Week o Games, 11/22: Serious Sam HD, Tekken 6 PSP, BitTrip Void, Fighting Fantasy DS

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 91 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 11/22/09 - 11/28/09 !

Where we discuss what we're looking forward to, what we're going to buy, and what we're just now realizing is being released this week that we had forgotten about!

NDS

Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain


myNotebook: Blue


Hello Kitty Party

PC

Serious Sam HD

King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame
Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove

PS2

nothing

PS3

Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned (PSN DLC)




Karaoke Revolution



Madden NFL Arcade (PSN)


Puzzlegeddon (PSN?)

PSP

Tekken 6

Wii

Bit.Trip Void




Super Mario Kart - SNES






Karaoke Revolution




Marines: Assault on Terror




Scene It? Twilight




Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy (w/Camera)




Cocoto Surprise





Coldstone: Scoop It Up





Chicken Riot

Xbox360

Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned (XBLA DLC)





Karaoke Revolution



Madden NFL Arcade (XBLA)



Puzzlegeddon (XBLA?)

Every Fall publishers try to cram their best material into the first two weeks of November. Then there's a slump until December. This week is that slump.



NDS gets Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. Sounds cheesy, but looks pretty cool, as it's a first person RPG dungeon crawler of sorts.

The PSP gets Tekken 6. Should be a good portable iteration of the famous franchise, as Namco's other big fighting game ports have been excellent on PSP.

Wii gets Bit.Trip Void - the third in the series by Gaijin Games, famous for their "trippy" Bit Trip series of retro-style graphics and funky music-gameplay integration. This should be a good one.

Wii VC also should be getting Super Mario Kart (SNES); the classic mode-7 racer/battler that started the hit franchise.

The HD systems get some Borderlands DLC, they also get the arcade-styled Madden NFL Arcade, and finally the game Puzzlegeddon.


PC is getting Serious Sam HD - HD remake of the classic original with all new graphical assets and a somewhat revamped engine! Woo! The 360 should be getting it on XBLA as well - just not sure on the date with this one..



Slow week amidst an otherwise decent Fall lineup. Looks like there's a little something for each console (besides PS2) this week, you just gotta look to digital distro to find it!

Cherrn

That Fighting Fantasy game looks cool. Getting a strong Ultima Underworld vibe from it.

Darlan

When I read "Madden Arcade" in the title, I thought they were actually releasing a standalone machine for use in sports bars and like. That would be oen arcade unit that might rake in the dough in America, though I suppose there's an issue with the annual new game vs. player stat update deal there.

Xenogears of Bore

err, Smash and Pilotwings are sometime before the end of the year, not this week.

Peewi

Serious Sam HD comes out on Steam this week. I think it's also coming to XBLA.

slash000

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

err, Smash and Pilotwings are sometime before the end of the year, not this week.

really? ooh, so just Mario Kart is coming by Monday

ok I'll fix it, thanks for the heads up

slash000

Peewi wrote: »

Serious Sam HD comes out on Steam this week. I think it's also coming to XBLA.

Fuck I can't believe I forgot to mention that!

I've been looking forward to it for weeks now!

This game should be AWESOME

Yellow Ranger

SNES Mario Kart is an insta-buy. We're talking minute one here people.

slash000

I'm really excited for Serious Sam HD. But unfortunately I've committed myself to my backlog for now. Sucks. I'll miss out on day-one 16 player cooperative mayhem.

Xenogears of Bore

Serious Sam HD is also, unfortunately, not this week but sometime before the end of the year.

slash000

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Serious Sam HD is also, unfortunately, not this week but sometime before the end of the year.

YOU LIE

:P

http://store.steampowered.com/app/41009/

Available: November 24th, 2009

This game will unlock in approximately 2 days and 1 hour

well... the 360 one might be later. but surely the PC vsn comes out this week

B:L

Cherrn wrote: »

That Fighting Fantasy game looks cool. Getting a strong Ultima Underworld vibe from it.

I've been trying to pre-order it from Gamestop, but it's just not in their system.

