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icepick wrote:I wasn't able to pre-order this, although even with these initial reactions, I still wish that I had.
That... does not make sense.
icepick wrote:I've still not yet played any TF games
Gasp. So instead of getting the real thing you long to buy a crappy Thunder Force wannabe homebrew game? That makes even less sense.
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go buy 4 and 5, they are essential, then 3 after those
Damn Tim, you know there are quite a few Americans out there who still lives in tents due to this shitty economy, and you're dropping loads on a single game which only last 20 min. Do you think it's fair? How much did you spend this time?
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It is said that only 30% of those' who produce having wanted to do
was able to be included.
Moreover, is done by the text of the game disk.
It doesn't understand beforehand. An incomplete game is cheated and
it is made to buy.
It is game + sound track, and 5000yen (about 1$=120yen and $42).
The market price of the Doujin game is from 1000 to 2000 yen.
It is a price that cannot be even if it thinks about it.

First of all, it is impossible though says the update.
It is because talent has been recruited since now.
The Japanese has already given it up.
...BT.. good-bye.
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WarCheese wrote:TF R.I.P.

I used to think of all the horizontal shooters, TF series was the best. Now, I am trying to forget the fact that there was a sequel after TF:V.

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If it serves any consolation, it's not actual canon, so you can safely ignore it. Shame on whoever saw fit to release such a broken (no pun) game.
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Specineff wrote: Shame on whoever saw fit to release such a broken (no pun) game.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I never even thought of it like that (the "Broken" thing).

At any rate, despite being a Tecno Soft fanboy I've always felt that if they DID try to come back they probably wouldn't be very good. Sad to see I was right. :cry:

Would've really been nice if TFVI could've been finished on the DC back in the day. :cry:
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jp wrote:I've always felt that if they DID try to come back they probably wouldn't be very good. Sad to see I was right. :cry:
Techno Soft didn't come back. This is completely unrelated homebrew software made by people completely unrelated to Techno Soft.
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What? I thought it was made by some of the old Tecno Soft people?


Well shit, then this whole thing is just fucking retarded now isn't it?
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jp wrote: Well shit, then this whole thing is just fucking retarded now isn't it?
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jp wrote:What? I thought it was made by some of the old Tecno Soft people?


Well shit, then this whole thing is just fucking retarded now isn't it?
Yeah, pretty much.
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I heard this game isn't that good.
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Ceph wrote:
icepick wrote:I wasn't able to pre-order this, although even with these initial reactions, I still wish that I had.
That... does not make sense.
icepick wrote:I've still not yet played any TF games
Gasp. So instead of getting the real thing you long to buy a crappy Thunder Force wannabe homebrew game? That makes even less sense.
Agreed. Fuck this doujin shit, go for TF3 and 4, or 5. Them there's the real thing.
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Okay, I think I can do that now. Maybe I'll start with TFV, actually. It's just too bad that Broken Thunder didn't work out.

What I've been thinking a lot is that a lot of people didn't have very good initial impressions of Trizeal... no one seemed to have anything good to say about it, and it seemed to have poor popularity in game centers. Lots of people balked at the released videos, compared it to previous games (and said that the previous games should be played instead), said "buy good games" and the like.

Even after all this, Trizeal ended up being one of my favorite games of all time. All I'm saying is that I learned that no matter what anyone (or everyone) says, the only way that anyone's going to know for sure is if they try it themselves, so that's what I wanted to do.

(Everyone here could very well be right about it, but I wanted to give it a shot.)
Ceph wrote:So instead of getting the real thing you long to buy a crappy Thunder Force wannabe homebrew game? That makes even less sense.
I mentioned earlier in the thread that I've been planning on getting TFVI as soon as I get my Genesis back, but the reasoning behind BT first is that if I'm going to play both games, I'd rather play the better one after the worse one... it's like seeing film adaptations of books. If you read the book first, chances are good that you'll be disappointed by the film, but the reverse is not usually true. If I see the film and enjoy it until I read the book and then enjoy the book more, then I'll still have enjoyed both for a span of time. 8)

Some would ask, "Why not play the games everyone already likes, before resorting to the panned ones? Why not get the most out of your time by going straight for the best?" I suppose that my only answer for this is that I've gotten to the point where I already have a number of titles that I enjoy very much. If I keep picking more "known-good" titles up, I'm going to come close to overloading my plate. If I'd purchased this, it could've gone either way, and in the least I would be supporting a scroll-shooting game developer.

