Do you think we ever get a sequel or something comparable from another dev?Or was this really one of those truly special "once in a lifetime" indie games?
>>736294223It didn't sell a lot because it hard filtered retards so i doubt we'll get anything like this again
>>736294261Barbuta really did filter many didn't it? I found it charming, the difficulty is really overblown too
this is Derek Yu's best work and Spelunky 2 is super overrated
>>736294891UFO 50 isn't "Derek Yu's best work", it was developed by multiple different authors and the games that Derek was the sole developer on are some of the worst in the collection.
>>736294223>Retro Game Challenge, but not good.
>>736295081>Oldfag Jap Challenge*yawn*
how many did you cherry?I did 15 and parked it, i might go back eventually. A sequel would be good, it can't really go to later console generations as n64 forwards weren't so eccentric/pastichable
My favorites were the horror adventure game, Ninpek, and the first person dungeon crawler.
>>736296048i cherried all of themcyber owls and onion delivery took me the longest
>>736296407> all of themdear lord. What would you want to see more of?I felt Campanella could have done with a harder optional level set. Once you master it, it doesn't ramp up in difficulty enough
>>736295081For me it's the period-correct poor translations of shit like "Guadia" (Guardian) and "Haggle Man" (Haguruman -> Gear Man). Love Retro Game Challenge. UFO 50 fucking sucks ass.
>>736296841>What would you want to see more of?Games like Mini&Max or Avianos were really cool conceptually but felt too short/unfinishedMore weird janky games like onion delivery could be fun tooA game like Ninpek but real arcade length, as it is it's fun but too easy and short
>>736296841Not that anon but I also cherried all 50 and the ones I feel deserve sequels or more content are Barbuta, Campanella, Rail Heist, Pingolf and Mortol 2. The rest are still mostly fine games but didn't leave me wanting more or aren't unique enough that they can't be substituted for some other game that already exists.
>>736294223>ps5 release q4 2027Wha the fuck is their problem
just give me party house deluxe
I want more Mortol and Golfaria
>>736297940>Golfariawhy
I still need to finish it eventually but I hate arcadey games and games with no saves.
Why is >>736295081 posted in every UFO50 thread? Does he feel like UFO50 insults Retro Game Challenge or something? I liked Retro Game Challenge. And naturally I liked UFO50 too. But honestly, I don't even feel like the games are all that alike. It's honestly not a strong comparison.
>>736294261steam revenue calculator estimates it earned over 5 million bucks, and that's not even counting what it sold on the Switch
I got filtered by Bug Hunter cherry
>>736294223i really hope we get a sequel, but its wishful thinking.a game of the same quality and scope would take another decade.
>>736299119It's some fag who's never played the game who reposts it to push people's buttons. And it's not specific to this game, it happens in more than half of the threads on this board these days. Just (You) farming trolls and culture war shit-stirring, nobody here even plays games anymore.
>>736295081>>736296963man that's some blatant samefagging
>>736299947I bet if they hired 50 people and had them all work on one game each it they could knock a sequel out in a year or less
>>736299984It's Arino himself posting here.
>>736300045i would personally love to see derek yu's indie sweatshop
>>736299834I hate Bug FUCKERbullest shit in the entire collection
>>736299119RGC's sequels were never translated, neither was the compilation of RGC 1+2 on the Switch. Yet UFO 50 was reviewed by many publications and has weekly threads on /v/. This is despite the fact RHC better captures the era in which the games were released. There is feel the devs of RGC lived through the era, which is absent from UFO 50. The latter emulates the vague aesthetic, but is more influenced by later times.
>>736294223Didn't this take ages to develop? I doubt it. It's great though.
>>7363002958 years iirc
>>736299834how? it's just one-man fire emblem
>>736300353Jesus christ. Yeah no. Something to the scale of 50 nearly complete feeling retro games is something I'd like to see again but it won't be for a while.
>only recently got sucked into the meta/terminal stuffthis game definitely my 2024 goty
>>736300483>that one bitchy girl co-worker that kept bullying him and calling him milkdud
>>736294223It seems sort of pointless to play this if you haven't played a bunch of 8 bit and 16 bit era games. I certainly admire the work and creativity put into this game, but if I were to play this type of game, I'd rather go back and play the originals.
