► WTF Is... - DuckTales: Remastered ?
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- TotalBiscuit takes a look at Wayforward's remake of the classic 8-bit title.
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Because duck tales was a great NES classic that many people missed out on. there you go, there's a reason for a remake.
"Is there an ability tu duck?"
Yes, and it's always active!
*badum tsss*
The cutscenes interrupt the gameplay? The cutscenes are PART of the gameplay. If you're going into this game expecting just "duck pogo action" then yes, you would be disappointed, because that is not the goal of this game.
I see it more like a playable episode of the popular cartoon, and then the narration and the voice acting become a welcome addition.
I suggest Meatboy if you just want action platforming.
Yes, the cut scenes interrupt the gameplay, because they stop you playing. While they are playing you cant do anything but wait - that's an interruption. You could have the voice acting and scenes without taking the players ability to play away from them, and this game doesn't do that right.
When I was growing up in Chicago/Tinley Park in the late 1980's I used to watch the movie Duck Tales: Treasures of the Lost Lamp at least once or twice everyday, usually when I woke up and then played on my Commodore 64 or my Nintendo Entertainment System. So seeing the original Duck Tales game being remastered so the graphics look like the cartoon is a bit of a Nostalgia trip even though nowadays I wouldn't watch the cartoon at all.
How can you not know Launchpad McQuack? Didn't you have a childhood?
I don't understand why the cut scenes are a big problem they are super easy to skip.
***** The problem is threefold, He did not read the manual, the fact that quick cinematics does not appear until you beat the game once, and he is just trying to blast through the level quickly rather than try to complete them which means that the cinematics appear quickly as well.
I find it amusing that a lot of people are complaining about the *CYNICAL* Brit being cynical.
i love your videos but sometimes man -.- the game is supposed to be sorta like a episode, so of course its gonna have a lot of cutscenes
This guy got it
Personally I think they could have incorporated the dialogue into the gameplay. I mean does "Uncle Scrooge, Help!" Really require you to stop, wait, then go? If they have you control while he said the line I feel would have made it less restricting.
Everytime you say Ducktales, I go "Woo-hoo"!
I love the cutscenes, it's the added value for something who loves Ducktales like me
BECAUSE NES DUCK TALES WAS *AWESOME*!
Seriously, Biscuit. Srsly....
I really really like the cutscenes. They add to the feeling and sensation of adventure.
@Tarantel666: Because, though he, like many of us 80s-90s kids, watched Ducktales, he's not really qualified to judge the game's remastering, having not played the original to give a proper comparison. Plus, he's judging the game based on the cutscenes, which are, arguably, some of the best bits in the game, since they use the original voice actors from the show and the original game had barely any dialog, yet alone cutscenes. Besides, the cutscenes can be skipped at any time, anyway.
I feel like you made a good point but you failed to actually reply to his comment so I can't be sure
How do you Duck?
13:32 he asks if the duck can duck.
Basically, Pogoing can be done by pressing the X button (360 pad, better for platformers). Hard pogoing means you have to press the down button as well as the X button to Pogo.
RIP ducktales on steam
If you are the uninitiated, there was an episode (and a movie I might add) dealing with a genie and a magic lamp so.... maybe not
The guy u spent 175k on his picture was Launchpad!
The whole point of hard pogo is to press Down + Attack while in mid-air to pogo jump, like in the NES game, not by just pressing attack in mid-air.
what? I played the entire game without hard pogo and I had no idea you only had to press attack in mid-air? I kept pressing down because I was used to it :P
Aqua Blue
Hey Aqua, I know what you mean. In _Ducktales II_, wasn't the Pogo attack simplified to where you no longer needed to hold down the down button? I think that's where Remastered got the idea from.
I usually like your gameplay vids, but this one was weak. You cannot really judge this game if you haven't played the NES version
If anything, I'm at least glad they got the moon theme right. That's more or less what made NES Duck Tales iconic for me.
You weren't kidding about how old Alan young is, he's 93 and he did the voice for Scrooge in this game. That is so awesome!
I agree. I really liked that look. Taking the 8-bit Megaman (which I love) and updating him finally...still retaining much of his classic poses and looks (how he jumps+fires, reacts to taking damage etc.). From what I've seen of the SSB with MegaM. it seemed pretty faithful.
I can agree with you about the audio logs; audio logs are some of my favorite things to have in a video game (mostly because they make it easier to tell you parts of the story that don't directly relate to your character). And interactive cutscenes are good when you want to give the player a chance to see (or miss) something important (good in horror/suspenseful games, I find).
But at the end of the day, there are certain things that a cutscene can do that gameplay just can't, unfortunately
I think you misunderstand. I meant the game as a whole, which is interactive, with a large element of storytelling cutscenes leads to a nice experience. While the story can't be influenced you can be a part of this linear tale, which I can appreciate. Let's also not forget that this was/is a kids game.
