Thread 718204384

How long until Microdick gets desperate and reboots Blinx?

>>718204384 (OP)
ehhhh??? burrikusu za taimu saweppa?? chotto... nanikore.... EHHHH??? UWAH!!! AH sugoi! ah sugoi sugoi sugoi! hontoni sugoi. arigato burrikusu-san.

>>718204384 (OP)
Good game, shame it lives rent free in /v/'s head because of a quarter sized blurb on a dead game magazine cover.

>>718204486
What are you talking about?

>>718204558
Someone else will post it.

>>718204558
I'm gonna go ahead and guess it said something like "this is the next Mario" and so the only conversation /v/ can have about it is to treat it as a TORtanic disaster.

I played blinx recently and found it way too restrictive to be fun. Too much of an order of operations puzzle game where the information isn't always visible and fail states are inevitable. Too little of being an actual platformer with time stop elements. Didn't player the sequel but I hear it's a very different game.

I never played the second one, was it dogshit?

>>718204384 (OP)
isn't gori a blinx reboot?

>>718204719
It was better than the first overall.

>>718205026
really now? I gotta emulate it tonight

>>718204650
>>718204846
Are you shitting me? Are tendies really this big of brand loyalist zealots?

>>718204732
No, that was a literal who asset flip which I only remember exjsts because some tard kept spamming insta-dead threads up to its release.

>>718204846
This is silly. It makes me laugh. A product of the industry at the time, nothing too deep.

>>718205223
every character you personally don't know is a literally who, but to others they won't be

>>718205268
It is. Here's the entire cover. Jibbing like this was fun and done all the time, 25 years later it's taken as heresy.

>>718204384 (OP)
I guarantee that nobody at MS remembers this was released for the xbox.

>>718205363
I mean, the industry has grown up, that kind of marketing doesn't really carry the same weight anymore. Who is saying its heresy ? Aside from weirdos on here I guess.

>>718205443
>Aside from weirdos on here I guess.
You can probably find weirdos off of here, but I haven't looked.

I wouldn't mind if Xbox rebooted it. Baby games are like racing games. They are hard to fuck up.

Maybe then Xbox will get its own 7/10 ratchet and clank game.

>>718204846
I don't know why I did this

>>718204384 (OP)
Microsoft would rather their IPs rot and die.

>"desperate"
>rebooting a failed mascot platformer that was forgotten after 2 games
?

>>718205443
>industry has grown up
the industry became soulless corporate garbage in the early-to-mid 00's

>>718205723
Ofcourse. Believing otherwise would be silly. But the kind of weirdos that would call this 'heresy' ? Not so sure.

>>718205908
if you follow the AAA industry exclusively this is mostly accurate for sure

>>718205363
That's because everyone forgot what jokes are. Instead of jokes, you have an ideological war fought with every single act of human expression, no matter how trivial

>>718204384 (OP)
Blinxs time manipulation stuff is a cool idea, but the games do a shit job utilizing it.

>>718204384 (OP)
i like the rendition of just smile that was in it, but not as much as the burning rangers ver.

>>718205893
What part did you not understand exactly?

>>718205829
kino

>>718206059
I see devs pulling pranks on eachother all the time. Its just not done in the form of platform mascot rivalry.

>>718205363
More like 25 years later people find it just as funny as they did in 2002. You're the only one who spergs out over this.

>>718204846
I really enjoyed oxm in the 360 era.

>>718206580
Calm down son it's just a cat.

>>718204384 (OP)
The fact that they didn't make a new Voodoo Vince despite Phil saying it was his favorite and the remaster being done means they'll never scrape into that barrel. Shame, because given the success of Astro Bot, they could probably make bank off of Blinx hopping between nostalgic worlds of Xbox games or some shit like that for an anniversary title.

>>718206118
They're Artoon slop. Literally Sonic Team but worse in every way and without any charm.
>>718206673
Failed mascots are funny.

>>718206673
but hes not wearing a hat

>>718205174
>how can i turn this into console war faggotry?

>>718204384 (OP)
They can't. The IP is in limbo:
https://www.blinxthetimesweeper.com/blinx-trademark-and-ip.html
tldr: microsoft owns the copyright, but the rights were split with the now defunct ARTOON. So they would have to do a lot of expensive legal work to get it all squared away.

>>718204384 (OP)
I don't think Microsoft can even do anything with the IP currently because Blinx is sitting in some kind of legal limbo involving the original dev studio, which no longer exists. Also Microsoft didn't even bother to renew the Blinx trademark a few years back anyway.

So basically, they don't give a shit, and have no real incentive to start giving a shit. RIP Blinx, your games were neat on paper, but meh in execution.