>favorite game?>least favorite game?>hardest cherry?How do you feel about the meta narrative/ARG stuff?
now that the dust has settled, was it really THAT bad..?
>>736989827I'm currently playing spelunky 2, would you recommend me UFO 50 afterwards?
>>736990269It's not really the same thing but if you enjoy Spelunky 1 or 2 there's definitely some games in there for you. Ironically I think the mini roguelites in there aren't Derek's games? Not really sure on thatI'd reccomend ufo50 to anyone though I'm biased, it's very fucking good even if not every game will jive with you.
My favorite might be Porgy, MoonCat or Party House. There's so many good games. Conversely, I have no fun with Star Waspir. Not for me. That's also my hardest cherry.
I hate campanella 2I love Ninpek
For me, it's Rail Heist, undoubtedly. Never ended up finishing the cowboy RPG.>>736990182It was kino. Loved it.
>>736990437I think you're the first I've heard that has Porgy as their favorite>>736990520Campanella 2 was great imo but sometimes the rng totally fucks you which sucks
>Spent tens of hours cherrying the annoying rail shooter>Never touched UFO 50 again>Ended up never even finishing the point and click
>>736989827>>favorite game?Mini & Max. Mortol and Train Heist are also up there.>least favorite game?Star Waspir.>How do you feel about the meta narrativeMinimal interest.
>>736990182it's one of my favorite games in the collectionand has my favorite song in the collectionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ihxGDKq5e4has a very "just trying to make it in the big city" kinda vibe to itThe game is hard but driving around was a lot of fun. Gold took me about an hour but the cherry took me over a dozen hours. You don't exactly have to memorize the whole map, but you gotta have a good idea where each location is and which routes to take, almost like a real taxi driver
There just wasn't anything to the meta narrative"we made games and then they didn't sell anymore so we went out of business and it was sad"????
>Rock On Island>Hot Foot objectively, Fist Hell subjectively (it's a very weak beat-em-up)>I've only done two cherries and one was Rock On so it's definitely that one>I don't care about the ARG at all
>>736990625sauce?
>>736990917nvm found it (pixiv 135385804)
>>736990917https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/135385804Im shocked there's very little ufo50 porn
>>736989827The dungeon crawler game fucks and I wanna see something bigger and more involved with those mechanics. Talking to NPCs in the dungeon reminded me of Wizardry V but much simpler, of course.
>>736991061the Japanese translation is coming out in a couple days, so I expect to see more soon
Hello please appreciate combatants it is not so bad
>>736990815Did you not "play" the hidden game? There's a lot more to it than that
>>736991098>I wanna see something bigger and more involved with those mechanicsFight Knight is similar but it's more Punchout-esque than Valbrace's more Crossed Swords style combat
>>736991286Has anybody made a comprehensive "if you liked X play Y" for each of the 50 games?
>>736991286Never heard of Crossed Swords, what game is that? I've heard of Fight Knight and it looks cool, if a little over animated for my tastes.
>>736989827>How do you feel about the meta narrative/ARG stuff?Don't know anything about it. QRD?
>>736991268I did, it just felt really shallow. It never goes anywhere. Their bosses allegedly disappear someone and make the employees keep it secret, it just never resolves. Buildup to nothing.>>736991389Fight Knight is cool because you can adjust the springs to make it significantly less bouncy and overanimated
>>736989827mooncat and campanella a best
>>736991479If I can recall I think the TLDR is basically>guy makes a game in his off time of software company>find small success and balloons into becoming a game company with friends >continue making games but shit becomes rough finanially>jewish rich guy one of the friends knows can finance them, only way to save company>they don't like this and company becomes a plaything for das juden pushing what he wants (he's the grasshopper in the games)>a manager is brought in that's a military vet (ants) who is abusive>it's implied that one of the og devs gets killed by das juden or manager and stuff is supposed to be kept under wraps>company falls apart and the dev making ufo50 for jew grasshopper that never got released gets found later>he hid the 51st game as some kind of a breadcrumb trail to showing what happened internallyThat's at least what I got from it, it's left a little ambiguous>>736991729I don't think it was ever a point to "resolve" it, it's setup as a >this is what happened and I gotta get it out there somehowtype of thing. The resolution is (you) finding the underlying story, there's no definitive ending because it already "happened"It's like a whistleblower on sketch shit from the ufo50 "dev" in game form to at least get it out there in some way.
i wonder if Avianos was modeled after these old Koei games
>>736991945Also as an addendum I think this is a lot more interesting than blatant "oooh it's haunted so spoopy" type arg shit like petscop imoIt's just a basic ventpost from one of the main guys about where the company went and that (from his perspective) someone close to him got disappeared but there was no clean way to put it out there because he was probably scared of being disappeared too.I wonder who was the real dev behind the meta stuff, maybe it was Derek Yu since he loves to hide cryptic shit in his games?
