Guest dRPeppir Posted October 22, 2004 Report Posted October 22, 2004 With all these apogee games porting to smartphone maybe someone can do raptor - Call of the Shadows here the shareware link ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/share/1rap12.zip [edit by Richie M] i think you best read our rules dude! [/edit] dRPeppir/
Guest gravity Posted October 22, 2004 Report Posted October 22, 2004 3D Realms have not released the source code for that game, I suggest you try out Eclipse: First Wave
Guest gsr264 Posted October 22, 2004 Report Posted October 22, 2004 too bad, that is a great idea... Honestly though, it's not that much better than eclipse...
Guest _Drake_ Posted October 24, 2004 Report Posted October 24, 2004 Honestly though, it's not that much better than eclipse... It's retro!!! it's 1000 times better than eclipse!!!
Guest midnight Posted October 24, 2004 Report Posted October 24, 2004 retro does not mean good so, pole position is better than gran turismo? dont think so i know i'm one of the creators of eclipse, but get real, Raptor aint that good and is no way 1000 times better than Eclipse, theres millions of shooters better than Raptor, only reason people liked it was cos it was one of the first on the PC that was even close to an arcade style shoot em up (i had an Amiga,snes and megadrive at the time and there where stacks of shooters better than raptor... Battle Squadron was waaaaay better, as was Hybris). Eclipse is a very different game though, and Eclipse owes more to R-Type and Gradius than it does to Raptor (horizontal shooters are very different to vertical shooters). if you wanna make comparisons, compare to Odyssey or Skyforce.
Guest dRPeppir Posted October 28, 2004 Report Posted October 28, 2004 old is gold baby, raptor is way better than alien invention, even the music is better than that game.
Guest midnight Posted October 28, 2004 Report Posted October 28, 2004 err, have you even played it???? cos you'd know it wasnt called Alien Invention if you had. Now i aint saying Raptor is a bad game, but its hardly suited to the Smartphone. The res is all wrong, the graphics would need tweaking heavily, all the keys would need changing so it works with 4 way and no fire button. What you know and love as Raptor wouldnt be Raptor any more. And i'll repeat...... Horizontal scrollers are different to Vertical shooters, and in my opinion Battle Squadron on the Amiga is MUCH better than Raptor.
Guest dRPeppir Posted October 30, 2004 Report Posted October 30, 2004 hey all i gotta say is if raptor comes to smartphone ill buy it.
Guest gsr264 Posted October 30, 2004 Report Posted October 30, 2004 Midnight- What's your take on that new vertical shooter...sky force i believe? How do you compare that to Eclipse? I realize that the game structure is different... just curios of your opinion on a technical scale...
Guest midnight Posted October 30, 2004 Report Posted October 30, 2004 Skyforce is a nice game, cant compare the two really, cos as you said, very different (Skyforce is like Raptor, Eclipse is like R-type), technically its impressive, and I would think, like Eclipse its no-where near pushing the limits of what the C500 is capable of (but again, restricted by the dumb joystick on the C500). Eclipse for example, is restricted to 15fps (so that it plays on ALL MS Smartphones), but could actually run at around 40-50fps on the C500, so if it was remade to C500 spec then we could go effects mad, add more parallax, have nice glowing alphas, particle effects etc.. The same i should think could be said about Skyforce. But thats the problem with technology, they always move the goalpost, so games we design and make now wont be using the power of the next gen of phones (Eclipse is over 6 months old dont forget, almost a year if you include development time).
Guest gsr264 Posted November 1, 2004 Report Posted November 1, 2004 Just to bounce an idea off your head Midnight... Ever thought of maybe designing games per the windows version? IE: Smartphone 2002, WM 2003 SE, etc... Think of it like making different games for Nintendo and Super Nintendo. How far off am I on that? At least that way we'd be abe to have cutting edge games that take advantage of CURRENT hardware like the c500 and mpx220. Seems a waste to have this great new equipment, that we can't take full advantage of for fear of losing the users with old hardware.
Guest midnight Posted November 1, 2004 Report Posted November 1, 2004 well, next game we are dropping anything less than the c500 we wanna use all 200mhz ^_^ different versions is a bit of a pain to be honest, cos you are always gonna design to the lowest common denominator (132mhz in this case) thus restricting the design, better to just drop old hardware.
Guest AvWijk Posted November 4, 2004 Report Posted November 4, 2004 http://www.idreams.pl/skyforce/skyforce.html skyforce is great ^_^
Guest dRPeppir Posted November 5, 2004 Report Posted November 5, 2004 Plus Raptor had the best music thats for sure.
Guest dodgybob Posted December 7, 2004 Report Posted December 7, 2004 Raptor Rules!!! - Never even heard of Eclipse - I thought it was sommin developed only for the mobiles! {No offence} Eclipse looks flashy and has all this cool space age stuff in it... but Raptor is just quality... It was the one of the only games I actually bought for me PC when I first got it... and it's sommin I would by if developed for the SPV. Bob
Guest dRPeppir Posted December 8, 2004 Report Posted December 8, 2004 Hell yea man, but i dont thikn nayon will code it wfor the SPV which sucks, plus raptor had the best music.
Guest axe Posted December 9, 2004 Report Posted December 9, 2004 Hell yea man, but i dont thikn nayon will code it wfor the SPV which sucks, plus raptor had the best music. Hey dRPeppir, I think you forgot to mention that Raptor has the best music (about 3 times in the thread). get a life man. You know I think halflife 2 on the PC is way cooler then Duke 3d on the smartphone.. but hey you can't win em all. Be happy some great developers took the trouble of making some shooters for your phone. Enjoy then .. If you really want a shooter that badly, support those developers and maybe they'll support you.. Hey you know what ? Why not play Eclipse with the sound turned off, and have your PC play the raptor music ? hheheeh...
Guest HurricaneDave Posted December 11, 2004 Report Posted December 11, 2004 hey!! im back wow raptor rules and it has the best music thats for sure :) dear me. well raptor is indeed a good game but as midnight said it cannot be compared to eclipse as its a totally different type of game and if your only argument for raptor is that it has the best music then you really dont have an argument to give. eclipse is a superb game (although frustrating when you die and have to go back to the begining) and IMHO the music is awesome. and i saw somebody mention R-type ?? oh how i would love to see that come to the smartphone 8)
Guest zimyc Posted December 13, 2004 Report Posted December 13, 2004 Weird Tyrian hasn't been mentioned yet, looks like no one have heard of it. http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/178
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