It's strange, it's fine if I'm playing as I expect it but the flashing in a video obviously isn't controlled by me so it has this weird effect, not quite a headache, not quite motion sickness, but it's some weird inbetween.
If I had epilepsy, it would have given me a seizure for sure..... good thing the PC version doesn't have this issue and functions more like your standard railgun shooter.
“At this point, a 20 year old lazy PC port has more options for the player than a 2022 remake does.” This is literally modern gaming summed up in one sentence.
@@javierortiz82 Sports games aren’t really my thing, but I 100% believe that just based on the direction that gaming in general and news about other EA games lmao. This shit is seriously a shame.
I feel like the gaming industry is somehow envolving backward. Aside from a few good tittles and most of the indie's ones, most games nowsaday just feel like watse of storage space and money for me. Especially mobile games. At this rate, I would rather take my old potatoes of a PC out of the warehouse to play my old and owned CD games.
Not only they lack in content department but every AAA must be 50gb at least even if they are most basic games, devs never been as lazy as they are today, even if they delay their games their incompetence will show (cyberpunk, horizon, last cod and bf)
As a diehard HOTD fan, I'm one of those people who wholeheartedly believes this remaster has the potential to be truly awesome on PC with mods. I really enjoy what they have so far, it just needs some polishing work, a music replacement mod, some animation tweaks (ragdolls are a bit funky, the scientists are janky af and the corpses bloating up look terrible), and perhaps most importantly, some hard tweaking to the Chariot and Magician boss battles. I cannot excuse those two. They are appalling. Everything else is nearly 1:1 to the original and I couldn't be happier, tbh. EDIT (05/07/22): After extensive gameplay sessions I can conclude this game is a mess on anything above Normal difficulty. Enemies have randomized damage and reaction times, which is absolute nonsense in a game supposed to reward quick reflexes and careful aim. Some attacks aren't even telegraphed properly and enemies have a tendency to zoom towards you prepping attacks way outside of their range, way faster than you can account for, and some are even completely unavoidable. Arcade mode/Hard on 1CC is nearly impossible as a result. There's no saving this game.
I just wish they would release the older games agian, still makes me salty that they didn't release 4&5 on PC. Japan has always had a weird habit of refusing to make older games available again for some reason... Especially for PC!
@@Taltz100 PC gaming is incredibly niche in Japan. It has a reputation of really only being for porn games. Heck, console gaming is sort of dying over there since everyone's too busy living and dying for their jobs to have hobbies and such.
*Reads title* Well, considering most House of the Dead games are considered Abandonware on PC. Yes, we really needed this. Also, the devs already confirmed House of the Dead 2 is gonna get a remake.
Abandonware games are basically the top of my wishlist, especially that of the PS2 and arcades. Now Klonoa and House of the Dead coming back? Yes, however remasters would also be pretty rad with seeing just as it was back then rather than new graphics and whatnot.
@@Damian_1989 What's conflicting about emulation and pirating for me was how there seems to be no limits or rules as already available games, especially from Indie devs, can be so easily downloaded. Emulating an obscure or well known game that hasn't been on sale for decades? It's relatively fine, I think. But once said game is on sale, whether as a remaster or a remake, I felt like owing to them for making a game I wanted for so long to arrive at last.
I maintain that playing the house of the dead games on the PS3 with the move controllers is a great way to play a lot of these games, and I go back to them often.
By his own admission in this video, he rarely plays Switch. I also don't recall Sega ever sponsoring him. So I think as long as he doesn't piss off Steel Series he's ok. 👌
Can't unsee the "spent ammo" in the bottom of the screen for both players isn't actually spent when its fired. The tips of the bullets (the projectiles) are still in the case as they fly off.
For me this remake is just "all right" at the best of times. The fact that this game has performance issues with the graphical fidelity it has is just mind-blowing. The bloom lighting and lens flares are complete overkill, possibly to hide the blurry texture work. Even as a budget title I expected better after the Panzer Dragoon remake.
I laughed so hard when Chariot appeared and he was the size of a normal person, then I felt dead inside..one of my favourite first boss fights absolutely ruined.
Clearing up some stuff: This game wasn't pawned off, the dev asked SEGA to make this, not SEGA threw this at them for cashgrab. They lost the source code for 1 so they HAD to remake the entire thing 2 was announced at the same time so it's on the pipeline other than that, i'm not gonna comment on criticisms of art design, controls, or features cause...I got a lot myself. I can't fault anyone for not knowing these things cause I was the weirdo looking stuff up on this game like every other month since it was announced in late 2019
Honestly the Original source is gone so I don't think there's any way to for it to be released in its purest form and would've benefitted from being released into other platforms
@@TurboNutterBastard That would mean having to go to the Original Creators of the IP and would probably cost more so I doubt they have enough resources to recreate an 20 yr old source code for outdated platforms of what would be an Unknown engine
@@TurboNutterBastard But this is SEGA we're talking about, no? It's a miracle anything House of the Dead related exists at all. Getting them to reverse engineer the original, first game would be IDEAL, but based on SEGA's previous track record with their older franchises, it is not likely that they would do something like that.
@@Orange_Swirl To be fair, it's a case of cost and return. House of the Dead is a rather niche franchise of Sega's, if they spent the money to reverse engineer the first game completely, there's no way they would have actually made a profit. Best case scenario would be to break even, but more likely would be a net negative. Remaking it was the better move overall.
They actually are remaking House of the Dead 2. I hope they can improve upon the problems this remake had. I am a die-hard House of the Dead fan and I still honestly had fun with this remake and thought the team behind it did the best job they could having to redo everything from the ground up considering the original source code was lost... I don't know if it's because I've been wanting a new iteration/port of the first game for so long but despite the shortcomings I found myself itching to go back and play it. There's a good game in there for sure but it's held back by the limitations of the Switch. I wish Forever Entertainment and Megapixel Studios didn't have that exclusivity deal with Nintendo to release their games on Switch first because this game really NEEDS something like the PS Move. There's actually been a listing spotted for it in the PS Store so we may be getting a PS4 port soon, but that should've been the console it launched on from the start, or even PC so the graphics wouldn't be so muddy. Or hell, Nintendo should've made a Zapper accessory or something utilizing an IR sensor bar like the Wiimote did because gyro controls are just not the way to play it. I don't think it's a problem with this game as I hear even Switch games with good gyro pointer controls experience drift... it's just not cut out for games where you point at stuff. At the end of the day, I do wish this remake could be better, but honestly I feel like it at least launched in a decent state. Perhaps once they patch it and put it on better optimized consoles it will hopefully iron out the issues. It doesn't surpass the original House of the Dead, which is a game I have a lot of sentimental value towards since I grew up playing it and it sparked my love for arcades and video games... but I'm glad we at least have a new iteration of it on modern consoles. It may not be the game we grew up playing but it's still a fun time... in my opinion, of course.
