family_guy
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I... can't believe this isn't coming to consoles. I can't believe I got myself excited over nothing.
It can probably run on a toaster. You have options.
I... can't believe this isn't coming to consoles. I can't believe I got myself excited over nothing.
Open world leaves me cold.
I... can't believe this isn't coming to consoles. I can't believe I got myself excited over nothing.
It's a low budget game and the Kickstarter didn't do well enough to meet its console stretch goals. Did you back it?
It can probably run on a toaster. You have options.
So play it on PC. What's the problem?
I don't own a PC, but I own a Macbook Retina display. Hopefully that'll suffice. It would literally be my first Steam game or anything not on a console.
It's a new River City Ransom game. If it did not allow players to backtrack and travel at leisure, it wouldn't feel like River City Ransom.
Open world leaves me cold.
I... can't believe this isn't coming to consoles. I can't believe I got myself excited over nothing.
I can't believe this post. If you wanted this on "consoles" so bad you could've kickstarted it.
The fuck are you talking about? I didn't even know this game existed until a few weeks ago and I actually thought it primarily on consoles already, for some reason.
Take your moral grandstanding elsewhere.
1 post away from been a full member and not getting perma banned. Thats gotta hurt (I assume you got banned for posting in Trump threads)
Artwork/setting don't seem to match or mesh with the original. But that's ok. This looks good.
I hate to be a downer, but it doesn't seem to have the charm of the real thing. Nice effort, though.
Artwork/setting don't seem to match or mesh with the original. But that's ok. This looks good.
It was in a lot of ways watered down compared to the NES games. That's where it stumbled for me. Bland level design and odd pacing.Ironically Double Dragon 4 was faithful to the original NES games to a fault and was heavily criticized for not pushing the envelope despite having the original Double Dragon development staff involved.
River City Ransom Underground is a complete opposite of this and yes I agree, I don't like some of the designs, especially the redesigns for Ryan or Alex.
It was in a lot of ways watered down compared to the NES games. That's where it stumbled for me. Bland level design and odd pacing.
Open world leaves me cold.
Interestingly both Double Dragon and Kunio-kun series creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto was responsible for overseeing both projects.
What is the chronology of the River series and which ones are available in English to play?
There is not set time frameWhen do games typically go up on Steam?
I'm talking more about their character designs in general in that they look nothing like their original sprite designs just redone in the newer art style. Alex with Blond Hair for example.
It's more so that this Alex and Ryan have become entirely new characters and simply aren't just localized names of Kunio and Riki.
I was hoping throwback designs would be included but this is basically "River City Ransom" that takes place in America including many of the localized changes and story elements of the western release of RCR making it a separate entity to the actual Kunio-Kun games.
I think it's Alex having blond hair is what is throwing me off, Ryan / Riki's design seems consistent with the Bosozoku outfit, stomach wraps, blue hair in a pompadour. Alex however is way off going from brown hair in the source art to orange / blond is odd choice, especially considering this is official artwork that Conatus Creative made, which looks way more faithful rather that what it currently is now.
You'll receive everything in the LEAD PIPE reward tier, along with unlocked Kunio and Riki variations for your Alex and Ryan characters.
Weird that there's only one female playable character?
Anyone know how you're supposed to claim your Steam key if you backed the Kickstarter at the $15 digital copy level? I scanned some of the more recent Kickstarter updates and couldn't find any instructions.
Thanks a lot for clearing it up! It was confusing me quite a bit before.There the only continuity this game has is with the original River City Ransom on the NES which is heavily Westernized to the point of the sprite designs being changed to T-Shirts and Jeans rather than Japanese style school uniforms, as well as the plot being entirely changed for Western audiences.
But to answer your question. Only four games of this series were officially localized in the west.
River City Ransom on the NES, River City Ransom EX on the Gameboy Advance, River City Tokyo Rumble on the 3DS.
Tokyo Rumble is the newest mainline game in the series based on the SP version of Nekketsu Koha Kunio-Kun
There is a bunch of side games as well such as Kunio-Kun Soccer (Nintendo World Cup), Crash N' the Boys Street Challenge (I forgot the original title), and Super Dodge Ball.
There is over a dozen games in the series though. None of the ones from the SNES, PC Engine / Turbo Duo were localized.
saw this in the backer rewards
Thanks a lot for clearing it up! It was confusing me quite a bit before.
Edit:
Just to be clear, Underground follows the rewritten story of Ransom for NES, right? So Underground has no link to Ransom EX for GBA?
Meh, I don't like how they hid that behind the $75 level backer level. You'd think that sort of content of having the original Kunio and Riki designs be in the game as is as a respect to the source material without hiding it behind some exclusivity and whatnot. Oh well.
Releases today!
We are looking to launch afternoon PST early evening EST, we don't have a confirmed time just yet. Get ready!
Developer said on twitter to expect this game "early evening EST", so I expect it to drop within the next few hours.
Here's a review from Destructoid:
https://www.destructoid.com/review-river-city-ransom-underground-421060.phtml
I'm going to sit my butt in a sauna until it launches to get hypeeeeed