>>736989827>favorite game?Bug Hunter>least favorite game?Overbold>hardest cherry?irrelevant unless you have 50 cherries, which I obviously do and my choice is Cyber Owls>How do you feel about the meta narrative/ARG stuff?It was ok, the trope of nostalgia being a source of horror is getting overdone
>>736992089i was really scared of the game going into a creepypasta direction when i learned it had some metanarrative. i guess its not unlike japs hiding comments in old famicom ROMs where they just seethe about their colleagues.
>>736992089iirc derek yuu organized the whole thing, UFO 50 is basically a huge community project from the TIGSource guys, and Derek is an admin there
I know this will likely never happen, but I'd love to see a "Mania Encore" type DLC for UFO50It would be the cleanest way to add more content to the existing games and it could be different on a per game basis, level based games get alternate new levels, score based games get harder challenges or mechanics, new characters in some, etcThen you give the games palette swaps and lore drop it as a bootleg type thing and there you go, more UFO50
>>736992254derek is the only PIGScene regular who is still remotely relevant also only 6 guys worked on it, and one of them quit halfway
>>736992509Is there a full list of who made what game?
>>736992656google it asshole wtf is wrong with you
>>736992656it's right there on the website, it's these guysojiro quit after a while and was replaced with tyriqI used to watch him stream development, he really overhauled a lot of the games and introduced the team to the concept of version control. the game probably would have taken another 8 years if it wasn't for him
>>736992656this wiki lists who directed which game: https://ufo50.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
>>736993276wait the game pages lists the fictional directorsthis page lists the actual directors though: https://ufo50.miraheze.org/wiki/UFO_50_Recovery_Teamsorry
the only thing that doesn't really make sense about UFO50's lore is how obviously japanese the games are supposed to be
>>736992829I think it's really funny how everybody assumed Ojiro's game was Velgress because it's just Reverse Downwell only for it to be Seaside Drive.
>>736991061be the change you want to see in the world
>>736993734>>736991061I found a shit ton here but unfortunately most of the links are deadhttps://catbox.moe/c/a5np1f
>>736994203>most of the links are deadwhat a shame
>>736989827I loved all the weird strategy stuff like Attactics, Diskonia, and Avianos. Just wished they were longer.I did not care for CombatAnts. Like at all.
>>736994203This gallery is so cool. Love it when artists give a bunch of r34 to a game with no fanart. I am reminded of the epic series Valmar did of Odin Sphere of one of the protagonists banging every enemy type in the game.>>736994369Refresh the page.
>>736994592the thumbnails all load but if you click on them you get 404 errors
>>736989827I found the Clocktower-esque point-and-click horror game surprisingly impressive. But I thought the chase sequence got painfully repetitive by the end.
>>736993734If I were a more productive artist it would be kinda fun to do one small lewd draw for every game, but it feels like that would be an undertaking
>>736994652Oops>>736994713Hey just like Clock Tower
Zoomer here, should I try playing this? I played it for 15 minutes and the games felt like trash (mostly played the Into the Breach copy) but uncs praise this so much and maybe I have one thing or two to learn from humbling up and giving this a honest try.
>>73699479345 games are trash and 5 are good. If that sounds worth it to you, then go for it. It's worth it if you can pick it up on sale for a couple of bucks, but not more than that
>>736994736Ponder the game select screen and draw the three hottest ideas you can think of. Then see how you feel after that. No need to do all of them. Some games like Paint Chase can't be lewded anyway.
>>736994897>Some games like Paint Chase can't be lewded anywayAnon, that sounds like a challenge...Also fuck me 4chan is shitting the bed for me today
>>736995156>Also fuck me 4chan is shitting the bed for me todayI think it's finally fixed
>>736994842more like 5 are trash 45 are good
>>736995523Now you have to play a level from Block Koala to solve the capcha
>>736995729lol
>>736989827>spoilersI hate stuff like that. I'll add this to my avoid list.
