how the hell a game from 2003 have better a crowd control than every installment in the yakuza series?
how the hell a game from 2003 have better a crowd control than every installment in the yakuza series?
how the hell a game from 2003 have better a crowd control than every installment in the yakuza series?
So it’s good?
Worth downloading for steam deck?
Hello?
>So it’s good?
Yes.
At least the best of the PS2 trilogy. It has the classic arcade gameplay similar to the 90's arcade games unlike the broken bullshit in the sequels.
Best TMNT cartoon, nothing will ever surpass it. I think we’re the only two here who remember this game.
You can find it online for free. It’s abandonware.
I remember it for having bullshit difficulty when I was a babby. Even doing co-op with my cousin we could never beat it. Also definitely agree, the early 2010's CG show is decent but TMNT 2003 is just top tier stuff.
The lack of a dodge button was annoying but if you timed your attacks right and used the shurrikens liberally it was doable. I played it recently. Shame Battle nexus didn’t age well (I have no idea how Konami messed up the controls). Never played 3, but I plan to one day.
I can't remember if I sold my copy or not, but it's a PS2 game so I imagine it's easy to emulate regardless. My cousin and I used to play this and the one Batman beatemup, Rise of Sin Tzu I think? Never got far in either one but they were still fun enough.
It’s on my abandonware as well. I miss this genre. They don’t make ‘‘em like they used to.
I’ll just emulate it on deck.
It's not hard. You just need to watch for attack animations and steer clear of the enemies. Keep the shurikens for the bosses and try bait them into attacking. Typical beat'em-up stuff. What's hard there is the battle mode (kind of a Bloody Palace) with a special boss (Hamato Yoshi at the end) it took me a very long time to finally beat him. I mean, at the end of the day he's just an Oroku Saki boss reskin with more aggressive AI (and even Saki is pretty hard).
There's dash. Not that there are any dedicated defense mechanics there.
As for the Battle Nexus, it is fun if you get into it. Combos work differently there, as the input window is much shorter than in the first game, so to dial the combos you should press the buttins really fast. It works better on the keyboard.
Fricking homosexual captcha makes me wait a minute before posting. What a bullshit.
But hey, that made me rememebet I haven't played Mutant Nightmare. It had terrible reviews in gaming magazines I'd read back in the day. But I guess 2003 one and BN weren't much better in that regard. The only really bad game Konami made at that time was Mutant Melee.
I always wondered why this wasn’t more remembered on the level of something like Avatar, but seeing what they keep doing to that franchise I’m kinda glad it’s been forgotten.
You'd think a show that ran for 7 seasons (Jesus Christ I had no idea it ran that long) would be more remembered but sadly it slipped through the cracks. But I also don't remember very much of the show to begin with aside from the episode where they interact with the 90's Turtles. That was a fun one.
You can watch the series on paramount plus if you have it.
Cool.
The only thing I remember about it is Raphael on his motorcycle doing the akira pose.
I remember the theme song.
it's still kinda kiddy even if it's closer to the comics. also it goes off the rails fast but again that's in the comics.
By the time of the 2003 revival the TMNT fad was dead and while the series was good it wasn't a phenomena like the 1987 series so any games attached to 2003 was just seen as 'just another licensed game' and came and went. Didn't help that after the first game Konami was just phoning in all the later sequels so TMNT games at that point started getting a bad reputation for being rushed hackjobs and Ubisoft taking over and doing the same thing with the license only made it worse.
It was on 4Kids, I think that's part of the reason why. More people remember them for fricking up anime dubs or their Yu-Gi-Oh than their take on TMNT. However in recent years it has gotten more recognized, especially last year when they made the box set of the complete series, finally, or a few years back when it was added to streaming
I'm seriously hoping Konami wasn't kidding when they said not to write off a collection of the games this show got, especially when the Cowabunga Collection used a song from the first one for the title screen
Hey! o/
well it was developed by konami back when they were still worth a shit
1234 TURTLES
We all know seaons 6 and 7 are shit, but what are your thoughts on the Naruto season?
