Thread 723862708

M2 is announcing something soon. In about 9 hours I guess.

Also why the fuck are the captchas huge now

My biggest hopes are
>DoDonPachi, obviously, and with a Campaign Version arrange mode
>Armed Police Batrider
>Parodius collection
>Guwaaaaaaaaang
I'd be happy with any of those.

BREAKING NEWS M2 announces a console exclusive MAME rom for 60$

>>723862708 (OP)
>Also why the fuck are the captchas huge now
mine are the same, what do yours look like

>>723865656
this

>>723865620
MAME players of Battle Garegga still can't play the game with bullets you can actually see

>>723865620
M2 are the only devs that actually make their ports inarguably better than the original game

>>723867261
What the hell, I've never encountered this

>>723867303
Look for "new version" or "type 2". Those replace most grey bullets with glowing ones.
bgareggacn, bgaregganv, bgaregga2. They're in the shmupmame pack.

>>723867261
it's the special bot captcha

>>723862776
I like how Parodius collection is actually very possible.
But between these it's obviously DDP

Have I missed something, I could've sworn they've already done DDP and DOJ

>>723867951
DOJ yes, not DDP tho

I'm afraid of asking what we are going to talk for 9 hours in a shmup thread

>>723868330
Prove you are not The Thing.

>>723868404
You mean The Thingu?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAoONl2P8fw

>>723868483
That sounds a lot like something The Thing wou

>>723868330
The density

>>723868864
M*rk and his followers are very dense indeed.

>>723862776
hope they port daioujou on pc....

>>723868702
A-Anon?

>>723869432
Honestly still more believable than releasing Batrider

Everyone’s calling it the death of hardcore action, the final nail in Itagaki’s coffin. But when evaluating what I like to call Kinetic Formalism, you realize NG4 isn’t simplifying, it’s refining. The yellow paint, the climb markers, the explicit directionality are not concessions to casuals. They are the modern evolution of arcade communication.

Think about it: blinking GO signs in beat-em-ups, the WARNING alert before a shmup boss, red barrels that telegraph explosions. These are not handholding; they are what I like to call Pacing Regulators. The yellow paint does the same thing. It, specifically, enforces flow. It says: move here, keep tempo, stay in the rhythm of the kinetic conversation.

Ninja Gaiden has always been about, specifically, what I call Mechanical Hegemony: one strict set of rules governing motion, timing, and awareness. The first game tested camera discipline, the second tested stamina control. NG4 now tests readability under speed. It’s not about challenge through confusion, but precision through information.

The so-called spoonfeeding is actually what I’d call Arcade Clarity. Fast communication is sacred in real-time play. Yellow climbs, red barrels, flashing cues: they exist so your brain can bypass hesitation and commit to execution. That’s not dumbing down. That’s kinetic enlightenment.

This is what I like to call Heliocentric Design. The player orbits around visible intention. You aren’t lost; you’re accelerated. The rhythm never dies because the game never stalls. NG4’s yellow paint isn’t a safety line but, specifically, the metronome of movement.

It’s not the fall of complexity. It’s, specifically, the return of Gameplay Density discipline. The paint just tells you what good arcade games always told you: go.

>>723870204
He is so back
Does NG4 have any resource snowing nitaku density?

>>723870204
When did chatGPT learn to write the script for m*rk videos?
Anyway, real issue with the yellow paint isn't really the "spoonfeeding" as much as looking ugly as fuck and completely unnecessary unless you want your game to cater to DSP.

>>723869101
Kek

While you wait for the release, grab a shmup from the pack post and see how far you can get:
https://archive.org/details/mature-dot-dodging-games-gaiden-v-1.0.7z
I will be recommending you Sengoku Blade.

Bomb.
Thread is actually cool for once.

4 hours left

>>723862708 (OP)
it had better be mushihimesama futari, the lack of a modern port for it becomes more baffling and infuriating with each passing day, especially when m2 literally did the 360 port

>>723875636
Futari would probably be LiveWire sadly. All the CV1000 stuff has been them. Not that they're BAD ports, it's just obviously not to M2 standards.

Console port.

>>723862708 (OP)
>ps5 exclusive shit em up

>>723877135
DOJ port released 3 years after the PS5 came out, I don't see why they'd stop making them for PS4 at this point especially if they're also putting it on Switch/Switch 2.

They're finally going to port Ketsui and DoJ to PC. I can feel it in my bones.

