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7104426 No.7104426 [Reply] [Original]

what the fuck was their problem

>> No.7104431

Nothing. It was the fault of Americans for trying to use video games to make a quick buck on movie licensed games that sucked instead of putting effort into original properties.

>> No.7104457

>>7104431
Movie-licensed games can be good though, just look at Capcom's Willow or Rare's GoldenEye. It's just Americans are untalented and lazy mutts.

>> No.7104469

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????

>> No.7104470
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>>7104426
Shit
Load
Of
Rainbows and joy

>> No.7104490
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>>7104426
They made some good games. Maximum Carnage, True Lies and Spiderman and the X-Men, maybe scrap Spiderman & Xmen, it was ridiculously difficult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gskDcG7WLNs&list=PL1fkbh1UXcmhtryRigQWRbGOxGMCbuZK5

>> No.7104504
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>>7104490
They just published these.

>> No.7104509

>>7104504
Well, fuck. I don't know, my mates always said Spiderman vs the sinister six was good too, I never liked it though.

>> No.7104514

>>7104426
Ea games made alot of shit too

>> No.7104536

>>7104509
I think the stuff they get hate for was usually developed by other companies. I'm not sure if they even did develop anything themselves or, if so, it might have technically been done through some sort of partner or subsidiary. The company that made Maximum Carnage *did* get bought eventually by Acclaim that also acquired LJN.

>> No.7104542

>>7104536
The most amusing one is Friday the 13th, which was apparently developed by Atlus of all companies. I'd have to imagine it was a victim of "we are just making what this overseas company is telling us to make for an overseas audience, so we're basically just pumping this out as quickly as possible to make a buck."

>> No.7104554

>>7104542
rare made shovelware for ljn too


ljn is mostly just a publisher with no eye for good video games, just safe marketing deals

>> No.7104563

>>7104426
Publishing trash.

>> No.7104795

>>7104490
No. Those were trash as well.

>> No.7104803

>>7104554
You'd be safe too if your toy guns led to a clusterfuck of a financial loss due to unfortunate circumstances.

>> No.7104819

>>7104426
LJN?? more like Laughing Joking Numbnuts !!!

>> No.7104838

>>7104819
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aujr4e_DN1k

>> No.7104972

laffin
Jokin
NUMNUTS

>> No.7105171

>>7104795
Doing a google search doesn't count as playing them. You should give them a try, they have amazing music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6Hg-fFc5A

>> No.7105180

>>7104490
>>7104490
>>7105171

For me it its the genesis version of maximum carnage

>> No.7105202

Toy company first, game developers second.

>> No.7105234

>>7104490
>>7104504
By this logic they never "made" bad games. LJN wasn't a developing studio, all their works were outsourced.

>> No.7105768

>>7105171
>Doing a google search doesn't count as playing them
it does, you dipshit

>> No.7105778

>>7104426
They outsourced to beloved companies like Atlus, Rare, and Westons.
Non-LJN games by them were great. So why were the LJN ones shit?
Why did they fuck over LJN?
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

>> No.7106194

>>7105171
I hope you aren't lifting up Arcade's Revenge as something that's worth playing.

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>>7106194
You don't think it has good tunes? I only rented it, but even if I bought it at least it'd have long replay value. I could never get anywhere in Gambit or Cyclops stages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Q0s95SRXM&list=PL224CFF3B77A60C49&index=1

>> No.7106691

>>7104426
Mainly they were just a D-list publisher that picked up all the games no one else wanted. They did publish a few gems though, like Friday the 13th (fuck you, I liked it) and Total Carnage.

>> No.7106760

>>7106678
I absolutely love the tunes.

Can't stand the game itself.

>> No.7107154

>>7104431
But they are like so bad it is like wtf. Like intentionally bad.