no more heroes

[the unlucky platypus]

about to pop it in. will check back later.

[the unlucky platypus]

kick ass bloody fun. i wish the free-roam was a little more…free roam. at least allow me to get some costume changes early on if i want.

[Desensitized]

I'm still waiting to be able to buy it.

[The Wind]

The motorcycle physics suck. When you crash into something when you're not going top speed, it guides you instead of actually crashing.

But it's really fun, apart from that. Reminds me of State of Emergency for the PS2, which was so much awesome.

[Desensitized]

Well, hopefully they'll improve that stuff in the sequel.

Since it sold like twice as much in the US than in Japan, that's a good bet. Just wait until it's widely available here!

[the unlucky platypus]

finally a good wii game that isn't from nintendo. this is what a wii game should be, using the controllers without forcing it and coming up with unique ways to play the game.

not to mention it has a ton of blood and the combat is a lot of fun between beating up guys and doing wrestling suplexes only to finish it by slicing them in half down the middle…it's a good fucking game and it's about damned time. maybe some other third party companies can step up now.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1202625911=The Wind]
The motorcycle physics suck. When you crash into something when you're not going top speed, it guides you instead of actually crashing.

But it's really fun, apart from that. Reminds me of State of Emergency for the PS2, which was so much awesome.
[/quote1202625911]

yeah, free roam is lacking but there isn't much of it and i'm having fun exploring the bike and what i can do with it. i like that the game resets the bike to face outwards if you crash into a wall. that makes things so much faster and less hassle. though i do find myself sometimes trying to use Z to break instead of B…i think it would have felt better to be able to have the break on one hand and gas/turbo on the other. but that's just nitpicking since it's not a huge part of the game.

[Surly]

I'm probably gonna get this game when it comes out in Europe. But they took out all the blood in the european version. Everything has black ash instead. All the cutscenes are far less gory and I really don't know whether I like it or not.

[Desensitized]

But apparently there's no slowdown in your version, too.

Kind of odd.

[Surly]

Really?

Well, I guess I'll be getting it then. The lack of blood is annoying, but why didn't they just make it like an option between the modes? The Wii has that whole parental lock thing doesnt it…

*sigh*

[madamadam]

[quote1202738221=the unlucky platypus]
[b]finally a good wii game that isn't from nintendo. this is what a wii game should be, using the controllers without forcing it and coming up with unique ways to play the game.[/b]

not to mention it has a ton of blood and the combat is a lot of fun between beating up guys and doing wrestling suplexes only to finish it by slicing them in half down the middle…it's a good fucking game and it's about damned time. maybe some other third party companies can step up now.
[/quote1202738221]

Resi 4?

[madamadam]

[b]Edit:[/b] Repeat post – please delete, Admin.

[Surly]

[quote1202739631=madamadam]
[quote1202738221=the unlucky platypus]
[b]finally a good wii game that isn't from nintendo. this is what a wii game should be, using the controllers without forcing it and coming up with unique ways to play the game.[/b]

not to mention it has a ton of blood and the combat is a lot of fun between beating up guys and doing wrestling suplexes only to finish it by slicing them in half down the middle…it's a good fucking game and it's about damned time. maybe some other third party companies can step up now.
[/quote1202738221]

Resi 4?
[/quote1202739631]

Umbrella Chronicles.
Zak and Wiki.
Trauma Centre.
Metal Slug Anthology.
Geometry Wars: Galaxies.
Elebits
SSX Blur
Mario and Sonic Olympic Games
NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams
Ghost Squad
Sonic and The Secret Of The Rings

Upcoming:

Baroque
De Blob
Samba De Amigo Wii
Opoona
Skies Of Arcadia 2 (Recently confirmed in an interview)

I'd buy all of those if I was rich. Plus this is pretty much of the top of my head and only 3rd party. If I looked around I could make that upcoming list much longer.

[The Wind]

RE4 doesn't count, it's a port.

[Desensitized]

I'm looking forward to Okami and Tales Of Symphonia 2.

[Surly]

I totally missed those two. I'm playing through Tales of Symphonia right now.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1202775963=Desensitized]
I'm looking forward to Okami and Tales Of Symphonia 2.
[/quote1202775963]

i thought i had heard somewhere that okami was just going to be a ps2 port?

never heard of tales of symphonia before…is the first game good?

