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Pijaibros · Posts: 968

The one thing I was waiting for was some sort of confirmation that Senko no Ronde works on the Asian X360 system. And maybe Project Sylpheed, whenever that arrives. Also whatever happens to new Culdcept will determine which region I end up getting.

Please for USA release and no region lock!

rye · Posts: 201

luvcraft wrote:

rye wrote:

presentation IS the main reason i want to buy this game, i believe. that, and it has the word "busters" in the title. anything that has "busters" in the title is sure to get me.

Even this?

video games only.

with the exception of the gunbuster anime.

Crazy Bacon Lips · Posts: 783

There's apparently a Fushigi No Dungeon game for the Dreamcast, subtitled "Asuka." Has anyone played it? Dessgeega? You did some kind of retrospective on them, but you never mentioned the Dreamcast version. TELL ME HOW IT IS I WANT A ROGUELIKE.

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

You mean Fushigi Dungeon - Furai no Shiren Gaiden: Onnakenshi Asuka Kenzan? It is a side story to Fushigi no Dungeon 2 Shiren the Wanderer, and plays fairly similarly including the difficulty. I don't recommend playing it at all unless you know Japanese.

Crazy Bacon Lips · Posts: 783

Damn. I would imagine that knowing what the items do is fairly important in a roguelike. Come on baby let's go downtown, let's go let's go let's go to frown town.

professor_scissors · Posts: 1033

Speaking of Roguelikes, I started playing ADOM again for some reason. It's still hard!

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

Nightshade or PS2 Shinobi, which has the most ninja violence?

Pijaibros · Posts: 968

Aren't they stupid cheap now? You could probably get both for the paltry sum of $10!

Shinobi will kick you in the nuts. Instant Deaths from falls. No checkpoints. Fuck Level 5.

Nightshade will kick you in the teeth. There's a retry counter in Nightshade that shows how much you suck. Though it has checkpoints, unlike Shinobi. I really appreciated that.

It's a tough choice, depends on how you like your ninjas. Man ninja or Lady ninja. Either one will leave you with a shattered controller.

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

As a warning, Shinobi is not as hard as most people claim it is. Much like Contra: Hard Corps.

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

Shapermc wrote:

As a warning, Shinobi is not as hard as most people claim it is. Much like Contra: Hard Corps.

quoted for bizarre world view

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

Do both portray ninja violence equally? It is very important to know if one is much more ninja violent that the other.

Lurky · Posts: 293

I'm playing Tsukiyo ni saraba
There appears to be two sets of difficulty settings

Hard
Normal

Edit: Figured it out.

A harder difficulty for the one listed on top is unlocked every time the game is beaten.
(Normal->Hard->Very Hard)

The second deals with how experience points are handled.
Normal (skills are locked)
Max (all skills start unlocked)

SuperWes · Posts: 681

ReroRero wrote:

Do both portray ninja violence equally? It is very important to know if one is much more ninja violent that the other.

As far as Ninjas go I'd stick with Xbox Ninja Gaiden or Genesis Shinobi 3. Don't get me wrong, Shinobi PS2 and Nightshade are both pretty good, but neither really feel ninja violent like those other games do. If I had to pick just one I'd probably get Shinobi.

-Wes

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

Burp · Posts: 313

Q: The first 4-player game of the history of videogames?

Sorry, Google isnt my friend this day

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

warlords was pretty early?

hmmmm.

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

dessgeega wrote:

Now how did I know you would do that?

A new question; does Tenchu's more realistic take on ninja violence make it more ninja violent than something more videogamey like Shinobi III?

Crazy Bacon Lips · Posts: 783

Tenchu started doing this thing where, when you do a stealth kill, the camera zooms in on the victim's body and does this x-ray effect. It's a bit ridiculous, but I want my ninjas to be ridiculous.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

Crazy Bacon Lips wrote:

I want my ninjas to be ridiculous.

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

ridiculously GAY. (no homo)

RobotRocker · Posts: 297

Crazy Bacon Lips wrote:

Tenchu started doing this thing where, when you do a stealth kill, the camera zooms in on the victim's body and does this x-ray effect. It's a bit ridiculous, but I want my ninjas to be ridiculous.

Realistic but not Ninja.

Ninja Gaiden Black is the most awesome representation of Ninjas in games as Ryu totally flips out and cuts off heads all the time. Other than that. The 3D Mortal Kombats have some nice Ninja related violence

Kazu · Posts: 894

Chrono Cross.

I'm about to enter Termina and I named my hero Cecil and that girl Rydia, that depicts in a way what I expect from CC - a bit of diversion, lots of colors and interaction between the characters. The battlesystem is kind of fun and there were two bgms I liked..... now, should I continue?

Is that the best it gets or is the great thing still to happen?

GcDiaz · Posts: 1057

R-Type Final looks very pretty, and yesterday I had the opportunity to buy it for $11 used. Should I go back to the store to pick it up, given that my two favorite shmups are Ikaruga and Gradius V, in that order?

Kazu · Posts: 894

GcDiaz wrote:

R-Type Final looks very pretty, and yesterday I had the opportunity to buy it for $11 used. Should I go back to the store to pick it up, given that my two favorite shmups are Ikaruga and Gradius V, in that order?

depends on what you'll expect from R-FINAL.
If you want fast-paced action and bullet-hell (Ikaruga), ... you might be disappointed. Where Gradius is the usual shooting game, RTF is an opera.

With atmospheric music, often slow-paced and then suddenly handing you your ass, massive stuff (99 ships and ... stuff) to unlock and being the last R-Type ever ... tt even has a story ... kind of.
Depends on if you can live with a shooting game that has way less action than Ika and Gradius. If so, should be worth 11 bucks, even if it's just for when you get fed up with just shooting things.