It's not bad but definitely hurt by how short it is. If the show ended here I think it'd be the best show of the bunch, easily
SLICE AND DICE
MEAN GREEN SMACKDOWN MACHINE
TALK TO THE FEET
LET'S PLAY STICKBALL
I HAVE THE STICK
YOU BE THE BALL
OUTTA MY WAY NIMROD
DOUBLE SAI
ALL RIGHT!
god this game is so nostalgic for me. but then i played it and the characters won't shut up lmao
The "time to slice and dice" line annoyed the shit out of my mother
This game got way too much hate
It did come out the same year as Sands of Time, and the same gen as God of War. It was pretty minimal, for a hack'n'slash at the time.
But it was a licensed game meant for kids, already good considering the standard here. I remember the complaints were that the game was too repetitive, which isn't necessarily untrue, but I never see that criticism applied to the arcade games. Besides, it is only a couple hours in length.
I remember hearing that critique again when the remake of Turtles in Time came out. I think arcade-style beat em up's have been sold at a lower price (generally only digitally), though I could be wrong about that.
-, Since that time.
I just hate that criticism in general, the games obviously not meant for you, just play something else then. It would be like playing Fifa and complaining you only kick the ball from one end of the field to another. Most games have a repetitive core gameplay loop tbh.
Would you not want a turtles game that has some cool traversal mechanics (preferably integrated into the combat so the player seamlessly could go between fighting on the ground, to using a wall run/jump to get behind someone etc.), because that's kinda what I'm hoping for with every new turtles game. You could do more than slow 80s-style beat em up + divekick and sometimes 3d with the ninja turtles.
That would be great. I hope the upcoming game is good, this IP has been so mismanaged it is ridiculous.
Hunting down the trilogy was a complete nightmare. For some reason the Xbox version is always the most uncommon.
The OVAs from 2 were ludo kino
Anyways 3>1>2>>>>>>
Melee
New TMNT game is finally breaking free from Apple Arcade and it has the 2003 art style.
Is it any good?
This looks like a more mature version of the 2012 style
There are 2 upcoming turtles games. This is one of them. The other being a port of an arcade game based on the recent Nickelodeon series which I didn’t like.
Splintered fate actually looks awright though I might try it. Hope it has people playing online.
BullSHIT that's 2K3 style. That's 100% IDW right there, which was at best just apeing 2K3's style until they went full moron.
I love how everyone forgot about the Yakuza question and just started reminiscing about Tmnt instead.
That's just Yakuza. Making it stable by isolating any possible part into tiny chunks that doesn't have to interact with other systems.
The game adaptation of Last Ronin is gonna be terrible, isn't it
I thought it was cancelled since the studio got shuttered
No release date, but still a thing. Only half the studio was cut.
I remember being hyped when the mutants in the underground lab were revealed sometime in the early season
Yakuza has a ton of modern game design "content" to distract most people from the glaring issues with its combat. Konami TMNT beat-em-ups are JUST combat so they can't afford that.
I admittedly haven't played that game in eons, like since I was a preteen, but while arcade Turtles in Time sucks (you can tell it's made for Americans who tended to have lower standards in arcade design & kids were fine with quarter-feeding an unfairly designed game as long as they got to play as popular characters) the SNES version is still good
don't forget Eastman. he's nowhere near as attached to the turtles as Laird who's an autistic maybe-furry but I think his desire to try out new stuff & feeling that he was being held back by his "turtles guy" typecasting just gave the comics a more experimental edge. so much inventive paneling & great atmosphere.
tmnt have cute feet
I appreciate that 2003 had Laird constantly screaming at the writers to make sure it's done right but I also think it's held back by the style being an autopilot late 90s, early 2000s action cartoon aesthetic. very "post Bruce Timm" but doesn't use shapes as interestingly as his shows (Gargoyles was a far better, earlier approximation of B:TAS' style) and instead largely just equated being blocky with being stylish. I wish it looked more like the comics; it's not BAD but it could've been way better.
I think it looks great but I get what you mean, unfortunately that blocky style is basically the bread and butter of the last two seasons and they look much worse than the first 5 as a result
Bodycount has such fun art. Simon Bisley & Kevin Eastman was a great mix.
oh yeah I forgot to mention Big O. another good post-Bruce Timm show (with some 8 Man touches); more organic use of shapes & less overtly blocky. helps that Sunrise actually worked on B:TAS (and Gargoyles' animators were ex-TMS so that helped too).
I like how Raph doesn't even have a consistent design, just "whatever works for the panel/scene/cover illustration"
kino
Bodycount should have ended being revealed to be a comic Mike was drawing in his room to explain why it was so fricking over the top
the random animals are so good