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A great thread for those that missed it. It was orignally a versus thread yet X-Perts stole the show. Here is also a great video I found on the subject.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...KC-Series(SNES)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pNBG5X20dM
I revisited this game once. Figured I'd sit down and play it and maybe find some redeeming qualities that people miss.... Lost 2 hours of my life and then the fucking thing froze to add even more insult to the injury.
X-Perts is a hemorrhoid on the ass-end of life. It's a turd floating in a punch bowl filled with urine. It's a game that can take a frown, and turn it into a teeth-grinding fit of rage that's fueled by the knowledge that money has been lost, and that the one who sold it to you is making a YouTube video to let the world watch them laughing at your ass.
X-Perts can make even the worst situation worse, by simply being in your presence.
X-Pricks
X-Turds
X-Shit
That sounds about right.
Heh, one of the programmers on this game is now a co-worker of mine. Apart from convincing Sega to have Shadow kick "the Sega logo in the S", he's not particularly proud of it though.
Watching the gameplay clip makes me sad, because it was obvious they had the skills to make a great game,
I mean.. the Genesis lack of colors hardly shows here, they really managed to make the rendered sprites look nice, (though the big guy walks like a monkey)
the backgrounds look nice, the "infiltration spy thingy" gameplay seems like a good idea,
yet.. there's no gameplay.
This pretty much sums up what I think about it. It's a great tech demo that shows how nice cgi can look on Genesis and how smoothly it can animate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
This is where the thread should of ended. Crap game not worthy of anyone's time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cornholio857
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...492#post570492Quote:
Originally Posted by Vector
never heard of the game
after seeing the video im glad i never heard off it
Agree. If that sort of color optimization was used for Blackthorne, it probably could have had a decent looking vanilla MD version too. (Toy Story did a pretty decent job with color too . . . and Earthworm Jim 1 and 2, though the actual CG stuff is more limited in those)Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
Doom Troopers looked worse colorwise on the MD, but more so that it didn't really look CGI-ish so much (the conversion used made it look more like normal pixel art), so I'm not sure how good or bad that is. Another mediocre game of that style though . . . at least a good deal better than X-Perts. :p
So in this game I walk all the way to the left and that's it. Game over. I don't die or anything, I just can't make any progress. I can't get through the door. There is no clue as to what I'm supposed to do. I walk all the way back to the right. Nothing. I use all of the computers. Nothing. I would feature this on a bad game episode if I could get past this.
What else did he have to say about the game's development. Do tell......or I'll send you a copy of "Super Thunder Blade"....please don't make me do that. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mask of Destiny
I remember reading about this in EGM and Gamepro. Man that game looked great ant it was 32 MEGAPOWER and it turned out like a real turd. Looks nice tho.
that would be all the megapower pumped in the graphicsQuote:
Originally Posted by Da_Shocker
there isnt enough left over for the gameplay