Author Topic: epic mickey 2 (Read 3997 times)

magus · « **on:** March 21, 2012, 08:42:32 PM »

they are going to show a preview on the next GT.TV episode,it's called EPIC MICKEY 2:THE POWER OF TWO,it's for ps3 and 360 and wii
altough there is also a rumor for a 3DS version

i'm not sure why this is being made... epic mickey was easily one of the worst wii games i had the chance to finish while not owning a 360... why sequels to bad game keeps happening?

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #1 on:** March 21, 2012, 08:54:27 PM »

lol who cares

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #2 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:06:10 PM »

Quote from: magus on March 21, 2012, 08:42:32 PM

i'm not sure why this is being made... epic mickey was easily one of the worst wii games i had the chance to finish while not owning a 360... why sequels to bad game keeps happening?

Because it sold decently for a Wii exclusive and it probably never should have been an "exclusive" in the first place. All though if they go crazy budget on this (Spector claimed 700 people were working on it which sounds like bullshit to me) then there is a chance this will be a mega flop.

Timber · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:12:05 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 21, 2012, 09:06:10 PM

Spector claimed 700 people were working on it

lol what the hell?

Time to set up a Kickstarter!

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #4 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:16:50 PM »

Quote from: Timber on March 21, 2012, 09:12:05 PM

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 21, 2012, 09:06:10 PM
Spector claimed 700 people were working on it

lol what the hell?

Time to set up a Kickstarter!

I hope he's just talking about the entire publishing arm. Like marketing people, business people, testers, Disney reps, etc/

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So, I'm right there, I'm trying to figure out what the future holds, I'm trying to figure out how do I continue to make the kinds of relatively deep, player driven experiences that I want to do, not just on the console, but on mobile phones, etc. You ask how do I feel about iOS: I mean, if the opportunity were to present itself, if I ever left Disney, not that I'm planning on doing that - we have over 700 people around the world working on our new game now. But I would love to do a game with four guys. And the iOS, or mobile platforms are the place where you can actually do that again. So, I have a strong interest in mobile games, and I would love to try that. I think a lot about "how do I bring that idea that playstyle matters and choice and consequence gaming, character-driven story stuff, to that little iPhone or the little Android device?" No one has really done that, and so for me personally, I'm looking at that as an opportunity and hoping I get a chance to do it.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-03-16-warren-spector-a-lifetime-of-achievements

Damian79 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:27:44 PM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 21, 2012, 09:16:50 PM

Quote from: Timber on March 21, 2012, 09:12:05 PM
Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 21, 2012, 09:06:10 PM
Spector claimed 700 people were working on it

lol what the hell?

Time to set up a Kickstarter!

I hope he's just talking about the entire publishing arm. Like marketing people, business people, testers, Disney reps, etc/

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So, I'm right there, I'm trying to figure out what the future holds, I'm trying to figure out how do I continue to make the kinds of relatively deep, player driven experiences that I want to do, not just on the console, but on mobile phones, etc. You ask how do I feel about iOS: I mean, if the opportunity were to present itself, if I ever left Disney, not that I'm planning on doing that - we have over 700 people around the world working on our new game now. But I would love to do a game with four guys. And the iOS, or mobile platforms are the place where you can actually do that again. So, I have a strong interest in mobile games, and I would love to try that. I think a lot about "how do I bring that idea that playstyle matters and choice and consequence gaming, character-driven story stuff, to that little iPhone or the little Android device?" No one has really done that, and so for me personally, I'm looking at that as an opportunity and hoping I get a chance to do it.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-03-16-warren-spector-a-lifetime-of-achievements

It is for all 3 consoles. So it doesnt surpirse me. But i want his duck tales game dammit that he want to make.

Timber · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:28:49 PM »

Nowadays it takes you longer to watch the credits for a big pub AAA game than it takes to actually play it, so yeah it's probably a whole lot of localization or whatever.

I never played the first game but it looks like a cryogenically frozen N64 title. What's keeping them from making a cool Disney 2D platformer with Rayman Originish art?

Timber · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:29:36 PM »

Rayman Origins, probably.

Ach...

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:49:08 PM »

I didn't hate the first game, but I have no desire for a sequel

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:50:02 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on March 21, 2012, 09:32:07 PM

yeah, first game sold insanely well considering what it was. there was no question there would be a sequel.

"what it was" = "on Wii"

etiolate · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2012, 09:59:55 PM »

I liked Epic Mickey. Good action/adventure title of which there is less and less of over time.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2012, 10:47:19 PM »

A musical. Because Rhapsody sold tons, right guys?

Momo · « **Reply #12 on:** March 21, 2012, 10:50:20 PM »

I cant seem to care for Mickey Mouse anymore, had my fun with the 16bit eras gems. meh at this. Give me another 2D Aladdin instead :/

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #13 on:** March 21, 2012, 10:55:00 PM »

I watched part of some playthroughs of the first on youtube because I was interested in it but it looked like a subpar game to me, but I didn't play it so...

