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I got a lot of looks from people because of my swearing when I was in America. My Mum was almost deported from Japan for her nose blowing. Different countries have different values, who'd have thought?
so your saying you want more penis in your video games?
What's so bad about this thread?
Or is it more that you like act as a collective against things that are popular to dislike?
Ass failure.
Old joke.
Where's the best rack in gaming thread? BECAUSE I DEMAND IT.
Frankly I think it's a non-issue, since Vanessa appears to be directly based on the same character model (and actress) used for Jill. They're Mikami's girls, after all.
VJ is the opposite of a schmup - Joe is the 'action', and it's your job to take the action to the enemy, rather than responding to a screen full of enemy action.
"Black Rock Shooter" is a Japanese manga/anime franchise i've heard of, but don't care for. So I did a word play.
I like Vanessa, I like her more than Jill Valentine. Vanessa's a better dresser.
"but I admit it, I have still not finished VJoe. Why?"
"The problem here solely lies with the user."
First you need to admit: you're weak.
I got VJ and Vanessa's Ass Rock Shooter at launch, and I like Vanessa more, but VJ was the wholly more *accessible* product due to less re-engineering of your own mindset to achieve what is jumpy-punchy gameplay.
VJ is a puzzle-based platforming brawler. If you don't solve the combat puzzles, you can't adapt to whatever "pure gameplay" patterns you're trying to speak of. (the game becomes a piece of cake)
TIP: Zoom-in is something to be done sparingly, and demands you exercise spatial awareness on everything you momentarily DON'T focus on, just like the act of looking over your shoulder to check the adjacent lane while driving your car.
FACT: Fire Leo is the easiest boss in the game on Adult difficulty, after practice. Come to this conclusion before lumping VJ1 with trash like DMC.
Yes, I always like it better when a game has a strong ending, but I prefer that ending to be part of the game and not a TV show or short film like in Assasin's Creed: Brotherhood.
I like the game. I do wish it wasn't so repetitive, but I like the option of purchasing different outfits and upgrading the weapons. The controls seem fairly responsive, the framerate never seems to stutter, and I haven't noticed texture tearing or any other glitches. The repeating level designs and enemy types are its biggest downfall. I didn't really mind her moving 'like a tank'. The game provided all the required moves needed to get through the game. Its a corridor shooter, always shooting in front of you, so not much of a need to have complicated moves.
I've never played Ghosts n Goblins, but I understand what you mean. I don't know if I would "enjoy" constantly replaying levels, but I certainly enjoy getting past a point in a game that I lost on before but how it happens matters as well. If I had to find a new strategy to get past it and I figured it out after 3-10 tries, I get an elated feeling of accomplishment. However, if I simply get my ass kicked repeatedly twenty times and then by luck I get passed it, all I say is "Fucking finally!" and am much more annoyed by the experience.
Could this be the worst thread ever?
For me, the enjoyment of an old game is radically dependent on the original quality of the game and what system it came from. It's not just the dramatically inferior production values of the old consoles that are problematic. We've made immense improvements in game design as well, which makes modern games much more fair and enjoyable to play, especially in short sessions. For example, remember the days when your success in a platformer was dependent on how well you memorized the level? Nowadays, unless you're playing a Megaman game, you don't have to worry about a bird swooping in to knock you into a pit when you try to jump over it, or to remember to hold left as you fall down a blind chasm because there are spikes that will appear on the right. You don't have to worry about losing 4 hours of progress and having to start the entire game over if you make one small mistake at the end of a game, because we have save points and checkpoints. Unless you're playing a Dragon Quest game (whose gameplay evolutions are so glacial in nature you might as well be playing an NES game), RPGs don't really do random encounters anymore; in many RPGs save points are plentiful if not completely at the player's discretion; and battle systems tend to be more complex than just selecting commands in turn-based menus.
We simply make games better now than we did 15 years ago. They're designed better, they have better production values, and they have more added value and the potential for expansion via DLC. Some retro games hold up better than most, particularly from the SNES era, and there are many games from the past (like Chrono Trigger) I can have as much fun playing today as I did originally. However, if given the choice between playing a game from the NES era and playing a modern game in the same genre, I'll take the modern game almost every time.
It's just that today's stressed and rushed people don't want to replay games just for the sake of challenge. They want to unlock material if they have to replay a game... for me, a good challenge and fun gameplay is enough to replay the same level 50 times. The satisfaction of feeling you're getting a bit better every time is what keeps me going!
To be frank, I have a backlogged stack of games I'm probably never going to get through, not to mention a similar stack of anime episodes and movies. I work a lot as well, which eats up a considerable amount of time every weekday. If developers want me to not only set aside the time to play through their game once but also play through it a second time or more, then yes I want to unlock something as a result...be it a PS3 trophy, an extra mode, bonus material, etc. This isn't the 80s where most gamers played one or two games religiously for half a year because we only got 1 or 2 games a year. These days, there are so many things competing for my time that games need a good reason to replay them.
What I thought was a pretty irritating flaw was that the first level is the longest in the game, you have to go through that before you even understand the basics so I (and probably many others) switched to Easy to get a grasp on the game but Easy breaks many aspects of the game (especially bosses, they go down if you spam all your super attacks but other enemies too die before they can shoot).
