Hey, it’s your boy John Riggs here. He’s playing Strife Sisters, a “new” game for Turbo Grafx 16.
I mean…I’m not saying that it’s not a new game but my issue is the gimmicky bullshit where people release games for old consoles. It’s just a way to sell shitty old-style games for an inflated price.
If you sold this game on Steam, you’d have to charge 99 cents and it would be a struggle to sell any. But if you put it on an NES cartridge or something and sell them to losers in their mothers’ basements then you can charge fifty bucks for the game. Even if you only sell a couple of hundred, you made out like a bandit.
There’s a landline behind John Riggs. Do people still use landlines? I have still have the physical phone but I don’t plug it in because all I get are sales calls. And A LOT of sales calls. They must be preying on the elderly because who else uses a landline any more?
Anyway, this game is available right now. Link in the description.
John Riggs really pushes the shit that you can buy: games, hats, air freshners, electric bicycles. It’s less a Youtube channel and more a Turkish bazaar. Nobody fucking wants this. If I want an air freshner, I’ll go to the drug store and pick one up for 50p or whatever. I’m not going to go to John Riggs’ website and get one for ten bucks. Air freshners are not a luxury item.
Who are these people who are even using air freshners? The only time I’ve ever seen them is in cars. DECADES ago. Back when people smoked. And those air freshners didn’t work.
Anyway, you can get this game for $25 digitally, $60 physically, or $80 if you want the outer box too. There was also a limited edition version for $100 but that’s, unbelievably, sold out. $24.87 for a t-shirt. Interesting price.
Who’s getting this shit? I mean, I guess it’s kind of cool that there’s some factory in China that’s cranking out these Hu-cards but the whole thing is stupid. We don’t need Hu-cards. Just release it digitally. This fucking shitty game.
Well, maybe it’s not shitty. Maybe it’s awesome. Let’s check it out.
John Riggs never played the game and doesn’t know what he’s doing. Great stuff.
There doesn’t seem to be a walking animation during the battle sequences. The character just slides into position. Not good.
It’s some kind of…what’s the genre? Like X-Com or something. Turn-based combat.
So JOHN RIGGS plays the game, REALLY poorly, has no idea what he’s doing, obviously has no interest in the game, and then tells you to go buy it. Use his link, of course. This is an ad. A shitty ad. This didn’t make me want to buy the game. Maybe the game is awesome but not from what John Riggs showed.
I’m reminded of RPG Maker games. Has there ever been a good one?
Anyway, the people in the comments are much harsher on the game than I am.
- “Looks terrible”
- “This game looks boring….”
- “Ugly game it looks like nothing more than a reallly colorful nes game”
- “Misspellings in the text (“Tthe”) and the “g” and “p” characters in the text sit offset vertically from the rest of the characters in lines of text.”
Is there a better video about this game?
Wow. The official trailer actually makes me want the game LESS. It focuses on how cute it is. And that there are “cat people” in the game. Who is this for? Creepy sexual deviant nerds.
I have absolutely no confidence in this guy. I thought maybe the game might have some deep, strategic gameplay or something but if even the developer is focusing on this surface level weirdo shit, forget it. And there’s misspellings and things aren’t animated and there were reams of text. No. That’s a hard pass from me.
And to put that on a Hu-card as a finished game. Shameful. If it was released digitally only, you can say, “Well, he’ll presumably release patches.” He’s not going to be able to update these Hu-cards.
Just more mindless shilling from Riggs.
Absolute shit-tier grammar and punctuation in the trailer. Remember when you’d go to Rax, or wherever and there’d be posters on the wall with some pithy statements about roast beef? Those had capitalization and punctuation! Those days much like Rax, are long over. What did it say? Fight interesting enemies? Every single battle had orange blobs in them! 20+ years ago guys on Atari Age would make their own games. They’d give the roms for free and make 50 carts where they’d take a loss on making them just for the experience of having done it. Where is that spirit these days? JOHN RIGGS doesn’t have it. Maybe never did. How much is this shit? $60?! There’s a reason the TG16 didn’t sell. I know I had one. The games weren’t great. And those games were $50. They weren’t worth it mostly. If a game is worth the money people will run out and buy it. Look at all the Genesis and SNES games that were popular. People got their money’s worth. But this isn’t about enjoying a game anymore. It’s about hoarding worthless shit in the hope that you can cash out on this shit someday. Along with that you can lord it over absolute loser nobodies that you have something in “muh kuhlekshun” that someone else doesn’t have. Asshole fuck faces like the Immoral John Hancock come to mind. For the people that made this shit it’s a chance to prey on retard hoarders who inexplicably have money to burn. They must be on welfare or something because you couldn’t be smart enough to get a decent job if you don’t realize your throwing money away on this shit.
What truly sends me into nuclear pissed off mode is that fucking garbage like this gets more reach because they send copies out to faggots like this, basically a free commercial. I wager it probably cost $30 to manufacture the game. If you sold ONE copy from each video made from the ones you sent out you’ve broken even. And these retards are so addicted/brainwashed it’s got to be 50-100 per video, just if I had to guess.
Why not make it on a CD anyway? It would be way cheaper! No. Retards gotta retard. Gotta have muh physical medi-uhhh. I can’t wait for the home made games by the PlayStation and Xbox generation. They won’t give a fuck about any of this. They’ll just be on steam. Fuzzy, low poly, shit for $2 no one will ever remember, or never know existed in the first place.
I’m not familiar with Rax but there wasn’t actually much information about this game. There was just an hour long stream that got 90 views. So I’m thinking that John Riggs is the only one who agreed to shill for this game. John Riggs will shill for absolutely anything.
Rax was like an upscale Arbys in the Midwest. They had a salad bar. Looking at the comments on this guys channel that he wrote I think this guy doesn’t know English well and probably outsourced the whole thing.
Hey there I’m the developer for Strife Sisters. I stumbled upon this page trying to find something else through google. I think some of your points are fair but some are a little miss guided.
For some context, I’m a solo developer. I don’t have a budget for advertising I don’t (really) have a social media presence. I’m just a dude who tried to make a game for a console I love. I paid out of pocket for a pixel artist and a musician to help me out with the game and that’s about all I was willing to spend. In fact, I even had a friend edit (for free) my script for grammar and spelling and still managed to sneak some typos in there.
I didn’t have a team put together a sweet highly stylized trailer for me. I didn’t even have a youtube page until people were asking to see video of gameplay footage, so I recorded myself playing the first few levels so people could see. My generous daughter asked to put together a trailer for me, so I let her. Well, at least I thought it was cute an funny.
You’re absolutely right, John Riggs really didn’t give it any effort or attempt to understand my game at all. It’s frustrating watching someone play your game and show it off to the “world” and not even try to attempt to understand how it’s supposed to be played. Sending out some games to youtubers is pretty much all I did to “get my game out there”. One of the youtubers however, did beat and make a review for the game. I thought was pretty cool. None of the youtubers get any money from me in any fashion, links or otherwise.
As for the HuCards, they were actually made by hand here in the US. The manuals, boxes and games are all designed, printed, stapled, folded and put together by myself. The other poster is correct, it’s about $30 to put together a game so I charge about $60.
I think if the price, animations, grammar or lack of polished advertisements turn you off from buying it. That’s a totally valid position to have. It’s definitely not for everyone. In fact, I’ve learned through making this game just how niche strategy games are. But, I just wanted to clarify that this game is *not* made by a nefarious studio to extract wealth from collectards. Just a dude who puts most of my efforts into game making and less so brand-makin’.
Enjoyed reading your thoughts, cheers!
Interesting. Thanks for the information. Sorry if I was too harsh. Good luck with the game.