Tanukitsune Posted October 10, 2012 To tell the truth, I didn't like the GTA series games up until the last one, so I was worried about RCR since it's an 8-bit GTA like game. But I giggled and cheered like a fool as I run over the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and I'm mowing down pedestrian like I've never done before... Yay? And my biggest worry about this game is whether it would be a true love letter to 80's gaming or pandering. I believe it's a true love letter to old school gaming. Many of the details I've seen feel sincere and don't yell in my face "THIS IS REFERENCE! LOVE ME!" like other games do. I've only played a little, but it looks like most missions are parodies or other games, but they seem to add some of the mechanics of the game they parody. Is anybody else playing it or interested in this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Murdoc Posted October 10, 2012 You want to debate the intentions and executions of a game design whether they really loved the 80s to make the references or is it just pandering? Really? Well then, I honestly think it ends up being both. Tapping into the 20-30 year old nerd market is extremely easy and while that doesn't need to cross your mind to give homage to the 80s I think you're mistaking good execution (in your opinion) as love and not pandering. I just think those aren't mutually exclusive and you can roll with it being pandering and sincere or not. But yeah, I will be checking this out, but sadly and I'd rarely do this, but I'd like to check it out for $10 not $15... it's not the actual $5 that's makes a difference, it's the feeling of that a $15 game should give me and I know my attention span for these types of games will be low, so I'll wait for a steam sale. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tanukitsune Posted October 10, 2012 It's a retro game, the game design IS 80's references in a way, while it combines aspects from different games cleverly, it's all about the nostalgia trip. You can't really talk about much else. To be more specific, to me a game is pandering or sincere depending on how clever the writing / jokes about the references are. Do you go for the obvious easy and cheap joke or reference or do you at least try to be clever about it. So I guess you could be right about being both, since I doubt all jokes will be "comedy gold". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu Posted October 10, 2012 The amount of references I saw in the trailer made my head spin. So many things I recognized! Which reminds me: FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK TMNT 1 for NES. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tanukitsune Posted October 11, 2012 I think I ran over Sailor Moon with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles van.... D: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tanukitsune Posted October 11, 2012 OK, I beat it, the ending part was pretty brutal, but I made it! The game had more commentary than I expected, it has a lot of commentary on issues on modern and old gaming and other things like censorship. I had completely forgotten how ludicrous the censored was up in the NES era, almost every game has you drink "milk", when it's really booze. The game has this reminder in a parody of Lefty's bar for Leisure Suit Larry. And I'll shut up now... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kolzig Posted November 3, 2012 How long would you say that it took for you to play through the game? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tanukitsune Posted November 3, 2012 My Steam profile says 14 hours, but that seems a bit long. Sometimes I leave the game paused while I'm out so I think 7-9 sounds more accurate, probably even less. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites