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Konami's six-player X-Men arcade game is massively overrated, too.
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quakster posted:Against what? 3D Brawlers? Yes they do. Against other, better beat-em-ups (mostly by Capcom.) I won't lie, playing them on a cab was a hell of an experience -- especially the giant two-screen six-player X-men cab -- but the actual gameplay removed from the context of being an 11-year-old in an arcade in 1992 is not all that great.
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Dec 10, 2012 04:37
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I had to turn that episode off before the end - I was getting as bored as Arino was. I think kids would get the point by fifty stages, Namco.
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Dec 10, 2012 04:46
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Brawlers are still fun, I play them pretty often. I tend to buy most of the ones that come out on XBLA (except Simpsons, oddly enough), and also tend to play them enough to get all the achievements in them too. If you want to play them without pressure, play em in MAME and hammer the quarter button all you want. I do it all the time. If you wanna see what a modern brawler can be, check out Double Dragon Neon. If you enjoy fun things you shouldn't be disappointed.
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Dec 10, 2012 04:47
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:He seems to have received a string of tweets about foreign lands, retweeting them with "Oh! Italy!," "Oh! America!" and "Oh! Germany" (if no-one mentions Canada, a joke will have been missed): radiodevt: "Hello Kacho! I'm German! Do you like Wii U? What is your Miiverse name?" Arino: "Oh! Germany! I bet your controller's sticky from eating sausages while gaming..." subbes: "America loves the kacho! "http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me75zsTODc1r2pz7go1_250.gif Arino: "Oh! America! I bet you have fries with your hamburger." seekerofthevoid: "Kacho! I'm an Italian fan! I always watch your challenges! Thanks to you, I discovered all kinds of old Famicom games. Kacho on!" Arino: "Oh! Italy! I bet you're kind to women." ETA: He just wrote "What gives? Is the Chief booming in foreign countries??" zari-gani fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Dec 10, 2012 |
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Dec 10, 2012 04:48
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Coin-ops were the original freemium games: invitingly shallow, and made trivial by the capacity and willingness to spend money on them.
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zari-gani posted:Arino: "Oh! Italy! I bet you're kind to women." And Arino delivers an  .
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Dec 10, 2012 04:54
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Obeast posted:Yeah, Simpsons Arcade really isn't technologically advanced for it's time, so I'm sure the SNES/Genesis could've handled it just fine with some minor changes/cuts. I'm betting it was an issue with Acclaim having rights to make the console games like Bart vs the Space Mutants, which came out the same year as Simpsons Arcade. At least Konami did finally re-release it on XBLA/PSN with online play (which works okay as long as you have good latency), and a pretty good set of options like being able to play either the US/JAP versions as well as a survival game mode where you only have one life and no continues to see how far you can get (which is actually pretty fun solo, but I bet it's even better with other people). It's not that the sprites are terribly complex, it's that they're animated at a high framerate, there's a lot going on during most of the game, and the game uses a good number of scaling effects that I think would be too complex for the SNES to manage. I could be wrong about this, I just think it was too advanced for a solid home port at the time.
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Dec 10, 2012 04:58
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zari-gani posted:Translation: Holy poo poo 
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Dec 10, 2012 05:01
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zari-gani posted:Translation: This only confirms that the Kacho is the best. Yes, we do have fries with our hamburgers 
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Dec 10, 2012 05:03
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zari-gani posted:Translation: I want to see a German Game center CX just to watch a German dude eat sausages on a stick.
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Dec 10, 2012 05:05
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The Muffinlord posted:It's not that the sprites are terribly complex, it's that they're animated at a high framerate, there's a lot going on during most of the game, and the game uses a good number of scaling effects that I think would be too complex for the SNES to manage. There's definately no way the SNES could handle the arcade game. The main problem is the huge number of intricate sprites in the background. Any SNES port would probably animate a single player sprite, and maybe two or three enemy sprites at most. All of the backgrounds would become static, and things like the doors opening and hitting you as you walk past them would have to go. The characters who run around in the background would probably have to become imanimate parts of the background. If you think about how Turtles In Time and Final Fight were ported, a port of The Simpsons just seems absolutely mindblowing - the game is almost specifically designed as a marquee arcade experience, and even if it was stripped down to a one-player game, there are often times when you can have 5 large, animated sprites on screen, none of which are even enemies. I don't think scaling effects of framerate even have to come into the equation - the SNES has always been historically bad at porting belt-scrolling games with a large number of sprites.
