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Its Time for a New Battletoads
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Look up Battletoads on youtube or memebase or something.
see this post:
TwEE-N-Toast
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Would love a new Battletoads.
Nymphae
Banned
I still fail to see your point. The game rocks.
99% sure he's a baddie who could only occasionally get past the hover bike level and never got past the water pipes level
didn't detect your sarcasm. i think it's a pretty lousy game with a good legacy. glad to see some people have fond memories with it.
yep, you got me. me bad at core games.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
I played this a couple of weeks ago and it's a really shitty game. It looks more fun than it really is.
I would love a new Battletoads, I still haven't beaten any of the games but think they are great. It wasn't until 10 years later that I could finally beat that hoverbike stage.
Because KI 2013 is god-like, you don't need Rare to make it, just have another great team make it. Double Helix proved that you don't need Rare to revive their old series, in fact KI was a better game for not using Rare. Rare lost so much of their talent even before the move to MS and in the years following.
Because KI 2013 is god-like, you don't need Rare to make it, just have another great team make it. Double Helix proved that you don't need Rare to revive their old series, in fact KI was a better game for not using Rare. Rare lost so much of their talent even before the move to MS and in the years following.
snoopeasystreet
Member
Give it to the dudes who made Volgar.
That's crazy talk.D=
This.
I probably have nostalgia goggles, but I really want this new game. I didn't even know there were memes about it (although, that is pretty awesome). There is so much crap that gets remakes, reboots, etc, and I just don't understand how some of these things get made, while classics like Double Dragon, Battletoads, to some extend Megaman, etc sit idle collecting dust. Finally DD is making a comeback, so I think it's the perfect time to bring back the toads.
As long as the same composers work on the new game.
Battletoads vs Double Dragon stage 1
Battletoads vs Double Dragon stage 3
Battletoads Battlemaniacs stage 1
Also as long as it doesnt have some strange cheap art style ala Double Dragon Neon (I like the game, but know Wayforward could've done much better).
EDIT: Jet Force Gemini would've been perfect for the 360 considering how popular shooters of any type were last gen.
Battletoads vs Double Dragon stage 1
Battletoads vs Double Dragon stage 3
Battletoads Battlemaniacs stage 1
Also as long as it doesnt have some strange cheap art style ala Double Dragon Neon (I like the game, but know Wayforward could've done much better).
EDIT: Jet Force Gemini would've been perfect for the 360 considering how popular shooters of any type were last gen.
Space Runaway
Member
They should jumpstart the return of Battletoads by going straight into a crossover with the Ninja Turtles.
I think should factor in it's age when passing judgement.
Battletoads is a legit good game even without nostalgia. The only reason I ever plug in my NES anymore is to fire up Battletoads. It is one of the few games I feel is hard without the crutch of RNG and monster hell like I feel Ninja Gaiden played out. It is just a hard but fair game.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
It's got some great cartoony characters but I just couldn't get into it. I remember enemies taking way too long to kill and I quickly lost interest. I don't know maybe it's better with more players.
anexanhume
Member
If it's anything like the original, it would certainly drive new controller sales.
Just add save points. That would transform the nature of the game. A lot of the frustration is having to start over.
Just add save points. That would transform the nature of the game. A lot of the frustration is having to start over.
Swauny Jones
Member
Man an HD Remake of Battletoads would be awesome. As frustratingly hard as this game was to play it was a blast at the same time. As long as they don't dumb it down for the masses I am totally on board for a remake
depths20XX
Member
I don't think the original Battletoads is that great but Battletoads and Double Dragon was an actualy good beat 'em up. It wasn't as completely frustrating as the first one on NES and actually beatable when I was a kid.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
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I mean it does everything it should do for an arcade 90's classic beatumup, but I grown to really dislike these quarter suckers. I love TMNT, The simpsons, X-Men arcade and the like but they are horribly imbalanced games that are just unfair to the player. Games like AvP and Sunset Riders do it right. Maybe this is getting a little too off topic. Let the battletoads love continue.
With that difficulty? Requires colored belts of multiple disciplines to pass the first level.
I believe he is speaking only to the arcade game. I never played the arcade game but it doesn't appear to play out like Battletoads for NES so I never gave it a shot.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
Also if we where to remake battletoads could we fix some of the stupid flaws of it. Like actually being able to beat the game in single player and getting rid of the ability to hurt player 2.
moltonasty
Member
They'd probably do a gritty reboot as a third person cover shooter, where the Battletoads carry gory-ass weapons reminiscent of Turok 2's cerebral bore.
Actually, I would play the shit out of that
RomanceDawn
Member
Woah! That arcade version was crazy! I wish the NES and SNES versions were as reasonable as that one appeared.
Zitz and Rash took claws and drills right to the faces of their downed enemies! And the dying voices after being chomped by that snake will haunt me.
Them tongues though
Zitz and Rash took claws and drills right to the faces of their downed enemies! And the dying voices after being chomped by that snake will haunt me.
Them tongues though
ThatStupidLion
Gold Member
no it does not need a reboot/remake. it wont sell nearly as well as you imagine nor as well as a well-made Adventure Time beat 'em up.
some things in the past just need to stay in the past. not every old character works in the modern day.
some things in the past just need to stay in the past. not every old character works in the modern day.
