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Battletoads |OT| You can stop calling Gamestop now [Complete Act 1 and receive a Battletoads Ship Set in Sea of Thieves]
- Thread starter Jawmuncher
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When is this shit going to be unlocked.
I am the Ultimate Game Pass member, I shouldn't have to wait like those peasants who only have the regular GP.
I am the Ultimate Game Pass member, I shouldn't have to wait like those peasants who only have the regular GP.
The game doesn't look too great to me, but I used to play the hell out of Battletoads as a kid so I'm at least willing it give it a shot on Game Pass tomorrow. My son may like playing this with me too; we played Streets of Rage 4 together a lot.
WTF
Why? How? Why is MS launching a co-op heavy game without online? Is this early-access?
At least Streets of Rage is still on GP...
I don't know what goes into making online work for these games, but I don't know why people keep comparing this to Streets of Rage in that aspect. SoR is a beat em up, while Battletoads is a genre mash-up with twitch platforming sections. The platforming could potentially be a problem online.
Should mention that Battletoads on Steam has "Remote play together", so there's always that option...
Windows store really should try to get that implemented somehow...
Windows store really should try to get that implemented somehow...
There's a bunch of screen sharing programs you can use. I use Parsec.
Finish Act 1 and get Sea of Thieves Battletoads Ship
Local MP is the only true MP. Just get friends that like you enough to come round and wear a mask.
This one hits deep, especially I recently blasted through DKC again when it hit the switch SNES VC thingy, forgot what that's called.
Nope, I keep checking by switching my PC to New Zealand but nothing yet.
steam has it listed as noon EST tomorrow?
this is so confusing lol
The bobsleigh stage is also basically a DKC minecart level -- and every bit as challenging.
It's not like they started making the game at the start of the pandemic. LOL!
Right, but the absence of online play becomes more noticeably apparent all the same.
I get it, but you can't be mad at the developers for not predicting a pandemic. That's absurd.
Zero sympathy for devs working from home during a global pandemic, who have undoubtedly had their project pipelines messed up?
8pm EDT, in about 1 hour, 12 minutes. See you then at arstechnica.com.
whoops, that post had the wrong ETA listed because I am a galoot. that's been fixed. no answers to questions until then.
Dude, this isn't a PS2 era, we have shooters and fighting games that meet the demands of the pro players.People made a multiplayer Flappy bird within a week, and nobody complained about the ping. Microsoft is selling the cloud gaming. I don't buy any excuse about this game being too fast for online.
Then you make a public announcement about the delay in the online component. Reassure the audience that it is coming, and give a reason (pandemic) that it is not available right now. MS is always lapping about online and shared play, but is completely failing to deliver the component. I hope reviews are not going to let it slide.
Or the fact that Dlala is still a tiny indie studio that had to staff up for this game. It's absolutely unfortunate that there's no online coop for this. But people are acting like that isn't a VERY COMMON THING for indie games in general. And if they don't get it right, then it'll suck to play with friends. Better to have the expectation out of the way that it's local only. I mean.. I certainly hope no one is suggesting they implement rollbacks into BattleToads, are they?
There's a certain combination of "I'm the real victim" entitledness combined with an out of proportion anger questioning the abilities of developers working through some of the toughest conditions we've seen in a long time (let alone on a title that people feel strongly about not changing... but everyone knows had to change) that is just really, really distasteful.