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[Draugoth]

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Have high confidence this will turn out great. Loved Dead Cells to bits!

 

[KyoZz]

"roguelite"

Can't we have Sands of Time PLEASE UBI

 

[kiphalfton]

OP with that fucking click bait title...

I guess this gif is still appropriate nevertheless

 

[adamsapple]

Princess of Persia: The Rogue Announced​

Live look at Draugoth making topics

 

[Dacvak]

What’s up with these 2D Prince of Persia games coming out lately? I mean, I’m down. This looks pretty cool.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Here's your Princess of Persia Draugoth

 

[N0S]

 

[The Cockatrice]

Did the Dead Cells team fire their artists?

How do you downgrade from this

To whatever the fuck this is

Also Motion Twin is the og Dead Cells devs. These guys helped with the dlc and thats it. Ill pass.

 

[kanjobazooie]

Art style looks too clean. Needs some grain and shit.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

"roguelite"

Can't we have Sands of Time PLEASE UBI

I literally just played through the game on GameCube last week. There is already a remaster. What are you asking for exactly?

 

[adamsapple]

"roguelite"

Can't we have Sands of Time PLEASE UBI

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[Draugoth]

Live look at Draugoth making topics

Here's your Princess of Persia Draugoth

I have the sorry excuse that my brain isnt working because i've been playing Slay The Princess and she doesnt come out of my mind

 

[Spyxos]

Why does it look so odd? Dead Cells looked good, this looks from the beginning like nobody really wanted to make the game.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I have the sorry excuse that my brain isnt working because i've been playing Slay The Princess and she doesnt come out of my mind

 

[Bartski]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no.

 

[Kurotri]

Man that looks repulsive

 

[kiphalfton]

Here's your Princess of Persia Draugoth

 

[KyoZz]

I literally just played through the game on GameCube last week. There is already a remaster. What are you asking for exactly?

I'm asking for this:

And good for you, unfortunately Prince of Persia Trilogy 3D is not on PC so we are fucked with that old version which is a pain in the ass to run correctly (played them 2 years ago )

 

[analog_future]

looks like a cheap Flash game

 

[Puscifer]

"roguelite"

Can't we have Sands of Time PLEASE UBI

You just reminded me there's a remake that's been in production for years! I wonder what happened to it

 

[Diddy X]

Looks like a mobile platformer from 2005.

 

[Roman Empire]

But where Sands of Time?

 

[March Climber]

Sands of Time posts are the port-begging of PoP threads.

I'm glad Rayman fans didn't do this when that series had a 2-D renaissance.

 

[tylrdiablos]

Did they fire the art department? Replace them with version 0.02b of a cheap Midjourney knock-off?

 

[Larxia]

Ew, visuals look horrible.

 

[Calverz]

Is this seriously an official screenshot? Fuckin hell.

 

[sigmaZ]

 

[tmlDan]

Honestly, there are so many of these side scrollers im not sure why people still play them.

They almost all feel identical.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

 

[March Climber]

Honestly, there are so many of these side scrollers im not sure why people still play them.

They almost all feel identical.

All it would take is to play them to see how they differ from one another.

 

[tmlDan]

All it would take is to play them to see how they differ from one another.

I've played a ton of them, not much difference just slight variations in abilities tbh

 

[Hudo]

Can they just please make a sequel to Prince of Persia 2008?

 

[GigaBowser]

crud

 

[TexMex]

I’ll play anything from the Dead Cells team


Why is he purple

 

[bender]

 

[Shakka43]

Doesn't look as bad in motion as the still picture led me to believe but still looks like an old flash game. Being roguelike is still the no buy reason for me so the art style doesn't matter.

 

[March Climber]

I've played a ton of them, not much difference just slight variations in abilities tbh

If that's how you feel then how do you even enjoy video games?

With your take you could say First Person Shooters are all left trigger/right trigger games with slight variations in abilities.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Bro looks like a Doug character.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

That looks like the color scheme from a generic 90s restaurant. Not in a good way.

 

[iorek21]

Looks very simple, but could be fun.

Will depend on how much replayability it has.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

Bro looks like a Doug character.

Roger's cousin Rouger

 

[tmlDan]

If that's how you feel then how do you even enjoy video games?

