Time Crisis and the GunCon - The Best Light Gun series of All-Time? / MY LIFE IN GAMING
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Coury takes a look at the games in Namco's Time Crisis series. Ranging from the PlayStation 1 to the PlayStation 3 and beyond, Time Crisis is one of Namco's longest running series with entries going all the way back to 1995.
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I'm surprised sony has yet to beg namco to make a new times crisis for VR. I mean the game basically feels like it would be at home at VR
I know this is an old comment, but on PC VRigade is pretty much Time Crisis in VR and I'd definitely recommend checking it out
Oh wow what an idea. Release the collection on it.
THEN ITS COOL BECAUSE ITS LIKE YOUR BATTLING WILD DOG IN REAL LIFE!!!!
@@Tallyanyer I think that microwave was talking about a psvr exclusive. But yes your right.
The genre really did shift to VR didn't it? Not to say that's a bad thing at all. Having on rail shooters nowadays on other platforms is questionable. The market for that is even lower considering the peripherals you need on a TV. It is cheaper, but most people aren't gonna get a peripheral for one specific genre
I've been rocking the Time Crisis games literally since the very first game and love them so damn much. The first game being cheesy as hell with the voice acting but fun with all the action scenes. All the way up to the PS3 versions. On rail shooters are a dying genre for console gamers which sucks pretty bad. But if Namco busted out Time Crisis 5 with all the extras like they typically do for a home release and give us a proper Guncon 4 then I'd be all for it just like I have been the past 3 generations.
I'm with you. I have almost every major light gun game from the 32-bit era and up. I even have Elemental Gearbolt on PSone which is really cool but quite hard. Virtua Cop and House of the Dead was king up until Time Crisis came out for me. After that Time Crisis took the crown and hasn't been dethroned since. Sadly the PS3 and Wii era was the dying days for light gun games. I remember when the Guncon 3 came out I was really excited for a resurgence of rail gun shooters but after the release of TC4 nothing else came ever came out for it except for Razing Storm... Lol.
Time crisis 3 has two coolest handsomes and one hot girl as protagonist
I always though richard was the guy saying: ACTION! and RELOAD!
AlphaOmegaSin when will they port tc5 to ps4???
KewieCRC420 There was House of the Dead 4 for the PS3
Time Crisis, Virtua Cop and The House of the Dead tie for top spot in my opinion.
@@WHIPTY Under Fire isnt bad compared to Area51/Lethal Enforcers, and Dead Angle is good for its time albeiit super old. There's Gundblade/La Machineguns too
Nice breakdown! Also worth mentioning: In Japan, Time Crisis got a PS2 release as part of Namco's Gunvari Collection, which was Point Blank 1-3 and Time Crisis on one PS2 disc!
Time Crisis 3 does support the original gun con, that's the way I played it back in the day, Alicia's sniping sections are a pain though and I could never finish that mode (you have to shoot the arrows to look around)
17:25 I'm not sure that's how clothes work.
You guys deserve sooo many more subs.
They'll get there. The production value of their videos is amazing.
Kenny Lust
I agree. You're like the Captain Disillusion of video game reviews- well-editied, entertaining videos that deserve more credit than they get.
support game sack too
Gamesack and My life in gaming are the two best shows I have ever watch on youtube. To me they are what COMPILE and TECHNOSOFT were to videogames, not necessarily the most popular but definetely the very best.
Thank you
+Rynex since Game Sack is taking a break from making videos, I hope Game Sack fans flock over here to get their retro vidya youtubing
+Rynex [Coury] The guys (and gal!) at GameSack are a huge inspiration to us, which is probably very evident. To have our show be named next to theirs really means a lot!
Rynex cgr is awesome too
It's been a long time since i've watched them. They used to be my favorite channel though and I have some very fond memories of watching cgr on my wii.
I love watching your videos, no matter what subject you cover. I'm not big on shooters other than House of the Dead, but this opened my eyes to Time Crisis. Your dedication to the craft is outstanding - you're still my favorite TH-cam channel. Keep up the great work!!!