It seemed to have an interesting premise/story. The gameplay just looked not so hot.

magus · « **Reply #14 on:** March 22, 2012, 08:11:26 AM »

it is a subpar game,the 2D section are nice and take inspiration from a variety of ancient disney cartoons,but the 3D one are horribly bland and boring even through thereoticaly they take inspiration from disneylands ride's (for example the first level should take inspiration from "it's a nice world" but it's just a bunch of pipes and slugs with no tought or effort put in it) there is a super stupid gimmick where you are equipped with paint and thinner,you use thinner to make some platform vanish or destroy enemies,or you can use paint to make some platform appears or alternatively brainwash enemies but it just seems there because western games are about CHOICES

and this game feature moral choice's! deep one like "should mickey go do the boring fetch quest and be nice to the NPC or should mickey just skip the boring fetch quest and be mean to the NPC?"
i like this part the best

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So, at the onset of the game, Spector says, the team “set up the silliest choice you could possibly have, which is you can either get a treasure, making you richer and more powerful, or you can free a trapped Gremlin. And you can’t have both, which one do you want?”

What Spector should have known is that at one point, a tester would figure out a way to get the treasure and save the Gremlin. Spector’s carefully planned tool to teach players that they would have to give up some things was found to have a hole in it, and the gamemaker could not have been happier.

“For almost any other developer, that’s a bug. For me, it’s a celebration,” he said.

what a friggin tool

anyway the most fun i had was collecting all the reference to the old cartoons so back when i played i compiled a nice list of every cartoon that's featured in the game and here's it again,some links might be missing since it's a pretty ancient list

Mickey and the beanstalk
Steambot Willie
Mickey Steamroller
Plutopia
Oh What a Knight!
Trolley Troubles
Great Guns
Thru The Mirror
Alpine Climbers
Clock Cleaners
Mickey's mechanical man
Jungle Rhytm
The Castaway
The Whalers
Shanghaied
Lonesome Ghosts
The Mad Doctor
Haunted House
Ye Olden Days
Sleeping Beauty
Fantasia Sorcerer's Apprentice

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #15 on:** March 22, 2012, 09:50:37 AM »

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116448-Epic-Mickey-2-is-a-Musical

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"I love the co-op and next-gen stuff, but for me, when a character breaks into song, which they do on a regular basis in this game, it's magic."

that won't be annoying at all

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #16 on:** March 22, 2012, 10:25:44 AM »

you're probably right

fuck, i just realized something

i'm gonna have to listen to that shit for hours and hours

goddamn you, warren spector

goddamn you

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #17 on:** March 22, 2012, 03:00:49 PM »

Who is actually writing the songs? That seems awfully salient.

cool breeze · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2012, 02:08:26 AM »

"700 man team"

shows recycled area from first game

chronovore · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2012, 06:04:07 AM »

They're going for a slightly different look.

I guess they always want to go "more edgy" when going for the sequel.

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Sho Nuff · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2012, 11:40:55 AM »

I like how they're taking the power of 360/PS3 and still using their horrible Wii rendering style

chronovore · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2012, 06:36:56 PM »

Because: Epic Rehash

cool breeze · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2012, 10:38:34 PM »

3DS game might actually be good. It's being done by the people who did Henry Hatsworth and Monster Tale.

Tasty · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2012, 10:45:31 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on March 23, 2012, 10:38:34 PM

3DS game might actually be good. It's being done by the people who did Henry Hatsworth and Monster Tale.

And is probably 2D/sprite-based, going off a tease post by a Nintendo Power editor on GAF.

Definitive version.

Trent Dole · « **Reply #24 on:** March 23, 2012, 10:47:54 PM »

Shit game is best on shit console, whodathunkit?

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #25 on:** March 24, 2012, 07:09:21 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on March 22, 2012, 09:50:37 AM

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116448-Epic-Mickey-2-is-a-Musical

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"I love the co-op and next-gen stuff, but for me, when a character breaks into song, which they do on a regular basis in this game, it's magic."

that won't be annoying at all

Made me lol softly.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #26 on:** March 26, 2012, 02:50:35 PM »

Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two GameCubes duct tape together

cool breeze · « **Reply #27 on:** March 27, 2012, 12:25:57 PM »

other details about the 3DS game, stolen from other places:

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Power of Illusion is being put together by DreamRift, the studio behind 2011's Monster Tale for the Nintendo DS. The game, which is its own side-scrolling, platforming title (instead of a mere port of The Power of Two), is a follow-up to Epic Mickey, but more interestingly, it's also a follow-up to Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, a 1990 game for the Sega Genesis!

Power of Illusion will make heavy use of the Nintendo 3DS's stylus. By tapping the item icons exist in every level, you'll be able to "paint" (trace) those items into existence, including cliffs, cannons, and floating platforms. The more precisely you trace, the better for Mickey. A flawlessly-painted canon will only damage Mickey's enemies, for instance, but if you mess up the painting, the canon will be a danger to everyone in the area.

Sometimes you'll need to erase objects, which is done by spreading thinner. Again, the stylus comes into play here.

