The all-encompassing Rajirugi thread

umi · Post by **umi** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:17 am

Randorama wrote:zomg! *Commits suicide*

Any hope that the best game journalist in the world can do justice to this game and counter-review Rajirugi for great justice?

Lol :P

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:30 pm

jiji wrote:One or two of you are missing your sense of humor, I think.

they're not missing it, they're thirst for accuracy is just getting in the way...

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:16 pm

Well, I guess this discussion shows how many shooter fans know about GamePro/still read GamePro/are still living in the early 90's/need to have their sarcasm meter checked...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:22 pm

Remember when those red faces really meant something? You know their Thunder Force III review was like 3 red faces and an orange one.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:28 pm

Yeah, Final Fantasy "II" and "III" didn't even receive perfect scores at the time. In the late 16-bit/early 32-bit era, you had games with 1's all around. Now, crummy games get around 3's, which makes inefficient use of the 5-point scale IMO.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:34 pm

I'm really not sure how GamePro hangs on. It's so minimal in content. It literally takes me about 5 minutes to get through it-- and I'm a slow reader. Of course, they do know their shmups!

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:55 pm

professor ganson wrote:I'm really not sure how GamePro hangs on. It's so minimal in content. It literally takes me about 5 minutes to get through it-- and I'm a slow reader. Of course, they do know their shmups!

Well, doesn't GamePro have a higher ad-to-content ratio than EGM? It would explain where they get their funding.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:00 pm

LOL @ Rob's Gamepro prank review.

OT, does GP even review imports?

(remembers how nice EGM's import section used to be back in the 90s)

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:09 pm

No, but IIRC, they used to do it in the 32-bit era (but not beforehand or afterwards) with a select few games.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:18 pm

Yeah, now I remember they would cover the PCE now and then. Back in my junior high years, reading Gamepro and SwatPro. ha

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:16 am

So I just got through the latest Famitsu. Radilgy got 6,6,6,5, not necessarily in that order.

I am still buying it though, mediocre or not. I need more DC games to fill up my shelves.

I hope no one cancels their pre-orders.

In other (OT) news, the new DS Super Mario Bros is unveiled, with lots of huge pics (you can see the pixels and everything), Dirge of Cerberus gets four 7s, which basically means the game sucks. AND they waited a week after the game was in the shops to tell everyone it's so-so (did I mention that a so-so from Famitsu means the game sucks?) The magazine has nothing else of interest. I am going back to shopping for a new Atomiswave. Fuck those tools.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:43 am

Famitsu gave Homura an even worse score (bunch of 5s and one 6, or something like that), and Homura is a really great game. The famitsu people generally don't know shmups, like basically every other magazine in the world.

So, their opinion is worthless.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:12 am

icycalm wrote:So I just got through the latest Famitsu. Radilgy got 6,6,6,5, not necessarily in that order.

I am still buying it though, mediocre or not. I need more DC games to fill up my shelves.

I hope no one cancels their pre-orders.

anybody who buys a shooter based on a famitsu test has issues anyway.

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:26 am

Anyone who buys games on reviews has issues, especially if they're from that Randorama freak

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:23 pm

Randorama gave Raiden 3 a 9 and is not to be trusted with numbers.

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:45 pm

Rob wrote:Randorama gave Raiden 3 a 9 and is not to be trusted with numbers.

So what? It's not like i'm the official best game journalist in the world

I Also gave GW 2 a 10, so here's your bribe! *Slaps Rob with a Gamepro's copy*

Edit: and you also like Tomb Raider, sinner! *excommunicates Rob*

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:55 pm

Randorama wrote:I Also gave GW 2 a 10, so here's your bribe!

That's ridiculous! shh

Yes, I'll stop being OT now. I always have to wait an extra week before the first people get their game. That's punishment enough.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:31 am

I'm curious as to how Famitsu is viewed by some of our Japanese folks here. Are they reliable or are they just a "Japanese Gamepro" (as I heard one person say a few years ago on another forum)?

Anyways, they don't give very good reviews to Cave games either so why would they give props to Rajirugi? shrugs

icycalm · Post by **icycalm** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:51 am

Right now, Famitsu is my favorite game magazine. It would take a while to explain why that is so, however.

