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GOTY: EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 2
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The first one sucked slightly less than other D3 games. It still sucked, mind you, but it had a lot of potential for improvement. #2 looks a good deal better.sp0rsk said:
I was having trouble in the sunset battle against the flying ants, so I figured "Screw it" and flew straight into one of the holes on the side of the nest and blew a few lightning shotgun rounds into it.
It made a really nice crash.
Then I ran around picking off flying ants...and at the very end I lured 'em by the fuel tanks and hit the tanks one by one. I had five alight at once, and the ants caught the most of it. Greatest destruction of this gen!
It made a really nice crash.
Then I ran around picking off flying ants...and at the very end I lured 'em by the fuel tanks and hit the tanks one by one. I had five alight at once, and the ants caught the most of it. Greatest destruction of this gen!
Barry Lightning
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Alright, finished the game last night with a friend in co-op. And I don't understand the comments about the last stage being nearly unplayable because of low framerate. I mean, it wasn't much worse than the rest of the game for me, and I can think of stages with FAR worse framerate than the last one. For example,
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And about the last stage...
Anyway, excellent game simply because it's so freakin' fun to play, especially in co-op when planning strategies with your friend and just talking about all the crazy shit that's going down! :lol
It's the kind of game that makes me completely forget about technical aspects (even though it has graphical flaws) and just enjoy the hell out of it.
And I really want to thank people in this thread for bringing this game to my attention, otherwise I would never have known about it. So thanks!
against the crazy big godzilla the framerate went nuts and dropped to what must have been at most 5 fps, not only for a moment, but for probably 10-15 seconds every time it happened
And about the last stage...
It wasn't very hard at all if you played it safe. We tried a few strategies, including just rushing in, but that was nearly impossible with all the shit going on, could barely move before being shot down again when we were close to the middle.
So we tried a different approach and just worked our way towards the center very methodically, shooting down every little cannon and laser thing we could spot. We both used sniper rifles, which was very effective since you could stand at a safe distance and fire away.
Eventually it was just the very center left, and we barely lost any energy during this process. Only real threat was the four legs (or whatever it was) shooting homing lasers, mostly because I was afraid it wouldn't be possible to blow them up at first. But those went down pretty quickly as well. I considered the stage before the last one to be much harder, along with the super giant godzilla of course.
So we tried a different approach and just worked our way towards the center very methodically, shooting down every little cannon and laser thing we could spot. We both used sniper rifles, which was very effective since you could stand at a safe distance and fire away.
Eventually it was just the very center left, and we barely lost any energy during this process. Only real threat was the four legs (or whatever it was) shooting homing lasers, mostly because I was afraid it wouldn't be possible to blow them up at first. But those went down pretty quickly as well. I considered the stage before the last one to be much harder, along with the super giant godzilla of course.
Anyway, excellent game simply because it's so freakin' fun to play, especially in co-op when planning strategies with your friend and just talking about all the crazy shit that's going down! :lol
It's the kind of game that makes me completely forget about technical aspects (even though it has graphical flaws) and just enjoy the hell out of it.
And I really want to thank people in this thread for bringing this game to my attention, otherwise I would never have known about it. So thanks!
Sho Nuff said:
Haha, the best part is when you blow them away with a fuel tank...you can't see where they went, but then you look at the radar and you see a solid red vertical line coming up from it.
edit: not to mention the initial volley of venom. I looked up in the sky and went "you've got to be fucking kidding me."
Either way, just blew through Mission 33--monster + electric shotgun rox! I just looked at the mothership when it was dropping bombs, thought of Independence Day, and shot at the bottom when it opened. Victory!
OH MY FUCK
Just when I thought the motherships couldn't get bigger...third tier. :X
First tier are kinda easy to take down--one monster shot and they're dead.
Second tier have that nasty bombing raid, but still not that hard.
Third tier is like I TOLD YOU I WAS HARDCORE and soaks the entire playing field with gunfire.
;_;
Just when I thought the motherships couldn't get bigger...third tier. :X
First tier are kinda easy to take down--one monster shot and they're dead.
Second tier have that nasty bombing raid, but still not that hard.
Third tier is like I TOLD YOU I WAS HARDCORE and soaks the entire playing field with gunfire.
;_;
Well I just got the game. Yesasia somehow shipped that and Onea Chambara 2 (which is incredibly fun) in two different packages?
I played the first 4 missions and right now I'm at the cave one; and it's AWESOME! The framearte is kinda meh, but holy shit its fun to just blast stuff! The attract video showed a lot of really cool stuff, but damn. I also prefer the girl to the guy. And there seems to be a lot of weapons. Playing at hard is suicide!
Best 20$ I ever spent on videogames! BELIEVE THE HYPE!
