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New House of the Dead arcade game announced (location testing in Japan this week)
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Niiiiiice. One of the few Arcade Units I actively seeked out in my teenage years to play. Wasted hours playing this with my friend on the Saturn and then at the arcade.
I didn't even know there was a third lol. Played the first two games to death back in the day though. I even got the first on my Saturn with a lightgun. Good times.
MY GOD.
Oh man, HOTD2 had voice acting that was so bad, it was good.
Time Crisis has a superb record as well with 4 main entries and 2 spinoffs on consoles but its been almost 3 years since Time Crisis 5 came out.
it's really great
it was released back in 2003 and was one of the last games produced by Yu Suzuki when he was still with AM2 along with VF4 Evo & Outrun 2.
Ha that actually does look really good. I miss old Sega sometimes :(
Side note, they need to bring back Typing of the Dead! I loved that game on my Dreamcast. We always busted it out during parties and watching drunk people trying to type was hilarious.
Looks fantastically cheesey. I hope this comes to Canada. I'm totally prepared to spend 4 bucks a play
I'm fairly sure that got a PC port sold on Steam.Side note, they need to bring back Typing of the Dead! I loved that game on my Dreamcast. We always busted it out during parties and watching drunk people trying to type was hilarious.
Which I really should pick up myself actually.
Edit- Wasn't there a Typing of the Dead version of Overkill too?
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Well, it's been less time since the game got its update and was finished, so I'm still hopeful it'll come eventually.Time Crisis has a superb record as well with 4 main entries and 2 spinoffs on consoles but its been almost 3 years since Time Crisis 5 came out.
It probably wouldn't be too hard to make a gun shell that flips the Joycon with the IR sensor around and uses the other as a trigger.
I def own Typing of the Dead Overkill on Steam I'll tell you that much.
It's like they're inviting me in....
Is this the coliseum?
Our emperor awaits. Hurry friends!
I love that game to death but by God, is that VA bad, lol.
Hell ya! Suffer like G did!
Can't wait for the inevitable console port. Same goes for Time Crisis 5, Namco, don't disappoint me now!
Shame we never got Cyberpunk Cop, I mean Virtua Cop 3.
Can't wait for the inevitable console port. Same goes for Time Crisis 5, Namco, don't disappoint me now!
Shame we never got Cyberpunk Cop, I mean Virtua Cop 3.
"Don't Come!"
Reminds me i need to pick up House of the Dead 2 & 3 on the Wii.....although at the time they said the Dreamcast version of HOTD 2 was arcade perfect you realise it wasn't when you play the Wii version
Reminds me i need to pick up House of the Dead 2 & 3 on the Wii.....although at the time they said the Dreamcast version of HOTD 2 was arcade perfect you realise it wasn't when you play the Wii version
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One of the best games on Wii. The Dreamcast version of HOTD2 was fantastic as well though.. it was crazy to play relatively arcade perfect games at home at the time.
If Wii Virtual Console ever becomes a thing on Switch, I want HotD 2&3 to be there.
I'm dying for these classic lightgun franchises to make a resurgence via VR. Time Crisis, House of the Dead, Virtua Cop
we're allowed to port beg when it comes to arcade games these days, right?
VR baby. The ultimate home HotD port. I'd love to see the prior games as polygonal arcade cabinets in a VR space, and the latest game get a little bit of massaging into VR form.
I really didn't like HotD Overkill, so it's a huge and pleasant surprise that this isn't another outsourced and console-targeted title.
VR baby. The ultimate home HotD port. I'd love to see the prior games as polygonal arcade cabinets in a VR space, and the latest game get a little bit of massaging into VR form.
I really didn't like HotD Overkill, so it's a huge and pleasant surprise that this isn't another outsourced and console-targeted title.
VC3 was a good game, but I absolutely hated the tonal shift from its Model 2 predecessors.
I need my blue skies in Virtua Cop.
Could they use the Switch's Joycons as lightguns or is that tech worse than the Wii's and Wii U's. I loved playing Ghost Squad and House of the Dead 1,2 and Overkill on Wii.
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no, not sure where this comes from considering sega's recent sit-down lightgun cabs like target bravo have no such thing. it'll probably resemble the house of the dead 2 deluxe cabinet aside from switching to an infrared lightgun (and being fashioned like an uzi like hotd4)
Oh did hotd4 have uzis? Was just assuming based on vibration seat and the ammo count in the screenshots, my bad.
Though even that would have been wrong since those mounted gun games dont have ammo at all sometimes.
Man, it would be cool if this was in arcades when I visit Tokyo in a few months. Late April too soon for a full release?
