Gunstar Super Heroes

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Originally Posted by Core Boy

..who really cares about Sega's classic brands?

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I do. I thought that was really cool, honestly. I love Sega's old superscaler stuff. How could anyone not?

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Originally Posted by Core Boy

..and furthermore, what, like half the levels will be 1st person scalling into the screen?
Sounds like we'll be seeing some rehashing of the Advance Guardian Heroes engine.

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It looks like just one level, and the game isn't even set in he same perspective as AGH, don't be stupid.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

What's wrong with ESP?

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Nothing's wrong with them. If they're still around, they'd be a good bet.

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Originally Posted by dhowerter

BUT most likely it would have been made for ps2. And then its likely the game would either be 3D (in which case the GBA version would definitely be better) OR that it WOULD be 2D and THEN, it would come out in Japan for ps2, then be REJECTED by Sony Computer Entertainment of America because its a 2D game together with NOT being a compilation (anyone remember USA Metal Slug 3 on ps2? -_-)

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SCEA are dicks, but there's an easy way around that- just what RoleTroll said, as follows. Port the Genesis Gunstar Heroes (hell, even emulate it) and slap it on the disc to call it a compilation.

The 3D level could actually turn out very well. I'll reserve judgment until I see what Treasure does with that.

http://www.the-magicbox.com/0505/game050508a.shtml
HOLY FUCK, I SEE IMAGES.

Those are just from the IGN article posted a bit higher.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

It looks like just one level, and the game isn't even set in he same perspective as AGH, don't be stupid.

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I was being stupid, and I should have edited my post. I realized immediately after posting that what we are likely to see is a reworking of the AstroBoy engine, with the scaling sections from AGH mixed in.
And from the pictures at MagicBox it looks like that's exactly what was done.
I don't have a problem with this, as I'm sure Treasure will deliver another memorable and downright enjoyable game experience.
What I do have issue with is why bother paying homage to old Sega franchises?..
Oh, that's right, Sega's fronting the bill on this one...

I mean, I love the old Sega stuff as much as anyone, but let’s move on already. Sega has been trying to use some of their old properties to rekindle their fading status for almost the past 5 years. This shit's tired.

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Originally Posted by Core Boy

I was being stupid, and I should have edited my post. I realized immediately after posting that what we are likely to see is a reworking of the AstroBoy engine, with the scaling sections from AGH mixed in.
And from the pictures at MagicBox it looks like that's exactly what was done.
I don't have a problem with this, as I'm sure Treasure will deliver another memorable and downright enjoyable game experience.

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I don't know what you think constitutes a game engine. Are you referring to recycling little bits of graphics code to recreate effects from other games? And how would you judge wether or not they're doing that or not. I don't think that Astroboy used some generic flexible game creation "engine" like Unreal or something that can just be modified and rehashed by just popping in different parameters. They probably used some of the same utilities and such in level creation and scripting and the like, but in terms of the code for actually rendering what's going on on screen that's the GBA hardware doing that, and I don't know how you can say by looking at it that they're "obviously recycling code" based on what, the fact that it's a 2D game with scaling sprites? You're just talking straight out of your ass.

What exactly would have to look different about the game to convince you that it was using a different engine? How are you eyeballing this one?

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Originally Posted by Core Boy

What I do have issue with is why bother paying homage to old Sega franchises?..
Oh, that's right, Sega's fronting the bill on this one...

I mean, I love the old Sega stuff as much as anyone, but let’s move on already. Sega has been trying to use some of their old properties to rekindle their fading status for almost the past 5 years. This shit's tired.

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I'm pretty sure it was entirely Treasure's decision to pay homage to those games, and they probably did it because they were great games and Treasure likes them. Stop reading more into it. Do you honestly think Sega is forcing them to do it as some sort of product placement/advertising? Let's be real here.

Did'nt Treasure do the same kind of thing with Astro-Boy? Putting in a bunch of Tezuka stuff that has nothing to do with Astro-Boy, but as an homage? Sounds like the same deal here.

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Originally Posted by Clash!

Did'nt Treasure do the same kind of thing with Astro-Boy? Putting in a bunch of Tezuka stuff that has nothing to do with Astro-Boy, but as an homage? Sounds like the same deal here.

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Exactly. It's done out of fandom. There's no need to make it sound sinister or exploitative.

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3140199&did=1

First video.

Excellent.

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Originally Posted by Andy

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3140199&did=1

First video.

Excellent.

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