Tendo City

Wait, is there like a co-op campaign this time around? Cool'd!

Looks like it.

Awesome! Well, even though I can't imagine any sort of situations where cooperation would be required, not at the moment anyway, I still think it's cool! Right now, the only thing I can think of is reaching a total combined size by the end of the timer, but I'm hoping there are special things that only coop can manage.

Co-op play? I don't know how that'll work exactly but it probably be really cool!

Maybe you're racing to get bigger than your opponent and you can steal stuff from his Katamari ball, eventually picking the ball itself up :D.

Or maybe two players have to control one katamari together. That would be crazy-cool.

But how? HOOOOOWW"D? And how long before one of them just says "screw it" and removes the other person from like, da game.

Maybe it's like a reverse tug of war? Like a... push of war? I dunno...

It could work. I've always loved the idea of a multiplayer game where separate players control one thing. Miyamoto talked about this idea, with the example of a game where four people controlled separate limbs of a puppet and had to walk around the interact with the game world. It sounds like it would be tough, but there are ways to make it intuitive.

It'd be a real hoot, for sure.

In some of those pics it looked like two characters were controller one katamari.

Yeah.

Yes, the ones with two controllers shown on the bottom, but just one ball, definitely appear to be co-op... but how it'd work I have no idea.

In Katamari Damashii you use both analog sticks to move, so player one could be the left stick and player two the right one.

How do two analog sticks control one object? The only way I've seen for dual-stick-single-object control is tank-style (two motors, one per "tread", so that both forward means forward, both back means back, one up and the other down turns -- like Vindicators or Toobin' in Midway Arcade Treasures. Or my old RC car. :) ... or that optional dual-controller control scheme for Star Wars Racer.)

I'm sure they'll figure out how to make it work.

A Black Falcon Wrote:How do two analog sticks control one object? The only way I've seen for dual-stick-single-object control is tank-style (two motors, one per "tread", so that both forward means forward, both back means back, one up and the other down turns -- like Vindicators or Toobin' in Midway Arcade Treasures. Or my old RC car. :) ... or that optional dual-controller control scheme for Star Wars Racer.)

Just like RC cars and some racing games, yes.

Bubba you really need to buy a PS2 and play the game.

ABF, that's exactly how you control the katamari. They just removed the treads part. It's the same thing though. You tilt one up and the other down, the prince runs around the katamari, which is the same as turning a tank. You tilt both up, he pushes it. You tilt both down, he pulls it. Tilt one up and leave the other alone, he circles the katamari, but slower. So yeah, it's the same as controlling a tank or something like that, it's just the animation that's different here (that and turning lets the Katamari stand still). Also, keep in mind the ball's inertia, so turning while moving is still pretty easy.

Duel control of one ball, as I mentioned before, I wonder exactly how that will work? They had better come up with something clever for it, because if it's just two people in the single player campaign, I have a hard time seeing myself in that mode for long before just playing by myself :D. But hey, if they work at it they could actually make a multiplayer mode that's worth playing for more than 5 minutes. Perhaps instead of just having two people controlling the two sticks (which I can do already come to think of it with the first one :D), they could have something unique the second player does. Maybe the second person runs around the katamari smoothing it out while the first rolls around? I dunno...

Quote:Just like RC cars and some racing games, yes.

Bubba you really need to buy a PS2 and play the game.

If I had that kind of money I'd think about it... but as it is when I get money I spend it on games. Buy an expensive console and a big chunk of my year's money is gone... so why not just get more games for the systems I do have?

Quote:ABF, that's exactly how you control the katamari. They just removed the treads part. It's the same thing though. You tilt one up and the other down, the prince runs around the katamari, which is the same as turning a tank. You tilt both up, he pushes it. You tilt both down, he pulls it. Tilt one up and leave the other alone, he circles the katamari, but slower. So yeah, it's the same as controlling a tank or something like that, it's just the animation that's different here (that and turning lets the Katamari stand still). Also, keep in mind the ball's inertia, so turning while moving is still pretty easy.

Some people don't like this control scheme, but probably because of that RC car I'm used to it and think it works well, for some games... Toobin' I'll admit is a major pain to control, but Vindicators is fun. :) One-up-other-down is always fun (spin in circles)...

I mean, I was thinking, this doesn't appear to be a game with some other kind of dual-analog controls ('run in one direction and shoot in another' (Robotron, etc) -- 'one is movement other camera' isn't applicable because, well, camera controls aren't movement... :))

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preview.

I love the new title.

It's funny...

yes...

Everybody Loves Hypnotoad.

Everybody Loves Raymond?

No, EVERYBODY LOVES HYPNOTOAD!

Hypnotoad: *hypnotizes everyone via the TV show, and doesn't do anything else* buuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzzz

... even hypnotized, this show is AWESOME and all, but it's sort of lost it's... pizzas...

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Dark Jaguar Wrote:No, EVERYBODY LOVES HYPNOTOAD!

Hypnotoad: *hypnotizes everyone via the TV show, and doesn't do anything else* buuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzzz

... even hypnotized, this show is AWESOME and all, but it's sort of lost it's... pizzas...

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