Blackleg-sanji1
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Don't feel bad i didn't enjoy it much either. Platinum is good but they aren't flawless
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First screenshots of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan (Platinum)
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Transformers Devastation was way better than a low-budget licensed Activision game based on a toy infocommercial has any right to be.
Who are you talking to exactly? I dislike Mad World, don't own Bayonetta because my 360 died, couldn't get in Vanquish, don't own a WiiU, thought the Anarchy Reigns demo was crap, and I keep telling everyone that Infinite Space is a Nudemaker game and not a Platinum game. I really enjoy Metal Gear Rising and I had a ton of fun with Transformers Devastation. They're both flawed games made with a bunch of compromises though. That doesn't mean they can't be really enjoyable. Did you have a point or were you just trying to say something stupid?
Saito aside, having Hiroshi Shibata as the game design lead probably helped bring experience to the project too. He's been the design lead on all of Kamiya's games since Okami at least. This might be the first non-Kamiya game he bas been credited for design lead.
fastballspecial
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Cool. Transformers was my game of my year. Hopefully another one comes out and it's just more of the same. HOOK IT UP, PLATINUM. And I hope TMNT mimics the same formula as Devastation.
literally the exact thing that was said, in the same exact way, in my head as I was looking at them.
Rocksteady isn't good at storytelling either.
They're the worst Batman story writers out right now. The Injustice comics managed to portray a better Batman than Rocksteady
comics vs. video games? there is a difference there.
I feel like people talk themselves into thinking that Platinum is infallible.
Who ever said that Platinum were infallible? No developer is infallible, so that statement of yours makes no sense whatsoever. However, I typically enjoy Platinum's output more than others. Flaws and all.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I dunno, Nick TMNT act more kiddish.
Well, yeah, one of my many qualms with the Nicktoon is that the crew hasn't really developed/matured much at all from the beginning of the series. None more apparent than how they're content to let Mikey stay the "idiot hero", where the Mirage and IDW versions of the character actually has depth.
But again, I was able to appreciate how the Nicktoon started out with the idea of making the guys actually start out as actual youngsters still learning their trade. We've come a long way from the Mirage comic, which had April giving 16 year olds access to beer!
Maybe the train is heading the other way?
About April, I haven't followed the series in any form in a long time...
But have they de-white washed her yet?
Coffee Dog
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If you're saying this as if holding comics to a higher narrative standard, you haven't read the injustice comic, lol.
Rocksteady's Batman set the bar.
What do you mean by that?
Nope. I guess unlike Stockman, there's not going to be as much championing for her to get restored to being closer to what Eastman originally imagined her as.
On the other hand, the Nicktoon has made April into a Teenage Alien Ninja Psychic who's far more an offensive Mary Sue archetype than anything else I've seen in a visual medium in the last year and some change!
I direct you to this old thread on the Technodrome forum: Kevin Eastman wanted April to be black?
Weltall Zero
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If you consider yourself a P* fan but don't know who Saur is, perhaps it's time to educate yourself.
http://platinumgames.com/2014/05/19/interview-with-saurian-dash-part-1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqzztvoVngY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdHbPXNJvVE
Nah I'm good, don't really appreciate people telling me what I should and shouldn't like because some other guy does, I prefer to think for myself.
BumblebeeCody
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Or even a spectacle fighter player should know who Saur is.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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I feel like people talk themselves into thinking that Platinum is infallible.
Nobody has said anything of the sort.
But seeing as you have made the claim, please explain how Platinum have not proved multiple times they are now the premier dev house for character action games?
Are you guys for real? So everyone who plays spectacle fighting games watches this guys YouTube videos? Get off my back jeez.
PetriP-TNT
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Looks exactly like I imagined it to look like. The turtle models are pretty garbage though. However in Platinum I trust
ViewtifulJC
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Pass me some of that good shit you smokin on my nigga
clutch.as.it.gets.
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Im not a fan of cell shading.. so not feeling it!
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Fixed.
Weltall Zero
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All you have to contribute is replying to a well argumented, balanced post (he commented on the game's failings too) with no arguments of yourself and nothing else but an overused-to-exhaustion gif?
I didn't know that being aware of who other people are or what their opinions are brainwashed you; I always thought that different points of view, especially that of experts, could only enrich your own opinion.
Also, while it's perfectly fine to have an opinion, sharing it with others and being respected for it, the second you start trying to pass it as the truth, with stuff like this:
Then the very least you're expected to provide is solid arguments, especially when it goes against what many players think (including much more reputed experts than you). Not even knowing the most prominent of all of these experts, and worse, reveling in that ignorance, is not going to do you any favors in terms of credibility.
At some point you have to move past "I liked this" "well I didn't" and ground discussion on something.