>>736300285the 2nd game has a fan translationhttps://www.romhacking.net/translations/2217/
>>736299119I dont even notice those posts because I don't know what that is or care to learn what it is
>>736300045that would produce a lot of shit. The pedigree talent and craft behind ufo 50 was pretty highlots of thought went into each/most games
>>736301172>The pedigree talent and craft behind ufo 50lol. lmao.
>>736301041I wish someone would translate the switch rerelease. Most of it is already done you just need to pull the scripts from the 2 DS games and import them. The new game they added doesn't have that much dialog.
>what if sunsoft was created by insufferable people in California What a sad premise for a videogame
>>736301041Thank you for the link, but I already knew of it. Hopefully other anons will try it out, and see what a sincere attempt for a compilation of retro-styled games is. What an honest attempt to comvey feeling of a person who played the games when they were released looks like.
>>736300779the whole point is its modern gameplay theory / takes built with old techold games were pioneers of gameplay
>>736300285>This is despite the fact RHC better captures the era in which the games were released.And RGC is also completely missing the feeling of modern indie games that UFO50 has. From that perspective RGC is a complete failure. Is that unfair? Maybe. But UFO50 isn't trying to be or come across as authentic retro games. And you've had this explained to you time and time again in past threads. UFO50s entire deal is, thematically, is that UFO Soft were a group of devs with a lost to time games system, that had a bunch of games that were "of the time" but more importantly, ahead of their time. In UFO50s narrative, UFO Soft was for better or worse, odd. But the games were always meant to feel like indie games. That you view the game as bunk because they don't feel like authentic retro games is real fucking weird when you keep crying about it in every single thread. You might as well cry about how Mario Golf doesn't feel like playing golf.
>>736301209ignorant
>>736294223there are new games that are like individual games in ufo50 getting released all the time. keep an eye out for them.it's really unusual that they released 50 at once, that kind of thing probably won't happen much
They should make a standalone version of Party House.
>>736301224Sunsoft in 2024 published an English translated compilation consisting of: "The Wing of Madoola", "Firework Thrower Kantaro’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido" and "Ripple Island", called " Sunsoft is Back! Retro Game Selection".
>>736301408yes, with full frontal nudity too though
>>736301281The games are supposed to have been released in the 1980s, yet they take more from games released in the 00s and 10s. The change through time was not an objective imptovement as "ahead of their tine" implies. That the anachronism is intentional, does not make it immune from critique, it even makes it more salient, as the UFO 50's whole premise is making games worse than devs could, for narrative purposes.
>>736301764the premise is taking everything learned in gaming in the modern era and rendering it in old tech, or sometimes just pastiche of ittower defence and realtime strategy weren't genres then, neither was games tied to real clock
why the FUCK are there no continues in Campanella?
>>736294223I hope not
>>736294223Once in a lifetime of crap. UFO 50 is an insulting game made by retards who don't understand the medium because their childhood exposure to vidya was through bottom of the barrel NES shovelware instead of good games like punch out who still stand the test of time today. Not only you are a braindead geriatric for liking this game but also have shit taste, congratulations.
>>736294261it filtered lads with taste
>>736302020Who fucked ur butthole?
>>736301764>The games are supposed to have been released in the 1980sYes. But they aren't meant to be like the games from the 80s. UFO Soft, canonically, wasn't like devs from the 80s. So why would their games be like other games from the 80s? >That the anachronism is intentional, does not make it immune from critiqueNo. Of course not. But your insistence that it's a flaw is also completely unfounded.
These circlejerk threads feel like a carbon copy of the outer wilds threads
fuck the the retards ITT for making discussion of this game as painful as possible, because of their autistic obsession with retro game purity. they have to be the saddest cunts on this board.
>>736302260Contrarianism isn't a personality.
>>736302343it's legitimately one autist/bot
>>736294223>buy the game specifically for the dungeon crawler game>it sucksAt least there are plenty of other fun games
>>736301764That Mario Golf not playing like golf is intentional, does not make it immune from critique, it even makes it more salient, as Mario Golf's whole premise is making a game inferior to real golf, for party game purposes.What were they even thinking? I can't even fathom how so many people play these games while deluding themselves that they're fun at that. And how could Nintendo ever insult golf so with their caricature of an imitation?
>>736302571Is UFO 50 better because it apes games of US of 00s and 10s, than US and Japan of the 80s? Were UFO 50 devs unable to fully capture the games of 80s, but were able to of 00s and 10s?>>736302234>But your insistence that it's a flaw is also completely unfounded.Anachronism is a defect, which needs a justification. Purely philosophically. It could bejust "its cool", "its fun", but it needs to exist and needs to be weighed against the illogicity of anachronism.
