@KesMonkey: There's an Xbox 360 Community Game in development called Duality which I believe is the first shooter to offer eight ships at a time, two per player. I think that's a great concept, but I'm not sure I can split my focus like that.
@Kobun: Sounds interesting. I assume you would control each ship with each analogue stick, and each trigger for fire. I can juggle, so I'm hoping those skills will translate. :)
Black and white has never been quite as complicated as it is in Ikaruga
Someone needs to do some reading on Resident Evil 5 or spend some time in the south. :p
Five dollars for the game is a steal. Well, for everyone but Gamerscore whores. I'll never sniff completion, but it's nice to live vicariously through others thanks to the downloadable replays.
Well, I'm convinced. I love bullet hell shooters, but I suck horribly at them. At five bucks, I won't feel bad when my copy collects virtual dust after two plays. (Small Arms, I'm looking at you...)
And once again I feel like I'm being punished for buying a game on its release date. Download titles should really have specials to give people incentive to buy the game early and not one-and-a-half years late.
Punished because you've gotten 1.5 years of play time out of a game?
Welcome to the reality of economy and LAGS, I guess?
You bold your "one and a half" years statement when it's the very thing that invalidates your whine. I'd be annoyed if MS did a price drop on something a month after it comes out. 1.5 years, and then running a temporary sale where it's going to go back to the regular price is an acceptable way to generate interest in the title again.
As far as your concerned, damned if they do, damned if they don't.
@Phydeaux: To me, this isn't the kind of game that doesn't need to regenerate interest. Its been voted time and time again one of the greatest SMUP games of all time. This is also a game that's not 1.5 years old. It made its original debut in 2001, and I personally already own a copy on the Cube.
This is the kind of game that should have been cheaper early on because the people most likely to have bought it have already owned it before.
Awesome. That five dollar savings will help buy the blood pressure medicine this game will invariably necessitate. Still, it looks fun in that blood boiling, old-school sort of way.
@Guitarzan2k5 - Bad puns are my business, and...: Absolutely. This game is a pain in the ass. I'm actually glad that in all the hours I tried passing level one or not shooting anything that I was able to not gather any gamerscore so that I could delete any record of having played it.
I hate this game more than Yaris, for what it's worth.
@TheWP listens to Yukkuris; Takes it easy: This game defines that genre. You can absorb the color you are currently so some areas of the game have only bullets to be seen.
@TheWP listens to Yukkuris; Takes it easy: Ikaruga is a Treasure shmup, so it's kind of different. It's certainly danmaku in many cases, but not quite to the level of a Cave or Touhou. The whole concept of Ikaruga is that there are two kinds of bullets on the screen as opposed to one. It's a unique gameplay mechanic, and the danmaku elements keep the game intense. I highly, highly recommend it, not only as a Treasure fanboy but as a general gamer as well.
Someone at Full Sail made something interesting? IMPOSSIBLE! ;) That's pretty hot stuff, though I feel bad for the poor ships. After so many hours of trying to NOT get Ikaruga destroyed, it is hardcore painful.
@goboard117: If you can handle 8 hours a day, 5 days a week of class, it's fantastic. It's very accelerated - programming classes last 10 days and other classes usually last 8 days. Our class is only 4 months in and we already lost maybe 10-15 people at least, though, so it's definitely not for everyone. The best advice I can give you is to get some programming experience beforehand. Learn some Visual Basic at least, it'll help you a lot when you get to Programming 1.
@Jeff Paine: 10 to 15 people died in a period of 4 month and they can't even pinpoint the exact amount?! I don't know about you but I'd be afraid for my life if I saw people around me just dying. I wouldn't have any confidence in the schools security either if they couldn't even figure out exactly who died and what killed them. That said... what's the "student body" like?
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Someone needs to do some reading on Resident Evil 5 or spend some time in the south. :p
Five dollars for the game is a steal. Well, for everyone but Gamerscore whores. I'll never sniff completion, but it's nice to live vicariously through others thanks to the downloadable replays.
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Poor Excellica's going to be ignored for a while again.
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Punished because you've gotten 1.5 years of play time out of a game?
Welcome to the reality of economy and LAGS, I guess?
You bold your "one and a half" years statement when it's the very thing that invalidates your whine. I'd be annoyed if MS did a price drop on something a month after it comes out. 1.5 years, and then running a temporary sale where it's going to go back to the regular price is an acceptable way to generate interest in the title again.
As far as your concerned, damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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This is the kind of game that should have been cheaper early on because the people most likely to have bought it have already owned it before.
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psst let me let you in on a little secret
games are more expensive when they first come out, as opposed to later
you're pissed about having paid more for it when it first came out?
Go look up the going price of the gamecube version right now. Or the Dreamcast. And imagine those prices before your XBLA version came out.
Suck it.
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It's the only version I can play. :(
Man, XBLA sounds like such a blessing.
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I hate this game more than Yaris, for what it's worth.
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I never paid much attention outside Touhou, though I got to play Death Smiles at the anime store in Rochester.
Also, as a complete aside, with the ability to edit, I could change my first post to refer to a different genre than danmaku.
"I'm guessing this is more turn-based RPG than regular shooter" -> "This game defines that genre"
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I can't say it's the schools fault it's just the majority of the students.
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