Capcom was what Way Forward is today. This is a nostalgia trip, its not going to appeal to a massive market but you have to admit its good regardless if you see many things pointless. Way Forward did alot of work on the sprites and had alot of help from original artists of the show which is likely why the art is unlockable same with the music. They made the script larger because they were given the ability to use the voice actors, that is the reason why there are so many cut-scenes.
To who it may concern:
That duck pilot's name is "Launchpad McQuack."
Most famous for loyalty, humor and crashing aircraft for our amusement.
A tribute to one of the best NES games, and a game that many people gamers grew up playing is what it is. It's $15 it's not like they're trying to gouge you on the price, and they gave full voice acting that does actually sound good. The target audience for the game is people who have fond memories of the NES original, and speaking as someone who does, I personally find it to be a very enjoyable experience.
as someone who played and loved the original, this is just how i wanted a remake of it, cutscenes and all.
I was born in early '96, so I never owned an NES, nor did I watch Ducktales. I have an NES now, however, and I have played Ducktales. I bought this game on day one, and turned it on with no pre-existing nostalgia, and I love it. I'm gonna go out and but some Ducktales on DVD, because the cutscenes made me want to watch the show. I respect you, TB, you're one of my absolute favorite CZcams personalities, but I truly believe that this game can stand on it's own two feet.
Scrooge can't die of natural causes, fun fact. In one episode, he was in the fountain of youth for a few days and it changed his "duck cells" so that he can't die or age due to natural causes. So that is why he is so agile for an old duck and has high endurance lol
No the game did not. The reason these cut scenes are in the game in because Disney asked them if they wanted the original cast of the animated series to voice the characters and so they made these cutscenes for the fans of the animated series.
You can hear all this in the music documentary that they released on the 7th of august.
It's more about expectation really. You start a game expecting to play a game and usually be challenged and immersed.
You start a movie to sit back an watch a movie and be intrigued by the story. At least, that's how it is for me.
I wasn't talking specifics. Duck tales may not have a strong plot but it is a plot nonetheless. You can skip cut scenes if you so choose but why? Why not just enjoy the game the way the people made it?
13:32 "Was there an ability to ... Duck there?"
I couldn't resist that one.
Could the alladin lamp on the shelf of the level select screen be a hint to another remaster?
because that is the whole point of a first impressions video, to allow people to know that persons impressions, and therefore opinions of it, so they have something to get an idea to if they would want to buy the product or not, that means that they must give opinions of games they dislike as well, so people can see that the person dislikes it, therefore allowing people to know that the game might be bad, depending how they view the info given, so they can decide not to buy it if they wont like.
In this day and age of gaming, there's always going to be a lot of cutscenes that interrupt the gameplay. It's kind of annoying, but it doesnt make this game bad just because. It's a good nostalgia trip with great remixed music.
The thing is that -some- things that happen in cutscenes can't really happen ingame in a fluid manner like switching characters, explaining the story, introducing a new gameplay mechanic (the only other way is with an annoying tutorial) or simply showing something really spectacular, like a city/planet getting annihilated, a boss emerging from the depths of Hell and so on.
The game's not something I'd pay more than a few dollars for, but the soundtrack is absolutely phenomenal. the gameplay of the moon ended up with me caring little about what was on-screen, just loving what I heard.
Next week: WTF is baby's playtime center deluxe
"The cow says, 'moo'."
"Well, yes but then the cow reverts to his idle animation. I'm just not feeling the *emotion*, the cow is trying to convey"
You also don't need to stop gameplay to show a city/planet being annihilated, or a boss emerging from the depths of hell and so on. There is ways to direct player attention to things then show them in the background. This way, it doesn't feel like a cutscene, while retaining all the aspects of one.
"Wah wah wah there are a lot of cutscenes in this game that's all about nostalgia for an old cartoon and for which having the original voice actors was a selling point. You can skip them easily but I'm going to complain anyway."
I still have my old NES cartridge for this game. It's one of my most cherished games of all time.
Gotta admit, having those old voice actors in there does add quite a bit of charm to it.
That's true, it's nice to have some cutscenes. But in the case of Ducktales here, they really are just talking, which they could be doing while you are playing.
the main thing I like about cutscenes is that they take the pressure off. If you have something really intense, like a really hard bossfight and then you beat him and a cutscene happens. That's nice, a moment to just be happy about your victory.
But endless dialogue to introduce a level, ehhhhh... :p
There's nothing wrong with a game having extensive narrative as long as it doesn't interrupt the game play. Halo 4 was a pretty good example of this (first one I can think of off-hand).