BumblebeeCody
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No I was just saying in general. It's like saying if you're into fighting games you most likely know who Maxmillian Dood is on YouTube. If you haven't heard of Saur, fair enough.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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No but if you are remotely interested in character action ganes, you instantly should reconinse someone who knows their shit.
Im not claiming saur should be held as an authority, but at least watch a video or two. You might learn something about the game you have missed
DeepEnigma
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I lol'ed at work at this, lol.
Its fine to share the guys videos with me as I don't know who he is, its not ok to frame it with such things as "if you call yourself a fan" and "educate yourself". Could just accept I didn't think transformers was all that great.
Spring-Loaded
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This is what Korra would've been had it not been for Platinum. It's probably Platinum's worst game, but it was $15, had like 4-6 months dev time and it's still got a pretty damn good combat system. Easily most justice done to the IP in video game form.
BumblebeeCody
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Yeah it's pretty annoying when people say that shit. Apologies if my post came off like that initially.
.....and someone thought it would be a good idea to release it the SAME DAY as Bayonetta 2.
Weltall Zero
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See my edit of my above post about the difference between opinion and statements, why the latter must be grounded, and why it's important to know about the experts if you want to be taken seriously.
It's also a pet peeve of myself when people wear their ignorance like a badge. You could at least have googled Saur in the time it took to write your reply.
Anyhow, have to make dinner. Have fun, all.
GuitarAtomik
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I've always said they should have just copied the NECA toy design as they're the defacto nostalgic Turtle design since with coloured headbands they straddle the original comic and the show's action figure packaging:
I might get crucified for this, but I've never really liked these versions. I know they're the first, but to me they've always looked like "Wallace and Grommit's Nick Park does his version of TMNT". Regardless, it would be nice to get a bunch of skins (even these).
RAIDEN1
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Why can't we just get the classic 80's/90's look of the turtles instead of always trying to re-invent their faces...even with the movies I don't know where they were going with those designs, why not stick with the classic Jim Henson studio's creations instead of having to mess it all up...??
DeepEnigma
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Not gritty/mature(?) enough. Just one of many assumptions.
I personally like Eastman and Laird's designs, and feel they would fit well, even today (which this game's art gives me that feel).
One thing I did not get with the Bay movie (finally watched it for the first time two nights ago since this thread pop'ed up), is why Raphael was so damned jacked. I liked that one of them was, but he was always known as the "speed guy", Donatello, while the tech one they got right, was the slower of the bunch. He could have been a jacked nerd. But I guess writers always have to have "their thing".
Other than that, I was actually shocked that I did not mind the movie too much as far as effects went. Maybe it is because I am getting older and less nit picky. Though I did loathe the first "alien" idea, and they did poke fun at that in the movie. Nice little easter egg.
GuitarAtomik
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This style isn't really any more radically different from the two styles you just listed.
Because the original cartoon is a veritable licensing minefield and even if they tried to sort it out the majority audience of stuff like games is still going to be kids who are fans of the movies or the Nick cartoon, so it's probably not worth it to design the whole game around it. Maybe we'll get lucky with skins, though.
^ This.
And besides, with the IDW series as base, you still get every opportunity to use almost whatever character desired from the original series and give it a fitting updated IDW-style design. So, you still get your Bebop, Rocksteady,
Krang, Slash
Wingnut
And the recent movie and Nicktoon probably aren't options at this point, either, since Activision's recent shovelware based off the Nicktoon and first "Bayturtles" movie have all ranged from mediocre to garbage. So, the best chance they were going to get at anything similar to a "fresh start" with the brand in the console space was to utilize an entirely different set of Turtles altogether (re: the IDW ones), and have core gamer darling P* make a decent game out of them.
Spring-Loaded
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You don't love anything.
Host Samurai
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The TMNT games have always mixed up the different universes. Super Shredder, Tokka, Razor & Tetsu all come to mind as being bosses in games about the 80s cartoon despite being movie characters.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Transformers was awesome, looking forward to those feelings in the TMNT world.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
The "roided" look is fine in paper, at least with a specific build
but "realistic" look makes them look weird.
And I'd argue that the Mirage and the 80's cartoon look a tad different from each other.
I've always said they should have just copied the NECA toy design as they're the defacto nostalgic Turtle design since with coloured headbands they straddle the original comic and the show's action figure packaging:
I really like these designs.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
People only mention the colored headbands when they also forget one other defining thing turtles had (which I think started by 2k3 but from what I heard has been in some materials earlier).
Color tone.
Color tone.
Erm... err.... I don't believe you.
I never read the comic, but in the game Batman was decidedly Batman-like in the game.
Superman was pretty reasonable too.
Some of the others weren't as on target.