Let's talk about: Gungrave

[MechDeus]

Originally posted by phoenix angel wing
Contra is repetitive in that it's based on patterns of enemy fire. Skill is the product of this memorization.

Repetition in Gungrave is mass enemies whose order and hit count must be memorized to maximixe combos.

There is no playing for score (seriously anyway).

Pull the other, it's got bells attached!

[Ragnarok the Red]

Hell, I'm even considering picking up the domestic version of the game even though I already have the LE Japanese version just so I can finally enjoy that great storyline. I'm so glad Sega decided to keep it in Japanese and just use English subtitles, I shudder at the thought of this game getting a shitty, English dub

[J2d]

Mechdeus:

Did you make that Gungrave gif, that you used to have on this board, yourself?

[MechDeus]

Sorta. There was a large promo picture floating around the net that was a frame-by-frame breakdown of his little bullet dance. I took that and edited it by cutting out each shot into frames (it was a pain to keep them lined up and the same size) and using an animated gif maker program to piece it all together. Then came the attempts at shrinking the file size, which didn't fare too well.

Go to this great Gungrave site: http://www.gungrave.ca.tc/ and check out page 3 of the Wallpapers section for the original.

Oh, and seeing the full picture that was cropped for the US release is a lot nicer then the cover version. Some gorgeous art there...

[J2d]

Thanks for the tip, any chance of me borrowing it for use as an avatar on ezboards, I am ashamed to ask but Im incompetent when it comes to making these things myself, No problem if the answer is no, had to ask though

[MechDeus]

Sure, but good luck getting EZboard to allow it, seeing as how it's 105k (the smallest I could get). If you're looking for a better Grave avatar, I could probably hook you up with some. Or just find my old one that I was using a long time ago, back when the boards last returned from getting wiped.

[J2d]

It works fine thanks alot.

[Will]

Gungrave fucking rocks, I like that it's not too long either seeing how many games came out this month and all.

I just wish the graphics were a bit better like the cutscenes(whick are one of the coolest I've seen in quite some time).

I really hope a 2 comes out.

[MajinRyu]

I just hate the dancing… why in hell he has to dance?

[NGEFreek]

I think I'll pick this up today, whats the retail on this puppy?