From Fenrir’s most recent reply here, he wrote:Blade wrote:zinger wrote:Mobile Lightforce EX
LMAO!
I'd have to say E.S.P. collection:
ESP Ra.De.
ESP Galuda
ESP Galuda II
It would be bombastic. For DC too if possible

Even japanese it wouldn't matter.
Anyway, I voted for DDP collection. It would be great to have all three in one game. I'd buy it jap as well.
You know what, Fenrir, it *would* be great that
DonPachi,
DoDonPachi, and
DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou be included in a single whole collection indeed, filled with extras, original artworks, and much fascinating history as AWESOME additions!!! And that is why I in the first place included it in this poll, after all. Look, I am with you on that, man!!
Also, the reason why I did not include
DoDonPachi II in this poll (much less as part of the DonPachi Collection, too) is because that game there was originally developed by IGS, not Cave. I think that while
DoDonPachi II looks good on the surface and so does the music and sounds, the overall result is like if you want to create a DoDonPachi game and you do not have any new and original material to make every ounce as successful as its predecessor, plug into the original
DoDonPachi and borrow ALL the material you can!! Yep, that’s what it’s like, which was why IGS eventually ended up butchering the series for perhaps LOTS of fans (

), and please see the review
right here to find out why! That was in 2001, until the *very* next year, Cave sprang back into being themselves and saved the series with a rather difficult yet awesome breath of fresh air called
DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou, which brought us
finally back to its original roots!! Man!!!

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And as for that other compilation idea of mine with
ESP Ra.De.,
Dangun Feveron,
Guwange, and
Progear that I just told you about on my last post, I believe that if this compilation were to get released anywhere at all, then hey, all the games need to be all-out faithful and real to the originals right down to the very bone, and I mean
totally unbutchered at all in every way!!!

And that reminds me well enough that I have to agree 100% with ghibli99 on that last reply which wrote:
I don't care about any of the ones that have been released for home in Japan, since I've purchase those already (and most shmup-heads have, too). Give me a colletion that includes Esprade, Guwange, Dangun Feveron, Ketsui, and Progear. *That* would make me one happy gamer. C'mon, Taito... work with Cave to make this happen. I'm sick and tired of seeing the umpteenth rerelease of Strikers...
Rather well said, ghibli99!!
=b (I am giving it thumbs up here!) Rather well said indeed, since the Strikers series has turned out to be so needlessly repetitive as such a tired retread these days (especially with the
same exact way with how the bosses are damaged and destroyed, how painful!).