+8bitDNA [Coury] Thanks! Its always fun to be able to do videos like this on series that haven't been heavily covered on TH-cam already.
i can only agree. they could tell me about dolls or railway signals and i would still watch
Time Crisis was one of the best on-rail shooter games with an epic plot and music! I would almost compare the game to how Sega made their games with those elements, namely Sonic Adventure.
Rosseen Glimmer for some reason an obvious plot seemed to make the game a lot better.... probably because of the castle because it didn’t seem possible for an individual to do it.
This is my favourite game ever. I loved everything about the game since 2014. I had the PS1 version with the gun controller. I find the gun controller better.
What about you. What would you rank it??
@@mylifeingaming is there a way to use a controller for the foot pedal trick for time crisis 3 and crisis zone ?
17:30 she rips off her shirt to reveal even more clothes than can be plausibly be concealed by her previous outfit
I played Time Crisis 5 at a Dave & Busters. It's pretty fun. I still prefer the art style of the first two, though.
Jose Romero TC 3's Art style just alurring me at the 1st time I played in the arcade (,and then I played TC2 1th time).
I played it there briefly in Florida
I played it there briefly in Florida.
They could’ve just let you use the D-pad on the second controller or let you move the Sniper Aiming Reticule by aiming the Guncon at the corners of the screen. That would’ve let Time Crisis 3 be playable on the original Guncon.
Just got crises zone boxset and a second gun on order I'm super excited!
I'm so glad time crisis 2 and 3 was ported to the PlayStation 2. The PlayStation 2 was at the point of technology where it had better visuals than the arcade. Both time crisis 2 and 3 on the PS2 had enhanced visuals and extra game modes not present on the arcade. I highly doubt time crisis 2 would ever fit on the PS1 disc, let alone run at a stable frame rate.
Why someone tap the dislike button on this video! I am sure a fan of Virtua Cop gave the dislike! :)
[Coury] the rivalry continues even today!
Dont forget house of the dead
Sega made 4 youtube accounts just to dislike this video
Shhh! Don't tell them...
I love Razing Storm... PS Move works really well for it and the separate navigation controller makes the FPS parts work a lot better
Deadstorm Pirates pretty cool too
The city in #3 looks like Ilios from Overwatch!
or the first day level from sonic unleashed.
I bought the PS3 combo game with Deadstorm Pirates to play with my kids at home. We use the move controller since it is easier for the kids. Now when we get to play the arcade version our quarters last a bit longer lol. I get stuck in the middle with the wheel of course.
Yes! Time Crisis is also my favourite. I get especially nostalgic over Time Crisis 1 and the first controller I had for it came with a foot-pedal and looked like Judge Dredd's gun. I forget who made it.
Is time crisis 2 being played on a BVM? I can't see scan lines...
I got to play 5 at Dave and Busters in NYC. It was kinda hard to get used to the two foot peddles. I made it up to the first boss and died. I would have continued but the price to play one game is really expensive. I really wish Sega would have shown the same love for Virtua Cop like Namco does with Time Crisis. Virtua Cop 3 is one of my personal favorites but it seems like it'll never make it to a console.
Wild Dog's durability shares to the T-800 can survive explosion
I used to plug in a controller into port two so I could use my big toe to hit the circle button, it made it like the arcade. I played this game every day from August 1998 (when I got it for my birthday) until I got House of the Dead 2 on my Dreamcast. 9/9/1999 was an amazing day.
Time Crisis feels like a love from a past life. I remember playing the games down the arcade with my little brother, playing the PlayStation 1 games at a friends and eventually grabbing my own copies that quickly became the most played games on the system.
TC2 was pretty much the reason I picked up the ps2. I remember first seeing the G-Con 2 in a pokey little store 30 miles away during a trip to Norwich... I had to have it.
