YouTuber rickonami has conceptualized high-definition versions of several old-school videogames such as Castlevania: Bloodlines and Contra, then he posted some fake teasers. These are fun experiments meant to tantalize us and stoke our HD remake desires.
His latest video is a recreation of the Mega Man 2 intro. The sprites of Mega Man and Dr. Wily are pulled directly from Mega Man 7, but everything else has been made from scratch. It's all very Neo Tokyo-ish. Too much, perhaps. The prologue text still claims this to be the year 200X, i.e. no later than 2009, but looking at all those hovercars, I half expect Korben Dallas to come screaming by in his flying taxi.
It's amazing how many artists don't understand what good design and art direction is anymore and we end up with so many older things reimagined as the same generic hyper-detailed sludge.
I am all about this hyper-detailed sludge. Seems to me HD shine and lens-flare is exactly what Megaman needs. I would plop down 60 dollars for a 2D platformer that looked like that.
While I certainly commend him on his work, since I know I definitely couldn't come up with the know-how to do this, there's one thing that bugged me way too much...
Nah. Not digging this at all. I respect the amount of work he put into it, but flying cars, multiple Wily cameos, using Project X instead of better bands (like The Megas, Entertainment System or Year 20XX)...that, and while an HD version of Megaman would be the jam, the art style needs less Fifth Element and more Futurama. Just a thought.
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YouTuber rickonami has conceptualized high-definition versions of several old-school videogames such as Castlevania: Bloodlines and Contra, then he posted some fake teasers. These are fun experiments meant to tantalize us an...
So.
Nyan Cat.
There is very little left to be said about Nyan Cat, except that it's my profound disappointment to inform you that Konami did not, in fact, release a licensed Nyan game in 1988. Not only would Nyan Cat vs. Tac ...
Do you guys remember .Tiff? She used to write for the site. I miss her a lot.
She was the first person to show me how perfectly Cartoon Network's Adventure Time! and Super Mario Bros. 2 fit together. Ever since I first saw th...
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Zelda Informer was sent these screens which are purportedly from an upcoming Zelda title
making its way to the Wii. They're totally fake, as evidenced by the creator later popping up in the Zelda Universe forums and claiming...
I just checked out the rest of the site where that semi-old Travis Touchdown skin for TF 2 is hosted, and I found some cool stuff. Turns out the creators of the skin, MechaWare, also makes their own fan games. I've only tried...
YouTuber rickonami has conceptualized high-definition versions of several old-school videogames such as Castlevania: Bloodlines and Contra, then he posted some fake teasers. These are fun experiments meant to tantalize us an...more
So.
Nyan Cat.
There is very little left to be said about Nyan Cat, except that it's my profound disappointment to inform you that Konami did not, in fact, release a licensed Nyan game in 1988. Not only would Nyan Cat vs. Tac ...more
Do you guys remember .Tiff? She used to write for the site. I miss her a lot.
She was the first person to show me how perfectly Cartoon Network's Adventure Time! and Super Mario Bros. 2 fit together. Ever since I first saw th...more
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