Yar's Revenge remake XBLA / PSN / PC Q1 2011

[antares]

Atari (or the company that owns the name Atari now) announced a remake of the cult classic VCS/2600 game Yar's Revenge.

No other infos yet. As EOJ once said, 90% chance this will be crap but let's wait and see.

Info from here:
http://www.trueachievements.com/n2205/y ... o-xbla.htm

[TodayIsForgotten]

I don't see why anyone would want to remake this. Unless they revamp the entire game and make it something a bit more involved and hard...it will just be yars revenge.

[Kobayashi]

Good news.

Yar´s Revenge was a great Atari 2600 game.

[MR_Soren]

Cool! One of my favorite games in the pre-NES days. Not sure how well it would hold up today though.

[ubersaurus]

The Game Boy Color remake was sweet, and from what I hear the recent Haunted House remake was also pretty solid. I'm not 100% sold, but I'm definitely interested.

[BulletMagnet]

Here's an interview with the remake's producer, for anyone interested.

[gennss]

Please be like pacman ce and not like galaga legions.

[antares]

Here's an interview with the remake's producer, for anyone interested.

Sounds interesting but it seems this won't be a 2D shmup. The producer compares the gameplay to Panzer Dragoon and Star Fox. If it turns out to be a 3D on rails shooter I'm interested.

[gennss]

Oh that'd be cool.

[Estebang]

Too lazy to post it, but there's a teaser out.

Looks like budget-lacking uninspired retrohipster shit.

[TaygetaVendetta]

Teaser Trailer.

I like the look of it, the character reminds me of Gunvalkyrie. Will be interested to see what the gameplay looks like.

[TodayIsForgotten]

This game is going to bomb, either way. I can't see it being any good. While at the time i can sorta understand why this game was the best selling atari game, but anyone who has any talent with hand-eye would want to forget this game after an hour on one "credit." I don't see the appeal of "...just one more go" with this one. In this day and age this game would be a play it and forget it.

[Estebang]

Is there really anything to "remake" in Yar, anyway? It's one of the most incomprehensibly abstract games of all time, and I love it for that, but there's no way in hell you can translate or recapture any of that with modern 3D HD wizardry.

Just another downloadable plug for nostalgia, methinks.

[kemical]

there's a ton of cool shit you can do with the basic concepts in Yars' Revenge, will the developer do this? I don't know, hopefully they aren't lacking in vision and imagination. But I know it is possible and could be truly awesome done in 3D.

[Ghegs]

New trailer has few seconds of gameplay footage. It's an on-rails shooter.

[stryc9]

Um... the art is pretty damn good, wasn't expecting this. Although the actual game is Yars in name only.

[Observer]

Good lord, stop putting XBLA first on everything.

This is also coming to PSN and PC!

The art looks pretty interesting, who's the designer? Seems it's also taking some Panzer Dragoon cues?

edit: The camera needs some extra work to achieve a smoother effect. It looks a bit too stiff now.

[Heartwork]

This actually looks awesome.

[PainAmplifier]

This looks like another name rape.

Unnecessary 'anime' style? Check
Change Yar to Female Human? Check
Bikini Armor? Check
'Edgy' badass facial expressions? Check
More attention on 'Memorable Characters' rather than gameplay? Check

All I am getting out of this so far is a bit more sarcasm and cynicism. This game has nothing in common with the original game other than the name. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that the people most likely to see this game (PS/Xbox) are not going to know anything about the history of this game at all...and you may as well call this "Generic Angry Anime Chick's Revenge" and it will get the same amount of interest/reaction as calling it just about anything else would.

The original Yar's was pretty much a one screen twitch based shooter, so there was a LOT of leeway as far as game play/style goes for making a new version...but really, an On-Rails shooter? If there is anything that can still be a shooter and yet be as far from the original as possible, this is probably it.

