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Scotty_Rogers
04/25/17 5:47:31 PM
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lol bubsy
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E32005
04/25/17 5:48:20 PM
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god thats old.

i remember it being a cheap DKC knockoff
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ManLink4321
04/25/17 5:48:26 PM
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hey, man, that was a good game
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Kineth
04/25/17 5:49:30 PM
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E32005 posted...
god thats old.

i remember it being a cheap DKC knockoff


It was out before DKC.

It failed because of DKC though. Its transition to 3D was not good.
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Zack_Attackv1
04/25/17 5:49:47 PM
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Bishop9800
04/25/17 5:53:25 PM
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Wasn't there a cartoon made of this? I remember watching one. Either Bubsy or Alfred Chicken.
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Ultima Dragon
04/25/17 5:54:33 PM
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Had the first two on SNES and loved them, great games.

I never played the 3D one but it looked like shit from the clips I saw.
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Swagnificent119
04/25/17 5:55:10 PM
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Every Bubsy game was mediocre to crap, that's why.
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pojr
04/25/17 5:57:03 PM
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Scotty_Rogers posted...
lol bubsy

Bubsy 1 was pretty good. Very underrated.
Bubsy 2 tried to be ambitious by adding more features and making more re-playable, but I think it's too complicated and not as good. But still a decent game.
Bubsy 3D was bad.

There was a pilot of an animated Bubsy, but it wasn't picked up by any TV stations. There was only that episode.
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Bishop9800
04/25/17 5:59:11 PM
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pojr posted...

There was a pilot of an animated Bubsy, but it wasn't picked up by any TV stations. There was only that episode.



I thought so.
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ModLogic
04/25/17 5:59:38 PM
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HylianFox
04/25/17 6:00:29 PM
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Kineth
04/25/17 6:01:39 PM
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Swagnificent119 posted...
Every Bubsy game was mediocre to crap, that's why.


High level Bubsy was actually really good. I agree about regular Bubsy though.
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Darmik
04/25/17 6:21:10 PM
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Didn't Bubsy have fall damage? Wtf were they thinking?
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kuwab0
04/25/17 6:22:49 PM
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Kitt
04/25/17 6:26:54 PM
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Lots of Bubsy apologists here. Those games were mediocre at best. Bubsy 3D was just straight trash.
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pojr
04/25/17 7:57:39 PM
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Darmik posted...
Didn't Bubsy have fall damage? Wtf were they thinking?

That was the problem with the first Bubsy. Too many one-hit deaths and high falls. Bubsy 2 added a life bar which was better, but the game had other problems.
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Solar_Crimson
04/25/17 7:59:51 PM
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Skye Reynolds
04/25/17 8:00:51 PM
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Everything that could possibly go wrong did.
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HylianFox
04/25/17 8:03:14 PM
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Gotta agree with JonTron that Bubsy 3D is "What the Alpha Version 0.1 of a game should look like, not the finished product!"

Imagine if Ocarina of Time was released looking like this:

http://img1.grunge.com/img/gallery/false-facts-about-legend-of-zelda-you-always-thought-were-true/there-is-a-sky-temple-in-ocarina-of-time.jpg

And that still looks better than Bubsy 3D
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ModLogic
04/25/17 11:14:50 PM
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HylianFox posted...
Gotta agree with JonTron that Bubsy 3D is "What the Alpha Version 0.1 of a game should look like, not the finished product!"

Imagine if Ocarina of Time was released looking like this:

http://img1.grunge.com/img/gallery/false-facts-about-legend-of-zelda-you-always-thought-were-true/there-is-a-sky-temple-in-ocarina-of-time.jpg

And that still looks better than Bubsy 3D

bubsy 3d released these days it would considered a complete game
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HylianFox
04/26/17 4:43:28 PM
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ModLogic posted...
HylianFox posted...
Gotta agree with JonTron that Bubsy 3D is "What the Alpha Version 0.1 of a game should look like, not the finished product!"

