Old Series, New Developer - Scott The Woz

Hi everyone Scott, I like candles. Sue me. I should stop ending sentences with that, but I like them. They are fun. I just bought all of these at the clearance store. They must be clearing out the shelves to get even more candles. I'm sure someone new will create them, what the hell is this? There is nothing better than a local video game. The game created by the

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s who created the

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in the first place. Who is better at echoing than echoing? Hey, they created the worlds, they created the characters. They must know exactly what to do until they no longer want to.

Things change. Mom and Dad don't care anymore. You don't know why it just happens and when my parents give up on me, 343 Industries takes custody of many game franchises. You have to go through a messy divorce at one time or another and when there's no one to take care of them anymore, someone's bound to have an open weekend. More

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than you imagine. Stop by these especially old ones. A change in

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s. -Is it a matter of time or is it permanent? Tons of beloved franchises get new developers all the time sometimes it's for the better sometimes it's for the worse and many times it's for the end the change can be blatantly obvious with the feel of the toner changing drastically?

You really think the developers of Pacman World 2 would make Pacman talk. These are blitz games, but sometimes new developers replicate the original style so well that it's almost indistinguishable from previous entries. Shadow of the Tomb Raider was the third entry in the Tomb Raider reboot series developed primarily by Crystal Dynamics and while they helped with this game, it was primarily made by Idos Montreal and I can't tell any difference, it looks and plays exactly like you'd expect and I feel like the lower review scores were mainly because it was the third one. game in the series and not much has changed, people are getting a good dose of I'm sick of Tomb Raider, but let's hear it for Montreal, Idaho, the nannies of the Tomb Raider franchise, Montreal is the one-stop shop for sequels to games that don't made by the same developers you want a new batman arkham game not made by the people who made the batman arkham games do i have a city for you the warner brothers montreal created batman arkham origins which was made when they were trying to release these games every for two years , original developer Rocksteady was busy making Arkham Knight for next-gen consoles, so throw it to Team Beat if any Canadian territory can do it, I guess this one, but yeah, you can tell this wasn't made by the same people as the others aren't bad, but the quality is definitely not as high as the Rock Steady titles.

It definitely feels more filler than a true new Arkham game. They don't even include this in recent collections for Wii U, but what if the new developers do a better job than the originals. What if they surpass them in almost every aspect? That's rich. Oh, it can happen, sure, but most of the time when a new developer takes over, it's not really because they show more promise than the original developers. It's not because they have better ideas or are more capable of developing the franchises most of the time, it's because the corporation that owns the series wants it to continue with more games, but the original team no longer wants to have absolutely anything to do with it, so you already know.

That means I always wanted to go to Montreal. I usually don't think much about it when I hear that a new team is taking over development of a series. I don't immediately think that's a bad sign or anything, yeah. Getting back to a lot of these, uh, the last thing I would want is for my kid to be raised by Capcom Vancouver. Hello Scott Wozniak campaign enthusiast, I love dragons through mud developers, in fact I hate every single one of them developers, especially if they try to make a light Cooper game, that's why that I need to rule out which ones are bad and which ones are really bad.

We will take a look at some game franchises that change developers at one time or another and see what changed in the transition and if adoption is really the best solution to all problems, let's first analyze oh Microsoft is one of the shining examples of changes developer of its ips mainly because the original teams still believed that bungie created the halo series halo is literally the xbox game and because of that, when halo 3 was positioned as the finale with the motto finish the fight, microsoft quickly pissed itself during five years in a row, developed some prequels after three, but when halo came to release, they were done, so microsoft decided to form a studio, that's the main purpose.

