26th January 2011, 10:39 PM
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A Black Falcon Wrote:<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text/html\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-JSCdhpUH2Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
(Also played at many hockey games, perhaps also other arena sports too)
(The original Japanese version of the game had a completely different, traditional shmup soundtrack, but Activision removed that in favor of 2 Unlimited for the US release. It makes it sound quite different from other SNES shmups for sure... it's kind of bizarre, playing a shmup to that music, but it's real! :))
Quote:I wasn't at all ready for this!Insulting? How so? To the original composer perhaps, but other than that, how so?
Really though, that's crazy localization there, and pretty insulting. That really does give a weird flavor to that game, which I gotta give credit to, uses enemy attacks OTHER than the standard "bullets everywhere" every now and then.
Quote:I always found it funny that those types of games always cram in a glass canon. It is odd how you've got this state of the art super-ship, except in reality it's just a fly that can be swatted out of the air in one hit that has to collect other weapons just to get powerful enough to kill things decently.Well they're usually prototype ships, perhaps they haven't perfected the armor yet?
Quote:It's kinda like how the manuals and story of Starcraft go into detail on how amazingly advanced your marines are, except they are really just pathetic cannon fodder you'll never really care about.That's true, yeah. At least there was that thing about how the presence of medics increases average battle survival time by some small number of seconds or something...
Quote:Etoven's the one that asked about the story, not I.I know, I was replying to both of you.
Quote:I know the stories are just excuses to blow things up in these games.Yeah, I think that's all you need in this kind of thing. :)
Quote: I still think the acronym "shmup" is downright bizarre, even by video game standards. I also forgot what it stands for...shoot 'em up, shortened.
Quote:Anyway, by insulting I mean it's insulting to think some marketing team (and we all know it WAS a marketing decision) thought that we Americans would only bother to buy the game if it had some random popular song licensed into it. It's that standard sort of thing that resulted in Final Fantasy 13's main theme song getting replaced by that cliche "My Hands" pop song (yet another strike against a game that the Japanese developers had already done enough to, at least the next game in this... game... looks fun).It wasn't just a single song though, it was a whole soundtrack, remixes of most or all of the songs from that CD. You are right though, about their reasoning (that they did it for higher sales because of the group's popularity at the time). I don't think this music is worse really though, just different... might even be better, I'm not sure.