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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:36
by KeenRush
Well, that's part of the problem -- it claims to be Keen and yet it isn't Keenish at all! Not to mention the way it mixes all the enemies and places them into wrong worlds and so on. :bloody Perhaps it'd work as another game, but not as Keen, and I can't like it even if I imagined it as something else. :dopekeen

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:00
by jonnyspeight
they even got the wrong shirt color on the box cover :O

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 14:35
by VikingBoyBilly
memsys wrote:i own keen gbc it is BAD it's like giving duke a toy gun to go and kill pink fluffy rabits
Didn't Duke kill energizer bunnies in the first game?

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 19:31
by Lava89
I don't know if this has been posted before, but while we're on the discussion of Keen GBC, I stumbled upon this interesting site from someone who worked on Keen GBC:

http://www.vertwelder.co.uk/gbc.htm

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:44
by jonnyspeight
that is interesting

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:34
by Commander Spleen
Aye, certainly one must respect the artist. Too bad the storyline wasn't given as much imagination.

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 13:53
by jonnyspeight
yeah i watched a video on youtube, and it just lookx like keen but isnt, terrible

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 15:50
by KeenRush
Thanks for the link, never seen that one before. I now appreciate its art in a different way -- those enemies actualy animate pretty smoothly and it seems their 'one-coloured' appearance is due the limits of the console.

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 17:26
by Genius314
What annoyed me about Keen GBC wasn't exactly the enemies or the story. It was the horrible level design.
Every level was only left and right movement, barely ever moving up and down. There was no large structures of walls to hide secrets, and IIRC there wasn't even any platform that was solid on the bottom (i.e. you could jump up through every one.) There weren't even any tunnels or anything. It was pretty boring.

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:00
by jonnyspeight
[quote="Genius314"]What annoyed me about Keen GBC wasn't exactly the enemies or the story. It was the horrible level design.
Every level was only left and right movement, barely ever moving up and down. There was no large structures of walls to hide secrets, and IIRC there wasn't even any platform that was solid on the bottom (i.e. you could jump up through every one.) There weren't even any tunnels or anything. It was pretty boring.[/quote]

yeah i noticed that on he video...*wretches*

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:01
by Rorie
i brought it a while ago for A$60. it was the worst 60 bucks i had ever spent. i then lost interest in my gbc so i gave it & all my other games to my sister

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:22
by tulip
I think it's quite reassuring that the Keen GBC thread is in "Unofficial Games"

But then I looked back at the beginning of this thread, and now I know why.
To everyones horror I've been planning to use some graphics of Keen GBC in my future mods. I had a closer look at the background tiles and the map tiles, and I think some of them could be put to a good use. But I certainly will not be doing a Mod that consists only of these tiles...

I think the worst about keen gbc was the clumsy movement of keen, i couldn't even handle the pogo. And what is it with jumping on shot monsters to kill them? Did any of those who made that game ever play the original Keen?

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:36
by KeenRush
tulip wrote:Did any of those who made that game ever play the original Keen?
If I remember reading correct some of them even said they made it quite true to the originals... :D :dead2

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 16:33
by ckguy
I remember reading some short blurby review of Keen GBC when it came out (I believe it was in Boys' Life :D) that had pretty much only negative things to say about it (which saddened me at the time - now I know better). Anyway, what was inexcusable was the final sentence, which I'll remember forever - it was that Commander Keen "should have died on the desktop." WHAT?!?!?!?! :O Should have died on the desktop?!?!?!?! Better than being killed on the console, I suppose. Better than being raped by David Palmer or whoever the hell he was. Blauaghughuhaughuha rant rant rant.

Anyway. Commander Keen on GameBoy Color. I looked up 'non-canon travesty' in the dictionary, and guess what the picture next to it was.

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 19:05
by Djaser
More mass hysteria about Keen GBC.
Give it a rest.
You guys bitching contributes to the fact that there never will be a new Keen game made by Tom Hall or not.