Because Limited Run Games scrapes the bottom of the barrel for every available IP and meme game because their business model is about sheer quantity above quality.
I can't wait until this generation is over and people look at the Switch library and see how lopsided it is. It'll be 20% "real" games and 80% LRG and Super Rare garbage that only exists for FOMO bait. It makes the Wii library look carefully curated.
Ehh, i mean its just a reflection of past generation libraries like the ps1, PS2 and Famicom with a huge amount of "trash". Its still generally speaking a more interesting library then the Wii and its kinda neat to see so many previous platforms getting re released on it, from old flip phone games, pc titles, 3DO and PC Engine, neogeo pocket and your typical popular retro platforms. Switch is Nintendo's first true PS1/PS2 style platform since the fami/super fami in popularity so its going to have a similarly huge glut of stuff to sort through.
https://i.imgur.com/xIHC4LX.jpg
holy shit
I doubt its going to, but if this had an "anime mode", id give it a try for shiggles.
It feels worse than those though because while every console had filler, some more than others, LRG is turning every system into a dumping ground to an extreme never seen before. If you don't actively keep tabs on LRG's website you'd never know that they're one of the most prolific publishers in history. They've published over 200 games for the Switch alone. Distributed evenly that's nearly 3 games a month since the system's launch. To put that in perspective, that's about the same number as the Sega CD's entire US library. They're only about 80 games away from matching the N64's US library just by themselves. And that's not even getting into their habit of adding two levels of special editions to every other release. I love the idea of a company publishing physical editions of games that otherwise would be digital only. But LRG and Super Rare are doing it in the most monkey's paw way imaginable.
I don't see the problem. Does it bother you that they put so many out? Are you a switch collector frustrated by how many versions there will be? I'm just trying to understand why you care. I don't give a flying shit about games that I don't want to play, so I'm trying to figure out what it is to this that makes you so mad.
It doesn't bother me to the extent that it's not costing me money. I don't feel compelled to buy shit I don't want. But it does bother me to the extent that I don't think it's a good look for physical media in it's twilight to look like this, where it's last gasp of air is so sad looking and manipulative. Call me crazy but I actually feel empathy for other people who might be taken by gratuitous FOMO nonsense. I'm not going to call LRG a scam because it isn't a scam but it is shitty. And not liking people doing shitty things is pretty normal. It's the same rationale for being mad at people who run ponzi schemes even if you personally aren't taken by them. It doesn't mean they aren't doing something shitty just because you're not personally hurt by it.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I don't see how they are doing anything really scummy. Yeah, so they pick up random meme shit to do a port or re-release, but if someone really wants to buy that on their switch, who am I to tell them no? I guess you are seeing LRG as being like the Funko Pops of video games, and in that sense, I can sort of get it, but I mean, even funkos, the hideous shits they are, have the small value of producing toys for shit that will never in a million years get anything else. Like when they made golden girls funko pops, for example; You think any other toy line will EVER make GG toys? We scoff but it means something to someone.
The legacy of physical games dying with LRG bothers me about as much as the legacy of a console dying with the last random shit games it gets in its commercial lifespan. If someone sees value in putting Just Dance 2020 on wii, and if someone sees value in buying it, then frankly, I don't really care. There is nothing that special about physical releases to make me lament that they're being milked by some random joke company who wants to sell all kinds of crap to people. If anything I can be more offended by the material use and the associated planetary costs, and there are still much bigger fish in that world to care about. This just feels like a whole lot of nothing IMO.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Cuz youre dumb.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Be me >Make a company to producing vidya ports >Take advantage of the current retro market crazy >Snatch up the rights to as many old IPs as possible >Repackage the ROMs with cool box art, port them to several systems with no newly added features and sell them for a premium >Name my company "LIMITED" Run Games (minus the air quotes) with the expectation that there's a false sense of scarcity with inventory for these "unique" ROMs >Successfully manipulate morons/Collectors/Scalpers to buy (heh) into the fake narrative and snatch up all the available stock >Said morons/Collectors/Scalpers resell the games at 10 times the price price since they're now considered """rare""" >Same attitude starts applying to retro vidya outside my holder rights >Tarnish the retro physical vidya media market as a results >??? >PROFIT! >"I don't see how they are doing anything really scummy."