I'm pretty sure I own TC3 but for some reason just don't remember it =\
TC4 was OK... I never got the G-Con with mine... eventually it got patched to work with the move so that was my only way of playing it.
I would love to get a TC2 arcade setup for my garage which the huge screens... never going to happen... but I can dream.
Thanks for taking me back to the days when one if my favorite styles of games... was king of the arcade (at least at my locals)
Man I played the hell out of the first three, and they were so much fun. I particularly like the area complete theme so much because it feels like I accomplished something like a badass.
I played the first three too. I wanted 4, but my brother chose microshit instead.
I actually saw a time crisis 2 arcade machine weeks ago, it's sorta weird honestly.
the blowback on the gun controllers there feels like heaven I swear
That was the main problem with TC1, bullets that hit you were unmarked. So it was impossible to dodge. You just had to be fast.
TC2 Arcade was also MUCH harder than the PS2 version, most notably due to the decrease in graphics (bullets are a bit harder to spot) but also, Wild Dog's bullets didn't give out a pulse when they were about to hit you.
Also, Alan and Wesley were the best :D
The first time I saw the hammer slide back during a shootout at the arcade, I said, that's the hardest pink and baby blue guns I ever saw.
I'd love to see ports of this series to PSVR with support for Move and the Aim controller.
The Guncon FPS mode in TC4 wasn't thaaaat bad......
Just beat the game today without losing a life :)
You, my friend, are a GOD
at beating Time Crisis!
Love the cinematography of your series, really nice and clear. Keep goin' on!
Man, one tip for you: If you want to play the PS2 lightgun guncom games whit a Guncom 45, then just unlock the region limitation of you PS2 with a modchip (matrix infinity better) and buy the cheap PAL versions. The games included not only Guncom45 and Guncom 2 compatibilty , but also Pal 60hz option, so it will not be slow like many supossed. Also if the game doesnt support pal 60 natively, you can force it properly with the Matrix chip. BTW you will need a CRT TV that supports PAL and NTSC, or maybe a signal convertor, but I bet you already have the solution. This will also help you in ordr to buy an dcollect PAL exclusives and some games that offered better options and prices in the european market. Like Project Zero 3 with progressive option or a much cheaper Haunting Ground copie with the same quality. (It also add some times, more language options for non native english speakers).
can you use a gcon 45 and a gcon 2 for double gun mode?
Perfect review!!! Just got 2 Guncons and Time crisis 1 for my Studio, can’t wait to play!! I remember time crisis from our local movie theatre, always had a line to play.
The Guncon 3 deserves way more credit than it gets, it's accuracy is amazing. It's features and quality of games are the best the series has to offer. Even the FPS mode is not nearly as bad as people say. I think it's just they are so dam good at making arcade shooters that other modes can't live up to it.
That Rising Storm Time Crisis game looks like it's timeCrisis crossed with Neo Contra...
I remember playing Crisis Zone in an arcade once, sadly I did not know what I was doing, as my only light gun experience was Virtua Cop 2, House of the Dead 2 and 3, something with dinosaurs by Sega and CryTek and the NES classics, so I lost.
I wonder if the machine is still there, I want to give it another shot now that I know what it's about.
Thank you very much for this awesome showcase!
Honestly, I don't use guncon 3 for the fps in Time Crisis 4. I use a standard controller for the fps and guncon 3 for the arcade mode.
just picked up a guncon 3 set, can't wait to try it out, I think its a better option than the ps move because you don't have to worry about charging it or if the battery will die out, worth it if you just want to play time crisis on ps3
Hi there I have all these games anyone know if the guncon-45 will work with timecrisis 3 or is it just 1-2 it will work with? Thanks
Oh boy. I remember getting a CRT AND a VCR (PS2 hooked up to VCR using composite and CRT hooked up to VCR using coax?) all to get my light gun working. Ironically, I was better with the controller than the light gun, probably due to my hand eye co-ordination. The first time I ever saw/knew about Time Crisis was in Turkey where I saw a single player (PS2 with ingenious system) arcade machine. I sucked at the game, but that was my first taste.
