Bionic Freaking Commando

CycloneRider052 · Post by **CycloneRider052** » 2007-10-27 08:23am

After what like...20 years Capcom has finally decided to make a sequel to one of the coolest and most original games on the NES
http://www.bioniccommando.com

There's also a video up on Live Marketplace. According to the website it's going to be on 360, PS3 AND PC, so it looks like no one is getting left behind.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2007-10-27 08:28am

Looks like the graphics are a whee better than the original

Zixinus · Post by **Zixinus** » 2007-10-27 10:25am

It looks like its going to be AWESOME!

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2007-10-27 10:48am

God, I hate bloom.

But the game (Minus Bloom) looks pretty sweet, if that's in-game footage.

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2007-10-27 12:48pm

Needs more Nazis.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2007-10-27 01:09pm

Can you jump in this one?

The_Last_Rebel · Post by **The_Last_Rebel** » 2007-10-28 08:30pm

I wonder if this is gonna be set in the year 19xx

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-28 08:44pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:Can you jump in this one?

bettah not son!!!!

Done with an eye to awesome, this could be a cool little game. Doubtless it'll be full of nanotechnology/myspace/androgynous villians/ecological threats/angels/anti-war rambling though, so ...

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-10-28 09:23pm

Like hell it will. It will be Capcom delivering awesome to us.

And that, as they say, is that.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-28 09:29pm

Er, what? Did you just step out of the 80s? Capcom has been almost solid fail for more than a decade! Remember Lost Planet, the Ugliest Game on 360?

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2007-10-28 09:41pm

Stark wrote:Er, what? Did you just step out of the 80s? Capcom has been almost solid fail for more than a decade! Remember Lost Planet, the Ugliest Game on 360?

Pardon? Since when was Lost Planet ugly? No, seriously, what the fuck Stark? I own the game, and it looks great.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-28 09:46pm

The PC version is apparently better, but the 360 version was horrible. Ugh, use some ansio guys!

Oh and the game also sucked, being Capcom's 8bit bullshit recycled AGAIN. Oh well.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2007-10-29 12:13am

They'll have cleared everything up by Super Bionic Commando ZX Turbo Battle Network Hyper Fighting Code Veronica X and Justice for All.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-29 02:22am

I think by the quasi-spinoff (by which I mean fanservice cash cow) Ultimate Super Bionic Commando ZX Turbo Battle Network Hyper Fighting Code Veronica X and Justice for All Alpha Zero it may have covered some new ground and really shown us where Commandos with Bionic arms can take us. Then it'll be dropped for a spinoff about some woman in the background going to France.

And the SNK crossover Ultimate Super Bionic Commando ZX Turbo Battle Network Hyper Fighting Code Veronica X and Justice for All Alpha Zero Fist of Millenium Fury Street Final Darkness Fight will be the best, but ignored because zomg teh super spy is unbalanced lol.

All that said, I liked BC on NES and it's an interesting idea for a shooter. I just hope they DON'T add a jump (jump doesn't belong in most shooters anyway) and just give us awesome arm-physics.

And three-way guns.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2007-10-29 09:17am

Stark wrote:The PC version is apparently better, but the 360 version was horrible.

I concur. Boring like hell too

Shogoki · Post by **Shogoki** » 2007-10-29 10:58am

Stark wrote: All that said, I liked BC on NES and it's an interesting idea for a shooter. I just hope they DON'T add a jump (jump doesn't belong in most shooters anyway) and just give us awesome arm-physics.

If you see the videos on the website, you can see there will be much jumping.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2007-10-30 05:24pm

I loved Bionic Commando on the C-64. This'll be much cooler than Crysis IMO.

Shogoki · Post by **Shogoki** » 2007-10-30 06:49pm

Julhelm wrote:I loved Bionic Commando on the C-64. This'll be much cooler than Crysis IMO.

Lets make assumptions about games that aren't even released yet, why don't we?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-30 07:22pm

Shogoki
Really? Jumping? Odds of the game being an uninspired 3ps with a 'lol grapple' gimmick increasing. That makes me sad.

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2007-10-30 09:19pm

Swinging was hard enough to master in the sidescroller games (NES, GB, and GBA) so I can't imagine the difficulty in doing it in 3d.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-30 09:22pm

Worked in the Spiderman games. Of course, the swinging was basically the only interesting part of the game: take it out, and you really do have a shit, uninspired piece of shit game. Oh noes, too hardz, let's make a generic game now!

VF5SS · Post by **VF5SS** » 2007-10-30 09:27pm

Oh. Well the only Spiderman game I've ever played was the old SNES ones and the Playstation one where all the swinging was automagick. I hope the new Bionic Commando as ass poundingly hard as the first game. Especially that damn tower level that tests your patience...

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-30 09:45pm

I've never played them, but apparently the newer Spiderman games get the intuitive web-swinging thing down fine. Of course, the arm is much shorter...

Ryushikaze · Post by **Ryushikaze** » 2007-10-30 09:59pm

Stark wrote:Shogoki
Really? Jumping? Odds of the game being an uninspired 3ps with a 'lol grapple' gimmick increasing. That makes me sad.

From what I see, the jump is basically a non element, especially as compared to the Bionic arm. Yes, you can jump, but you don't get much height from it. I don't see it diminishing from the Bionic Arm.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2007-11-01 11:54am

Shogoki wrote:
Julhelm wrote:I loved Bionic Commando on the C-64. This'll be much cooler than Crysis IMO.
Lets make assumptions about games that aren't even released yet, why don't we?

Bugger off. It's a subjective reflection of mine because to me Crysis looks like just another military/sci-fi FPS, the kind of which there are thirteen by the dozens of, while Bionic Commando is a game I remember with fondness and thus the thought of a remake is more interesting to me.