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What's your favorite non-Japanese-developed licensed game from the 80s and 90s, /vr/?

>> No.10471121

>>10471112
Maui Mallard

>> No.10471125

TIE Fighter

>> No.10471127

I'm bored, I'm going to go home and play on my Playstation 2.

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>> No.10471137

>>10471125
This or the Factor 5 N64/GameCube Star Wars games.

>> No.10471142

Sonic 2

>> No.10471151

>>10471112
Why not 2000s? Retard thread

>> No.10471158

>>10471151
Calm down, zoomer. Japanese developers were well known for licensed Disney games in the 80s/90s.

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>>10471112
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

>> No.10471163

>>10471151
Having trouble thinking of a game are you?

>> No.10471202

Goldeneye

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>>10471112
Lion King.
It's a pain in the ass, but it's also a classic.

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>>10471112

>> No.10473556

>>10471159
Jeez, I hated that place in the game. That amount of damned backtracking.

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>>10471112

>> No.10473676

>>10471142
If I'm not mistaken, the Japanese staff still did the majority of the work, or at least the important work on this right? The quality of games developed by the American staff is a significant step down from Sonic 2

>> No.10473693

>>10473676
How is Sonic 2 a licensed game?

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>> No.10474714

>>10471159
What the fuck am I looking at

>> No.10474807

>>10473693
A weird Dragon Ball adaptation

>> No.10474835

>>10473530
>That weird soulless logoslop at the time

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>>10471112
>What's your favorite non-Japanese-developed licensed game from the 80s and 90s, /vr/?
Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin
It was the 1st proper Spider-Man video game to ever come out, which made you feel like you're actually Spider-Man, with his moves and all, and with taking photos of foes, resting at home, and getting money for web fluid resources, OST was a banger and it looked fantastic.
I'd still rather play this than the goyslop that we have to deal with nowadays by Insomniac for consoomers to enjoy and forget about in a week.

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>>10475157
The ambition of the concept clearly exceeded the ability of the developers to pull it off. I loved the adventure and time/resource management aspects of it, but the central gameplay and general level layouts are a fucking mess. Still worth a play though, specially for the hilarious Sega CD version cutscenes.

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>>10475237
>The ambition of the concept clearly exceeded the ability of the developers to pull it off.
True.

>I loved the adventure and time/resource management aspects of it
Same, it's crazy how it still holds up in this regard.

>but the central gameplay and general level layouts are a fucking mess.
I agree... somewhat. I find the gameplay to be excellent, it's everything you could want from 2D Spider-Man, he controls really well. I do agree that level design is the main issue though, and while I don't find it to be bad, it feels like it could've been a lot more, most levels are quite linear and/or short and the length/difficulty of it all comes from figuring out each boss' optimal strategy. It's still a fun time, but could've been a lot more fun with better level design.

Mysterio's Menace plays quite similar to this, despite it coming out 10 years later, but level design is so much more rich there, it shows what could've been.

>Still worth a play though, specially for the hilarious Sega CD version cutscenes.
I genuinely love the moody OST from those, wish I could find that track somewhere. It feels like a bad 90's cartoon, but I guess it fits the character well enough, definitely worth a watch for the laughs alone.

>> No.10476293

>>10471112
>Neversoft Spider-Man was 2000
>Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was 2000
>X-Men Mutant Academy games were 2000 & 2001
Shit

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>>10476293
Join the "Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin" tribe, my fellow Spider-Bro.

>> No.10476337

Traveller's Tales happened to be the first Western developer that really impressed me (I knew about RARE but didn't own DKC) because they managed to make a good platformer with Mickey Mania but they were also able to work in a tremendous amount of references. I hadn't seen so many direct references to various shorts in previous attempts at licensed games. People often talk about how Traveller's Tales games made them fans of a particular series, often even before they'd had the chance to see the movies and that was true even back in the mid-90's. Their dedication was palpable. Wish they still had the Disney licence but it would probably be used to make another series of Lego titles.

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>>10476330
No way fag

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>>10476764
DAMN... Mary Jane looks like THAT?!

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>>10475157
>>10475237
>>10475758
>>10476293
>>10476330
>>10476337
>>10476764
>>10476785
is it the best of The Eighties and The Nineties, or the best of The Eighties and The Nineties of all time?

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>>10476791
Nowhere in the op it says "best of"; that's entitled consoomer and/or autistic talk, and this thread is about what people like and feel comfortable accepting as not needing a wider authoritative scope than exactly that.

>> No.10476958

>>10471112
(You) posted it

>> No.10476971

>>10476941
that's been debunked though

>> No.10476981

>>10476971
Cyclopes? I guess.

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>>10471112
Disney.
As in, Disney in general.
It's crazy how much quality licensed Disney titles had, on one side you had Capcom in their prime making stuff for the NES and SNES, and then on the other side you had SEGA making their own stuff, sometimes with their trusted western developers, and other times in house, which to me were the better ones.
All of the Illusion and the Magical Quest titles, the film adaptations... it was superb.