AllieKitsune

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Great Jorb, Koei.

Really, the PS Classic's lineup should have been entirely of Japanese-developed games.

And been loaded with shoot-em-ups from top to bottom.

Philosoma, Raiden Project, Gradius Gaiden, Night Raid, G. Darius, Gunbird, Two-Tenkaku, Geki-Oh Shienryu, R-Type Delta, Xevious 3D/G+, RayStorm, Einhander, Gaia Seed, Sonic Wings Special, even the dodgy, blurry port of DoDonPachi.

I'm being a jerk again, BUT....

Bashtar was the mostly-invisible giant.

Vookimedlo is the witch doctor.

@retro_player_22 No such thing as "too many shooters (never been a fan of the term "shmup")", especially when there's nothing from Toaplan, Compile, Cave, Eighting/Raizing, or Seibu Kaihatsu available yet.

@BulkSlash And remember, a Saturn copy is (relatively) worthless if it doesn't still have the Spine Card.

It's still odd to me that people insist on linking Horizon Chase to OutRun when it's obviously a tribute to Top Gear and the Lotus series.

With the whole fire background, likely either a sim/strategy like Rot3K or Nobunaga's ambition.

Or possibly Ni-oh 2.

Something odd about taking the sequel to "Love" and basically naming it "S***", heh.

When you realize you're the only site user that can't read Japanese...

("Then change your username, poseur.")

@pizzanuggs Because people have this complex about having to appear "smarter" than everyone else (or failing that, appear the most aggro), and it just descends into self-satisfied smug sniping that accomplishes less than nothing.

I was kind of hoping there'd be something more troll-ish about this.

Like he'd intentionally sign it in a way that was meant to shame the dude for bugging him.

All regions? Or just JP/PAL?

First World Problems.

If I'm being honest, I don't care much about online.

The first Virtuos port I remember was Motorstorm Arctic Edge for PS2.

They've been at this for a good while.

If you're in the US, however, the US Version of Puzzle Bobble 2 ("Bust A Move Again") has bizarre editing where the Bubble Bobble characters are replaced with a generic-looking hand.

Sadly, no Ninja Master's. I think that's the only game left I'm hoping makes it over.

Well, that and Viewpoint.

Why do the NA listings always list last week's ACA NeoGeo instead of this week's?

This week's is Pleasure Goal : 5-on-5 Futsal.

One would figure that if M2 does their own version of HPZ (though I expect they won't), it'd have to have a different layout than the Taxman version.

@Deku-Scrub I'd rather they give the rights to the "Space Funeral" guy.

At some point, Sega needs to be comprehensive about getting more of their Genesis/MD-era IPs into these collections (not going to mention 3rd party stuff at all, for obvious reasons).

Even without S3&K, there's still way too much they keep passing up :

-Jewel Master
-Pulseman
-ThunderForce 2, 3, and 4 (and yeah, 4 is a Sega Ages release, but it would keep things mostly comprehensive, since Sega owns TechnoSoft's IPs now)
-Elemental Master
-Super Monaco GP
-Arrow Flash
-Ranger X
-G-LOC
-Mystic Defender (assuming enough of the license has been stripped out that it wouldn't cost them)

And really, even just adding those would make it feel like there wouldn't be any huge glaring holes.

Jeebus Creebus. Does EVERYTHING have to have an obnoxious "protest" movement (serious or otherwise) behind it now?

@YANDMAN Ninja Commando came out over a month ago.

I personally like Savage Reign, but I don't begrudge anybody s***ting all over it. It's stiff, special motions can be a little unintuitive, and not really tournament-worthy, if that's a requirement for some people.

Disc Jam is really a different game entirely, with a completely different scoring system.

And I found the controls in that game to be too loose to really come to grips with.

@FragRed They likely bid the cheapest. They tell companies that they can build a plug and play cash-in cheaper than anybody else can.

And then they cut corners so bad that they're finally burning bridges with publishers.

It's pretty much going to be the same as it was on PS4 and Vita.

I also would have preferred an ACA NeoGeo version (and I'm almost NEVER snobbish about these sorts of things), but being as I'm pretty sure it's one of the properties owned by Paon instead of G-Mode (and G-Mode owned Data East properties usually end up as part of the "Johnny Turbo" line anyway), it's also not surprising.

Yeah, no. 60 FPS or bust, but it's probably just going to be 30 again.

If it was something previously cancelled, it's not going to be a port of something that was already released elsewhere.

So the only thing I can think of is True Fantasy Online, unless there was a cancelled White Knight game at some point (though I don't think there was).

Blops? In Japan?

I thought FPSs were a lost cause over there?

@Tsusasi If a company doesn't defend their IP, they can lose the rights to it.

@sword_9mm

The console versions use an alternate control scheme (direct 1:1 control over the character instead of point-and-click). A lot of people don't like it, but plenty enough do.

Because hey, who DOESN'T want to waste their life getting worked up into a furor over the perceived sexual politics of Mario characters?

I'm no huge fan of the "Big N" (or "Ninty", as our Euro Superiors call it), but I don't begrudge them their power to cut off distribution of game data for their hardware.

However, I also don't expect them to be able to stop everybody from seeking out ways to subvert their draconian practices.

@gameboy1975

Nobody believes that.

When people say "It wouldn't have happened without Sony", they don't mean that Konami couldn't afford it.

They just mean that Konami had no plans or desire to make it happen until Sony paid them to.

@gameboy1975

What makes you think that Konami had ANY plans to do this before Sony begged them to and threw money at them?

This wasn't in Konami's plans at all before that happened.

Done.

Not every single character out there has to be given giant tits.

And yeah, I know most of you will have a reason to complain at me.

I think people are being intentionally ignorant about this when they say "Konami can pay for it by themselves!"

That's not the point.

The point is that Konami NEVER had ANY PLANS on porting this to any system at all.

They're ONLY doing it because Sony paid them to.