I played the first 4 missions and right now I'm at the cave one; and it's AWESOME! The framearte is kinda meh, but holy shit its fun to just blast stuff! The attract video showed a lot of really cool stuff, but damn. I also prefer the girl to the guy. And there seems to be a lot of weapons. Playing at hard is suicide!
Best 20$ I ever spent on videogames! BELIEVE THE HYPE!
HyperZone<3
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funny you should mention Onea Chambara 2. I think D3 figured out a way to fix the framerate in EDF2.
I can't find any freaking screenshots to post, but I'd imagine they will have rock-solid framerates, upgraded character models, and be really cheap.
If we're lucky, these even might make it across the pond, wouldn't that be lovely.
Thanks www.the-magicbox.com.
I can't find any freaking screenshots to post, but I'd imagine they will have rock-solid framerates, upgraded character models, and be really cheap.
If we're lucky, these even might make it across the pond, wouldn't that be lovely.
Anyone play that Ambulance Vs. Zombies game yet?
I too was surprised by Onechanbara 2; seems improved enough over the original to actually be fun for more than five minutes this time around! I got it but only played it a little; did I see something about tag team attacks in the game now?
shuri said:
I too was surprised by Onechanbara 2; seems improved enough over the original to actually be fun for more than five minutes this time around! I got it but only played it a little; did I see something about tag team attacks in the game now?
You can do combos by switching girls in midcombos that's for sure. I'm not sure if you can do team moves. I never tried the two first games, but this one is a solid dynasty warrior clone with zombies, blood and decapitations. I actually like it more than dw :lol
And Ambulances vs Zombies comes out in two weeks.
And Ambulances vs Zombies comes out in two weeks.
I think there's a good chance 505 Street (Italian publishers) will be bringing both EDF2 and Oneechanbara 2 to PAL teritories, they already published first Oneechanbara game (titled Zombie Zone) along with bunch of other Simple2000 crap.
http://www.505gamestreet.com/products.htm?con=PS2S20
http://www.505gamestreet.com/products.htm?con=PS2S20
bloke said:
They localized the first EDF, too, as Monster Attack, if you call borders, no 60hz mode, and simply ripping out all of the screaming radio communication rather than attempting to re-record it a localization.
There's a decentish comparison chart at http://fujicity.cogia.net/505/ though it's a little old and a little off -- off the top of my head Zombie Attack is actually The Kyonshi Panic, not Oneechanbara, obviously.
I put this AWESOME GOTY game back into my PS2 after being done with Shin Onimusha, and whoa it still kicks the shit out of everything else (besides Ryu ga Gotoku!) so far! :lol
Played missions 14 to 21 today. Holy shit 21 is a BITCH. It was like the ultimate pest control mission ever (which I FAILED >_<). I took out the ant infestations and their nests, I took out the wasp infestations and their nests, hell I even laid waste to half the city. Then the goddamn motherfucking SPIDERS appeared! SPIDERS THE BANE OF POOR DUCK! I was outnumbered, outrun and covered with white sticky substances before long and my life came to an end. Any advice for good anti-spider weapons? I'm using the soldier dude and a weapon combo set of a rocket launcher (2 shot, great damage, fast reload) and a machine gun (120 bullets, 16 damage, fast reload). The combo works great on the ants and wasps but the spiders just fucking own me.
Played missions 14 to 21 today. Holy shit 21 is a BITCH. It was like the ultimate pest control mission ever (which I FAILED >_<). I took out the ant infestations and their nests, I took out the wasp infestations and their nests, hell I even laid waste to half the city. Then the goddamn motherfucking SPIDERS appeared! SPIDERS THE BANE OF POOR DUCK! I was outnumbered, outrun and covered with white sticky substances before long and my life came to an end. Any advice for good anti-spider weapons? I'm using the soldier dude and a weapon combo set of a rocket launcher (2 shot, great damage, fast reload) and a machine gun (120 bullets, 16 damage, fast reload). The combo works great on the ants and wasps but the spiders just fucking own me.
rocksolidaudio
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Sho Nuff said:
finally picked this up, figured it could use a good bump. how do you change said controls?
edit: and how do you play as the girl?
edit #2: never mind, found both through trial and error. to state the obvious, this game rocks.
metropolis
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damn this thread teased me for that old super nintendo game that i actually cared about. instead it's something else.
Nick Laslett
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LAMBO said:
Why don't you buy a Harddisc, you can get an 80gb pretty cheap. Then you can use HD Loader to play the game. You can also but stuff like Black, Dragon Quest, Winning Eleven, GT4 and many other games and remove annoying load times and improve the life of your console.
There really is no reason not to switch to HD based gaming, not just the ability to play imports but improved load times and increase lifespan for console all for the price of a HD.
If you are really cheap you could probably salavge a HD from an old desktop PC that would work in the PS2.
