/vr/ - Retro Games

[Porotito No.5811185]

I will assume that most people know about the mythical FPS Arcade game "The house of the dead" But my question is if any of you could share a forum, information about the development of this game.

Thank you very much for your help.

[Anonymous No.5811248]

>>5811185
The only website like that I know of is a fan-run blog called Website of the Dead

[Porotito No.5811257]

>>5811248
>Website of the Dead
thx

[Anonymous No.5811261]

i don't wanna die

[Porotito No.5811264]

>>5811261
Dont try it then

[Anonymous No.5811287]

I know it was one of the first non-fighting games to use 3D motion capture. Except they felt the motion capture made the zombies move too much like normal people, so they had to tweak the mocap animations very slightly to make them look "off".

[Anonymous No.5811293]

Sad this never got a proper home release. Recently played it at an arcade, was able to clear it with 5 credits. Hope to do better next time.
>>5811261
That's from 2 silly, you mean
>You. Shall. All. DIEEEE HA HA HA

[Anonymous No.5811335]

They took a lot of liberties with the source material

[Anonymous No.5811362]

>>5811261

[Anonymous No.5811545]

>>5811261
The voice acting in these games is the stuff of legend.

[Anonymous No.5811909]

It has an internal switch that changes the blood color from red or green. Depending on which color is used, the look of the game's first boss with change.

It had a port on the Sega Saturn and a PC release, neither of which were even close to the standard of quality set by the arcade version. For whatever reason, the game hasn't gotten a port since, unlike House of the Dead 2 and onwards.

[Anonymous No.5811948]

>>5811909
Saturds always say how the port is great. In reality it’s a horrible port, not even close to arcade perfect.

[Anonymous No.5811956]

>>5811948
no one has ever called the saturn port of HOTD arcade perfect.

[Anonymous No.5811975]

I liked the second one better anyways.

[Anonymous No.5811979]

>>5811948
>>5811956
Or even great

[Anonymous No.5811993]

Dogs of the AMS ... Time they made a move.

[Anonymous No.5812008]

>>5811948
I own it and even I can't say it's great, it's really not.

[Anonymous No.5812021]

>SUFFER! Like G did?

[Anonymous No.5812129]

>>5811979
In fact, I thought it was widely accepted as being of poor quality, and the only reason that people want it is because there's basically no good options for playing an official home release of the game. I don't know how much of that is due to it being poorly made, or if it is just that the Saturn couldn't hold a candle to the power of the Model 2 hardware.

[Anonymous No.5812147]

>>5812129
It's both really.

[Anonymous No.5813292]

>>5811993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftc_Pbhb3IE

[Anonymous No.5813307]

>>5812129
I reckon the conversion could've been a lot better. Compare out to other games at the time... A lot of wasted potential.
I remember Sega Saturn magazine really taking this up before it came out and saying it's looking ok for a mid development game. Then when it came out they were like, oh it still looks a mid development game. Sorry...

I always preferred#2 and played the crap out of the DC version

[Anonymous No.5813512]

>>5812129
It's slightly more playable than the PC port, that's about it.

Thankfully, emulation of HotD has been great for years. The hard part is getting a light gun setup at home.

[Anonymous No.5813542]

>>5811185
>information about the development of this game
3D side: Alias and Softimage
2D side: Photoshop(seriously)

[Anonymous No.5813552]

I used to 1cc this game everytime I went to the bowling alley. Theres 4 spots where shit comes at you way to fast off screen and you basically need to shoot ahead of time but other than that its pretty easy.

[Anonymous No.5813634]

>>5811185
https://www26.atwiki.jp/gcmatome/sp/pages/3192.html
セガAM1研が1996年に開発、1997年に正式稼動した、一人称視点ガンシューティング。公式略称は『HOD』。
同社の『バーチャコップ』をベースとした基本システムに、『BIOHAZARD』や95年の米映画『セブン』のようなホラーテイストを加味しており、
当時としては1989年のSNK製『ビーストバスターズ』以来8年ぶりであった「ゾンビを敵としたホラーガンシューティングゲーム」となっている。
本作は上記作の単なる模倣や追従に終わっていない、非常に良く練られたゲームシステム・巧みな世界観設定や演出類が世界的に高く評価され、
日本国内に於いてはナムコの『タイムクライシス』と共に「ガンシューティングゲーム」の知名度を大きく上げた代名詞的作品の1つとなった。

Just looked it up and read some about it. It was built with Virtua Cop as a base and inspired by Resident Evil and the movie 'Seven'. Never knew about it being influenced by Seven. Also compared to SNK's Beast Busters which came before it and then later Time Crisis.