They should make an HD Remastered Time Crisis for PS5, XBOX, and Switch.
This plus the Point Blank series is all you'll ever need for your light gun and trusty CRT.
It's a shame that light guns are no more. The pointing devices on everything from the Wii to Rift just don't provide the light gun feel.
To be fair, it is a niche genre. Though there are modern day solutions now, they are pretty expensive. Still love the genre though
now that house of the dead is coming back , its time for time crisis to make a comeback for home consoles / pc , gaming for me feels empty without a good rail shooter
Absolutely love TIme Crisis 2 and 3. Spent many quarters on the arcade machines for those two games.
1 thing i hate about tc5 is that the boss fight is really short if you spam shot the boss. atlease in tc 1 the bosses move fast, but in tc5 the boss have little health and not really moving fast.
Evan's hair is still cool.
meh, unless its a real lightfun, these games feel like crap to play. fingers crossed on sinden being good.
I recall a Time Crisis game for ps3 costing a fortune. These games actually look fun, thanks for the info.
Guys this video was Rank S+++! Thanks for Time Crisis nostalgia ;D
I miss Time Crisis 2 in the arcade.. I was able to play through on just one credit... Sometimes not even losing a life!
I found light gun games are a very underrated they haven't gotten too high in cost if you look in the right places
I played Time Crisis 2 a lot with my brother in the arcades, it was so awesome, definitely one of my favorite on rail shooters. I like House of the Dead to, but Time Crisis has a very special place in my heart.
one of my favorite genre, I had so much fun with this series, and other GunCon games. If you never played it, Elemental Gearbot on the PS1 is awesome with the GunCon. its a reason to keep CRTs around :)
That deluxe edition it came with was crazy. Silver metal suitcade with a golden light gun. Crazy expensive in the aftermarket.
The Time Crisis games were awesome. Another great lightgun game made by Namco was Point blank.
I remember playing the spin off game in this series at the arcade. Crisis Zone.
Amazing Production - this is the kind of Episode I would watch more than once!
Now there's a game series that I've never heard of... It must be because I never play light gun games...
+Ruko Michiharu well, same here! not really good at them , but they are really fun to play!
Give it a try you will like it
I’d heard of them, but never played them. It was actually the same day I first watched this that I tried my copy of Time Crisis for the first time, and loved it! (Although I couldn’t beat the third act of stage 1, on normal.) I got given the gun, game, and PS1 at Christmas 2018, from my uncle who no longer needed his PS1. Surprisingly, I tried to game at random because I thought I remembered the title from an arcade years ago, and then saw the video a few hours later.
Loved my Guncon 2 back in the day, the PAL version was blue. Great looking gun.
Mr Fancy Pants That sounds cool. I’ve just got the Guncon, which still grey.
No mate pal version was grey. Sega had blue stunner
@Brian Lawrence the first one was grey the PS2 guncon 2 was blue. I had it.
Wild Dog is my arch-nemesis! that asshole has consumed countless quarters when i was younger!!!
I really miss the light gun games
This video has been a trip down memory lane my brother and i played these games when we were kids good times 👍
Point Blank is better in my opinion, it's just fun for a longer time and more varied
I loved Time Crisis 2 on the the PS2 and still have the game and GunCon. I have a small portable CRT but it's way too small for shooting games. I do use my PS2 all the time though on my 32" LCD tv & it's good playing some of the old classics like 'Jaws' the game and remember sports title 'Come on Baby'. Yeh me either. as both are rubbish.
Great episode, informative and I very much like your style of humor.
great Video.
Virtua Cop 3 and Lost World need a home port...
I fell in love with Time Crisis from the first moment I played it in the Arcade. Once I had money as a teenager i started collecting the home console versions and all the gcons to go along with them. The home console versions are great, but nothing beats the feeling of playing the arcade version, getting your best friend and playing the two-player mode and having each others backs. The foot pedal on the arcade version was so intuitive, and I remember that the guns on the Time Crisis 2 cabinets had the pistol slide that would actually pull back with serious force whenever you fired a shot. This is one of my favourite videos from you guys. Well done Coury.