[Surly]

Okami is a PS2 port but the game is incredible and will hopefully work really well on Wii. And Tales Of Symphonia is just a really solid RPG for Gamecube. Interesting battle system. I just really like RPG's so i'm sure i'll buy the sequel.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1202779265=Surly]
Okami is a PS2 port but the game is incredible and will hopefully work really well on Wii. And Tales Of Symphonia is just a really solid RPG for Gamecube. Interesting battle system. I just really like RPG's so i'm sure i'll buy the sequel.
[/quote1202779265]

what's the battle system like?

i'm a casual rpg fan. i love earthbound, mario rpg, and chrono trigger but haven't played anything else and get bored by most others pretty quickly (OG NES final fantasy bores me before i even enter a battle).

[Desensitized]

Well, I never really got to play Symphonia (I have it, but haven't gotten to it, yet) but I played Tales Of Destiny for the PS1, and I guess the closest game to compare it to would be Grandia's battle system.

You can move around the battlefield freely, attack with the attack button, do special moves, and cast spells. It's almost like an action RPG battle system.

Would be interesting if they threw in some Wiimote stuff, but we'll see.

[the unlucky platypus]

just beat #9 and a lot more opened up as far as stores and upgrades and all. gonna be grinding it out a lot to buy everything.

[Surly]

[quote1202815391=Desensitized]
Well, I never really got to play Symphonia (I have it, but haven't gotten to it, yet) but I played Tales Of Destiny for the PS1, and I guess the closest game to compare it to would be Grandia's battle system.

You can move around the battlefield freely, attack with the attack button, do special moves, and cast spells. It's almost like an action RPG battle system.

Would be interesting if they threw in some Wiimote stuff, but we'll see.
[/quote1202815391]

That's pretty much it. I find it has a tendency to be a bit of a button bash sometimes though. But yeah, it's probably most like a fully real time version of Grandia. But I think Grandia 2 has a better system, you just have to think about everything more.

[the unlucky platypus]

i love how whatever video game related thread is the latest eventually just becomes the de facto video game thread.

[Rock it With I]

omg this game is hilarious!

It's open mic night in hell old man

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1202853590=Rock it With I]
omg this game is hilarious!

It's open mic night in hell old man

[/quote1202853590]

there's something about the game that kinda reminds me of tarantino…or rather that they both draw from the same inspiration.

[The Wind]

Blood?

[Desensitized]

Odd dialogue?

[the unlucky platypus]

i think it's the combination of how the blood works (really reminds me of kill bill) along with the old school samurai flick influence. not so much odd dialog so much as it is that the characters are kinda unique and colorful like gogo or butch.

[Rock it With I]

Number 8 was a pain in the ass! Bitch kept on throwing a never before seen move on me in the end every time I played her. Took me 5 times to beat her..

I wanna change my name to Travis Touchdown BTW.. lol

[the unlucky platypus]

i can't wait! gotta grind out the cash, though…i keep on spending money on upgrades and clothes instead.

[Rock it With I]

I thought about doin that too, but I am more interested in beating the assassins quick!

Although I am certain the upgrades are necessary in accomplishing that feat.

What kind of upgrades have you gotten so far?

[The Wind]

Does anyone realize that Travis is kind of taking the easy way out? I mean, he could make it to number one by doing his job well, but really he's just eliminating the competition.

[madamadam]

It's called monopolising – he's actually an economic genius.

[Rock it With I]

I almost guarantee tat hot bitch that keeps eggin him on is the number 1 assassin just fuckin with him.

I just beat 7, am about to go to 6 after I power up some more. I think 8 was much much more difficult than 7 was…

[Jeanie]

I thought this was about the TV show. I should have known it was another video game thread! :p

[Desensitized]

Well, the game was named after the album by The Stranglers, so it's not as if it's a uncommon title.

[madamadam]

Is that supposed to be metaphorical or just giving props to a kickass album?

[Desensitized]

Seems like both. Suda chose a great title, either way.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1203007638=madamadam]
Is that supposed to be metaphorical or just giving props to a kickass album?
[/quote1203007638]

wasn't the name of the game first heroes or project heroes?

[Desensitized]

Yeah, that was probably the demo title, but since he thinks the studio makes 'punk' games, it wouldn't surprise me if he just put 2 and 2 together.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1203043331=Desensitized]
Yeah, that was probably the demo title, but since he thinks the studio makes 'punk' games, it wouldn't surprise me if he just put 2 and 2 together.
[/quote1203043331]

does sudo 51 consider their games "punk" games? i had heard other people calling it that but i wasn't sure if that was just them labeling anyone with spikey hair and an attitude punk or what.

[Desensitized]

Yeah, they call it 'punk'. I can't remember the exact phrase, but the games were compared to that of punk music.

It kind of makes sense.