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ElMaligno posted:I want to see a German Game center CX just to watch a German dude eat
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zari-gani posted:Translation: Arino is the best at international relations. I also would love to see another European trip where he goes to Germany and attempts to eat sausage while gaming.The Muffinlord posted:It's not that the sprites are terribly complex, it's that they're animated at a high framerate, there's a lot going on during most of the game, and the game uses a good number of scaling effects that I think would be too complex for the SNES to manage.
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Anime Reference posted:Against other, better beat-em-ups (mostly by Capcom.) I won't lie, playing them on a cab was a hell of an experience -- especially the giant two-screen six-player X-men cab -- but the actual gameplay removed from the context of being an 11-year-old in an arcade in 1992 is not all that great. Also, 8/16-bit "ports" of arcade games were remade completely from the ground up, hence people being upset that TMNT: Re-shelled is a remake of the arcade game rather than the SNES one and other similar anecdotes. quakster fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Dec 10, 2012 |
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Dec 10, 2012 05:31
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No changes would have made that game better. The Simpsons arcade game is basically the perfect wacky punch-dudes brawler, and that's why we've spent two stupid pages arguing about it. If they'd put it out on any home console(aside from the Neo Geo, which barely counts but probably could have handled running it) it would have ruined the frenetic experience of the arcade game.
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Dec 10, 2012 06:04
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Latest replies to foreign tweets: LikChan: "love you Arino-san!" Arino: "Where are you from ah-hah" [This tweet is from someone Japanese pretending to be a foreigner with broken Japanese] yokomuu: "Kacho! I'm from Tashini. I'm always cheering you on. Please do your best." Arino: "Oh! A river snail [Tanishi=river snail]! I bet you stick to the back of your controller. Don't mistake the buttons for river snails." Jazaaboo: "Hello from America! http://thespeedgamers.com/oild-rally-kings-snow-mountain" Arino: "Oh! America! Careful not to put your controller in your hamburger and eat it!" LikChan: "YEEEAAAHHHH!!!!" Arino's: ((((；ﾟДﾟ))))))) Don't frighten poor Arino.
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Dec 10, 2012 06:10
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Caitlin posted:I had to call my friend into the room because I got him into the show and he loved it and we sat there like little giggling schoolchildren. Liar Game is fun, although Ive only read the comics. It can be pretty hit or miss (the current game is pretty lame), but its still enjoyable. The art isnt that fantastic either, there are some noneuclidian horrors in it: http://i.imgur.com/4A4hy.jpg
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Dec 10, 2012 06:11
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I have to admit that I haven't actually played it in over fifteen years, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a bunch of crap in there I completely forgot about. I stand by the part about it being massively overrated.
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Dec 10, 2012 06:12
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zari-gani posted:Latest replies to foreign tweets: 
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Just tweeted to Arino in Google-translated Japanese. I hope the point gets across and I dont call him a rock.
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Dec 10, 2012 06:51
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Gutcruncher posted:Just tweeted to Arino in Google-translated Japanese. I hope the point gets across and I dont call him a rock. "I have come from America, I love your show. The next time when you come to America it is imperative you make a visit to Tacoma. We here, we have a splendid game center that provides alcohol."
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Dec 10, 2012 06:59
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zari-gani posted:Jazaaboo: "Hello from America! http://thespeedgamers.com/oild-rally-kings-snow-mountain" I would be insulted if I didn't love hamburgers so much.
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zari-gani posted:"I have come from America, I love your show. The next time when you come to America it is imperative you make a visit to Tacoma. We here, we have a splendid game center that provides alcohol." Thats actually better than what I wrote!
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zari-gani posted:Jazaaboo: "Hello from America! http://thespeedgamers.com/oild-rally-kings-snow-mountain" Okay, this is pretty awesome:  And is this your art, zari-gani? Comments he made on the page suggest yes. 