It was just continuing the Halo series and they couldn't help but finish the fight. 343 Industries is not a bad studio by any means. I mean, Halo 4 and 5 look spectacular, but fans just don't feel like this is Halo anymore. 343 en It is not a studio that makes these games because it wants to continue the series, they are doing it because Microsoft tells them that it is a similar situation with Gears of War, with the original developer Epic Games moving on to Microsoft decided to structure a studio that was hell . -He's hell bent on continuing the Gears of War franchise and while Gears of War 4 and Gears 5, that's the full name, good use of the words are solid titles, they just feel unnecessary, it doesn't help that a lot of people have wasted your Gears of War load. the 360 ​​with four games got tired of it and similar to halo the name of the franchise just doesn't have the same value anymore, halo and gears of war continue in order to continue, the original developers were done with them long ago time. makes and microsoft is keeping them afloat because you can't have an xbox without it and then cracking down on changing developers every time this is a great sign from real time worlds to rudimentary and games to digital sumo now that some Team members moved from developer to developer, but let's be honest, the Crackdown series got worse with each game.

Sumo Digital is a pretty good studio, but they're kind of babysitting the series that the developers don't want to do anymore. They worked on LittleBigPlanet 3 while the original team at Media Molecule. was working hard on Dreams, it took seven years to come out so I think it was a fair decision to have another studio working on littlebigplanet and in my opinion sumo did a pretty decent job with three, it felt like littlebigplanet was a bad platform and everything but what. What killed the game was the technical issues, so many bugs and glitches and long loading times, they pretty much killed this game from the start and while this is a competent experience it was bogged down by lack of testing, I'm sure if Digital Sumo would have had more time with the game, they would have been able to prove themselves worthy of the franchise, but I think the release tarnished their image.

Many fans consider this the death of the series, but I see that Littlebigplanet 3 was a game I knew that people didn't. Conversely, do you ever assume that some games are enjoyed by a fanbase and then use this, oh my god, we have the Light Cooper trilogy on Playstation 2, a beloved stealth platformer developed by Sucker Punch, now we don't I'm nostalgic for These titles I was too interested in at the time, but I've dabbled in them since and they are wonderful games full of style and life. It's a shame they fell victim to the great PlayStation curse.

Yes, they come out around three entries most of the time. this is because the original developers themselves wanted to move on and in this case Sucker Punch began working on the infamous series, however, hints of a rope game like Cooper constantly appeared even in Infamous itself, that was because someone was willing to work on sly4. true, the mystery case files, the malgrave incident, guys, the sanzaru games are perfect, they released a sly cooper 4 to sony in 2008, sony then tested the waters by allowing them to remaster the originals for ps3 and they soon handed over the keys to the franchise for 2013 Sly Cooper Thieves back in the day was okay as someone who isn't a mega Sly Cooper fan it's hard for me to really go oh yeah this is so much better than this like I've seen a fair amount of people who They weren't hard to die.

Mario Party fans say that Super Mario Party was the best game in the series. Did they just say that it can be difficult to judge the quality of a recent entry in a series if you haven't had much exposure to the previous ones? And I guess a little bit with thieves over time, but from what I've gathered researching fan opinions on this entry, the characters and style were changed too much for many to like, the story continued from three and they retired cunningly of the robbery, that was a joke. but overall it didn't necessarily feel like they were pushing the series forward, they just took what Sucker Punch did and tried to do it again and while The Censor has created some quality titles, they aren't as talented as Sucker Punch .

I think it's very fair to say that from what I've played it's totally fine, but the general consensus is that the PS2 originals are obviously superior and Thieves Time is a decent, if unnecessary, comeback - we have another series that disappeared for a while . while ending anti-disappearance with a new father luigi's mansion, one of the best compliments you could give someone with a launch title for the Gamecube, its main function was to show how graphically impressive a luigi mansion could be with so much dust and lighting effects. it was a very short game and the gameplay wasn't crazy at all but it was a fun little game however this game has a huge fan base people who love everything about it to death this little game had a lot of character , whether we are talking.

