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So a long ass time after the arcade and PC versions of this game was released we now get word that it's finally heading to Xbox 360 and Wii.
Haven't been impressed with the Type-X shooters I've played but Shiro II was a fine game hopefully part III lives up to it. *-neo
Wii? Yes, want. I have heard nothing but goodness about SnS and now it's time to test it...
Unfortunately I have played none of them. How much am I missing?
Why not spend $10 on the US release of either of them and find out?
Go download the PC demo of III and try it:Quote:
Originally Posted by neoalphazero
http://www.4gamer.net/news.php?url=/...kigami_3.shtml
Just click on that huge red button in the lower-center of the page (it's a 74 MB file).
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Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
The PC port is fine, so you'd think that most of the people who would want to play this already have. I guess there's the whole PC phobia thing.
Thanks for the heads up. *-neoQuote:
Originally Posted by Kiken
Wait, is the full PC version of this out? This is the first I've heard of it.
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...i-70-1iun.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Grave
It's been out for nearly a year now, actually.
News to me.
NOBODY TELLS ME ANYTHING!
Jesus. This is awesome. I wasn't running Windows then. But I feel better now.
Your avatar works great with that statement Grave.
XBLA plz.
The 360 version doesn't really come as a surprise, and I bet we'll see a PS3 one announced before too long.
I think SnS III does live up to part 2. The Hi-Tension Max feature gives you an automatic x8 multiplier while it lasts (kind of like DOJ's Hyper but it doesn't jack up the rank, you only use a Bomb item for it).
Here's my $0.02 on the game.
Do get Castle of Shikigami 2 if you want a US release, but stay away from Mobile Light Force 2 (the de-Tated version of SnS1). For part one, get the Japanese PC, PS2, or Xbox version.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
i have the us SnS2, its worth it alone for the rofl induncing translation.
Sounds like we might get a US 360 release. People with irrational hardware phobias will be able to play this game.
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Originally Posted by adoniszero @ GAF
How about people with rational hardware preferences?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
People who like shooters can't afford to dislike PCs, or else they're missing out on a hell of a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
I would pick a US version of this up on Wii if given the option, rather than have to use the 360 d-pad. I'm pretty happy with the PC port, but I'd definitely want to support a stateside version of this.
There is no rational way to prefer a 360 to a PC for a single player game. You can use the same pad on the same HDTV with the PC, if you choose, along with 7,000 other options the 360 doesn't have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooting Love
There's plenty of reasons to prefer the 360 rev over PC. Stop being stupid.
SnSIII specifically might as well be multi with the focus on leaderboards, though. The IR passwords just aren't as nice.Quote:
There is no rational way to prefer a 360 to a PC for a single player game.
Enlighten me. I'll help you start with achievements and leaderboards. I'll claim the list ends there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
Why do you love this argument so much? The PC has some advantages over consoles, yes, we all know this. You are not the TNL Professor you fancy yourself in this matter. Here's the shocker: the inverse is also true.
Here's just one because I'm tired, and you shouldn't need to be told all this over and over anyway:
I, for one, am most fucking tired of anti-piracy bullshit literally preventing me from playing games I legitimately paid for. Or telling me I can't install their game because Daemon Tools was detected. Every year it seems I was putting up with more and more of these hassles. Couple this with the vast majority of games I buy requiring patches just to make them playable and I'm worn down. I'm beaten.
I love the potential of the PC as a gaming platform, but I've pretty much had it with all the bullshit. I'll still buy PC revs now and then when the trade-off is worth it (precision FPSs, or Oblivion for its mods), but if given the choice, I'm reaching for the 360 version more often than not.
I'll take anti-piracy over region encoding. If you don't like being told what you can do, you must really hate the complete monopoly Microsoft has created with 360 accessories. Console games are patched at least as much as PC games now.
Didn't Shiki 2 come out on every system out there at the time? No PS3 version seems strange but I'll survive.
Yep. It came out on DC, GC, PC, PS2, and Xbox.
So don't buy games that have the ridiculous shit. It's not hard. I've been playing PC games pretty much exclusively for the last year and a half and never had that problem. If a publisher wants to insult me as their customer and treat me like I did something wrong by buying their stuff, they don't get my money. They don't deserve it for the 360 port either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
I don't even remember the last time anything like this has happened. 2005, maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by Compass
Starforce is still around so it still happens. For one recent example, DiRT. And who can forget the BioShock authentication idiocy? As for patches, Two Worlds is a pretty good example of a recent game that's basically unplayable in its default state (and only marginally playable post-patches).
Two Worlds was broken as shit on 360 too, and it received patches there as well.
Those are all completely different issues, and those are subsiding as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by bVork
But shit, if that stuff bothers you, buy on Steam. A large chunk of new games are carried there.
Yeah, Steam has essentially everything that is not published by EA or UbiSoft.
Didn't Starforce really clean up their act?Quote:
Starforce is still around so it still happens. For one recent example, DiRT.