Imagine if Ocarina of Time was released looking like this:

http://img1.grunge.com/img/gallery/false-facts-about-legend-of-zelda-you-always-thought-were-true/there-is-a-sky-temple-in-ocarina-of-time.jpg

And that still looks better than Bubsy 3D

bubsy 3d released these days it would considered a complete game

Maybe, you'd still have to buy the rest of the graphics and textures as DLC
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ModLogic
04/26/17 4:44:21 PM
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Scotty_Rogers
04/26/17 4:46:32 PM
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lololol bubsy
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scoobydoobydont
04/26/17 4:54:06 PM
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It's mostly haters who had never even heard of Bubsy until he became a meme because of Youtubers making fun of Bubsy 3D. I recall the first 2 games being received okay by fans of the genre, no more disliked than Gex or a lot of other b-list mascots. He got 3 games and a rerelease, which isn't exactly terrible. Biggest issue (besides B3D) was that he was pretty late in the 2D mascot cycle, and too early in the 3D one, so he got a pretty meh Atari Jaguar port and couldn't really find an audience.
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HylianFox
04/26/17 4:58:24 PM
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Bubsy is also the Poochie of VG mascots. A cynical attempt to cash in on the "anthropomorphic animals with 'tude" craze kickstarted by Sonic

I tried to play the first couple of games but they're way too floaty and you're either stopped dead or running full tilt into some enemy or hazard. No middle ground
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kel854
04/26/17 4:59:37 PM
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The cat-man game? It was nice but never gained traction.
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P01ntyDmonspank
04/26/17 5:00:00 PM
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HylianFox
04/26/17 5:04:37 PM
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kel854 posted...
It was nice but never gained traction.


Exactly. Want a game where every level is the ice level? Play Bubsy!
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ModLogic
04/26/17 5:06:51 PM
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HylianFox posted...
kel854 posted...
It was nice but never gained traction.


Exactly. Want a game where every level is the ice level? Play Bubsy!

or mario
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Skye Reynolds
04/26/17 7:38:26 PM
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ModLogic posted...
HylianFox posted...
kel854 posted...
It was nice but never gained traction.


Exactly. Want a game where every level is the ice level? Play Bubsy!

or mario


Having Mario slide was their way of making him appear as if he had weight to him.
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Lightsasori
04/26/17 7:40:44 PM
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HylianFox posted...
kel854 posted...
It was nice but never gained traction.


Exactly. Want a game where every level is the ice level? Play Bubsy!


Pretty much lol
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Illuminoius
04/26/17 7:44:15 PM
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bad platforming and bad level design
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eston
04/26/17 7:45:52 PM
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I remember renting the first one on SNES and turning it back in early
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wah_wah_wah
04/26/17 7:51:52 PM
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There was too much obvious focus on making it a franchise like Sonic that they forgot to make it have gameplay like Sonic. Even the first Bubsy, I mean I rented that bastard a bunch of times, but it wasn't good. Sonic levels are designed for you to be able to get through them quickly because Sonic is a fast character so it has to be designed that way, whereas Bubsy has speed but if you even so much as try to use it, you'll quickly run into an enemy and watch the hy-lair-e-us death animation.

I mean there was a bunch of cool mechanics (waterslides, flying like an airplane) but none of them came together within the levels in a way that wasn't completely dangerous to try to utilize them. The best way to beat it was just to walk slowly through it. And that's boring.
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ChromeClimber
04/26/17 7:55:05 PM
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Bubsy sucked so hard. Why would someone come in here and pretend it was a decent game series? It's not like it's going to come back to life.
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BlazinBlue88
04/26/17 8:13:15 PM
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wah_wah_wah posted...
There was too much obvious focus on making it a franchise like Sonic that they forgot to make it have gameplay like Sonic. Even the first Bubsy, I mean I rented that bastard a bunch of times, but it wasn't good. Sonic levels are designed for you to be able to get through them quickly because Sonic is a fast character so it has to be designed that way, whereas Bubsy has speed but if you even so much as try to use it, you'll quickly run into an enemy and watch the hy-lair-e-us death animation.

I mean there was a bunch of cool mechanics (waterslides, flying like an airplane) but none of them came together within the levels in a way that wasn't completely dangerous to try to utilize them. The best way to beat it was just to walk slowly through it. And that's boring.

This was it's biggest problem. You could run soooo fast but after 2 seconds, you'd run to your death. As a kid I always enjoyed the animations in the first game. I still love the first game but it's really hard because of the floaty controls.
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scoobydoobydont
04/26/17 8:20:59 PM
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Solar_Crimson
04/28/17 9:23:57 PM
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scoobydoobydont posted...
Bunch of haters.

But they're giving legit reasons why the games were lackluster.
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