X-Men Arcade game coming to Xbox live and PSN
 

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Yup, been discussing the awesomeness of this in te videogame news thread. WELCOME TO DIE :heart:

Win.

I'll have to buy this, loved it as a kid!

Fuck. Yes.

I'm so glad it's true. :D

Super

Never played this before with all 6 people. I think the max I did as a kid was 4. I am most excited about that.

I play this often on my friend's MAME cabinet. It's as great as always

i remember spending so much money and always getting my ass kicked at this game

Really enjoyed this one back in the day, glad to see that we will finally get the game on consoles.

Great.

Cool, haven't played this since 1st grade.
I always loved how ridiculous that game is - they give Juggernaut a gun....because I guess he wasn't strong enough already.

I'd always hear the opening and/or Colossus' roar when I'd be in an arcade. Every time.

Memories. :'(

Awesome.

I never used anyone other than Colossus. Ever.

Colossus had the best power for sure.
Some characters had some lame ass powers like Cyclops.

Cyclops' special does a ton of damage. I think it does more than anyone's actually. The challenge is getting it to connect though. It can only connect from a front on hit. It doesn't spread fire over a large area like the others.

Nightcrawler's special is pretty weak compared to the others, but he's easily the best in hand to hand combat. He's mad quick, and you can go a long time kicking copious amounts of ass without getting touched once.

Wolverine is just solid all around. Colossus, Nightcrawler and Wolverine is the trio to send in

Nice.

Dazzler is a waste of pixels. My dead lord why is she in it?

It always disappoined that this game sported the 80s X-Men look, but didn't come out until after the major Jim Lee makeover and the animated series.
As a kid in that era, naturally I expected to see the updated Cyclops and Storm, and wondered why Dazzler would be there when Gambit, Beast and Rogue were nowhere to be found

Releasing alternate costumes would be hot DLC. New characters would be hotter, but that's probably a big long shot.

I would absolute flip out with joy if they did that. I wondered what a sequel to that game with a stronger lineup would be like for years.
Adding more characters would be so mint.

I assumed she was just one of those characters who has/had a cult following in Japan at the time.
To her credit though, she did singlehandedly take out Juggernaut in the comics while on Muir Island....even if Juggie was more concerned with convincing her to go out on a date than actually fighting.


I would love to see some DLC X-Men rosters though - but it'll never happen.

It will be interesting to see if they do that. I mean, the game does not have much replay value. You can probably go through it with 6 players in about an hour? maybe 90 minutes? some alternate costumes or new characters would totally seal he deal. New levels would as well but that is even more hopeful than having alternate costumes or characters.

You can play through it much quicker than that. I'm not sure how long it takes, but it flies by. Maybe because it's just a boatload of fun, but I'd say the whole thing takes well under an hour. More like 30 minutes.

My friend has a MAME cabinet so I've played through just about every old beat em up in the past year or so. They're all great, but they're not as long as they seemed as a kid.

How hard would it really be to animate new characters though? They only do a few moves/motions. The technology is pretty simple. The characters jump, punch, do a special move, and the enemies take damage the same regardless of what's hitting them.

New characters can be tailored to play more or less in the same limitations.
If they add a second roster, the characters can even be chosen to fit the same balanced roles (Beast as the big guy a la Colossus, Gambit as the quick one a la Nightcrawler, etc.)

I'm not sure how it would be achieved, but it wouldn't really require any changes in the game as far as I can tell. It would just be an addition of more characters to choose from.
They went and re-animated the entire Turtles in Time beat em up. That was a pointless act and seems like it would require much more work.
I'd like to see 6 more characters added, like a whole new team, but they can mesh in with other combinations of old characters obviously.
How about...Beast, Gambit, Rogue, Psylocke, Iceman, Archangel? I think adding gun toters like Cable or Bishop would fuck with the existing gameplay a bit much.

Wouldn't bet on it. Like, at all.

Also, I've always liked the late 70's-80's x-men best. The roster and writing was never better, far as I'm concerned.

It won't happen. I'm just talking about how awesome it would be

I always liked that the 70s and 80s lineup made things more global. Everyone was from a different place. I never liked how Colossus and Nightcrawler sort of got edged out of Xmen stories in other media. I'm glad they kept them around in the comics in the early 90s at least.
Revamping original characters like Beast and Angel worked because they were there from the start.
I liked newer additions like Rogue and Gambit as well, because although American they represented subcultures. That's why they worked.
Then came the characters from the future, and the first few of those were good.

After that, not very many new X-Men stuck. I think it's because they lost focus of making them from distinct parts of the world, or just ran out of places.

I think it is that way because when you are a kid you tend to have limited money and you want to beat the game to have bragging rights. That's how it felt like for me at least.

dazzler whoooo!

Jubilee > Dazzler, imo.

Wonder if Pryde of the X-Men will get a re-release because of this.

What, the 1 episode? It'd be nice if they picked that era to focus on for cartoons, but it's unlikely.

It had higher quality for its time than you'd imagine.

That episode was just a pilot for the X-Men series that came later that year. They just decided to go with the updated Jim Lee art and a slightly different lineup.

I'm suprised they didn't just include it with the animated series dvds. It's not worth giving it's own release since it's just one short episode

I know, I've seen that pilot. I'm surprised it never got picked up, considering it's the kind of source material one could use to make a show that inherently appeals to kids while maintaining a slightly mature undertone to lure in older comic readers.

I still joke about the theme song to that episode to this day with one of my friends. Ridiculous

It was pretty different than the 90s cartoon. More canonical and better art overall.

It did get picked up though. That pilot was from the same year the X Men series debuted right? They just made some changes to the art, but the series covered real issues from X Men. Most of the episodes were direct adaptations from comics really