[the unlucky platypus]

beat 8 and 7. shinobu actually made me have to grab more health….and if i had been a little more aware of all of her attacks, i probably could have beaten her the first time sans health. destroyman…i let that guy get to me too much with the shocks and destroy busters…but then again, the asshole was in the fucking corner most of the fight so it was kinda hard to dodge some of those.

[The Wind]

Shinobu took me six tries. She was a pain, but if you manage to suplex her it takes off a lot of her health.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1203202002=The Wind]
Shinobu took me six tries. She was a pain, but if you manage to suplex her it takes off a lot of her health.
[/quote1203202002]

yeah but i found the easiest thing to do was dodge and strike with her. suplexes sometimes get lost in the mashing. i've had it where i'm mashing A, the dizzy comes up, i mash B and it still acts as A. but i've learned to pace my A attacks so that i can readily suplex whoever without getting stuck in that mash.

[Surly]

Bloody UK release now delayed from this friday to march 14th.

Oh and we might not be getting Brawl until Autumn.

Nintendo Europe can suck my balls.

[The Wind]

I don't get it. There's no reason for them to come out later, is there?

[Desensitized]

Was there any reason for ours to get delayed more than the JP version?

At least you guys are getting Mario Kart first. But that still sucks.

[Rock it With I]

Can I just make one suggestion…

I've learned what the wrong thing to do in this game really is..

I decided to play through and do very little with the "upgrades". I made it to #1 and quickly went into the fight. The last person is hard when using the middle Katana.. MAKE SURE YOU BUY THE TOP KATANA!!!

Also, make sure you do ALL of the training.

And try to get all the lovikov balls and get all those abilities from the drunk in the bar.

Now, take this as u will, spoiler or not, but just know, that once you deposit the money into the ATM for the final #1 battle, BE SURE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED AS FAR AS UPGRADES, ETC!!! DON'T go to the Motel until u do!!!

Why?

cuz you loose your motorcycle upon exiting the Motel room. And know this, the bike sucks ass! But you can't get it back and use it for the drive around town.

So if you don;t have all the upgrades and you try to battle number 1, you'll most likely loose. And if you try to go back to the city to finish the upgrades, you WON'T have your bike to drive around the entire city. Meaning, you have to walk/ run EVERYWHERE, and try to raise LOTS of money to do the upgrades.

I'm seriously thinking I should just restart the whole game now.

So mad that I rushed through it.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1204009280=Rock it With I]
Can I just make one suggestion…

I've learned what the wrong thing to do in this game really is..

I decided to play through and do very little with the "upgrades". I made it to #1 and quickly went into the fight. The last person is hard when using the middle Katana.. MAKE SURE YOU BUY THE TOP KATANA!!!

Also, make sure you do ALL of the training.

And try to get all the lovikov balls and get all those abilities from the drunk in the bar.

Now, take this as u will, spoiler or not, but just know, that once you deposit the money into the ATM for the final #1 battle, BE SURE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED AS FAR AS UPGRADES, ETC!!! DON'T go to the Motel until u do!!!

Why?

cuz you loose your motorcycle upon exiting the Motel room. And know this, the bike sucks ass! But you can't get it back and use it for the drive around town.

So if you don;t have all the upgrades and you try to battle number 1, you'll most likely loose. And if you try to go back to the city to finish the upgrades, you WON'T have your bike to drive around the entire city. Meaning, you have to walk/ run EVERYWHERE, and try to raise LOTS of money to do the upgrades.

I'm seriously thinking I should just restart the whole game now.

So mad that I rushed through it.

[/quote1204009280]

yeah, i'm just taking my time with it. i already have all the needed upgrades from lovikov (just don't have the bad guy radar and the bonus). have the mkII right now and will be slowly working my way up to having the money for #4.

the only thing i'm not too sure of is that i'm doing my first run on easy and i don't know whether i should do my next run on medium or hard…guess i'll have to start either and find out.

and i'm sorry to hear that europe and oz are getting the censored version. that's bullshit to treat you guys like that and i can definitely relate growing nintendo in america (where even the nazis were removed from wolfenstein 3d on the SNES).

[Rock it With I]

The bad guy radar and the bonus I think are pointless honestly. I think I got the bonus one just because there wasn't much left and it sounded like it was the only one worth anything out of the 2, but I never noticed anything coming from it..

That's a good idea too. I should actually restart the game, but in a level higher than the easy level.