Well, apparently Trackmania United (the non-Steam version - the one on Steam is clean) uses a lite version of StarForce. That seems to be the exception, though. From what I have heard, DiRT StarForce is as bad as usual.
I can't believe there's a form of copy protection out there that makes me miss typing word 4 from paragraph 3 from page 53 of the manual.
Just a quick heads up: The PC SnS 3 doesn't use Starforce, but rather it uses Safedisc (which has not given me any problems). Same goes for Raiden III, at least on the Japanese PC version.Quote:
Originally Posted by bVork
Even though I've got the PC one already, I'll be getting the 360 SnS 3 in case of any other extra features that may be thrown in.
Looks like Aksys is bringing the Wii version to the US. No word on the 360 version.
http://www.arcade-renaissance.com/20...-to-north.html
Yay! Still digging the PC port, but I will definitely pick this up. Weird that there's no mention of the 360 one, wasn't that the first one they planned to bring over?
Given the English name and lack of moonspeak in the achievements in this list, I'd say the 360 version is crossing the Pacific too.
Yeah. It's very likely to come out for the 360 over here too. Just no "official" comfirmation yet. A press kit was even available for "Castle Shikigami 3" on the Xbox site during the Tokyo Game Show here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/default.htm
Don't bother downloading it though. Not worth it. I remembered it being a huge filesize just for a bunch of bitmapped screenshots.
Preview with vid at IGN, watch the vid and laugh your ass off:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/854/854612p1.html
Was the localization for Shikigami 2 this bad? *-neo
You have no idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by neoalphazero
That ruled. I'm all over this. ...Although I may wait for a 360 version.
Please tell me there is a option to turn the voices off, or at least keep the jap voices. Otherwise, I can't even put up with that noise.
The second didn't, so I'm pretty sure we're gonna be stuck with this.
Wow. That's practically Shakespearean compared to Castle Shikigami 2.
I WANT A BOYFRIEND
Only played Shikigami II DC and GC but they at least had a option to disable cinemas, it had better return. *-neoQuote:
Originally Posted by kuro
I find it funny that Time Gal is in this.
Yes, that Time Gal.
Also, it's a shame this didn't really have an effect on the translation: http://aksysgames.com/forum/index.php?topic=113.0
Holy crap, that's awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
She pretty much spends the entire game telling us how awesome it is to be Time Gal.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
Time Gal? She's my favorite galactic space idiot! MUST HAVE.
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Originally Posted by neoalphazero
sorry if i'm being a thread necro but :sweat:
I'm currently recording and uploading the voices from Shikigami 2. The best ones are totally the team ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28WUol3XLyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv8ftxxqxy8
I've got 2 so far but a bunch ready to encode :chick:
You're doing the world a grand service. I salute you!
Also, you can post the videos here by taking the numbers and letters after = and slapping them in youtube brackets like this:
Sounds like a plan!
Youtube finally finished processing the 2 videos I uploaded this early morning
Fumiko & Ko - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimLg_Bkhxk
Sayo & Ko - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOkOVIJ_mx0
Any requests for team videos?
It only really counts as being a thread necro when the thing is like 4 years old.Quote:
Originally Posted by uLTraCarL
Ok, so I've been toying with this for a few days now. I really like it so far, but my god, this Roger Sasuke guy, he almost breaks the game for me.
Granted, his normal shot is straight-forward and very slim, his Type 1 Shikigami attack takes out the bosses in one or 2 swipes, its disgusting.
Also, playing as Time Gal makes me happy :)
I'm <3'ing Tate mode, playing with a 15 inch LCD monitor isn't the best, then squashing it with sidebars on normal makes it even worse.
Why the **** isn't this on PS2? This really angers me...
Maybe they figured they couldn't get it on PS2 without tarding it down to a Giga Wing Generations level.
It's already on PC and Wii. If neither of these will work for you, you're doing it wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by dakidski
I'd also on 360 in Japan. Region-locked, of course. Sigh.
Oh I missed that there was a PC port... That's hot.
Tain: I don't think a PS2 port would be a technical difficulty... Just takes a little tweaking here and there.
It quells the hunger pains for a new shooter but the levels feel like templates of Shiro II, and that Remix soundtrack is crap. *-neo
I want this game so I can hear Time Gal talk about how awesome it is to be Time Gal.
So I one credited it just now in Dramatic Change mode (seems cool enough, but its pretty game breaking) with Reika and Roger.
Last boss was lame, bullet formations weren't as bad as I would have expected, hell the 4th bosses formations were harder to dodge. So yay, whatever, back to one player stuffs to unlock shit in the art gallery.
Also, just tried to one credit it as Reika (Time Gal) and I got to 3-1 before failing horribly. But I did score 1,805,587,780 so I don't think thats too bad of a score. Got the first SS rank I've gotten off the first boss too :)
Kuro - Find your damn systems now so we can shoot shit up when you come down for work!