Capcom developing new side-scrolling game inspired by NES classic for Xbox Live, PSN, and Wii U; will launch this summer.
BOSTON--Today during Capcom's "World of Capcom" panel at PAX East, the publisher announced a new DuckTales title. Due out this summer on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, and eShop for Wii U, the game is in development at WayForward Technologies (BloodRayne: Betrayal).
According to Capcom, the new DuckTales title will feature authentic character voice talent from the television show. Its level backgrounds will also be based on scenes from the show.
Capcom explained that all art for the game is hand-drawn and that the team at WayForward used the original NES DuckTales title as a blueprint for the new version.
Gamers worried about the game deviating from Disney's original vision can breathe a sigh of relief. Capcom said it is working very closely with Disney to "make sure everything feels right." The game will play "just like you remember," the company explained.
The game's debut trailer is embedded below.
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Also, on the off chance anyone from capcom happens across the comments section: This is the way forward with the Megaman franchise. No shooters. No gritty, #edgy remakes. Simple, pretty, modern platformers with a strong attention to game mechanics. Remember, it doesn't need to be an homage to the past, it needs to BUILD on the past. Do not approach it as a retro project.
WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT -pants- Okay...I think... I THink I've WANT WANT WANT....damn. ... Alright. I've got control of myself now.
What I meant to say, if you'll pardon my breach of etiquette, is that I would thoroughly enjoy a brisk romp through the fertile pastures of my youth's imagination via the merrits of the Ducktales franchise, reborn.
1 Like One side of my gut is telling me to never get another Capcom product after the whole Megaman Legends screwjob. And the other is telling me to forgive them after this comes out.
(jingle) "Duck Tales a woooo ooohhhh! Duhn duhn duhn duhn duhn duhn duhn duhn A Woo Oooh." C'mon sing f****ts!
Please please let this be a good game. dont destroy get another of my childhood memories you ba******.
im pretty sure i still have the dos version of this game lying around someplace, talk about looking for old games to re-imagine!
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LEts have them remaked/remastered too!
As long as they allow me to dive in a giant pit of money and swim around while doing dolphin dives..I am sold!
@lilromeo0606
Yep! You can indeed swim in the money vault. It's one of the sections you can go to.
they don't even mention the music. Whether it'll be remixes of the old tracks or new ones altoghether.
I have a bad feeling...
@Icepick_Trotter
The entire soundtrack is being remixed!
Have faith, WayForward's sound guy Jake Kaufman is stupendous, it'll have a very good remixed soundtrack.
2 Like Yay now I get a refresh of a 25+ year old game, most likely, complete with obnoxious DLC just like the 80's...oh wait.
OHHH MAAAAAN!!! this is Awesome! I really can't wait for this one. brings back good memories.I still play the original.
4 Like @setuwa because one of the greatest two-hour blocks of cartoons contained Rescue Rangers, Duck Tales, Darkwing Duck and Tail Spin. Racing home from school to watch them and eat fruity pebbles was one of my favorite things to do....until I learned how to play with myself.
I hope they make the stages longer this time. It was a lot of fun to play as a kid (still have my NES cartridge), but it was a pretty short game.
Perfect time to link Peter McDuck Griffin's taking a dive. Moments like this remind me of how much I used to respect Capcom. Before all the DLC, the murder of the survival horror genre, the unwanted/unneeded changes to Dante and hidden stuff you have to pay to unlock. I still respect you Capcom, you just make it really difficult.
The words for this awesomeness can't be expressed in awesome words... LAUNCHPAAAAAAAAAAD!
>=)
"Duck Tales, a Woo Oooh! Dan dan dan dan, a Woo Ooooh!" Does anyone remember the theme? If not, you're not human...
1 Like @erix43 Lol. In Blade Runner, they test to see if you are a replicant by asking you to sing the Ducktails theme song.
1 Like SWEET! They should also remaster Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and make it a 2-Pack!!!
1 Like Capcom better not mess up the music to the Moon level. Best video game music theme ever.
@electro57
Capcom is just publishing it.
It's being developed by WayForward, and their sound guy is fantastic, It'll be good.
@electro57 I really hope that if they choose to do remix versions of the music, that they also have an option to play the original tunes.
@Bigbudd0045 @electro57
It is being remixed. I'm assuming it'll be like once you beat the game you can play the original music type of thing
Great game, played it when I was a kid. Too bad it's not coming to the PC. I love those nostalgia remakes.
Only owned this on GameBoy when i was a kid. I would leave the GameBoy on for the awesome 8-bit rendition of the theme song :P That song was the shit!
It would be awesome if I could play this on the PSVITA but I doubt they will make it accessible like that but this seems to be my greatest availability of play time is on the go.
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