It's going to be Sin and Punishment 3 you watch

>>723862708 (OP)
>October
I swear this is Castlemania-related

>>723878153
What would they even do? All the 2D games have been ported at this point. Maybe the N64 games? But M2 isn't really known for 3D shit.

Bomb

>>723862708 (OP)
They're just going to post 0 and the actual announcement will happen 24 hours later.

Somebody is keeping the hope alive.

>>723878235
The Contra, Gradius, and Castlevania Rebirth games?

>>723882859
Gradius Origins released somewhat recently

it's treasure's turn...

>>723884505
>Let's port the games that already have dozens of ports on every modern platform
Excellent idea I'm sure that will help with M2's profits

Whats the dodonpachi lore, are there LNs or drama CDs or something extra?

>>723862708 (OP)
Werent they making an aleste OG game? or wil this be a completely new announcement we know nothing about? If so hoping for donpachi
>>723876962
oh hell yeah Id love that

>>723870204
mark is going to shit all over the yellow paint and I cant wait
And I dont even care for NG games

The next tweet should be in about an hour

>>723885352
>Whats the dodonpachi lore
tl;dr the dude running Donpachi Corps is a crazy asshole and does things like tricking you into fighting your own allies, also he has a huge bee-shaped flying ship but the actual superweapon is what's inside of it, Hibachi itself.

>>723870204
Is that actually the game? Holy shit Im glad I never cared for that series

>>723885752
So just whats in the games? I was hoping there would be supplementary lore somewhere else, nips used to love that stuff, thanks anyways.

I don't know much about shmups but I picked up mushihimesama this year randomly and it is neat

>>723885851
there are also cyborg dolls inside the ships and they go insane

>>723885851
I don't know any drama CDs or LNs, at best you can read stuff from the artbooks.
Here's Shotia and her "older sisters".

>>723886171
That is pretty cool thanks I gotta grab those artbooks, Ill look on the panda or the archive

>>723870204
>yellow paint
>signal lights
>yellow ramps
I prefer to imagine that it's a parody or something like that. The Japanese are kind of making fun of Western game design philosophy or something like that.

>>723885882
Its a pretty good one

>>723886512
It's kinda basic but if you just want to shoot, dodge a lot of bullets and hear a cute girl say "bomb" then yeah sure

>>723886372
Resident evil 4 Remake invented the yellow paint I think, its entirely a japanese thing

I like all games where you shoot stuff: fps, shmups, pinball.

they didn't post anything
what the fuck

>>723887894
Bomb their HQ

>https://x.com/M2_game/status/1981014411361013905
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3290390/NIGHT_STRIKER_GEAR/
Who was expecting Star Fox?

>>723888462
Alright thread's over.
Star Fox? Nah, I thought they were going for one of these big arcade shmups that don't have a modern port yet, like DDP

>>723888462
Damn, this would have been fucking dope to add stereo-3D support to.

>>723877840
>Sin and Punishment 3
Congrats, you won. >>723888462 is close enough.

It's fucking nothing

>>723888462
I hate this type of game.
For starters, your own ship/vehicle/character obstructs your view. Then, you can never be 100% sure where the projectiles really are, unless you play with 3D glasses or VR or something like that...
These types of games are, in my opinion, more about spectacle and less about gameplay.

>>723888462
>first thought when seeing a new night striker - original game released in 1989 - is star fox
god i hate tendies so much.

oh it was not a new game
What the fuck
I will grab night striker gear but what the fuck

>>723862708 (OP)
>M2
Who fucking cares, these retards never figured out how to make their spaghetti code work on PC.
What is the fucking point of porting shit from one dead platform to another?

>>723889168
>>723888462
APOLOGIZE

>>723888959
sounds like a you problem

>>723888950
oh so they'll release this original dogshit no one wanted on steam but not garegga/ketsui/esprade/doj. I hate these fucking insolent jap fuckers so much.

>>723886670
I'm new so basic is good for me

>>723888462
well it's fine if it allows more people to discover the original OST

>>723888959
>unless you play with 3D glasses or VR or something like that...
Which was a hell of a missed opportunity for this release.

>>723888462
This is what the countdown was for? I even already have this wishlisted. Where is aleste?

Anyways I will pay the M2 tax and play it later because no one else will.
>Supports Micomsoft's Cyber Stick (reissued) USB controller
lol

>>723889403
Yeah because you don't buy those games. This is a Taito game and all Taito m2 releases are on steam.

https://youtu.be/rZmVWXz1ZLM
Gameplay footage surfacing