Darius Burst announced for PSP

[Elixir]

I'm sure we'll have them when the Famitsu scans show up.

Hotness. PSP = shmup system 09?

No that would be the 360. Whatever, you already know this, you're just really bad at trolling.

Anyway ugh, handheld shmups.

[MathU]

Wow, that's a shame they went with the PSP.

Oh, but I see they're sticking with ugly 3D anyway, for the technology whores. Would love to see another 2D Darius like Gaiden.

[FRO]

I got the text on my phone earlier today from twitter.com/shmups that this was coming, and I had to look it up to verify it.....WOW!!!!

This gets me so stoked. I already have plenty of shmuppy goodness for my PSP, but this is the icing on the cake! Now if only Technosoft would get their butt in gear & make a TF collection for PSP, even if it's JP release only

[cj iwakura]

I'm sure we'll have them when the Famitsu scans show up.

Hotness. PSP = shmup system 09?

No that would be the 360. Whatever, you already know this, you're just really bad at trolling.

Anyway ugh, handheld shmups.

Not intended as trolling, the PSP does have a lot of shmups going for it. And I don't own a 360, so let me make the most of what I have.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

PSP is about as powerful as a PS2, and if the dev team puts the effort, they can do amazing things on the system. I think they made the right choice of system. The DS has two screens (can't stand splitted bosses,) they can't sell this full price for any of the download services, and I don't buy games I can't touch.

[Elixir]

]Not intended as trolling, the PSP does have a lot of shmups going for it. And I don't own a 360, so let me make the most of what I have.

PSP has shmups going for it in 09? I'm not seeing it.

The only way I could coherently play a PSP shmup is if I used RemoteJoy and an external Saturn controller. It works. But at that rate it's almost like it's no longer a PSP title. That and the fact that 90% of PSP shmups are just ports of PS1 titles or earlier.

[StoofooEsq]

Edit: Just got reminded of TF6 and how painfully disappointing it was, so I unheld my breath. You know, just in case.

Unlike TF6, Darius Burst won't have a weaker, directly preceding series entry to draw criticized elements from (read: TF5). So I'm fairly optimistic about the resulting product in this case.

[dnbiola]

Anyone know if this will be a UMD retail release or download only?

[THE]

Damn, they should have done it for Type X2. I mean they are Taito they not even have to pay license costs and they could easily bring in to j360 and as a download title to ps3...just put in some anime boobs and it will sell like hot shit, see Otomedius.

Looking forward to the OST only.

[gs68]

Edit: Just got reminded of TF6 and how painfully disappointing it was, so I unheld my breath. You know, just in case.

Unlike TF6, Darius Burst won't have a weaker, directly preceding series entry to draw criticized elements from (read: TF5). So I'm fairly optimistic about the resulting product in this case.

Sure we do; it's called Darius R.
(Don't get me wrong, DR was a decent game, but it took all the flaws of Darius 1 and compressed them into bite-sized pieces.)

[FRO]

]Not intended as trolling, the PSP does have a lot of shmups going for it. And I don't own a 360, so let me make the most of what I have.

PSP has shmups going for it in 09? I'm not seeing it.

The only way I could coherently play a PSP shmup is if I used RemoteJoy and an external Saturn controller. It works. But at that rate it's almost like it's no longer a PSP title. That and the fact that 90% of PSP shmups are just ports of PS1 titles or earlier.

Perhaps not shmups released in '09, but the PSP already has a very strong shmup library, between the Gradius, Parodius, Salamander, Soldier, and other collections. Granted, those are all re-releases, but it's certainly better than first run titles that suck. I think the PSP is a fine machine for playing shmups - unlike previous handhelds, the screen size of the PSP is big enough to see the smaller bullets, which makes it easier to play. I can say this from experience - trying to play TFIV or Fire Shark on a Sega Nomad is a unique challenge.

Anyone know if this will be a UMD retail release or download only?

I read an interview 2 or 3 issues back in Game Informer w/ a Sony exec that said all future PSP titles will be UMD AND download simultaneously to support both legacy & new PSP owners, and to give consumers choice. Unless this ends up as a PSN title (which I don't see), one could fairly safely assume this will be on UMD. I'm not sure what kind of numbers Gradius Collection garnered in the US, but given the relative success of G-Darius, it's not unreasonable to think this will come to the US.

Now we need to get someone working on a Darius Collection for PSP (D1 - G-Darius), and a Raiden Collection (R1-3 and DX), or possibly even a Psykio or Cave collection for PSP. That would be sweet.

[ZOM]

Someone in here kind enough for a quick n' dirty translation on information regarding the "Burst Unit" ?

I wonder if it's a replacement for the Laz0r battles found in Metal Black & G-Darius...

[Kiken]

So what are the chances of this seeing a later PS2 conversion?