8 months ago
Anonymous
>I guess you are seeing LRG as being like the Funko Pops of video games
Bingo that's a great analogy I never thought of. It's pretty spot on. It hits hard because I WANT physical games. But the way LRG does it is like a bastardization of it, where quality goes out the window and the only thing that matters is pure volume. That's not what people mean when they say they like physical, ya know? They're not looking for physical releases of fricking Bill and Ted's NES game but on Switch this time. It ends up putting a cloud over the actually decent stuff that LRG puts out once or twice a year like TMNT Shredders Revenge.
8 months ago
Anonymous
To be fair, there probably is nostalgia from certain individuals even for dumb shit like this and bill & ted. The recent jurassic park collection is a good example of that kinda release i can see there being an interest in from a certain group who grew up with them.
As far as the funko comparison, i think that will actually help keep physical releases going strong, especially on Nintendo systems where they can churn out thousands of different titles that people will actually buy since they have the triple combo benefits of being physical media releases, seen as a type of "collectible" and the Nintendo platform bonus.
>I'm just trying to understand why you care. I don't give a flying shit about games that I don't want to play
Then why are you even in this thread? To play Devil's Advocate?
Its not LRG though doing the majority of it anymore. There are small, non limited print focused companies churning out releases just as fast now a days. If anything, LRG has gotten better with cutting out the limited stock, fomo shit ,atleast a bit with its open preorders, Amazon store and plenty of stuff in stock on their site and even now on other retailers store fronts. The biggest issue is just their long shipping times now. Im a huge physical gay, but you dont need to buy everything they churn out.
I will agree that Super Rare is shitty though since they still seem to underprint stock and do that homosexual paid membership shit.
>many of us had carts as a kid without knowing better
Yeah and now that we do know better people are being moronic on purpose because LOL REMEMBER BEING DUMB KID.
Switch has nintendo's best library. It's annoying that no one talks about the rich Japanese indie market on Switch and PC. These retro re-releases are also great, there's a lot of "shovelware" but they're well put together.
Dude, we are going to be able to play Tomba, Gex, Quake, Bloodrayne, Crash bandicoot, Spyro, Rollcage, Oddworld and maybe wipeout in the future on a fricking unmodified nintendo console, most of them on physical cartridges in the fricking 2023, you think anybody gives a frick about your moronic mumbo jumbo?
>Paying $40 shekels + tip for a 2 decade old game you've that you've never even played and only ever known of its legacy in passing when you can jailbreak your system and download the rom for free
It's so strange to me these types are obsessed with ordering delivery or paying other people to do otherwise menial tasks yet won't spend a penny getting someone to jailbreak their shit for them. "A fool and his money..." etc. etc.
>Wtf why do people prefer the legal means to get the thing they want with little to no hassle over the illegal method that requires doing a warranty voiding hack to their hardware?
>Be me >Make a company to producing vidya ports >Take advantage of the current retro market crazy >Snatch up the rights to as many old IPs as possible >Repackage the ROMs with cool box art, port them to several systems with no newly added features and sell them for a premium >Name my company "LIMITED" Run Games (minus the air quotes) with the expectation that there's a false sense of scarcity with inventory for these "unique" ROMs >Successfully manipulate morons/Collectors/Scalpers to buy (heh) into the fake narrative and snatch up all the available stock >Said morons/Collectors/Scalpers resell the games at 10 times the price price since they're now considered """rare""" >Same attitude starts applying to retro vidya outside my holder rights >Tarnish the retro physical vidya media market as a results >??? >PROFIT! >"I don't see how they are doing anything really scummy."
is the alternative. Where do you think you are, shitposter?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Im well aware where i am, thats why it needs to be explained to tards here how the real world works outside of this shit hole and how the general consumer is not going to actively take the illegal option to something as an "alternative".
