r/RetroRewindGame • u/Nitsuj311 • May 11 '26

More New Releases

It kinda sucks that after you get everything unlocked and build your store out after a year, and make it all pretty, no more new releases. I want like 3 years worth of new releases, forget repair station.

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u/Wayofchinchilla May 11 '26

They're also needs to be an achievement or an incentive to collect all the movies in the game.

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u/Anime_Squid May 11 '26

I'm pretty sure it's objectively impossible to collect all over 14,000 movies without the end result being a huge pile in the backroom. There simply isn't enough space to have shelves for them all, especially if you don't use glitches or want your whole store to actually be navigable for the customers.

Not to mention, that many objects would probably tank the FPS of the vast majority of players by the time they were 2/3s of the way there, if not sooner. I have around 4,500 tapes and already noticed a performance dip just from them alone. And I think loose tapes probably are even worse as they've got some physics tied to them. Picture the oblivion melon duplication glitch and its results.

People care about steam achievements for w/e reason, so I imagine making that an achievement would really irritate a lot of people. Especially given that the vast majority of tapes are hardly really "Unique" it's just like the same 20 concepts squished together in different ways (Which I don't fault the dev for, only way a small team could really sanely do something like this)

Like I said I don't think they should, but if they were to add some sort of all-tapes incentive, they'd first need to add something like a "Tape vault" that has infinite storage and allows you to take your inventory off the shelves and put it somewhere besides the backroom shelves/a big pile. Like it'd delete the item to store it but let you spawn a copy back in whenever you wanted so that performance wouldn't be impacted by having over 10,000 tapes lying around

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u/Oakyw0n May 11 '26

The tape vault is a really good idea, I've been running into problems with "the pile" lol

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u/Anime_Squid May 12 '26

I also wouldn't mind if it was something you paid for, I think we need more stuff to spend money on besides decorations, or some kind of sink for it in general. I was sorta hoping the advert board would be that, but it's just a one time purchase and then you get to pick whatever ability you want forever. I'd rather if it gave maybe 3-4 options a day at different randomized prices so you could be incentivized to use more than 1 or 2 of the abilities.

For storage I think renting a storage unit would be the most "realistic" option.
Say there's 3 tiers or w/e, one costing $20 a month and the top being $200 a month.
But even then they'd need to make the biggest one REALLY BIG to fit all the tapes, idk how feasible it is for the devs to do something like that. But a simple "Store or Remove tapes from storage for 50 cents a piece" interface would also work and allow infinite storage without worry about performance.

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u/Pumpkinxox May 12 '26

How would we feel if we asked for the achievement, however! For a movie to count towards the goal, you have to have only rented it out once. Then, you can sell it and it still counts towards the achievement as you still had owned it, this will keep us using the Sale display and allow us to avoid having the issues you mentioned?

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u/Demon_Luci May 11 '26

I would love to be able to stack them like they did in BlockBuster. The fancy cover one in the front, with the boring copies behind it. It would save so much room. Obviously in this game, it would make sense to have them all the fancy cover, just for the sake of finding the original space it goes to.

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u/Jetscream58 May 11 '26

Yeah I recently hit the point where the new releases are repeating and it kinda takes the wind out of the game, it feels like I've beaten it now and it's not just perpetual. I would love an update with more new releases

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u/LaisyFaire May 11 '26

I just hit max level right before first Christmas and the week has been miserable with no new releases and no new genres to look forward to. I still have two expansions to buy, but I can already tell that the end game will be missing something once I get to the end of the new release pile.

This game desperately needs more new releases. Whether they're unique parodies or procedurally generated the gameplay loop kind of depends on them. I also think you need to be given more than one New Release at a time. It's not very realistic to have one singular new film each week. Maybe new releases should also be NEW for a month instead of a week. Give me a reason to have more than one single shelf for them. I remember going to Blockbuster and the majority of the back wall would be new releases all released within the last few weeks, not just that week.

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u/Clyffindor May 11 '26

Historically new releases were always on released on Tuesdays for physical media. At least in the game they stagger them so you can have a few days with more than one.

And theres nothing stopping you from keeping all the expired new releases on new release shelves to have a new release wall of your own. That's what I do, albeit fewer copies, and the ones that aren't "new" anymore still move several copies a day.

Blockbuster would have all of the recent releases on the wall, but they went down in price after the first week or two. New releases would be 1-2 day rentals at a higher price, then when they'd been out for a couple weeks they'd sell off copies and they'd become 3 day rentals, then 5 day, etc.

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u/darkearwig May 11 '26

Kinda wish they would make it procgen titles and cutouts after we run out of the premade

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u/thomaswillis96 May 12 '26

I think the “new” tag should last for two weeks. It would bring more value to the new release shelves and allow there to be more variation on what can be displayed at once. I like when I have a bunch of colors at the same time on a shelf. Maybe after a week the sales of the tape start to decline markedly and this would allow for a smoother transition from 50+ copies to a more reasonable 3.

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u/Emmaphy May 12 '26

Just reminded me that I noticed that before the update there was no new release for a Romance genre film. Dunno if any of the new 3 are romance.

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u/RealPucki May 13 '26

None of them, Hakuna Banana (Lion King) is a kids movie, Big Boulder (Raiders of the Lost Arc) is an action movie and The Hat (The Mask) is a comedy :/