[Anonymous No.5813663]

>>5813292
The door of fate needs some grease on its hinges.

[Anonymous No.5814085]

>>5811261
My god...

[Anonymous No.5814095]

>>5811293
I've only played the first one on Saturn. Is it that bad of a port? My friends and I loved it, but we had nothing to compare it to. The movie theater by me would get a HotD 2 machine at some point, but I don't think I ever saw the first one in the wild.

[Anonymous No.5814112]

>>5812129
>I don't know how much of that is due to it being poorly made, or if it is just that the Saturn couldn't hold a candle to the power of the Model 2 hardware.
I mean obviously it couldn't, but that's not even the issue here. Virtua Cop 1+2, Dynamite Cop, Virtua Fighter 2, Fighting Vipers, etc all got amazing conversions with a little bit of compromise and elbow-grease. The devs were very vocal about the Saturn version of HotD being rushed out the door before it was ready.

[Anonymous No.5814142]

>>5814112
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDyrrRR_e4

I mean honestly it's not that bad all things considered, but the point is it was incomplete and should've been better.

[Anonymous No.5814181]

DONT CUM

DONT CUM

[Anonymous No.5814183]

We're meeting G over THERE.

[Anonymous No.5814210]

>accidentally shoot civilian
>MC goes over to inspect the poor bastard's dead body
>"How could anyone do this..."

[Anonymous No.5814439]

>>5811993
GOLDMAN!

[Anonymous No.5814449]

>>5814210
>don’t save civilian in time
>apologize to devastated child that you let their parent die
>shrug and continue on
I just wanted to blast zombies goddammit, not feel guilty and responsible.

[Anonymous No.5814473]

Since I'm a huge Death Crimsom Sega Saturn and Death Crimsom OX fan I decided to look up Death Crimsom 2, but I didn't know that game was a full Resident Evil clone.

You guys should check that series out if you like hilariously campy awkward early 3D direction with decent light gun gameplay.

[Anonymous No.5814510]

>>5814181
Just like my hentais.

[Anonymous No.5814520]

Well, the 1998 curien case.

Guess who was behind it.

It was Goldman.

[Anonymous No.5814527]

>>5814520
(((Goldman)))?!

[Anonymous No.5814531]

>>5814520
>to protect the life cycle
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.5814535]

>>5814531
*loyf cycle

[Anonymous No.5814567]

>>5814210

[Anonymous No.5814612]

>>5814439>>5814531
>>5814535
to protect the LUYF CYCLE

[Anonymous No.5814635]

I made it to stage 5 in HotD2 for the first time bros on 5 credits holy shit I suck I like to blame it using a controller instead of a lightgun but I know that's not the only reason

[Anonymous No.5814637]

>>5814635
Also I lost two of them on that fucking chainsaw guy because I'm retarded.

[Anonymous No.5814645]

>>5814635
I used to beat it all the time on a dreamcast controller, keep practice.

[Anonymous No.5814653]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fox-A8sbF-c&list=PLE927414E839686BF&index=6&t=0s

[Anonymous No.5814728]

Anybody else here have a The House of the Dead arcade cab?

[Anonymous No.5814734]

>>5811293
typing of the dead

[Anonymous No.5814749]

>>5814728
Have an eye on one. Planning to move next year though, so can't make an offer yet. Definitely a dream game to have in my den.

[Anonymous No.5815007]

>>5814749
Yeah, it was one of my top desires. If you do ever get one, Suzo Happ used to sell (and still might) new replacement stickers for the pedestal, the ones with the Agent stats. I bought a set but wasn't able to bring myself to tear off the remnants of the old ones. They also sold new replacement gun shells.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to find the Eater stickers that are supposed to go on the guns. Oh well, maybe someone will make repros at some point.

[Anonymous No.5815035]

>>5811185
>mythical
What? This game is definitely real, I've seen it.

[Anonymous No.5815045]

>>5815035
That's nice sweetie, now be a good boy and take your meds. :)

[Anonymous No.5815048]

>>5814728
I'm fucking poor and even if I weren't, I'm currently living in a 500 square ft apartment with virtually no spare room left in it (because I'm poor). But god, if I had some space and money, I sure would love a HotD2, 4, or VF2 cab.