Its the equivalent of saying, "what?? You dont have money? Just rob someone at gunpoint! You are stupid for not doing it that way!" Its why it's all so tiring seeing these "solutions" brought up. It may be logical to you, but companies are not going to just decide one day, "yeah ok just download the roms for our shit off the web, its cool with us" and since that wont happen, the vast majority isn't going to do it. Its just the way it be so its dumb to even bring up.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>thats why it needs to be explained to tards here >needs to be explained >needs to
It's not that we don't understand, Mr.Marketer, it's that the general public are inept morons who perfer convenience over dedication towrds something greater and more beneficial in the long run and they get rightfully mocked for it. Preparing a nicely cooked meal may be a little more costly than fast food, but in the long run you'll have leftovers for tomorrow!
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Its the equivalent of saying, "what?? You dont have money? Just rob someone at gunpoint!"
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.
I'm actually interested in the documentary stuff and commentary, but there's no way I'd ever spend money on this shovelware. I'm sure the LRG cult will buy it, though.
Something definitely happened though that drove a change. In the 80s and 90s there was care for things like anatomy and general consistency. What I think happened was the salaries that were living wages back then didn't increase to account for inflation so animators started having to crank out way more frames to make ends meet than they used to. Under those conditions considerations for quality go out the window.
Buddy you're projecting animation quality of a handful of big budget passion project OVAs onto an entire era of the medium. Most 80s and 90s anime was clunky shit shot on twos even during action scenes. Remember, He Man and Transformers were animated in Japan.
Sure but just like Steam has a billion games, digital distribution is exactly the place for shovelware. The problem is LRG will take all that garbage and do open preorders for everything under the sun.
>if you think LRG is bad, just scroll through the new releases on the eshop once a week. >that company behind clumsy rush ultimate guys who has like 20 'editions' of his game on the eShop which is just the base game+1 DLC
If you open "recent releases" you will see at least 3 games within the first 5 rows that have the same banner at the top that says "x edition" -- guaranteed. I've pretty much stopped browsing altogether at this point.
It's apparently a reversible cover, presumably joking about what Plumbers Don't Wear Ties cover art might have looked like had it been a PC98 ero game.
Wouldn't still shots defeat the purpose of an FMV game? Hopefully it's just the original footage, maybe with an AI upscaled option or something if they really want to
The game was originally going to be FMV, but they made it still images for the final release.
The FMV footage is now lost media. But I was thinking maybe they could've recovered this footage.
This is bizarre. Not sure why they would rerelease this, then again they already did Night Trap a year or two ago so why not I guess. Still an odd choice, though at least the actual Gex games are also getting a rerelease. Too bad it couldn't be Starblade or Total Eclipse or something instead. Ah well
Switch is a fun console to collect for. It might be, in fact, the most fun to collect for console ever. LRG sucks, you can deride and shame the collectorgays all you want, but you can't change facts. And having a nice clean copy of an unmitigated turd like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties in your collection is funny. That's it.
>having a nice clean copy of an unmitigated turd like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties in your collection is funny. That's it.
are you people so moronic that you buy something you know is shit because its funny ?
collecting truly is a mental illness at worst and moronation at best.
Did they replace the CGs with anime?
For why
Because Limited Run Games scrapes the bottom of the barrel for every available IP and meme game because their business model is about sheer quantity above quality.
I can't wait until this generation is over and people look at the Switch library and see how lopsided it is. It'll be 20% "real" games and 80% LRG and Super Rare garbage that only exists for FOMO bait. It makes the Wii library look carefully curated.
Ehh, i mean its just a reflection of past generation libraries like the ps1, PS2 and Famicom with a huge amount of "trash". Its still generally speaking a more interesting library then the Wii and its kinda neat to see so many previous platforms getting re released on it, from old flip phone games, pc titles, 3DO and PC Engine, neogeo pocket and your typical popular retro platforms. Switch is Nintendo's first true PS1/PS2 style platform since the fami/super fami in popularity so its going to have a similarly huge glut of stuff to sort through.
I doubt its going to, but if this had an "anime mode", id give it a try for shiggles.
