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Non-NEC Console Related Discussion => Console Chat => Topic started by: kazekirifx on April 08, 2012, 02:45:36 PM
Title: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: kazekirifx on April 08, 2012, 02:45:36 PM
I can't believe I even bothered to play the demo of PixelJunk SideScroller on the PS3. This game is just wrong. It feels like developers who didn't know anything about shmups tried to make a shmup. I'm sure they're those types whose only shmup growing up was Life Force on the NES. Typical. And it's a shame that this game seems to be better known than the far superior Sóldner-X games.
Blegh.This PixelJunk series is a joke. The title itself claims it is about enjoyment of old school pixel art, and yet the games don't exhibit the kind of old school pixel art I would ever want to look at. Q-Games is on my shitlist.
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: esteban on April 10, 2012, 05:23:56 AM
But Life Force was a great game for NES!
I don't like the title of this game, but I can't judge a book by its cover... (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: SuperDeadite on April 10, 2012, 05:29:04 AM
I can't believe I even bothered to play the demo of PixelJunk SideScroller on the PS3. This game is just wrong. It feels like developers who didn't know anything about shmups tried to make a shmup. I'm sure they're those types whose only shmup growing up was Life Force on the NES. Typical. And it's a shame that this game seems to be better known than the far superior Sóldner-X games.
Blegh.This PixelJunk series is a joke. The title itself claims it is about enjoyment of old school pixel art, and yet the games don't exhibit the kind of old school pixel art I would ever want to look at. Q-Games is on my shitlist.
Sounds like you should be playing the "world's greatest retro shooter" instead. XD f*ck the amiga, seriously.
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: Nando on April 10, 2012, 09:24:45 AM
Play this instead
http://www.locomalito.com/hydorah.php
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: Ji-L87 on April 10, 2012, 09:29:30 AM
Hey the Amiga series was a great computer. It is just that everybody had stress from their rivals, and H-simulators were not even admired, ( along with the rest of artful world in computers ). It did everything before the Apple and DOS computers did.
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: kazekirifx on April 10, 2012, 04:20:04 PM
Wow! Great-looking recommendations. I'm especially impressed that such a game exists for iOS and Android. I generally loathe cell phone games, but that one looks like it might be worth checking out. Not really looking forward to playing with a touch screen though.
To be clear, I never said Life Force wasn't a great game. Of course it is. That's not the point. It's just that there seem to be a lot of American gamers who grew up in the NES generation who consistently can only think of Life Force when asked to name a classic shmup. For instance, the Angry Video Game Nerd pretty much always mentions Life Force when reviewing a shmup. These are people who clearly haven't played many shmups, and abandoned the genre after Life Force. I love AVGN too, of course, but he's really not a huge shmup player as anyone can see from his videos.
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: Joe Redifer on April 10, 2012, 04:39:51 PM
Most of the Pixeljunk games pretty much suck. Monsters was good but it wasn't worth buying. I think the best thing about Pixeljunk PS3 games is that they remote play on the PSP quite well if you have that set up.
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: Nando on April 11, 2012, 03:04:45 AM
I also like SkyFyre, a browser based chooter http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/513016
and this one is a fun take on the missile command formula http://armorgames.com/play/3917/vector-boom
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: esteban on April 11, 2012, 06:39:06 AM
To be clear, I never said Life Force wasn't a great game. Of course it is. That's not the point. It's just that there seem to be a lot of American gamers who grew up in the NES generation who consistently can only think of Life Force when asked to name a classic shmup.
I hear ya. (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: Black Tiger on April 11, 2012, 12:41:55 PM
Life Force was the first NES game I bought.
Title: Re: I loathe PixelJunk SideScroller
Post by: esteban on April 11, 2012, 02:30:49 PM
Hey the Amiga series was a great computer. It is just that everybody had stress from their rivals, and H-simulators were not even admired, ( along with the rest of artful world in computers ). It did everything before the Apple and DOS computers did.