Hell, I can't tell you more because I'm too much of a fan to be able to give useful advice.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

what you should probably understand is that r-type final is a bad shooter.

it is an excellent mood piece and a fine narrative capstone to the r-type series.

but it's not a very good game.

if you havn't played r-type delta, there's really no reason to play final.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

So what's the deal with the music in the streets of rage games? I have heard things to the effect that the rights are what's keeping them out of the forthcoming genesis collection for ps2? Maybe?

Somebody know the deal here?

Post dirt on this yuzo koshiro guy!

butters4life · Posts: 255

I havnt spent much time with the rest of the series but for what it's worth I love R-Type Final. Ignoring all the story, music, unlockables etc etc I just find it a good/fun game to play, a good way to kill time.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

i cleared ai battle mode.

r-type final is valuable mostly for the storytelling and the nostalgia. the game is less tight than any of the other games in the series because they needed to balance it for one hundred different ships.

Clash! · Posts: 631

dessgeega wrote:

i cleared ai battle mode.

r-type final is valuable mostly for the storytelling and the nostalgia. the game is less tight than any of the other games in the series because they needed to balance it for one hundred different ships.

I am so pissed that I stopped playing that game where I did. I have like 50+ ships unlocked, even had a really great database going on what I had and what I needed to do to get the rest. Lost that of course, and have no idea where to start up again. And I dread having to restart knowing I was so far at one point. Argh!!!!

the drunken samurai · Posts: 4645

guys im enjoying earthbound and im at summers and all and...

when is it that you come to feel that giygas is a serious threat?i mean,usually theres some event early in an RPG that pretty much shows that main bad guy is NO ONE to fuck with,but i havent seen this giygas dude at all

or is there something else about this game that im just not getting?

EU03 · Posts: 164

It's been a LONG time since I played Earthbound, but don't think there is a point.

Hey, I think I just realized that now.

ipslore · Posts: 262

the drunken samurai wrote:

when is it that you come to feel that giygas is a serious threat?i mean,usually theres some event early in an RPG that pretty much shows that main bad guy is NO ONE to fuck with,but i havent seen this giygas dude at all

Giygas isn't the villian here. It's Pokey that you need to watch out for.

Cycle · Posts: 1574

SPOILER WARNING

another god · Posts: 1629

does anyone have a link to this video --->

, please?

Cycle · Posts: 1574

QUICK QUESTION

why isn't this a sticky thread yet, damnit

EU03 · Posts: 164

Hey, Cave fans.
Is Ibara supposed to take forever to load (like maybe a full minute to load from boot up to title and a pretty damn long time between levels)?

abszero · Posts: 103

I dunno about "supposed to", but that sounds like what mine does.

EU03 · Posts: 164

Ugh, one day, I am going time how long the load times really are.
In fact, I'll do it tonight.

Is the Mushihime port any better?

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

I never really had any problems with the load times. I didn't notice anyone who I have shown it to mention the load times as a problem (well, barring the stupid place of the load times right after the little intro voice segment).

I mean, they are pretty standard load times, not exceptionally long or anything.

Knurek · Posts: 17

dark steve wrote:

So what's the deal with the music in the streets of rage games? I have heard things to the effect that the rights are what's keeping them out of the forthcoming genesis collection for ps2? Maybe?

Somebody know the deal here?

Post dirt on this yuzo koshiro guy!

So, there was a guy working for Falcom in the late 80's by the name of Yuzo Koshiro. He made music for some nifty computer games like Sorcerian, Xanadu or Ys. Given how all this music was done under contract with Falcom, he didn't get one yen of royalties from OST sales of the games (just standard montly wage).

Now combine this with the fact, that Ys is like, the most best-selling OST evah (seriously, I think they're still reprinting it regularly), it's no wonder that he's gotten a bit wiser and copyrights all his game music done since.

Ging · Posts: 841

Hey guys I beat Killer7.

Can someone explain to me what's happening during that actual playing of the game?

Like, is Garcian some sort of crazy guy who can use ghost powers? Was it all in his head? I'm having trouble figuring out how "IT WAS HIM ALL ALONG" explains being able to turn invisible and shit. And also other people like Curtis recognizing him as other people. Actually wait, wasn't Curtis supposed to have killed Dan?

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

Your best bet is to head over to GameFaqs to get the plot analisys as most people here have either a) discussed it to death, or b) too far removed from the last time they thought about it.

Cycle · Posts: 1574

QUICK QUESHION

Is Virtua Racing for Saturn worth keeping or should I sell it along with my other rejects with my second saturn?

Toto · Posts: 498

Dude, give me the lowdown on this second Saturn.
I am kind of interested in buying this.

Cycle · Posts: 1574

sorry dude, I need the extra cash for a trip that came out of nowhere so I'm throwing it on ebay. feel free to bid on it!

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Cycle wrote:

QUICK QUESHION

Is Virtua Racing for Saturn worth keeping or should I sell it along with my other rejects with my second saturn?

Its a bastard child most definitely. Given some extra time, it could have been nice. Still different, but better.

I say only keep it if you're a diehard VR fan, which I am, hence why I still have my copy.

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

Do Japanese PS2s play Asian regioned games?

LegatoB · Posts: 1546

Asian-region videogames are all NTSC/J.

That means "yessir."

tacotaskforce · Posts: 571

Did any Xbox magazines in america, japan, or PAL territories with demo discs ever have demos of JSRF or SEGAGT2002?

boojiboy7 · Posts: 1104

I just got a mac, and am henceforth looking for good emulators for the mac. NES, SNES, MAME, Neo Geo, Genesis, whatever...just looking for suggestions. Thanks, brahs.