With your take you could say First Person Shooters are all left trigger/right trigger games with slight variations in abilities.

I feel like that about a lot of games with no stories.

I don't play shooters very often and when i do its for the story, if it has any, and they also have a ton of variation due to them having a competitive angle via MP - I wasn't even calling out the amount of buttons you press fyi. Side-scrollers don't really have stories and usually don't have MP, and if they do its pretty terrible. They also don't necessarily feel good the majority of the time but there are rare exceptions.

Again, I'm talking about this game, there are thousands of games just like this one, it looks like an average side-scroller like the millions of indie side-scrollers on steam.

 

[Sentenza]

Looks like a complete stinker.

 

[Danjin44]

Yeah really not fan of the art style, game like this makes appreciate how much work Vanillaware puts in their both character design and background art even have proper lighting.

Also whats this obsession with indie devs to make every game to roguelite? Is it because its cheaper to make?

 

[March Climber]

I feel like that about a lot of games with no stories.

I don't play shooters very often and when i do its for the story, if it has any, and they also have a ton of variation due to them having a competitive angle via MP - I wasn't even calling out the amount of buttons you press fyi. Side-scrollers don't really have stories and usually don't have MP, and if they do its pretty terrible. They also don't necessarily feel good the majority of the time but there are rare exceptions.

Again, I'm talking about this game, there are thousands of games just like this one, it looks like an average side-scroller like the millions of indie side-scrollers on steam.

I was using the left trigger/right trigger as an example, not as a reason. Also I was pointing out that your argument can be used for literally any genre so the following post doesn't make sense:

Honestly, there are so many of these side scrollers im not sure why people still play them.

You could replace the word 'side scrollers' with any other genre and the take would 99% remain the same.

There is even something to be said about the game series your avatar is from, but it would be reductive to that series for me to boil it down to 'same thing, different numbered title' for Yakuza. You and I both know that's not fair to say about the I.P.

 

[Holammer]

Not everything needs to be pixel art, but clean vectors like this is dog shite.

 

[tmlDan]

I was using the left trigger/right trigger as an example, not as a reason. Also I was pointing out that your argument can be used for literally any genre so the following post doesn't make sense:


You could replace the word 'side scrollers' with any other genre and the take would 99% remain the same.

There is even something to be said about the game series your avatar is from, but it would be reductive to that series for me to boil it down to 'same thing, different numbered title' for Yakuza. You and I both know that's not fair to say about the I.P.

Well, you have to put it into the context of the thread, its about the extremely generic game above and games like them.

And as I said, there are variations to the story which i enjoy even if it generally has similar combat - hence the variation and curiosity + enjoyment (Yakuza).

I mean, it's not just me, none of these games sell that well. Look at PoP, the same will happen to Zau that's why its free/on a sub service.

 

[Evolved1]

i don't even like pixel art, but that looks awful. like, honestly gross. yikes.

 

[CamHostage]

Did the Dead Cells team fire their artists?
...
Also Motion Twin is the og Dead Cells devs. These guys helped with the dlc and thats it. Ill pass.

Motion Twin made the original game. (And by Motion Twin, it was mostly conceived by Sébastien Benard and artist Thomas Vasseur; Benard is not involved anymore with Motion Twin or Evil Empire and has his own studio which recently released a game called Nuclear Blaze; Vasseur still works at Motion Twin, which isn't the company behind this PoP game, they're doing a new game called WindBlown.) Evil Empire made the follow-up releases of the game, including its DLC.

What happened was Motion Twin (at that time) was used to making Flash and other smaller games that iterated out of game jams and released quickly and in rapid succession, but others in the team thought there was a future in supporting Dead Cells with ongoing content. So to work all angles, Evil Empire was spun out of MT (and Bernard worked with them for some time and also directly managed 2 of the DLCs) and they continued long-term support of the game, while MT went onto its next game, then eventually Bernard went his own way.

Evil Empire is the team making this new PoP game.

(Bernard was heavy into the shaded-pixel-style graphic approach and has released a level maker and engine built around this technology/art approach. He still uses that design style and even the same engine. If you think of Motion Twin as one graphic style, you're probably thinking of his engine's approach to visual output.)