>Game is so great that Kojima rips off its final boss' entire demeanor, fashion style, immortality, preference in older firearms and even amputated-and-replaced-arm trope to create Revolver Ocelot
>Game is so great that Capcom ripped off its entire setting and plot to create Resident Evil 4
>Best gun controller ever made, designed to look like an actual gun with no fricks given towards oversensitive parents, just to put hair in the player's chest
>Made by the true kings of videogames
Namco
Does
Not
Miss
I see your Time Crisis and raise you an Ace Combat 3
Namco is the GOAT
they always had their mind on making games first. balance
https://mega.nz/folder/D8sWDBRB#-RRAZ0FBZx1thS7ftNIjQg
Based. AC3 predicted a lot of technology that we're getting now.
A lot of that was already predicted decades before AC3 though.
>namco does not miss
Tales series
Weren't those made by a subsidiary studio that just happened to have Namco's funding rather than legit Namco staff?
correct. namco stays winning.
Were great during the Namco years. It's with Bandai Namco that it went to shit
It’s unironically the best light shooter to this day and I’ve played them all. Just too lazy to frick around with the foot pedal every time.
House of the dead is up there but it’s hard
>Best gun controller ever made
The Guncon 2 is slightly better. Maybe not in terms of aesthetics but in terms of accuracy.
The GunCon 2 looks like Deckard's LAPD 2019 Blaster from Bladerunner so it gets a pass, though I still prefer the original myself.
I've used dozens of lightguns, what matters the most is shape. The guncon 1 is the best gun, it fits the best in the hand and the sights are clear. Second best is the Namco arcade gun, just because it's too heavy for extended use and the sights are too high. Third is the Konami Justifier used for lethal enforcer's home ports on the SNES and MD. Guncon 2 is the most accurate console gun, but it's weird to hold, probably like 6th place.
I love Time Crisis, but OP is a gay. What a load of bollocks.
shut up moron
I think it says a lot that the series never "faltered" besides the shitty Rush FPS campaign for 4, it just faded into irrelevancy due to lightguns being shuddered out of gaming mainstream.
Love this series. Been playing them with the Sinden Lightgun with Emulators.
Also kojima is a fricking dumbass.
>Namco Does Not Miss
Dead to Rights lmao
>Made by American subsidiary based in Santa Clara, California
Eeeh
DON'T! CUM!
Sometime, somewhere, someone is planning a government overthrow...
The intro narrator, Wild Dog and the masked boss are all voiced by the same voice actor as Chris Redfield in RE1 and Richter Belmont in SOTN.
JUST TO BE SURE
NYEHEHEHEH
You forgot that Time Crisis is so great that Capcom fumbled so hard with all those Resident Evil 4 prototypes that they ended up just copying Time Crisis "American badass one man army MC must infiltrate a castle and island to rescue the president's abducted daughter held up in a clock tower". And tell me Ada Wong isn't just a Kantaris rip off!
Yeah Kantaris looks very asian too. More clues, more clues.
I'm not sure if this is a thinly veiled shill thread but I just found out on israelitetube that Arcade1up FINALLY made a Time Crisis cab. But holy FRICK it is $1000+ USD.
https://arcade1up.com/collections/all-arcade1up-game-machines/products/time-crisis-deluxe
Is that expensive for a cabinet? I assumed they were all super pricey like that.
Just buy the sinden or gun4ir and be done with it
It shows 750 for me.
How do the 1up guns compare?
Pretty sure the 1up gun is just a licensed sinden. It's total cheap garbage, the "recoil" is that thing you find in toy guns where the trigger pulls a spring back.
It says 750 there.
This game has such an impeccable soundtrack. Wild Dog has to be one of the best bossfights of all time.
The sheer POWER of this goddamn theme, man.
Hmmm, I think this track is definitely inspired by whatever Nobuo used for The Landing in FFVIII too..
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Some segments of both tracks seem pretty identical.
Inspired by? Didn't FFVIII come out 4 years later though?
