New House of the Dead arcade game announced (location testing in Japan this week)

FuturaBold · Jan 22, 2018

DynamiteCop! said:
I'm one of the few people who have The House of the Dead on Sega Saturn and while I'm proud to own it my god is the framerate horrible. As much as I hope for new House of the Dead it's simply not going to happen on anything modern, the only system that could even technically do it is the Switch so my hope for this in the home market is basically non-existent.

Last month I sold my Saturn mint copy on eBay for a small mint! I loved House of the Dead. I still have a PS2 copy of Vampire Night which was the same AM1 development team it if I remember correctly. Confidential Mission on the Dreamcast was also a blast.
Looking forward to playing the new game.

Gitaroo · Jan 22, 2018

SausagePiano said:
Not a joke post. Please look at the first picture with the (clipping) zombies.

I am a fan of the series.

its lighting model and particle fx from UE4 and enemies count on screen is beyond anything PS3 can handle left alone PS2.

yyr · Jan 22, 2018

j^aws said:
IIRC, devs have the option to provide a different viewpoint for the passthrough image on the flatscreen, thus negating your concern.

I was not aware of this, and that's good. However, we don't know whether the PS4 powerful enough to maintain 60fps for both viewpoints.

j^aws said:
You can leave it upto the players using WAN to decide if lag is acceptable.

If the devs can't get it to work acceptably, it would never get that far =\

j^aws said:
However, LAN symmetrical multi-player would be awesome. I remember playing Wipeout, using two PSX and two huge CRTs back in the day, and that was worth it.

The PS2 versions of Time Crisis 2 and 3 also had this feature, just like the arcade version did =)

DynamiteCop! said:
As much as I hope for new House of the Dead it's simply not going to happen on anything modern, the only system that could even technically do it is the Switch so my hope for this in the home market is basically non-existent.

I don't see how it's technically possible on Switch; in my eyes, PS4 is the only way it could be done right now (using Move controllers).

ILikeFeet · Jan 22, 2018

SausagePiano said:
I love this series, my childhood, but why does it look like something running on the ps2?

because you're blind

MadeMan · Jan 23, 2018

yyr said:
Time Crisis 5 is at every Dave & Buster's, just saying =)

I live in Australia, no D&B here.
We still have a handful of arcades around, I'll keep an eye out for it if I see it but most places are ticket redemption/prize machines now.

A Strong Latte · Jan 23, 2018

MadeMan said:
I live in Australia, no D&B here.
We still have a handful of arcades around, I'll keep an eye out for it if I see it but most places are ticket redemption/prize machines now.

There's a time crisis 5 at playtime in melbourne crown I think. But yeah our arcades are fucking garbage now. going to japan and seeing all the good shit really bummed me out

MadeMan · Jan 23, 2018

remz said:
There's a time crisis 5 at playtime in melbourne crown I think. But yeah our arcades are fucking garbage now. going to japan and seeing all the good shit really bummed me out

If it's any consolation, the family that owns Timezone is trying to bring back arcades in a big way, apparently. Hopefully it's more focus on being an adult past time and bang out than the extremes of drug den or daycare.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/medi...-malls-seek-to-entertain-20170131-gu27w9.html

MrCunningham · Jan 23, 2018

Is this being developed in-house by Sega of Japan? I liked House of the Dead Overkill a lot, Headstrong games did a great job with it. But a new HoTD from SOJ would be awesome.

low-G · Jan 23, 2018

SausagePiano said:
Not a joke post. Please look at the first picture with the (clipping) zombies.

I am a fan of the series.

For the most part, for the last several decades, clipping isn't a performance factor, it's an artistic attention factor. It's not as if we have a lot of physics + IK for all objects in a scene implemented yet (or any that I'm aware of).

TheChrisGlass · Jan 23, 2018

I am fully behind this. Like, 10,000%.
I felt so lucky for a chance to a play through Time Crisis 5: True Mastermind Edition at a nearby arcade. I can only hope this comes near me, too.

Dooble · Jan 24, 2018

MrCunningham said:
Is this being developed in-house by Sega of Japan? I liked House of the Dead Overkill a lot, Headstrong games did a great job with it. But a new HoTD from SOJ would be awesome.

If it is announced from Japan and you only see the Sega logo, it is in house pretty much.

NeroPaige · Jan 24, 2018

BlockABoots said:
"Don't Come!"

omg injustica.

lost.

MrLuchador · Jan 24, 2018

DynamiteCop! said:
I'm one of the few people who have The House of the Dead on Sega Saturn and while I'm proud to own it my god is the framerate horrible. As much as I hope for new House of the Dead it's simply not going to happen on anything modern, the only system that could even technically do it is the Switch so my hope for this in the home market is basically non-existent.

You know, when I played it as a kid it never bothered me. In fact I used to love slow down from frame rate death in games, it made me feel amazing like I bust the game!

New House of the Dead arcade game announced (location testing in Japan this week)

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