Really hope they bring these to PC at some point. The Sinden and Gun4IR guns have their limitations but they work far better than even the move controller.
@@Vortal_Cord There was some findings about how the remake is possibly coming to PS4. So it could be a similar case to Panzer Dragoon where it is a timed Switch exclusive before releasing to other consoles.
The first half of this review seems rather misinformed. HotD2 has been ported too many times to count but as you mentioned there are no true proper ports of HotD1. This is because Sega lost their original source code back in the 90's and can no longer port the first game. HoTD1 really needed a proper solution and this was it. I would of been rather disappointed if they started with HotD2 as the first remake; we don't need the 9millionth port of that.
Ngl, I love ragdoll death animations. I got tired of the set animated ones with military shooters, seeing the same thing over and over. Much more satisfying to blow someone across a room with a nade or shotgun
Agreed. Ragdoll is great! Death animations can be cool like Soldier of Fortune 1 lol, but I always have more fun with ragdoll. Part of why i keep playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 😅
Same! I burst out laughing after I got the assault rifle and just unloaded my entire clip on a single zombie, just watching him fly off into the damn stratosphere. Ragdolls are so much fun to play with.
Me and my friend once saw the house of the dead 2 in an arcade within our local cinema so while waiting for our film to start we decided to play it. Ended up missing our film as we got further than ever before and we couldn't stop just to see how far we got!
Fun fact: 4 year old me was left unattended in an arcade and I watched 2 teens play house of the dead. I later had nightmares and an irrational fear of zombies which I cured playing Left 4 Dead at 13 years old
I thought the controls were awful too for a while. The default settings are not great in my opinion. Turn off aim assist and set the deadzone to something like 2.5. I'm not even sure what the deadzone means in this game but it made a difference. I rarely have to recalibrate now. Also set the opacity to 1.0 and turn off rumble. I found it much more playable. Why those options are not default - I don't know.
@@Gatorade69 I know; I was just asking his opinion on which he was using and which is best. Or your opinion if you’ve played it yet? I might scoop it up.
Honestly, I love the ragdolls that they've added to this game. Seeing their bodies colliding with the background and reacting to my shots while their limbs explode triggers the dopamine in my brain.
I remember going to an arcade to play DDR in like..2004 and this girl i was friends with was outside crying. Apparently, her boyfriend had a seizure and had to be taken to the hospital after playing House of the Dead. I never realized how much lightgun games from that era flashed the screen until that moment, lol. Wild times. I'm happy this remake exists, but wish it was a bit more content and better overall. I'm kind of hoping it gets a VR port with motion controls one day
When i read the flashing lights warning at the start i expected flashing lights that would be harmful to epileptics, but these flashes were so strong and frequent i was afraid i'd get a seizure too and im not epileptic lol
To answer the title, yes, it was needed. There are many fans of Thotd 1, including me. The thing that happened was like Silent Hill 2, the source code of the original game had gotten lost. 2 & 3 had plenty of ports that makes them more widely accessible compared to the original, which again many people still like. It doesn’t matter you’d argue 2 is the best and why it wasn’t remade as well, 1 did need it the most. The result is pretty subpar though
It was necessary for them to remake this instead of a remaster or a simple re-release because Sega notoriously lost the original source code years ago. That's why they had that odd HoTD 2+3 bundle on the Wii instead of all three games or simply the first two. All of the HoTD games have been released on several consoles except the original and that's why.
The reason why the PC port "lacked music" is because it was one of those good old games where they had the music on disc...that you could also play as an audio CD, like Tomb Raider 2, Quake and Quake 2, Shadow Warrior, Blood etc.
The original had so much charm to it. Ran super smooth, great reaction times to what you were shooting were pretty spot on. The color scheme was great, the bullets looked sick. Graphics for the time were pretty awesome, one of my favorite arcade games for sure. Was able to beat it with a buck usually (when a quarter was per play the good ole days).
Appreciate that Carnevil shoutout at the end there. Loved that game as a kid and would be cool to see it remastered... as long as it's not lazy and hacked together like this seems to be.
Look at some of the comments here, some people really enjoy it. Look at SegaLord X's review who enjoyed it. It seems to be decisive. It is almost a 1 to 1 remake. I would hold out as I hear It's coming to some other systems. The biggest problem is the gyro aiming but some people aren't having any problems. Personally I think it would be fun in VR or with the PS Move.
I don't have a problem with flashing lights and watched Sseth's "High Fleet" review with no problem and even frequently played the arcade version of "House of the Dead", but watching this review footage on a large TV screen is really exhausting.
4:17 This is literally the THIRD time I've seen a japanese game with the phrase "what happend?", missing E and all, and the earliest example comes from an Action RPG for the SNES called Lagoon, which was released in *1991* . How long is it gonna take for people to fucking proofread their shit? I know it's a small thing, but it drives me up a wall!
The original code for hotd 1 was lost. Hence why we don't see it on other consoles or pc besides the initial port, and why this remake was built from the ground up.
I love gman reviews, but I strongly disagree. Firstly, these guys aren't remaking 90s 3d Sega games as a quick cash grab. Maximilian Dood, did an excellent review for the remake from a HOTD fan POV.
@@Gggmanlives I don't doubt you're a fan. But like anything there's varying degrees of Fandom. But I think im a little more lenient because I know this remake wouldn't exist without MegaPixel. As with basically all of Segas 90s games, the source code is gone... Sega outside of doing rom dumps of their 2D era games have done nothing with their 3D classics, or are even bothering to release new installments of their classic franchises. Streets of Rage 4, Panzeer Dragoon, House of the Dead, and Alex the Kid were all developed and published without Sega. If it weren't for the small studios madeup of fans of these great Sega franchises, we wouldn't be getting anything from these classic franchises. So I'm willing to overlook some rough edges but I do have my limits. And my apologies for this comment basically turning into a blog post.
@@thejag4161 Mate, I'm an OG HOTD fan from back in the day, and I'd rather this remake didn't exist. I'm also fed up with people trying to justify shitty developers pumping out shitty games. If Megapixel truly gave a fuck about HOTD, they wouldn't have fucked it up this badly. Stanning and simping for shitty developers just means that they and publishers know they can pump out any crap as they know people will pay for garbage, just like this remake.
05:22 Just additional note. Getting damaged can also change your routes. There are some muscular guys bull rushing towards you at some points, if you get damaged by these guys, you'll get a cutscene that will reveal that you are standing behind a ledge and you get pushed off and be forced to take a detour.