Great video, Corey.
I love lightgun shooters, but being a SEGA fanboy, always stuck with SEGA lightgun games. I've only just got into the original Time Crisis and am really enjoying it. Your video helped me to see I need to check out the rest of the series.
Thanks for recommending the Razing Storm collection. I hate war-based shooters, but the arcade mode in Razing Storm is actually pretty fun despite the godawful, generic dialogue and lack of character. Time Crisis 4 is great fun and Deadstorm Pirates is easily the best game in the collection, with that zaniness that's usually characteristic of SEGA lightgun games.
What was your exact set-up for getting good quality lightgun gameplay recorded? Did you use one of those rgb scart passthru adaptors that also extracts av composite & s-video (like the one on retrogaminguk site)? this way you record the RGB feed as you do through Framemeister and have the av feed going to the tube tv? Something I been curious on lately for the Sega Saturn Virta Cop games, and something I can test when one of those adaptors comes in the mail. As you'd expect - running the game thru framemeister and hdmi out to a splitter, one cable going to an hdmi to composite box wont work. analog to digital to analog again ;p was worth a shot for less than $10 on that hdmi to av box.
MATTKBAN Just a guess from personal experience but since they have a broadcast grade CRT they likely have an RGB out on the back that can be hooked up to a recording device.
That was another option I later realized ;p Not what was done as I messaged and they shared their set-up. Something I got for myself to get this to work is a component distribution amp. One component in to several out. These exist for all cable types and is pretty convenient. I now have double fat ps2's w/link port, Time Crisis 2 and Sony Wega/Trinitron tvs to have the arcade in my living room haha!
MATTKBAN Sounds awesome, may look into that myself.
We had a Time Crisis II Machine in the arcade near me, my old local hangout, but there was only one gun. They took it away, and replaced it with a Raising Storm one, which I never knew had anything to do with Time Crisis until now. They took that away too. Now there's some stupid Emoticon claw machine there.
I use to love time crisis, but did not have a light gun...those memories 😏
we need a updated version of these games that will work on hdtvs
I will admit Sony's official pistol attachment for the PS Move makes the PS Move a bit better for Time Crisis 4. There also a Rifle attachment, but its too cumbersome for Time Crisis.
What is a good TV to play old light gun games on?
I love how in depth you guys go with these videos
why did he not review the last crisis missions?
Coury since you have a Trinitron PVM (might not make a difference what tv) what speakers do you recommend?
Time Crisis remains one of my favourite arcade titles ever, so many fond memories of playing them when on holidays, really wish they'd repackage them for PS4!
Time crisis was the best game when I was a kid
There is another great way to get a good foot pedal on the PS1. Just use one of the steering wheels for driving games on the second port. The foot pedals use the same button layout. What about dancing mats? might be also a solution. Great video, makes me wanna play TC again.
I think I remember the FPS levels in TC4 having an option to put the look controls on the second analog stick, instead of basing it on pointing your gun at the edges of the screen to turn. Once I figured that out they were MUCH more enjoyable....buuuut I wouldn't say I preferred this gameplay style. Overall I love this series, and quite often break out my ps1 or ps2 for some time crisis! (or point blank, vampire night, etc.)
Any other channel would have played the older titles on 16:9 :( Thanks for making all your videos look sweet!
Nexus Wait are they 16:9 compatible? That’s cool.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel No, they aren't.
PS2's _End Game_ lightgun game (speaking for NTSC-U/C) has 16_:_9 aspect ratio support in the game's menu but haven't yet used the lightgun for it on my 4_:_3 CRT set to its widescreen ratio mode. The angle for the field of view _does increase_ , IIRC. 👍 Also, IIRC, none of the beautiful 16_:_9 ratio tube CRT TV's will work with light guns - needs to be of certain models within the 4_:_3 CRT tube hardware (some of the 4_:_3 CRT's are not lightgun-friendly if they have certain specifications or advertised features)
were I could download the intro músic of you show?
