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I'm offended by Destructoid's headline. Densha de Go legitimately looked like a fun time. 
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Nickoten posted:I'm offended by Destructoid's headline. Densha de Go legitimately looked like a fun time. It does look like a fun time and it usually is but Destructoid is right for once in this situation. The Wii only got the Shinkansen (the bullet train line) version and it is my pick for the worst of the series. It's all flat, straight track with generic field scenery. There's very little in the way of variation and it's around ten minutes between stations. Get Densha de Go Final if you want my pick for the best in the series (though I don't like Conductor mode which was mentioned in the thread recently). It's easily available, very accessible, and the only catch is you have to do something with your PS2 if you want to play it on a US console. Alternatively if you really want to drive a bullet train Railfan: Taiwan is a lot more fun than the Shinkansen game and it's even available in English if you get the Asian market version.
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Apr 29, 2012 10:33
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Ah, I stand corrected then. I guess it stands to reason that a Shinkansen game would be pretty drat boring considering the subject matter. And here I am insulting a game about bullet trains I've never played because it doesn't sound as fun as driving a Yamanote Line train.
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Apr 29, 2012 11:03
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Random Stranger posted:Alternatively if you really want to drive a bullet train Railfan: Taiwan is a lot more fun than the Shinkansen game and it's even available in English if you get the Asian market version. I naturally have the PS3 Railfan and had a Kachou moment myself the first time I played Taiwan High-Speed Rail. One and a half hours spent driving the train along the entirety of the line with no stops. Approached the terminus at the end of the line... Slowed down... Gently... Overshot the station by a few metres. YOU FAIL, GAME OVER. One and a half hours of non-stop driving down the pan. ;___;
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Apr 29, 2012 13:51
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Nickoten posted:And here I am insulting a game about bullet trains I've never played because it doesn't sound as fun as driving a Yamanote Line train. The entire Yamanote line is Final. The line (or portions of it) have been in a lot of the games both because it's pretty well-known in Japan and it's got quite a few change ups. You're constantly having to deal with speed management for the bends in the track (it is, after all, a loop) and a fairly exacting schedule.
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Apr 29, 2012 14:48
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That's what I imagined in my head that a bullet train game would be like but I thought, "No, it can't really be like that" until I read your post.  quote:The entire Yamanote line is Final. The line (or portions of it) have been in a lot of the games both because it's pretty well-known in Japan and it's got quite a few change ups. You're constantly having to deal with speed management for the bends in the track (it is, after all, a loop) and a fairly exacting schedule. Oh yeah I wasn't kidding when I said it seemed fun. Was just commenting on how funny my post must look to someone who has no interest in these at all. "This train game seems boring as hell compared to this other train game!"
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Apr 29, 2012 14:49
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A friend of mine's a driver on the London Underground, he's allowed me in the cab a few times and it's really shown me how difficult a job it is. You need to concentrate all the time and have to be very wary of assuming that signal you passed a million times before will still be green... Incidentally I showed Densha de Go Final to him and he was not terribly impressed that I'd chosen one of his days off to make him play a game simulating his job. :P
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Apr 29, 2012 15:08
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PkerUNO posted:A friend of mine's a driver on the London Underground, he's allowed me in the cab a few times and it's really shown me how difficult a job it is. You need to concentrate all the time and have to be very wary of assuming that signal you passed a million times before will still be green.. Being a tube driver is literally like playing a very, very hard Japanese videogame! Also, the game seems unforgiving as hell, but I imagine the train drivers in Japan would lose their jobs for a lot less than overshooting a station slightly / being 20 seconds late / failing to point at every single sign on the route?
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Apr 29, 2012 15:15
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Tyma posted:Being a tube driver is literally like playing a very, very hard Japanese videogame! I remember hearing that there were huge problems in Japan about twenty or thirty years ago with the train drivers being generally incompetent. Not run the train off the tracks and kill hundreds of people bad but doing things like skipping stations, ignoring some safety measures, and making passengers miserable. These days it's a well oiled machine. There is more leeway than the game gives you in arrival. Since a train is generally stopped for over a minute to keep things on schedule there's a lot more wiggle room. And I'm sure the drivers have a lot more practice at stopping accurately than any normal person would get.