A lot of the story is told to you through in-game dialogue while you're in the process of moving through the game. Doesn't slow you down, doesn't interrupt the gameplay, and is all-in-all a good alternative to frequent cutscenes.
Back then, this game never had this many cutscenes, let alone much dialogue.
No, no. It's just that Scrooge is a practical man that refuses, despite all his past encounters, to believe in things such as that. He's hard headed. Always has been. I also loved how this show and Dark Wing Duck were essentially linked together. Launchpad is in both, and eventually Gizmo duck as well. He was also partially saying it for the benefit of Huey, Dewey, and Louie, as well as Webbigale.
Yeah, it's a nice addition, but that's the thing. In most games the cutscenes are just taking over.
I feel Bioshock also does a very good job using the audio logs. Also, the cutscenes usually let you look and sometimes move around which really helps to take away the fact that you're kicked out of the game and it just takes over.
With cartoon I meant the magazines, realized it might be a bit ambiguous in English.
DuckTales on the NES was awesome. I love how they got the voice actors from the show involved. The best thing about this though was that it was actually a really well made platformer. Next up is a Rescue Rangers remake?
I played the original game on the NES and it remains one of my favorites, and is still considered by many to be one of the best platformers of that era. It was surprisingly hard, but we loved it anyway because it was like a playable episode of the cartoon, as another commenter said. The cut scenes are a hold over from the original, though in that they were just scrolling text with no voices.
TB if you play any emulators I'd recommend finding the original and trying it that way so you have an idea of where we're coming from. You might not have the same memories that we do from back in the day, but the Remastered game was a Godsend to many of us who are utterly sick of the constant FPSfest that modern gaming seems to have become.
To me, it seems like it's aimed more at the fans of the TV series. As someone who never played the NES original but loved the TV series a lot I could see myself playing this and enjoying it.
As someone who has the game I agree on the cutscenes and the voice acting part.
They just sound a little phoned in for some of them, not to put the game down though.
It's cool and fun, if annoying at times.
total childhood blast from the past. Duck tales was one of my most favorite platformers that i played on and off for many years. Now our children can play it aswell, something that looks cool and has sth the original didnt have, a story....so i dont get the hate for the cutscenes. it looks VERY good to me
It'd say it's more like you're having your meal when someone constantly comes up to you every 5 minutes asking you if you want some ice cream or not. Of course you can tell them "no", but it would get a bit tiring after a while.
Personally, I don't mind when I have to hit two buttons to skip the scenes, but I can definitely understand why others would get turned off by this.
What happened in the start of the level has to do with you having a 7 in the ten-thousand slot of your money from the previous level. Its a bonus level basically.
Have to agree with what you said about the soundtrack. The music on the moon level was a great big slice of gaming nostalgia.
Yeah, I'll give you that, this game is absolutely insane with these cutscenes.
And there's a certain sense of closure you get from a cutscene after defeating a boss or something; makes it feel a bit more significant in my opinion
"Why the hell is ducktales remastered?" Because it was an underlooked Nintendo game that was truly AMAZING and fun and just awesome to play. And it deserved to be remade for all of us to continue enjoying....It....it goes deep
But I'm pretty sure they aren't idiots, and can clearly tell that it was real enough when Magicka turned one of the Beagle Boys into a Dragon.
Thanks for the speech.
My point was that even if they weren't planned from the start, that shouldn't matter. If it's there it's there, regardless of how it came to be in the game.
Of course. Mashing ESC every 5-10 minutes is such a joy. I personally loved it in Diablo 3 and am looking forward to more games implementing this wonderful thing.
01:34 - "If it's restricting my ability to pogo, I want no part of it" lol That's officially my motto from now on.
A good game can be interesting to all ages. That doesn't mean TB wasn't causing a tempest in a teapot with this one on the other hand.
So wait: vampires, banshees and spirits are superstitious nonsense; but sorcerers, genies, witches, mummies, and portals through time aren't? Apparently Scrooge lost his memory by this point, unless this game takes place before they ever met Magika.
I'm 30. I played all those titles to completion. I like cutscenes...in moderation of course. All those games also had cutscenes. Granted, C&C's scenes were usually before and after missions so it didn't interfere in the flow of the game...even the hammy FMV scenes.
And it was the correct decision. When I heard those voices, my mind just started rewinding, and my entire childhood exploded before my face. Even if the game sucked in gameplay, I decided to get it just for the nostalgia of the show. The game? I didn't even know it existed. Funny, because I played C&D and Roger Rabbit on NES but this I never saw...
yes, I know it was, I said so. I said he has a right to his opinion. Now while I can't argue that the cutscenes are too frequent, I CAN argue wether it's a bad thing or a good thing. to TB it's bad, to a ducktales nostalgia loving type like me, it's a good thing.
