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Neo Geo games coming to Nintendo Switch
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That's a magical drop.
Eolz
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moltonasty
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This and Real Bout 2 please! It's bound to happen sooner or later considering Hamster already has Last Blade up on the Xbone.
Yes it did.
In its later years it was really a fighting game & Metal Slug machine. Nothing else did well, but such was the nature of arcades in the late 90's.
If Twinkle Star Sprites ever comes out all of you better get it.
Last Blade's easily the best IMO. Either 1 or 2, they're both good. Aside from that, Garou and Real Bout Special.
Last Blade's easily the best IMO. Either 1 or 2, they're both good. Aside from that, Garou and Real Bout Special.
Yep, and that's why I love it since it's up there as some of my fave genres ever.
Twinkle Star Sprites and Baseball Stars 2 are my most wanted Neo Geo games right now.
I hope someone at Hamster is reading this thread.
NoKisum
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Oh man I'm sooo ready. Hopefully 3 is not too far after.
Since childhood, I've been curious about the Samurai Shodown series, but never really got into it (local carryout used to have an arcade machine for it, but I was too young in gaming knowledge to understand what was going on). How is the series in general? And is IV a good place to jump in and get the gist of it?
It's a very good series, and IV is one of the easier ones.
Though I think it goes 2>1>4>5S>3>5 for most people, not sure about 6. I might be wrong about 3>5 though.
Fox Mulder
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Product of the times really. That's what was huge in arcades and it had the power to do them right at home.
2 and 1, yes.
TDLink
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They order they put the games up on the shop seems to be pretty random. I mean we have Metal Slug 1 and 3 now but no 2 as well.
I am sure we'll get them all eventually.
D.Lo
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4 is by far the best game in the series.
1 and 2 were probably the biggest hits though, and most iconic.
...Doesn't Samurai Shodown 4 completely lack the distinctive pacing? As far as I was aware, The thing about 1 and 2 was that they didn't had minimal combos, but huge damage on single attacks which gave it a very deliberate pace, and it's 5 Special that goes back after 4 dropped it.
professor denim
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My favorite SS are exactly by their order pf release 1>2>3>4.
After 4 its dead for me.
After 4 its dead for me.
BudokaiMR2
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2 and 5S are the best games in the series for me.
4 is still a great game, but I feel like the series is best when it focuses less on flashy combos.
Every other fighting game has that already and the slower more careful movement and action is what made SS unique.
4 is still a great game, but I feel like the series is best when it focuses less on flashy combos.
Every other fighting game has that already and the slower more careful movement and action is what made SS unique.
firenze
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I'm totally with you on this. My personal order is 5S > 2 > 1 > 4 > 3 > 5
That being said, for some bizarre reason, when I pick up one of the games these days I tend to gravitate to SS3. I think it's more about the excellent sense of mood, even though from a gameplay perspective I have a lot of issues with the game.
4 is a good game, and you can play it casually and be totally unaware of how combo-heavy it is. But to me, it feels more like Real Bout Samurai Shodown. A good late 90s Neo Geo fighter, a much more polished game than SS3, but probably the game in the series that feels the least "like Samurai Shodown" in the sense that the more deliberate nature is really de-emphasized.
Here you go, friend:
sixteen-bit
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no love for V Special?
Ceallach
Smells like fresh rosebuds
Lmao. I need RotD on AES. I have the MVS cart and kit. But it's one of my faves on the system and is criminally underlooked.I'm totally with you on this. My personal order is 5S > 2 > 1 > 4 > 3 > 5
That being said, for some bizarre reason, when I pick up one of the games these days I tend to gravitate to SS3. I think it's more about the excellent sense of mood, even though from a gameplay perspective I have a lot of issues with the game.
4 is a good game, and you can play it casually and be totally unaware of how combo-heavy it is. But to me, it feels more like Real Bout Samurai Shodown. A good late 90s Neo Geo fighter, a much more polished game than SS3, but probably the game in the series that feels the least "like Samurai Shodown" in the sense that the more deliberate nature is really de-emphasized.
Here you go, friend:
ScientificPizza
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another week without baseball stars 2 
hopefully that 8bitdo or hori stick comes out soon
Yeah a switch stick is my #1 most wanted thing right nowThe biggest draw of the Switch is that it's portable and there's no D-Pad.
This is the biggest reason I actually don't care about the lack of VC right now.