Some photos and details/impressions:
-Game takes place 3 years after HOTD4
-Protagonists are Kate and Ryan, James Taylor's brother
-The style seems to build very specifically on HOTD4 with the uzi as the main weapon and huge hordes of zombies
-The location test has chapters 0 and 1; after chapter 0 it looks like you can choose a route in the full game but only one option is available for the loctest
-Difficulty for normal mode seems on par with HOTD4
-There didn't seem to be anything that restored life (pickups or rewards for rescues/good level scores), that may have just been turned off for the location test though. There are coins and stuff hidden in boxes (one had a top hat in it lol)
-The boss of chapter 1 is Chariot; Ididn't catch if they explained how/why he's back
-Normal mode has situational automatic weapon changes, apparently in "master mode" you can switch weapons freely, but I haven't tried it yet
-The first two chapters had a grenade launcher, shotgun & rocket launcher at various points
-The cab design is pretty cool, it's the standard sit-down style you see for shooty games lately
-The gun isn't mounted, gun design is similar to the HOTD4 gun and it has a secondary trigger on the front that didn't seem to do anything in normal mode
-There's a coolass lightup zombie on the back
-I didn't feel the various types of force feedback all that much? i.e. seat motion, air blasts, etc. - I mostly only felt them during the boss
-Good force feedback for the gun though
-The sound design is nice and there's an "explosive sound mode" you can toggle on or off (some of the dialogue was impossible to hear but what else is new for arcade games)
-The post-game survey has a question asking if you would be interested in a console port
edit: oh also, the voice acting is pretty bad, not HOTD2 levels but bad enough to satisfy me
-Game takes place 3 years after HOTD4
-Protagonists are Kate and Ryan, James Taylor's brother
-The style seems to build very specifically on HOTD4 with the uzi as the main weapon and huge hordes of zombies
-The location test has chapters 0 and 1; after chapter 0 it looks like you can choose a route in the full game but only one option is available for the loctest
-Difficulty for normal mode seems on par with HOTD4
-There didn't seem to be anything that restored life (pickups or rewards for rescues/good level scores), that may have just been turned off for the location test though. There are coins and stuff hidden in boxes (one had a top hat in it lol)
-The boss of chapter 1 is Chariot; Ididn't catch if they explained how/why he's back
-Normal mode has situational automatic weapon changes, apparently in "master mode" you can switch weapons freely, but I haven't tried it yet
-The first two chapters had a grenade launcher, shotgun & rocket launcher at various points
-The cab design is pretty cool, it's the standard sit-down style you see for shooty games lately
-The gun isn't mounted, gun design is similar to the HOTD4 gun and it has a secondary trigger on the front that didn't seem to do anything in normal mode
-There's a coolass lightup zombie on the back
-I didn't feel the various types of force feedback all that much? i.e. seat motion, air blasts, etc. - I mostly only felt them during the boss
-Good force feedback for the gun though
-The sound design is nice and there's an "explosive sound mode" you can toggle on or off (some of the dialogue was impossible to hear but what else is new for arcade games)
-The post-game survey has a question asking if you would be interested in a console port
edit: oh also, the voice acting is pretty bad, not HOTD2 levels but bad enough to satisfy me
Thanks a lot for the write-up and photos, it sounds pretty solid all things considered.
Though I guess it kinda nullifies the HotD4 end stinger saying the story continues in 3 lol.
Though I guess it kinda nullifies the HotD4 end stinger saying the story continues in 3 lol.
^console port interest, hell yeah!
damn, jelly of anyone getting to play this - HOTD overkill remains the series highlight for me, if we're not counting Typing
damn, jelly of anyone getting to play this - HOTD overkill remains the series highlight for me, if we're not counting Typing
WE'RE. MEETING. G. OVER. THERE.
Man...the amount of great times i had on DC with House of The Dead 2 with the light guns with friends...my goodness
Man...the amount of great times i had on DC with House of The Dead 2 with the light guns with friends...my goodness
Time Crisis has a superb record as well with 4 main entries and 2 spinoffs on consoles but its been almost 3 years since Time Crisis 5 came out.
On this topic, no light guns only work on CRT AFAIK.
How do the new Namco ones like that pictured Time Crisis work?
Do the sit down cabs with mounted guns just have track pad style things in the mount to read where its moving?
Genuinely curious, since I love old school light guns and new sensors seem so much less accurate and fast.
This is great, it reminds of my time as a teenager going to Gamezone or whatever other arcade still existed in Redmond, Issaquah, Kirkland or Bellevue.
Side note, they need to bring back Typing of the Dead! I loved that game on my Dreamcast. We always busted it out during parties and watching drunk people trying to type was hilarious.
You know they released a new Typing of the Dead on steam based on HOTD:OK a few years ago, right?
Man, I wish arcades were much more prevalent in the states like the used to be. I'm getting all nostalgic in this thread. Was at a bowling alley the other day with a ton of fairly new arcade games and was shocked.
Well, did you say yes?
Also, does three years after 4 mean it takes place before or after 3? I remember 3 being less time after 4.