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[Dragonmaw]

I thin you need to chill a little if you read it that way lmao.

[st33d]

Last time I went on 4chan there was a thread with images of a guy who collects tray fulls of condoms filled with his own poo.

You can't compare the rest of the internet to 4chan.

I certainly won't because I'm damned if I'm seeing that again.

[Blademasterbobo]

Is anyone else here old enough to think for a second the thread was about Jet Set Willy?

Anyone?

Anyone?

 

I'm not that old, but this was my first thought, too.

You can download a copy of a game you already own with a clean conscience, whatever the law says.

yeah and i do that all the time (i've switched to emulation for all my pre-ps2 consoles) but i don't own jsr because i don't own a dreamcast that's the whole point

It's not like any of the original devs would get any money from you buying it today, anyway.

[Gimym TILBERT]

JSR was a good game, it was more like mario 64 or banjo with a twist: spatial exploration and pathing, collect point (tag are like the red coins mechanics) to win level except with pressure and resource planning and management. Basically because of the increasing pressure from cop who had to think about how to optimize tagging and pathing while still hitting the right time, finding the hardest tags to do before cops became a nuisance, it had a lot of replayability as skills increased, it was the future of pac man. Actually the multiple part graphitti could be use to dodge cop as you teleport from spot to spot on the tag allowing to dodge and keep the combo.

JSRF was a bad tonyhawk game with a bad arena brawler that interrupt the whole game uselessly. Did I mention REALLY bad choreography?

[Dragonmaw]

arena brawler? what?

edit: tony hawk? WHAT

[Danmark]

^ I vaguely recall something about knocking around police in JSRF.

While there's no direct sense of urgency (unless you are going for characters), the overall flow of JSRF is better. It's smooth and continuous, as opposed to the stop-start flow of JSR. Besides, not every game needs to have a super pressing sense of urgency. Sometimes it's just fun to explore.

Not every game needs a smooth and continuous flow. JSR is an emotional roller coaster, and JSRF a carousel, which is inappropriate for a high-speed platformer. There's discord between its basic mechanics and the way they're framed. JSRF was neutered by lack of challenge.

It seems as though something changed well into development, that testers couldn't locate tags quickly enough, failed repeatedly, and got upset. It would've been a bigger problem than in JSR with the larger environments and faster pace. So instead of making paths clearer, they decided to take out the time limit. They took the easy way out.

All speculation, of course, but it'd be surprising if they'd decided to abandon JSR's basic structure from the get-go, considering JSR's great reception.

hate-spouting shit

To be fair, I do hate nostalgia goggles. You just need to account for them when discussing old games.
Casual sycophantic "IMMA PLAY [bad new game] AND HAVE FUN, ENJOY UR ELITISM" shit is so much worse.

[PaleFox]

Okay, okay! Having reread the thread I realize my post was a bit retarded.
I just came from /v/ and I guess my mind was kind of fucked up by what I saw there, and I got the impression I was reading the same hate-spouting shit here.

Case point:
I read this...

So true and applies to so many things.

It applies to anything anyone played when they were young. Old games are consistently and vastly overrated.

...as "All old games are shit, lol. You just think you like them because of nostalgia, faggot. Only Halo 54 Man on Duty: Modern Shooter Tacticool is good now."

its good you can judge people so rapidly based only on one or two statements

most people have to read or use context but not you


No, but seriously; I think JSR was a relatively fun game but aren't we tired of Sega endlessly re-releasing things? I remember when that was a serious complaint and now people eat that shit up like butter, even the awful Crazy Taxi port without the music sold well. It's just teaching them to coast on nostalgia like they always have (they also get by on erotic Sonic fans).

[iffi]

It'd be nice if they created an entirely new Jet Set Radio game with the same sense of style, though that's just wishful thinking.

[Dragonmaw]

I'm fine without the timer. The timer was my least favorite part about PixelJunk Eden, for example.

[Superb Joe]

imagine a guy yelling "unskilled labourer" like the jet set radio guy. and theres cool logos everywhere and very funky music. everything is some shade of yellow, and angular japanese writing is EVERYWHERE. except the game is about cleaning toilets and bagging groceries.

[TheLastBanana]

imagine a guy yelling "unskilled labourer" like the jet set radio guy. and theres cool logos everywhere and very funky music. everything is some shade of yellow, and angular japanese writing is EVERYWHERE. except the game is about cleaning toilets and bagging groceries.

This song would become a lot more appropriate.

[Cow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ObxQX3nUOg

[mooosh]

imagine a guy yelling "unskilled labourer" like the jet set radio guy. and theres cool logos everywhere and very funky music. everything is some shade of yellow, and angular japanese writing is EVERYWHERE. except the game is about cleaning toilets and bagging groceries.

did I accidentally make this game

[capn.lee]

Supah-Bruvvazu