And for the theme? It would have been far more interesting to keep the Yars as mutant flies and not change them into humans. Just think of all that could be done if they had remained that way. The Quotile was never really explained in the original game/comic, is it some other alien race? Machine like or Mechanized? Some other alien race? What is there Philiosophy that they attack the Yars? And what about the actual Humans? Maybe the Quotile are some odd faction of them. If not, what would happen when Yars and Humans meet? Friendly? Startled? Antagonistic? Can they even communicate right away? Also, how expansive is the Quotile? From the original, it sounds like the enemy was just one 'base' or set of bases within their current star system. That sounds to me like the Quotile are not native to that area of space. You could have them be a part of some wide ranging force elsewhere. Maybe they are fighting the humans as well and the original accident that created the Yars was a part of the first Quotile attack against the humans as well....

Personally I would much rather see this as a more conventional shmup along the lines of R-Type/Gradius/Raiden. Gameplay along a 2D plane, with the Yars staying as their original design.

It would be far more interesting to see the 'insects' fighting against an enemy that was more Human/Technology based. We get a lot of the reverse of that, and not enough of the former. (Usually it's human versus Bio/insect.)

[Alfred]

I got the 2600 one for Game Room and i am really enjoying beating my friends hi-scores. It's a good game once you get used to it. Looking forward to playing the new one.

[Avatar Ignis]

Looking at that video i would not of known it was yars revenge.

The art looks pretty interesting, who's the designer? Seems it's also taking some Panzer Dragoon cues?

edit: The camera needs some extra work to achieve a smoother effect. It looks a bit too stiff now.

It definitely reminds me of panzer and maybe a little bit of starfox. I think this game looks awesome personally. I'll just pretend it has a different name

[HamidoOs]

Panzer Dragoon

Yup.

btw, judging from the trailer, it seems to me that they're using dual-analog control scheme for the game.

[brentsg]

The original was great fun given the limitations of the day, but this looks nothing like it.

[TodayIsForgotten]

What a shocker. Nice colors - yes. Everything else? Eh. Looks like Aces Of The Galaxy with Insects. Don't see the correlation of this being a remake or a rema-. Its a completely different game. What stayed the same in this game? Your ship? and maybe you get to fight the only boss in Yars as every boss in this remake? Cool.

[MachineAres 1CC]

Good lord, stop putting XBLA first on everything.

This is also coming to PSN and PC!

No one uses those platforms, though..

[BPzeBanshee]

Good lord, stop putting XBLA first on everything.

This is also coming to PSN and PC!

No one uses those platforms, though..

PS3 HAZ NO GAEMS



[/troll]

PSN distribution on top of XBLA is good, we need more going across them both instead of just one or the other. Too bad Sony's a tightass bitch when it comes to anything not totally 3D HD 1080p 9000 Megapixel shit.

[MR_Soren]

It looks like it could be fun, but I don't know if it should be called Yar's Revenge.

[-Bridget-]

It looks like it could be fun, but I don't know if it should be called Yar's Revenge.

Agreed. It almost seems like they're just stamping the name on there to get retro fans to buy it.

The original Yar's Revenge was an absolutely superb game for it's time, and holds up well even today. Yeah, I know, there's exploits in it, and it's not all that hard, but the concepts are very sound, and the gameplay was good. Anyone that ever loved the 2600, such as myself, probably had/has this game in their collection.


This new thing, however, is NOT Yar's Revenge. I'm sorry, it isnt. There's SO MUCH that could have been done with the ORIGINAL gameplay concept... but that may be asking too much of modern developers, who tend to have the creativity of a concussed duck. No, instead it gets shoehorned into an already established gameplay type, which is, of course, totally different from the original.

Sigh.

This might still be an entertaining game, but I think the name should be totally ignored. The fact that the trailers also are TOTALLY focused on art and.... art.... is also not a good sign.

[drauch]

Bring back that housefly dood.

[Iaspis]

we need more gameplay footage to judge the game