In brief, no they are not reliable. Their reviews and their scores suck as much as anyone else's. Really. They only occasionally get it right--but then again that is true of every other publication.

What sets them apart is that

1. They have the news first
2. Their coverage is comprehensive--no games fall through the cracks
3. Their magazine is beautiful (or, at least, prettier than any other magazine out there, and certainly prettier than all the god-awful Western websites)
4. They know their stuff, i.e. game data, who's who in the industry, etc. Most western game journalists are quite ignorant with regards to older games

So there you have it.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:40 am

Rajirugi (regular edition) is shipping today!

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:43 pm

My copy's been shipped by play-asia, but man, I hope this one doesn't suck.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:43 pm

Thanks for your opinion on famitsu, icy. If only U.S. mags had as nice of layouts as JP and UK magazines.

jp · Post by jp » Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:22 pm

Its shipping today!?

Shit, I thought it wasn't shipping until the 28th.

KBZ · Post by **KBZ** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:01 pm

I thought it wasn't shipping till the 16th! damn, I just made my payments today at ncsx

edit: nvm, it doesn't ship till the 16th for me

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:12 pm

Kingbuzzo wrote:I thought it wasn't shipping till the 16th! damn, I just made my payments today at ncsx

edit: nvm, it doesn't ship till the 16th for me

I think Play-Asia have a tendancy to break the "street date" when they ship games. If they receive their shipment of stock a day or two ahead of schedule (most likely directly from the distributor) then they just send it out. NCSX will receive their stock on the 16th (as in their distro shipment is no doubt in the air to them right now) and will ship it that same day... assuming the US northeast coast doesn't get hit by another snow storm.

Devil REI · Post by **Devil REI** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:33 pm

I've got to side with Famitsu for this one, guys - this game is, unfortunately, pretty darn mediocre. I played it several times during my last Japan trip... I really dig the graphical style, but the gameplay does next to nothing for me. It feels haphazard and unpolished IMO.

Then again, my tastes are a bit strange - I dislike a lot of stuff other fans really seem to enjoy (Psikyo shooters, Battle Garegga, DDP DOJ). Take that as you will.

Still, all the time I was playing it, I could only think of how much I'd have rather been playing ESPGaluda II. Curse those 1CCers hogging the machines for 30-40 minutes at a time!

Arcatech · Post by **Arcatech** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:16 pm

Hey Kiken, are you going to make a demonstration video of this when you get it?

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:32 pm

icycalm wrote:So I just got through the latest Famitsu. Radilgy got 6,6,6,5, not necessarily in that order.

I am still buying it though, mediocre or not. I need more DC games to fill up my shelves.

I hope no one cancels their pre-orders.

In other (OT) news, the new DS Super Mario Bros is unveiled, with lots of huge pics (you can see the pixels and everything), Dirge of Cerberus gets four 7s, which basically means the game sucks. AND they waited a week after the game was in the shops to tell everyone it's so-so (did I mention that a so-so from Famitsu means the game sucks?) The magazine has nothing else of interest. I am going back to shopping for a new Atomiswave. Fuck those tools.

The new Super Mario DS does look cool indeed! IGN have some great movies up of Dirge of Cerberus; it looks awesome-a third-person shooter/RPG? Sign me up!

(If it makes it over here, that is.)

Kiken will be doing a Dreamcast Shooting Special and I saw Rajirugi on the list!

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:34 pm

Kiken wrote:
Kingbuzzo wrote:I thought it wasn't shipping till the 16th! damn, I just made my payments today at ncsx

edit: nvm, it doesn't ship till the 16th for me
I think Play-Asia have a tendancy to break the "street date" when they ship games. If they receive their shipment of stock a day or two ahead of schedule (most likely directly from the distributor) then they just send it out. NCSX will receive their stock on the 16th (as in their distro shipment is no doubt in the air to them right now) and will ship it that same day... assuming the US northeast coast doesn't get hit by another snow storm.

I find it interesting that NCSX claims that Europeans make up the majority of their customers-with it being in New York, you'd think it would be Americans.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:25 pm

AFXisatwin wrote:Hey Kiken, are you going to make a demonstration video of this when you get it?

If you mean a basic run through of like the first stage, I certainly can. Just don't expect me to have figured out the scoring system.