Apparently The Landing is not an original work, it was influenced by something else. I suspect it's the same work involved in that theme. It's probably so good japanese just can't help it, perhaps not even doing it on purpose or just rearranging it because it kicks so much ass.
The landing was inspired by The Rock soundtrack
Uncanny. Like, one note shy of a lawsuit.
For everything popular, Namco never gets enough credit.
>Tower of Druraga's protagonist predated the debuting Hero from DQ1
>Baraduke predated Metroid as first action female protagonist
>Namco made the Outfoxies, a casual platform fighter where you don't have to be well versed in fighters to be good at, much before Smash.
and much recently, this bombshell was translated in English.
>this shmup game is the reason why i made their near-futurist, bug-catching, kaiju-fighting semi-linear RPG existed!
Highly doubt it.
I do however feel bad for Sugimori giving up his dream to keep this franchise alive before it became real abominate.
There's a documentary out there with Yu Suzuki saying how jealous he was when Namco released Winning Run 2 years ahead of his Virtua Racing, apparently Virtua Racing took almost 6 years to make
And then Starblade did the same with Sega's Star Wars Arcade.
And then Ridge Racer embarrassed Sega completely
Xevious wrote the book on shmup design too.
this is just a western point of ignorance. namco golden age is very respected in japan and druaga/xevious remain top games. druaga funnels into all action rpgs. xevious was the benchmark for many years.
TC is great, but I always preferred Virtua Cop. It just felt more fair in general, TC is constantly throwing red c**ts at you to take a life off you. For me, it's VC>TC>HotD.
Namco and Sega were both amazing in the 90s. It's sad to see what they've become.
>red c**ts
It's to test your reflex when taking cover rather than shooting. They always hit the first shot, but the rest will miss.
So best port?
The PSX version is the only one, it was perfectly made. The PS2 port is just the PSX version again, but in a bundle.
Is project titan worth it?
Yes. It has branching paths, Richard and Wild Dog comes back and Kantaris is hot.
Yes it doesn’t really feel different from the original time crisis besides a different map
Namco not only pioneered 3D graphics in videogames (Winning Run 1989) but also textured 3D graphics in videogames (Ridge Racer 1993). They can't stop winning.
>Game is so great that Kojima rips off its final boss' entire demeanor, fashion style, immortality, preference in older firearms and even amputated-and-replaced-arm trope to create Revolver Ocelot
Wouldn't put it past Kojima since he basically rips off old Hollywood action movies and anime.
>Game is so great that Capcom ripped off its entire setting and plot to create Resident Evil 4
Huh?, it's not as if "group kidnaps girl, special agent has to save her" is an uncommon story.
>Best gun controller ever made, designed to look like an actual gun with no fricks given towards oversensitive parents, just to put hair in the player's chest
Eh, Guncon 2 was better
>Made by the true kings of videogames
Yes.
>Huh?, it's not as if "group kidnaps girl, special agent has to save her" is an uncommon story.
One-man-army special agent wearing a cool jacket and armed with a pistol sets out to save the president's daughter who's been kidnapped by a mysterious armed group hired by an evil tyrant who's the last descendant of his family, and taken to a castle full of mechanical traps and hidden passages somewhere in Europe. Said agent is also so skilled in firearms training that he can shoot incoming dangerous objects out of the air.
Swap mercenaries with cultists high on umbrella merch and it's the same game.
Holy reaching, Battard!. These two have very little in common and you know it.
>Ashley and Rachel look alike
>Both get restrained on a revolving wall
>Equally flamboyant noblemen antagonists
>Mechanical knights
>Knife-wielding antagonists
>Final boss (who outlives the nobleman antagonist) has his own private army stationed in an island fortress
>Hero carries president's daughter off into the sunset over the ocean at the end of the game
>Bonus campaign involves a sexy asian femme fatale
Cope somewhere else, homosexual. Japs have a long history of plagiarism from each other and from western media.
And with shit like that's is why the premise of this thread was flawed from the beginning. Love Time Crisis
HATE OP
a kino moment in video game history