This news is going to make you crazy retro gamers spunk up a treat, but Capcom has announced that it will be putting graphical glitches in Mega Man 9 to help you relive the glory days. Yes, deliberate (OPTIONAL) sprite flickers are yours to enjoy as the game pretends it cannot process all the information on the screen. Jesus, I bet some of you have erections right now after reading that, don't you? You retro gamers are weird.
"Yeah, there were some things, like you couldn’t have more than three enemies on the screen at once, so we had to make sure that that’s how it stayed in our game," explains Capcom’s Hironobu Takeshita. "In the part with the dragon with the flame, [there should be] flickering, and whatnot."
I personally find this whole thing slightly absurd, but I cannot fault Capcom's genius. The Mega Man 9 team are going to release a graphically prehistoric game, load it with intentional glitches on PURPOSE, and people are going to LOVE them for it. Capcom must be rolling on the floor and laughing until they throw up every time they see someone verbally fellating them for this.
It's genius, I tell you. Up next, Nokia to release old school mobile phones that are the size of housebricks. Retro fans scream "TAKE OUR MONEY!"
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11:58 AM on 08.05.2008
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Ew.
I am speechless...
I already use one of those old school giant phones for the comedic effect.
You sir, win at life.
Aw come on man :(
Now there'll be people complaining about this . . . when they don't have to.
Takeshita noted that its going to be an option. *optional*
While I'll probably flip that on and love it for a few play through, seeing the game pull of its 8-bit sans flicker will probably be my method of choice.
***ITS AN OPTION****
;-)
Well, you called that one.
Don't forget that it's optional!
But yeah, you're on to something. However, I think the inconsistency is more down to how most people crave attention, and that the easiest way to get it on the 'net is to be a contrary douche-bag. Consistency isn't even a factor to people like that. They're out to rile people up, not have a serious discussion about the hobby.
Not everyone with a contrary opinion is like that, but then those who aren't usually don't act like dicks, so it's pretty easy to separate them from the attention seekers.
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I mean even the re-done retro games have some wizardry behind them and they even need to use wizardry to make glitches now.
Yey for improving technologies
But thanks for making the glitches optional.
I'll probably do a few levels with on, just to relive the old days