I would like to get two of these for a portable 2P arcade, though.
hopefully that 8bitdo or hori stick comes out soon
b00_thegh0st
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In US... I'm trying to get an answer from Hori UK about an European release. The joypad is up for pre-order on European Amazon stores but I can't find the stick anywhere.
I've wanted to try these since forever, but decided to wait till I got a Switch for dat portable experience... So it's time!
I'm a complete beginner regarding Neo Geo except for more mainstream stuff like KoF and Metal Slug, so these are all new experience for me. I chose to get Neo Turf Masters and Shock Troopers for now because the former looks ridiculous (and kind of became a meme on Twitter I think?) and the latter looked awesome and read great impressions here.
Turns out NTM is lots of fun and the music is great, reminds me of OutRun 2. Now I'm trying Shock Troopers and holy hell, this is so cool, I can't wait to play co-op with my girlfriend.
So, I added a couple SHMUPs I saw to my wishlist, but I'm wondering, which ones are truly worth it? Just want to be sure.
I'm a complete beginner regarding Neo Geo except for more mainstream stuff like KoF and Metal Slug, so these are all new experience for me. I chose to get Neo Turf Masters and Shock Troopers for now because the former looks ridiculous (and kind of became a meme on Twitter I think?) and the latter looked awesome and read great impressions here.
Turns out NTM is lots of fun and the music is great, reminds me of OutRun 2. Now I'm trying Shock Troopers and holy hell, this is so cool, I can't wait to play co-op with my girlfriend.
So, I added a couple SHMUPs I saw to my wishlist, but I'm wondering, which ones are truly worth it? Just want to be sure.
The Last Resort and Blazing Star are both properly excellent shmups.
The Last Resort plays very much like R-Type (and its art style looks looks like R-Type 2), so slow paced, and a hard but fair difficulty, having to restart sections when you die.
Blazing Star is faster paced and more focused on score, with a bunch of different ships to use to increase the variety.
The Last Resort plays very much like R-Type (and its art style looks looks like R-Type 2), so slow paced, and a hard but fair difficulty, having to restart sections when you die.
Blazing Star is faster paced and more focused on score, with a bunch of different ships to use to increase the variety.
professor denim
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Not at all...🙁
The PS4 version edges out the Switch version, as for some reason the Switch version is missing the same button config options.
On PS4, you can have one button that auto fires and another that charges. On Switch if you want autofire you can't use the charge attack. And this is a game where you're pressing fire a lot.
Hopefully Hamster will patch the Switch version.
professor denim
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Mr. Pointy
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I'm with you with pretty much the whole post. Been dreaming with Windjammers on my Switch since I bought it.
Me too. Would there be any reason why DotEmu wouldn't be able to do a Switch version outside of development time? Hopefully we'll see it arrive on Switch still. (Just like with those Capcom MML and Disney collections).
I'm actually pretty excited with that one too actually.
Neo Turf Masters is something I hope to play one day.
Yes, yes! Lmao.Here you go, friend:
iamaustrian
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I'm probably getting shit for this but
Magical Drop 2 > Magical Drop 3
Magical Drop 2 (SFC) >
firenze
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Good tip, thanks.
Another thing that bugs me with the ACA series is no ability (at least that I'm aware of) to configure one Switch button for multiple Neo buttons, as we've seen in most emulated/ported Neo games such as M2's PS3/PSP Neo Geo Station releases, or SNK's own ports over the years to various systems.
In particular, B+C as used in many fighting games for supers is really rough - the standard X+B on a Switch Pro Controller is just brutal, and there's really no logical layout that works for it. On a 4 face button controller with a diamond layout, it's not that hard to hit other commonly used button combinations like both punches (usually A/C), both kicks (B/D), both light attacks (A/B), both heavy attacks (C/D) - all of those combinations tend to be two buttons that are next to each other. But man, that B+C... Or it would be nice to set the triggers for things like Samurai Shodown 4's ABC/BCD rage explosion moves or other commonly used stuff like C+D combo slash.
I bought Shock Troopers tonight and decided to give the first level of the Jungle route a try but I didn't stop it and finished it. This game is just so much fun, it's really worth it. Now I want to play the other routes and try different characters and I will probably buy the second game, I just hope it's as good as the first one.
Infernal Monkey
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Oh wow, I heard a lot about the slowdown of that game!
You owe it to yourself! It's so damn good and hilarious, haha.
Huh, did other platforms that got MS2 also get X? And is that the reason we get 3 first? X is my favorite so I'd love to get that instead.