Thread 12085836

Were the 5th and 6th gens the golden age of licensed games?

If you were a child during that time, sure.

>>12085836 (OP)
Yeah

>>12085836 (OP)
What kind of parent would buy a game with that cover for their kid?

Surely the golden age was the 4th gen when they were actually good

>>12085836 (OP)
Maybe for some. The Simpsons had a good run on the PS2.

>>12085874
Loony Tunes was a lot more brutal than Cartoon Network.

>>12085836 (OP)
Fuck no, the 3rd and 4th gen were. Lots of decent-to-good games were made with licencing shoehorned in later in development. By 5th gen they were just lazy shovelware because kids don't care about quality

>>12085930
Simpsons Hit & Run is easily better than anything from 3rd or 4th gen.

>>12085941
Konami made a better simpsons game for arcade

>>12085874
Everyone in my kindergarten was playing GTA.

>>12085945
I played that coop in the rerelease because it has a limited credits/lives setting, and while it's neat to some degree, Konami beat em ups are kinda terrible and it's way too early in the shows life to represent The Simpsons proper. Simpsons Hit & Run easily clears it.

>>12085945
>simpsons arcade game
Easily the most overrated Simpsons game to date, and your very post is evidence of that.

>>12085952
Painfully third world post

>>12086019
I live in America, in one of the wealthiest states per capita. I went to public school, but most of my classmates lived in McMansions and went to private universities.

>>12086037
I grew up in America too and only poor and brown parents allowed their kids to play M rated games.

>>12085874
I don't see the problem other than it's mildly violent.

How do I avoid Vic's pissing on me?

>>12086049
Do you live in bizarro world? In my experience, black and brown kids were the ones who weren't allowed to watch SpongeBob, read Harry Potter, etc.

>>12086105
That's wild. I would always look forward to going to my poor/nonwhite friends' houses because their parents let them play and watch anything. I was middle class but all my richer friends had even stricter parents than me.

>>12085952
What the fuck.

>>12086158
Same here. I had mexican/filipino friends who were allowed yo play M-rated games in elementary school but all my white friends had strict Christian soccer mom-type parents

>>12085836 (OP)
Best character

>>12085930
>kids don't care about quality
That's why shovelware is fun for when you're a kid.

>>12085836 (OP)
It fucking sucks how everyone copied Smash but only this game copied Power Stone

>>12086437
Tom & Jerry game is similar.

>>12086449
>>12086437
Yeah I was about to say. The Grim and Mandy game and Tom & Jerry War of the Whiskers are both shameless Power Stone clones.

>>12085836 (OP)
Nope, there was a huge downgrade during the Ps1 era, whereas the NES and SNES and Genny got some nice hitters

>>12086437
Huh, there were quite a few power stone clones, and the only one that was unironically good was a LITERAL clone made by Capcom using the Spawn characters.

https://youtu.be/hJ3VCNavuIk?si=ftINPSSl-Q75stXQ

Every other game was just meme ''hidden game'' (aka, mediocre) or fucking Powerpuff Girls Chemical X traction tier garbitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHdDFmP3XOY

>>12085836 (OP)
6th gen did have its share of gems, but hardly any 5th gen ones were good from what I can recall.

>>12086840
It knocks me stone stiff stupid that there wasn't a single Turtles game during the 5th gen, when the N64 and Dreamcast (and PS1 with multitap) were just sitting there.

>>12086461
>Grim and Mandy
*Billy and Mandy

>>12086437
Shrek Super Slam. There was also a Looney Tunes one on Xbox called Loons.

>>12085836 (OP)
No you stupid fuck, licensed games are and always have been complete garbage. There was absolutely nothing unique about the games from any generation. Just like every other licensed game they are derivative, lazy, cheap, boring, and aimed squarely at children who are too retarded to know any better. The absolute best licensed games are a worse version of another game, and the vast majority are complete trash thrown together in 10 weeks.

>>12087549
you have to be 18 to post here

>5th
Not really
>6th
Sure, if you're not in PAL region

>>12085945
It's alright, and the rest of the 3rd and 4th gen simpsons games are utter garbage.

>>12087549
What about Ducktales?

>>12085941
Hit & Run is so overrated
>gta-style game but only with the most boring part about GTA, the driving

>>12087904
What the fuck are you talking about? The driving in GTA is awesome. You get to run over people, commit drive-by shootings, and speed.

>>12085836 (OP)
I can't think of any good licensed 5th gen games, all the ones i played were pretty terrible
>simpsons wrestling
>powerpuff girls chemical x-traction
>ranma 1/2 battle renaissance
>dragon ball gt final bout
>digimon rumble arena

>>12087906
The driving is pretty shitty until you're very late in the game and get good cars. And you obviously don't shoot things in that game, so to make up for it most of the difficulty in the game comes in the form of shitty platforming and time limits.

