AOU 2006 games list yet?

ckm · Post by **ckm** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:49 pm

yeah i want to know..........any pages up yet? tried the official site and got bored searching thru slow dial-up page loads.......

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:42 pm

I was there with Gaijin Punch and icycalm.

Games of interest:

shmups:

- Pink Sweets (Ibara 2)
- Ibara Black Label
- Shikigami no Shiro III
- Triggerheart Exelica

other:

- Virtua Fighter V
- House of the Dead 4 Special
- Half Life 2 Survivor
- Time Crisis 4
- Soul Calibur III AC
- shitloads of DDR and Popnmusic
- other stuff

Will post up impressions of the shooters later.

EDIT: Shiki III of course.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:37 pm

Shikigami no Shiro III (not II).

In all honesty, the best part of the show was the Cave booth. Pink Sweets x6 in the front, Pink Sweets, Ketsui, ESPGaluda II, Mushihime-sama, Ibara Black Label, and DOJ Black Label in the back (all on free play of course). That song drove me nuts though.

Worth mentioning:
Half Life 2 Surivvor: I questioned this before, and even moreso after playing it
Soul Calibur III: Just like II, way too little, way too late.
Virtua Fighter 5: Looks fantastic... too bad I won't live in Japan, nor have the desire to waste 50,000 yen a month on it when it comes out.

ckm · Post by **ckm** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:15 am

i had heard of those ones, as it happens. still gives me a big grin to hear about them.

wonder when the next hori will be.........

edit - what about Capcom's War of the Grail! that looked interesting, and as usual - very timely.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:41 pm

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6144603.html

They start talking about shooters almost at the end of the story.

ckm · Post by **ckm** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:01 pm

ta mucho.

i like the sound of those VF terminals - except i'm more thinking about them for saving progress and high scores. (networked arcades - high scores for that machine, but also - high scores for same game anyplace its installed also displayable).

it290 · Post by **it290** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:49 pm

HL2 Survivor sounds interesting. I wonder what enhancements/changes have gone into the game. They mentioned that only multiplayer mode was enabled at the show, and I'd imagine that will be the main draw for the game in the arcades- something I question since HL2's deathmatch mode isn't all that great. As for the single-player mode, I wonder if it will function on a time-per-credit system or what. There are plenty of sections in HL2 that involve a lot of talking and not much action, which seems like it would be a money sink for arcade operators. Also, even with save capability, I can't imagine trying to get through HL2's 20 hour single player campaign in the arcade. It's nuts, I tell you!

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:25 am

Time Crisis 4!!!

Nice! I hope that HD compatible light gun, that Vexorg mentioned, is coming along well!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:13 am

I'll hae my big "report" ready here in the next few days. Covers a lot of stuff -- including the AOU show, and what I thought sucked about it.