The beginning of shmups on ps3 Soldner-X

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:03 am

Man, after you beat the Twin Drills boss in the underground level, the board speeds up and traps you. I can't tell solid objects and I crash and explode. Thats where I'm stuck at right now. I haven't had this shmup long but I still think its cool and enjoyable...definitely high quality stuff.

Matsunaga · Post by **Matsunaga** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:47 pm

A little more practice and level 2 gets pretty easy, It's level 4 that really pisses me off. There's no clear path a lot of times, or just mines in the way. The diagonal scrolling, plus all those obstacles and enemies, just makes it absurd. I like the game, but I think I've gotten all the enjoyment I can out of it.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:32 pm

More like, the beginning of the end of shmups on the PS3.

Inkvisitor · Post by **Inkvisitor** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:17 pm

I was happy when i first heard Söldner-X would come out on PSN but I still havn't bought it. Mostly because I wanted to read some reviews first. The problem is that opionions seem to differ a lot on this one. 1UP gives it a score of 25 while others score it well above 60, how can this be? If that happened to any other major title there would be controversy!

So this is where goold shmups forum come in and rescue the day? Well atleast I have a somewhat better idea now than before i started reading this thread.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:22 pm

Inkvisitor wrote:The problem is that opionions seem to differ a lot on this one. 1UP gives it a score of 25 while others score it well above 60, how can this be?

Could this be because different reviewers give priotrity to different aspects of the game, which may or may not be seen as equally good? Nope, unlikely. :P

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:44 pm

The game seems to get better reviews with more mainstream sites, which shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Or am I mistaken? I dont read review-sites.

Inkvisitor · Post by **Inkvisitor** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 3:47 pm

I finally got my hands on the PS3 version. It plays a lot better with the analog joystick just as I suspected when i tried the PC version. This is making it more enjoyable as a game I think. At times there is a lot happening on screen making it hard to spot enemies or walls. This does not stop me from having some fun

Söldner-X is a game after all.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:55 am

I was looking forward to this title and have to say after playing soldner-X for an hour I am disappointed. Now I play my Shmups on a 46” screen, so detail is not only important but prominent too. I was expecting 1080p in all its glory with soldner-X, full vibrant colour, exceptional detail, challenging levels, innovative bosses etc etc but instead the back drops and the sprites lack detail, look dull, lack imagination, and simply look as if the developer rushed it.

The first stage isn’t so bad, music is fine, the weapons still suck but it’s passable, it's only when you it the second stage you realise the game doesn’t live up to the hype. The game has too much going on. I couldn’t care less of the chain system and strategic weapons selection; I just want to point and shoot!

Superstar Dust HD on the PS3 owns Soldner – X and it is no irony the Solder-X is more expensive than SSHD yet plays worse.

The devil is in the detail and Solder-X lacks it.

MadScientist · Post by **MadScientist** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:02 pm

Sales figures for December show that Soldner-X was the 2nd most downloaded game on PSN after SSFIIHDR for that month. Hopefully this will encourage more people to put shmups out on the PS3.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:24 pm

I was expecting 1080p in all its glory with soldner-X

What shooter does? I'd love to know...... I've never another 1080p shooter on my TV.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:18 pm

Strider77 wrote:
I was expecting 1080p in all its glory with soldner-X
What shooter does? I'd love to know...... I've never another 1080p shooter on my TV.

Raiden IV runs at 1920x1200 on my LCD. Of course it doesn't take up the full screen in tate mode, since it's 4:3.

ex.machina · Post by **ex.machina** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:28 pm

Udderdude wrote:
Strider77 wrote:
I was expecting 1080p in all its glory with soldner-X
What shooter does? I'd love to know...... I've never another 1080p shooter on my TV.
Raiden IV runs at 1920x1200 on my LCD. Of course it doesn't take up the full screen in tate mode, since it's 4:3.

And I very much doubt that this is the game's native resolution.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:36 am

ex.machina wrote:
Udderdude wrote:
Strider77 wrote: What shooter does? I'd love to know...... I've never another 1080p shooter on my TV.
Raiden IV runs at 1920x1200 on my LCD. Of course it doesn't take up the full screen in tate mode, since it's 4:3.
And I very much doubt that this is the game's native resolution.

3D games are hard to pin down with a "native resolution", since 3D models can scale in resolution pretty easily. It seems Raiden IV runs at 640x480 native, however the 360 port can redraw the entire screen at a higher res, like almost every modern 3D game can. It looks perfectly fine at this resolution, too.

dcharlie · Post by **dcharlie** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:52 am

Didn't see the thread, anyone else have sound issues?

right channels keep dropping out. I quit out and played a few other PS3 games for a few hours with no trouble, went back in and started having problems again.

I quite like the game, only issue i really have is that some of the enemies blend a little too well with the background.

Reminds me of the amiga era of gaming (with a touch of Border Down) for some reason.

What shooter does? I'd love to know...... I've never another 1080p shooter on my TV.

Blast Factor and super Stardust HD are both 1080P native res.

soniq-man · Post by **soniq-man** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:52 pm

Hello all,

I had to search for this thread to put my post into the right context.

For those of you who enjoyed the music in Last Hope and Söldner-X, I may have some news worthy of notice: After the positive feedback and success of my work in those two games and CDs, I have set up music composition and production full time and left my regular job. My production services soniQfactory are now officially a company, providing music and audio for all kinds of relevant gaming platforms. Currently, I am working on two products in 2009, one on a current console, another yet to be announced, plus a few more projects set up for 2010.

On a side note, I am also providing text work (translations German/English) for game developers for ingame and documentation blurb.

If you enjoy my music work, or are looking for audio or text support for your product, don't hesitate to visit my site and drop me a line. Fans can join the forum to get news on the upcoming projects and other relevant news.

Thanks for your support over the last 2 years, your appreciation has helped me to set up my workplace and do what i wanted to do for so many years - game audio professionally.

Best,

Rafael Dyll
www.soniqfactory.com

Dragoforce · Post by **Dragoforce** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:36 pm

Cool! I loved the Söldner-X OST (more than the actual game in fact)

Best of luck with your company, hope to hear more from you soon!

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:57 am

Finally picked up this shmup this week (PS3 ver.), and my first thought after playing it for a short time, is that the game screams "Amiga game in HD". It's a novelty to see a brand new high-definition title on the market in that style, even if it brings along many of the failings of that era of euroshmups. (At times it also reminds me somewhat of the Playstation title "X2".) I don't expect to be playing this much, but as a nostalgic Amiga fan, I'm glad someone made this kind of game on a modern system. The colorful backgrounds light up a large HDTV screen well & soundtrack is nice enough for the small asking price on PSN.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 3:07 pm

It being one of the few traditional shmups on the Playstation 3 I just had to purchase it, despite not liking the PC version very much.

But after playing this it felt like a different, much better than I remembered, game.
Maybe it's the console environment (more familiar control) or some difficulty tweaks (it seems easier on Normal), but I am really enjoying this atm.

Graphics & sound are as awesome as ever, and I think I finally got to grips with the powerup/weapons system.

So the prospect of a sequel suddenly doesn't necessarily sound like a bad thing at all.

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