Did we ever get a conclusion to the time capsules or is that just nothing
>>736294223I doubt it, the development was clearly taxing for these guys and a lot of the games need more content but they released it anyways. I'd prefer if they took a few of those games and made big full releases out of them.Maybe somebody else can do a similar thing eventually. Like the Dread X Collections.
>>736299119Nobody knows for sure why he seethes
>>736302343Make sure to never say the word "roguelike" or some fat old basement dweller will start crying about forgotten games that were released almost 40 years ago.
>>736303332Tbh saying roguelite instead of roguelike is not hard
>>7362942616k+ English reviews is a success
>>736302343It didn't start in earnest until the threads died down naturally so I'm really just torturing myself clicking on them still
>>736303552I don't say roguelite unless the game has a disgusting amount of meta progression. I just say action-roguelike, strategy-roguelike, platformer-roguelike or other variations like that. I still don't like neckbeard fits when casuals say roguelike, and the neckbeards still cry over the term "action-roguelike" which is a perfectly good name.
>>736298560You can do it, they are training wheels versions of arcade games, they are hard upfront but short and exploitable. All of them have design that clicks into place, trust me, you'll level up and it'll be easier. Sunset Drive is a comfy one.>>736301382Locomalito's games have a similar spirit and look a lot more authentic. I like Curse of Issyos and Maldita Castilla.>>736301967You can get a ton of 1ups from score and finding the coffees in every stage.
>>736302917>Anachronism is a defectOnly if you ever thought it was meant to be authentic. Just like Mario Golf not being authentic to golf isn't a defect. Do you think Mario Golf has to justify being different from golf? Why does UFO50 need to justify anything? It never tried to be what you think it fails to be.
>>736294223There are retro indies coming out every day, check these guys out:Locomalito:Maldita Castilla EX (Derek Recommended)Super HydorahOndydev:Tres-Bashers (Derek Recommended)You are Peter ShortsSinks:Vampire's Best Friend (Derek Recommended)Writer's BlockMore on Derek's curator group:https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40575015/
>>736304973a lot of the early games in the collection would have fit right in if they actually came out in the 80s (most of the top row and almost half of the 2nd row IMHO) so I don't understand why the retro-game-challenged individual keeps sperging out about inauthenticity
>>736305893That's one of the reasons why I like Planet Zoldath more than most other anons, it feels old and weird. I'd enjoy playing it for the first time again.
>>736305893If Campanella had come out in that era it'd be considered a timeless classic from early move advantageBomberman kind of feels ahead of its time in hindsight now just from the ourity of concept and execution
>>736305827play Zexion
>>736306061>Planet ZoldathPlanet Zoldath was the first game I really enjoyed when playing in chronological order.
>>736306289first game I enjoyed was barbuta
https://youtu.be/TP48V_mIxhQ?si=KMzub8UnXCZrrOLDGrimstone speedruns got broken by rng manipulation so they do it in less than an hour now instead of 3-4.
>>736295081I liked the little challenges that introduced each game's core mechanics. I also liked looking up cheat codes and exploits in the fictional magazines better than UFO50's ARG thing.
>>736306497lovely map anon
>>736302343No, there's a legitimate issue.The issue is basically that UFO 50 gets undue praise while RGC gets nothing despite RGC exemplifying this "genre" and its core tenets better, AND it's actually a feature-complete time capsule with things like simulated magazine articles, manuals, etc.But due to marketing bullshit, normalshitters feel it's "OK" to play UFO 50 and icky to play RGC. They won't even give the latter a chance, and all because of modern marketing and psychological garbage.UFO50 is sludge that does not deserve its audience or its success.RGC is high quality and deserves more attention.That's it.
They should just make standalone sequels to the good games like Party House and Mini and Max. Or make another compilation game with sequels to the good games with SNES graphics.
>>736306814Proof of your thesis is pic related.
>>736306828they should hop on the platform fighter bandwagon and make a big budget Hyper Contender sequel
>>736306814Idk if you like retro games that much you'd play real ones and not a hipster nostalgia bait collection for people who didn't have childhoods
>>736307070Every time I got knocked down in that fucking game my blood pressure spiked like a thermometer about to burst
>>736294223Blantly fake retro, with blatantly fake and shallow "le deepest lore".
