Current Events > I was so hyped for the new Battletoads game, but damn it looks dreadful

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwPB6_g3sq4

WTF is this even?

Terrible art style, 3 player Co-op (I get why, but 3 players? Weird), bad redesigns of the characters, bad humor (seriously, a stereotypical gay joke in the trailer?)...

I just hope to god this isn't the final build. Why are devs so dead-set on murdering my childhood?

The Battletoads games were never good tbqh

But this just looks like any old modern cartoon which also happens to have a video game attached to it. It feels kind of unnecessary

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Looks fun

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Well at least GameStop is gonna have Battletoads now

I dislike the style also.

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DarthAragorn posted...

Well at least GameStop is gonna have Battletoads now

Eh?

Battletoads was an offbrand TMNT from the start

Why did the evil queen get a breast reduction?

...wheres that Skye Reynolds copypasta lol

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looks fine to me, no apparent betrayal

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The Calarts is strong...

Kami_no_Kami posted...

The Calarts is strong in that trailer

Aside from the fact that it's very calarts, the models / poses / expressions / gameplay / etc all look very faithful to the original.

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Copy_X_Mk_ll posted...

Battletoads Arcade is fantastic, though Ill admit most of the others arent great.

I want to be excited for this but its just so, so ugly. And I could look past that but the characterization is the wrong kind of obnoxious. The Dark Queen is intolerable, even not taking into account the awful redesign, and it just rubs me the wrong way in general.

I agree entirely with this post.

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Future_Trunks posted...

ehhh i didn't see anything wrong with that "gay" joke

It's not that it was super offensive (though I expect to hear that it was), it was more cringey and out of place. It was just... Weird.

shame those wii pre-orders never came in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnPv9l-5LNQ

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AlisLandale posted...

...wheres that Skye Reynolds copypasta lol

Lara got a reduction.
Samus got a reduction.
Tifa got a reduction.
There is a pattern here.
You can say I'm a loser, but you can't deny what is happening. It's not a conspiracy. It's not internet nerds preemptively being outraged. We said it would happen and it did. We knew it would because it's happened already. Because it's a clear and continuous pattern.
I don't care. I'm a fucking nerd. Whatever.
No, I don't need big breasts on a female character to find her interesting as a character. You don't need profanity and gratuitous bloodshed to have a good time at the movies. But if there's a PG-13 sequel or remake to an R-rated movie, people flip a table because they're being denied something they used to have. It's the same thing here.
If you go to favorite place to eat and find one day that they've stopped serving alcohol, you'd be within your rights to go someplace else even if the food is just as good as it always was.
Even if you don't care about fictional breasts (or real breasts on women playing fictional characters). Even if you're not into women period, it's still a bad thing to remove all buxom women from the media. You are saying that there is a certain type of person who you do not want to be featured in the media and it's through no fault of their own. This is like taking every story which had a Jewish character in it and replacing them with non-Jewish characters. You would be selectively removing a group of people from having any media presence or representation.
It's not just censorship. It's discrimination. How are women with large breasts supposed to feel in real life when they're not good enough to make it into movies? What does it say to them that body types and personality types are treated one and the same and that busty types are the "bimbo" types that we don't want? I suppose they can go out and get reductions if they want to be treated fairly.
Cover Tifa up more. Take away her midriff. Make it so that there's no bounce or jiggle -- just fat dead space. But don't flatten her because women with sizable breasts are somehow bad people according to the censors who think themselves progressive.
It's like there's an Anti-Tit League that gets to dictate who has an appropriate enough body type to achieve representation. And, according to them, women with small wastes and large busts are unworthy.
Fuck!

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I'm more upset about what they did to the Dark Queen.

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eston posted...

The Battletoads games were never good tbqh

This. I thought the hype around Battletoads was always just a meme.

Proto_Spark posted...

This. I thought the hype around Battletoads was always just a meme.

The difficult and especially the hoverbike level hit meme status, but it really was a well designed and fun game.

Honestly if it had released sooner (or at least before SNES launched I think it would have been a much more popular franchise.

Hell, I still pop in Double Dragon Vs Battletoads from time to time haha

Lord_Wombat posted...

the hoverbike level hit meme status

because most people didn't get past that bullshit to be able to see the bullshit snake and saw levels coming up (snes version). only stage 1 was any fun.

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The snake level was some grade a bullshit. It reminds me of that inside the beast level from super Ghouls and Ghosts but with a bullshit factor x10.

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Is this Battletoads?

no.

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DarthAragorn posted...

Well at least GameStop is gonna have Battletoads now

Still better call them, just to make sure.

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Just remembered to watch this trailer. Yeah, I'm going to hold off until I find a clearance copy or something. This looks ROUGH, holy crap.

There's a fine line between "retro" and "dated," and this is definitely looking like the latter - especially the dialogue and voice acting.

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AlisLandale posted...

Why did the evil queen get a breast reduction?

...wheres that Skye Reynolds copypasta lol

It should die with him.

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