/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5069213
The fuck you are even trying to argue? It was literally Blade Runner: The Unlicensed Game and Lethal Weapon: The Unlicensed Game. It was guaranteed success by default.

>>5069213
They were accepted with open arms on release. At least in Japan.
And yes today they would be accepted even in the west, as the genre is popular over here now.

>>5069213
Lethal weapon + blade runner = Policenauts

>>5069213
Policenauts and Snatcher are two of my favorite games, but I think a lot of people only like them now because they have Kojima's name on them.

If we're talking about the West, you're right that Snatcher wasn't widely accepted, but it really had no chance since it was a 1994 Sega CD release. Jeremy Blaustein, the localization lead, said that Snatcher only sold "a couple of thousand" copies in the US and Canada.

>>5070164
>If we're talking about the West, you're right that Snatcher wasn't widely accepted, but it really had no chance since it was a 1994 Sega CD release. Jeremy Blaustein, the localization lead, said that Snatcher only sold "a couple of thousand" copies in the US and Canada.


Yeah, Konami decided to localise Snatcher for the Sega CD because the TurboGrafx 16 was dead in the west. They couldn't release the PCE CDROM version in the west, because there was no market for that console in 1994.

Apparently Konami had no idea that Snatcher was even ported to the Sega CD and released in western territories. The Sega CD/ Mega CD port was made without Kojima. Kojima was apparently surprised when someone brought a copy of the Sega CD version for him to autograph because he never saw it before. He was flipping through the manual and shocked that Snatcher made it to the west.

But Snatcher on the Sega CD was never released in Japan, because the Mega CD in Japan was a failure for Sega. There as no real market there, and the PCE CD-ROM was still being sold in that region at the time.

Pollicenauts was planned to be released for the Sega Saturn in western territories in October of 1996. But I guess Konami decided that it wasn't worth the money to localise it.

This flyer image I included was actually packaged with the North American Sega Saturn in 1996, and even Sega advertised that Policenauts would be coming to the console. They had a mock up image of the NA box art.

>>5070164
>If we're talking about the West, you're right that Snatcher wasn't widely accepted, but it really had no chance since it was a 1994 Sega CD release. Jeremy Blaustein, the localization lead, said that Snatcher only sold "a couple of thousand" copies in the US and Canada.


Yeah, Konami decided to localise Snatcher for the Sega CD because the TurboGrafx 16 was dead in the west. They couldn't release the PCE CDROM version in the west, because there was no market for that console in 1994.

Apparently Kojima had no idea that Snatcher was even ported to the Sega CD and released in western territories. The Sega CD/ Mega CD port was made without Kojima. Kojima was apparently surprised when someone brought a copy of the Sega CD version for him to autograph because he never saw it before. He was flipping through the manual and shocked that Snatcher made it to the west.

But Snatcher on the Sega CD was never released in Japan, because the Mega CD in Japan was a failure for Sega. There as no real market there, and the PCE CD-ROM was still being sold in that region at the time.

Pollicenauts was planned to be released for the Sega Saturn in western territories in October of 1996. But I guess Konami decided that it wasn't worth the money to localise it.

This flyer image I included was actually packaged with the North American Sega Saturn in 1996, and even Sega advertised that Policenauts would be coming to the console. They had a mock up image of the NA box art.

>>5070196
I've definitely seen that box art before, but I'm not sure if I realized what it was. The excuse that was given for not localizing Policenauts was that synchronizing English voices with the animations would have been too difficult, but I think they looked at the Sega/Mega CD sales numbers and changed their minds.

>be Hideo Kojima
>rip-off American movies to make a game
>put in a scene with a 14 years old girl taking a shower

What did he mean by this?

>>5070214
Its almost like the dude is Nipponese.

>>5069213
>do you think that Policenauts would've been accepted today?

Worse shit is being accepted today as retro assthetic and VNs are all the rage now.

>Look at that ass. I would eat anything off that ass.
>Yeah, I'd hit that.

>>5070368
>mandatory boob slapping during mosquito swatting in order to progress.

This game is a fucking landmine.

how long does this game last? I just found out about the saturn fan translation and I'm considering burning it to a disc and trying it out. I've never played adventure games like this before though.

why hasn't konami plundered these two kojima games yet?

seems like they're easy bucks to make.

