ev.Team / Hucast Games) are probably making a nice wad of cash off fans. I think it's kind of scammy and I'm not sure how much love they're putting into their products anymore, but it works. I mean, they just released GunLord and now they have Ghost Blade, DUX 1.5, ReDux, and NEO XYX coming out in the next year or so. And they're selling fast.I don't know about the guys behind Sturmwind since it's their first/only release, but the two brothers that pump out all the games for Neo-Geo and Dreamcast (NG
I'm confident it's going to look stunning, at least. We'll see how it plays!
True. I think Atari stuff is similar, just on certain sites (Atari-age) and not here; still, there's a reason why the Atari systems all have homebrew games, while lots of others only have a very few at most: Atari still has a fanbase willing to buy games, and it's easy to publish for those systems. The Dreamcast and Genesis are similar. (On that note, the main reason the Saturn isn't with them is because it's NOT easy to publish for that one...)
GunLord was an absolutely amazing, amazing game, and was maybe 2012's best game, but those upcoming ones... they're all shmups, and yeah, I remain to be convinced. NG Dev Team and HuCast (they're not the same team,they are different yes?)'s shmups so far have been pretty average... (Also, wasn't GunLord by some other guys, only published by NG Dev Team?)I don't know about the guys behind Sturmwind since it's their firsts/only release, but the two brothers that pump out all the games for Neo-Geo and Dreamcast (NG
EV.TEAM, though.EV.TEAM is two brothers plus some other guys, and then Hucast is one of those brothers plus some other guys except that the other brother helps out occasionally. So they're very similar teams with a lot of overlap. I think Hucast's only game so far (DUX) sucked ass and I'm not optimistic for DUX 1.5 or ReDUX. EV.TEAM, whose games are coded for NEO-GEO and therefore end up looking kind of underwhelming on Dreamcast. (Sturmwind dodges this bullet.)
Definitely, yeah. It was looking too simple at first... but hopefully the several years of delays have paid off! I mean, Sturmwind was first announced 2 1/2 years ago.
You mean without modification.
I mean, the problem is that most Saturns need modification to play CD-Rs, while most Dreamcasts do not.Oh, it was? Okay. But yeah, I like Turrican quite a bit (well, not the original Turrican, but all the other games in the franchise), so I loved Gunlord...I love GunLord. Nice change of pace, even though I'm not a Turrican fan. GunLord was entirely by NG
Ah. I didn't know the two teams were so closely connected.As far as I know, NG
I'm quite hopeful about that one as well. They have several other projects earlier in development too... mostly Genesis, but maybe also one SNES?
I haven't, I have rarely bought homebrew games; I do have Pier Solar (for Genesis) and Gunlord, but that's about it. The shmups... most of them just don't look interesting enough. Sturmwind interests me more than any of the other ones, though, and I might get it.Unlike NG
Don't get me wrong, I like NG's games but I think they're about to jump the shark with all these kind of middlin' looking shmups coming down the pike.
Like a little bitch, though, I have them all preordered.
You mean without modification.
You said
With modification, at the end? The DC doesn't need modification...
I don't think I'll re-buy Pier Solar, I already spent $50-plus on that game... but for people who don't have it, it's good that it's getting ports.
I haven't heard of these. What are they?
Okay, so some bulleted thoughts:
- Makes NG
- Sound effects are a bit meh. Kind of muffled and muddy.
- Music is the same catchy Eurotrance we've seen in most of these indie shmups. Good stuff. Wish I'd bought the version with the OST.
- Hard difficulty is no joke, for those of us worried it would be too easy.
- Lots of neat little touches here and there like lens flares and killer explosions.
- The bosses are pretty imaginative, and very tough because they fill the screen and hurt you on contact.
- Most of my deaths come from running into things I didn't know I couldn't fly over. The difference between background and foreground is hard to determine and kind of trial-and-error. My biggest complaint.
- Definitely has some unpolished assets, like the little chick who talks to you in German during levels. Ugly model.
- Weapon system is very addictive since you can only upgrade weapons by getting a pickup while firing that gun. Takes a second to make powerups change weapon type and they aren't up very long, so it's a tense little moment trying to amp your weapons.
- Love that you can select levels you've already beaten in Normal mode. Nice that I don't have to play the first level over and over like in normal shmups.
- Weapons could have used more variety but you can charge shot them, change your drone positions, and switch them forward/backward. So plenty of tactical options.
- Will take a while to beat all the Normal Mode levels on Hard difficulty.
- If you've bought and enjoyed any other Dreamcast indie shmups, this will be a no-brainer purchase.