It feels worse than those though because while every console had filler, some more than others, LRG is turning every system into a dumping ground to an extreme never seen before. If you don't actively keep tabs on LRG's website you'd never know that they're one of the most prolific publishers in history. They've published over 200 games for the Switch alone. Distributed evenly that's nearly 3 games a month since the system's launch. To put that in perspective, that's about the same number as the Sega CD's entire US library. They're only about 80 games away from matching the N64's US library just by themselves. And that's not even getting into their habit of adding two levels of special editions to every other release. I love the idea of a company publishing physical editions of games that otherwise would be digital only. But LRG and Super Rare are doing it in the most monkey's paw way imaginable.
I don't see the problem. Does it bother you that they put so many out? Are you a switch collector frustrated by how many versions there will be? I'm just trying to understand why you care. I don't give a flying shit about games that I don't want to play, so I'm trying to figure out what it is to this that makes you so mad.
It doesn't bother me to the extent that it's not costing me money. I don't feel compelled to buy shit I don't want. But it does bother me to the extent that I don't think it's a good look for physical media in it's twilight to look like this, where it's last gasp of air is so sad looking and manipulative. Call me crazy but I actually feel empathy for other people who might be taken by gratuitous FOMO nonsense. I'm not going to call LRG a scam because it isn't a scam but it is shitty. And not liking people doing shitty things is pretty normal. It's the same rationale for being mad at people who run ponzi schemes even if you personally aren't taken by them. It doesn't mean they aren't doing something shitty just because you're not personally hurt by it.
I don't see how they are doing anything really scummy. Yeah, so they pick up random meme shit to do a port or re-release, but if someone really wants to buy that on their switch, who am I to tell them no? I guess you are seeing LRG as being like the Funko Pops of video games, and in that sense, I can sort of get it, but I mean, even funkos, the hideous shits they are, have the small value of producing toys for shit that will never in a million years get anything else. Like when they made golden girls funko pops, for example; You think any other toy line will EVER make GG toys? We scoff but it means something to someone.
The legacy of physical games dying with LRG bothers me about as much as the legacy of a console dying with the last random shit games it gets in its commercial lifespan. If someone sees value in putting Just Dance 2020 on wii, and if someone sees value in buying it, then frankly, I don't really care. There is nothing that special about physical releases to make me lament that they're being milked by some random joke company who wants to sell all kinds of crap to people. If anything I can be more offended by the material use and the associated planetary costs, and there are still much bigger fish in that world to care about. This just feels like a whole lot of nothing IMO.
Cuz youre dumb.
>Be me
>Make a company to producing vidya ports
>Take advantage of the current retro market crazy
>Snatch up the rights to as many old IPs as possible
>Repackage the ROMs with cool box art, port them to several systems with no newly added features and sell them for a premium
>Name my company "LIMITED" Run Games (minus the air quotes) with the expectation that there's a false sense of scarcity with inventory for these "unique" ROMs
>Successfully manipulate morons/Collectors/Scalpers to buy (heh) into the fake narrative and snatch up all the available stock
>Said morons/Collectors/Scalpers resell the games at 10 times the price price since they're now considered """rare"""
>Same attitude starts applying to retro vidya outside my holder rights
>Tarnish the retro physical vidya media market as a results
>???
>PROFIT!
>"I don't see how they are doing anything really scummy."
>I guess you are seeing LRG as being like the Funko Pops of video games
Bingo that's a great analogy I never thought of. It's pretty spot on. It hits hard because I WANT physical games. But the way LRG does it is like a bastardization of it, where quality goes out the window and the only thing that matters is pure volume. That's not what people mean when they say they like physical, ya know? They're not looking for physical releases of fricking Bill and Ted's NES game but on Switch this time. It ends up putting a cloud over the actually decent stuff that LRG puts out once or twice a year like TMNT Shredders Revenge.
To be fair, there probably is nostalgia from certain individuals even for dumb shit like this and bill & ted. The recent jurassic park collection is a good example of that kinda release i can see there being an interest in from a certain group who grew up with them.
As far as the funko comparison, i think that will actually help keep physical releases going strong, especially on Nintendo systems where they can churn out thousands of different titles that people will actually buy since they have the triple combo benefits of being physical media releases, seen as a type of "collectible" and the Nintendo platform bonus.