I don't usually disagree with your reviews but I am having a lot of fun playing this game and at the end of the day that is the important thing it is fun to play.
imo every arcade game port should do what mars matrix (dreamcast) did, you have to accumulate score to unlock extra credits, bonus content, videos of perfect runs so players can learn how to play optimally, free play on an arcade game will make people play it for 30 minutes, but going for a 1 credit clear will make people play for hours
Controls-wise, I forgot, did the camera move so much in the original? Like not when it's a dynamic shot or transition, I mean when the character is standing still but the head bobbing is making it near impossiable to aim accurately.
Never got to play House of the Dead, buuuut, I do remember being 10 or so, staying in a hotel up in Pennsylvania over the summer and constantly going down to this vending machine area to stare at a House of the Dead cabinet they had. Genuinely scared the crap out of my and yet I couldn't help but marvel at it. Definitely a fond memory, weirdly enough xD
Regardless to how great the overall visuals has been overhauled. I found that their missing gaps that what makes the original went far beyond than the remakes: First, their missing opportunities to make the monster animation using the motion capture. Back in 1996 original, most of the zombies, some NPCs and main characters were animated using the motion capture which makes all of the zombies move so realistically menacing, while the remake just redone it with traditional hand made animation which makes it less intriguing and so cheesy. The original motion capture were done at the limited technology but quickly convincing the player (in my pov) to tell that these zombies were like real humans and move aggressively as a monster. For the biggest example is like Chariot boss fight where back in the day the original crew animated him using mo-cap suit and using a broom to mimic his big spear, and with his maniacal movement it is sold enough to be real scary big dudes on a hunt. The remake just overly changed that with the cheesy hand animation that sold less the menacing appearance of this cool looking boss creatures. Second is the character design particularly Sophie. Yes I know they wanna make her fully Caucasian, but in my opinion she is less attractive to compare with the original one. Her facial animation makes her kinda doofies at some moment rather than being terrified on the hunt from the zombies. If they could tweaked this it'll be a lot better. Third is the camera movement when they're encountering an enemy, especially on the boss fight. Back in the day, the camera movement were totally feel like the 1st perspective of you seeing thing in front of you where you can see the movement of your enemies and make it kinda had that "shaky" feel so it convinced you that you're involved into the fight. The remake just fully redone it on a static camera and make it kinda look like a shooting gallery on the arcade shooting center, that's a real shame. Fourth, the voice acting. I think The House of The Dead 1 had a better subtle voice act to compare with shitty the House of The Dead 2 voice act. And this remakes totally made that like in the House of The Dead 2 one. It sure as heck the writing is cheesy BUT at least they can improve it with their voice acting, just like in the 1996 original one. In a nutshell, the remake's kinda less immersive to compare with the original one. While the visual's wise it is without question their only big point.
It looks like it has a bioshock filter over it. Which worked for bioshock as that was its art style. House of the dead was dark, grim and foreboding it should have been a lot darker and visually ominous
I had the impression that they also wanted to have this be a bit cartoonish as well, especially when you see the laughably stretched face when curian does a evil manic grin. I do like the voice of the magician as well. However I noticed that lip sync was off for most of the characters and the one talking boss other than the magician which bugs me a bit. Edit I was playing the steam release so there is that
If Ever they remake THOTD 2 they should add the weapon system from the Time Crisis series and have them pick up weapons from crates and civilians. And as a compensation since you are already overpowered with different weapons the fights are always with hordes of zombies or zombies take a lot of hits with difficult boss fights.
You can actually find a lot of these machines in nostalgia/bar arcades, that's probably the best way to play it. I played through the whole game with some friends just a few years ago and it's still great fun.
Had this on the Saturn with the gun. It brought new life into Virtua Cop 2 which I only played with a pad. I picked this up for 8€ just on a whim. I loved the release of Panzer Dragoon and enjoyed the nostalgia buzz. If only we could get Nights and Burning Rangers remade. I can see the issues for sure but for less than a tenner I am sure I’ll get my money’s worth.
I know this video is a year old, and not sure if anyone said this yet, but the reason they chose to remake thotd is because they had no choice. The original source code for thotd was lost, which is why there were never any substantial ports created. Hopefully thotd 2 remake will be better since they'll have the source code to go off of.
The source code for the first game (original version) was lost sometime in the late 1990s/early 2000s along with the code for the Sega Saturn classic RPG Panzer Dragoon Saga, which is why this game had to be remade, though I will admit that Sega could have just taken the original arcade version and put a fancy menu/frontend on it with a Sega Model 2 emulator attached (Nintendo do the same thing for re-releases of the original Super Mario Brothers, which also suffered the same fate). I was a bit pissed off that my now-10-year-old PC can't run this game (though it can emulate the original arcade version and play the PC port just fine), but after watching this, I don't think I should feel too bad.
Here's a concept: release games like this for the Oculus / Meta Quest 2. That's right, VR. You've got an audience crying out for more mainstream titles to play and the controls are goddamn perfect for recreating the lightgun experience. No need for repeated calibrations: you just point and shoot.
@@TexasHollowEarth As far as I'm aware, they cut some lines of dialogue relating to Ashley and Hunnigan. While questionable, I doubt that would have any serious effect on remaking rail shooters for the platform. They seem relatively hands off with regards to censoring violence.
As an OG HOTD fan I really liked the remake because it stayed true to the original game as much as it could without overstepping its rights. I also really liked how easy accses this game is to get because I'll be dammed if I can find a arcade with HOTD 1 on it or any other for that matter. 3:27 There are plans for remakes of almost evey game in the series (Minus the spinoffs ofc) for a game that was meant to steal your money I think this games does justice for people to pay once and play forever
The Wii port lets you use a wiimote like a light gun, has a calibration for it that gets it as close to arcade accuracy as possible, has a great frame rate and has all 3 original games remastered…. Seems like an easy choice
Forever Entertainment (Publisher of this game) already stated that remake of The house of the dead 2 is already in development as well , it might come out in maybe 1-2 years from now i guess
It's odd how they chose to release it on Switch for all things, it just seems like an absolute hit or miss when it comes to that platform and ends up giving games more complaints thrown upon release. I ended up just buying the PC version after hearing about a port coming in the same month and had a blast. The corpses also not disintegrating like on the switch makes the ragdolls actually fun since shooting mutants across the room never seems to get old and the graphics seem alright now as well. My biggest complaints would be a lack of online co-op, for someone who has friends who wanna try it living halfway across the planet, it's a bummer how a remake doesn't offer remote-play even when it's released on a platform like Steam. The OST itself is alright, but I prefer the original regardless since the new one feels more "nostalgic" than actually fitting for the game itself which is a bit odd but I only liked it for that feeling since I've played the games since childhood. And a big missed opportunity was the PC mode, that was one of the things that made the original port stand out and it would've been great to have it across all platforms in the remake but it's just not present. Even if you can mod in the original OST and a PC "mod" might be made, you can't really expect someone to put in work and effort like that when the people who make the games can do it best.
