DuckTales Remastered

[Deadman]

[Little_JoeY]

:fappyduck:

[Schnegge]

[Bull3t]

Why is Ducktales: Remastered being made anyway?

Q

 

DuckTales: Remastered might not make sense to younger gamers who missed the show’s craze. VG247′s Dave Cook explores the NES original and speaks with Capcom about the remake.

Chances are if you’re a younger gamer you might not understand all the excitement around WayForward Technologies’ incoming digital release DuckTales Remastered.

The Disney cartoon premièred in 1987 and starred Scrooge McDuck, a penny-pinching Scottish grump who would search the world for new treasures to hurl into his vast vault of riches. He’d usually take his nephews Huey, Louie and Dewey along for the ride while being chased by the Beagle Boys or some other villain.

It was a brilliant show that took the viewer to exotic locations and saw Scrooge and chums getting mixed up in all sorts of adventures that recalled films like Indiana Jones and globe-trotting fiction like TinTin. Each episode was a blast filled with fun, peril and action from start to finish.

Plus, come on guys just listen to the theme song. It’s pure ’80s:

 

A-woo-hoo! (Thanks for the clip AshaneX)

It’s been 26 years since the first episode aired, so it’s only natural that many people might be puzzled as to why Capcom had commissioned WayForward to make a new game around the license. But for most people who know the series well it’s one of the most anticipated digital releases of the summer.

Why such a flood of nostalgia you ask? Well, it’s because the first DuckTales game adaptation on NES was actually damn fine. Forget what you know what about piss-weak licensed games of today; this was actually a stellar effort from Capcom and an up-and-coming designer called Keiji Inafune. You might have head of him.

The game actually took close inspiration from Inafune’s work on the Mega Man series, with levels set across the globe that could be tackled in any order and a tough difficulty setting. In fact, you could almost say it was an open world game given the freedom afforded to the player.

Throughout the game you’d battle bees and gorillas in the Amazon, explore a spooky Transylvania mansion teeming with abominations, slide around some ice caves in the Himalayas, dig deep into some African diamond mines and blast off to an alien mothership on the moon. It was a diverse game to say the least.

I’ve still got a copy. Cheers eBay!

Depending on how you perform in stages and your closing bank balance – Scrooge is all about the money you see? – you’d get one of three endings, including a special bad ending for not picking up a single penny in the game, which is a lot harder than it sounds.

All of this, along with some stellar gameplay and some utterly memorable stage music helped DuckTales to become one of the most iconic licensed games of the 8-bit era and beyond. If you mention the

in particular to a fan I guarantee they’ll love it, or at least know how favoured it is among players.

When I asked Capcom producer Rey Jiminez how the notion of a remake started he said it had been in the pipe for some time. “The discussions between Capcom and Disney about making DuckTales possible have been going on for quite a while. There have been various points in the past where we have approached each other with relatively casual proposals to redo another DuckTales.

“It’s taken a bit of time, but when we were finally able to come to a project that made sense to both companies, we pulled the trigger and signed the title. When it came time to pick a developer, Disney were the ones to suggest WayForward due to their expertise in platforming games and 2D animation.

“In fact, some of the guys that founded and work at WayForward came from the closely located CalArts. If you’re not familiar with them, it’s an arts school that was founded by Walt Disney himself. That means that WayForward is schooled in the animation techniques that Disney uses to this day.”

The art style helped the game go from this:

To this:

WayForward certainly seem to be the right team for the job, given all the superb gameplay footage that has come out of the studio so far. It captures the animation of the show, the familiar level settings, an emphasis on money-hoarding and the choice of tackling levels in any order.

The studio even got DuckTales artist Mike Peraza involved to make the game look authentic, and of course it couldn’t have been a faithful adaptation of the show without getting Scrooge’s actor Alan Young back on voicing duties. He’s currently 93-years of age you know?

“Unfortunately I didn’t have the honor,” said Jiminez, dismayed that he never got to meet Young, “but from those that were at the VO recordings, I’m told, said he was an extremely friendly and pleasant person to work with.

“You know, interestingly, the majority of voices that we recorded for DuckTales have been doing those characters for years. I was able to personally listen in on VO work for LaunchPad – Terry McGovern – and simply hearing and seeing the man speak in a voice I grew up with put a giant smile on my face.”

And that’s the killer hook right there my fellow DuckTales fans; it’s the chance to hear all of the old cast back together for one last adventure, and to see the levels that we perhaps grew up playing on NES re-created with today’s tech. Given that today’s kids might not give a stuff about the show, Remastered can hardly be called a nostalgia-baiting plot for your money.

It’s basically a gift to fans, and at a time where console devs are trying hard to hold you upside down by the ankles and shake you until the money stops falling from your pockets, that’s an admirable quality indeed.

DuckTales: Remastered hits PS3, Steam and Wii U in North America on August 13, and Xbox Live on September 11. Will you be picking it up?

 

[Heady]

Das Game wird definitiv irgendwann geholt, im Moment aber einfach wieder mal zuwenig Zeit zum Zocken...