Not like I'd turn down a cab of any game in those series, but those especially I'd enjoy.

[Anonymous No.5815053]

>>5815007
I wouldn't be able to replace the art. It's slightly damaged, but so be it. It's a product of its time and adds to the charm. Reproduction stuff ruins it for me, I want it to be as original as possible. My main concern is there is some burn in on the screen. Any tips for replacing that?

[Anonymous No.5815056]

>>5815048
I mostly go the PCB in a candy cab route, but some dedicated lightgun games were worth getting. I have HotD, Lost World (the standup cab, not the huge sitdown one), and Area 51 Site 4. They're fun to have, but to be honest they take up a lot of space and no matter how awesome they are at first, they will inevitably go for long periods of time without use. I also picked up a Virtua Cop 2 board which is a direct drop in with a HotD cab, so at least I can use that for more than one game.

[Anonymous No.5815065]

>>5815053
Suzo Happ is an actual arcade dealer, so they could well have been official decals. Either way I never put them on. As for screenburn, not much you can do beyond getting a new monitor or finding a compatible, gun-free tube and doing a tube swap. Mine had some Insert Coin turn-in, which definitely isn't ideal, but I've learned to live with it.

[Anonymous No.5815069]

>>5815053
Suzo Happ is an actual arcade dealer, so they could well have been official decals. Either way I never put them on. As for screenburn, not much you can do beyond getting a new monitor or finding a compatible, burn-free tube and doing a tube swap. Mine has some Insert Coin burn-in, which definitely isn't ideal, but I've learned to live with it.

[Anonymous No.5815157]

>>5814449
My memories of playing HotD 2 for the first time are like a fever dream. Those events combined with the breakneck nonstop action pace made for some surreal shit.

[Anonymous No.5815198]

>>5811261
"There was nothing I could do"
>There was clearly something you as a player could do

[Anonymous No.5815212]

>tfw playing zombie revenge and the hotd music kicks in on stage 6

[Anonymous No.5815224]

>>5815198
>tfw I'm the one that shot him

[Anonymous No.5816748]

>>5814473
>Death Crimsom OX

>called Guncom 2 in Yurop
>there's no Guncom 1

Hmmnmnmhnmhnhmn.

[Anonymous No.5817012]

There is a good interview with the devs over at shmuplations (along with many, many other interviews and the guys does some great work over there), check it out.

[Anonymous No.5817016]

>>5814095
It plays fine.

What isn't fine, as you can tell just by looking, are the graphics. The arcade itself isn't a great looking game, but the Saturn version appears to have 1/2 the texture resolution. It is a pixelated mess.

[Anonymous No.5817074]

http://shmuplations.com/games/

Forgot the URL, sorry. I cannot stress enought how much fun and interesting reads this site provide.

[Anonymous No.5817081]

>>5817016
>>>5814095
>It plays fine.
>What isn't fine, as you can tell just by looking, are the graphics. The arcade itself isn't a great looking game, but the Saturn version appears to have 1/2 the texture resolution. It is a pixelated mess.

What about DC version ? Did play it back in the day with a friend and two light guns, great times.

[Anonymous No.5817085]

>>5817081
That's the sequel.

[Anonymous No.5817092]

>>5817085
>>>5817081 (You)
>That's the sequel.

Oh, i see. Thanks for the clarification.

[Anonymous No.5817580]

>>5815212
That game never comes up enough. Anon, you're alright.

[Anonymous No.5817683]

>>5815212
I only made it that far a handful of times, that game is hard as hell. Pretty neat how the final boss is basically Magician though.

[Anonymous No.5818025]

>>5817580
Zombies Revenge is one of the games I remember most on my Dreamcast. I bought another dreamcast specifically so I could play Zombies Revenge.

[Anonymous No.5818092]

>>5817012
There was a thread on some forum that referenced info divulged by one of the Tantalus employees, namely that when Sega sent over material for them to make the port, there were textures included for a scrapped female boss. I'd have to look to find the thread or blog post or whatever it was again.

[Anonymous No.5820194]

>>5817580
You too, anon. One of my favorite beat em ups ever.

[Anonymous No.5820202]

You did save her, right, bros?

[Anonymous No.5820862]

>>5811185
There was nothing we could do.