This is all I'm hearing, Punch-Out!! mixed with Contra. Sign me up! I'm looking forward to it more because of the boss-rush nature. And with these graphics? *faints*
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Cuphead - GDC Gameplay/Art Director Interview
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This is all I'm hearing, Punch-Out!! mixed with Contra. Sign me up! I'm looking forward to it more because of the boss-rush nature. And with these graphics? *faints*
BabyFaceKillah
Member
me too broski
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
This game looks brilliant
Apoleptica
Banned
Cuphead looks great, and that pink haired girl doing the interview is super cute.
pixelation
Member
I think it's making its "console debut" on XBO.
Yeah, but sometimes you don't know how long that is. Space Engineers is a year exclusive on Xbox. That why it's good to own all consoles
pixelation
Member
True, but i dunno some people are patient lol. The only thing i dislike is the CA... hope its toggable.
Frankensteiner
Banned
Game looks fantastic! When is it coming out?
Looks fking amazing! Quickly shot up my list of most anticipated games. Looks soooo freaking good!
No release date. Sometime in 2015 for Xbone and PC
No release date. Sometime in 2015 for Xbone and PC
RIP.
Game looks so good. I'm loving the style of it. I didn't know it was boss rush and that's kind of disappointing, but I'll be buying it regardless.
NoirVisage
Banned
beautiful game
I don't care if its a cow milking simulator, lush animation and faithfulness to aesthetic should be rewarded sufficiently!
I don't care if its a cow milking simulator, lush animation and faithfulness to aesthetic should be rewarded sufficiently!
efyu_lemonardo
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How many people are on the team for this again?
I seriously hope cuphead is a runaway success. They deserve it.
I seriously hope cuphead is a runaway success. They deserve it.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Man, I just don't get the complaints about this not being a platformer or that it looks simple. The genre (boss rush, may or may not have Contra/Alien Solider-style build-up prior to bosses) makes perfect sense for eliminating downtime, letting the background and character animations have a greater impression during play, and showing off design principles while making the game shorter (thus easier to replay). We've only seen a small number of bosses through released media, and these bosses have tons of forms and patterns so far unknown. And the same goes for how many action players can perform as Cuphead, e.x. the Slap mechanic the interviewer wasn't aware of while she was playing.
It's a gorgeous project in so many ways; the only waste that can happen is if the game fails to live up to its predecessors in challenge, variety, and understanding of arcade design philosophy.
It's a gorgeous project in so many ways; the only waste that can happen is if the game fails to live up to its predecessors in challenge, variety, and understanding of arcade design philosophy.
Messofanego
Banned
Didn't know these design goal details, and this was back in 2nd of Nov, 2013.
Hope the game turns out amazing.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun that centers around 1-on-1 fights (2-on-1 in two player mode).
With Cuphead, we aim to evolve the genre by adding new features such as: super arts, infinite lives, a playable world map and hidden secrets. In addition to that, we will have refined controls, additional boss patterns on harder modes and balanced weapons to equip (that you don’t lose!). We plan to release 10-15 bosses per episode and end up with over 30 bosses. If all goes as planned, we will defeat the current “Guinness World Record for Most Boss Battles in a Run and Gun Game”[25 total]).
When developing Cuphead we started with the basics – who knows this better than Shigeru Miyamoto. He set the standard for all 2D and 3D platformers and they are still a great formula for gameplay perfection. Knowing this, we’ve spent a lot of time fine tuning small details like hitboxes, screen movement, player control, weapon balancing, and a ton of small details that may go unnoticed by some.
PATTERNS, ETC.
When we were designing Cuphead, we wanted the game to be more reaction-based than just straight memorization. Great games like Contra III/Hard Corps mainly used repeating patterns that appeared in the same order every time – we feel this pattern formula tends to have less surprise on subsequent replays. On the other end of the spectrum, a game like Mega Man has a lot of proximity based patterns to mix things up – but this can let you take advantage of the boss by forcing the AI into the same series of attacks.
Our approach is to integrate variance by: *some of this is for nerds*
- Rearranging certain pattern orders on replays
- Using arrays on individual attack attributes to mix it up (vague example: 1,2,1,3,3,2,1,3,2 instead of 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3)
- All proximity based attacks will have a variety of options to avoid pattern trapping
- Using RNG sparingly during suitable situations and not like Holy Diver – (P.S. Funkdoc rules!)
