What are some early versions of games you'd want to play? For me, it's the coop build of RE1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYWrF2mIf28
>>733756740The Super NES CD-ROM version of Secret of mana.
>>733757036Where's that from? Is that the CD version or a mock up?
Location test version of Night Warriors, apparently with many different palettes and move sets.
>>733756740Final Fantasy Versus XIII. It's the #1 cancelled game I just get crushed thinking of knowing there was a timeline where we got it and not XVhttps://youtube.com/shorts/GaCbKPTtYnc
>>733757234I think it's an old Japanese promo picture archived from manaredux.
>>733757358I just looked it up and it looks like final fantasy 15 but more heavy and kinohttps://youtu.be/w0SSeBcWpJc
>>733757358We only saw so little of it, it probably barely even existed. It was scrapped for a reason. Given all of the other shit square enix has pumped out, you don’t really think it would’ve it have lived up to your expectations do you? It was just a dream
>>733756740RE 1.5 final build before scrappage.
What could the Biohazard 4 (Castle Version) have been like?https://www.crimson-head.com/articles/biohazard-35>The Resident Evil 4 Trial Edition Debug menu can be hacked to access a stage-list, organised into four sections covering the three main game locations (Village, Castle, Island) and a selectable area containing leftover data from biohazard 3.5. Below is the list of “Loadable Stages” covering the ‘Caste’ & ‘Hallucination’ scenarios/>00 - AIRSHIP>20 - airship_rouka / airship passage>41 - AIRSHIP_L_WING>42 - AIRSHIP_R_WING >09 - SPIRAL STAIRCASE: Descending deep into the bowels of Spencer's castle, this is the early stage which first introduces the ‘Black Fog’ into the gameplay. We now know, with Yasuhisa Kawamura’s exclusive insight, that this stage sets the scene for Leon’s exposure to the new gaseous bio-weapon, brought into Spencer’s Castle, by the HCF squad, lead by Wesker. >0b - CHAPEL: Carried over into the retail product, is the Chapel as a separate building location, housing the same chandelier (used by Leon to jump across to access the Salazar insignia light puzzle), and is also inspiration for similar interior design within Salazar’s Castle. This area was first seen all the way back in 2001, with the background movie test video #1, of a Chapel engulfed in fire.>0c - WATERWHEEL: The background silhouette of the airship clearly suggests that this is the docking bay, presumably leading to the entrance to Spencer's island protected castle.>0d - UNDER PASSAGE: Connecting main gameplay arena offered by the Castle, to a previous docking/landing area, Leon infiltrates Spencer’s castle from a clandestine underground passageway, with assets used for this area finding their way into the retail incarnation, Salazar’s castle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TJxB7acV0 [Embed]Leon S.Kennedy Castle version model in Mayahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1mBVFPdfps
Would like to have played the 1999 build of MGS2 made on early PS2 devkits.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rtO37tuGhI>>733757527>only just finding out Versus XIII is XXVoh god how old are you anon
>>733757709https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/text/What%20could%20the%20Biohazard%204%20%28Castle%20Version%29/not today man.
>>733757530>We only saw so little of it, it probably barely even existed.Debunked for multiple reasons:- the plot of most final fantasy games are subject to change up until release, versus XIII was no different. This didn't mean there was not a general story outline- Roberto Ferrari raging on his Facebook account that most of the storyboards he had made for versus XIII did not make it into XV- Nomura announcing in a Dissidia livestream that drawing noctis again "brought him to tears" and that he had a restriction on talking about Versus XIII until recently - multiple names at Square Enix stating that the original Versus tale was quite different to XV- Nomura has repeatedly said in early interviews that Versus was much closer to his true style than Kingdom Hearts, aka a pure passion project- Nomura keeps putting Noctisgrams in everything he works on recently (That grey haired side character in FF7R, Young SephirothH in FF7R Ever Crisis, Yozora being a literal clone with a 1:1 copy of a Versus XIII trailer in KH3s secret ending) making it clear he the director does not see Versus and XV as the same thing at all>It was scrapped for a reason.Because of problems with the crystal tools engine being designed around FFXIII and not translatable to a Kingdom Hearts ARPG like Versus XIII, and also because Square higher ups needed someone to direct FF7 Remake and put Nomura on that instead. Nomura had no issues directing any of the other 6+ Kingdom Hearts games or producing Crisis Core and TWEWY while he was directing Versus XIII. >Given all of the other shit square enix has pumped out, you don’t really think it would’ve it have lived up to your expectations do you?I do because dark macbethian kingdom hearts FF without the Disney filler is pure kino and all I've ever wanted from a game. Nomura is a godtier director chained to proprietary disney stuff and Remakes and has never once gotten to make his own thing like Yoko Taro.
