?It had more than 1 good game and I personally loved the 1994 arcade game the most.
Speculation: New Battletoads game incoming on Xbox One?
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MightyHedgehog
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That one needs to be a cheap-o XBLA/X1 release, like years ago. Same with all of Rare's back catalog. Why in the fuck they haven't been released on the systems by now as simple emulations collections is truly baffling. More IP rotting away in the vault.
LukasTaves
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I didn't even knew sony purchased these guys, so Lemmings is a Sony property now? I would love to revisit that.
styl3s
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Because Perfect Dark Zero was sooooooo good, right?Because the new Killer Instinct is sooooooo bad, right?
Which game is more recent, and thus more relevant? KI or PDZ?
MightyHedgehog
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Ha, serious. PDZ was almost nine years ago.
revolverjgw
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That art is the WORST. Hopefully the Toads aren't desecrated like that.
thebigmanjosh
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Shadow of the Beast.
Edit: Beaten and already covered. I wouldn't expect this to be more than fan service. Regardless, I like that it's happening and at least on someone's mind.
Because the new Killer Instinct is sooooooo bad, right?
Killer instinct is not even made by Rare now is it? MS doesn't care about Rare or any of its ips, Killer Instinct is probably the exception and they manage to screw it by outsourcing to a company that was bought by a competitor....
You have no idea what you are talking about. Just stop.
styl3s
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So a company can be excused for releasing shitty games and you can't bring them up because they happened to recently put out a decent game? Fucking hilarious.
How about Loco Cycle? It was published by MS last year, complete shit. You act as if the dev team of KI is doing Battletoads, this whole argument is MS game studios, IP's owned by MS and published. I can give you a long list of shitty games but since none released in the past 6 months i guess those aren't relevant, right? Right?
I liked PDZ.:/ Wasn't great, but had some decent things about it.
....I uh.....
....And Sony, Ubisoft, EA, Activision, and Nintendo have not? You're argument is based purely on your own assumptions, opinions, selective examples.
I'm saying that using your logic, we would conclude, before it came out, that KI was going to end up awful. Since that is not at all what happened (it wasn't mediocre, or pretty good. No, it's pretty universally lauded as a fanstastic game, especially for being free), I'm am compelled to conclude that your logic is faulty.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Was nearly a decade ago dude, let it go. Think of the amount of people that have gone in and out of the company in that time period.
it was called double helix...
styl3s
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Because Kinect Sports and Rivals are stellar motion games. Even Banjo Nuts was mediocre at best. The only thing decent non-rare rare has put out was Viva Pinata and Kameo so why should i have any faith in a 90s beloved team that is no longer that team? or in MS studios period?
Banjo K&B is a fantastic game in it's own right. Not at all the same game, but still fantastic. That's like the people saying Ensemble, the creators of the fantastic AoE series were a horrible developer because Halo Wars wasn't as good a shooter as the other ones. Well no shit. It wasn't a shooter. That doesn't make Ensemble an awful studio.
And it's even funnier because BJ&B was released the same year as Viva Pinata: TiP, which was fantastic.
Oh, and you're forgetting Phil Spencer being in position now. That has to mean something, especially since he says BT is his favorite Rare IP.
No. Your post. Like, your logic is awful.
I think his point was that you can't make blanket statements about a company's ability to create games.
TrueGrime
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And who would you rather want messing with these IP's? I'm curious.
Edit: Looked through your post history. No response necessary.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Kinect sports series is pretty well received commercially and critically. I loved the new Banjo.
REMEMBER CITADEL
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What the shit am I reading here? Microsoft published some poorly received games, not unlike every publisher out there, so they should stop trying altogether? Are you for real?
GuitarAtomik
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Your whole point is irrelevant. The question is if MS is capable of reviving any of these old IPs succesfully. KI being the most recent proves they can. Being a VERY recent example, makes it the most relevant to what's going on at MS right now as opposed to 9 years ago.
...Scatter...
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LOL This. I can't think of a more beloved game that was hard as fuck like Battletoads. You think your cute RPGs like Dark Souls are hard? Battletoads will have you waking up in cold sweats. Speeders need to die in a fire.
Doug Heffernan
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And im sure you would agree it would be better...
Dude, just stop.
It's clear by looking at your post history that you are a Nintendo fan who is still pissed about something that happened over 10 years ago.
Yes, Microsoft bought Rare; let it go and move on.
TheUnsunghero26
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I think Phil Spencer mentioned on Twitter that his favourite Rare game was Battle Toads.
Syphon Filter
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Perfect Dark Zero was awesome,forget the haters. Great soundtrack too.
this is terrible.
if anyone's going to make a new battletoads game, they need to go back to the original NES game and identify what it is about that game that makes it stick in our memories -- the crazy tone, the insane mashup of gameplay, and the ludicrous difficulty spikes.
A modern beatemup with toads in it -- or whatever -- is going to be ignored. No one cares about Battletoads but us 30 year olds who grew up soaking our controllers with sweat in the turbo tunnel. Honor that.
if anyone's going to make a new battletoads game, they need to go back to the original NES game and identify what it is about that game that makes it stick in our memories -- the crazy tone, the insane mashup of gameplay, and the ludicrous difficulty spikes.
A modern beatemup with toads in it -- or whatever -- is going to be ignored. No one cares about Battletoads but us 30 year olds who grew up soaking our controllers with sweat in the turbo tunnel. Honor that.