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House of the Dead 1 & 2 Remakes incoming
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Are there any PS4 games that support the gun controller but aren't in VR? If not, this should definitely be the first.
You never played the game on Dreamcast? You can play just fine without a lightgun. Of course it won’t feel the “same”, but it’s still an enjoyable experience.
The original Xbox supported a light gun controller so I imagine the ps4 can't be that hard, especially since it's basically already built into every controller for it through the lightbar and move controls
Yeah I can see joycon working with this, but some peeps own an XBox or PS console and at the least they would need to hold their controllers which might not be as comfortable or convenient as using a lightgun.
Im hoping these are just the original games but upressed, HotD 2 without the original voice acting just isnt House of the Dead 2
They're not exactly doing a stellar job with Panzer Dragoon, so I fear this is another "the low budget is what Sega wanted to hear" pitch. Which is a shame compared to top of the line stuff like Sonic Mania, Streets of Rage 4 and both Wonderboy: The Dragons Trap and Monster Boy.
Also, while the guns used in HOTD 3 and 4 had some amount of Tactile Feedback, the guns used for HOTD1 and 2 had no feedback other than the feeling of actually pulling the trigger- they weren't like Namco's guns at the time that had physical movement to them. I don't see why a Move/Joycon wouldn't work for these
Love both of these games, with or without light guns. And would love to try them with gyro aiming.
1 and 2's were standard handgun style lightguns. 3's is a shotgun and 4's is a submachine gun. That said, all the lightguns made for the home port of 3 are just handguns. Scarlet Dawn has that Time Crisis thing going on but iirc it's still a handgun
That Xbox gun is an entirely different set of technology. Lightbar (Wii/Move) guns work completely differently, and are serviceable but definitely don't feel the same.The original Xbox supported a light gun controller so I imagine the ps4 can't be that hard, especially since it's basically already built into every controller for it through the lightbar and move controls
Didn't they already make a lightgun grip for the wiimote?
Didn’t Sega lose the source code for the original HOTD?
Did they do the same trickery that led to the Phantom Dust remaster for Xbox One or what?
Did they do the same trickery that led to the Phantom Dust remaster for Xbox One or what?
Yea, but it doesn't change how the Wii reads the input.
The old Xbox/HotD/Duck Hunt/etc. technology involving flashing white light on the screen that would be read by sensors in the gun controller. Modern displays don't refresh fast enough for this to work, so it basically makes that technology impossible. It's why you can't hook a NES up via HDMI and play Duck Hunt with the Zapper. Won't work.
The Wii and Move use positional tracking via the sensor bar/camera, which functions more like a mouse that you drag around the screen. So you can kind of simulate the experience, but it's a bit slower and less accurate.
...it's on PC? I thought only the PS3 and Wii versions existed.
Well shit.
I'd welcome ports in a heartbeat but I'm less interested in remakes, especially if these are just Switch/Xbox/PS4/flatscreen-PC.
The exception would be remakes on PCVR or Quest, which would slightly justify reworking the game a bit more. I think the ideal situation for me would be a VR release that maintained the game logic and assets of the arcade originals.
The exception would be remakes on PCVR or Quest, which would slightly justify reworking the game a bit more. I think the ideal situation for me would be a VR release that maintained the game logic and assets of the arcade originals.
It's at the point where I absolutely do not take these announcements at face value until I at least see media. I'm assuming this is an asset-replacement port like Panzer Dragoon.
For everyone who feels like there is hardly a proper way to play this genre nowadays, you might want to check out the Sinden Lightgun that should start shipping soon.
Not quite the case. There's a Silent Scope rifle for the OG Xbox that also functioned as a shotgun for House of the Dead 3. Worked great.
I also had a 100hz compatible baretta style light gun for the OG Xbox. Shame more games weren't ported to that console from the Dreamcast.
The lack of light gun games is the biggest tragedy of the non-CRT TV era for me. Sensors, psmove, wii remotes and VR haven't been able to match a correctly calibrated light gun with a CRT.
We'll get back there one day. Then I'll finally get a home port of Virtua Cop 3.
Dave and Busters still has 2 3 4 and Scarlet Dawn cabinets iirc. The last time I saw a cabinet for 1 was on my college campus a few years back, but the calibration was so screwed up that it wasn't playable.
I want my home port of the Star Wars trilogy game
It’s been a while since I beat VC3 in arcades, but I do remember that game having some real nasty slowdown at one point, and I had to check to see if my foot was on the Bullet Time Pedal. Weird, because it used the same hardware as HOTD3.
