samuraiX said:
Though it is inevitable that eventually the home Neo hardware will die it is still a bit saddening. I wanted to be here 10 years from now buying new Neo games to play on my 23 year old system. While this may not be the tell all end all end of the neo it is certainly another hash on the ever growing sheet that will bring the downfall of the current Neo hardware setup.
goodtimes had by all
This could still be the case man. It just means that by then ALL NEO:GEO MVS games would be being programmed via that Dev Kit
BarfHappy is talking about and to my understanding using to program that Neo
Vampire Killer game, done by a consortium of fans of different talents from either a particular region (same city) or from all over the world. Then "Limited" releases of MVS and/or AES carts would be produced (it can't be that hard to make, it just take some money) based on assured "Pre-Sells" by the die-hard community. *Actually in my mind this would be a good thing in the long run, if enough people took the idea seriously... which in the past it doesn't look like it. Unlike other systems like Super Fami and MEGA DRIVE, the NEO is the only system that still gets any love to begin with. If done "By the gamers, for the gamers" in the same vein as Fan Subbing only as a
Professional Hobby, and I know there's got to be some very talanted programmers out here, along with artists, musicians, writers/visual concept designers (that be me) games for the NEO:GEO could be made that SNKP could never get away with.
for example I've had in my mind a FPS game that would play more or less like a much more bad ass version of DOOM, and have the clarity and bigness of
Super Spy but going in actual "Faux 3-D" directions this time instead of side to side. Ammo could be re-spawn in locations no different from current games, and would be about a animatedly violent (i.e. bloody) as possible. The premise would be about You as apart of a band of American Guerrillas fighting against a near-future "Iron Boot" Federal Government that labled anyone not in step with their regime a "Criminal"... well in the game you'd be amongst the labeled to fight back and take it to the man. First Person style and with that classic 16-Bit NEO:GEO look! ---Sure it wouldn't be
HALO, but on the MVS it be cool and you know it. I could imagine even seeing something like that in a cab six years up the road, and seeing the looks on peoples faces when they see the Pre-game Intro, done in a fashion similar to that of
Operation Thunderbolt.
...so we very well could still be buying and even participating in the creation if not poliferation of NEO games in the future, it would just take SERIOUS ppl to do it. *My talents lie in concept design and writing, other than that most of what I've design documents for, and character desgins by a damned skilled artist of mine can go nowhere... and that's just on my end. ***As for the official END OF MVS? I sure hope we get a few more games out of SNKP cause
KOF 2003 being it's swan song just doesn't sit right with me.
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