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Apr 29, 2012 15:23
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Tyma posted:Being a tube driver is literally like playing a very, very hard Japanese videogame! Pretty much, yeah. If your train is late, it could gently caress up every single train behind you, especially in Japan where they squeeze every possible space on their service diagrams. Overshooting a station is a problem on any network, since trains aren't usually authorised to move backwards, so they'd have to just continue to the next station. Failing to point I'm not so sure of, I always thought that was partly for personal reasons - making sure you actually acknowledge every signal - and partly for show - passengers can usually look into the driver's cabin, so you're demonstrating that you're alert. EDIT: ^^^^ Recently there's been efforts to try and reduce the number of trains on tracks and generally "chill out" the service patterns a bit more since there were a couple of accidents a few years ago caused by drivers speeding after being a couple of seconds late. If you're interested in the signalling part of railway management, I recommend SimSig - it's almost exactly the same program British signalmen use. PkerUNO fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Apr 29, 2012 |
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Apr 29, 2012 15:24
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Watching the Golgo 13 episode right now. I never played it myself, and I guess from magazine screenshots I developed the impression that it was a pure adventure game.. I had no idea there was an action component to it beyond the sniping!
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Apr 29, 2012 22:36
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My wife and I went to SF over the weekend for a friend's wedding. Needless to say this is the first place we went after getting off the plane:
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Apr 30, 2012 02:45
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xamphear posted:My wife and I went to SF over the weekend for a friend's wedding. Needless to say this is the first place we went after getting off the plane:
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Apr 30, 2012 03:07
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Huh... looks like one of the first things we have to do when we start moving again with our own subs doesn't have a lot of Arino actually playing a game. I guess that makes up for Bomberman was it was only Arino and the staff playing... It has been a pretty bad video to fix. I've been working on patching it up for about four hours now.
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Apr 30, 2012 03:09
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Hirayuki posted:Yes! A very cool place. I dragged my family there on our trip to SF a few years aback and spent several hours (!) enjoying the machines. The perfect spot for amateur retro game masters. I lived in SF for years and had no idea this place existed.... Now I'm kicking myself.
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May 1, 2012 04:32
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xamphear posted:My wife and I went to SF over the weekend for a friend's wedding. Needless to say this is the first place we went after getting off the plane:
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May 1, 2012 16:24
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Inferior Third Season posted:Did you give some quarters in tribute to the wind machine? That was literally the first machine I put money into.
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May 1, 2012 23:22
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Did you get a chance to meet the man in charge, maybe mention that you saw his business on GameCenter CX? I know the people who run the game store that Arino visited during his America trip have mentioned hearing about it, and have discussed it on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/4JAYSVideoGames
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May 2, 2012 00:19
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Vlaphor posted:Did you get a chance to meet the man in charge, maybe mention that you saw his business on GameCenter CX? I know the people who run the game store that Arino visited during his America trip have mentioned hearing about it, and have discussed it on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/4JAYSVideoGames We saw the guy (really hard to miss him) but after a brief discussion with my wife we decided it would indeed be "kinda weird" to approach him about how we saw him on a Japanese TV show.
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May 2, 2012 01:44
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xamphear posted:We saw the guy (really hard to miss him) but after a brief discussion with my wife we decided it would indeed be "kinda weird" to approach him about how we saw him on a Japanese TV show. What about telling him you saw him on Storage Wars?
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May 2, 2012 01:49
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xamphear posted:We saw the guy (really hard to miss him) but after a brief discussion with my wife we decided it would indeed be "kinda weird" to approach him about how we saw him on a Japanese TV show. The guy has probably been on 8-10 TV shows given the specialty nature of his business so I doubt it really would have creeped him out.
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May 2, 2012 02:32
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xamphear posted:We saw the guy (really hard to miss him) but after a brief discussion with my wife we decided it would indeed be "kinda weird" to approach him about how we saw him on a Japanese TV show. He's in San Francisco. That would probably be the most normal thing to have happened in the past month.
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May 2, 2012 02:40
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Watched the Mighty Bomb Jack! live special last night. So intense! I've never been on the edge of my seat for any other episode yet.
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May 2, 2012 17:08
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If anybody saw the newest GCCX and wants to play Dynamite Headdy legally and (relatively) easily, it's on Steam now.
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May 3, 2012 01:26
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rdbbb posted:If anybody saw the newest GCCX and wants to play Dynamite Headdy legally and (relatively) easily, it's on Steam now. Wonder Boy In Monster World is also on Steam. Hope to see that episode subbed soon.
