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Namco Museum on Switch
- Thread starter Neff
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This is the question. Crouching could be frustratingly precise in Rolling Thunder even with an arcade stick, so I don't hold out much hope for that game.
Pacman is nearly 40 years old. Many of these games are at least 30 years old. Assuming these are all running off an emulator and haven't had millions of man hours careful polishing, then 10 games is fucking laughable. I bet they put more effort into carefully choosing the minimum number and range of games per volume to press as many peoples' buttons with 'oh I loved that one game but not so much the rest..', than they do on the actual engineering to get these working.
And we'll still buy them, and namco will laugh at us, and we'll buy volume 2.
The Tate potential of the Switch is something that I'd not thought of before. Does the stand work in that orientation, or is thus something we'd have to kludge?
Sadly it's the second. I am looking into cases that have their own stand but as of now nothing I like came to my eyes.
MilkyJoe
Member
Oh my ... Nope, I can't justify a switch for just two old arcade games...
As much as I hate the idea of so few old games in a compilation, I'm pretty fond of Galaga '88 and Sky Kid - and Rollign Thunder is one of my childhood alll time favourites. I'm doomed to buy at almost any price
MilkyJoe
Member
I feel your pain, but I will remain strong.
davidwhangchoi
Member
nice rhyme, yes tate please
Neff
Member
You're never going to see Taito or Capcom-like collections from Namco like we did on PS2 with an exhaustive abundance of games. The Namco Museum series is a franchise in itself and they know it. They always sell well due to the fact that their early arcade titles are more iconic than most.
Surprise! From the US Boxart thread:
Also the PR says it's $29.99 USD!
Physical and a good price? Can't argue with that.
If they left out Mappy and Xevious I'm sure we're getting another pack at some point.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Rolling Thunder 2!!! Oh yeah! With all the nickel and diming for old arcade games I was worried we'd never see a collection like this again! Thank you Namco
RoyaleDuke
Banned
Oh man fuck I want this, yes.
styl3s
Member
I would hate to see your reaction to what VC titles are going to cost if you think $3 a game is too much.
$30 is a reasonable price for this collection and it's even better if you live in the US and have Prime/GCU making it $24.99.
always crazy bacon
Banned
It won't sell enough, Namco will consider no interest in retro games and we'll never see a volume 2. Once again as predicted, the same damn games over and over again with one or 2 variations (Splatterhouse and RollingThunder 2). These retro collections never get to the great late 80's/90's games that are retro for the current age of most gamers, Only Taito Memories did and that never gets rereleased on anything.
How long until we get another Capcom collection (split up by DLC) starting with 1942, Ghosts and Goblins and Pirate Ship Higemaru again?
Jonneh3003
Banned
Surprise! From the US Boxart thread:
Also the PR says it's $29.99 USD!
This took me from pretty interested to must buy! I already have Pac-Man and Galaga on PS4 and they look like near identical versions but I'm in for it being physical and Splatterhouse! Sad at the lack of Ms Pac-Man.
Horseticuffs
Full werewolf off the buckle
Love me some Splatterhouse. I'm down as hell.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Both Rolling Thunders and Splatterhouse are late '80s, early '90s titles. I agree that there needs to be more new entries though. I'd love to see some early 3D titles like Ridge Racer and Tekken included at some point.
they are a bit silly. Why wouldn't you at least maximise the vertical window so you only have borders on the left/right?
SatoAilDarko
Member
Did you ever play Namco Museum Remix on Wii? That Namco museum in addition to arcade classics had new "remix" versions of arcade titles that were in full 3D and starred Pac-Man. There was a Rally X Remix though the original Rallh X wasn't included.
The later expanded version called Namco Museum Megamix did include both Rally X and New Rally X.
The 2010 reboot had all three as unlockables.
I can't really ever remember there being retro console titles in these Namco Museums. I think they're for arcade releases.
Right about now would be a good time to release a Namco Museum Museum collection
Zen_Arcade
Banned
If you can wait weeks like you seem to have done with Horizon I bet you'll be able to find this used for $20.
Yeah, like to work on my backlog before hopping on every new game. Will also definetly enjoy 2013 Payday in sub 720p and for only 59,99 witch "huge amount of content".
I don´t know who Nintendo is targeting with these prices. I´m not against the "value" of games, but if you wan to succeed as a mobile console, you better be competing with IOS prices, as sad as it is.
Switch sells with Mario, Zelda etc. and everything that adds on like Rayman, Old school Collections shouldn´t be a bite in the sour apple price-wise unless you really want to scare families, kids and Nintedo fans off.
You can always make higher prices but Switch Momentum will only last that long.
Kresnik258
Member
'Museum' is an old name for these collections that dates back to their PS1 releases, I believe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco_Museum
Guess I'll be keeping my money. I'd love to have another way to play it, especially portable with tate mode, but I guess I'm just stuck with Namco Museum 5 on PSX still.
Infernal Monkey
Member
I like how it took one simple reply to set you off on a huge fucking Nintendo rant. They're not even the developer or publisher of this compilation.
You were okay waiting to buy a second hand copy of Horizon for cheap, surely you can do the same here? Or just stick with your mobile phone games for a dollar or whatever?
Snkfanatic
Banned
Aww I love the box art. Price is nice as well! Might have to pick this up.
I...wait what?
This is nonsense
I...wait what?
This is nonsense
zenspider
Member
Tate mode was announced in the direct.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Dude this would have been 30 bucks on any system.
I like how Nintendo Fanboys (or Xbox, Or PS4, or Steam) instantly get offendeed when doing a critical remark.
The prices are crazy on Switch, everybody knows that and they probably will go down the more games get released. But until then, banishing people who seek for a change next to Zelda and Mario Kart the next 5 months is the wrong way from a market perspective.
This game would release at the same price only to go down to 20$ in one month on PS4, Xbox but not on Switch (look how long it took them to offer savings regularly in the eshop in the 3DS/ Wii U era (hint: long))
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Agreed. I'd like to see a Namco Museum compilation with Rave Racer, Ace Driver Victory Lap, Tekken 2 and 3, Starblade and Cyber Sled.
Namco has a great backlog of classic games from the '80s and '90s, and the selection here is decent (there's no way this won't get an M rating with Splatterhouse on there, lol), but I hope they don't stop here.
thepenguin55
Member
Woof, $30 when previous collections were sold for $20 and generally had a lot more games is a rough proposition. Having said that, I'm still kind of excited for this and by the time it launches I should have enough Best Buy credit to knock this down to a more reasonable price point.
YES. It's time to put Namco's late 90s classics into the Museum.
YES. It's time to put Namco's late 90s classics into the Museum.
Namco Museum is now as old as the games were when Namco Museum originally released