I can safely say the control issue is a Switch thing. Been spending a lot of time with it playing Switch Sports as well as this and Splatoon 2 and...yeah these are worse gyros than the Wii MotionPlus or WiiU pad. Anything that requires accuracy is out of the question. THAT SAID, there's an indie game on Switch called Assault Chaingun SKM which is a Gunblade NY clone and THAT works great with the gyro controls because it's about spraying bullets everywhere instead of accuracy. Perhaps it would be best to focus on mounted lightgun games like Operation Wolf or Steel Gunner (or Lucky & Wild PLEASE).
Is there a sensor bar available for the Switch? The Switch joycons have an IR camera on the right joycon like the Wii remote, but without a sensor bar I feel like that feature is useless. World of Goo has pointer functionality like the Wii, there's no reason they couldn't have implemented that in the House of the Dead remake.
If using the 2nd control method you mentioned (using the thumb stick to control crosshair) they should have implemented ‘snap to centre’ where the cross hair always goes back to the middle (they did this on the SNK beast busters on SNK CLASSICS) works much better, as feels like your holding the aim steady rather than dragging the crosshair around the screen, I should really tell them somehow since I bought this with a switch lite :/
The game actually had to be made from the ground up because sega lost the original source code for the original house of the dead years ago. but just there is a remake of the second game currently in production
Like a few, I pre-ordered this because I thought maybe the controls would be a fun replacement for the Wii remote IR aiming of the 1 & 2 bundle. I was so goddamn wrong. This is almost as soul crushing of a remake as XIII
I think the calibration is a hardware issue. There is another light gun game for the Switch that plays like LA Machine guns, and this happens repeatedly in that game too :(
I'm one of the few people that wanted the first HotD to be remade or at least brought over. Just wish they brought it to a better console or even for the VR. He'll they did a recent job porting RE4 to the wii
From what I heard is the best way to play is gyro on the pro controller, and if you're going to use joycons make sure they are updated to the latest firmware.
Literally all SEGA has to do is give us redone PC ports of the original 3 games and I'd be happy. Not even remakes, just new, spruced up ports that they throw on steam. Throw in 4 and scarlet dawn if they've got the extra time but those are less important IMO. Slap on optional VR support to simulate the original arcade cabinets, and give them as many options as their best console ports (like how HOTD2 on the dreamcast had a lot of neat extra features).
yes, technically we did, the original source code was lost to time, so either someone was gonna have to reverse engineer the source code out of the original game (that would take ages) or just make brand new source code to do the same job. this just took an extra step and just everything new. you also could just get House of the dead 2 and 3 for the wii and still have some money left over.
Bluepoint Games built their own engine that reverse engineers source codes out of original titles, the tech is available though Sega likely went with a more budget option
@@bamban_garcia5562 I don't think Bluepoint has reverse engineered source code for their remakes, pretty sure they've managed to have it handed to them so that they can use it to help their games like Demon's Souls for example, I doubt sony actually lost the source code since by the 7th gen studios have been more concious of holding onto older source code.
@@WednesdayMan They reverse engineer Metal Gear Solid HD Legacy Collection, Gravity Rush Remastered, God Of War Collection, Ico / Shadow Of The Colossus Collection, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection to ensure the project itself is the final format According to company president Andy O'Neil, Bluepoint reverse engineers the games, rather than collecting the original source files and recompiling. "The problem with source asset drops is that you don't know if it's the final shipped data," O'Neil said. "People will go and make last-minute changes."
_"I hear there is a house somewhere... Full of the living dead!"_
Agent Thomas *Rogan:* _"Pull that shit up, Jamie."_
Lol
Agree
Lmao
Of course
"Thomas, looks like we've been in the House of the Dead the entire time"
Those flashing lights killed me and that stuff usually never bothers me.
that used to be the only way the lightgun actually registered where you fired, if i remember correctly
There's a patch to the Model 2 Version by egregiousguy that disables flashing when firing. It's a lua file on the Model 2 Emulator itself.
It's strange, it's fine if I'm playing as I expect it but the flashing in a video obviously isn't controlled by me so it has this weird effect, not quite a headache, not quite motion sickness, but it's some weird inbetween.
If I had epilepsy, it would have given me a seizure for sure..... good thing the PC version doesn't have this issue and functions more like your standard railgun shooter.
“At this point, a 20 year old lazy PC port has more options for the player than a 2022 remake does.” This is literally modern gaming summed up in one sentence.
fifa 98 has more content than fifa 22, let that sink in.
@@javierortiz82 Sports games aren’t really my thing, but I 100% believe that just based on the direction that gaming in general and news about other EA games lmao. This shit is seriously a shame.
I feel like the gaming industry is somehow envolving backward. Aside from a few good tittles and most of the indie's ones, most games nowsaday just feel like watse of storage space and money for me. Especially mobile games. At this rate, I would rather take my old potatoes of a PC out of the warehouse to play my old and owned CD games.
The absolute state of gaming in 2022
Not only they lack in content department but every AAA must be 50gb at least even if they are most basic games, devs never been as lazy as they are today, even if they delay their games their incompetence will show (cyberpunk, horizon, last cod and bf)
As a diehard HOTD fan, I'm one of those people who wholeheartedly believes this remaster has the potential to be truly awesome on PC with mods. I really enjoy what they have so far, it just needs some polishing work, a music replacement mod, some animation tweaks (ragdolls are a bit funky, the scientists are janky af and the corpses bloating up look terrible), and perhaps most importantly, some hard tweaking to the Chariot and Magician boss battles. I cannot excuse those two. They are appalling.
Everything else is nearly 1:1 to the original and I couldn't be happier, tbh.
EDIT (05/07/22): After extensive gameplay sessions I can conclude this game is a mess on anything above Normal difficulty. Enemies have randomized damage and reaction times, which is absolute nonsense in a game supposed to reward quick reflexes and careful aim. Some attacks aren't even telegraphed properly and enemies have a tendency to zoom towards you prepping attacks way outside of their range, way faster than you can account for, and some are even completely unavoidable. Arcade mode/Hard on 1CC is nearly impossible as a result. There's no saving this game.
Remake not a remaster.
@@Gggmanlives Okay, just one minor issue: I'm inside your home.
Personally I feel like this game would be fun in VR.
I just wish they would release the older games agian, still makes me salty that they didn't release 4&5 on PC.
Japan has always had a weird habit of refusing to make older games available again for some reason...
Especially for PC!
@@Taltz100 PC gaming is incredibly niche in Japan. It has a reputation of really only being for porn games. Heck, console gaming is sort of dying over there since everyone's too busy living and dying for their jobs to have hobbies and such.
