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Strider (Capcom/Double Helix, PC/PS4/XB1/PS360, 2014) [Open World, Orig Devs, Video]
- Thread starter ezekial45
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ULTROS!
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Why is he wearing leather school shoes? The only thing obviously different compared to his original are the shoes.
They make technically fine games. That the games aren't fun the play isn't because the game are badly coded(I have only played Front Mission though). With KI they where the only studio that sent in a playable demo that actually worked to MS. KI looks good.
Phire Phox
Banned
Looks boss! Can't wait till I get my hands on it.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
for people complaining about the damage, it's obviously low as hell for demo reasons. You can't even die in the demo.
Moon Patrol Pilot
Member
Loved Strider in the arcades.
Loved Strider on the NES.
Loved Strider on the Mega Drive.
I AM SO HARD BONER FOR THIS STRIDER!
Loved Strider on the NES.
Loved Strider on the Mega Drive.
I AM SO HARD BONER FOR THIS STRIDER!
dacuk
Member
Fixed for the sad truth
DJ Lushious
Member
Certainly, but it was all ROcksteady had to its name. At least DH is being very open with KI fans and are making a concerted effort to stave off any of premature dismissal. I don't see anything DH has shown between KI and Strider now that has any semblance of the quality of games they were pushing out before.
Healthbar and way projectiles worked seemed like they expect you to soak up damage.
It kills some of the tension original strider had.
I hope there are also pitfalls and environmental hazards, cause the trailer did not show any.
graywolf323
Member
Double Helix? ugh no thanks
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Gameplay actually does look good. I am still skeptical, but I'll give it a chance.
Man, you really have no faith in these guys! Well, I can sort of see what you mean. Watching the gameplay trailers you can see DH's blatant love for lots of particle effects, essentially leaving their own DH flavored stamp on the game.
However, I like what I'm seeing so far. I choose to remain optimistic.
This. Which is why it reminded me more of NES Strider. I hope the game has more of the moving platforms and hazards of the Genesis one.
90TilInfinity
Member
What started this myth? Urban Chaos was well received.
CamHostage
Member
So, the business of development and the art of development are two different jobs that often do not jive. Double Helix Games so far has been a company that seems to have taken the jobs for the money rather than the prestige, and its rep has suffered for it; sadly, the games that should have been AAA-efforts at Double Helix (Silent Hill Homecoming, Front Mission Evolved) have not been the quality efforts that would show this team capable.
But it's a funny business, and talent can be found even in the credits list of shitty games. Double Helix was formerly The Collective and Shiny Entertainment (although the manpower has of course changed a ton since the 2007 merger,) and the Foundation 9 / Backbone studios did have good workers there even though they often couldn't prove it on the insane delivery schedules its management booked jobs with. Holding something like GI Joe: Rise of Cobra or Green Lantern or Battleship against the team may not be a fair assessment of talent (though it is a fair assessment of mindset and approach to product value) because those games were made to meet a franchise need rather than be special in any way.
We don't know yet what Double Helix in this day and age (and we're half a decade away from the last time this team was really trusted in Silent Hill Homecoming, which was The Collective rather than the combined team) is capable of on a well-financed, well-scheduled, well-intentioned game. Hopefully, this Strider is that game (and the KI project) that proves them capable. Teams do resurrect themselves after lean or bad years, and there are lots of cases where a studio label you thought was poison actually gets stuck on a good game. And particularly now when we're in an era of platform change, particularly when the scope and pricing of games can be rethought (I see old-school design being re-evaluated almost as much as when the XBLA revolution ignited,) this is a time when development teams can re-dedicate themselves to finding an appropriate niche and defining themselves. I can't point to any other game by GRIN that I would have bought, but when Capcom teamed up with that team for Bionic Commando Rearmed, they somehow produced magic.This could be that again. Or, not...
Ricerocket
Member
So hyped for this! seriously a metroidvania with strder sounds amazing.
mysteriousmage09
Member
Double Helix = hype dead before it began.