>>736991389Crossed Swords is an arcade game from the 90s whose combat most likely inspired Valbrace'sno dungeon crawling thoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H485or8VOC8
My favorite game is Party House I need standalone Party House 2 right now
>>736995523>i ThInK iT's FiNaLlY fIxEd
>>736994203>all the dead links
>>736989827>favorite game?Devilition Honorable mention to Hyper Contender>least favorite game?Divers, so far I feel like it's difficult to make progress, but that might change once I play more>hardest cherry?Of the ones I actually have, OverboldSurviving early game with high points was the main hurdleHow do you feel about the meta narrative/ARG stuff?I try not to think about that
>>736996110It doesn't really affect the game in any way honestly, I think like 80% of players will ignore it's prereqs and probably half of them are oblivious to it even existing. It's more like a fake lore bonus for fans of it than a real ARG
Will there be an update when the Japanese version launched tomorrow? I hope some JP vtubers pick it up.
For me it's Valbrace. Would love an 80 hours version of it.
>>736994203>the party house bitch 404sSadness.
>>736991061Yeah. I still wonder why it flew under tne radar of most artists.
>>736998917
are we back?bump for videogames
Does the naked version of this image even exist?
In my review of UFO 50, I said the game won’t age well, for several reasons (one of which is how poor its 'historical' portrayal of video games is).Spelunky 2 has twice as many recent reviews on Steam as UFO 50, which is a rough but fairly accurate indication that it’s selling twice as many copies.Spelunky 1 is still behind UFO 50, but not by much (which is impressive considering it’s such an old game with a sequel). I think Spelunky as a game has much more staying power than UFO 50, and the numbers are showing that.
>>737004310>one of which is how poor its 'historical' portrayal of video games isBut UFO50 isn't historical. So how is it good or bad in regards to being historical? It isn't being historical.
>>737004310>>737004595I really don't understand why people keep insisting that this game is supposed to be historical for some reason.The store page outright states the idea is to combine low tech aesthetic with modern gameplay in a best of both worlds scenario.
>>737004595>It isn't being historical.I’m talking about the game’s setting, obviously. It’s a 1980s software company, so the games have certain limitations that reflect that era.Barbuta, for example, is set in 1982, so it has several fictional limitations, such as a loading time between each screen followed by an ugly sound, which reflects the programmer’s lack of skill with the new computers you see in the game’s opening.In fact, Barbuta is the only game I’ve seen that actually tries to convey this kind of thing. Someone might argue that Barbuta is a piece of shit (and it really is, it’s a pretty bad game), and the developers were right not to try to create these fake limitations, but Barbuta’s problem is the gameplay itself, not the aesthetic limitations they put in the game.After Barbuta, the impression you get is that you’re just playing shitty indie games, with shitty pixel art and forgettable music, where not even the aesthetics evoke the past, since many of the design decisions (when they aren’t basically plagiarizing games from the past) are ultra-modern.There are countless modern games that recreate the past in a much more interesting way. Take pic related, for example, that entire game is a crazy sensory experience that evokes the MSX of the 1980s, and that game alone manages to be artistically more remarkable than the 50+ indie pieces of shit from UFO 50.
>>737005501>It’s a 1980s software companyIt's an alt-history software company. >Barbuta, for example, is set in 1982, so it has several fictional limitationsIt isn't even running on real hardware, but the LX System. Fictional hardware.
>>737004310Don't care, trannyGo back to fagloggd
>>736990182Onion Delivery rocks. Its unwieldy as fuck at start, but once you understand how the hp-regen works its really fun. FUCK that 3/4th island parking lot forever though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnzV0eMdug
>>736992169How the fuck can you have Overbold as your least favorite game in this collection. Its impossible.
>>736994793It sounds like you are better off playing something else.
>>736994203Sorry for the catbox album dying, here is a mirror with all the arthttps://mega.nz/folder/YuQBgYLJ#muqHQngFD-a5Op44vvFS7g Hopefully catbox works as intended in the future, cheers :D
>>737009090Loved seeing these arts pop up back in the original UFO 50 threads at launch. Porgy ones were my favorites
>>737009090Happiness!! ~
quibble race is fun
>>737009846It SUCKS! Its not too bad to play casually or for fun, but if you just want to get the cherry its miserable! I will never bet on horses in my life
>>736989827>FavoriteNight Manor or Attactics>Least FavoriteCombatants >Hardest CherryI've only cherried like 5 games and haven't engaged with the arg stuff at all
>>736994793Not really. Most of the games are either bad or boring as fuck, with only a handful of actually decent ones. It doesn't help that there's also a huge amount of repetition between games (especially ones in the same genre) and that most feel more like low-rated flash games that you'd find on Kongregate than stuff from a retro console. Honestly, a lot of the actually good games would've been MUCH better off as standalone releases, where their respective devs could've put more time and care into them instead of having to make 12 shittier games to fill the catalogue.
