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[IbizaPocholo]

 

[Punished Miku]

More games like Streets of Rage 4 would be a dream come true.

 

[nush]

Altered Beast is the game nobody wants and Treasure as a developer no longer exist, so good luck with that Sega.

 

[Punished Miku]

Altered Beast is the game nobody wants and Treasure as a developer no longer exist, so good luck with that Sega.

Altered Beast will get people's attention. My guess is they'll try and find some high quality indie team that wants a shot. People have reason to be a little skeptical, but it definitely worked with Streets of Rage, and that's a far more prestigious IP than either of these.

 

[Kilau]

wise from your gwave!

 

[00Magnum Gaming]

Altered Beast is the game nobody wants and Treasure as a developer no longer exist, so good luck with that Sega.

Altered Beast is one of my favorite childhood games. What us old sega fans dont want is people like you

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Altered Beast is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to games people think is good but actually is not. The nostalgia for that game is off the charts and mostly anyone who plays it these days would drop it in less than 5 minutes. It doesn't hold up at all.
Give me Comix Zone, or Ecco, or Golden Axe, or Phantasy Star instead please.

 

[Raven117]

Rise from your grave!

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Altered Beast is the game nobody wants and Treasure as a developer no longer exist, so good luck with that Sega.

Speak for yourself, id love another Altered Beast “RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE “

 

[StueyDuck]

Everyone join in:

Speshal nick doesn't know shit...

He never has and he never will

 

[Boaty McBoatface]

Altered Beast is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to games people think is good but actually is not. The nostalgia for that game is off the charts and mostly anyone who plays it these days would drop it in less than 5 minutes. It doesn't hold up at all.
Give me Comix Zone, or Ecco, or Golden Axe, or Phantasy Star instead please.

I'll never understand the love for Altered Beast, even as a massive Sega fan.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Altered Beast is the game nobody wants and Treasure as a developer no longer exist, so good luck with that Sega.

One and done.
Plus, how would they bring these back? As 2D arcades that will be labeled “indie shit” the second the first screenshots are shown? Or as 3D “reimaginings” that couldn’t bank on nostalgia and that fans would shit on before any detail is disclosed?

And guys, seriously, Altered Beast is shit. Having nostalgia for AB is like having it for the Atari Lynx - you still haven’t gotten over having nothing to play on you rich kid’s toy when all the other kids were busy having fun on their piss-poor Nintendo machines.

 

[RoboFu]

I’d love an altered beast if done correctly.

 

[Red5]

I'll never understand the love for Altered Beast, even as a massive Sega fan.

Nostalgia, it's the first pack in game for the Mega Drive/Genesis, so it was the first Sega game for a lot of us back in the 90's. I still have fond memories of playing Bimini Run in 2 players even though that game is shit objectively.

 

[T-0800]

 

[Red5]

I would love a new Shinobi game by the Streets of Rage 4 studio, I think one of their concept artists even hinted at that or he just drew concept fan art of Joe Musashi in SOR4 style.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Everyone join in:

Speshal nick doesn't know shit...

He never has and he never will

Thank you. Nothing he said has ever come to fruition. He is a phony.

 

[the_master]

Great news
I think they will also add a bit more fantasy, imagination and nostalgia to games.

We all asume they’d be indie size games but how awesome would be a couple AAA titles on those universes

 

[Holammer]

Altered Beast could be funny if they did it as a hammy pixel art game. Have it done on the cheap by small indie dev and cash in on the nostalgia factor.
But it's NOT going to be that, it's going to be more of this with some freshly grated 'current year' on top.

 

[StueyDuck]

Thank you. Nothing he said has ever come to fruition. He is a phony.

He's good at taking substantial rumors from others and dressing them up as his own then people think he's some sort of messiah

He's just a basement dweller with a following for some reason, everyone can and should ignore him

 

[Team Andromeda]

Altered Beast is the game nobody wants and Treasure as a developer no longer exist, so good luck with that Sega.

Speak for yourself

 

[Calling 911 Melts Beams]

ableist username = opinion discarded

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Id love a new Golden Axe too, please.

 

[Team Andromeda]

Id love a new Golden Axe too, please.

To be honest we had it in all but name with Ryse. I so wish we would get Ryse 2. The 1st game played like a massive budget Golden Axe game

 

[Astray]

No Skies of Arcadia = No dice.

Literally the only franchise I care about from Sega that they aren't actively developing rn.

 

[El Muerto]

Let Platinum Games reboot them. I'd like to see both of them as fast paced crazy action games in the same vein as Metal Gear Rising and Vanquish.