Mother fuckers, Urban Chaos is in no shape or form a bad FPS. It's fucking great and I want a sequel to it badly
Btw double helix is formed from a merger of two studios (the collective and shiny) so here is a more complete list of games they have made
From collective:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen (2000)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002)
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (2003)
Wrath Unleashed (2004)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (2006)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
From shiny:
Earthworm Jim (1994)
Earthworm Jim 2 (1995)
MDK (1997)
Wild 9 (1998)
R/C Stunt Copter (1999),
Messiah (2000)
Sacrifice (2000)
Enter the Matrix (2003)
The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005)
The Golden Compass (2007)
It's mostly licensed crap but has a couple good games (MDK)
From collective:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen (2000)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002)
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (2003)
Wrath Unleashed (2004)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure (2006)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
From shiny:
Earthworm Jim (1994)
Earthworm Jim 2 (1995)
MDK (1997)
Wild 9 (1998)
R/C Stunt Copter (1999),
Messiah (2000)
Sacrifice (2000)
Enter the Matrix (2003)
The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005)
The Golden Compass (2007)
It's mostly licensed crap but has a couple good games (MDK)
zero shift
Banned
Why do Japanese developers keep outsourcing their games? Most of the time they end up sucking.
gate stormer
Member
So no Wii U version after all eh? Not too surprising, but still annoying as hell.
Exactly. This is what I was trying to point out. Rocksteady's first game wasn't good. They figured it out with the Batman games. Double Helix has made a decent amount of games at this point and they are all mediocre to terrible. I hope this turns out to be a great game but with Double Helix at the helm people have the right to be skeptical.
Seriously, people are forgetting or just didn't know. That game was at least in Arkham Asylum's ballpark.
Immaculate
Banned
huh what happened to all the hype at the beginning of the thread
whats wrong with Double Heli-
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whats wrong with Double Heli-
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lol
Basically.- Metroidvania
- Double Helix
BlazingDarkness
Member
Probably started development internally, got canned, and then the corpse has been left on DH doorstep.
Seems to sum up the thread quite well.
So true!! lol!
I wish them the best as well but honestly I don't expect anything but mediocrity from them at this point. Their games that I've played were bad, and the games I didn't play were reviewed poorly.
I thought NT made a good effort with Dmc after the blahness of heavenly sword and enslaved, but it still wasn't a worthy successor to dmc1 or 3, or even 4.
Still I hope they deliver.
PlanetSmasher
Banned
Double Helix? We're done here.
Sigh. What a waste of an IP with so much potential.
Sigh. What a waste of an IP with so much potential.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1PHRrxazQw
Gameplay here. This reminds me of that rather tedious PSN game, Moon Diver. Actually it looks like it plays worst, he's tanking bullet like nothing.
Gameplay here. This reminds me of that rather tedious PSN game, Moon Diver. Actually it looks like it plays worst, he's tanking bullet like nothing.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
I'm sure there will be a hard mode where projectiles do 10/15 damage each instead of 1
Coldnoodle
Member
Is this retail and full priced?
Most likely because it's a lot cheaper due to the strong yen (which us also causing troubles for Sony and Japan's electronics and auto industry)
CamHostage
Member
Capcom's "classics reborn" track record
They also have enhanced emulation ports/compilations like Darkstalkers Resurrection, Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (US/UK & JP versions,) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD, MvC Origins and Capcom Arcade Cabinet, but I'm not including those as those are about the port quality rather than the new gameplay design and faithfulness or not to the spirit of the original.
Strider (??)
DuckTales: Remastered (2013)
Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 (2011)
Mega Man 9 / Mega Man 10 (2008/2010)
1942: Joint Strike (2008)
Commando 3 (2008)
Bionic Commando Rearmed (2008)
Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (2008)
They also have enhanced emulation ports/compilations like Darkstalkers Resurrection, Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (US/UK & JP versions,) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD, MvC Origins and Capcom Arcade Cabinet, but I'm not including those as those are about the port quality rather than the new gameplay design and faithfulness or not to the spirit of the original.
Really hope this is an early level and it has more varied enemies/locations and they aren't showing it. Because going from room to room and killing generic soldiers isn't that exciting.
Ninja Theory's games have mostly been rough around the edges but still games that can be enjoyable for people who don't nitpick about framerate or screen tearing and DmC is a legitimately good game, easily surpassing the combat systems of stuff like God of War, which people have no problem liking & praising them to high heavens. It's not gold/god tier like DMC1, 3 & 4, but there's more to the spectrum of quality than Shit vs. God Tier. It plays well, has a decent amount of depth & challenge and doesn't have any massive issues. Platinum Games non-withstanding, it's one of the best action games of this generation (I mean, Bayonetta is on a completely different level of awesome).
In comparison, Double Helix has developed incredibly shitty games that have absolutely NO redeeming qualities, no matter if it's been a game IP with decent budget like Silent Hill or a movie game.