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Post by Ex on Jan 7, 2018 13:30:51 GMT -5
You have to get pretty good and precise at it, because one of the bosses near the end is a huge pain and time sensitive to take down. I think the Y-Axis couldn't be inverted or the first person controls in general left a lot to be desired. IIRC the PS2 Resident Evil light gun games can also be controlled via a standard USB mouse. I was thinking of playing them like that. I'm way more accurate with a mouse than a light gun or a game pad, for shooting. Oh, I didn't know about Dino Crisis as a first person shooter on PS2. Thanks for the info! I still need to get around to playing Dino Crisis 3 on Xbox, is it really as bad as reviewers said?
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Post by toei on Jan 7, 2018 23:39:44 GMT -5
Today I tried Sega's 1979 arcade game, Samurai. It's actually pretty neat, you have three different stances you can hold and you kill a group of samurai in an arena (or castle courtyard) by ramming into them without getting hit by their own swords and while also avoiding ninjas and various other enemies who try to mess with you from the sides. MAME doesn't emulate the sound on it, though, so I tried the version on the second Saturn Sega Ages collection, but it plays a lot slower and the controls are oddly unresponsive in that version.
Does anyone know of any earlier game featuring samurai, or even sword fighting? I know very little about pre-'80s gaming.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 7, 2018 23:47:38 GMT -5
It's weird how much I adore classic RE and that formula, but I've never actually beaten Dino Crisis 1 or 2. I have gotten far in both but always burn out. It sucks that DC1 is fully 3D so it lacks that awesome backdrops you see in RE2-RE3. The entirety of DC1 is like... gray walls and floors, lol. But then DC2 brings back awesome pre-rendered backdrops, except that... they now gave the game some weird arcade action point based system thing with even more backtracking and really boring level design.
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Post by Ex on Jan 8, 2018 10:41:37 GMT -5
Does anyone know of any earlier game featuring samurai, or even sword fighting? I know very little about pre-'80s gaming. Well, it's not samurai or sword fighting, but the earliest ninja related game I know of is from 1969: Ninja Gun ( video) I'm sure there's more related games from the 60s and 70s, I just don't know them off hand. I too could stand to do more research from those time periods. It's weird how much I adore classic RE and that formula, but I've never actually beaten Dino Crisis 1 or 2. I tried hard to get into Dino Crisis 1 when it released. I appreciated the fact that it was all full polygonal, but the game design was lacking from I remember. However, I did finish and really enjoyed Dino Crisis 2. Granted, DC2 is totally action, not at all a survival horror anymore. But I found DC2 to be a great arcade-action-adventure hybrid personally. Random factoid# 327421; Did you know that Dino Crisis 2 was directed by Shu Takumi? Yep, the same dude that created Ace Attorney.
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Post by toei on Jan 8, 2018 11:55:39 GMT -5
Uh, Ninja Gun seems pretty cool. I'd like to try one in person, the two youtube videos I've found aren't great quality. I don't think I've ever encountered a pre-Pac-Man game in the wild, except maybe a pinball machine.
EDIT-Though I guess Ninja Gun is technically a mechanical game rather than video game.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 11, 2018 22:52:19 GMT -5
I love how rpgamer.com is still web 1.0. I just randomly stumbled onto their site again today and holy nostalgia!
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Post by Ex on Jan 12, 2018 12:05:34 GMT -5
XSEED's localized Zwei!! (renamed Zwei: The Arges Adventure for English release) just got a new trailer!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u3yxssyr2YI'm very much looking forward to this. (I loved Zwei 2.) And no, this news doesn't break rule number one. Zwei!! is actually seventeen years old, only the localization is new.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 12, 2018 14:44:15 GMT -5
The art style is amazing.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 12, 2018 18:09:25 GMT -5
Ex beating some average sounding Robocop games got me curious about the strange Robocop 3 game I owned as a kid. I never really understood what I was doing in it and... it's still weird. I got excited to see Ocean and quickly remembered this game does at least have a cool look and sound. But other than that, it's a weird clunky run and gun platformer where you pickup "P" power up items throughout the levels, that you then can use to repair Robocop at the end of a stage. So damage/HP weirdly carries over. I got to the second stage and then this happened: I died... 3-4 times to this jump. The acid below zaps your health crazy fast. Believe me... this jump is insanely weird. When you die, you get thrown back to the main screen which has a Continue option. But suddenly after a few deaths, it just didn't work? Then I got thrown into a new game again, except all the SFX outside of the music wasn't working at all. Think that's enough Robocop 3 for me.
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Post by Ex on Jan 12, 2018 21:22:09 GMT -5
Yeah you'd think it'd be hard to screw RoboCop up. It's one of those franchises that seems perfect for games. And yet... I don't know of any stellar RoboCop game. Granted, I haven't played them all either. I have read though, that the very worse RoboCop game is: The box art makes me a believer. Also Titus. Whenever you see that red fox logo, run far away.
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