Professor Luigi, for example, the ghost or the mansion itself, was not an incredibly charming and memorable experience, but it also had that slight feeling of ease. It was still a familiar game in the Mario universe, but it was haunting enough to have that perfect feel. So creepy all around, it was developed in-house at Nintendo, the ead division best known for developing the Nintendo games you actually care about, but when a sequel was released 12 years later for the Nintendo 3DS, next-level games were in charge this time and the results were The Dark Moon mentioned by Luigi, something different, it featured a new art style for the original environments and characters, which was much more angular and exaggerated, which I think is fine, it gives it a retro haunted house feel from the 50s, but it's not that atmospheric and it always seemed strange to me. that they didn't modify the designs of luigi or egad to fit more with the rest of the art style the ghost in the original looks like dead mario characters seem to have been designed by the same people who designed luigi but here on the dark moon Ni They don't even seem to belong to the alcohol in the game, the main ghosts we see in the Mario series and with the game on a laptop felt the need to alter the game's settings now that there are multiple mansions and you.

I have quests to complete, which makes the game more suitable to start and play now. I don't really blame the next level for this decision but it's not the most ideal setup for luigi's mansion, however they came back with luigi's mansion 3 and this is an improvement, I'm sure the art style still doesn't match up a little with the normal Mario designs, but 3 makes up for it with absolutely gorgeous lighting and animations, phenomenal puzzles and it's set up closer to the original, although it's not the same, but it's totally fine, it's a The sequel is supposed to be a little different.

I feel like the gameplay is much more engaging and well thought out than the original, but that one had a much better atmosphere and is overall a more memorable and replayable experience, but hey, with three, I think these are next level games. They have proven themselves worthy of the franchise. I think both one and three stand on their own as equally good titles. One does some things better than three and vice versa. The Dark Moon wasn't so good. It wasn't on par with the original, which reminds me of the dead. rise dead dead rise was about surviving a shopping center overrun by zombies for 72 hours, helping civilians and reflecting on the passage of the cycle and at your disposal is all of the above.

The game's main claim to fame was the idea that if you can pick it up, you can use it as a pair of weapons which with how cheesy the dialogue and characters were while taking the story as seriously as possible we have a winner the first time around. title was developed internally at capcom and they didn't take long to give up dead rises 2 was developed by blue castle studios and capcom dug so much into their work that they bought them and with that capcom vancouver was born only to die dead rise 3 was a launch title forxbox one and we finally had dead rise 4 before dying well, I've only played dead rising 1 and 4 and my opinion is, oh god, one is better, four is obviously superior technically, it looks great, the control is fine, There are so many things on screen at once, it's pretty impressive, but it doesn't seem like we have that many options in terms of weapons. like in the first game I felt like literally everything could be used here, it feels like any average game, I can't learn anything from this, whatever the game decides is convenient for me at that moment, also the most important thing.

The announced four was the return of Frank West, the protagonist of the first game, except this character is not Frank West, he has the same name, he looks like him, but the writing here is much more self-aware and makes him seem be. a joking idiot, the original frank west was pretty serious which made it funnier when the player decided oh let me be stupid, the serious story contrasted perfectly with the ridiculous weapons and cheesy dialogue and they make things too funny in four and it just feels forced. but Dead Rising 4 is a pretty decent game. I just think it's not a great Dead Rising game.

I don't really think the developers understood what people liked, it just felt like they heard people liked frank west but didn't know why people liked it, however it's a good game in general but it doesn't compare to oh my god no mario party like people with skin are everywhere the original party game gather your friends traverse a giant board and play a minigame at the end of each turn collect coins to Buying stars and whoever has the most stars at the end wins was a simple concept but it made for a phenomenal multiplayer experience so many things happen that it is magical, however, that movement is balanced with pure strategy, deciding the right moment to spend your coins or in which direction to move on the board, trying to win the most minigames, it all balances out in an experience that does require.