 

[Crayon]

Nick was one of the dumbest regulars in this forum.

 

[ReBurn]

Altered Beast is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to games people think is good but actually is not. The nostalgia for that game is off the charts and mostly anyone who plays it these days would drop it in less than 5 minutes. It doesn't hold up at all.
Give me Comix Zone, or Ecco, or Golden Axe, or Phantasy Star instead please.

It was good in its time but a five level arcade side scroller meant to eat quarters wouldn't be appealing in that format today. Golden Axe was a similar structure and also wouldn't be popular without some changes. Of your list I think only Phantasy Star would be well-received by a modern audience.

I think adventure games based on the Altered Beast and Golden Axe IP's could be good if they were expanded and modernized but I'd hate to see them turned into Streets of Rage 4 derivatives.

 

[Beechos]

Altered beast was amazing back in the days. Alot of old school games haven't aged well at all and altered beast is one of them

 

[Kenshin775]

Altered Beast eh don't really want it. Gunstar Heroes on the other hand yes! Lets do this!

 

[The Pleasure]

Altered Beast? Damn Necromancers

 

[Fuz]

I dunno what some of you guys are smoking.

Altered Beast was fucking fantastic, cool as fuck, imaginative and had an awesome art direction.
Yes, gameplay would need to be polished a bit.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I dunno what some of you guys are smoking.

Altered Beast was fucking fantastic, cool as fuck, imaginative and had an awesome art direction.
Yes, gameplay would need to be polished a bit.

And when Sega replaced it with Sonic, a struggling console managed to stole Nintendo’s thunder for a couple of years.
Incredible that Kalinske had to insist about this.

 

[StereoVsn]

Altered Beast will get people's attention. My guess is they'll try and find some high quality indie team that wants a shot. People have reason to be a little skeptical, but it definitely worked with Streets of Rage, and that's a far more prestigious IP than either of these.

What genre would they even go with? Altra Beast was kind of weird, and I guess they could do another Beat'm'Up, but not sure how much uptake there would be.

 

[Quasicat]

No Skies of Arcadia = No dice.

Literally the only franchise I care about from Sega that they aren't actively developing rn.

Seriously, there were rumors of a remaster during the 360 era that never came to fruition. At this point, I’ve been happy with an incomplete 4k texture pack on Dolphin…but the real thing would be amazing!

 

[Punished Miku]

What genre would they even go with? Altra Beast was kind of weird, and I guess they could do another Beat'm'Up, but not sure how much uptake there would be.

Beat em up / platformer? It will be interesting to see lol

 

[93xfan]

I’ll take the latter

 

[Bartski]

Altered Best sucked but it’s also is my arcade childhood memory, I’d be totally rising from my grave day one . As long as it gets the TNMT retro treatment rather than getting „modernized” into a complete turd like that awful 3D golden axe game

 

[aclar00]

Id take both, but a couch co-op gunstar heroes would take the cake.

 

[diffusionx]

Altered Beast is the game nobody wants and Treasure as a developer no longer exist, so good luck with that Sega.

I want Altered Beast

 

[German Hops]

I’d love an altered beast if done correctly.

No one wants it, though.

 

[NeverYouMind]

I feel like Sega already did that in their own way...

 

[Frayed Ends of Sanity]

I'm ready for the revival of old genesis games. If they're as good as Sonic Mania and Streets of Rage 4 then I'll be more than happy. Maybe down the line a new Shinobi and Golden Axe too. Possibly Shining Force? Nah that one is probably never gonna happen

 

[Verchod]

Altered Beast? Jesus don't bother. I remember when it originally came out, it was shit then. Maybe they could do something with it now.

 

[Ozzie666]

Altered Beast, great concept with lots of potential. Remembered more fondly compared to how bad the game actually was. Questionable home versions on computers for sure. It would be cool to remake this game with modern technology and 2D or 2.5D graphics. But the game played slow and like trash on anything other than the arcade board. Even the arcade merits are dubious. Still a legendary game with its place in history.

1980's me loved it and it was the talk of the school yard. Pretty big deal with the Genesis and Amiga/ST/C64 releases too.

 

[Angelcurio]

Gunstar Heroes is one of my favorites run and gun games, definitely a jewel from the Sega Genesis Era.

 

[Days like these...]

I'd prefer they bring back dynamite heady but I'll settle for Gunstar

 

[Knightime_X]

Make Altered Beast extra gory and I'm on board.

 

[Mr Blobby]

third person altered beast could work

 

[cireza]

third person altered beast could work

So basically the PS2 game.