>>736307604fake opinion
>>736306814>this "genre" and its core tenetsWhatever this "genre" or its core tenets are, UFO 50 isn't of said "genre". Why do you think it is?
Here’s my progress after 20 hours. Enjoying it so far. The only game in row 1 I didn’t like was Paint Chase. I’ll go for a few more golds and a cherry in Zoldath before exploring more of row 2.
>>736308876rom collectionvania
>>736294223Game probably took way too much time and effort for the amount of sales it gotI like it, but I don't think we're ever getting a sequel or anything other than fangamer merch
>>736294223I like UFO50 but I would have preferred full real games and not "[X game] but [y gimmick] that runs out of steam way too quickly"
>>736302343>product tries to appeal to your nostalgia with false marketing claims>act surprised when they don't hold under any kind of scrutinyfucking end your life braindead consumer shill. it's because of people like you that the industry will never improve. kike retard mouthbreathing casual. go back to >>>/tv/ and stay there because you clearly don't like vidya
>>736294223I don't think the team has it in them to make another 50 games, but I'd love a SNES-style sequel mostly made of sequels/expanded versions of games from this. They already got the bones, just give me more and make it more refined.
>>736309091>tries to appeal to your nostalgia with false marketing claimsIt's just a theme and an aesthetic. Not false marketing claims. That you thought the game is something is not is on you, not them.
>>736300045wasn't there someone doing a project like that? bunch of devs, each makes a game under XYZ restrictions, and all get released as a collection.
>>736299834I found that to be one of the easiest ones.>>736303332The word is literally "roguelike." Is it too much to ask that games described with that term at least vaguely resemble Rogue? This trend of making genre labels ridiculously broad removes all of their meaning and utility. I don't want RPGs to show up when I'm looking for strategy games, or for platformers to pop up when I'm looking for roguelikes.>>736306814That's quite the bizarre narrative you've created in your head.
>>736309091holy shit, you are actually mentally ill lmao.you should probably stay off the internet for your own good.
>>736308965mad respect for any anons who can resist the urge to undust every single game before going for any golds/cherries
I want UFO50 but by zachtronics
>>736306814I overall still think RGC is the superior game, but UFO 50 did get a manual/magazine type thing.
>>736294223its just many shitty small games why not play some bigger better ones
>>736306814>no it's not fair, it shouldn't more popular than the thing I like :(You're a child.
>>736309427ufo50 was missing a good solitaire game tbf
>>736309091>false marketing claimsso you are telling me you took one look at this and your first thought was>hmmm yes this looks VERY 1980's, I expect nothing but the highest caliber of period accuracy!???
>>736303072Either people gave up looking for more.Or it's an actual countdown to some future planned update that finishes the game.Or that's it and the ARG end is a dud.Pick your poison, although I'm hoping it's not the first.
>>736309427https://store.steampowered.com/app/1511780/Last_Call_BBS/
>>736309638The dungeon picross one had no business being that good. I still boot it just for that now and then.
Retro Game Challenge doesn't have anything like Mini & Max. It doesn't have anything like Avianos. It doesn't have anything like Night Manor. It doesn't have anything like Party House. It doesn't have anything like Rail Heist. Doesn't have anything like Rock On Island. Doesn't even have anything like Mortol. It doesn't even have anything like Velgress or Mooncat. Even the very first game of the collection, Barbuta, is something Retro Game Challenge doesn't have or doesn't attempt. Its Dragon Quest copy falls short of a full Dragon Quest game. And is thus nothing like Grimstone that could genuinely for better or worse be compared to games like FF1, DQ1, or games like BoF1 and the like. The same can't be said for Guadia Quest. So why is Retro Game Challenge compared so directly to UFO 50? I think Retro Game Challenge and the concept of its titular game challenges at that, to be really cool. It's a cool game. It is nothing like UFO 50 though. And that's not because one failed to achieve something the other did. They're just completely different games. Are you so blinded by how they both harken back to a classic aesthetic, that you're fail to see or comprehend how these games aren't even trying to do the same thing?
I saw the last boss in Rakshasa
>>736310035
>>736294223Zexion
>>736294891> Spelunky 2 is super overratedWhy do people keep saying this? Isn't it just 1 with more stuff?
>>736309624No way they're actually expecting people to give a shit about this in 13 more years, so it's gotta just be the end or no one could figure it out.
>>736306251>>736310082>wait a minute that tunnel....
