How I remade Game™ in-
YOU FOOL!
How difficult is it to call it something like Toby Bird's Overground? Feels particularly silly on somewhere like Youtube, where if the video blows up it's likely any future hopes for your project will too (and this could happen at any arbitrary point in the future, though probably with a change of staff or just before a new competing title is about to be released).
That and I feel that at least a little plausible deniability (while matching the feel) would add to the "Hey, has anyone ever told you that you look like Tony Hawk?" joke.
(see also the video
PSA: A Message to Unofficial Fan Game Creators)Eh, it's a POC, I highly doubt they'll finish it and try to monetize it. They just want to show what's possible with a small amount of work.
I'm not even talking about monetization, just that they're making and announcing something that is obviously DMCA-bait. Even the video could be taken down without consequence (even if it didn't have monetization enabled, also the corp could force enable and get the money). This is a common thing that happens and it seems completely pointless and easy to avoid (again, even just plausible deniability/under-the-radar level).
If somebody was going to make a video cooking something "just for fun"/learning, I'd also say they should still try to be mindful of food safety rather than saying "if I get food poisoning, I can deal with that. Don't do-as-I-do".
Or in other words, just have some discretion.
Really interesting video, though sadly I never played the original.
It was pretty great, basically an open world THPS. You'd level up your skills but using them, get quests from people in the world, and join tournaments to progress to the next area. It was a lot of fun, and I really hope it gets a revisit.
Not exactly open world as there were distinct levels you would beat, and warp between.
American Wasteland was the first “open world” TH game. Followed by Proving Ground and Project 8. Although AW was basically the same as UG except the levels were separated by long ass hallways to give the effect that it was one world. No loading screens though!
Playing the remake of Tony hawk pro skater 1+2 makes me want remakes of all the classics...
That was the plan before Activision was unimpressed by the numbers.
I do wish that particular remake had included Underground's addition of being able to get off the board and just walk around. It's so much easier to setup a line when you can walk and not just constantly coast around.
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I wish Underground, Underground 2 and American Wasteland got remasters.
I don't remember them being well liked at the time, but they were the best ones IMO. The only disappointment in American Wasteland was that by UG2, the series was perfected. Wasteland just gave us more of the same, and I guess to many that was already boring. Plus there was just a lot of people that hated Bam Margera in general.
Thug 1 had one of the best story lines in any game I've played.
