Smash Bros. Creators Behind New TMNT Game 29
The Opposable Thumbs blog reports that work is underway on a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the Wii. They note that "Game Arts, the developer for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, will be creating the four-player action title for Ubisoft." According to the press release, the game is set to launch in late 2009 to celebrate 25 years of the TMNT franchise. The game won't be tied to any particular movie or TV series.
Unfortunately that does not mean quality (Score:3, Insightful)
Time and again it's been shown that good devs don't automatically mean good game. A lot of the quality lies on the shoulders of the beancounters. Namely, how much time (and thus money) are they willing to throw at the game? Nintendo really didn't want its Mario franchise get polluted with a crappy game (not that it never happened before, but they at least TRY to avoid it). The train of reason is plain simple: Good franchise, good games, people buy without hesitation. Don't ruin it by releasing crap, or people will not buy without first trying to find out whether it's worth it.
TMNT is no game franchise, no name to be wasted. So it comes down to whether the beancounters want the game to be a quick buck or a foundation for further games.
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Re:Unfortunately that does not mean quality (Score:5, Funny)
Namely, how much time (and thus money) are they willing to throw at the game?
Doesn't matter, they just have to supply enough pizza.
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Namely, how much time (and thus money) are they willing to throw at the game?
Doesn't matter, they just have to supply enough pizza.
Cowabunga, dude! No anchovies.
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No anchovies.
Heretic!
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TMNT is no game franchise, no name to be wasted. So it comes down to whether the beancounters want the game to be a quick buck or a foundation for further games.
I agree. But they do have a limit of uses of "From the creators of Smash Bros".
Let's hope they did take into account that if the next game was also good, they could start a creator franchise somewhat separated from the games themselves, like Blizzard.
Re:Unfortunately that does not mean quality (Score:4, Interesting)
I still have hope it will turn out to be Brawl 1.2 - largely the same with a few balance tweaks and a decent online system.
Re:Unfortunately that does not mean quality (Score:4, Informative)
But I do agree Ubisoft do get the Wii more than others but they too had a slow start, they just started earlier. At launch they had Red Steel (which sucked) plus bad ports of Farcry, Monster 4X4 and GT Pro Series with 2 winners, Splinter Cell DA (the Wii version is different but still pretty darn good) and Rayman Raving Rabbids. After gaining experience with what works they even managed to beat Nintendo to be the first ones to have a good Balance Board game with Shawn White.
So far Capcom have delivered us Zack & Wiki plus some really good ports like Okami and RE4.
I agree with grandparent post, sure these guys gave us Brawl but there is no guarantee that will spill out into a game on Brawl's level, we can only hope.
Personally the real winners for the Wii in 2009 seem to be all published by Sega: House of the Dead: Overkill, The Conduit and of course MadWorld, a game who's anticipation doesn't touch the likes of upcoming sequels to Bioshock and F.E.A.R but still very keen on getting my hands on.
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(not that it never happened before, but they at least TRY to avoid it)
I'm detecting a subtle jab at Mario is Missing! [wikipedia.org]
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I've played both console versions of that game and I still refuse to believe it exists.
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I've played both console versions of that game and I still refuse to believe it exists.
You realize that if you disbelieve its existence, that means your own imagination has to take the blame for it...
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Stop! My brain can't take the idea that there's such horribleness in the world!
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Whew (Score:3, Funny)
I tried to click this link, but I accidentally clicked the "Global Warming Irreversible" link by mistake.
Phew, for a second I almost read something worthy of front-page news.
Half and half (Score:2, Insightful)
Sora developed Smash Bros Brawl, not Game Arts (Score:4, Informative)
From the game's Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org]:
Nintendo enlisted outside help from various developer studios, including Game Arts, who spent excessive amounts of time playing Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Calling Game Arts "the developer for Super Smash Bros. Brawl" is pretty disingenuous. But it certainly is a good way to make people think that your game probably won't suck, attaching the Smash Bros. name to it like that.
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Correct.
Sora hired the Game Arts administrative staff to do a lot of the office work in getting the project off the ground. I think a few of the programmers from GA stayed on board for the project as well. However, none of the design team or the creative staff were from GameArts.
The thing that angers me about this thread's title is that GameArts has, itself, done a lot of great work, specifically the Lunar and Grandia series of RPGs, that are quite notable as well. Why wasn't the title of the thread, for in
Unlockables (Score:3, Funny)
Does this mean the game will ship with only Leonardo being playable, and the other turtles being unlocked after meeting certain requirements such as "time spent playing" or "number of times system turned on"?
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Yeah! Turtles in Time! (Score:1)
Turtles in Time was one of the greatest games for SNES. However, the arcade game was kinda different. It had weird bosses like "Cement Man" that weren't in the SNES version. It was still a better game (4 player co-op overrules anything else) but it's strange they changed the bosses for the SNES version. Not that I'm complaining, mind you-it was a definite improvement!
Only a developer (Score:1)
Game Arts is only a developer. They develop video games. They don't design them.
Nintendo designed Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and UbiSoft is designing this new TMNT game.