*Reads title*
Well, considering most House of the Dead games are considered Abandonware on PC. Yes, we really needed this.
Also, the devs already confirmed House of the Dead 2 is gonna get a remake.
Surely someone saved the arcade roms right fir use with mame right?
....right?
Hopefully someone emulator-savvy did, because Mame can be such a pain in the ass to configure if one's not knowledgeable about the stuff.
@@masterds64 ......Do *you* have a MAME setup with a lightgun and a big ol' CRT?
Abandonware games are basically the top of my wishlist, especially that of the PS2 and arcades.
Now Klonoa and House of the Dead coming back? Yes, however remasters would also be pretty rad with seeing just as it was back then rather than new graphics and whatnot.
@@Damian_1989
What's conflicting about emulation and pirating for me was how there seems to be no limits or rules as already available games, especially from Indie devs, can be so easily downloaded.
Emulating an obscure or well known game that hasn't been on sale for decades? It's relatively fine, I think.
But once said game is on sale, whether as a remaster or a remake, I felt like owing to them for making a game I wanted for so long to arrive at last.
I maintain that playing the house of the dead games on the PS3 with the move controllers is a great way to play a lot of these games, and I go back to them often.
Love how brutal this guy is when a game is shit, feel like most would hold back thinking of sponsors and stuff like that. Good work man!
Australians and British people are fucking ruthless in general lol
By his own admission in this video, he rarely plays Switch. I also don't recall Sega ever sponsoring him. So I think as long as he doesn't piss off Steel Series he's ok. 👌
Then you feel wrong...
@@cenciende9401 he doesnt
This game is not shit, tho.
Can't unsee the "spent ammo" in the bottom of the screen for both players isn't actually spent when its fired. The tips of the bullets (the projectiles) are still in the case as they fly off.
For me this remake is just "all right" at the best of times. The fact that this game has performance issues with the graphical fidelity it has is just mind-blowing. The bloom lighting and lens flares are complete overkill, possibly to hide the blurry texture work. Even as a budget title I expected better after the Panzer Dragoon remake.
I laughed so hard when Chariot appeared and he was the size of a normal person, then I felt dead inside..one of my favourite first boss fights absolutely ruined.
It makes typing with the keyboard all the more precise way to aim, than using a controller trying to replace the light gun
Clearing up some stuff:
This game wasn't pawned off, the dev asked SEGA to make this, not SEGA threw this at them for cashgrab.
They lost the source code for 1 so they HAD to remake the entire thing
2 was announced at the same time so it's on the pipeline
other than that, i'm not gonna comment on criticisms of art design, controls, or features cause...I got a lot myself.
I can't fault anyone for not knowing these things cause I was the weirdo looking stuff up on this game like every other month since it was announced in late 2019
It was AM2 studios
Honestly the Original source is gone so I don't think there's any way to for it to be released in its purest form and would've benefitted from being released into other platforms
They could always reverse engineer it if they cared enough.
@@TurboNutterBastard That would mean having to go to the Original Creators of the IP and would probably cost more so I doubt they have enough resources to recreate an 20 yr old source code for outdated platforms of what would be an Unknown engine
@@TurboNutterBastard But this is SEGA we're talking about, no? It's a miracle anything House of the Dead related exists at all. Getting them to reverse engineer the original, first game would be IDEAL, but based on SEGA's previous track record with their older franchises, it is not likely that they would do something like that.
@@Orange_Swirl To be fair, it's a case of cost and return. House of the Dead is a rather niche franchise of Sega's, if they spent the money to reverse engineer the first game completely, there's no way they would have actually made a profit. Best case scenario would be to break even, but more likely would be a net negative. Remaking it was the better move overall.
They actually are remaking House of the Dead 2. I hope they can improve upon the problems this remake had.
I am a die-hard House of the Dead fan and I still honestly had fun with this remake and thought the team behind it did the best job they could having to redo everything from the ground up considering the original source code was lost... I don't know if it's because I've been wanting a new iteration/port of the first game for so long but despite the shortcomings I found myself itching to go back and play it. There's a good game in there for sure but it's held back by the limitations of the Switch.
I wish Forever Entertainment and Megapixel Studios didn't have that exclusivity deal with Nintendo to release their games on Switch first because this game really NEEDS something like the PS Move. There's actually been a listing spotted for it in the PS Store so we may be getting a PS4 port soon, but that should've been the console it launched on from the start, or even PC so the graphics wouldn't be so muddy. Or hell, Nintendo should've made a Zapper accessory or something utilizing an IR sensor bar like the Wiimote did because gyro controls are just not the way to play it. I don't think it's a problem with this game as I hear even Switch games with good gyro pointer controls experience drift... it's just not cut out for games where you point at stuff.
At the end of the day, I do wish this remake could be better, but honestly I feel like it at least launched in a decent state. Perhaps once they patch it and put it on better optimized consoles it will hopefully iron out the issues. It doesn't surpass the original House of the Dead, which is a game I have a lot of sentimental value towards since I grew up playing it and it sparked my love for arcades and video games... but I'm glad we at least have a new iteration of it on modern consoles. It may not be the game we grew up playing but it's still a fun time... in my opinion, of course.
Really hope they bring these to PC at some point. The Sinden and Gun4IR guns have their limitations but they work far better than even the move controller.
@@Vortal_Cord There was some findings about how the remake is possibly coming to PS4. So it could be a similar case to Panzer Dragoon where it is a timed Switch exclusive before releasing to other consoles.
Well the plan was to have the cheesy voice acting
I remember loving the house of the dead 2 and 3 on wii, was very pleasantly surprised with the new modes added.
Yeah adding a secret ending from a unknown guy saying. Unknown Guy: It didn't understand it true perpedes. In The House of the Dead 3.
The first half of this review seems rather misinformed. HotD2 has been ported too many times to count but as you mentioned there are no true proper ports of HotD1. This is because Sega lost their original source code back in the 90's and can no longer port the first game. HoTD1 really needed a proper solution and this was it. I would of been rather disappointed if they started with HotD2 as the first remake; we don't need the 9millionth port of that.
How does that make the entire first half "misinformed"?
Ngl, I love ragdoll death animations. I got tired of the set animated ones with military shooters, seeing the same thing over and over. Much more satisfying to blow someone across a room with a nade or shotgun
Agreed. Ragdoll is great! Death animations can be cool like Soldier of Fortune 1 lol, but I always have more fun with ragdoll. Part of why i keep playing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 😅
Same! I burst out laughing after I got the assault rifle and just unloaded my entire clip on a single zombie, just watching him fly off into the damn stratosphere. Ragdolls are so much fun to play with.
Me and my friend once saw the house of the dead 2 in an arcade within our local cinema so while waiting for our film to start we decided to play it. Ended up missing our film as we got further than ever before and we couldn't stop just to see how far we got!