Some strategy, but it's luck-oriented enough to be interesting and fun. Hudson Soft was the developer and stuck with it for eight full games on home consoles along with two handhelds and they released a new one almost every year from 1998 to 2007 and nothing after. three nintendo 64 for gamecube in one wii game the series stopped which really baffled me mario 48 sold incredibly well and that they only made one entry on the console was absurd the wii was practically made for mario party and they only made one well the hiatus ended because Hudson was going through some changes, Kanami ended up making them a subsidiary before just dissolving the company entirely, now they're just konami and because Mario Party's future was uncertain for a while, really Hudson was the unique in i developed the games after indie zero developed the card game mario party e and capcom made some arcade games but b did the heavy lifting but then nintendo had a great idea come on this will be great let's have the company that developed we party do mario party from now on from cool i mean putrid mario party came back with mario party 9 on the wii and 2012 developed by nd cube and it just wasn't mario party everyone was in a car now that breaks it whatever that you rolled would move the car everyone who was collecting mini stars mini games happened randomly when they landed in a certain space it felt like they were listening to reviews they were already really tired of mario party by then I mean I would be too if i were to review these games every year most of them read like hey mario parties this is getting stale and the repetitive cube ending was ok let's do something different and worse this style tried to simplify mario party but ended up complicating everything needlessly.

I think the original setup was much more. immediately understandable is a board game where everyone rolls and moves individually here, what kind of board game do you all move together in a car because everyone moves together? You can't really strategize where you want to go because it depends on where you end up. in which the last person rolled and the boards themselves had a definite beginning and end, they were completely linear and all you wanted to do was roll enough spaces to reach the finish line, which isn't that fun. I liked exploring the boards in the original games came to an item shop before friends waited strategically in a certain area.

This just seems like the goal is to finish the game with at least the minigames were okay, that's the saving grace of every Mario party, I don't think a single one has nothing but garbage minigames, they're all pretty good luckily with their next entry mario party island tour and the 3ds moved everyone back separately but the game boards were still end to end linear experiences definitely better than nine styles but god this isn't great it's all too simple and bland but At least with Mario Party 10 they had a chance to redeem themselves, it's the car again, they brought the car from nine and it really hasn't been improved at all. ten is just another nine which makes it worse in my opinion, they could have made things better but no it's the same thing, there is a special mode called Bowser Party which allows a player to be Bowser on the Wii U gamepad where they actively try to hunt down the others and beat them, but this mode only has like 10 minutes of play, which gets old and fast, mario party star rush on 3ds was next, what the hell is this?, so star rush is very different, everyone rolls simultaneously, which saves a lot of time. that's the big selling point of the game, it's the mario party for the worker, i have no free time here, star rush, it's definitely the most unique of the bunch, but it doesn't really feel like a mario party to me, so next anus.

They made another 3ds game, this is the top 100, a collection of the best 100 minigames from the previous series. This was a phenomenal idea. Why did they put this in 3ds? This game celebrates the history of the home console series they have. there is no representation of portable inputs, I prefer to play mario party on a home console. I don't want to round up 3ds owners to play this, plus these are literally just the minigames and the way I still want you to play this. It's just pick a minigame, play it and go on with your day, no one wants to play just minigames, you need boards to maintain that experience in its entirety and this game has a board and just reuses Star Rush resources.

Luckily Super Mario Party came out for the Nintendo Switch and as they move in the right direction it goes back to the standard formula of the original games but there are only four boards and they all suck, they are all very small and based on a grid which makes them super bland, I mean. They're doing better than before, but I never trust a man who prefers Super to Six. The thing is, while most of these were negative changes, the developers didn't really know how to recapture the magic of the original games, instead simply taking a look at these Sonic Mania fans from three different studios coming together to create a 2D Sonic game even better than the originals in Metroid Prime Retro Studios, bringing the series to 3D in one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time and bringing back Donkey Kong Country.

The original three were great, but the two retros are some of the best platformers of all time. I would say that Yoshi's Woolly World is on par with Yoshi's Island and then they continue with this, but the point is that even then, sometimes new people can bring new ideas, they can have more knowledge about where it should go. a series, rather than the people who actually created it, but damn, that's not the case with candles.