What are you guys up to, game-wise?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:52 am

No, I meant people liked JSRF. *shrugs*

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:48 am

oh well I'm officially stupid

you're prolly right, I just remember almost getting an XBOX and then getting a gamecube. A lot of people I knew got XBOX's and it came bundled with the system, I would always try to get them to break it out so I could see it and play it because the first game is one of my favs, but they were always like "that game sux"

I could never understand it. I guess I was just immediately surrounded by a bunch of pricks. Thanks for restoring my faith in humankind

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:08 am

Sega hasn't exactly been mainstream since the Genesis left.

Jet Set Radio falls in the not-mainstream category.
You expect the people that fuel the constant #1 game sales of EABall 20xx to like JSRF?

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:19 pm

yes

ok maybe not, but I expect there to still be enough sega gamers for them to turn a profit.

the thing is, Jet Set may not have sold that well, but I KNOW that not all of their franchises tanked, I think it was a bad idea to disassemble all of their studios, in the end they are just churning out one crappy sonic game after another, party games, phantasy star, and thank goodness Virtua Fighter is still going strong, but they really need to bring back some good franchises, and I don't mean like Alien Syndrome, or those sad shinobi and would be vectorman sequels that were flops (I believe the vectorman one was canceled outright)

heck they don't even need to bring the franchises back (although another panzer dragoon, or the conclusion to the Shenmue saga would be nice) but they at least need to pull their teams back together (that is the people who haven't quite and moved on to greener pastures by now) and make some good original content too. They could compete in niche markets like SRPGs and other stuff. They could start on handhelds and build momentum from there. Heck, if they would just stop and make a decent sonic game like konami keeps making decent Castlevania games then that right there would gain them a lot of ground.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:35 pm

Replaying Half-Life 2, Unreal and Jets 'n' Guns.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:05 pm

Johan_Hanberg wrote:Jets 'n' Guns.

Too hard for me.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:28 pm

creaothceann wrote:
Johan_Hanberg wrote:Jets 'n' Guns.
Too hard for me.

Are you playing Gold or original?
Gold I find frustratingly hard too, and not as fun, I haven't played it much as a result. The original version is a bit tough at first but if YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING, you're overpowered to hell after about 75% of the story on normal difficulty.
Not the most balanced game in the world.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:38 pm

Im going for frustration itself: Im going to pass Battletoads, again, after many years, on my NES. I just finished the first TMNT, and it will NEVER be as hard as Battletoads.

Looking forward to find Battlemaniacs in an oldies store.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:07 pm

play the arcade battletoads too, good times.

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:26 am

Been playin Halo 3 helpin a buddy get those meta score acheivements...

Of course that's when we aren't doing rocket race

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:31 am

Johan_Hanberg wrote:
creaothceann wrote:
Johan_Hanberg wrote:Jets 'n' Guns.
Too hard for me.
Are you playing Gold or original?
Gold I find frustratingly hard too, and not as fun, I haven't played it much as a result. The original version is a bit tough at first but if YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DOING, you're overpowered to hell after about 75% of the story on normal difficulty.
Not the most balanced game in the world.

Didn't know there were two versions... IIRC it was included on a magazine CD, but I no longer have it. They probably went for the Gold version.

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:33 am

Chorensha 68k for PC (shmup)

Mentioned here before (not on this thread though), a damn awesome classic.
Just finished the first loop for the first time today.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:38 am

Snark wrote:Chorensha 68k for PC (shmup)

Mentioned here before (not on this thread though), a damn awesome classic.
Just finished the first loop for the first time today.

You can finish it?! I got stuff to do now.

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:06 am

Joe Camacho wrote:
Snark wrote:Chorensha 68k for PC (shmup)

Mentioned here before (not on this thread though), a damn awesome classic.
Just finished the first loop for the first time today.
You can finish it?! I got stuff to do now.

No. I'm not very good yet. There are three "loops" and the real final boss is at the end of the third loop. I only got to 2.1....

If you want to see put and replace this in the ETCdat folder of Chorensha
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7O7JJLBH

Death at 2.1 is "teh stupid lolz lolz" (seriously)

(And the Official homepage)

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:30 am

Just finished "And the adventure continues" (or possibly not) AKA Shenmue II...

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:15 am

Currently tackling God of War II and God Hand.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:39 am

somebody give Yu Sazuki the money to finish Shenmue. You barely get to the reason it's even called Shenmue by the end of the second game. Sheesh. He needs to make the whole series remade shiny on one disk in the next generation of gaming. That would kick ass.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:09 am

Panzer88 wrote:somebody give Yu Sazuki the money to finish Shenmue. You barely get to the reason it's even called Shenmue by the end of the second game. Sheesh. He needs to make the whole series remade shiny on one disk in the next generation of gaming. That would kick ass.

That's going to be hard to do. What publisher would give him the money to make another Shenmue game? The series was a flop (financially) and it's going to take a lot of convincing for a company to provide him the money.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:46 am

I didn't say it'd be sane

why aren't any of the people with too much money to spend (aka billionaires) video game fanatics?

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:03 am

Panzer88 wrote:somebody give Yu Sazuki the money to finish Shenmue. You barely get to the reason it's even called Shenmue by the end of the second game. Sheesh.

Worse thing is the series was originally supposed to spread over like six installment or something. Even if there were a third Shenmue released on the PS3 or whatever (with or without the previous chapters included) it would still be a somewhat rushed way to finish the series.

edit: also imo, it's sometimes better to never have a sequel (even when one was planned from the start) then to have a possibly crappy one.

Kinda likes the difference between simple stars and Legends...

Bruce Lee
Monroe
Kennedy
etc...

Let's face it: part of their legend is attributable to the fact they have died prematurely/at the peak (more or less) of their glory.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:58 am

yeah this is a common misconception. there are 6 chapters to shenmue, but shenmue 2 covers like chapters 1-4 or something (shenmue 1 being a prologue) the final two chapters COULD be two separate games, but it is much more likely that it would be one last game.

what you say is true, but shenmue never had a ton of popularity, and the first two games were made at the same time. The third game wouldn't have to play very differently, and they already have the plot of it really. it really wouldn't be that hard except for the time and budget.

finally, I might not trust other people to do proper finales, but I trust Yu Suzuki, there have had movies that have had the final chapter years after the initial series and been great movies, I have faith in Mr. Suzuki

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:34 am

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ ... henmue.htm

For a nice breeze through Shenmue history, visit the above link.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:57 am

Currently playing through the Half-Life "Blue Shift" addon.

EDIT: Finished it.

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:07 pm

Panzer88 wrote: finally, I might not trust other people to do proper finales, but I trust Yu Suzuki,

Oh yeah, 100% agrees. Afaic it's Yu Suzuki or no sequel at all. I wouldn't want Shenmue to turn into Terminator 3 (well, not a perfect comparison but you know, with T3 being done by a different director than Cameron and all and it mostly sucking)

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:18 pm

Snark wrote:
Panzer88 wrote: finally, I might not trust other people to do proper finales, but I trust Yu Suzuki,
Oh yeah, 100% agrees. Afaic it's Yu Suzuki or no sequel at all. I wouldn't want Shenmue to turn into Terminator 3 (well, not a perfect comparison but you know, with T3 being done by a different director than Cameron and all and it mostly sucking)

But you forget something: Terminator 2 sucked WITH Cameron.
Terminator 3 was actually a mild improvement over 2.

The first movie was a great movie. But NEITHER of the sequels were worth watching.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.