Arcade: 1942: Joint Strike

re: Arcade: 1942: Joint Strike

Etrian — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:02:04 GMT

"Xbox should be the platform that just about everyone respects."

No, the xbox community is evident from the childish comments seen on a daily basis in this blog. Zero respect for anything because you can't please everyone.

ESPECIALLY them 360 owners.

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Celoxamortis — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:24:55 GMT

Sigh, I regretted blowing 800 points on this about 30 minutes after buying it.

I seem to remember the original 1942 taking much longer to complete. In fact, I'm certain of it because I have the original sitting here, playable in MAME32. Sure, this new one is pretty, it's widescreen and it has the nifty 2 players. Big whoop, when two players can finish it in about 30 minutes there's no incentive to go back other than achievements.

"It's about score.", true, but after beating it a couple times in a row and increasing your score, the appeal is gone. All the hype for this game (eg. releasing a trailer for it a MONTH ago), and the 800MP price point, made it sound like it was going to be much longer than it was. Instead it's short and gimmicky.

As for the menu system, Capcom needs to fire whoever designed it. Nothing like having to wait 2-5 seconds between screens for the silhouette planes to do their thing. It's particularly egregious when you have to unpause the game. Unpause the game..... wait 5 seconds for the planes to go by.. THEN you can play again.

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racingfreak92 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:26:11 GMT

Microsoft pressures developers into setting prices and makes them stick to $5 increments which is bullshit, if they wanna charge $6 or $2 or $4 or $8 let them.

And youngbuck is right, the menu animations are retarded, why put that in? It takes like 2 seconds to play, it just wastes time

re: Arcade: 1942: Joint Strike

Surly Yerby — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:34:03 GMT

People really will complain about anything these days.

"You'll lose what little respect you had with gamers" -- are you kidding me? Xbox should be the platform that just about everyone respects. Its the only platform with a solid lineup this holiday. MS delivers lots and lots of content.

As far as the whole price thing on this game goes, vote with your dollars. If you think its too expensive don't buy it and then moan and whine about it. I don't even think Microsoft sets the prices on these things -- its likely the developer or Capcom.

re: Arcade: 1942: Joint Strike

Somebody — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:46:07 GMT

Bionic Commando: ReArmed come ount next week (July 30th) for 800p. http://watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20080723/bcmd.htm It looks like it also sports native 1080p.

re: Arcade: 1942: Joint Strike

ShadowHunter — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:08:49 GMT

WOW...what a HUGE disappointment this game turned out to be. I was very excited to hear it was coming to 360, another classic!! But, only after playing the demo I know it doesn't even come close to the original. Yes..Yes..I know, it's only the demo - but in this case, seems the shoe fits perfectly . I can see maybe costing 400 points, realistically, only 200. :(

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R0YB0T — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:17:22 GMT

400 points would be appropriate for this title. It looks and plays great, but cmon now. $10 for 5 levels of a remake from 1984?

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Come on! — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:27:12 GMT

This is getting so bad. Clearly this game is only worth 400 points. It might be making a buttload of cash for MS now, but in the long run people are going to jerry that is is all a big rip off and ms will lose what little respect it had with it's gamers. People are paying you enough as it is MS, don't ripp them off more!!

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YoungBuck219 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:56 GMT

The menu animation is keeping me from buying this game. It gets annoying real fast.

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John — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:06:55 GMT

Most shooters take about as long as this one.. There are not 30 levels in prior 1942s. it's about score.

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racingfreak92 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:26:56 GMT

@Anon 2: This is a new game in the 19XX series, the levels havent been seen in any 19XX game released yet

@Anon 4: 1942 isnt the best arcade shooter to look at for level content, it ha 32 levels yes, but 75% of the content was recycled

It is lame that there are 5 levels and now that ive beaten the game i am pretty disappointed, the game does wrong what past ones havent. Capcom should have developed the game instead of Foundation 9, they just make mediocre games

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57953 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:16:10 GMT

800 points? no rip-off finished it on my first play, took less than half an hour

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xKogen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:15:55 GMT

I still cannot believe they made it only 5 levels.

In the arcade version, you get 32... I was expecting that.

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Galrikh — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:32:59 GMT

I like this game, it's like the old one on Arcade where I spent coin after coin ;)

And it's hard, like the original ;)

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El Boxo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:11:43 GMT

Seeing as how this is a classic game being re-done, shouldn't it only cost 400 ms points? Doesn't seem like it has much in the way of content given the price

re: Arcade: 1942: Joint Strike

Wolf76 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:26:48 GMT

Yes! Yes! Yes! :)