Time Extend Revo

In 1997, Genki released a racing game. Not that racing game - it was called MRC for the N64. Far as we can tell, nobody bought it. We already talked about it once, 5 years ago. Now we're talking about it again. Not entirely sure why. Anyway, new episode. time-extend-revo.simplecast.com/episodes/mrc-a…

they. will. awaken.

PSA: Screamer now has a demo on PlayStation and Xbox 🗣️

The May 19th "I'm a Japan enthusiast, I swear" starter kit.

𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨, 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙧, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩...our podcast all about Screamer is finally live! time-extend-revo.simplecast.com/episodes/screa…

Flashback to the earliest of episodes from @time_extend

Massive thanks to everyone who've taken the time to respond to this so far. Our next pod recording is on Screamer so trying to get a temperature check on how people feel about the game and it has been useful.

Screamer hasn't been a hit out of the gate, with middling word of mouth and a very low player count for a new release. A sign of the times in terms of the appetite for full-price AAA arcade racing games that aren't Horizon; or a confused release strategy from Milestone?

@NoahH07357449 Choose any sales/player chart you want dude - it's not hiding the reality on this one, sadly.

@time_extend Y'all still show Steam charts?

@Revz_RoadRacer Very well written thoughts; appreciate the effort in this post.

I've got several Friends that completely wrote the game off because of stupid nitpicks. It took developers away from ride 6 and that's why it's bad, The art style between the cutscenes and the real game conflict, It's a milestone game It can't be that good, The visual novel sections aren't laid out correctly, the translations aren't perfect, twin stick drifting bad... I mean I streamed it for 2 hours for them just to have a good look at it and they did nothing but bitch and bitch and bitch... Okay, great I don't care about any of that. The game has probably the most intelligent boost and combat system I think I've ever seen in a racing game and it's incredibly fun. It's the first arcade racer that rewards you for driving well instead of driving dangerously. That's cool. Plus I appreciate a racing game having an actually intelligently written story, Even if the writing is a tiny bit of a rollercoaster between edgy and serious. Literally the only criticism that I think was valid out of all the things that they said, the price. Apparently milestone didn't do any regional pricing, so although the game was mostly fairly priced here in the US, apparently around the world it is f****** ridiculous. I can sympathize with that. But almost every other problem they had was nitpicks and criticisms that are in my opinion totally unfair because they're judging it against a game that doesn't exist. Screamer does exist and it's a very good game. Perfect, No, but worthy of building off of absolutely.

@GamerAlexVideos Digital only; we don't have physical at this point outside of the UK I think

@time_extend Isn't that just for physical copies though?

It does look concerning, but I'd be curious to see what the actual sales numbers are since its hard to gauge it from just player counts and reviews. We used to rather accurate ownership numbers from Steam, but they had changed something a while back that messed this up.

@ingueferroque How many other proper Arcade racers that aren't kart racers do you know which releases at a £60/£70 price point? We don't have too many examples to use nowadays

@time_extend This has nothing to do with arcade games not being wanted. I just didn't want this one at full price. The faux anime and presentation turned me off. I was a fan of the original three Screamer games.

@TorpedoArma_ It's put it into the AAA bracket as a result of the pricing though, yknow?

@time_extend this game is far from AAA, it just has the AAA pricing lol

- People seem unsure of the control scheme, and the lack of a demo doesn't help. 2h may not be enough to get a hang of it. - The mindset of "dollars per hour" in pricing hurts Screamer, even though it does have a lot of content - People wanted a story, but don't like VNs I guess

@WeaselThat Online point is definitely true. Hopefully something that can be made better over time!

@time_extend I'd say it's both, along with a control scheme that might divide people into Screamer being a "Loce it or Hate it" kind of game plus buggy-ass online races.

Note: We are planning a Screamer 2026 pod, this was one we recorded earlier in the year that has been released from the vault.

In 1997, Genki released a racing game. Not that racing game - it was called MRC for the N64. Far as we can tell, nobody bought it. We already talked about it once, 5 years ago. Now we're talking about it again. Not entirely sure why. Anyway, new episode. time-extend-revo.simplecast.com/episodes/mrc-a…

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