>I'm just trying to understand why you care. I don't give a flying shit about games that I don't want to play
Then why are you even in this thread? To play Devil's Advocate?
Its not LRG though doing the majority of it anymore. There are small, non limited print focused companies churning out releases just as fast now a days. If anything, LRG has gotten better with cutting out the limited stock, fomo shit ,atleast a bit with its open preorders, Amazon store and plenty of stuff in stock on their site and even now on other retailers store fronts. The biggest issue is just their long shipping times now. Im a huge physical gay, but you dont need to buy everything they churn out.
I will agree that Super Rare is shitty though since they still seem to underprint stock and do that homosexual paid membership shit.
>anime mode
that would be legit hilarious & warrant actually releasing it
i want so badly for this to be fake
dont bring bubsy into this
many of us had carts as a kid without knowing better
acrobat on snes also
>many of us had carts as a kid without knowing better
Yeah and now that we do know better people are being moronic on purpose because LOL REMEMBER BEING DUMB KID.
Switch has nintendo's best library. It's annoying that no one talks about the rich Japanese indie market on Switch and PC. These retro re-releases are also great, there's a lot of "shovelware" but they're well put together.
>It's annoying that no one talks about the rich Japanese indie market on Switch and PC
Give me some
Dude, we are going to be able to play Tomba, Gex, Quake, Bloodrayne, Crash bandicoot, Spyro, Rollcage, Oddworld and maybe wipeout in the future on a fricking unmodified nintendo console, most of them on physical cartridges in the fricking 2023, you think anybody gives a frick about your moronic mumbo jumbo?
>Paying $40 shekels + tip for a 2 decade old game you've that you've never even played and only ever known of its legacy in passing when you can jailbreak your system and download the rom for free
It's so strange to me these types are obsessed with ordering delivery or paying other people to do otherwise menial tasks yet won't spend a penny getting someone to jailbreak their shit for them. "A fool and his money..." etc. etc.
>Wtf why do people prefer the legal means to get the thing they want with little to no hassle over the illegal method that requires doing a warranty voiding hack to their hardware?
Not an excuse when
is the alternative. Where do you think you are, shitposter?
Im well aware where i am, thats why it needs to be explained to tards here how the real world works outside of this shit hole and how the general consumer is not going to actively take the illegal option to something as an "alternative".
Its the equivalent of saying, "what?? You dont have money? Just rob someone at gunpoint! You are stupid for not doing it that way!" Its why it's all so tiring seeing these "solutions" brought up. It may be logical to you, but companies are not going to just decide one day, "yeah ok just download the roms for our shit off the web, its cool with us" and since that wont happen, the vast majority isn't going to do it. Its just the way it be so its dumb to even bring up.
>thats why it needs to be explained to tards here
>needs to be explained
>needs to
It's not that we don't understand, Mr.Marketer, it's that the general public are inept morons who perfer convenience over dedication towrds something greater and more beneficial in the long run and they get rightfully mocked for it. Preparing a nicely cooked meal may be a little more costly than fast food, but in the long run you'll have leftovers for tomorrow!
>Its the equivalent of saying, "what?? You dont have money? Just rob someone at gunpoint!"
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.
>play Tomba, Gex, Quake, Bloodrayne, Crash bandicoot, Spyro, Rollcage, Oddworld
Stuff we've been able to do for free on PC for decades, big deal
every console ever is mostly shit
I've read this exact statement before. You've got this saved for limited run threads.
Because memes. This is the same generation of people who revived Bubsy out of irony.
WHAAAAA
I'm actually interested in the documentary stuff and commentary, but there's no way I'd ever spend money on this shovelware. I'm sure the LRG cult will buy it, though.
I know that you idiots are always saying "[X] can never ruin your good memories of a thing!", but I really do think Americans have ruined anime.
The anime industry ruined anime once it became slave labor somewhere in the early 2000s.
>it became slave labor somewhere in the early 2000s
Most of it always was. Animators were always overworked and underpaid
Something definitely happened though that drove a change. In the 80s and 90s there was care for things like anatomy and general consistency. What I think happened was the salaries that were living wages back then didn't increase to account for inflation so animators started having to crank out way more frames to make ends meet than they used to. Under those conditions considerations for quality go out the window.