>>736989827>BestOnion. Rail Heist was very nice too, I wanted more.>WorstIt's been a while but I remember being disappointed with both RPGs, Divers and Grimstone. I know it's supposed to emulate old games but no interactions between the party members, no interesting npcs, the places explored weren't that interesting, the music lacking... in the end just felt like a waste of time, especially Grimstone since it was the big one. Some of the battle sprites were pretty cool.>Hardest cherryuhh either Star Waspir or Cyber Owls... maybe not the hardest but they were the ones that were the most annoying since you had to start over if you fucked up and it gets kinda repetitive. I wasn't that good at Star Waspir + big greed for the EGG EGG EGG led to many resets. I'm glad I still had plenty of cherries to get when I began attempting those two.>ARGI wasn't that interested in the secret lore but I liked following the clues and exploring the office / talking with the npcs
I am not going to play this gay shit no matter how many times you shill it.
>>737010851Just get Flashpoint Archive or whatever and you've basically gotten the same thing. Except for free, and with much more games, and better variety.
>>736989827Haven't played them all yet as I cherry as I go but>Favorite gameToss up between Avianos, Bug hunter, and Rail Heist so far>Least favorite gameDon't care if it is considered easy. Magic garden can suck my chode >Hardest cherryOnion delivery. I first thought the chase events would be worst but man did rain and slime make me seethe like no tomorrow.Other than that I kept choking hard at Balataro dying to the boss at least 5 times despite one shotting him my first attempt.
>>736991227i actually like combatants. The AI manipulation is fun
>>737010851Nobody's pushing you to play Dustborn, schizo
>>737009090unfathomably based
just ordered this, looks neat
>>736992089wasn't there a weird implied subplot where the mooncat dev was having prophetic dreams about the company?
>>737013206Do any scans of this exist?
pilot quest is dogshit
>>736989827I like Quibble Race
>>737008170It's not a game it's a demo that starts you with 1-shot range hp to pad it
It flopped.
>>737004310Oh, your review, of course. The world famous review, haha, naturally everyone is aware of such a famous review!
>>737017023retard
>>737009090do you have the one of Mini being dragged around by Max?
>>737017216https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/125486068
>>736989827Love this game. 300 hours in, almost at 100%>favorite game?Campanella 2>hardest cherry?Also Campanella 2>least favorite game?Speaking as a huge RTS fan, Combatants is a piece of shit, holy crap what a disappointment. Apparently the game was made intentionally bad for lore reasons and it makes me wonder what could've been if it was made to be good
>>737017527Combatants is bad, but at least its sometimes interesting. At least the collection has some other RTS-adjacant games that are good, like Avianos and Attactics. And I guess Lords of Diskonia
>>737017527Last boss itself is easy but the finale of Campanella 2 was satisfying.
>>737016508I don't get the love people have for Mooncat.
>>736994842The fact that nobody can agree which of the 5 are the good ones is a testament that this game pack has something for everybodypls let this post go through. why is 4chan kill?
>>737013206please post scans when you do, reddit will never scan it
>>737018093It fucks your controls in a similar fashion to something like QWOP, but has a bit more mechanical depth to it. Also the Mooncat is adorable and we should all live by its example
>>737018093Agree. It is THE quirk chungus game which you'd think us chuds would be indifferent about, but apparently not.
>>737005501>Barbuta, for example, is set in 1982, so it has several fictional limitations, such as a loading time between each screen followed by an ugly sound, which reflects the programmer’s lack of skill with the new computers you see in the game’s openingyou zoomers are so fucking anachronistically retarded it's actually insane, you have less than ZERO clue what computers in 1982 were likeif anything, the graphics and sound of barbuta are wildly turbo advanced for what a computer in 1982 could do, retard
https://gamebanana.com/mods/games/23000level packs for Mortolhttps://gamebanana.com/mods/663406https://gamebanana.com/mods/612563A fan-made campaign for the 1987 cult classic "Rock On! Island" 10 new levelshttps://gamebanana.com/mods/64497120 new levels for Rail Heisthttps://gamebanana.com/mods/616110new stages to Pingolfhttps://gamebanana.com/mods/644974https://gamebanana.com/mods/656744MORE BLOCK KOALAhttps://gamebanana.com/mods/665417
>>737019916Holy shit I never even thought of looking for ufo50 mods, I might be retardedThis is cool shit anon
>>737019916ufo 50 really needs a commandline flag to launch straight into a game
>mix of fio and samussex
>>737019916>MORE BLOCK KOALAWhy? Are we being punished?