The pre-order bonus is the original Fighting Fantasy choose-your-own-adventure book.

Rakai

I'm surprised that nobody decided to launch a major game during the biggest shopping week of the year. Anybody know what last years black Friday week was like release wise?

Bartholamue

It's about time that Super Mario Kart came out on the VC.

Henroid

Bartholamue wrote: »

It's about time that Super Mario Kart came out on the VC.

I thought it already did, surprised it took 'em that long.
Edit - Then again, I guess they wanted people to get Mario Kart Wii.

slash000

Rakai wrote: »

I'm surprised that nobody decided to launch a major game during the biggest shopping week of the year. Anybody know what last years black Friday week was like release wise?

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=75505


My profile's "threads started" list is like an index of games releases for the past year.

Week 11/23/08 - 11/29/08

So, not too big of a week, amidst an otherwise huge Fall '08.

We have Chrono Trigger DS coming out, one of the greatest RPGs ever made, for NDS.
NDS also gets a new Age of Empires, which hopefully well be good like the last one. NDS also gets another port of an adventure/point/click game, Syberia, which, I think is/was good?

The Playstation systems get no retail releases this week.

The Wii gets the awesome must-have King of Fighters Orochi Collection, in other words KOF 94, 95, 96, 97, and 98 in one package. Definitely hittin' that up.

The HD systems get the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, after much ado.

So what's everyone getting this week? Probably nothing but Chrono Trigger DS?

It was another drop off. The week before in 2008 was Call of Duty World at War, Mirror's Edge, Banjo Kazooie N&B, Command & Conquier RA3, Wrath of the Lich King; and before that week was Gears 2, Resistance 2, Endwar, Valkyria Chronciles, and Korg dS

Sorenson

Man I know that a lot of shittastic devs treat the Wii as their dumping ground, but Coldstone Creamers: The Game? Seriously?

Kuribo's Shoe

Darlan wrote: »

When I read "Madden Arcade" in the title, I thought they were actually releasing a standalone machine for use in sports bars and like. That would be oen arcade unit that might rake in the dough in America, though I suppose there's an issue with the annual new game vs. player stat update deal there.

they do have these, though

Henroid

slash000 wrote: »

My profile's "threads started" list is like an index of games releases for the past year.

Mark my words, the day we meet (ironic since I left Texas earlier this year) - drinks are on me.

lowlylowlycook

Henroid wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

My profile's "threads started" list is like an index of games releases for the past year.

Mark my words, the day we meet (ironic since I left Texas earlier this year) - drinks are on me.

Not so much ironic as it is devious, IMO.

Henroid

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Henroid wrote: »

slash000 wrote: »

My profile's "threads started" list is like an index of games releases for the past year.

Mark my words, the day we meet (ironic since I left Texas earlier this year) - drinks are on me.

Not so much ironic as it is devious, IMO.

I have faith that slash will decide to leave Texas for greener pastures.

BTP

Yellow Ranger wrote: »

SNES Mario Kart is an insta-buy. We're talking minute one here people.

Feather-jump high-five!

I have been waiting for SO LONG for this day to come since buying my Wii. Even though I've always had the SNES and cartridge ready to go at any time all these years, I still wanted this on my Wii, and soon it will finally happen!

GET HYPE!

As unlikely as it is, I really hope that Nintendo puts the original commercial for Super Mario Kart on the Nintendo Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQr3zBI6ai0
(God, I love that commercial.)

There is one thing that worries me though, and it's the save states that is done with all Virtual Console games and how it may apply to Super Mario Kart. If you remember what happens at the end of a Match Race or Battle Mode, a counter increases by one to show how many times you have won or lost. The only way to reset these counters back to 0-0 is to turn off the game.....but that's speaking of the cartridge, naturally. (And no, hitting reset wouldn't work.) There's no such thing as "turning off" when using save states, so if we wanted those counters reset, we'd have to delete the save state in the Wii's memory (which we all know deletes the entire save file). Unless Nintendo has slightly tweaked how that works, we're all going to have 99-99 records pretty quickly.

Oh well. :P

GET HYPE!
(Is it obvious yet just how excited I am for this?)