No.
The golden age of licensed games was the late 80s/early 90s, when good Japanese companies were doing them.

>>12087917
That was the era of Laughing Joking Numbnuts though.

>>12086619
>and the only one that was unironically good
OP's game is good tho

>>12086037
>>12086049
USA is third world country.
In finland most people didn't care about age rating until recently and even now most people think age ratings are ruined by globalism.
Fucking suddenly we got swearing and nudity ban thanks to third world countries such as USA and christ thumping europe.

>>12088238
Always funny to see Europeans use American terms they don't understand.

>>12087904
>the most boring part about GTA, the driving
You say this like there isn't a subset of the GTA community who buy those games purely for the driving.

>>12085836 (OP)
Licensed games are almost entirely mediocre (at best), but there are a lot that I enjoy from gens 5/6.
>any of the Star Wars N64 games
>Battle for Bikini Bottom
>Rogue Squadron 2
>early TT Lego Games
I even enjoy a few that are of lower quality. I've almost finished the N64 Scooby Doo game (for Halloween), and it has been a good time, overall. Hoping to try out Night of 100 Frights for the first time soon.

>>12088238
That's cute

>>12085836 (OP)
Which Billy & Mandy characters should have been in this game that weren't?

>>12088238
Shouldn't you be seething about Sweden or Russia instead of a country on the other side of the world that doesn't give a shit about you?

>>12088453
But, why?

>>12087904
>the most boring part about GTA, the driving
ah yes, holding r1 and then pressing circle over and over is true stimulus.

>>12086842
Because TMNT was dead alive at the time of the PS1 and N64 era, or did you wanted a Next Mutation game? i never really got into the 4kids TMNT of the 2000s or the Konami games because most of them were not made in japan.

And thats one thing missed, Japan developed licensed games, became less common, and i am not talking of anime stuff, i mean Japanese ''commission'' games made for westerners based on US IPs

>>12088461
Numbah 3

>>12088195
?

>>12088631
>or did you wanted a Next Mutation game?

I mean they could still make a good game out of it. Nobody would confuse the 80's TMNT cartoon for being well written either and it still got quality games.

>i never really got into the 4kids TMNT of the 2000s

Big mistake. Great show and it still holds up until a certain season, though the games WERE ASS and only the third one resembles a game I could maybe recommend to people, but only if you had played the other good 4 player 6th gen games.

>>12085836 (OP)
It's 3rd and 4th

>>12088195
The good outweighed the bad. Stuff like Sunsoft Batman, the Capcom Disney games, most of the Konami TMNT games are legitimately great games and would not look out of place on a top 20 list. I don't think you can say the same for whatever is in the OP pic or Spongebob shit.

>>12089704
TMNT4 is insanely overrated

>>12089787
Licensed game fans are a bizarre breed. They will tell you Turtles in Time is the best beat-em-up of the entire 16 bit era, when it's totally inferior to not only Streets of Rage and Final Fight, but also Hyperstone Heist on Genesis.

TMNT4 gets it doubly bad because it's a licensed game AND a Nintendo hype cycle game. So while consoles like Genesis and NES had legitimate hits built by word of mouth, the SNES was the first Nintendo console to heavily rely on a hype cycle were all the Nintendrones bought the same game every 3 months because Nintendo Power told them too, before spending the next 30 years calling whatever mediocre game they all played at the same time "The best X-genre game of the 16 bit era."

>>12089787
No it’s not lol gain taste

name ONE (1) good licensed game right now.

>>12089834
u just did

>>12089834
astro boy on GBA. I dont even like astro boy but its one of the absolute best gba games.

besides that I got nothing.

>>12089828
Terminal case of babby's first slap-&-bap. Play any other brawl-em-down of the era and you will realize this.

>>12089838
I've played them all. The two best of this gen are easily Streets of Rage 2 and TMNT IV. I don't know what else you are thinking might compare unless you're just engaging in gay /vr/ contrarianism

>>12089856
Everyone who disagrees with you isn't a contrarian. SoR 3, Final Fight, River City Rampage, Alien vs Predator, Tower of Doom, and Cadash are all better than any TMNT game in my opinion. I apologize if you have extensive knowledge of the genre and still prefer Turtles in Time, but most people with that opinion have literally never played another beat-em-up.

>>12089601
Not a Billy & Mandy character. The crossover doesn't count, that's like saying Spongebob is a Sonic character.