[antares]

So what are the chances of this seeing a later PS2 conversion?

Chances are higher it will end up on XBLA / PSN imo.

[StoofooEsq]

Yeah, that's what I would guess. Is there even much interest in PSP -> PS2 ports anymore?

[jefflev13]

FRO - that's wrong about all future PSP titles being released for both UMD and digital download. They have said all first party UMD titles will also be available for download, but (as I understand it), the rest is up to the publishers. For instance, next week's release of the fighting game Fate/Unlimited Codes from Capcom is only available as a digital download http://www.siliconera.com/2009/08/25/fa ... next-week/

[Elixir]

Perhaps not shmups released in '09, but the PSP already has a very strong shmup library, between the Gradius, Parodius, Salamander, Soldier, and other collections. Granted, those are all re-releases, but it's certainly better than first run titles that suck. I think the PSP is a fine machine for playing shmups - unlike previous handhelds, the screen size of the PSP is big enough to see the smaller bullets, which makes it easier to play. I can say this from experience - trying to play TFIV or Fire Shark on a Sega Nomad is a unique challenge.

"The PSP already has a very strong shmup library, between port, port, port, port, port and port, and other ports."

This means they aren't psp games, you know. That doesn't make it a strong shmup library. With that logic you could include every PS1 shmup because of emulation. Oh and SNES and whatever else can be emulated for it.

It doesn't matter if it's superior to other handhelds in playing the genre, what matters is that shmups dedicated to the PSP are almost non-existent.

[gk2012]

I just saw this news at QJ recently. I'm very excited! I hope it turns out good.

[Ghegs]

Split the discussion about DLC-only games to its own thread.

[spadgy]

Wow - new Darius! Exciting as hell!

Anyone know if this will be a UMD retail release or download only?

First thing I thought. I guess with the PSPgo, it'll be a download, but then they are still supporting UMD PSP owners for a while. I vote for them doing a physical copy!

[Raizen1984]

"The PSP already has a very strong shmup library, between port, port, port, port, port and port, and other ports."

This means they aren't psp games, you know. That doesn't make it a strong shmup library. With that logic you could include every PS1 shmup because of emulation. Oh and SNES and whatever else can be emulated for it.

It doesn't matter if it's superior to other handhelds in playing the genre, what matters is that shmups dedicated to the PSP are almost non-existent.

Dumb argument is dumb. By that logic, the 360 couldn't be a great shmup console because all of the shmups are ported from arcade.

[Elixir]

Kindly don't address me with memes.

The logic revolves around already released ports being re-released on an inferior handheld with poor controls and often a cropped screen. These aren't dedicated PSP shooting games. Things like Death Smiles, Galuda and Daioujou all improve on the game significantly enough to invalidate the point in owning the arcade board.

There's also the fact that they're about 13 times cheaper.

The point is that the PSP has a small library of ports and an even smaller library of dedicated PSP shmups. As a PSP owner I'm not even going to bother taking a second look at it, and when people say stuff like "the psp is the shmup handheld of '09" I just melt into laughter.

[kid aphex]

jeez elixir---you are the most sensitive person on these forums.

[Dragoforce]

One could argue that a new Darius game is cooler than a hundred Cave ports....

[Elixir]

No not really. I think justifying a system's genre as content by listing port after port is equally as sensitive and just as insecure about the said system's future as what my issues are with people listing port after port.

[kid aphex]

No not really. I think justifying a system's genre as content by listing port after port is equally as sensitive and just as insecure about the said system's future as what my issues are with people listing port after port.

this thread serves as no boundary to your general unfriendliness; i simply chose to remark about it here because i created the thread a few days ago, and its already weighted down by your negativity. cheer up and keep the boards friendly

[cj iwakura]

No not really. I think justifying a system's genre as content by listing port after port is equally as sensitive and just as insecure about the said system's future as what my issues are with people listing port after port.

For some people, having classic shmups available in handheld format is worth the price of purchase.

[Elixir]

this thread serves as no boundary to your general unfriendliness; i simply chose to remark about it here because i created the thread a few days ago, and its already weighted down by your negativity. cheer up and keep the boards friendly

Do you mind growing up? I'm not being "unfriendly" or "negative" by asking for a clarification, which was only backed up by "it has a bunch of ports". I've bought 3 PSP's now so it's not like I'm going "oh it's on a device that I don't own eww let's boast other products which clearly have an inferior library to them"

For some people, having classic shmups available in handheld format is worth the price of purchase.

And "oh it's on a device that I don't own eww let's boast other products which clearly have an inferior library to them" is exactly what you've done to the 360 in this thread and other threads, so I mean, it wouldn't hurt if you actually explained yourself as to why you think the PSP has a library for '09.

[kid aphex]

fragile eagle.

[UnscathedFlyingObject]

Are you saying that the PSP doesn't have a library for '09?