If Ocean is the Ljn of Europe, what is the Ljn of Japan?
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If Ocean is the Ljn of Europe, what is the Ljn of Japan?
If Ocean is the Ljn of Europe, what is the Ljn of Japan?
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Ljn made good games.
LJN made good game*
LJN was a publisher, not a developer
Ljn published good games.
>LJN was a publisher, not a developer
and all the licenced titles were mostly their idea, that they got the licence for, and which they found and hired devs for, giving them the budget and deadline for it
So yeah, they *made* those games. Thinking that publishers aren't part of the process of making a game is a dumb take, especially in the case of licenced games. What, you think the devs went all like "Hey I have a really cool idea, let's make a game based on THE CRASH DUMMIES! I wonder who should publish it, hmm let's go for LJN!!"
They didn't program them dipshit. Ergo they didn't develop them. Frick off to twitter with your pitiful "hot takes" you're trying to meme as being factual.
Sure, they didn't develop them, but I get what he's saying. They commissioned licensed games based on random hot properties, presumably giving the commissioned developers certain guidelines plus budget and time constraints, which generally resulted in low-to-mediocre games. Sure, "Ljn games" were actually developed by a number of different companies from across the globe, but nevertheless you'd be safe to say that the typical Ljn title will be a strange and janky licensed game.
Maximum Carnage was FINE. It looked good and the hits felt good, but that's the bare minimum to be expected from a beat em up. There was little variety and just dragged on and on. A good beat em up need to have something to call its own to really be good. That's why Shadow Over Mystara is the only good beat em up game lol.
You are not giving maximum carnage the respect it deserves. It had janky platforming, character selection as you progress, kick ass music and sweet special moves other beat em ups did not have at the time.
>needs something to call its own
>"Shadow over Mystara"
>a D&D shovelware title for arcades
bad take
What is this? Not the game I mean whatever that is printed on.
The instruction manual
Tengen
Tose
That's American.
>Tose
They made a lot of crap, but they were typically the unnamed developer who'd make the crap for publishers like Ljn (see: they made a number of games for Bandai)
probably bandai or something
I guess these are sorta one in the same? Games published under simply the BANDAI stamp are probably more in the realm of Ljn releases.
banpresto
What bad games have they made? I only played the Go Go Ackman games and they're good.
Frick you, the battle dodge ball game was amazing even though I cannot read ching chong runes.
80s Hudson Soft. Just an endless stream of shit with a polished turd occasionally. That was their release philosophy too, not even joking.
OK suuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrre, b***hboi.
Nintendo
LJN of Japan is either Sachen, or Konami post 1999-2001
>or Konami post 1999-2001
what?
Konami went into a state of major quality decline after 2000 or 2001, maybe 2002, give or take some months. Their most recent original Franchise they've put effort in Zone of the Enders back in the PS2 and Xbox360/PS3 era. Since after cancelling ZOE 3, they really shat the bed.
There are heaps of great 6th gen Konami games
If you had said from the 7th gen, then you’d have an argument
Jaleco
Most games they released were absolutely terrible, with the occasional game rising up to the status of "meh".
oof I forgot about that company
i forgive them
Here's the real Jaleco Maniac Mansion
Yup, thats the one.
different anon BTW.
Goofy graphics aside, this is still far better than anything LJN ever released.
I don't know. Maybe I have low standards but for me, they've made some soulful games.
Formation Z, Ninja Jajamaru-kun, Exerion, Sayuuki World 1-2 and Field Combat, played the shit out of that game as a kid.
Surely it's not Super Mario Bros level and the rest of their games range from mediocre to terrible, but I wouldn't put them in one row with LJN. They actually tried.
Correct answers
>99% of output is garbage
>maybe about a handful of okay games per company
whoever made Rival Turf
That would be Jaleco, who was already mentioned by
Jaleco made some crap, but I'd tend to side with Bandai being the JP equivalent of Ocean and ljn, mostly because in addition to publishing a lot of shit, they were very partial to licensed games.
Micronics, which was an outsourced dev house for some of Capcom’s earlier NES ports of arcade games. They were responsible for jank like 1941 and Ghosts n Goblins. Other candidates would be Seta, Kemco (though their ports of Deja Vu and Shadowgate were renowned).
They also did other turds like Super Pitfall and Athena. Apparently the company was started by a recent graduate who had plans to make the best games on the system but got pissed when he could only do ports and games based on other titles. He gave up on these games midway through production leading to a lot of QA issues upon release.
An Australian fellow tells me Treasure
IREM
Sunsoft
They're still seething over that one game they made.
Kemco, easily.
Vic Tokai
Ocean had great ass games on pc you ignorant consolegay scum
Like the unbeatable Robocop game?
Was it really unbeatable?
On c64
>Ocean
>good games
Name 3
Worms
Worms
Worms
Batman the Movie
Target: Renegade
Addams Family
Bonus: Chase H.Q. ports
Telenet Japan
jeleco
Obviously it's Bandai.
>originally a toy company
>shitton of anime, manga and whatnot licenses they have waiting to be put into vidya
>most, if not all work, is done by sub-contractors like TOSE, etc.
>their first game published for the Famicom is a legendary kusoge
>on rare occasion some games they published can be enjoyable
>Bandai
TOSE also made tons of games for Jaleco
I reckon Bandai
They always had shitty anime licensed games
It’s hard to see a list of their games before they merged with namco
Bandai made quality licenced games
is it though?
Why do people translate shitty Famicom games instead of the nearly 800 Japan-exclusive Saturn games or 2000 nip-only PS2 games?
because you have no taste
Because older console games are easier to translate and romhack, as opposed to Saturn and PS2 which have video and voices as well, and generally a bigger undertaking, the games are bigger and the consoles are generally harder to work with.
But they are doing that now
Saturn has had a lot of games translated in the last few years with more on the way
>what is the Ljn of Japan?
Konami/Ultra Games since it's literally a Yakauza front company
Ah yes, Konami
known for its infamously bad games
Go look at their Ultra Games catalog. That's why I specifically included them. Please tell me you're not going to defend fricking Rollergames
Konami released more than 80 NES/Famicom games, and there isn't a single bad one. The difference is I actually played and beat most of them.
There is nothing wrong with Rollergames, it's just a hard game.
>There is nothing wrong with Rollergames
>Rollergames is hardly a bad game
This has to be bait..
the only bait here is you being filtered by a difficult NES game
go play some actual bad games like bible adventures or Gilligans island
Rollergames is hardly a bad game wtf are you on
the music alone is good
Infogrames is the LJN of Europe, not Ocean
You're only right because Infogrames bought Ocean
developer? micronics
Bandai is the LJN of Japan's Famicom library and if you disagree you're just wrong
>toy company
>hired shadow developers to make slop
>catalog of published games is largely licensed games of mediocre to poor quality