Dear Nintendo and Santa,

Thank you for Super Mario Kart. I hope the 800 Nintendo Points I'm about to give you will help you buy lots of cookies.

There's still just a few more games I'd like to have. "Jumpman" and "The Castles of Dr. Creep" for Commodore 64, "Super Street Fighter II Turbo" for Virtual Console Arcade, and a competent version of "Q-Bert". No biggie if you can't get that last one. I'm sure there are other games I could think of and would buy, but those are the ones I reeeeeealy want.

Thanks again.

BTP

LOOK AT HOW EXCITED I AM! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Pureauthor

Hm... maybe I should get Tekken 6 PSP...

But I'm a casual fighting game fan, so I might want to wait for a price drop and get the Heroes of Might and Magic game for NDS next week.

And I'm still waiting for my game store to get at least one stupid copy of Atelier Annie in.

Peewi

BTP wrote: »

[There is one thing that worries me though, and it's the save states that is done with all Virtual Console games and how it may apply to Super Mario Kart. If you remember what happens at the end of a Match Race or Battle Mode, a counter increases by one to show how many times you have won or lost. The only way to reset these counters back to 0-0 is to turn off the game.....but that's speaking of the cartridge, naturally. (And no, hitting reset wouldn't work.) There's no such thing as "turning off" when using save states, so if we wanted those counters reset, we'd have to delete the save state in the Wii's memory (which we all know deletes the entire save file). Unless Nintendo has slightly tweaked how that works, we're all going to have 99-99 records pretty quickly.

Last time I checked it only saves a save state if you back out to the Wii menu and not if you just turn off the Wii.

cj iwakura

The PSP can run Tekken 6? O_o

TeeMan

cj iwakura wrote: »

The PSP can run Tekken 6? O_o

The previous Tekken game on the PSP is argubly the finest fighting game on the system, so I reckon a lot of people are looking forward to this one

Also Serious Sam HD WANT but I don't have time!

slash000

cj iwakura wrote: »

The PSP can run Tekken 6? O_o

Not quite..

Have you seen Tekken DR or Soul Calibur Broken Destiny on the PSP?

These are just like their console big brothers in terms of gameplay (tekken 5 and soul calibur IV respectively). All the characters and movesets and stuff are there (some modes are removed though).

The graphics are scaled back to run well on the PSP, but each of these Namco fighters on PSP still manages to look great.

But the important thing is these are pretty much just like the console versions and they run smoothly and they control perfectly.


So, no PSP can't run Tekken 6, or Soul Calibur IV, or Tekken DR or whatever. But it can run these games with the graphics scaled back far enough to make them run well on the system.

UnbreakableVow

Wow

Super Mario Kart was never on VC before? Don't know how I missed that fact when I owned a Wii.

Anyways, nothing really good this week...we've pretty much reached the end of the year here, time to start thinking about Game of the Year. :P

slash000

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Anyways, nothing really good this week...we've pretty much reached the end of the year here, time to start thinking about Game of the Year. :P

Just about, actually.

The big fall releases are done for this year.

For the rest of the year after this week, the only thing I can think of are:

Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks, Tales of Monkey Island Ch 5, The Saboteur, Guitar Hero: Sammy Hagar Can Go Fuck Himself, Silent Hill Shattered Memories, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles The Crystal Bearers... That's all I got. Rogue Warrior?

I have no idea how many of those games are supposed to be good. I'm really looking forward to Crystal Bearers and I expect Spirit Tracks to be good. Silent Hill is a big maybe, the Saboteur is a big question mark too.


But yeah, this year's basically done besides those games.

cj iwakura

Maybe NIS can pull off a December release for Sakura Wars V, but probably not.

Even if they do, it'll wind up a buggy mess if they rush it.

TeeMan

Pandemic studios have been disbanded so whether The Saboteur drops this year is anyones guess. Watched a developer preview of it about a week before it happened and it looked pretty damn finished to me, so fingers crossed.