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I've played Time Crisis 2 and 4 in the arcades back in my Teen years up to late Teens every Saturday with my mom before she goes to Bingo and then shopping for food. It was fun for me and got hooked to it along with House of the dead 2, 3, and 4, Time Crisis Blazing Storm, Operation G.H.O.S.T, That one game where you have to shoot Sea Creatures who are trying to kill you(can't remember name), Tekken 5-7(arcade versions except Fated Retribution) as those were the ones released in World of Fun, Timezone(yes, it's an arcade name), and Quantum World. Now I don't see them as much often as those were replaced with claw machines, coin pusher slots, Racing Games, Card Trading games(Oreca Battle as the name I can remember), Ocean King 3 games and the only game still standing in arcades and updated rn is Pump It Up. Now I have to use either emulation or just watch it on youtube (cause these consoles aren't worth buying anymore in today's standards as well as PS5 and Xbox One Series S imo) as they're the only ways of enjoying them. Like Time Crisis 4, which is the only gun game standing in the arcades mentioned above, are starting to show their age as they aren't properly maintained by the arcade Technicians.
You missed some more spin off's like Time Crisis strike, 2nd strike and mobile, I wish I could play those spin offs but sadly I heard that they are not as good as the main games, but nice video even though I hate the character design in TC4 and 5.
+ninotimecrisisfan
He's stated in the video he didn't wanted to include mobile games.
+solitonmedic my bad
Instead of using the button at the butt of the grip as a pedal, consider this alternative. If you hold the GunCon 2 the same way that most people are taught to properly grip a real life handgun, your supporting hand's thumb naturally rests on one of the side buttons. (Either A or B depending on whether you're right or left handed. Both buttons do the same thing.) Now to pop out of cover, all you have to do is just squeeze the GunCon 2 with your support hand and relax to go back into cover.
Great work on this video Coury. I got parts 2-4 last night at a local game store. Only thing I wish I would have researched is the external cable that you need to play the game.
At least throw in a mention about how the Namco arcade gun actually worked similar to a real gun-- the rail that covers the barrel would move back an forth after each shot. In your hard, that shit was amazing an really added to the overall effect. I'd randomly press the trigger during menus jus to see it on action lol.
TC5 is available via emulation on PC
PlayStation 1 is good too
Its a shame Namco's Cobra the Arcade never got ported to the PS2 in 2005 when it came out in arcades as its basically anime license Time Crisis. Also shame the series never came to PSVR. I dont expect it to come to PSVR2 either.
I think I heard people say Oculus Quest 2 can run them but eh.
Maybe one day Arcade1up will make a Time Crisis collab cabinet.
Also regarding the Guncon 2, I absolutely detested that bright orange color so I got the Japanese version which is all black; as as well as a mini pistol one also in all black that works just as good.
In Time Crisis 2 me and my cousin did 2 player but we actually did double gun
I just played time crisis 3 at an arcade in holland Michigan called lost city, much nostalgia!
I guess the guncon 1 compatibility was only dropped in the NTSC version? I 100%'d TC3 on the PS2 with my original guncon, including the sniper sections.
And Crisis Zone was called Time Crisis in the US? Ha, was just released as Crisis Zone in the UK.
What Light guns are compatible with Time Crises 2 (PS2Game) and Time Crises 3 (PS2Game) on a PlayStation 3? iI tried using the EMS TopGun 3 and it was horrible to get doesn’t recoil correctly and I had a lot of problems with the recoiling :( and suggestions on LightGuns?
Stellar production quality, as usual. Not gonna lie though, I'm disappointed the Move controller wasn't properly tested and explained. Especially now that we have PSVR, the sharpshooter, that aim controller, etc. 🤔 I think another episode exploring those options might be great 👍