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If I had a spare £7,000
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Or get a setup like the chap below.
Major droolage links: :pac:
http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=258&p=225038#p223712
http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=258&p=225038#p224129
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Or get a setup like the chap below.
That photo was surely taken by someone that was pronounced clinically dead for a few moments and happened to have a camera on them to photograph what truly lies beyond this life in heaven.
That setup is truly exquisite. Nay, it's masterful. Delightful. Romantic. Entropic.
I've just soiled myself.
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It kind of is though. The only thing the first game has going for it is the three screens. The series was kind of crap until Darius Gaiden and G-Darius when the games suddenly became all kinds of amazing and Zuntata did the soundtracks.
Have to commend you on how appropriate this is in a darius conversation:
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Retr0gamer wrote: »It kind of is though. The only thing the first game has going for it is the three screens. The series was kind of crap until Darius Gaiden and G-Darius when the games suddenly became all kinds of amazing and Zuntata did the soundtracks.
Have to commend you on how appropriate this is in a darius conversation:
Heehee, glad you liked the reference.
This might turn in to a Halo discussion I fear! Alas sir I cannot tip my bonnet to thee and doth drop my gloves at ye feet. Darius is wonderful. The entire series is fantastic!
I agree there's a few stinkers in there. Darius Force for me being one of them. Oh and Darius Alpha *gasp!* because it's just a boss rush and stupidly overpriced (wish I had it though
), similar story with Darius R (which I just want for the lovely box art). But I think the first was a beaut. It offered something just that little bit different to everything else out there. Besides the fun 970 squillion screen display gimmick you had some great game play, decent replay value and a theme that ended up literally spanning generations.
For me there are not many shooter series at all that can equal or best it. The original feels fresher than other titles released at the same time. Dated, obviously, but still completely playable and more importantly enjoyable than other titles released at the time.
I do agree with you though in that Gaiden and G-Darius (more so Gaiden for me) are at the top of the pile jostling each other in their pants to see who's bestestest.
Viva Darius!
p.s: I meant to say Darius Force, not Darius Twin which has the following music (first stage) you will not be able to get out of your head today.
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Ah stop, Gradius is amazing, I love the power up system in it. Gradius 2 and Salamander are even better. Gradius 3 is just too tough for its own good although the easier snes version is good.
Gradius V is a masterpiece. For the longest time I was trying to decide if it or radiant silvergun was my favourite shooter ever.
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The Saturn version is a pile of trousers. The PC Engine version though is a luscious deviant!
Thought the saturn version was arcade perfect and a great game? Also came with the excellent Salamander 2!I think I remember Retr0 arguing with someone that Gradius V was the best game on the ps2 and getting shouted at for being 'pretentious' :pac:
There was a thread about the best PS2 games and I said that Gradius V is arguably the best game on the system. Unless you have no taste this is true. Anyway at the time the love system or whatever was in place and I got a lot of people telling me I was a pretentious idiot for saying an old school 2D game that belongs in the dark ages was a great game.
I also got quite a few messages from people who took my advice and actually bought the game after I turned their attention to it so it wasn't all bad.
Not sure about Ico being the best looking game on the system. Okami wins it for me.
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So, is there anyway to play Gradius V on PS2 with an arcade stick?
Possibly with an adapter of some sort...?
I use my Namco PS1 stick for my PS2 shooters. Tis a lovely 'ol thing.
As for Salamander, I personally prefer the PC Engine Super CD version. The Saturn version hurts my eyes and my hair. 0 -
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As for Salamander, I personally prefer the PC Engine Super CD version. The Saturn version hurts my eyes and my hair.
I find Salamander gets much easier after the first level. It's a bit rough graphically but I can see past that. It's also got one of the best opening level music for any game!
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Well it's doing some crazy stuff for the time. The moving walls and sprite scaling were relatively unheard of back then. It gets nicer looking later on. Still think the game is very playable.
Also the second level is great for finding out if you are epileptic. I think the midboss that appears that does nothing but make the screen flash was the cause of more teenage epilepsy fits in the 80's than anything else.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Also the second level is great for finding out if you are epileptic.
HA HA! Totally agree. Reminds me of those old Pot Noodle adverts that got banned.
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I've always been very interested in Darxide on the 32X. I'm a bit of a history buff in general, and the history of video games also interests me. I find the who Sega in the early to mid-90's fiasco to be particularly interesting.
That a game like Darxide even made it out - an exclusive game for an add-on system that was failing badly, which came out at the end of its very short life exclusively in Europe makes it the thing of legend in my view. I do believe it was originally intended as a Neptune launch title. I really want a copy some day...... I win the lottery! 0 -
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Texture mapped polygons dude, texture mapped!
I'd love a copy of it myself. But it's only going to happen if I find the thing in a charity shop.
I'd likely pass out if I found one in a charity shop! Could you imagine if you found a box-load of them in an old warehouse or something? Or a box of Euro Kizuno Encounter carts?
I'd feel pretty bad though about paying a few quid for a Darxide or the like from a Charity shop.... though I'm sure I'd get over it!It is something of a brilliant thing, made all the more brilliant by the fact that, at one stage, they were just about winning the war with SNES. That's a feck-up that takes active, prolonged effort.
Also, if we had £7,000, we'd be millionaires.
Nintendo are trying their best recently to pull a similar stunt to mid-90s Sega. Case in point:
Sony was also at it with the launch of the PS3, but after they redesigned the machine, stuck it back out at a knock down price and got some games out for it they've done quite well...... lets hope Nintendo can recover and regain their crown as one of the best video games companies in the world.0 -
Texture mapped polygons dude, texture mapped!
I'd love a copy of it myself. But it's only going to happen if I find the thing in a charity shop.
Or a car boot sale. There is no way I could justify that amount of cash. The most I have paid for a game was £80 each for The Wily wars and Metal Slug AES converstion and I thought that was a awful lot.0 -
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