Yeah! People really cared about quality back then!
>inbetween shot
Watch more anime.
the absolute irony of someone praising 90s media in a thread about a meme port of one of the worst games of all time, released in 1993
Buddy you're projecting animation quality of a handful of big budget passion project OVAs onto an entire era of the medium. Most 80s and 90s anime was clunky shit shot on twos even during action scenes. Remember, He Man and Transformers were animated in Japan.
He-Man was animated in the US out of pure spite toward other studios outsourcing
>In the 80s and 90s there was care for things like anatomy
You're shitting me, right?
It was slave labour since the 60s.
>voluntarily working in an artistic field is slavery
I love how that word has lost all meaning now
Don't expect anything less from a generation that thinks companies are profiting from exploiting the works from said voluntary slaves.
Listen it's hyperbole.
The EU ruined Europe, for sure.
anime ruined itself since the switch to digital
agreed
Moving to digital over cel animation ruined anime
If you think LRG is bad, just scroll through the new releases on the eshop once a week. The amount of shovelware is borderline terrifying.
Sure but just like Steam has a billion games, digital distribution is exactly the place for shovelware. The problem is LRG will take all that garbage and do open preorders for everything under the sun.
>if you think LRG is bad, just scroll through the new releases on the eshop once a week.
>that company behind clumsy rush ultimate guys who has like 20 'editions' of his game on the eShop which is just the base game+1 DLC
If you open "recent releases" you will see at least 3 games within the first 5 rows that have the same banner at the top that says "x edition" -- guaranteed. I've pretty much stopped browsing altogether at this point.
TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF
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I'd buy that for a dollar
Is the anime box art supposed to be a hand-drawn WEG aesthetic or what?
Look at it again and you'll realize they literally just traced over a 3D model
It's apparently a reversible cover, presumably joking about what Plumbers Don't Wear Ties cover art might have looked like had it been a PC98 ero game.
Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties is such an anomaly of a game that future generations need to be exposed to it.
Considering it's a slideshow chose your own adventure, does it count as one of the first western visual novels released for commercial game consoles?
Is this an actual real thing? It can't be.
Really are taking the piss with the reverseable anime-style cover.
>2009
Was it LRG?
Will this have the original full-motion video as originally filmed? Or will it still be stills?
Wouldn't still shots defeat the purpose of an FMV game? Hopefully it's just the original footage, maybe with an AI upscaled option or something if they really want to
The game was originally going to be FMV, but they made it still images for the final release.
The FMV footage is now lost media. But I was thinking maybe they could've recovered this footage.
This is bizarre. Not sure why they would rerelease this, then again they already did Night Trap a year or two ago so why not I guess. Still an odd choice, though at least the actual Gex games are also getting a rerelease. Too bad it couldn't be Starblade or Total Eclipse or something instead. Ah well
I think they'll release any decent game or any meme game for which they can get the rights to release.
Limited Run games threads should be a bannable offense. It's just both in part marketing and endless flamewaring over shit business practices.
Japan had to make the cover less sexy. What a time.
What if I told you a Japanese person didn't draw that cover
TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF
for the uninitiated https://youtu.be/XlR9h3VfZf4?si=-DseJ-tSmZ45tVCo
Switch is a fun console to collect for. It might be, in fact, the most fun to collect for console ever. LRG sucks, you can deride and shame the collectorgays all you want, but you can't change facts. And having a nice clean copy of an unmitigated turd like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties in your collection is funny. That's it.
>having a nice clean copy of an unmitigated turd like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties in your collection is funny. That's it.
are you people so moronic that you buy something you know is shit because its funny ?
collecting truly is a mental illness at worst and moronation at best.
>are you people so moronic that you buy something you know is shit because its funny ?
so was there ever more to this "game" than just the attempted rape route or is that just the popular one because of AVGN?
>let's take an awful sexist game and give it anime aesthics because... anime is for le creepy weirdos resetera said so
everyone involved with this needs to be anally dilated with BBC
>aniGAY
frick that
gimme the real deal