CountZeroInt
Banned
Sequel to this is coming out on Xbox 360...if Microsoft gets good at acquiring games like this, Dead Rising, and Lost Planet (all just a BIT more action oriented than normal to put it lightly...) the system will have a "Mega Drive" feel. Mega Drive was all about the shooting action in Japan. In my opinion, the "Mega Drive" style consoles have been:
Turbo/Turbo Duo/etc
Mega Drive
NEO GEO
Saturn
Dreamcast
2002-2006 era PS2 (there was basically nothing else! complete and utter domination)
Possibly now Xbox 360??
I don't think it would be a bad thing for Microsoft to aim for this level of success by focusing on the hardcore gamers and then having those games make lots of western gamers very happy. It would mean 2 to 3 million consoles by end of 2006, 5 million by end of 2007, maybe 8 to 10 million by the next year. It would be a lot better than the first Xbox did...
It would be interesting to see games like this on XBLA, if they can get the download small enough...
Turbo/Turbo Duo/etc
Mega Drive
NEO GEO
Saturn
Dreamcast
2002-2006 era PS2 (there was basically nothing else! complete and utter domination)
Possibly now Xbox 360??
I don't think it would be a bad thing for Microsoft to aim for this level of success by focusing on the hardcore gamers and then having those games make lots of western gamers very happy. It would mean 2 to 3 million consoles by end of 2006, 5 million by end of 2007, maybe 8 to 10 million by the next year. It would be a lot better than the first Xbox did...
It would be interesting to see games like this on XBLA, if they can get the download small enough...
rocksolidaudio
Member
can anyone please translate the weapon categories in the game? i'm fairly far in, but it's still a bitch figuring out which is which when i forget.
edit: ok, i just re-read the OP. don't tell me there's a way to actually drive the tanks...?
edit: ok, i just re-read the OP. don't tell me there's a way to actually drive the tanks...?
MidgarBlowedUp
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Nevermind, just watch the clips.
*Instant Purchase*
Why isn't this game tweaked and released for the US?
Seriously, advertising it would be so easy.
Just claim that if you buy it your PS2 will allow you to jack into the matrix.
Then show a 10 second clip of the game to fucking prove it. :lol
*Instant Purchase*
Why isn't this game tweaked and released for the US?
Seriously, advertising it would be so easy.
Just claim that if you buy it your PS2 will allow you to jack into the matrix.
Then show a 10 second clip of the game to fucking prove it. :lol
Okay, after a several month haitus, I'm back to playing this game. It's amazing how easy it is to just pick it up and play. Cleared a bunch more missions, here are some comments:
Now a few thoughts about EDF2's game design... I've noticed that the game design resembles the concepts of action games in the early 90s. This is probably the reason why it feels so familiar and awesome to most of us. The game has no narrative story, no cutscenes, no mission briefings. Yet the entire scope and story is conveyed in the actual missions and gameplay.
You just need to know that you're a soldier fighting a war against aliens invading earth, but every mission shows you a new side of the war, and every few missions culmilate in you winning a major goal - be it defeating a giant varient of a monster, beating a mothership, or clearing out a nest. The missions leading up to the major goal is always themed such that you're facing a certain threat which has a source and when you get to the source and beat it, because you've been fighting and likely dying from the trouble the source has been releasing, you feel AWESOME. Everything else about the setting you can make up on your own as it doesn't matter. EDF2 is truly one of the BEST action games to come in many many years.
So I did the 4-part underground mission. At first I was concerned that it was just a bunch of random missions underground with shitloads of enemies. I did notice that there was a natural progression as far as the stage design was going. You started in an open area in the first mission with tons of ants, in the second mission you entered the catacomb-like tunnels with tons of ants and SPIDERS, and in the third and what I thought was the final mission you were on another side of the tunnels with massing forces coming at you.
Then I played the fourth and final mission.... Underground Hell. WOW. That last tunnel that led to the nest, and the giant queen.... I was totally blown away because I didn't expect it at all. After getting over the fear of the sheer size of the queen in a clastraphobic area, I just shot away with the CoreLauncher-DD. I almost died from the poison gas, and after the queen fell the mission DIDN'T END! I had to grab the health items around asap before I progress out into the nest and realized I was going to clear it all out. That was so goddamn satisfying after the previous 3 missions. It really makes me feel like I'm accomplishing a major goal in the game and this is what action gaming should be all about.
Centipede missions = FUCKING AWESOME. Clearing out the hoards of spiders coming from the horizon in the ruined city at dusk = FUCKING AWESOME. I'm now at the mission where you fight 3 motherships dropping ants and spiders, surrounded by smaller UFOs and tripods coming from the distance. This is what alien war games should be all about!