[Bull3t]

Kurz durchgezept:

Jake Kaufmann ist zu sehen, der Composer bei WayForward. Die Erwartungen an den Soundtrack krachen bei mir nur so durch die Decke. Ich hoffe er darf sich wieder austoben

 

[hoochli]

[Bull3t]

@Threadtitel

Plattformen nicht vollständig.

-multi schreiben?

-steam auch noch reindrücken?

-leer lassen/"nur" Titel?

 

@Enten

zomfg, morgen kommt es schon :fap: . Hammer

[radiant]

Polygon gibt 5/10

 

http://www.polygon.com/game/ducktales-remastered/11327

[hoochli]

MS wusste schon, warum sie es nicht in den Summer of Arcade genommen haben

 

Aber ich spiel sicher mal die Demo..

[Little_JoeY]

@Threadtitel

Plattformen nicht vollständig.

-multi schreiben?

-steam auch noch reindrücken?

-leer lassen/"nur" Titel?

 

@Enten

zomfg, morgen kommt es schon :fap: . Hammer

 

 

Xbox360-Version erscheint morgen.

PS3 Version am Mittwoch und die WiiU Version am Donnerstag?!

[Deadman]

Gameswelt ist ein bisschen gnädiger

 

http://www.gameswelt.ch/ducktales-remastered/review/seite-1,203498

 

Mit richtig breiter Entenbrust

 

DuckTales Remastered geht mit erhobenem Haupt und geschwellter Entenbrust in den Kampf um den Titel „nahezu perfektes Remake“. Während die Neuauflage von Turtles in Time kläglich (!) scheiterte, änderten die Entwickler bei den DuckTales im Prinzip nichts, sondern setzten die Stärken des Spiels - die Spielmechanik und den Wiedererkennungswert der Disney-Figuren - nahezu perfekt um. DuckTales ist bei Weitem kein modernes, aber dafür ein richtig gutes Spiel, auch wenn es mit jüngeren Genre-Hits wie Super Meat Boy oder Guacamelee nicht ganz mithalten kann. Frustresistenz wird allerdings vorausgesetzt, denn stellenweise ist es schon fast unfair.

[hoochli]

Xbox360-Version erscheint morgen.

PS3 Version am Mittwoch und die WiiU Version am Donnerstag?!

 

Gemäss Giantbomb erscheint die 360-Version erst im September..

[Bull3t]

Polygon gibt 5/10

 

http://www.polygon.com/game/ducktales-remastered/11327

 

GameInformer gibt 8/10

 

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/ducktales_remastered/b/xbox360/archive/2013/08/12/ducktales-remastered-game-informer-review.aspx

[Raphaelo]

Pfu sind die Dialoge auf Deutsch besser? Das klingt echt übel, sowohl in Sachen Inhalt als auch bei der Performance .

 

 

Ich hätte wohl beim Maintheme etwas Freude, aber das Spiel selber habe ich nie gespielt. No need

[Bull3t]

Ich hätte wohl beim Maintheme etwas Freude, aber das Spiel selber habe ich nie gespielt. No need

 

Ich kreuze noch immer die Finger, dass der NES-Titel auf Virtual Console kommt.

Sind ein paar Jährchen vergangen als ich es das letzte mal hatte

[Bull3t]

Booya! Hat es schon jemand? Ich hau's mal in den eShop und schaue ob der Download steht.

 

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Habe nichts gefunden. Auf deutscher Eurogamer steht:

 

 

Erscheint für:

PC, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U

Preis:

15 Euro

Erscheint am:

13.8. PC, 15.8. Konsolen

Getestete Version:

Xbox 360

 

bearbeitet 13. August 2013 von Bull3t

[Goldstein]

http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/7hrw3r/ducktales-remastered-review

 

gt-Review, Wertung: 8.0

[Little_JoeY]

Review GameProl

[Goldstein]

Chli hert das Review vor gamepro.

Jä nu, i hole mrs de im nöchste Steam-Sale

[Bull3t]

eShop

 

DE: € 14.99

CH: CHF 21.-

 

Langsam gehts mir auf den Zeiger..

[Little_JoeY]

eShop

 

DE: € 14.99

CH: CHF 21.-

 

Langsam gehts mir auf den Zeiger..

 

Joa finds auch etwas übertrieben^^

 

PSN

 

CHF 19.75

[Xamd]

Konnte nicht widerstehen als ich den Trailer auf Steam sah:lol: DUCK TALES WOO-OO:lol:

 

 

Aber echt viel zu teuer:okay:Na ja war klar das ich mir das Teil hole, war einer meiner ersten Spiele. Hab's damals als kleiner Goof auf dem NES gezockt. Man war das schwer, hatte damals keine Chance diese Levels zu meistern. Mit dem Xbox Controller natürlich kein Problem mehr, die ersten 2 Levels hab ich bereits hinter mir.

 

Macht echt Laune.

[radiant]

S'isch würkli zum chörble.

[BrawleR]

Da freut man sich doch über die 14 Euro auf Steam. Werde aber wohl auch noch warten, momentan nicht wirklich Bock drauf...