Bomberman was the first Battle Royale game

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Bomberman was the first Battle Royale game Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 13:01:15 707cee No.16511421

>Last Man Standing

>Shrinking area

>Randomized loot

So are games like PUBG the spiritual successor to Bomberman? bomberman general, I guess

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 13:15:04 d882f1 No.16511436

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>>16511421

That's actually not too farfetched.

I also tought about this when I was trying Saturn Bomberman out and stumbled on the "wide" battle stage, that is just a fucking huge stage where 12 players have to navigate while looking like ants on the screen.

I bet if someone actually tried making a Bomberman Battle Royale it would work better than Tetris 99, and that worked surprisingly well.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 13:22:47 5a0a8b No.16511443

>>16511421

>Shrinking area

The area expands, you retard. The battlefield starts off cluttered with a lot of brick blocks that limit the space you can traverse. Once everyone starts blowing up the blocks, the area expands for all players because there is now more ground to walk upon.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 13:25:18 ee7b22 No.16511458

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>>16511436

>Tetris 99

sucks, if you're merely good you will be targeted and destroyed instantly by everybody else, and only freaks who play 99 hours a week will ever crack the top 30. and you have to buy a shitch and some gay subscription to even play it, lame.

t. never played it because of that FUCKING subscription

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 13:25:43 7c81d4 No.16511462

>>16511443

He's talking about when you take too long and blocks start raining down from the sky, reducing the playable area, dingus.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 13:30:04 707cee No.16511471

>>16511443

I don't think you remember it fondly. Once the timer is at a certain point, the map begins to shrink. Similar to how PUBG does it with it's blue zone. You can see this around 4:10 in vid related.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 13:44:56 a5f830 No.16511499

Shrinking battlefields is a really common approach to implementing Sudden Death in games. Worms does something similar with the rising water level.

Really though the big pull of Battle Royale is the scale. It's that "be the last standing out of 100 people" part which gets people interested. In a way, it's actually derived from hardcore pvp in MMOs (complete with permadeath and player looting), but put in a context where players don't mind loosing all their shit every time they die.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 14:02:22 d882f1 No.16511525

>>16511458

>the game sucks because you have to be good at it to win

git gud

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 14:26:36 5f467f No.16511555

Counterpoint:

The battle royal genre only exists because the FPS and TPS market stagnated with team based games because it's easier to force a win rate with multiple players on a team

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 15:45:39 7c81d4 No.16511708

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Reminder that Max is the best bomber.

And then they made him a fucking Switch exclusive in R.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 16:10:47 3e19ec No.16511766

what would be the "best" pc equivalent? don't mind emulating emulating either but preferably pc

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 16:38:13 f04798 No.16511811

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>>16511458

>being angry at a non-bomberman game in a bomberman thread

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 16:47:13 87ac04 No.16511825

>>16511421

"Battle royale" used to be a catch-all term for a free for all gamemode with last man standing rules. In fact, Bomberman titles have used the term "battle royale" to describe their multiplayer mode (when other modes are available). It's a shame that the term was co-opted to refer to a genre made up entirely of shit games, even though the usage is correct.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 16:58:32 0a31f3 No.16511847

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Sorry OP, the first battle royale game was probably Eliminator.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 17:06:51 3e19ec No.16511870

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>>16511847

predates it by two years but this is pushing it

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 17:14:11 dcdb02 No.16511887

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>>16511708

>Bomberman

>All those amazing top down single player games that came out

>Hudson at its peak

>Bomberman Quest could have been an entire sub-series on its own

>Bomberman Jetters was quite good

>Bomberman could have kept going with mainline 2D games, 3D sidegames and crossovers

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 17:17:25 5faf1f No.16511896

>>16511887

Replay them all in order if you like them so much

I bet you didn't play 50% of the games at all.

Especially super obscure games like that chess bomberman for ps1 that I played in japanese and never understood what the fuck was happening but still managed to beat the lava dude at one of the corners of the map.

Attempting to replay recently, but it's just way too slow

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 17:32:42 b44e43 No.16511948

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>>16511887

>>16511896

What 5faf1f says. Nothing stopping you playing most of the old games and having fun.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 19:35:45 0ca2b4 No.16512376

Can Power Bomberman be played online against others yet?

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 21:45:55 dcdb02 No.16512809

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>>16511896

>>16511948

>Lamenting about lost potential and reminiscising about better times

<HUUUUURRR DUUUUR PLAY THEM AGAIN DUUUURRR

<I bet you aren't even a real game like us who played them in japanese

The issue isn't about being able or not to replay them, unless you're a redditor or any other flavour of casualniger, it's about the sad fact that these kinds of games and times will never come back or capitalize on untapped potential. Only normalniggers hate untapped potential because it includes thought and work from both devs and players to become reality.

Anonymous 05/27/19 (Mon) 23:02:09 5faf1f No.16512983

>>16512809

>capitalize on untapped potential

On the bright side, you can be the one who revives bomberman under some other name. It's easier nowadays than it ever was to make games and sell them independently