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May 3, 2012 03:10
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I wanted to take a quick translation break to... translate some more. This is the "What's the worst GCCX episode?" thread from 2chan, posted a day after the most recent live episode. I mentioned this a while back. Halfway through they start talking about best episodes and best AD. For those interested in the Japanese fandom's opinions. Spoilers and off-topic comments have been omitted. 2chan: What is the worst Game Center CX episode? (Feb 25, 2012) http://justpaste.it/yfo
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May 3, 2012 20:23
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Of the ones that have been translated (KOTAK in this case), I'd have to go with Battle Golfer Yui. That whole game is just boring and ugly and I don't remember Arino being particularly funny, either. Edit: quote:52. Shiren, because [spoiler]. ActRaiser, because he was obviously in a bad mood. Fire Arino already and find another guy Haha, whoa, angry nerds are universal. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 3, 2012 |
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May 3, 2012 20:27
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quote:Fire Arino already and find another guy  Also, seems like you guys did a good job choosing the right episodes to release seeing as how the majority of comments on there are concerning translated eps.
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May 3, 2012 20:30
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zari-gani posted:I wanted to take a quick translation break to... translate some more. This is the "What's the worst GCCX episode?" thread from 2chan, posted a day after the most recent live episode. I mentioned this a while back. Halfway through they start talking about best episodes and best AD. For those interested in the Japanese fandom's opinions. You're amazing.
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May 3, 2012 20:45
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Since Ninja Spirit was an easy win (He beat it in about 2 hours),the staff should have made him play on Arcade mode which is much harder. May have made for a more interesting episode. I have a PC port of the Arcade version which was on the Irem PC Collection. I have yet to beat Ninja Spirit on Arcade Mode. I have no PC Engine Mode to fall back on. Both Zelda games were not fun challenges to watch. Zelda 64 is too long for GCCX. Arino didn't play the whole game himself. Zelda ALTTP was OK, but only showing highlights from dungeon runs and not showing Arino's struggle to get to the boss made it less interesting than other GCCX episodes. joek0 fucked around with this message at 20:55 on May 3, 2012 |
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May 3, 2012 20:48
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quote:108. Picks for worst: Shiren = [spoiler]. Ocarina of Time = [spoiler]. Kirby Superstar = It was way too easy. Super Mario Bros 2 = Akita was ugly That is rough. The opposite of tender. 
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May 3, 2012 20:51
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quote:138. >>132 Volfied and Splatterhouse were both god tier Holy moley I want to see Arino play Splatterhouse so much. Nintendo Channel 
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May 3, 2012 22:00
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I'm convinced we're too kind to this show.
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May 3, 2012 22:23
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rdbbb posted:I'm convinced we're too kind to this show. I know. I haven't liked an episode since they changed the format for season two.  RabidWeasel posted:Holy moley I want to see Arino play Splatterhouse so much. Nintendo Channel Arino dominates the game. I'm convinced he could beat it with only an extra hour or two of play but the Nintendo Channel format tends to be abbreviated. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 23:00 on May 3, 2012 |
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May 3, 2012 22:56
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I love them all, so I won't say 'worst', but my least favorite episode (at least of the translated ones) has gotta be SOS. I definitely enjoy the ones where he fails a lot less, and SOS is the worst because it's not even his fault that he fails, it's just a terribly programmed game.
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May 3, 2012 23:25
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Son Ryo posted:I definitely enjoy the ones where he fails a lot less I'm the opposite. I like to see Arino struggle, and it tends to make me smile when an old game is just so impossible or pointlessly time-consuming that even Arino finally has to throw up his hands and go "Nope, I'm done." I also enjoy seeing the funny deaths more than seeing the actual successful runs.
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May 3, 2012 23:33
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I always enjoyed the Actraiser episode because it felt like I finally found a kindred spirit in someone who really likes the creation mode as much as I do.  Also, "Fightin's gone." 
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May 3, 2012 23:46
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Son Ryo posted:I love them all, so I won't say 'worst', but my least favorite episode (at least of the translated ones) has gotta be SOS. Well you're a crazy person because SOS is probably the best episode of the whole series. The amount of despair when Arino's party jumps one by one to their death as he frantically tries to reset the arrow is glorious. I drink his pain. Ledneh posted:I always enjoyed the Actraiser episode because it felt like I finally found a kindred spirit in someone who really likes the creation mode as much as I do. I have good news for you, you can find kindred spirits in the entirety of humankind and also some cetaceans. The sim mode is what made Actraiser into a top five snes game instead of being a forgettable hack em up like Actraiser 2.
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May 3, 2012 23:55
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There was an Actraiser 2? Dang. It's nice to think I'm not as alone in that opinion as I thought though! 
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S.O.S. is probably my favourite one of all time, if not then in my top three (hell it was the first one I translated for SAGCCX), so I was pleasantly surprised to see it so well-received by the Japanese fandom. I really thought it was a more obscure pick. I agree with the poster who says it's hilarious to see Arino yell at game characters when they won't listen to him.
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