[madamadam]

For the europeans:

The reason we get pissed all over for release dates is the massive amount of time translation takes. This is partly because of the 5 standard languages they release games in (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) but also because the translating itself requires many redoes. You have no idea how easy it is for a professional translator to mistranslate phrases that we take for granted as basic in our own languages, something I've learned from Flemish TV in Belgium (I haven't taken a single Flemish class and yet thanks to the numerous subbed English/American shows & films I can vaguely speak the language and pick out many translation errors when watching TV) – those of you who watch Japanese anime will have probably noticed this too and put it down to the complexity of Japanese (which only adds to the problem). For this reason (amongst many), games in Europe are play tested many times simply for some dude to go "wtf?" and send the game back into translation.

If you ever played Mario Sunshine you'll probably remember the bizarre "Shine get!" sequences, in which case I'm sure you now understand the importance of getting your shit right, no matter how long it takes.

[The Wind]

And yet, you get some games before us.

[madamadam]

That, I have no explanation for.

[the unlucky platypus]

[quote1204081700=madamadam]
For the europeans:

The reason we get pissed all over for release dates is the massive amount of time translation takes. This is partly because of the 5 standard languages they release games in (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) but also because the translating itself requires many redoes. You have no idea how easy it is for a professional translator to mistranslate phrases that we take for granted as basic in our own languages, something I've learned from Flemish TV in Belgium (I haven't taken a single Flemish class and yet thanks to the numerous subbed English/American shows & films I can vaguely speak the language and pick out many translation errors when watching TV) – those of you who watch Japanese anime will have probably noticed this too and put it down to the complexity of Japanese (which only adds to the problem). For this reason (amongst many), games in Europe are play tested many times simply for some dude to go "wtf?" and send the game back into translation.

If you ever played Mario Sunshine you'll probably remember the bizarre "Shine get!" sequences, in which case I'm sure you now understand the importance of getting your shit right, no matter how long it takes.
[/quote1204081700]

that hasn't really been my experience so far from the inside. translating is pretty much the easiest part of the process when releasing a game. the code is already in place and all the bugs have been fixed that will be fixed and things that couldn't have been cut, it's just a matter of putting the new dialog in if needed and new text for the subtitles again if needed. probably the hardest part is when there's something like the standards they have in germany where you can't have any kind of reference to the nazis at all in any game or vague rules about excessive violence.

from my experience, the localization process takes only a couple weeks up to about a month and this is before the game is released and remember that games are normally finished a good couple months before their release.

from what i know….i don't have a good reason but i'm sure there probably is one…game developers hate to have games not out of the door already.

[the unlucky platypus]

anyone know where i can get the soundtrack?

[Desensitized]

[url=http://www.amazon.co.jp/NO-MORE-HEROES-%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B8%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-%E3%82%B2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF/dp/B0010E8MNM/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/503-1971951-0495900?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1206941734&sr=8-1]Uhh, here?[/url]

Otherwise, I dunno.

[the unlucky platypus]

damnit! only available on import? i guess no one knows of any torrents or anything, huh?

[Surly]

Yeah, the soundtrack is only out in Japan I read. I was thinking of getting it myself.

Check this site: http://downloads.khinsider.com/

Thousands of video game soundtracks, although it doesn't have No More Heroes yet, it might do sometime in the future. The way to download from there is create an account then you have to go to your CP and get a 'refferal' code that you make other people click. Each click gets you a new download. The click just takes them to the site, nothing dodgy. I've used it lots.

And I did get No More Heroes march 14th. Completed it, loved it. That last boss was a bit of a bitch though. I got every upgrade and everything that could be dug up on the map. And all the Lokikov balls things. Quite chuffed about that one.

Make sure you get all the beam swords as then you get access to the 'real' ending at the end.

[The Wind]

Man, the 'real' ending is long… and you fight with the shittiest weapon.

[Desensitized]

Since I have no money, I still haven't been able to get it. Well, at least Brawl is keeping me busy.

[Surly]

[quote1206992954=Desensitized]
Well, at least Brawl is keeping me busy.
[/quote1206992954]

*shakes fist in anger*

[Desensitized]

Sorry, forgot about that. :@

Is it still scheduled for June? Cause Mario Kart should be out there soon.

Something to keep you busy.

[Surly]

It's not scheduled at all. There is no release date. Just rumours. Reggie said the reason for our delay is, we get Mario Kart and Wii Fit before you. But we only get them about 2 weeks before America. It's stupid.

Mario Kart comes out April 14th or something, but I might hold off on buying it until i've finished my exams and stuff. And I just don't care about Wii Fit.

The Smash DOJO said today that they finish updates on 14th April so i'm hoping they will announce a release date by then…

[Desensitized]

Hopefully they fix the online servers by then.

Unless you play friend matches, it's horrendous.

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