Duck Tales was one of the games I owned as a kid and it was absolutely epic back then
I really dislike how the music gets lowered whenever a sound effect plays
I wasn't trolling. I used to play 2D platforms a ton way back (around StarCraft 1's release). It's a fact that people need to get with the times. These simple games belong on the app store, because people would much rather play them on a phone.
I assume others have already said this, but just in case they didn't make it very clear (it happens ^_^;), he didn't say the original was bad, he was just saying he wasn't expecting a remake of it to be in high demand because he wasn't aware that many people were asking for one(Or something like that).
14:48 "Thank you very much for watching......."
I'll see you next time? HE DIDN'T SAY I'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME IN THE VIDEO
I remember this from the second game which was on the Snes if I'm not wrong here. I did immediately recognise the jumping sound effect which is exactly the same. I love this to bits, indeed a fun nostalgia trip :)
you mean that place where Scrooge is in the sky with cloud platforms? that's a Gyro bonus stage from the original NES game. you have to get a 7 in the 10,000th digit of the total amount of money you have that's shown in that "concept art" section of the game. once you have that, go into any level and you get the bonus stage.
it might be remastered, but its still the same animation as back in the day. I dont think thats bad, but I would add extra to it when needed to give more emotion or whatever.
When the moon theme song came, it got instanly destroyed by the invincibility
How did TB grow up with the same cartoons as me? He is 11 years older than me, but I also remember DuckTales and TaleSpin. They must have been around for longer than I thought lol.
It's still something that takes more time than it should, especially if it comes at that rate. It would still be a good idea to include a "skip all cutscenes" button to appease to people like him.
Could be the case, yes. Though I suspect the so-called retro gaming market is bigger than the remaking old games with new graphics market. As in, you already have a player base in all the people who want to play games with 8-bit graphics. Games such as Cave Story and Fez are pretty good examples of that, so making a new game to tap into that vein would seem like a better idea than remaking a game that apparently no-one played back in the day.
I like it when the game is cinematic but still not cutscene. Like some of the uncharted moments where you are in a falling building but still playes when in most games it would stop you from doing so.
They did an amicable job updating the title. The level design mimics the original, the enemy pathing and ability's are ported over accurately. The artwork is for the most part vibrant and pretty.
My issues were the controls being mushy and that they tried to improve the title with things like the voiced over cut-scenes, that happen far to often. It's not a bad port, I gave it a 6.5 out of 10.
To high priced at $15 IMO though.
Wow... I didn't even know I had nostalgia for the show until I saw this.
I like the cutscenes for a game like this, personally. It's basing the game around story which to me is a good idea for a game that is of a show I use to watch as a kid. I'm sure the gameplay is lovely and all, but I want a good story and good voice acting.
I remember this as a child. I feel bad for you TB, Duck Tales for the NES was a great game.
Ah, Duck Tales. So many sweet memories of the Game Boy port. I think I'll look for the cartridge and play it on the GC - this remaster looks/feels nothing like the sweet memories I have. Thanks TB
Well, of course the soundtrack rules. The music guy is Jake Kaufman - though you'd probably know him by his OC Remix handle, "virt".
I figured the cartoons are still around, which would probably be enough of a connection to the series for kids. That said though I wasn't sure if the series was still around or not
Seeeeriously. He's allowed to have an opinion. I loved this game for the NES and GameBoy both, when I originally played it, and I consider it one of the most mechanically sound games of the time.
His poinst are all valid, I suspect, if you aren't emotionally invested in the game. The fact that you like the game doesn't automatically mean that he should like the game, or 'leave it alone'.
Despite having not watched or played the old duck tales, I actually think this looks like a lot of fun. The cut scenes are a bit worrying, but I thought they were sort of fun. Might pick this up if I don't get entirely absorbed in Divekick.
Well some people like stories in games. What is so bad about having a story? The problem is only when you either A. Take the MGS approach of cutscene every 4th step like DuckTales: Remastered has, or B. When your cutscenes show something that could easily have been gameplay, as in Max Payne 3.
And of course in all non-heavily story focused games, cutscenes should always be skippable by the tap of a button.
I agree. Games aren't meant for cutscenes. If I want story, I will read a book.
"By definition can they? No"
Then that's that. Opinions can never be "bad". You can't dictate whose opinion is bad and who's not because it's based on one's own view.
I didn't even know the original game existed, and I watched the TV show for years fresh and in reruns. I played the C&D game.
I think is great. If I had a child, I would give them this game. I want them experience how "games" looked and felt like when I was a child, instead of Call of Duty everywhere.
Back then I played it on the GameBoy and had lots of fun. It was a simpler time and I loved Duch Tales to death. A very good game.
The moon music sounds familliar, does anyone know from where?