(Again, some said that Triangle Service didn't deserve any support. I admit that I'm wondering a bit about FN&AG.)
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I meant that if I had pre-ordered it, then I'd be more inclined to give it the benefit of a doubt. :wink:
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R.I.P for real, TF. You didn't deserve to get resurrected like this...
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SFKhoa wrote:R.I.P for real, TF.
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No former Technosoft members, WTF!. Well at least the music is good. I will check usenet in a week because i still have a glimmer of hope for this title, and will not blow 60+ just to find out what shape its in.
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Hmm....

Those initial two YouTube vids of this PC game make it appear to be just a simplified homage to (rip-off of) some Thunderforce elements, without any of the Technosoft quality design behind it. Would be excusable if this was a freeware homebrew effort only; I'm sure the devs in that case wouldn't see so much negative backlash. But marketing this to starved fans as a premium priced title might be seen as exploitative, especially considering how little media was released leading up to preorders. At this stage, if the devs wanted to win back some of the goodwill they lost from early purchasers, since this is a PC game it might be advisable for them to release a patch to improve the game, based on their player feedback. With enough patching, the project could still conceivably be salvaged.

This release has also created some confusion, unfortunately. The audio CD "Broken Thunder" which predates this, was high quality because it was created by the original music composer from TFV. It's a shame that this PC game project now shares the "Broken Thunder" name and uses that soundtrack as BGM, as it risks creating a misperception that this is somehow a real Thunderforce game, when in reality this PC game appears to have nothing much to do with the Thunderforce franchise at all, other than being inspired by it, and some unsubstantiated claims of involvement by ex-Technosoft staff (which may just be referring to the soundtrack...)
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OK, my Broken Thunder LE preorder with Himeya has just now shipped.

If the game is that bad, the developers should put out a patch to upgrade the game with more interesting enemy patterns. Some of the enemy patterns I saw in early levels on YouTube vids looked bland.

Some console developer needs to be given the license to work on the real TF 6 if TechnoSoft is truly dead. I'd trust G. Rev with the franchise.
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I don't think a patch will be enough to fix this train wreck.
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it's obviously a very amateur doujin circle that made this.

I guess the lesson is, make sure that you KNOW you're good before making a tribute to a well loved series of games.

how much was the LE going for, and what was the difference?
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Specineff wrote:I don't think a patch will be enough to fix this train wreck.
I second that. You saw what Treasure did with Gradius, just imagine what they could do with TF if they had the ball in there court with Technosoft's blessing to boot. I can wake up now
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lawnspic wrote:You saw what Treasure did with Gradius
Ruin it.
lawnspic wrote:just imagine what they could do with TF if they had the ball in there court with Technosoft's blessing to boot.
Ruin it?
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gameoverDude wrote:Some console developer needs to be given the license to work on the real TF 6 if TechnoSoft is truly dead. I'd trust G. Rev with the franchise.
Agreed, ever since they released Border Down, G.Rev has topped my "dream list" for obtaining the Thunderforce IP rights and creating TF6...

It seems like the window of opportunity for such a move has probably passed however; if G.Rev were interested / it was possible, they probably would have done it by now.

Now it's 2007, and whoever holds the Thunderforce IP rights is probably not going to want to give them up anymore, due to the royalties and profits they will undoubtedly see from a likely and effortless release of Thunderforce II,III,IV on Nintendo Virtual Console.
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Specineff wrote:I don't think a patch will be enough to fix this train wreck.
How about a patch to put over your eyes?
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lawnspic wrote:
You saw what Treasure did with Gradius

Ruin it.
Nice try to derail the discussion. Better luck next time, Herr Schatten :twisted:
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Watched the first 2 levels. I just don't get it.

Music is bearable, graphics and Engine seem okay, weapons and ship movement look alright to me but its complete shit. Ships look way too small

How can they get the above tolerable whilst the enemy, boss and back ground designs are sooo bad! a few planets or asteroids in the background or a battle fleet and big multi-part robot ships aren't to hard to imagine........ :cry:
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how can a game company release a game like this in 2007...
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