Beatemups at the arcade were all irritatingly designed that way. They turned skill required way down, and basically made it so you were required to take damage in order to deal it (specifically against bosses). This guarantees your death so you can drop more quarters in. That's why I prefer the console TMNT/Battletoads games. I don't count the XBLA Simpson/X-Men games as 'console' versions, since they maintained the arcade mechanics.
They die faster when you adjust the difficulty.
Purple Cheeto
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SFUmjs9E1c
In all honesty though, I think Beat Em ups are a weird genre for this day and age. They were designed to part you with as many quarters as possible, which you would think would make them good for mobile, but they require better input than tapping.
I just can't see any studio devoting decent resources to a game that won't sell at standard retail prices.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Ha! Yeah, I would too. A Battletoads reboot could be pretty much any kind of game possible since it's a reboot.
Well Simpsons and X-Men are just bad fucking games.
â Narayan
Member
After playing God Hand, I couldn't help but think that the mechanics presented in that game would be great for a new Battletoads game.
The Arkham games are basically the new generation of beatemups. Imagine if similar mechanics were added to a sidescrolling version?
i've played 90's beat-em-ups with way deeper mechanics.
God, I miss the days when I used continue as a noun.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
I know nothing of any Battletoads meme. I still like Battletoads.
Who the hell doesn't like the X-Men Arcade game? I've never heard such insanity.
Uncle Rupee
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Maybe I'm showing my age, but when the game was new everyone I knew who played it liked it. It was a great multiplayer game (for the first few levels) at sleep overs, had amazing graphics by NES standards and pretty great music. It fit in perfectly with all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shows at the time, and had silly stuff like Space Invaders aliens stealing your energy.
Infuriating? Yes. A bad game? Hardly. The only real problem was a lack of continues and/or a password system. Instead they put in warps that most people didn't know about, which left most replaying the first three stages endlessly, and maybe the snake stage if we got lucky (and soon died).
The snake, ice, and water levels are all really interesting though. They bucked many of the trends of other games of the day, and were very well designed. Like I said above the main problem was nobody was really good enough to get to them consistently or simply never saw them.
Those seem more likely, but the nostalgia for Killer Instinct is prompting them to rethink this.
Battletoads was basically the video game equivalent of Street Sharks.
There were lots of TMNT rip offs back then, because TMNT was so insanely popular. Biker Mice from Mars also comes to mind. The Battletoads characters were no different but I think the gameplay is what made it stand out to players back then, not the similarities to TMNT.
Two-player simultaneous games were pretty rare on the NES. Most of them suffered from horrible slow down, but Battletoads didn't despite its large characters and such. Sure, friendly-fire caused many unnecessary deaths but that was part of the fun in a simpler time when videogames weren't so serious.
As impressive as it was to see in the arcades, the actual game itself has aged very poorly. I tried to watch the Giant Bomb quick look of it when it was released on XBLA and PSN and it was just so boring and repetitious even by beat-em-up standards. At least The Simpsons game has some wackiness to it and weird anomalies in character designs and such that make it a curiosity.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
Member
I like the X-Men arcade game but it is a terrible terrible game. Besides nostalgia it's really hard to defend it.
sixteen-bit
Member
I've played electronic Simon variants with deeper mechanics
CreativeWriter
Member
I came back to Battletoads (NES) as a gorpy teenager, at the height of my twitchy finger skills. I'd never played the later levels before, but it was destined to be a Day of Glory, my brothers. Channeling a Wachowski wet dream, my fingers danced over that hard little controller. My Toads were angry that day, my friends, and I could feel the pulse of the Pause Theme in my blood. I whizzed past the speeder bike walls. I hopped all over the tunnel snakes. I was down to my last life, but as the sun began to set through my bedroom window the game gave herself up to me. All my fears fell away, and I touched the very face of Heaven. It was sublime.
In ecstasy, I turned off my Stone Temple Pilots CD, rubbed my hand sweat on my super long jam shorts, and slipped in some Pearl Jam. I took a long pull from my Caprisun, smiled, and fired up PunchOut to take on Tyson.
One shining moment...
In ecstasy, I turned off my Stone Temple Pilots CD, rubbed my hand sweat on my super long jam shorts, and slipped in some Pearl Jam. I took a long pull from my Caprisun, smiled, and fired up PunchOut to take on Tyson.
One shining moment...
I toured Way Forward a few years back with my Community College Computer Science club. The way they work is they make bids (against other companies) of how cheap they can do the game. The company offering the game for development has a certain amount of time for development in mind. Way Forward can only make games as great as the budget allows them to. Since them and other companies are competing for cheaper development costs, some games don't end up living up to their full potential.
Given more time Double Dragon Neon would have been much better.
I got Battletoads and Streets of Rage both for Christmas of '91. Guess which one I played more.
LOL! Guilty pleasure: I loved that show, and I loved the SNES game.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
What does that have to do with anything? This thread isn't proposing an either-or situation between a remake of Battletoads or SOR. In fact, a remake of SOR would probably be more likely if Battletoads and other older games continue to get the remake treatment.
anexanhume
Member
My second monitor just fell in half from the edge bro.
I hope both get remade XD
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