>>733757709People imagine a completely different title in narrative, but forget that RE4 itself is just a merging of existing narrative ideas.I imagine "Castle" would've been>Leon starts in European village (per Diary of a Madman) and encounters zombies outside the castle of Lord Spencer>Makes his way inside only for the HCF raid to occur (per dropped plot ideas) resulting in the release of the gaseous form of progenitor/t-Type, resulting in Leon's infection>continues with Leon awakening somewhere in the castle (considering he was going up the stairs, I'd imagine that the airship section would follow)>game is his descent back down to find Lord Spencer and uncover what's going onAnd I imagine the actual narrative ideas beyond that would be>an appearance by Ada (likely not working for Wesker given how Flagship had chosen to write her sound drama)>a boss fight with a 'rival' (likely not Wesker, probably an early inbetween of Vergil and Krauser)>said rival dies and his body is taken by Wesker>final boss is obviously Spencer, and his death signifies the end of UmbrellaWould've probably also been the game to finally say names such as HCF and WXC on screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72vckLXI7x4FFX when Tidus had black hair.
>>733756740https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxqBWVH7Vw
>>733759992PS2 games developed while the system was still being made are nuts, either second guessing or over promising what could be pulled off.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiQNjMQkTg
>>733756740The fact combining ammo tyles and lock on aim were added only weeks before release always blows my mind.
>>733758397There was also that girl who was a prototype Ashley, and I think she would use BoW dog? If so, whatever was left of her was added to Haunting Ground (And curiously, Fiona actually shares an idle animation with Ashley, where they put a hand in their chest and look around). I always wonder what was up with proto Ashley. She likely was just a kidnapped girl though... Curiously, Leon being infected was kept in RE4, but the arm mutating caused by an infection was given to Krauser.
>>733761315I don't think it's ever been outright confirmed but I'd bet 80% of the environments, animations, and content from Haunting Ground is just RE3.5 Castle Build. It's likely a lot more than sharing some animations. It's probably just RE3.5-Leon and the combat taken out.
>>733761023They still fudged lot of things at very last moment like hunters being ass to deal. Their hurtbox is disabled in ton of animations.
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>>733761023The earlier builds also had quickturn abilities that were removed in later revisions. It went actual quickturn (double tap left or right) -> hold down run button and your character spins in place much faster -> dropped completely.
>>733756740Have there been any cases of betas being better than the final product?
>>733763935FO3.
>>733757358It looked nothing like that. That was a movie. The in game screenshots showed something so shit it's unbelievable it was related to FFXV, which still looks incredible.
>>733763935Duke Nukem Forever, easy.
>>733756740This would have been so good back in the day.Easily could have played this for thousands of hours with my cousin.
>>733756740I'd like to try out the various versions of RE4, especially the "fog version" that actually got a trailer at E3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKz1dk2Pm7YIt had at least three versions before the final one, including the first version that turned into DMC 1.
>>733756740Mother 3 on the N64
>>733763935I don't remember which one it was but someone found a near complete moveset and I think some levels for a Rayman game hidden in the files of one of the Raving Rabbids games. At some point Ubisoft shifted development to a party game while they were working on a traditional 3D Rayman game. That for sure counts.RE0 on N64 probably would've been better than what we got, but then again, it's possible the train was all they had finished since everything after that feels like unused REmake assets.
>>733769037It's still crazy no one has got a playable copy of the alpha demo.
>>733757358Nomura is definitely putting his ideas for it in Kingdom Hearts 4. The KH4 trailer even had Somnus in it.
>>733758303You have no idea how much I wish Square Enix stopped being gay and retarded for a while and actually made this game.
>>733763935The early 2000s build of Duke Nukem Forever, that we originally saw in the E3 2001 trailer, for sure. Now that we've actually seen a working build of it from the leaks a couple of years back, it was on pace to be a much better game than the eventual 2011 release, and wouldn't have been so dated. Had it come out in say 2003, it would have been a lengthy wait since Duke 3D, but not so long as to become an industry joke.
>>733769129I forgot I had this. Nomura even used Versus13 characters as placeholders in the leaked beta cutscene for 3 lolhttps://archive.org/details/videoplayback-2_20240830I'm really sad missing link got cancelled. Not that I'd ever touch a gacha but jesus Square give this guy a break.
>>733769089The moody n64 lighting and weird polygonal characters would have made the weird and surreal and dark parts of the game so much more atmospheric then like BRIGHT ASS GBA saturation.
>>733758303Did they not use somnus in XV?
>>733756740This looks like it would have been a pain in the ass to play since you have to share the same camera angle. You'd need to make it split screen but then, you have to design camera angles specifically for Co-Op so you can see properly with only half of the screenIdeally people should decomp the game so we can get online Co-Op so everyone can have their own screen and camera angle
>>733769302agreed
>>733757527There was a namefag who was a massive fan of FFXII and TWEWY whi was really into Nomura's "political statement Final Fantasy" and made a bunch of essays on it. I haven't seem him in a while, but people would normally post these same essays and throw in some of their own complete with infographics and staff breakdowns. Not sure where they are now.
>>733769302Also to add after reading your earlier post mentioning it I went down a mother 3 64 rabbit hole and read all the tidbits of info on it including the mother times updates japan pushed.https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Mother_3We were robbed of literal kino that would have been a permanent pleasant childhood memory in our brains.
>>733756740Bump
