I'm crying right now. Chrono Resurrection was my favorite thing ever when I heard about it. The day I loaded up the site and it had the cease and desist, a little part of me died that day...
Ditto on ALL counts. Seeing what these guys did over 8 years of on-and-off development with NO budget is absolutely incredible. Imagine what other games from Sega's archive they could remake! Could you imagine Golden Axe: Remake? All the characters (including the ones from the Japan-only Golden Axe 3) in one incredible, HUGE beat-em-up? My god, I'm drooling...
Avenues of Anger. Hahahahahaha.
Fear not, because I will NOT recommend to the Director of PixlBit to engage in any illegal activity, so I most certainly can NOT recommend you find a copy of it from your favorite file sharing service, and I can NOT recommend that you install it and make sure you have a good USB controller for classic feel, and I can NOT recommend that you most definitely enjoy it with a friend. Because all of that would be illegal. Nudge nudge wink wink say no more.
For 109 levels, the characters, the editor, everything, I'd easily pay 10, hell, I love Streets of Rage (and Yuzo Koshiro) enough that I'd pay 20.
That's what I've always wondered - these people show their love and dedication to a franchise using one of the most incredible forms of expression - a well done fan game - and they come right in and shit on it, it's unbelievable. You know what Valve did with the modders that made Counter Strike 1.5? HIRED THEM.
Also, Crimson Echoes came out, and the C&D was a fake to build hype for the game - the owner came out and told everyone what he did :O If I could find the page I'd link to it but I can't :(
And I'm clicking an imaginary Like button as well, and if Amano and him worked together, I think it would introduce the character and art design that Final Fantasy has so desperately needed all of these years.
I'm sure there may be some tweens out there that heart Nomura, but I'm a Final Fantasy purist, and over the years have developed a love for Amano's work, though perhaps not as much as my co-host has, but to me, that's what gave the characters that extra depth. The facesets in FF6 were in that Amano-watercolor style, and it really added some character to what otherwise would be some generic anime face (no offense Dragon Quest/Warrior fans).
Exactly, ever since I was a child, video games provided an escape from my nightmarish childhood, and it helped me cope with a reality that otherwise would have killed me. I don't need games to be culturally relevant, and that's not to say that they can't be - Catherine is one of my favorite games of all tiem - but I enjoy getting to wreck face in Contra 3, and to save the entire fucking kingdom in Rocket Knight, and beating the living shit out of EVERYONE in Streets of Rage. But what's hilarious is that these experiences in virtual worlds actually gave me skills and ideologies that applied in a positive way when it came to being in the real world, so derp.
I hated hipsters before hating hipsters was cool... oh god... no... HIPSTERCEPTION! Soon we'll all be listening to florence and the machine and wearing scarves in the summer time!