Behold

>>12087910
I assume you dont count ports of arcade games because Capcom did the Marvel and Jojo games, but the ps1 ports of Marvel sucked dick and Jojo had unique stuff but wasnt arcade perfect

buenos dias mandy

>>12085836 (OP)
Zoomers will never understand

>>12091157
Sorry for being born in 2000 and being too young to be deluded into thinking unc ahh cartoons and games like Billy and Mandy were any good, gramps.

>>12091172
>unc ahh
Why can't zoomers talk like humans?

>>12091217
each generation has experienced more negroficiation than the last.

>>12089834
Cowboy Bebop on PS2. and it was recently translated.
Escape from Butcher Bay
X-Men Legends
King Kong
Bunch of Spider-Man and LotR games.
007 Nightfire
The Warriors
Scarface
honestly, the 6th gen had a ton of good licensed games.

>>12091136
The person who made this is Brazilian or something right?

>>12091591
>spanish text
I don't think so

>>12091340
So that's what cowboy bebop was doing on his computer...

>>12091172
Shut the fuck up retard

>>12088238
>t. Can’t afford a car

>>12091172
Sucks to be you

>>12087843
No, I can't admit defeat so instead of agreeing that it's a good game I'm going to tell you it's a cheap ripoff of *insert obscure platformer here* and call you a retard.

>>12085836 (OP)
That game fucking sucks

>>12092841
It's a decent Power Stone clone, and Billy and Mandy was one of CN's best shows so it works.

>>12092849
The show was good
The game fucking sucked

>>12085874
any parent except maybe Chinks becaues I heard they are deadly afraid of skeletons

>>12085874
what's wrong with it? it has a cartoon skeleton? are you a mormon or something?

>>12093000
Zoomers are overly sheltered and think kids don't like "scary" stuff

>>12093002
I mean I know they're alergic to characters showing some skin but jesus christ this is something I expect from an old lady in the 60s

>>12086619
>, and the only one that was unironically good was a LITERAL clone made by Capcom using the Spawn characters.
you forgot Heavy Metal Geomatrix, also a Power Stone clone, but that came out after the Dreamcast got discontinued and never re-released

>>12085874
Hateful fart game

>>12089834
I remember tom and jerry war of the whiskers being fun also the two towers game on ps2/gamecube

>>12085836 (OP)
It depends on the IP holders. like looney tunes games definitely peaked in the 16 bit era. Disney you could make a case for 16 bit era or the ps1. Cartoon and Nick original shows definitely the 6th gen. Starwars as well. There were a lot of decent starwars games before the 6th gen but that's when they really hit their stride with battlefront, kotor, commandos ect

>>12089834
Ducktales

>>12089834
>Taz Escape From Mars is really good and has unique mechanics.
>Marvel Ultimate Alliance
>Starwars Battlefront 1&2
>Starwars KotOR
>Yugioh games

>>12093623
Star Wars games tend to be really good.

>>12091340
>Cowboy Bebop on PS2
Any other opinions on this one? Sounds tempting

>>12088195
Yeah, and 5th-6th gen was all LJN, except people gave it a pass, because consoles had the technical capability of making the characters look and sound like their original selves. Enough said that the discussion about Battle for Bikini Bottom, which might have been the most beloved licensed game of the era, completely evaporated after the remaster dropped, because people actually sat down, replayed the game and realized it's not as good as they remembered.

>>12089834
Battle For Bikini Bottom

>>12088238
>Finnish government does something you don't like
>Blame everybody but the Finnish government
European shitlibs never cease to amaze me haha

>>12085836 (OP)
>Were the 5th and 6th gens the golden age of licensed games?
No, late 80s to mid 90s when Japanese companies like Capcom, Konami and Sunsoft were making 2D games.

>>12094516
Battle for Bikini Bottom is still good.

>>12094516
>Enough said that the discussion about Battle for Bikini Bottom, which might have been the most beloved licensed game of the era, completely evaporated after the remaster dropped, because people actually sat down, replayed the game and realized it's not as good as they remembered.
Huh? The remaster was successful enough for it to get two sequels.

>>12095924
a remaster got 2 sequels?

>>12096347
Yes, Spongebov The Cosmic Shake and the upcoming Titans of the Tide are from the same team that made Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, and have similar gameplay.

>>12096368
>Spongebov
Is that like a Russian version of Spongebob?
>I am ready for Krusty Krab job making burgers, comrade.

>>12087556
People under 20 have never played a licensed video game other than Harry Potter, Robocop or Terminator on steam

>>12096417
Or any Star Wars game, or any Aliens game, or any Starship Troopers game, etc etc. The Dicefront titles sold fuckloads, and the latter IPs have proven pretty popular too, if only briefly as FOTM shit.

>>12096417
What about Marvel games?

>>12094835
But the worst game of all time, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, came out then.