In the demo you showed it looks like you've removed the move-you-back-if-you-die logic. Much welcomed, because otherwise I don't know if I'm up to the challenge
No, because this isn't SNK. It's an indie-developed game after the console's time.
Quick question for NG : Dev: How much is this game going to play like XYX? I downloaded the demo and it's brilliant, but unbelievably hard. Just wondering. In the demo you showed it looks like you've removed the move-you-back-if-you-die logic. Much welcomed, because otherwise I don't know if I'm up to the challenge
After playing that XYX demo, though, I'm psyched for this release.
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Not in this world.
The yoko stuff is in the Neogeo's dna. It's intended to give everyone, i mean, EVERYONE, and this include the sweat grandma with her candy shop around the corner down in the neighborough, the chance to manage a cab and let, let's say, the children play.
it's so fucking powerful as idea, that stand still even nowdays:
(hey looks like the granny rotated her cab to let them play sonic wing properly
They could have easily developed a cart that was intended just for 1-slots in vertical cabs
but it's not the F. NeoGeo idea...
let alone the mere fact that there's no way you spend 35000 yen for a cart/games that force you to rotate your tv at home, back in the days,
this is nowdays enthusiast shit, which i can understand and could approve, but
c'mon, imagine a children doing that, and then the parents sue SNK for injuries
Neo Geo is yoko, get over it.
As i said, yes i'm going to buy it (not that if i'm not buying it, i have no patent to discuss things. just to clarify)
The games look really good; still too european for my taste, but less doujin then the lazy japanese ones released these days, with all that great works on bitmap grapichs (which japanese doujin miss quite often, i mean, it's not Crimzon Clover every day *__*U). Dreamcast version of course, if it eventually come out, as i expect it will have a yoko option for sure. I'm not going to rotate my 29" just to play one single game honestly.
See, if this was a indie game developed for a custom jamma pcb, you couldn't complain or better, say anything, because either way, you need to rotate your candy monitor like operator used to do for setup, let's say, a dodonpachi, or your tv, if you were using a supergun.
It's you using a game not intended to be play'd on tv screen so you have to deal with it.
But this is NeoGeo and there's a philosophy behind, you liking it or not.
That's all i was trying to explain about it; it's not a good argument saying you're gonna play on a ipod nano like-screen, then, there's no problem in rotating stuff.
Also i was just sarcastic. If i got someone offended, by any chance, i apologiez.
But, i'm finding amusing that every time one point something out, people jump in crying and acting like someone is trying to steal candys off their hand.
Everyone will get their games eventually, and will be happy with them. We know how it works; it's not like it needs to be a masterpiece in order to sell and make people happy. Also, it would require a lot of work to be polished and "good" like most of the Neogeo games of the golden era. So we must just applaude ng:dev for bringing back to life the system
but, unless i'm misreading forums, this is not the sale section, so the thread is for discussing things and announcements.
It's just that. So what's the problem?
No checkpoints!
They are pretty much completely different games. They don't play much like each other. Graphics, enemy concepts and some bullet patterns are similar though. XYX is 1989/1990 old school, NEO XYX is 1993-1994 mid-school
But you are right, it plays fine in hori mode too. No need to worry about not being able to play it in a Big Red...it just requires a few minutes of getting used too. Anyone remember Uridium? That one was a vert running in hori too and it plays fine.
just lay your MVS on its side and play sideways! It's more hardcore.