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Super Stardust HD screens (Amiga shooter REBORN on PS3)
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My Chemical Mouse
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This game is much more than just a Geo Wars clone.
Rocky_Balboa
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First Finnish PS3 game!
I read from a Finnish site that Housemarque is also developing a game for XBLA.
I read from a Finnish site that Housemarque is also developing a game for XBLA.
CurseoftheGods
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That looks ugly.
MightyHedgehog
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Sweet. I really liked The Reap on the PC a long while back. Hopefully their new game is a shooter.Rocky_Balboa said:
meltpotato
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looks cool but im thinking it may feel extremely weird flying within what seems to be the limits of a bizarre gravity feild
Steverulez
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Geo Wars PS3 :lol
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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steverulez said:
Goodbye.
Also, i hope this game has multiplayer without downloading the extra pack.
On second thought, is "Blast Factor" worth downloading especially for Multiplayer? I kinda avoided it for bad reviews...
MightyHedgehog
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Technically, I think games like Stardust are really Blasteroids clones (obviously Atari's sequel to their original Asteroids and the follow up, Space Duel) because it was the powerups and control. I think games like Geo Wars and Mutant Storm are more like space Robotron/Smash T.V. on crack than any Asteroids game...mainly because Asteroids/Blasteroids clones have a wraparound playing fields, more inertia-based acceleration & tank controls. Robotron-like games have screen-direction based control, little inertia because of the automatic braking, screen boundaries, and dedicated 8+ way aiming that is independent of direction of movement (instant pivot control).Munin said:
That... looks a lot like geometry wars!
Except it's on a sphere grid (ffx lol) instead of a flat one. Wow innovation!
Also can companies stop calling their DLC-ified versions of their shitty freeware abortions random game HD? Why call attention to the fact that your game's amateurish, flash cartoon-quality artwork is now rendered in 720p? As if Hexic HD gains anything from higher resolutions. Why not call it Hexic 360 or Hexic Live, if you must attach some arbitrary signifier to the name.
Except it's on a sphere grid (ffx lol) instead of a flat one. Wow innovation!
Also can companies stop calling their DLC-ified versions of their shitty freeware abortions random game HD? Why call attention to the fact that your game's amateurish, flash cartoon-quality artwork is now rendered in 720p? As if Hexic HD gains anything from higher resolutions. Why not call it Hexic 360 or Hexic Live, if you must attach some arbitrary signifier to the name.
so let me get this straight. geometry wars comes out and now all of the sudden it's okay to ignore the history of shmups?
nothing is a geometry wars clone. geometry wars is an example of an arena shmup. there were arena shmups before geometry wars and there's going to be arena shmups after geometry wars.
nothing is a geometry wars clone. geometry wars is an example of an arena shmup. there were arena shmups before geometry wars and there's going to be arena shmups after geometry wars.
MightyHedgehog
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One could make a decent argument for that being the case given how incrementally different games in several genres have been...especially in the last decade. It might not be an airtight one, but you could still make a case for it.Andonuts said:
Man, if all of this retro stuff is going to take such a large role in downloadable console games going forward, I think we need to see Oids or Thrust or Solar/Lunar Jetman or Gravitar or something similar hit before too long...with multiplayer online.
inpHilltr8r
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I ****ing love Robotron, and all it's children. I still play it, and I still suck at at it. One of these days I'll make it past level 10. 
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
oh god - Thrust though (and games of that ilk) man... they are pretty tense affairs....
especially the much later levels of thrust, navigating the deeper locations then having to get the pod out and (okay it's optional but only a pussy doesn't do it) destroying the reactor AND getting out...
*nerves jangle*
MightyHedgehog
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Yeah, I ****ing love Lunar Lander-type shooters.DCharlie said:
misterdonut
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Well this game was more like Asteroids than Geometry Wars. I loved it on the Amiga back in the day--although it did have a bit of style over substance. I'm all for it. Let's just hope they don't make ELFMANIA HD next.
mckmas8808
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shagg_187 said:
Blast Factor is great.
mckmas8808
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Orange Swirl
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MarkM said:
Is that Mark McDonald?
RiotPelaaja
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Lord Error
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Stardust on A500 and Super Stardust on A1200 were some of the most technologically advanced games on those platforms. Those tunnel sequences were O_O !!
I guess 90% people in this thread have never played the game and is just jumping on "GeoWars copy" bandwagon, but not only were the original games made much before that PC shareware on which GeoWars is based on, but the game is a modernized concept of asteroids, it controls that way, it has tunnel sequences, and it's pretty much nothing like Geometry Wars except you shoot at things.
I guess 90% people in this thread have never played the game and is just jumping on "GeoWars copy" bandwagon, but not only were the original games made much before that PC shareware on which GeoWars is based on, but the game is a modernized concept of asteroids, it controls that way, it has tunnel sequences, and it's pretty much nothing like Geometry Wars except you shoot at things.
Super Stardust has 12 channel sampled intro music I think with 12bit samples. It really was amazing, pro quality sound basically.Borys said:
MikeB said:@ PS360
Yes, I still have an Amiga, but I am hoping to see AmigaOS4 for my PS3!
Stardust for the Amiga 500 was a good game with good raytraced graphics, the Amiga 1200 / CD32 version however was a good improvement on the original.
A1200 version:
It seems I'm in the minority but I think that looks pretty cool... the above game (Amiga version) has much more interesting art direction, though, for me.
I loved thrust, but envied ST owners with oids - never got to play it and it was apparantly very good indeed.
As for super stardust - meh. It was one of those games that showed off its graphics and had no real gameplay to speak of. Its a poor relation of blasteroids, and I consider blasteroids a poor relation of asteroids.
If you're going to do Amiga rehashes, there are plenty more fish in that sea. Warhead (berserker!) or Stunt Car Racer would be perfect to start with.
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hell yeah. My dad bought me a 500 when they came out in I think 1984 in the UK. £500 + VAT = £576. I love you dad. Even got the 1081 monitor which rocked. Deluxe Paint was amazing.
I then got a 500+ later with the detachable HDD, then a 1200 but was disappointed that no games really got stuck into the AGA chipset. I even bought a CD32 at launch - what a disaster!
Looks like it's going to be formally unveiled mid May:
http://www.developmag.com/news/26546/New-SCEE-title-unveiled-at-Nordic-Game
http://www.developmag.com/news/26546/New-SCEE-title-unveiled-at-Nordic-Game