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FredMSloniker posted:Okay, this is pretty awesome: Yeah, I didn't post it here because it was done super last-minute and I'm not proud of the result  Obligatory Ice Level Day is run by a friend of mine (see her previous ice level arts here, here, here -- my favourite year -- and current stuff's here; she also commissions musicians to do ice level music remixes) and it's part of the Speed Gamers which is a gaming marathon for charity I've been supporting for a long time.ETA: She says "thanks" for the kind words, by the way. zari-gani fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Dec 10, 2012 |
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So I'm up to Season 8, and well addicted to the show by now. Maybe it's just the translations, but one of the best things about it is the deadpan narrator. Arino can do something lighthearted and silly like beating a kid at some game at a Tamage segment and cheering, while the narrator interprets it like "ARINO-KACHOU ENJOYS THE SUFFERING OF SMALL CHILDREN". It cracks me up.
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zari-gani posted:radiodevt: "Hello Kacho! I'm German! Do you like Wii U? What is your Miiverse name?" That's me (Yes I know I sound like a giddy school girl)! Sausages for crying out loud, I couldn't make that out and Google translate didn't know it, either. I was actually going to post this in here and ask you to translate it, heh. (Thank you for not mentioning how messed up my Japanese is.) Katana Gomai fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Dec 10, 2012 |
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Katana Gomai posted:That's me (Yes I know I sound like a giddy school girl)! Sausages for crying out loud, I couldn't make that out and Google translate didn't know it, either. I was actually going to post this in here and ask you to translate it, heh. So... is it?
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I feel like I am obliged to say that everything's better with sausage (because it is) but I don't eat while I play so my Wii U Gamepad is still all nice and clean.
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pigdog posted:So I'm up to Season 8, and well addicted to the show by now. She leaves at some point, the new narrator doesn't have that hint of barely restrained disdain 
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Dec 10, 2012 11:16
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pigdog posted:So I'm up to Season 8, and well addicted to the show by now. Edit: It's the Super Ghouls n' Ghosts episode. I just rewatched that scene and it will never not be funny.
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Dec 10, 2012 11:21
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Great episodes lately! It's interesting that they translated "boku nara dekiru sa" in Parappa as "I gotta believe." (or vice-versa; I'm not sure what language came first.) Also, it looks like they pretty much did with Child Rearing Quiz what I imagined they would do for a game like Wonder Project J: try to relate the gameplay to the gang's experience with child rearing. And I'm tempted to tweet Arino now. I hope I don't embarrass myself with my lovely Japanese. 
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Dec 10, 2012 11:55
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If I tweeted Arino, I'd probably say something like "Game controllers make hamburgers so much more tastier." Except in incredibly broken Google-translated Japanese. I'd probably end up calling him a mountain.
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Dec 10, 2012 14:00
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God I think the Parappa episode is one of my favourites now. Just watching him sing along in Japanese makes me smile so hard
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Dec 10, 2012 14:05
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Have they ever run into any of those TMNT arcade games? I kinda wanna see which turtle Arino is. I'd guess Leonardo, seeing as he's a kachou.
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Dec 10, 2012 14:12
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RabidWeasel posted:She leaves at some point, the new narrator doesn't have that hint of barely restrained disdain Oh lord yes the narrator change. The old one (Yuko Takeda?) is so much better. I'm not sure how I can put my dislike into words here, but I just hate how the new narrator tries to be so emotional and dramatic all the time and ends up just sounding so weird. TeaJay fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Dec 10, 2012 |
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Dec 10, 2012 14:58
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Obviously the next time you tweet at Arino you have to use http://translationparty.com/ Example: http://translationparty.com/#10629120 or for extra confusion http://translationparty.com/#10629125
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TheWanderingNewbie posted:Obviously the next time you tweet at Arino you have to use http://translationparty.com/ I went to this and naturally the first thing I did was "He's stuck in a pattern!" It got, uh, stuck in a pattern alternating between "He had been stuck in a pattern" and "He was stuck in a pattern."
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ReWinter posted:I went to this and naturally the first thing I did was "He's stuck in a pattern!" I threw in "Arino try your best", and I got "Best of Shinya arino"... I think it's crazy it knew who I was talking about...
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