- Every boss in the game will have 3 ranks of difficulty: each one adds new patterns, visuals and blast processing
DIVERSITY
The best of the genre always contained a variety of gameplay (Contra III overhead stages not included!). We are aiming to have good diversity by :
- some fights styled more like a platformer
- patterns/gameplay themes that havenÂ’t been seen before in a run and gun
- shmup stages with influences from games like: the Thunderforce series, Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, and Jamestown (which is AMAZING)
- suits (like Mario 3) that will give the player new attributes/abilities
- extremely long, unskippable cut scenes
Hope the game turns out amazing.
efyu_lemonardo
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A game about repeatedly tugging on large firm nipples?
Sounds like the kind of thing that would be big in Japan.
The game looks amazing, and was my standout title from last year.
I had no idea it was a boss rush title. I am kind of not interested no more :/.
It should be a platformer with boss battles. The whole description of it being based on patterns with 1 on 1 fights is really shattering. I feel a huge missed opporunity for the potential this game has.
There is room for a good downloadable platformer like Mario, Sonic.
I had no idea it was a boss rush title. I am kind of not interested no more :/.
It should be a platformer with boss battles. The whole description of it being based on patterns with 1 on 1 fights is really shattering. I feel a huge missed opporunity for the potential this game has.
There is room for a good downloadable platformer like Mario, Sonic.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
On the other hand, there's been a decent amount of platformers with boss battles out recently (Volgarr and Shovel Knight come to mind), so Cuphead's approach stands out and can be ambitious in a different way. The only thing I'm not excited about is the use of infinite lives, which the developers should explain in relation to game progression. Being able to switch that on and off would be ideal.
LukasTaves
Member
krypt0nian
Banned
Was he permed? Guy was awesome.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
love it
My childhood! This only needs a Looney Tunes and some Disney easter eggs, and I'm going to be giggling of happiness.
I still miss him and his avatar changes. What happened to him?
Why no PS4?
I was wondering the same, maybe after release we can get a PS4 version.
Also some bits are exactly as they were animated, like that boss flower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNttqN1wUMY&t=215
OrbitalBeard
Member
Did you play it at GDC? What didn't you like about it?
Piston Hyundai
Member
Steam has plenty of indie platformers that have nothing interesting to bring to the table besides their art style if that's really what you guys are looking for.
Let someone be inspired by stuff like Alien Soldier and Contra: Hard Corps instead of the same old shit for a change.
Trust me when I say that you will want the infinite lives.
That said, there will likely be an optional tower challenge mode of all of the fights (or something like that) that you have to progress through without dying for the ultra-hardcore people.
The way it is now, with the difficulty, it would be incredibly alienating to people if you had to start from square one after a certain amount of deaths. Think of it like Super Meat Boy: infinite lives, still pretty hard.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
I can be ok with only or mostly boss battles but seeing that the game is a run and gun for the love of god please tell me there are score mechanics at play and that you can play to beat highscores?
Kind of?
Mostly, it'll just be based around time; the faster you beat a boss, the better. There's a bunch of technique involved in speed running, including putting yourself in danger by trying to parry everything that is coming to you so that you can build up your super meter faster, so that you can can deal more damage faster.
There'll also be some tricks with weapon mixing and situational use that will bring times down. Really trying to nail the ability legitimately speed run the game.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Only on Xone? =(
Steam too.
Yes that's exactly what I was saying, thanks for the help.
Chiaroscuro
Member
Those early XX century cartoons are stufffrom nightmares... Sure weren't made with kids in mind, right?
digita1alchemy
Member
They have a lot to prove on the gameplay side of things. Everything they've shown so far looks extremely pedestrian.
They absolutely were made for kids. What's appropriate for kids as changed over time, of course. There were episodes of Looney Tunes that dealt with murder, suicide, romance, and some were even war-time propoganda --which were obviously played for laughs. Back then, kids were exposed to a lot of things that adults also had to deal with.
Of course, kids material have been toned down significantly since then.
Since those started in theaters as side features to fill time not were precisely aimed at children. At least not exclusively though.
Some were too edgy for kids anyway and/or in the case of Betty Boop too sexy so she eventualy got toned down (CURSE YOU HAYS CODE!!!!!!!)
Some of my favourites of that era from Fleischer Studios:
Bimbo's Initiation
Red Hot Mamma
And of course, Minnie the Moocher
Iva Demilcol
Member
I like what I've seen so far.
I'll buy it day one.
I'll buy it day one.
Iva Demilcol
Member
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Twin Tails
Member
aiming for 2015
its id at xbox, it'll come to other plats for sure