doing that, just something I see around a lot) As a consumer I care if the thing seems cool, not why it is being done or whether it will succeed financially.

In addition a lot of things that do well are things people didn't know they wanted in advance.

That said for the trailer I would have used remixed NES music rather than the cartoon theme. If I have nostalgia for Duck Tales the game it's because the game was actually really good, not because I love Duck Tales the IP.

Also fuck market research. Market research in gaming is usually a great example of total misuse of data. I'm sure market research showed that "Fracture" was going to sell 10,000x more than Minecraft or Mario Kart.

Ducktales held up better than Mega Man 2 (but not 3).

Edit: I would put this as one of the best games Capcom ever made. Seriously. Up there with Magic Sword, MM3, the myriad of exemplary Street Fighter Titles, etc.

It's not every day you meet someone who loves Magic Sword. (I love Magic Sword)

Maybe try 'I never would have guessed' next time.

I'm curious why you have Mega Man 3 there. I agree with you, actually, but I seriously would like to know the why of it, since I can't really explain it beyond a kind of gut feeling.

This whole thread...not sure if serious?  I may have been a little older than the average target audience, but I watched it a bit when I was a kid.  When I clicked the link and the music started playing, I knew exactly 100% of the words.

That said, I never knew such a game ever existed, much less that it may have been worth anything.  How fascinating. 

The one thing I want all of you fuckers to take away from this discussion:

The word "of" is a preposition.  The word "have" is a verb.  QED.

DuckTales was the epitome of NES licensed games next to the first Batman NES game (which also owned). Good music, pretty good level design, pretty decent graphics, some memorable bits.

PYF licenced game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eRiOBzVUSE

Arguable the best platformer made on the Amiga, let alone licensed game.

Oh no, I gave a shit about the show.  I watched it, Darkwing Duck, Freakazoid, Animaniacs.  Hell, I still watch Cartoons. Love 'em more than most scripted shows because they don't take themselves seriously but can say some 'serious' things.  I just don't recall the game being all that good.


As Rasix pointed out, they did.

That said: FUCK CLOUD SURFING!  :mob:


Batman really was the shit wasn't it.  Terrible gameplay from a modern perspective.  (You could just sit in one spot punching while mobs ran at you until you got the powerup you wanted) but damn if it wasn't fun.

Ok, it's been half a week and I still have this theme stuck in my head.




Fuck you.

I still love cartoons. I just didn't give a shit about this one. Disney cartoons outside of Animaniacs were too kiddy for me. Animaniacs fucking OWNED though. That show did stuff that had more subtlety than most adult comedies these days.

Animaniacs was Warner Bros.

I knew that.  :why_so_serious:

I have a Magic Sword CPS2 cartridge for my cabinet. And MvC2, but that's neither here nor there. Magic Sword is the tits.

Mega Man 2 had the following on Mega Man 3: Better Music, almost.

Mega Man 3 felt like a world. The bosses belonged there. The level design was basically the best in the series until Mega Man X - but Mega Man X had some different goofy problems that Mega Man 3 didn't have (like forcing you to push the controls to the extreme, which some people like but I don't care for it). At no point did the difficulty of Mega Man 3 ever make a drastic shift like it does in the first area in Wiley's Castle in 2. Mega Man 3 introduced Proto Man, who has one of the most memorable and perfect scores ever put into a game to invoke a feeling of narrative pre-voice acting. The entire game is just Capcom saying "We have mastered the platformer. Next."

Is MM3 the first one with the charge up shot? Or was that 4?

MM2 was just do metal man stage, get saw blades, win game.

Mega Man 3 had Proto Man and Rush.

Mega Man 4 had the charge shot. It was also a total piece of shit.

Rush was 3?

What was I using to get up ledge in 2 then, just generic floaty platform gun?

Item-1 or Item-2. I think you could also jump on Crash Man's bombs.

It's been so long since I've played a megaman game, they have all just muddled up in my head now. Which one added sliding then?

That was 3, I think.

Slightly off topic, but I got a big nostalgia kick out of watching Psychedelic Eyeball's Megaman races so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJn2kOlwlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bui41N2YCrg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bru6Tt_gM84
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMdIqyOqdq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Y9cqlWs6k

Ragny from SA also did an interesting livestream of a Mega Man 4 romhack on his birthday last week. It's a bit choppy though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wHOUn7t6Zc

I've had the stupid Ducktales theme stuck in my head for days.

DAYS

Yah, me too.  It's pretty pleasant compared to somethings that have gotten stuck there.  Makes me feel like a hero.

woo-oo

Every time I read this thread, the fucking theme song burrows its way back into my brain.

I literally just opened this thread, started reading your post...and in my head what I read was "Every time just grab on to some Duck Tales!  A woo ooh!"

I just read this thread today and I had the ducktales theme song stuck in my head a few days ago.

wtf?

Because it's that kind of thread: the D&D Mystara arcade games are being released as a collection across multiple platforms in Apirl.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=23104.msg1171025#msg1171025

Honestly, the D&D re-release has me more excited than the DuckTales remake.

I mean, I've heard DuckTales is a great game and all, but I'd rather have the original than a "prettied up" remake.  This 2.5d semi-polygonal platforming stuff is not as visually interesting to me as a straight up 2d platformer, even a low res one.

And back to the top for your release day  :awesome_for_real:

Not buying this piece of shit.  :grin:

(http://i.imgur.com/DYwZkCh.png)

I played it at E3 and thought it was pretty dull. After playing for about a minute I wanted to walk away but a developer was watching me out of the corner of his eye so I kept playing because I didn't want him to feel bad. This was before the general public was let in, so I was the only person in the booth at the time.

Playing the game felt like just going through the motions. I kind of sucked at it so it was "hard" in a way but not in a challenging interesting way.

I find a lot of WayForward's game are like that. BloodRayne was similar - it had cool animations and atmosphere, it was hard, but it wasn't fun to play and surmounting the challenge wasn't enjoyable.

This saddens me.

*shrug*  I'm enjoying it.  Seems to be scoring decently enough on Metacritic.  I can't remember the last time I went to GameSpot for anything....might have been the time Eidos paid them off to review Kane and Lynch.

The first paragraph of that Gamespot review is classic awful video game review writing:


Not only is it terrible in isolation but the rest of the review focuses on negative changes in the remake, so the final line doesn't even make sense.

 :facepalm:

What I've heard is that it's well, a modern port of the NES game with story cutscenes interjected to explain the silly Japanese shit like why you're on the moon.

The original NES game was pretty good, and my friends say this is outside of it not being as responsive as the original. Nostalgia glasses really- reviewer doesn't like NES game after 20 years of refinement on the genre. Only Mario can get away with releasing direct ports of old shit as far as reviews go.

Yeah, as I said before the original was simplistic and not anywhere near deserving the praise I was seeing for it.  I didn't get the love. 

Good to see that being forced to actually play it instead of remember it as one of the 8 games someone had at 5-year-old means I wasn't totally crazy.

Seeing nostalgia for the game shatter on the harsh rocks of reality, ok. I get that. But complaining "wah, the Ducktails theme is silly and stupid when I'm 30!"  Wut?  :uhrr:

See, I'm not sure anyone who played the game as a kid thinks the gameplay will be anything BUT dated.  Nostalgia doesn't always mean naivety, I still go to the mall and eat sabarro pizza even though I know it's shit because it reminds me of days spent in the mall and playing in the arcade.

I just want this for the voice acting. Love duck voices. LOVE EM.

It's probably the last time you're gonna hear from Uncle Scrooge anyway. The VA is 93.