01-11-2017, 09:42 AM | #21 |
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Hrmm. No, I think there's more goodwill to releasing a nostalgia pack than you think. Re-Shelled didn't do so well at the time, but 2009 in TMNT is a lot than these days. Sure, the recent games have severely under performed and the new movie franchise has ended...but the Nick show is still out and the toys and comics still sell well. I think with such a black eye on TMNT games at the moment, a cool way to overt that would be a Sonic Mania type strategy with those old Konami games.
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01-11-2017, 11:29 AM | #23 |
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There is a huge following among classic games on major gaming forums like IGN, neogaf, gamespot, gamefaqs, etc. Interest in old NES games especially popular ones like TMNT were are still high.
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But yeah, you're right...they'll eventually find a way to try something out but it's also more of a pipe dream of mine that they would release the old games in such a fashion. Like CyberCubed mentioned, I'm in the notion that there is still a huge appetite for old school video games re-released and especially for a franchise that hit it out of the park back in the day like TMNT did for Konami. I think the main problem is you have people behind the scenes that think just slapping a license on something (LJN games ) will ultimately make it good...that way of thinking doesn't work on video games any more especially with indie games finding a way to out do so much.
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Since, you know, about the year 1998... the cost of an emulator? $0. Cost of ROM? $0. Cost of knockoff NES-like controller to plug into your computer? Maybe like $30. There you go, you can play them all, console perfect. This isn't exactly a secret.
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01-11-2017, 04:16 PM | #27 |
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the newer games just LOOKED terrible and hard to follow in the previews they showed. If I didn't bother to try them cause they looked tough to follow, I can imagine other people not picking it up.
Those Nick Turtle games arn't so great either.I still don't think I've finished the first one. The last good turtle games where for the DS. after that konami lost their touch. People elsewhere HAVE been asking for these classics...and it's more than 4 people. |
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Ubisoft made the games based on the 2007 movie, then Smash-Up, then Activision got the license for the Nick era and the IDW inspired game. |
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Because they didn't release the same game, they remade it, it works differently that way.
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Having a collection of all of the games won't ever happen because of the rights issues with 3 different companies but If enough money was thrown it's entirely possible.
The good news is licensing games from only one company is not that difficult, as we saw Ubisoft licensed the Konami arcade games various times and even offering them as extras so I'm guessing it wasn't even that expensive. Counting Konami seems pretty much done with the gaming industry for the most part they're very likely to be more flexible and finally counting the games have huge nostalgic appeal and aren't bad games gives high hopes for re-releases of the NES/Arcade games in the future. Sadly the Activition/Ubisoft games don't have any nostalgic appeal and aren't considered good games so any company trying to license them is not likely at all. Quote:
No, just having the rights to the license doesn't mean you can re-make/port games from older companies as those older companies own the actual code, you need to license the code from them as well. Last edited by sdp; 01-11-2017 at 05:23 PM. |
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Ubisoft had the rights to TMNT games when they did Turtles in Time ReShelled.
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01-11-2017, 07:35 PM | #33 |
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roms don't always work great either.
if they take the time and effort to release it, I'll gladly pay for it mutliple times over to show support properly. only way to do it..especially if you want to show that you want more of the same stuff. |
01-11-2017, 07:44 PM | #34 |
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This thread needs to be locked. It's obvious none of you have any idea how the videogame industry works.
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01-11-2017, 08:33 PM | #35 |
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Andrew is just being Andrew with that said, while roms may be a gray area in general when it comes to licensed properties you have to consider them abandonware since the rights are stuck in limbo and there's really nothing wrong with pirating them as in the case with TMNT games which now includes the Activition titles. The morality is up to you but I consider then fair game if there's no "easy" legal way to acquire them.
Now if they for some reason become available then yes you should totally support the franchise that you love even if you can get it for "free" as with most movies/music etc. as you vote with your wallet for cool stuff like that to happen and it's nice to have an official release. It's not the ROMs that are bad, that's just the info on the game, that is basically perfect, the problem is the emulators which try to replicate the original hardware digitally and they will never run the same as they would in original hardware unless the actual game is ported but with these older game systems you can get games running 98.999% where only hardcore nerds can actually tell the difference and ironically the pirated emulators since they have so many enthusiasts usually run better than most "official" commercial releases. |
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Considering the Snes game is seen as a classic a lot of people would disagree with you that the game is unplayable. |
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