The main problem I see is the enemies blend in to the background and almost disappear where the originals pop out very nicely.
Fun fact: 4 year old me was left unattended in an arcade and I watched 2 teens play house of the dead.
I later had nightmares and an irrational fear of zombies which I cured playing Left 4 Dead at 13 years old
same, in my case it was 7 years old me watching the demo of the 1st game. cured it by playing the 3rd and 4th one.
I thought the controls were awful too for a while. The default settings are not great in my opinion. Turn off aim assist and set the deadzone to something like 2.5. I'm not even sure what the deadzone means in this game but it made a difference. I rarely have to recalibrate now. Also set the opacity to 1.0 and turn off rumble. I found it much more playable.
Why those options are not default - I don't know.
Are you playing it with regular controls or with the motion aiming? Which is better for this game?
@@RFNY315 You can have both. There's options for gyro aiming, thumbstick aiming or a. Mixture of both.
@@Gatorade69 I know; I was just asking his opinion on which he was using and which is best. Or your opinion if you’ve played it yet? I might scoop it up.
@@RFNY315 No I haven't played it but will probably scoop it up when it comes to PS4. Supposedly It's leaked It's coming to other systems.
@@Gatorade69 most likely will be yeah. Doesn’t look bad imo
Honestly, I love the ragdolls that they've added to this game.
Seeing their bodies colliding with the background and reacting to my shots while their limbs explode triggers the dopamine in my brain.
i was really looking forward to this game, i did enjoy playing it on the switch but really wish the music was better
I remember going to an arcade to play DDR in like..2004 and this girl i was friends with was outside crying. Apparently, her boyfriend had a seizure and had to be taken to the hospital after playing House of the Dead. I never realized how much lightgun games from that era flashed the screen until that moment, lol. Wild times. I'm happy this remake exists, but wish it was a bit more content and better overall. I'm kind of hoping it gets a VR port with motion controls one day
@12:24 I love the Taxi Driver nod, I see what you did there, & I like it!
The interesting thing about HOTD is Sega lost the original source code years ago. which is why they had to rebuild it from ground up.
When i read the flashing lights warning at the start i expected flashing lights that would be harmful to epileptics, but these flashes were so strong and frequent i was afraid i'd get a seizure too and im not epileptic lol
Absolutely LOVED Gumshoe on the NES, and remember Crossbow from the arcade at the mall in the 80's!
Been playing this all weekend, with the controller. Having a lot of fun, looking forward to buying the next game in the series.
There’s also a small glitch I’ve noticed where if you have assist mode on, the cursor can auto aim onto a scientist making it extremely annoying.
To answer the title, yes, it was needed. There are many fans of Thotd 1, including me. The thing that happened was like Silent Hill 2, the source code of the original game had gotten lost. 2 & 3 had plenty of ports that makes them more widely accessible compared to the original, which again many people still like. It doesn’t matter you’d argue 2 is the best and why it wasn’t remade as well, 1 did need it the most. The result is pretty subpar though
It was necessary for them to remake this instead of a remaster or a simple re-release because Sega notoriously lost the original source code years ago. That's why they had that odd HoTD 2+3 bundle on the Wii instead of all three games or simply the first two. All of the HoTD games have been released on several consoles except the original and that's why.
4 was only released on ps3
The reason why the PC port "lacked music" is because it was one of those good old games where they had the music on disc...that you could also play as an audio CD, like Tomb Raider 2, Quake and Quake 2, Shadow Warrior, Blood etc.
The original had so much charm to it. Ran super smooth, great reaction times to what you were shooting were pretty spot on. The color scheme was great, the bullets looked sick. Graphics for the time were pretty awesome, one of my favorite arcade games for sure. Was able to beat it with a buck usually (when a quarter was per play the good ole days).
"Suffer, like G(ManLives) did."
- The House of the Dead Remake.
Appreciate that Carnevil shoutout at the end there. Loved that game as a kid and would be cool to see it remastered... as long as it's not lazy and hacked together like this seems to be.
I was hoping you’d cover this. Needed a solid review before i considered buying. This franchise is close to my heart.
Look at some of the comments here, some people really enjoy it. Look at SegaLord X's review who enjoyed it. It seems to be decisive. It is almost a 1 to 1 remake. I would hold out as I hear It's coming to some other systems. The biggest problem is the gyro aiming but some people aren't having any problems.
Personally I think it would be fun in VR or with the PS Move.
Friends of the ams,
You cannot stop the loife cycle!
I don't have a problem with flashing lights and watched Sseth's "High Fleet" review with no problem and even frequently played the arcade version of "House of the Dead", but watching this review footage on a large TV screen is really exhausting.
This series deserves more attention in the modern age and I hope this is a big step towards that.
I need a proper remake of overkill asap.
4:17
This is literally the THIRD time I've seen a japanese game with the phrase "what happend?", missing E and all, and the earliest example comes from an Action RPG for the SNES called Lagoon, which was released in *1991* . How long is it gonna take for people to fucking proofread their shit? I know it's a small thing, but it drives me up a wall!
The original code for hotd 1 was lost. Hence why we don't see it on other consoles or pc besides the initial port, and why this remake was built from the ground up.
Even though I don't have VR, I still think it may be a better idea to remake HotD in VR.
I love gman reviews, but I strongly disagree. Firstly, these guys aren't remaking 90s 3d Sega games as a quick cash grab. Maximilian Dood, did an excellent review for the remake from a HOTD fan POV.
I'm a HOTD fan, lol.
@@Gggmanlives kinda doubtful after this review tbh. Have you tried calibrating your gyro? Coz it's PERFECT on mine after 15 seconds of calibration.
I said in the video that I did that.
@@Gggmanlives I don't doubt you're a fan. But like anything there's varying degrees of Fandom. But I think im a little more lenient because I know this remake wouldn't exist without MegaPixel.
As with basically all of Segas 90s games, the source code is gone... Sega outside of doing rom dumps of their 2D era games have done nothing with their 3D classics, or are even bothering to release new installments of their classic franchises. Streets of Rage 4, Panzeer Dragoon, House of the Dead, and Alex the Kid were all developed and published without Sega.
If it weren't for the small studios madeup of fans of these great Sega franchises, we wouldn't be getting anything from these classic franchises. So I'm willing to overlook some rough edges but I do have my limits. And my apologies for this comment basically turning into a blog post.
@@thejag4161 Mate, I'm an OG HOTD fan from back in the day, and I'd rather this remake didn't exist. I'm also fed up with people trying to justify shitty developers pumping out shitty games. If Megapixel truly gave a fuck about HOTD, they wouldn't have fucked it up this badly. Stanning and simping for shitty developers just means that they and publishers know they can pump out any crap as they know people will pay for garbage, just like this remake.