The hand-drawn sprites in Power of Illusion are extremely compelling, and, thanks to scrolling parallax backgrounds (a heavily-used graphic technique in the days of 16-bit gaming), reportedly look great in sterescopic 3D. Even better, every level in the game is based on an animated Disney adventure, from "Sleeping Beauty" to "Tangled" and lots in between.

As a final declaration of oldschool love, every character that Mickey saves in Power of Illusion will take up residence in the fortress that Mickey uses as his home base, a confirmed nod to the esteemed Suikoden RPG series. Sometimes you find references in the unlikeliest of places, but that's part of what makes video games fun. Right?

There's no release date set for Power of Illusion (Fall 2012 is a general target), but expect lots more information on this game as the weeks march on like Mouseketeers.

tl:dr: 2D platformer, jumping through different disney worlds (like KH without the fuck), made by competent developer.

I'm looking forward to it.

also the surely shitty version is coming to PC or something

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #28 on:** March 27, 2012, 12:30:04 PM »

I will secretly look forward to the 3DS games while I publicly trash it to piss off ninthingzzz.

Quote from: Andrex on March 23, 2012, 10:45:31 PM

Definitive version.

STFU NINTHING!

Enl · « **Reply #29 on:** March 27, 2012, 05:09:13 PM »

Bebpo · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2012, 05:14:13 PM »

Wow, that looks old-school in a good way.

Tasty · « **Reply #31 on:** March 27, 2012, 05:29:30 PM »

Holy major childhood flashback, Batman!

Tasty · « **Reply #32 on:** March 27, 2012, 05:29:52 PM »

(Cue joke about that flashback being from yesterday or something.)

Himu · « **Reply #33 on:** March 27, 2012, 05:33:32 PM »

Looks like a Genesis Mickey game.

aka bonertown.

Was mad this thread was being constantly bumped to the top because really - "who gives a shit", but I'm glad something good out of me clicking this thread.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #34 on:** March 27, 2012, 06:53:04 PM »

Holy shit I watched the trailer and it looks nothing like the old games. what is this shit.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #35 on:** March 27, 2012, 06:53:59 PM »

Are there different versions?

magus · « **Reply #36 on:** March 27, 2012, 07:09:33 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on March 27, 2012, 06:53:59 PM

Are there different versions?

there is a modern HD version which is just the sequel of the previous game that launches on all 3 console's,and then there is a 3DS version which is 2D and it's the one featured in the screenshot above

the 2D one is developed by the team that did harry hatsworth and that monster game i can't remember the name

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #37 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:24:24 PM »

Quote from: Andrex on March 27, 2012, 05:29:30 PM

Holy major childhood flashback, Batman!

you had a flashback to six months ago?

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cool breeze · « **Reply #38 on:** March 27, 2012, 08:41:24 PM »

more pictures:

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it looks awesome. supposedly uses touch screen for stuff or else I'd say bring this XBLA/PSN/Steam.

Tasty · « **Reply #39 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:16:04 PM »

Well the brush is inherently suited for the stylus, but who knows if these devs will capitalize on it.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #40 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:16:34 PM »

it'll be like Okamiden, I bet you.

EmCeeGrammar · « **Reply #41 on:** March 27, 2012, 09:42:24 PM »

I hope its not like those weird ds games that required you to hold the stylus in one hand while you use the face buttons to jump around and attack. Hopefully they come up with something tactful. 2d in 3d is amazing. Best showcase of the 3d gimmick.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 27, 2012, 10:42:29 PM »

I loved Castle of Illusion, I would almost buy a 3DS for this.

Rman · « **Reply #43 on:** March 27, 2012, 10:43:52 PM »

Weird that it is 3DS. Looks like a DS can handle this game. Not saying this facetiously. I love old school sprite work.

Shaka Khan · « **Reply #44 on:** March 27, 2012, 11:02:12 PM »

Quote from: Andrex on March 27, 2012, 05:29:30 PM

Holy major childhood flashback, Batman!

It's hard for me to imagine a time when you owned a Sega system.

Owl-faced Wizard · « **Reply #45 on:** March 27, 2012, 11:17:41 PM »

It's almost certain to be better than the Genny games. Awesome presentation but pretty perfunctory gameplay.

Tasty · « **Reply #46 on:** March 27, 2012, 11:52:13 PM »

Quote from: Shaka Khan on March 27, 2012, 11:02:12 PM

Quote from: Andrex on March 27, 2012, 05:29:30 PM
Holy major childhood flashback, Batman!

It's hard for me to imagine a time when you owned a Sega system.

You know me too well.

The childhood flashback was to Magical Quest!

Very similar graphics to the scans. I heard the Illusion games rocked too.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #47 on:** April 05, 2012, 11:48:57 AM »

EmCeeGrammar · « **Reply #48 on:** April 05, 2012, 07:12:35 PM »

That's wii footage. Where is the pointer? The video looked a little janky but I'm a little more confident that maybe they'll have their shit together this time. I skipped the first one so I won't care what is or isn't recycled in the sequel.

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