>>5070943
>how long does this game last?
HLTB.com is your friend
>I've never played adventure games like this before though.
You'll be fine. Snatcher and Policenauts are BARELY Adventure games. Progressing usually just means interacting with everything on the screen. There are no real puzzles. It's also interspersed with some basic FPS sequences.

>>5071049
I get the feeling konami simply doesn't give a shit about any of their old stuff. For example, Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, and Rocket Knight Adventures have never seen a rerelease. Not on PSN, XBLA, VC, compilations, nothing.

>>5071049
How many actually know that these games exist?
How many actually know that Kojima has made these games?

>>5071065
i thought konami liked money.

too bad.

>>5069213
It's a boring point and click

>>5071090
i like my point and clicks to be boring.

>>5070864
Lorraine and Anna are the only named female characters who you can't grope. Karen and Meryl take some special circumstances, but it is possible. To this day I haven't managed to convince Meryl to let me touch her fun bags. I know how to do it, but it's tough.

>>5072121
>Lorraine and Anna are the only named female characters who you can't grope. Karen and Meryl take some special circumstances, but it is possible. To this day I haven't managed to convince Meryl to let me touch her fun bags. I know how to do it, but it's tough.

People have to understand the market for these games in Japan. Hideo Kojima started out in the home PC division of Konami, and the Japanese home PC crowd were into much more "adult" eroge styled games on home PC's like the PC88 and PC98. Snatcher and Policenauts were really designed to appeal to those markets. Policenauts more so than Snatcher, because Policenauts was designed for the ero-anime visual novel machine; the PC-98.

Hideo Kojima didn't really make the transition to home console development until Metal Gear Solid 1 on the PS1. His first home console project was Snatcher for the PC-Engine PC. The PCE version was the basis for the Sega CD port, which Hideo Kojima had nothing to do with. Then he worked on Policenauts for the 3DO hardware. The 3DO was another console that was aimed at the anime-ero crowd in Japan, as that was the only market it had. Metal Gear Solid was also planned for the 3DO, but it was shifted to the PS1 for many obvious reasons.

the 3DO port of Policenauts was the basis for the PS1 and Saturn ports. Snatcher also got ports on the PS1 and Saturn as well. But those ones had a lot more censorship than any other version that was released before them. The Satnur was less censored than the PS1 port, though.

>>5070158
Lethal weapon + sci-fi = Policenauts

Blade Runner had its game in form of Snatcher

>>5071067
The only reason Policenauts managed to get fan-translation was Kojima's fandom. So go fucking figure

>>5072626
>Blade Runner had its game in form of Snatcher

There is an adventure game of Blade Runner made by Westwood Studios, and it's really good.

But Snatcher serves as a good animu version of Blade Runner.

Personally, I think Snatcher and Policenauts are some of Kojima's best games, story wise.

>>5072918
>Personally, I think Snatcher and Policenauts are some of Kojima's best games, story wise.

Kojima agrees apparently.
he claims that Policenauts is his most personal game.

>>5072918
I know there is a Blade Runner game. And it's definitely in top 10 of adventure games ever made regardless of how you count it (can even enter top 5), so it's hard not to know about it.
It still doesn't make Snatcher any less a variation on Blade Runner, thou.

>>5073064
Source? That sounds very interesting.

So I just played through disc 1 and some change of the saturn translation yesteday. Liking it so far. I've always been a fan of things like scanning research and data log entries in games like Metroid Prime or Deus Ex, and this is basically an entire game based around this point.

A little confused about the Meryl cameo though. The game presents it as a very blatant reference to Meryl from MGS... but that game didn't come out for another 5 years.

>>5074676
MGS is referencing Policenauts, not the other way around obviously.

>>5074817
There are even cutscenes from Policenauts present in MGS1.

>>5074676
>The game presents it as a very blatant reference to Meryl from MGS...
>but that game didn't come out for another 5 years.

>>5074676

How can someone be this much of an idiot and be capable of using the internet?

>>5072172
Makes sense.

>>5074676
Both Meryls are based on a character from MG2: Holly.

>>5069213
End Of The Dark is sex in my ears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi63FpHCi_s

>>5076127
Honestly? The game was sold to me with just few tacts from the Opening Theme. I realised if something has music this good, then it's worth playing it for the OST alone.
Was not disappointed by the game itself, really Kojima's best.

>>5076204
Sorry, it was Old LA 2040