05:22 Just additional note.
Getting damaged can also change your routes.
There are some muscular guys bull rushing towards you at some points, if you get damaged by these guys,
you'll get a cutscene that will reveal that you are standing behind a ledge and you get pushed off and be forced to take a detour.
I don't usually disagree with your reviews but I am having a lot of fun playing this game and at the end of the day that is the important thing it is fun to play.
imo every arcade game port should do what mars matrix (dreamcast) did, you have to accumulate score to unlock extra credits, bonus content, videos of perfect runs so players can learn how to play optimally, free play on an arcade game will make people play it for 30 minutes, but going for a 1 credit clear will make people play for hours
Man that dark humor just earned a sub 😂
Controls-wise, I forgot, did the camera move so much in the original? Like not when it's a dynamic shot or transition, I mean when the character is standing still but the head bobbing is making it near impossiable to aim accurately.
I didn't remember this game had insane flashing light and I see, I only played PC version.
One in ten of those damned guns were ever on target to where you were pointing but alot of fond memories of this at the arcade.
Never got to play House of the Dead, buuuut, I do remember being 10 or so, staying in a hotel up in Pennsylvania over the summer and constantly going down to this vending machine area to stare at a House of the Dead cabinet they had. Genuinely scared the crap out of my and yet I couldn't help but marvel at it. Definitely a fond memory, weirdly enough xD
It baffles me how light gun games haven't adapted to VR. Time Crisis/House of the dead would work so well in VR :S
Regardless to how great the overall visuals has been overhauled. I found that their missing gaps that what makes the original went far beyond than the remakes:
First, their missing opportunities to make the monster animation using the motion capture. Back in 1996 original, most of the zombies, some NPCs and main characters were animated using the motion capture which makes all of the zombies move so realistically menacing, while the remake just redone it with traditional hand made animation which makes it less intriguing and so cheesy.
The original motion capture were done at the limited technology but quickly convincing the player (in my pov) to tell that these zombies were like real humans and move aggressively as a monster. For the biggest example is like Chariot boss fight where back in the day the original crew animated him using mo-cap suit and using a broom to mimic his big spear, and with his maniacal movement it is sold enough to be real scary big dudes on a hunt. The remake just overly changed that with the cheesy hand animation that sold less the menacing appearance of this cool looking boss creatures.
Second is the character design particularly Sophie. Yes I know they wanna make her fully Caucasian, but in my opinion she is less attractive to compare with the original one. Her facial animation makes her kinda doofies at some moment rather than being terrified on the hunt from the zombies. If they could tweaked this it'll be a lot better.
Third is the camera movement when they're encountering an enemy, especially on the boss fight. Back in the day, the camera movement were totally feel like the 1st perspective of you seeing thing in front of you where you can see the movement of your enemies and make it kinda had that "shaky" feel so it convinced you that you're involved into the fight. The remake just fully redone it on a static camera and make it kinda look like a shooting gallery on the arcade shooting center, that's a real shame.
Fourth, the voice acting. I think The House of The Dead 1 had a better subtle voice act to compare with shitty the House of The Dead 2 voice act. And this remakes totally made that like in the House of The Dead 2 one. It sure as heck the writing is cheesy BUT at least they can improve it with their voice acting, just like in the 1996 original one.
In a nutshell, the remake's kinda less immersive to compare with the original one. While the visual's wise it is without question their only big point.
It looks like it has a bioshock filter over it. Which worked for bioshock as that was its art style. House of the dead was dark, grim and foreboding it should have been a lot darker and visually ominous
nothing will ever replace playing the cabinet with that curtain around you
I had the impression that they also wanted to have this be a bit cartoonish as well, especially when you see the laughably stretched face when curian does a evil manic grin. I do like the voice of the magician as well. However I noticed that lip sync was off for most of the characters and the one talking boss other than the magician which bugs me a bit.
Edit I was playing the steam release so there is that
You're wrong. The attention to detail and the fact that they built it from the ground up just makes it better.
Jesus the flashing lights for the old footage 😂😂😂 great review as always!
I bought House of the Dead overkill on Wii and it came with two gun accessories for the wii-motes. At least it feels like a proper light-gun game
That honestly looks ridiculously fun. And I like the ragdoll physics. Though honestly it would have been best on VR.
I wish light guns were still an accessory for modern games. I remember dual wielding in these games and going ham
I had these for computer.... used a joystick first, then a mouse! Shows u how long ago these were popular
'At this point it makes you wonder why they didnt just release this on PC'.....oh my sweet summer child.
If Ever they remake THOTD 2 they should add the weapon system from the Time Crisis series and have them pick up weapons from crates and civilians. And as a compensation since you are already overpowered with different weapons the fights are always with hordes of zombies or zombies take a lot of hits with difficult boss fights.
You can actually find a lot of these machines in nostalgia/bar arcades, that's probably the best way to play it. I played through the whole game with some friends just a few years ago and it's still great fun.
Had this on the Saturn with the gun. It brought new life into Virtua Cop 2 which I only played with a pad. I picked this up for 8€ just on a whim. I loved the release of Panzer Dragoon and enjoyed the nostalgia buzz. If only we could get Nights and Burning Rangers remade. I can see the issues for sure but for less than a tenner I am sure I’ll get my money’s worth.
Glad to hear you mention CarnEVIL. Love that game.
I know this video is a year old, and not sure if anyone said this yet, but the reason they chose to remake thotd is because they had no choice. The original source code for thotd was lost, which is why there were never any substantial ports created.
Hopefully thotd 2 remake will be better since they'll have the source code to go off of.
The source code for the first game (original version) was lost sometime in the late 1990s/early 2000s along with the code for the Sega Saturn classic RPG Panzer Dragoon Saga, which is why this game had to be remade, though I will admit that Sega could have just taken the original arcade version and put a fancy menu/frontend on it with a Sega Model 2 emulator attached (Nintendo do the same thing for re-releases of the original Super Mario Brothers, which also suffered the same fate). I was a bit pissed off that my now-10-year-old PC can't run this game (though it can emulate the original arcade version and play the PC port just fine), but after watching this, I don't think I should feel too bad.
Here's a concept: release games like this for the Oculus / Meta Quest 2. That's right, VR. You've got an audience crying out for more mainstream titles to play and the controls are goddamn perfect for recreating the lightgun experience. No need for repeated calibrations: you just point and shoot.
No.... META censors games with woke censorship. RE4 remake was butchered. You really don't care?
@@TexasHollowEarth As far as I'm aware, they cut some lines of dialogue relating to Ashley and Hunnigan. While questionable, I doubt that would have any serious effect on remaking rail shooters for the platform. They seem relatively hands off with regards to censoring violence.
