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I miss ball rolling games
- Thread starter MetalLord
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A new Super Monkey Ball would be nice. Though if you like ball rolling and pinball, Yoku's Island Express has you playing as a Dung Beetle who's rolling a ball around an Island and traverse through pinball boards around the island just to deliver some mail and save the island from the "God Eater". While the last statement sounds dark, the game is actually super chill and lighthearted. The actual ball rolling is only there to walk around the world though.
always thought cerny should make a marble madness spiritual successor. make it a roguelike or something
also tumbleseed is cool. it's like a 2d version of this:
also tumbleseed is cool. it's like a 2d version of this:
Also, Glover 2 is being finished and released!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pikointeractive/status/988488828942995462
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pikointeractive/status/988488828942995462
I know it's not the same, but Tumbleseed sort of scratched that same itch for me.
This genre would be perfect for Switch (tm) with gyro and HD rumble.
This genre would be perfect for Switch (tm) with gyro and HD rumble.
The latter.
The series peaked with Super Monkey Ball 2, and they've been declining in quality ever since.
Marble Blast Ultra has some weird PC Port or something. Game is a blast. Black Diamond was such a fun level.
Super Monkey Ball on switch seems like it should have already happened by now. It's one of those perfect systems to build the game for. Especially with the joycons being there and all.
Sega seriously what's so goddamn hard about just re-releasing the first two Super Monkey Ball games? You don't even have to put any effort in to making a new one. Just release the originals again.
- Octagonal gate for the left analog stick makes going full speed ahead 68% more satisfying
- Statistically, 100% of good Monkey Ball games have used the Gamecube controller
I think the Vita game was.....ok. The stage design itself is the best since SMB2 imo, but there's a number of poor decisions that let the game down and I think in their quest to bring the hardcore back to Super Monkey Ball they went a bit too far and it was a bit too punishing.
I didn't play the last one on PS2 (Super Monkey Ball Adventure?), but it looked bad. I remember being very disappointed with the one on Wii (Banana Blitz). I have Step and Roll also but I really didn't play enough of that one to form an opinion, it looks interesting, I'm just not sure how well the balance board was implemented.
I freaking loved this one on PSP. Was an instant day one console launch title for me.
That game was fucking amazing.
Holy shit nostalgia.
You've just reminded me and now I've just seen there's a Rock of Ages 2. What a day.
Finally, it's time for Kirby Tilt 'n Tumble 2. I just know someone at HAL or Nintendo was waiting for this thread to be made so they could resume production on it.
I'm developing one (actually a remake of the 1986 game Spindizzy). It will be free (completely, source code and all), but I can't give a release date yet.
A bit of self-advertising, but the museum I work at just released The Original Mobile Games app, which recreates actual ball-rolling games from our collections, some of which are over 100 years old. It also includes high res images, thus the file size, of the original games and some background information about them.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-original-mobile-games/id1397502255?mt=8
Free, with downloadable games of course (I think its like $5 for them all). Also going to be streaming them tomorrow.
A bit different than Marble Madness, but still really neat in my biased opinion.
Android version is coming, with possibly more on the way after that.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-original-mobile-games/id1397502255?mt=8
Free, with downloadable games of course (I think its like $5 for them all). Also going to be streaming them tomorrow.
A bit different than Marble Madness, but still really neat in my biased opinion.
Android version is coming, with possibly more on the way after that.
Someone on the old forum made a game called 'Road to Ballhalla' : http://roadtoballhalla.com/hp/index.html
Might be something worth looking into!
Might be something worth looking into!
Never heard of this game before so I looked it up quickly. Is it almost like a ball rolling metroidvania almost? I saw whoever playing pull up a map and it it look kinda sprawling. Look forward to trying your remake!
It's more like non-linear Marble Madness with some puzzles thrown in. You don't gain any abilities in the game to access new areas; you can just explore in any direction you like from the start. And yeah, kinda sprawling; 386 rooms in total.
There are lots of indie ones actually, I see them pop up on Steam often enough.
I never played these games much myself but my most favorite is Metaball which was a free Unreal Tournament 2004 modification. It had a cool dreamy atmosphere that reminded me of Nights into Dreams in some ways, it also had hints of the 3D Mario game design with the way the camera angles change at appropriate places within the same level for example. It was quite pretty and clever and had a hub world and in the actual levels various different types of challenges like speed, platforming, navigation/exploration in the more open environments, puzzles, operating devices other than your character/ball, whatever. You also had to change between ball materials of different properties to overcome certain challenges. Overall it was a really good package but sadly it never gained much traction with the UT2004 mod fanbase. I think it was going to be remade as an indie game at some point or get a sequel but it never came to be in the end.
There aren't any good quality videos out there, I guess it was before youtube was all the rage (or at all?) but I found this guy's playthrough, it has the wrong aspect ratio and he's also playing quite dumb in parts even though he's finished it before these videos (so you don't see the intro or anything even if you start at part 1).
I never played these games much myself but my most favorite is Metaball which was a free Unreal Tournament 2004 modification. It had a cool dreamy atmosphere that reminded me of Nights into Dreams in some ways, it also had hints of the 3D Mario game design with the way the camera angles change at appropriate places within the same level for example. It was quite pretty and clever and had a hub world and in the actual levels various different types of challenges like speed, platforming, navigation/exploration in the more open environments, puzzles, operating devices other than your character/ball, whatever. You also had to change between ball materials of different properties to overcome certain challenges. Overall it was a really good package but sadly it never gained much traction with the UT2004 mod fanbase. I think it was going to be remade as an indie game at some point or get a sequel but it never came to be in the end.
There aren't any good quality videos out there, I guess it was before youtube was all the rage (or at all?) but I found this guy's playthrough, it has the wrong aspect ratio and he's also playing quite dumb in parts even though he's finished it before these videos (so you don't see the intro or anything even if you start at part 1).
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