We knew this would happen. Sure we all claimed it had already happened but we never could prove it for sure until now. Back when we got games like Metal Gear Solid and the 11th Final Fantasy game we’d claimed “The Video Game Makers have run out of ideas, they just keep making the same crap”.
Technically, that wasn’t “the same old crap” it was “mostly new but modernized awesome crap”.
Then Nintendo launched Wiiware. The first big announcement everyone is shitting bricks about is Mega Man 9.
Capcom’s going all out on this one. We’ve reverted backwars from the pretty PSX Mega Man 8, past even Mega Man 7’s 16 bit graphics, into the 8 bit days. They’ve given us a game that is technically the greatest achievement of 1993. I think I even saw some flicker and slowdown in the demo video going around.
They’ve even decided to prive some old school stlye “Classic Box Art“. You know, back when we’d get some sort of over dramati 80s movie poster rip off art because “American’s won’t get cutesy anime”.
This game is like being 12 and wearing a shirt witha NES controller on it that reads “Old Skooler”. Guess what, you’re 12, “Old Skool” for you is the fucking Playstation 2.
Mega Man isn’t the only series getting a classic treatment. We’re also getting a New Old Gradius game. I can actually forgive this game’s 16bitness a bit more since the GBA is still reasonably fresh and does the same sort of trick.
Also I’m pretty sure Gradius is a game series that hasn’t evolve at all graphically for the last 20 years.
Just wait for New Super Mario Brothers 2 on Wii Ware, with single scrolling technology and the Red and Brown Mario. It’ll be awesome! Just like 1985! OH FUCK HOW DO THEY KEEP THE SCREEN FROM SCROLLING LEFT WHEN I WALK LEFT IT”S SO AWEXOME!!!@@!11
Anyway, now you can argue that “The video game industry is out of ideas”.
July 20, 2008 at 9:38 pm
As someone who thinks that Mega Man 2 was the series’s [Safari's spell-checker thinks that's a grammatical error, but it's not, since "series" is a singular noun] pinnacle, I’m pretty pleased about the look of Mega Man 9. Sweet old-school music, too. Nothing wrong with going back to what works.