Dreamcast: Last Hope

[kainemaxwell]

http://www.lasthope.ngdevteam.com/

Did anyone here pre-order this DC title?

[jeffg]

i just did the other day.

[weirdguy]

I pre-ordered Last Hope, Trigger Heart and Karous on friday.

[Vectorman0]

The gameplay is supposed to be pretty decent, and the whole game is supposed to be impressive for an independent release. Of course, this depends on the port of it being true to the original.

I don't think I will get it right away, but hopefully see if I can try someone elses first. If I like it, then I will certainly pick it up.

[kainemaxwell]

The gameplay is supposed to be pretty decent, and the whole game is supposed to be impressive for an independent release. Of course, this depends on the port of it being true to the original.

I don't think I will get it right away, but hopefully see if I can try someone elses first. If I like it, then I will certainly pick it up.

I want to hear some reviews first before ordering this myself. Graphics looks like that from the R-type series, gameplay like SCAT for the NES or a horizontal Space Harrier.

[jpark203]

I preordered it in November, but switched over to the limited edition last week. They say you can adjust the speed and frequency of enemy shots in the DC version. I'm hoping that literally means what it sounds like and isn't just another standard easy/normal/hard system.

[Kamisama]

I preordered the LE aswell. And yes it's true that you can make the game easier like that. I've already played it

[Hwj_Chim]

I have had my preorder in since November, I can't wait for it.

[VACRMH]

Where can I preorder the LE dreamcast edition? I only see Neo Geo for sale.

[kainemaxwell]

Where can I preorder the LE dreamcast edition? I only see Neo Geo for sale.

Can't pre-order the LE anymore, but get the reg from play-asia:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...e-70-1lza.html

[Vectorman0]

I want to hear some reviews first before ordering this myself. Graphics looks like that from the R-type series, gameplay like SCAT for the NES or a horizontal Space Harrier.

It's a long thread with a ton of BS to wade through, but there are a few people's take on the game here: http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134414

[mr_nihilism]

Pre-ordered it last week. Looks good.

[Captain Wrong]

It's a long thread with a ton of BS to wade through, but there are a few people's take on the game here: http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134414

Between the screen filling "signatures" and the NG drama, I can't take that thread. Can we get a Reader's Digest version?

[CosmicMonkey]

Yeah, I had the normal version on pre-order, but I changed to the LE version too.

Also have the Sega Direct LE of Exelica on preorder, just waiting to see if they do a LE of Karous.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Between the screen filling "signatures" and the NG drama, I can't take that thread. Can we get a Reader's Digest version?

Yeah, seriously. Why wasn't I surprised to see that the thread was 60 pages of drivel? I gave up on neo-geo.com a long time ago.

Besides, aside form the fact that it's neo-geo.com, any reviews of the game in that thread would be from people who bought the $700 Neo Geo cart version of the game and I don't think their opinions would be trustworthy on the matter. Such a person would most likely be ridiculously rich and rich people completely lack the ability to judge value and quality from my experiences. Or if they're not rich, they had to scrimp and save for months to afford the cart, in which case their impressions of the game would be way too heavily skewed by the money they paid to be meaningful.

I haven't pre-ordered the game yet myself, but I'm right on the verge of it. I'd like to wait and see some impressions from people who didn't spend $700 on it, but I'm afraid that there won't be any more copies available by then. What a conundrum. I'd like to support the developers anyway, so I guess I should just get it. At least it's a little cheaper than the Japanese DC shooters coming out these days and probably as good as either of the other upcoming ones anyway.


...word is bondage...

[lordnikon]

I have yet to pre-order Last Hope. The videos of the game show it running with no collision detection except for the force bit absorbing enemy fire. The ship doesn't get destroyed from enemy bullets, and the ship's fire doesn't destroy any enemies.

If this is what the developers needed to do to make a preview movie of the game, I question the gameplay. I have a feeling once you remove the "well it is an independent title" excuses, the game will feel clunky and inconsistant from a gameplay perspective.

[Muscelli]

Such a person would most likely be ridiculously rich and rich people completely lack the ability to judge value and quality from my experiences.

what you said is completely wrong. Wealthier people just have a different standard on materialistic items, and actually look at value and quality as well. Anybody who wears higher end clothes knows what I am talking about.

[roushimsx]

If this is what the developers needed to do to make a preview movie of the game, I question the gameplay. I have a feeling once you remove the "well it is an independent title" excuses, the game will feel clunky and inconsistant from a gameplay perspective.

I'm in pretty much the same boat as you with this one. While I've really enjoyed Milestone and Warashi's past games enough to drop the chunk of change on preorders for their latest titles, Last Hope is from an unknown and all of the currently released material make it seem so...so totally not worth the $40 they're looking to charge.

I would love to be proven wrong and for the gameplay to really be rather solid and not a broken mess, but I really don't see the chances of that being very high. The graphics are pretty snazzy, though.

[Ze_ro]

I'm a sucker for the Dreamcast shooters... but question: If I go to play-asia right now and pre-order Last Hope, Trigger Heart Exelica, and Karous... will they wait until Karous is released and send me all three at once, or will they end up sending me three seperate packages? Frankly, I'd be perfectly happy waiting a couple months if it means I get to pay 1/3rd the shipping price...

--Zero

[fishsandwich]

I'm a sucker for the Dreamcast shooters... but question: If I go to play-asia right now and pre-order Last Hope, Trigger Heart Exelica, and Karous... will they wait until Karous is released and send me all three at once, or will they end up sending me three seperate packages? Frankly, I'd be perfectly happy waiting a couple months if it means I get to pay 1/3rd the shipping price...

--Zero

You have to make three separate orders and pay three separate full shipping charges if you want to get each game as it comes out. If you want to save on shipping you order all three on one order and they will ship all the games once the final game is released.