Then I played the fourth and final mission.... Underground Hell. WOW. That last tunnel that led to the nest, and the giant queen.... I was totally blown away because I didn't expect it at all. After getting over the fear of the sheer size of the queen in a clastraphobic area, I just shot away with the CoreLauncher-DD. I almost died from the poison gas, and after the queen fell the mission DIDN'T END! I had to grab the health items around asap before I progress out into the nest and realized I was going to clear it all out. That was so goddamn satisfying after the previous 3 missions. It really makes me feel like I'm accomplishing a major goal in the game and this is what action gaming should be all about.
Centipede missions = FUCKING AWESOME. Clearing out the hoards of spiders coming from the horizon in the ruined city at dusk = FUCKING AWESOME. I'm now at the mission where you fight 3 motherships dropping ants and spiders, surrounded by smaller UFOs and tripods coming from the distance. This is what alien war games should be all about!
Now a few thoughts about EDF2's game design... I've noticed that the game design resembles the concepts of action games in the early 90s. This is probably the reason why it feels so familiar and awesome to most of us. The game has no narrative story, no cutscenes, no mission briefings. Yet the entire scope and story is conveyed in the actual missions and gameplay.
You just need to know that you're a soldier fighting a war against aliens invading earth, but every mission shows you a new side of the war, and every few missions culmilate in you winning a major goal - be it defeating a giant varient of a monster, beating a mothership, or clearing out a nest. The missions leading up to the major goal is always themed such that you're facing a certain threat which has a source and when you get to the source and beat it, because you've been fighting and likely dying from the trouble the source has been releasing, you feel AWESOME. Everything else about the setting you can make up on your own as it doesn't matter. EDF2 is truly one of the BEST action games to come in many many years.
fun way to beat the lsat stage
destroy the first barrier, drive a bike next to a helicopter, get in the helecopter fly it up in the air, as it gets destroyed get out and land under it. the helicopter wlil push you under ground and youll land on top of the giant ufo, and you can win without getting hurt! actually i forgot how to do it exactly, but its something like this. you may have to get back on the bike, im not sure.
note: this is actually really hard to do
destroy the first barrier, drive a bike next to a helicopter, get in the helecopter fly it up in the air, as it gets destroyed get out and land under it. the helicopter wlil push you under ground and youll land on top of the giant ufo, and you can win without getting hurt! actually i forgot how to do it exactly, but its something like this. you may have to get back on the bike, im not sure.
note: this is actually really hard to do
radios shipping overview
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Note to PAL gamers: this is coming out tomorrow (!) in Europe as "Monster Attack: Invasion." I can only find reference to it on a few Dutch sites, right now, but it's coming.
meltpotato
Member
so still no NA release? anyone wanna sell a used JPN copy?
pubba said:
I can't call EDF2 a terrible game, but its frame rate is absolutely ATROCIOUS; I generally have no problem with frame rates in games, but this is just on a whole new level of choppiness.
It is a budget title though.Still waiting for info on this and Oneechanbara for XBox 360...
Ok maybe I was a bit harsh...
Did the EDF2 fans here enjoy MURAKUMO? It seems like a very similar game and it has a double digit framerate!
I guess it just didnt grab me like the FROM SOFTWARE titles eg: Crimson Sea 1 and 2 (which I had just completed before importing EDF2)
360 sequel is awesome news, because the fundamental gameplay/concept of EDF2 is fantastic - but why suffer through the horrid framerate and illegible menus etc..
And this is coming from a self-confessed 'Tokyo Bus Guide' fanboy.. So I know my kooky, Jap -only niche titles
Edit : Meltpotato - you have PM
Did the EDF2 fans here enjoy MURAKUMO? It seems like a very similar game and it has a double digit framerate!
I guess it just didnt grab me like the FROM SOFTWARE titles eg: Crimson Sea 1 and 2 (which I had just completed before importing EDF2)
360 sequel is awesome news, because the fundamental gameplay/concept of EDF2 is fantastic - but why suffer through the horrid framerate and illegible menus etc..
And this is coming from a self-confessed 'Tokyo Bus Guide' fanboy.. So I know my kooky, Jap -only niche titles
Edit : Meltpotato - you have PM
pubba said:
Huh? Wtf does a mech game where you race around an empty city have to do with EDF2? You sure you didn't mean something else?
Now I *really* have you question wtf you're talking about. Crimson Sea is by Koei.
Illegible menus?
And this is coming from a self-confessed 'Tokyo Bus Guide' fanboy.. So I know my kooky, Jap -only niche titles
Based on what you just posted, it just sounds like you don't know anything at all.
On another note, I just cleared mission 36!
Holy FUCK! The bait and switch plot-twist "final" mission where you clear out the last infestation of ants in the world after taking down 3 motherships and a bunch of tripods in the previous mission. Seriously, HOLY FUCKING SHIT! If it ran at higher than 10fps, it would be next-gen. :lol