>>737018093it's the ghosts n goblins ripoff
>>737022014>
>>736989827pampering Alpha after long space excursions of failed moneymaking schemes
>>736994793It reminds me a lot of when I was young, pre-N64 days where we just had a basket of random NES games
>>736989827Should I wait for the ps5 release whenever or just get it on swatch 2
>>736989827I used to think it was Mortol but honestly Warptank is the absolute best game in the collection, and the ONLY one that is polished enough that it could be a $10 standalone game. I'm including the RPG in this calculation. I'm pretty sure Warptank is longer than VVVVVV and a similar level of quality. It's very good.
>>737022294>go into UFO 50 expecting Alpha to be all over the place with how huge she is in the game's logo>real mascot they won't stop using is little spacejew.
>>737020164She almost wasn't.
>>736990182I hated this game at first but once I figured out the multiple hidden mechanics it has it became one of my favourites. Rain is still stupid as fuck, though.
>>737022739damn this post made it through, i posted it like an hour ago while the site was broken
>>737018093I have no idea either. It's a crap platformer with shitty controls. I guess people enjoy it because it's quirky and you have infinite lives, but I consider it one of the worst in the whole collection
>>737023486the controls are absolutely brilliant, filtered zoomie
>>737023230I'm glad they revised her. That looks fucking awful.
>>736989827Love Mortol and Capanellahate their sequels
>still no PDF/scan of that guide book thing that came outFORFUCKSAKE
>>737024910there's a meta-narrative reason for that, you knowboth mortol 1 and campanella 1 were lx systems games, and both of their sequels were ufosoft games aka after being bought out by the grasshopper jew and being under the whip of the murderous zogbot mantis freakit's actually really depressing how many people miss this detail, even though it's very clearly spelled out for them, but it just goes to show that 99% of people are mouthbreathing fucking braindead nigger retards who are incapable of processing data that is shown rather than told to them in the most plainly explicit of expositionary dronings, you drooling retards are why modern games are so fucking shit
>>737013206I have it, it's great
>>737027886this is bait but some people are just here to play a collection of 50 games.
>>737027948Is it worth it? I'm definitely considering it
>>737022014no that would be Rakasasha
>>737025662poor people problems
>>737030763I thought they were going for a Karnov alike
>>737031436it definitely draws some inspiration from it, but It plays more like Ghosts & Goblins because you can't control your jump mid-air (you can in Karnov)
>>737027948pls scan
>>737022294I'm not a footfag at all. But this is a delightful picture.
>>736991341Someone should, I think there is one in reddit.Here are my two cents.>Valbrace = Fight Knight>Onion Delivery = Crazy Taxi (maybe), Delivary Boy or Katobi Takuhai-kun>Mortol 2 = Lost Vikings>Bushido Ball = Kunio-kun ball game>Night Manor = any first person adventure game specially nes (those suck balls), maybe Dead of the Brain>Rakshasa = Toki>Golfaria = Deep Withing a Deep Forest>Miasma Tower = Any Yume Nikki-like
>>737027886Even with the meta narrative I don't even think either 2 is actually badCombatants is the only actually shit game
>>737036286if you like Bushido Ball I would also recommend Winjammers and Lethal League
> reddit50
>>737036483>redditfrogyou must love the game then
>>7370365244chan frogyou're a newfagniggerkys
>>737036610cry about it
>>737036321>Combatants was explicitly Nemuru's idea in-universe>is considered one of the most dull unfun games in the collectionamazing subtle storytelling that he's actually a hack who knows nothing and his obsession with games is only surface level
>>737037961I don't think combatants was made shit on purpose, they probably just realized it was shit and made up some lore reason after the fact as an excuse
You don't have to play every game, some of them are shit.
>>737039497I beat every game and the only ones I hated were Bug Hunter and Party House
