1942: Joint Strike (PS3, 360)

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:40 am

DJ Incompetent wrote:
Dave_K. wrote:16:9 Widescreen Yoko Vertical Shooter....Noooooooo!
Has anybody even made one before?

I kinda wanna play one.

Actually, I suppose it could be fun...just so long as the proportions and ship speed for a 4:3-ish segment of the screen were right. It would almost have to be a bullet hell shooter, that or perhaps you could have some sort of "save spot" gimmick - hide out inbetween enemy/shot patterns, at the cost of not being able to grab any points.

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:36 am

1942:JS's aspect ratio doesn't bother me at all from watching it, but I'd have to play it myself to really see if would be comfortable with it.

kemical wrote:hmm the music and sound in the videos make the game seem less exciting, none of it really matches any of the onscreen stuff or enhances it.

The music is alright to me. Sort of sounds like a "heroic wartime" score that fits the time period, I think. Well, better fitting than the digital rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat *whistle* rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat *whistle* "music" of the original 1942.

SuperGrafx · Post by **SuperGrafx** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:00 pm

I'll reserve judgment until I can play the demo.
As of right now, it has that sickly hi-res/plastic appearance that I associate with cheap PC/homebrew shooters.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:05 pm

Looks awesome, here's an interview with one of the guys working on it. These guys obviously love shmups!

:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/31859.html

Thank you Capcom!

I'm Alec · Post by **I'm Alec** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:13 pm

cool. nice to see new stuff in the works. i'm hyped for this and bioniccommando download. gotta find someone to psn share these with me.

rib · Post by **rib** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:26 pm

the most specific post i read in this topic was

mmm... brown...

i dont get it, is there at least one gamer in this team who really loved the previous striker games especially the 1945 series.
how comes the result being a greyish muddy ugly uninspiring weapon look, boring enemy and pattern design. oh and wtf a 16:9 hori shmup, I DONT GET IT, am i really expecting to much from the gaming industry?
tststs..

now you could say "hey what do you expect for $10", and i say i dont care, i rather pay $50 for a great one than $50 for five medicore shmups.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:29 am

i dont get it, is there at least one gamer in this team who really loved the previous striker games especially the 1945 series.

you know the strikers games and capcom's 1940 games are not the same series?

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:24 am

yoko means black(or artwork) borders on both sides

the term you should use is "widescreen horivert" or "16:9 vert scroling" (opposed to 4:3 vert or 9:16 vert)

16:9 yoko vert would mean playing a tate game on a non-rotated 16:9

rib · Post by **rib** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 1:45 pm

Strider77 wrote:
i dont get it, is there at least one gamer in this team who really loved the previous striker games especially the 1945 series.
you know the strikers games and capcom's 1940 games are not the same series?

yes, but for me the stikers 1945 I and II are the best out of the bunch and yes its a capcom deal but still even then the result could have been something much more colorful and fun to watch, something like "hey looks cool i wanna play it", this is just meh.

doctorx0079 · Post by **doctorx0079** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:43 pm

dave4shmups wrote:Looks awesome, here's an interview with one of the guys working on it. These guys obviously love shmups! :

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/31859.html

Thank you Capcom!

That looks KICKIN RAD.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:58 pm

Strider77 wrote:
Rib wrote:i dont get it, is there at least one gamer in this team who really loved the previous striker games especially the 1945 series.
you know the strikers games and capcom's 1940 games are not the same series?

Confusing the two series has been common among mainstream players for years - so much so, that I wonder if the new devs of this project intentionally included the word "strike" in this one's subtitle hoping to confuse and pick up extra sales from casual Strikers fans.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:59 pm

I was not impressed at first by the still pictures, but 1942 JS looks better in motion. For $10, it'll be worth trying anyhow.

Hopefully there will be 3 or more planes to choose from ala 19XX. Having only 2 planes with identical firepower in 1944 was a downer.

Benefit of the doubt given until I try this.

jp · Post by jp » Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:21 am

I gotta be honest, watching videos of this makes my head hurt. I mean, seriously, thats not just a figure of speech I'm using.

For some reason seeing a vert in some bizarre widescreen is just... really disorienting to me.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:11 am

widescreen shooters that are vert don't bother me if that's the way they are made from the start.

durias · Post by **durias** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:48 am

iWant

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:51 am

nimitz wrote:yoko means black(or artwork) borders on both sides

no, it means vertically oriented.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:24 am

pixelcorps wrote:
nimitz wrote:yoko means black(or artwork) borders on both sides

no, it means vertically oriented.

"Yoko" essentially translates to "side". (For example, a side kick in karate can be known as a "yoko-geri", and in Yoko mode your screen is on its side.)

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:52 pm

Thunder Force wrote:
pixelcorps wrote:
nimitz wrote:yoko means black(or artwork) borders on both sides

no, it means vertically oriented.
"Yoko" essentially translates to "side". (For example, a side kick in karate can be known as a "yoko-geri", and in Yoko mode your screen is on its side.)

Yoko means "wide", or in the case of screen orientation, horizontal.

nimitz wrote: yoko means black(or artwork) borders on both sides

the term you should use is "widescreen horivert" or "16:9 vert scroling" (opposed to 4:3 vert or 9:16 vert)

16:9 yoko vert would mean playing a tate game on a non-rotated 16:9

No. Yoko simply refers to horizontal screen orientation. So this game is a wide-screen yoko vert. It's screen orientation is yoko, but the game scrolls vertically.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:13 pm

Are you guys fucking kidding me? This looks like an absolute POS!!@#@!

orange · Post by **orange** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:51 pm

professor ganson wrote:Are you guys fucking kidding me? This looks like an absolute POS!!@#@!

i agree with this

it seriously doesn't look good to me at all

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:23 pm

I think it looks like it has some promise.

I'm not sure I understand all the hate based on the aspect ration and the fact that it looks to have a muted color palette. We're only seeing a small part of the game.

Damocles · Post by **Damocles** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:01 pm

The trailer on XBL actually looks good. Considering the weapon/plane choices, it looks like it's 19XX set in 1942. Especially considering some of the patterns they previewed.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:58 am

Are you guys fucking kidding me? This looks like an absolute POS!!@#@!

well.... don't forget folks here bought and play THE.

kid aphex · Post by **kid aphex** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:07 am

it looks sort of drab; then again, it's a new shootemup.
i'm pretty excited. there can only be so many fucking popcorn shooters.
PINK SWEETS BLACK SHIME SHAMA blechhhh.

[aside: whatever happened to the epic space opera shooers?]

subcons · Post by **subcons** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:39 am

Strider77 wrote:well.... don't forget folks here bought and play THE.

I didn't. The grabby mechanic was an interesting idea, but the game was an ultimate fail.

Still interested in this. But I've always loved the old 1942 too.

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:02 am

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:00 am

you played it? it's out or a demo is?

zubiac · Post by **zubiac** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:22 am

I think it looks ok. Of course High res bitmap graphics would look better(IMO) than that 3D'ish polygon style. also there's too much "mud" in that game. mmhh...

durias · Post by **durias** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:35 pm

Strider77 wrote:you played it? it's out or a demo is?

Maybe he works for Microsoft? He location is Seattle.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:51 pm

Omg
Maybe I'm easily suggestionable but it looks great to me. No plastic-ish at all (if you want to experience a REAL plastic game you should play Ninja Gaiden II on PS3) and pretty scenographic.
I'm looking forward to this one indeed.