R-Gear ship to be in Raystorm HD (was: R-Gear, finally)

[D]

Update: Seems it's not the game, but the players' ships from R-Gear what has been added for this iteration. Though, hey, you never know. Thanks to Aries no Kobayan for the clarifying picture!


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News: R-Gear to be officially released
August 25, 2009, 03:21 AM
by Recap, via Postback's forum - [p]
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Shocking news, indeed, even though you won't find anybody else noticing. This week's Famitsu, besides letting us know the next-Darius-episode-after-a-whole-decade-is-being-made-for-a-portable-system tragicomedy, is also unveiling (for the Japanese public, actually -- a couple of screens emerged some days ago in the Western side of the world) the HD remake that Raystorm will be getting soon in the form of both, XBLA and PSN titles. The most interesting part though is that it seems to come with the announcement of R-Gear as an extra in Raystorm HD, which is no other that the actual sequel Rayforce was going to get before Taito decided that you needed polygons to sell a game.

There's not much hope that we can enjoy a proper version of this prototype given the HD systems' inability to display low-res graphics, but it's still a wonderful addendum we couldn't expect from these days' Taito, isn't it?

All the best!

Deserves it's own thread!
Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7HrxnJ ... re=related

[croikle]

Wow, pretty sweet, a "new" Rayforce.

[Ed Oscuro]

The beginning reminds me of Gun & Frontier (although maybe Shienryu more), looks interesting.

[Ganelon]

Not quite, you should probably update the topic. Maybe one day though...

[louisg]

R-GEAR?? HOLY CRAP! Is there any word that this is coming out for Wii also, or will I be buying a 360?

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

They need put this on a disc or I can't buy it (out of principle.)

[evil_ash_xero]

R-GEAR?? HOLY CRAP! Is there any word that this is coming out for Wii also, or will I be buying a 360?

I REALLY doubt this will be coming to the Wii. This is an extra on Raystorm HD..and I have yet to see any downloads on the Wii that look anything like that.

BTW: you should just go ahead and get a J 360 if you're getting one. It's the way to go.

[DJ Incompetent]

Update: Seems it's not the game, but the players' ships from R-Gear what has been added for this iteration. Though, hey, you never know. Thanks to Aries no Kobayan for the clarifying picture!

[undamned]

R-GEAR?? HOLY CRAP!

And I thought Taito was a mere shell of what they once were Here's hoping someone is sly enough to rip the files out and share w/ teh mame community (I'll buy the legit download through PSN or whatever, but it'd sure be nice to play pixel perfect.

For those of you who have missed previous R-Gear discussion, I think the first time we found out about this was when people (GaijinPunch?) were posting mad links to some video repository (which I believe has since gone down. This was before youtube was all the rage) and that promo vid popped up. I tried looking for all the old discussions (we've had multiple) and turned this up (not our first discussion):

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=9928

Also, I don't know if one of you kids made the RayForce wiki, but somebody put a link to our discussion on there, heh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RayForce

Update: Seems it's not the game, but the players' ships from R-Gear what has been added for this iteration. Though, hey, you never know. Thanks to Aries no Kobayan for the clarifying picture!

Poop.
-ud

[gameoverDude]

R-Gear? Hell yes. Now it's a Day One purchase for me. E-ehem... Wait, what?

Update: Seems it's not the game, but the players' ships from R-Gear what has been added for this iteration. Though, hey, you never know. Thanks to Aries no Kobayan for the clarifying picture!

Damn. Oh well, we can pray for R-Gear to turn up in MAME like Recalhorn (one seriously awesome platform game) did. Hopefully there's an option to change to a directly overhead view ala Psyvariar to make it more like RayForce & R-Gear. Fingers crossed that the R-Gear game does turn out to be in there after all.

[Dragoforce]

Oh fudge.

Oh, well. This is still the most awesome Taito day in ages

[dpful]

Ships from awesome looking unfinished game available. That's lame. Ship imagined by zuntata's grandma available.

[Udderdude]

Update: Seems it's not the game, but the players' ships from R-Gear what has been added for this iteration. Though, hey, you never know. Thanks to Aries no Kobayan for the clarifying picture!

LOVE IS OVER.

[Ed Oscuro]

>:(

Taito is the badman.

Edit: Bad pun about it just being a gear and not the whole box comes to mind... :p

[gameoverDude]

Damnit, Taito. Anyway, I guess I'll still buy it. RayStorm is still decent after all, even if it is officially crushed by RayForce and most probably R-Gear.

If Under Defeat does come to XBLA, I'll support G.Rev even having the DC version. Maybe that'll nudge them closer to a Border Down HD.

[ZOM]

Will we ever be able to play it?
I need to make friends with a TAITO employee - get the game's data -> kick him in the balls -> run like hell!

[D]

Will we ever be able to play it?
I need to make friends with a TAITO employee - get the game's data -> kick him in the balls -> run like hell!

I'll pay you.

[FRO]

^^ LOL

Seriously, I think Taito should consider doing R-Gear as downloadable content. I realize that is likely additional development that would have to be done to finish the game (canceled in early stages, correct?), but it would be a nice niche title for them, and give shmup fans a legitimate reason to buy in to the concept of downloadable content. I'd love to see this come to the Virtual Console, myself...

[D]

^^ LOL

Seriously, I think Taito should consider doing R-Gear as downloadable content. I realize that is likely additional development that would have to be done to finish the game (canceled in early stages, correct?), but it would be a nice niche title for them, and give shmup fans a legitimate reason to buy in to the concept of downloadable content. I'd love to see this come to the Virtual Console, myself...

We have yet to see ports of unported arcade games.
So them doing actual hard work on finishing an old arcade game.......I don't see that happening.
But let's be positive. how about a R-Gear petition?

[louisg]

Don't phunk with my heart, Taito

[undamned]

This heartbreak inspired me to write an article on the topic:

http://therealundamned.blogspot.com/200 ... ition.html

-ud

[kid aphex]

great blog, undamned

[BulletMagnet]

In case anyone hasn't already noticed, the ESRB has rated Raystorm HD, so it looks like it is coming to the US region.

[hirounder]

Trailer in here: http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1227094_1124.html

[Observer]

Mmm, PS3 too. Interesting.

It looks nice and dice. Would've been cool to have that awesome R-Gear prototype game too. No matter how much 3D eye candy they pour, the 2D graphics still had more charm.

But the lock-on guided laser missiles mechanic, gigantic mecha, huge battleships approaching fast and a sane etcetera are already enough to convince me.

[Zaarock]

Damn, that trailer looks awesome. The R-Gear ship looks fun to use as well, is that ship after the R-Gear in the vid the Rayforce ship? looks a lot like it.

The visuals look great, I especially like what they did with that sunset setting for the first city level.

edit: nvm, its obviously the first R-Gray

[gameoverDude]

I hope to goodness that Taito did not overwrite the R-Gear ROMS for some other F3 title that was being developed. Justice willing, someone out there has a prototype board waiting to be dumped- esp. considering the other F3 protos in MAME.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

It's probably not a finished game though. I can't fathom someone not publishing a finished game in a quality series like the Ray series.

[ExitPlanetDust]

That looks fantastic.

...now if only they would re-release Layer Section/Galactic Attack/Rayforce with HD sprites...