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The All New Spyborgs *Trailer inside*
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Cosmonaut X
Member
Looks pretty cool - definitely a step up from the first showing. Still seems aimed at the early teen market, but that's never stopped me picking up a good game.
TheKingsCrown
Banned
Looks like there is a good amount of effort put into this game.
Still, I can't resist:
"WHAT...IS THAT" :lol
Still, I can't resist:
"WHAT...IS THAT" :lol
Cosmonaut X
Member
TheKingsCrown said:
The final sequence had me thinking:
"METAL... GEAR??!"
DefectiveReject
Banned
Looks better, but i still ask why?
McBradders
NeoGAF: my new HOME
That looks fantastic!
DefectiveReject
Banned
why bother... looks too generic to be liked by the massesSadist said:
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
DefectiveReject said:
Yeah that's kinda my take here. It does look visually quite good and a high effort, polished production... but I think this probably falls into "The Conduit" category of "Good, but probably not good enough to displace the fact that there's better elsewhere" with the quid pro quo that at least the Conduit has IR aiming to fall back on.
With Ninja Gaiden 1+2, DMC, Bayonetta, and even b-tier stuff like Afro Samurai, I'd say the action-beat-em-up-platformish genre is pretty well filled out. If you move into action-shooter-platformish, you can add Red Faction, Bionic Commando, Dark Void, Dead Rising, and countless others.
Still I guess if they pick a good release window for it and really polish the hell out of it, it could have a unique selling point. At the very least, it seems to skew younger in age and could cross over into some of the "movie game" buyer demographic.
Cosmonaut X
Member
Stumpokapow said:
...but not on Wii. There are very few titles like this on the system - the only one that springs to mind is Rygar.
It also looks pretty focused and polished, and the co-op gameplay sets it apart and also plays to one of the strengths of the platform - local co-op.
ShockingAlberto
Member
If I didn't know otherwise, I'd be sure this was based on a Cartoon Network original.
Seems to be the exact same audience.
Seems to be the exact same audience.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
I think you answered your own question on what Capcom is thinking with this, targeting a market that can't (legally) play the games you listed. Hopefully they don't pull a Zack and Wiki and fail to match the visuals with the gameplay difficulty.Stumpokapow said:
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Cosmonaut X said:
That's true and certainly relevant for the game's target demographic who might have a Wii and nothing else. I definitely get that and I'll freely yield that it could find success in being tailored to that group.
But I'll just go out on a limb and say that if we're discussing the kind of people who post on GAF, if they like this kind of action-beat-em-up they've probably bought one of the two next-gen systems. Also, if you're the kind of person who likes action beat-em-ups, you could buy 360 + NG2 + DMC4 + Dead Rising + Dead Rising 2 for the same price as a Wii + Spyborgs, so I'm not sure the value proposition is present there.
Let me offer an analogy so it doesn't sound like I'm picking on the Wii. I think we can all agree there's an absolute truckload of FPS / TPS on PS3/360, right? So if a B-level developer announces a B-level FPS / TPS for the 360--I'll start naming names: Stranglehold, Blacksite Area 51, 50 Cent, Dark Sector, Velvet Assassin, Eat Lead, FEAR 2, Wet, Wanted, Wheelman--even if it turns out good enough, it's still destined to obscurity because there are so many truly great franchise entries out there overshadowing it.
The difference here is that the great entries are on another platform, but as someone who buys consoles based on games rather than games based on consoles, I don't think anyone here who knows better should settle for good instead of great.
It's true that there aren't a ton of games exactly like this for the PS360, and Wii obviously does have good local co-op appeal, but even limiting the field strictly to 1) good not brilliant, 2) local co-op, 3) action brawlers, 4) being released in 2009, you've still got Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 which I'd go out on a limb and say would overshadow this game
Still, I hope that as time goes on we find out more about Spyborgs' unique selling points and that Capcom ends up having some success with it. I always hope that high effort, polished productions get rewarded even if they're not my bag.
poppabk said:
I'd say that the target market (teens-ish who like action-platformy-cartoony goodness) would probably split down the middle between kids old enough to con their parents into buying the PS360 stuff for them, and then the movie game audience. The movie game audience is lucrative if you can tap it, and definitely the gameplay covers the same sort of ground based on the trailer. It's all up to Capcom to try to position the product the right way, I guess.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Kinda makes me want a Wii co-op update of Nightmare Creatures for some reason
Metal Gear?!
Member
None of those games have co-op.Stumpokapow said:
And if we get into Wii-exclusive beat-em-ups...
Neither NMH nor MadWorld nor Deadly Creatures (for a non-mature good beat-em-up) have co-op either.Aeris130 said:
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
plank said:
Nope.
Looks incredible. Love the art style changes. It looks better visually than just about everything created by third parties on the Wii so at the very least it should be commendable for that. Two questions that arise from watching that short trailer, if its a co-op beat 'em up, will there be online co-op (preferably pop in pop out). Second is that it looks like only 2/3 enemies on the screen at once (ignoring the giant metal gear) will there be more?
AceBandage
Banned
Ehhh, it looks nice, but so overly generic now.
The idea of it being a Saturday Morning cartoon actually had a certain appeal, you know?
The idea of it being a Saturday Morning cartoon actually had a certain appeal, you know?
GitarooMan
Member
I think it looks very good, is it just straight action/beat-em-up or are there any platforming or adventure elements?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Visually the game doesn't look particularly original, but it looks a hell of a lot more refined than the original build. Regardless of how different the original build looked it was just a shit-ton more sloppy and unrefined. It looked incredably basic and lame.
End of the day though it all comes down to how the game plays. If it offers a fun co-op experience with plenty of reason to keep playing (eg: variety, unlockables, etc) then I'll pick it up as there aren't really any good co-op experiences on the Wii.
End of the day though it all comes down to how the game plays. If it offers a fun co-op experience with plenty of reason to keep playing (eg: variety, unlockables, etc) then I'll pick it up as there aren't really any good co-op experiences on the Wii.
leroy hacker
Member
AceBandage said:
In what ways does Spyborgs now look less like a Saturday morning cartoon?