>>736309860>So why is Retro Game Challenge compared so directly to UFO 50?Both try to emulate the feeling of being an 80s kid trying out different retro games and seeing which ones are cool and which ones are Rally King.Where RGC succeeds is in the wrapper: the fake manuals and magazines make it more immersive, and there's a sense of progression and time passing. Every time you beat a challenge, you wonder if Arino will walk in with a new magazine, and what kind of games will be teased in it, or perhaps some tips and cheats for your current one. If you didn't look online, you may not even know if a game you liked is getting a sequel.Also, RGC challenges are a better implementation of the house/gold/cherry system. Really forcing players to get acquainted with a game before dropping it.Most games in UFO are a bit of an acquired taste, but a lot of players will drop them after 10 minutes or less if they don't immediately click with them.
>>736309392He showed up!
>>736310190I mean, it took them about that much to make this game, so there's a slim chance they are retarded enough to make another 50 for a sequel in the meantime.
>>736310232Finally a smart game for smart Retro Gamers(TM)
>>736310339>Both try to emulate the feeling of being an 80s kid trying out different retro gamesIncorrect, UFO 50 is trying to emulate the feeling of finding a collection of obscure 80s games in the year 2024.
>>736294223i honestly hate this game only velgress is actually fun
>>736307070Hyper Contender was fun buf pretty easy / a short experience, and I say that as a mid skilled game playing chappie
>>736310232paying respects to granddad
>>736310940well, if we wanna be pedantic, RGC is about a time-traveling zoomer.
Any tips on Mortol (the first one)?
>>736311432It's a lot about redoing stages and discovering optimization tricks.To get you started, here's one tip: you can use one ritual in the middle of using another.
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>>736294223Ugly artstyle.
>>736294390I've earnestly tried it a lot and it's just too cryptic for me for how punishing it is. Experimentation that fails results in a complete reset. If there's a hint for the A B rooms I haven't found it and I can't even tell what rooms in the bottom half of the map I still need to visit because of how long it takes to check. I don't want to progress past the first row until I beat it
>>736316463solution for the AB room is found in the BA roomgo through the AB room by taking the reverse image path of the path you take through the BA room
>>736317309I never would have figured that out on my ownIt seems like they're trying to recreate an experience that can't exist anymore, where in the 80s one kid would have found that and spread it, or even a niche BBS board where people shared info like what existed for the infamous Wizardry IV, but you can get a full walkthrough in one second nowadays so the only way to avoid full spoilers is to fully isolate your experience, which isn't how these games were played.
>>736317862idk it seemed pretty obvious to me
>>736295175Ywnbaw
>>736319425neither will you, so you can stop your self hatred whining now
Is Campanella 2 a good game?
>>736319671let me put it this way, if they had released Campanella 2 on its own as a standalone game, I would have paid the same price for it.
>>736319671one of the favourite games in the collection, top 5.its basically spelunky 3
>>736294223Id be so happy if we got a sequel to Party House or a prequel to Grimstone.
>>736319551>no unice try
What ever happened with that strategy guide thing they were making?
>>736301253oh the games use modern design principles, built for the 8bit era? that's interesting. I thought it was more of an homage to the classic era. Not that those are mutually exclusive
>>736321529they made it
>>736321848Really? was a PDF of it uploaded ever? wouldn't mind reading it
>>736319671It's a downgrade from Campanella, in my opinion, but switches it up in a neat way.
Magic Garden is so damn good for such a simple game. Some of these games deserve their own arcade machines. Would be sick to go to a local arcade and fight randos in Bushido Ball.
PLAY FOREVER
>>736294223>Spend over a decade making a bunch of retro style games to serve a meta-narrative>Most of them suck donkey ballsValbrace and Avianos were cool but those are the only ones I actually remember
>>736322479
I want a whole standalone game for avianos. The dinosaur war and civ strategy game. That was so good.
>>736322845gottem
bump for a PDF of the guide
>>736322278it kinda reminded me of Girl's Garden, don't know if that was the intention or not.
>>736322278Bushido Ball really is great, it's like a better Windjammers
>>736324186but who will I live like as I fuck
>>736324186Ayumi my beloved
>>736323293I own the guide and it's great. Mostly just bought it to support Derek and the boys so that they can make more kino games. I don't have a scanner but I might just take a few photos of some of the pages for the next time a UFO 50 thread rolls around. Too late in the night for me now sorry.
