Resogun [PS4] [free on console launch via PS+]

Shifty Geezer said:
Yep! I can't get along with modern shooters. Way too much clutter. Old school 8 bit shooters had everything on screen such that you could follow it. One hit and you died. Modern shooters are so messy you can't follow everything going on, and they balance that with health bars. The fluidity of motion in R-Type was remarkable gameplay.
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Shooters like that are still being made.
 
Shifty Geezer said:
The fluidity of motion in R-Type was remarkable gameplay. With the scrolling environment and clouds of shots and moving enemies, I was having to think and execute complex paths.
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For me, the epitome of side-scrolling shooters is the original Nemesis (named Gradius in Japan), by Konami. Now, R-Type was great also, but I didn't 'click' quite the same way with that game, perhaps because it's a much more recent title (by a full two years and two months - whoah.) I have such memories of watching kids my age back in the 80s hang out in the local burger joint at the harbor square and play this game. Playing it myself too, of course, but watching was cheaper. :) Next to it was a Renegade, with its rough-hewn graphics contrasting starkly to Nemesis' subtly shaded pixels.

My oh my. Those were the days...!

Maybe the modern gamer can do that with the crazy particles of modern shooters,. but it seems to me it's more about timing items and shields and the like.
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There's a video/s on youtube of some guy/s playing two-player Ikaruga with one hand on either joystick. I can't get ANYwhere in that game with just one ship to keep track of, much less two... Ugh!

Also, Ikaruga first came out on the Dreamcast, or possibly, arcade hardware version of the DC, so it's hardly new. Shooters with tons of junk flying around have been around for roughly/almost half as long by now as the scrolling shooter genre has existed since its inception...a little depending on when the first proper "bullet hell" shooter can be said to have premiered. I don't know if that actually was Ikaruga or not, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Jedi2016 said:
I'm guessing because of the voxel-based level construction, that there aren't nearly as many "actual" assets as other games? (I'm not making that up, am I? Voxels are generated at render time, right?)
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They're generated at render time about as much as polygons are, IE, you still need to store their positions in memory, and if you want reproducable levels (as in not randomly or seed generated), they have to be designed and saved much like more traditional 2D or 3D titles. Almost 1GB for this game does seem like quite a lot. Maybe there's a lot more than just five backgrounds/levels, and that's what takes up so bloody much diskspace... :) After all, there's obviously huge numbers of voxels packed into those fairly simple structures we see on the screen!

I wonder, are the voxels drawn as polygonal, GPU-rendered objects or plotted pixel by pixel with a software renderer? Those are DAMN small polys if they're polygons, wonder how efficient that can be...
 
Blood Money is one of the few side-scrolling shooters that connected with me and had a good enough difficulty buildup for me to play and complete it (I remember buying it in a store in Paris). Had two player co-op too, which I sometimes played with my sister.
 
Arwin said:
Blood Money is one of the few side-scrolling shooters that connected with me and had a good enough difficulty buildup for me to play and complete it (I remember buying it in a store in Paris). Had two player co-op too, which I sometimes played with my sister.
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Yeah...but super tough! I hated the 'invert controls' towers...
 
RType on the Master System


This is only a single playthrough. I completed it twice in a row without dying. The second time all the shots are doubled or worse. There's so much going on, it boggles the mind. There's no way I'd be able to do that now! And with manual firing on a standard controller. Incidentally we called it a no-controller, because it was nigh impossible to get the four cardinal directions. But the point is, everything was visible. Games like Resogun and Super Stardust splat huge explosions and particle effects over everything, so you can't see anything under the explosions to dodge them. The mechanic has changed. But if people like that, that's cool! ;)
 
Shifty Geezer said:
RType on the Master System


This is only a single playthrough. I completed it twice in a row without dying. The second time all the shots are doubled or worse. There's so much going on, it boggles the mind. There's no way I'd be able to do that now! And with manual firing on a standard controller. Incidentally we called it a no-controller, because it was nigh impossible to get the four cardinal directions. But the point is, everything was visible. Games like Resogun and Super Stardust splat huge explosions and particle effects over everything, so you can't see anything under the explosions to dodge them. The mechanic has changed. But if people like that, that's cool! ;)
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great classic game, love this one and Side Arms too!
 
damn wish I saw this before I started making my current game, (im making something similar)
Having the world loop around like that would of made things a lot easier
 
nah just smartphones, I will most likely have a demo for PC's as well. If you like shooter's send me an email & I'll send a test version
 
Ah I don't really have a PC now. Only for minor development here and there. So the laptop usually got loan out to someone else. ^_^
 
From the latest videos I'm getting the impression they increased the voxels on screen by another factor 2/3. Crazy.
 
(Resogun semi-offtopic)
Ilari Kuittinen/Housemarque finnish newspaper interview told They are already developing a next PS4 game, but cannot understandably talk about details. They have received a considerable amount of funding from the USA for making this specific game.
 
whome0 said:
(Resogun semi-offtopic)
Ilari Kuittinen/Housemarque finnish newspaper interview told They are already developing a next PS4 game, but cannot understandably talk about details. They have received a considerable amount of funding from the USA for making this specific game.
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Nice! Who ever is this mysterious 'USA'...
 
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