I hope Wipeout HD Fury gets a good showing in the end of year tally, the mine shooty races are so much fun and crazy difficult from the 10th lap onwards. Managing increasing speed with more obstacles with more frequent reloading times? Better not blink!

Dehumanized

I think I recall hearing that Guitar Hero: David Lee Roth's Ego Trip got delayed to next year for the retail release.

UnbreakableVow

Yep, February.

slash000

Oh.. I had no idea.

OK well.. even fewer games to be released this year after this week, then!

Makes my job easier. :P

BTP

Peewi wrote: »

BTP wrote: »

[There is one thing that worries me though, and it's the save states that is done with all Virtual Console games and how it may apply to Super Mario Kart. If you remember what happens at the end of a Match Race or Battle Mode, a counter increases by one to show how many times you have won or lost. The only way to reset these counters back to 0-0 is to turn off the game.....but that's speaking of the cartridge, naturally. (And no, hitting reset wouldn't work.) There's no such thing as "turning off" when using save states, so if we wanted those counters reset, we'd have to delete the save state in the Wii's memory (which we all know deletes the entire save file). Unless Nintendo has slightly tweaked how that works, we're all going to have 99-99 records pretty quickly.

Last time I checked it only saves a save state if you back out to the Wii menu and not if you just turn off the Wii.

But wouldn't turning it off kill the save as well? Or rather, after you play the game again and loading the latest save state from the last time you played then turn it off without going back to the Wii menu, wouldn't the save state be gone? Kind of like how the owl statue saves in Majora's Mask work?

B:L

Regarding Puzzlegeddon...

I don't know if it's approved for PSN yet, but I know it's going to be an XBLA game. It's a very fun and addictive puzzler in the same vein as Yoshi's Cookie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZE72yhldiw

The multiplayer was pretty good as well, building up your resources by eliminating blocks then shooting rockets to damage your opponent or building shields to repel attacks and whatnot.

If there's a chance to download the demo, check it out.

Peewi

BTP wrote: »

Peewi wrote: »

BTP wrote: »

[There is one thing that worries me though, and it's the save states that is done with all Virtual Console games and how it may apply to Super Mario Kart. If you remember what happens at the end of a Match Race or Battle Mode, a counter increases by one to show how many times you have won or lost. The only way to reset these counters back to 0-0 is to turn off the game.....but that's speaking of the cartridge, naturally. (And no, hitting reset wouldn't work.) There's no such thing as "turning off" when using save states, so if we wanted those counters reset, we'd have to delete the save state in the Wii's memory (which we all know deletes the entire save file). Unless Nintendo has slightly tweaked how that works, we're all going to have 99-99 records pretty quickly.

Last time I checked it only saves a save state if you back out to the Wii menu and not if you just turn off the Wii.

But wouldn't turning it off kill the save as well? Or rather, after you play the game again and loading the latest save state from the last time you played then turn it off without going back to the Wii menu, wouldn't the save state be gone? Kind of like how the owl statue saves in Majora's Mask work?

Yes, turning off the Wii kills the save state (but not actual saved games. That would really suck.) That eliminates your concern about not being able to reset those counters.

brynstar

I noticed Ninja Blade went up on Steam on Friday so I bought that...I guess technically that's Last Week O' Games though....

I think I might actually be done with big game purchases for the year now. It's sort of...odd to me. I don't really feel like the holiday release season is over yet, even though it is. It's more like the calm before the insanity of Q1. I'm actually kind of hoping some of those titles get spread out into the spring and summer.

mastrius

brynstar wrote: »

I noticed Ninja Blade went up on Steam on Friday so I bought that...I guess technically that's Last Week O' Games though....

I think I might actually be done with big game purchases for the year now. It's sort of...odd to me. I don't really feel like the holiday release season is over yet, even though it is. It's more like the calm before the insanity of Q1. I'm actually kind of hoping some of those titles get spread out into the spring and summer.

Lets not talk about the wallet raping insanity of January - March. Please.

truck-a-sauras

Coldstone: Scoop it up on the Wii? what has this world come to?

fragglefart

Oh shits Mario Kart I can't get a Wii right now...