As an OG HOTD fan I really liked the remake because it stayed true to the original game as much as it could without overstepping its rights. I also really liked how easy accses this game is to get because I'll be dammed if I can find a arcade with HOTD 1 on it or any other for that matter.
3:27 There are plans for remakes of almost evey game in the series (Minus the spinoffs ofc)
for a game that was meant to steal your money I think this games does justice for people to pay once and play forever
Anyone else play Typing Of The Dead as a kid?
Such nostalgia
The Wii port lets you use a wiimote like a light gun, has a calibration for it that gets it as close to arcade accuracy as possible, has a great frame rate and has all 3 original games remastered…. Seems like an easy choice
They ought to come out with these for occulus. Old nostalgic lighfun games would be perfect for vr
Forever Entertainment (Publisher of this game) already stated that remake of The house of the dead 2 is already in development as well , it might come out in maybe 1-2 years from now i guess
It's odd how they chose to release it on Switch for all things, it just seems like an absolute hit or miss when it comes to that platform and ends up giving games more complaints thrown upon release. I ended up just buying the PC version after hearing about a port coming in the same month and had a blast. The corpses also not disintegrating like on the switch makes the ragdolls actually fun since shooting mutants across the room never seems to get old and the graphics seem alright now as well.
My biggest complaints would be a lack of online co-op, for someone who has friends who wanna try it living halfway across the planet, it's a bummer how a remake doesn't offer remote-play even when it's released on a platform like Steam.
The OST itself is alright, but I prefer the original regardless since the new one feels more "nostalgic" than actually fitting for the game itself which is a bit odd but I only liked it for that feeling since I've played the games since childhood.
And a big missed opportunity was the PC mode, that was one of the things that made the original port stand out and it would've been great to have it across all platforms in the remake but it's just not present.
Even if you can mod in the original OST and a PC "mod" might be made, you can't really expect someone to put in work and effort like that when the people who make the games can do it best.
It just had different release dates as it’s now on everything.
a pretty ingenious but kind of expensive idea is to have GUNPOWER SMT Digital Target Display have House of the Dead on it so you can use Airsoft guns
Every gun shot almost give me stroke man that flash light...
Fun fact:
On emulator you can actually mod out the flashing by putting a script in the emulator files.
The model 2 emulator to be specific
The only contact i had with this franchise was in Sega Superstar Tennis and All Stars Racing
really should have a touch screen controll mode, tapping the screen to kill zombies 🤔
This might've been neat to see a vr version, to bring back the lightgun-esque style, but I can't see any redeeming qualities or potential otherwise
That Black Dynamite clip made my night.
I can safely say the control issue is a Switch thing. Been spending a lot of time with it playing Switch Sports as well as this and Splatoon 2 and...yeah these are worse gyros than the Wii MotionPlus or WiiU pad. Anything that requires accuracy is out of the question. THAT SAID, there's an indie game on Switch called Assault Chaingun SKM which is a Gunblade NY clone and THAT works great with the gyro controls because it's about spraying bullets everywhere instead of accuracy. Perhaps it would be best to focus on mounted lightgun games like Operation Wolf or Steel Gunner (or Lucky & Wild PLEASE).
Is there a sensor bar available for the Switch? The Switch joycons have an IR camera on the right joycon like the Wii remote, but without a sensor bar I feel like that feature is useless. World of Goo has pointer functionality like the Wii, there's no reason they couldn't have implemented that in the House of the Dead remake.
If using the 2nd control method you mentioned (using the thumb stick to control crosshair) they should have implemented ‘snap to centre’ where the cross hair always goes back to the middle (they did this on the SNK beast busters on SNK CLASSICS) works much better, as feels like your holding the aim steady rather than dragging the crosshair around the screen, I should really tell them somehow since I bought this with a switch lite :/
The game actually had to be made from the ground up because sega lost the original source code for the original house of the dead years ago. but just there is a remake of the second game currently in production
Like a few, I pre-ordered this because I thought maybe the controls would be a fun replacement for the Wii remote IR aiming of the 1 & 2 bundle. I was so goddamn wrong. This is almost as soul crushing of a remake as XIII
I ended up turning on stick controls and using the joycons in each hand with cursor speed up and auto reload on. Seemed the best way to play.
I needed this in VR, not on shoddy joycon suppot. VR is the perfect place for first person shooter and light gun conversions.
Still seething that Sega AM2 somehow lost the source code for the OG arcade version meaning it’ll probably never be brought back in it’s full glory 🤬
I think the calibration is a hardware issue. There is another light gun game for the Switch that plays like LA Machine guns, and this happens repeatedly in that game too :(
I'm one of the few people that wanted the first HotD to be remade or at least brought over. Just wish they brought it to a better console or even for the VR. He'll they did a recent job porting RE4 to the wii
Every time the main character gets damaged I'm expecting him to shout " ahhh I need a medic bag". Not sure why it matches up like that
From what I heard is the best way to play is gyro on the pro controller, and if you're going to use joycons make sure they are updated to the latest firmware.
The game is now out on PC.
Literally all SEGA has to do is give us redone PC ports of the original 3 games and I'd be happy. Not even remakes, just new, spruced up ports that they throw on steam. Throw in 4 and scarlet dawn if they've got the extra time but those are less important IMO. Slap on optional VR support to simulate the original arcade cabinets, and give them as many options as their best console ports (like how HOTD2 on the dreamcast had a lot of neat extra features).
The original game was like a Zombie B-movie turned rail shooter. I feel this remake has the same vibe.
yes, technically we did, the original source code was lost to time, so either someone was gonna have to reverse engineer the source code out of the original game (that would take ages) or just make brand new source code to do the same job.
this just took an extra step and just everything new.
you also could just get House of the dead 2 and 3 for the wii and still have some money left over.
Bluepoint Games built their own engine that reverse engineers source codes out of original titles, the tech is available though Sega likely went with a more budget option
@@bamban_garcia5562 I don't think Bluepoint has reverse engineered source code for their remakes, pretty sure they've managed to have it handed to them so that they can use it to help their games like Demon's Souls for example, I doubt sony actually lost the source code since by the 7th gen studios have been more concious of holding onto older source code.
@@WednesdayMan They reverse engineer Metal Gear Solid HD Legacy Collection, Gravity Rush Remastered, God Of War Collection, Ico / Shadow Of The Colossus Collection, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection to ensure the project itself is the final format
According to company president Andy O'Neil, Bluepoint reverse engineers the games, rather than collecting the original source files and recompiling. "The problem with source asset drops is that you don't know if it's the final shipped data," O'Neil said. "People will go and make last-minute changes."
@@bamban_garcia5562 so they have the tools to reverse engineer the games and they tend to actively do that? damn that's impressive.
@@WednesdayMan I wonder how long reverse engineering the Ape Escape series into Ape Escape Recaptured Trilogy would take