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Post by retr0gamer on Jun 18, 2010 7:53:49 GMT -5
Neo Contra had a talking dog wearing a German WW1 helmet. That was all the plot I needed to make it awesome.
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Post by kitten on Jun 18, 2010 7:57:36 GMT -5
Neo Contra had a talking dog wearing a German WW1 helmet. That was all the plot I needed to make it awesome. "You... dog!" |
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Jun 18, 2010 16:40:08 GMT -5
Both of those dates are definitely worth mentioning. I wanted to put the relic discovery date on there, but I didn't want to bother playing through the game again twice to look for that date. My only save had exclusively beaten S-Rank, so I had to go and clear it with a B-Rank (I had to intentionally screw up to do this poorly because the game is ingrained into my memory) just to unlock the database. You're right about Lucia, too. I knew this, but didn't really clarify it and should have. I also want to point out that "Red Falcon" was actually the name of the alien organization in the first game, not the leader itself (unless we're talking about the American continuity, in which they made "Red Falcon" the name of Tennōki Gava, the final boss from Super C). Yeah, that was the impression I got too, what with the bad guys being an evil version of the Contra team and their leader being an evil version of Bill Rizer. Hell, the game even implies that the Big Boss-like Mystery G was the original Bill Rizer. I think that was the entire purpose of Contra 4: a sequel to Contra III with the original main characters before all the stuff in Shattered Soldier happened. Actually, Animal Contra was kinda badass. |
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Post by kitten on Nov 21, 2010 14:35:40 GMT -5
gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/31592The intro video has apparently been out for a while. I think it looks good, but I'm definitely peeved they seem to be missing the point of "Contra" a little bit and are also taking the story to such an important part in the timeline.
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Post by munchy on Nov 21, 2010 14:52:23 GMT -5
I don't care what anyone says, I like the guy with the tube hair.
I'd say my only complaint so far is that it needs more aliens. Wasn't that Bahamut's whole point, that he was a veteran of the Alien Wars?
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Post by kitten on Nov 21, 2010 14:54:05 GMT -5
This takes place before the alien wars.
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Post by munchy on Nov 21, 2010 14:57:15 GMT -5
Aww nuts. I hope there're still some aliens somehow. It's just not Contra without horrible bio-organic later levels.
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Nov 21, 2010 15:08:41 GMT -5
Aww nuts. I hope there're still some aliens somehow. It's just not Contra without horrible bio-organic later levels. They already made Contra without aliens. It was called Arc Hound Contra Force. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2010 15:15:01 GMT -5
Aww nuts. I hope there're still some aliens somehow. It's just not Contra without horrible bio-organic later levels. They already made Contra without aliens. It was called Arc Hound Contra Force. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah |
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Nov 21, 2010 16:51:45 GMT -5
Just for the record, I don't think Contra Force is as terrible of a game as most people make it out to be, but it had other issues with it besides "it doesn't have the alienz so it's not Contra". The Gradius-style power-up system doesn't work that well with a Run-'n-Gun type game, at least not on an NES game.
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Post by justjustin on Nov 21, 2010 17:09:26 GMT -5
I don't think Contra Force is not as terrible of a game as most people make it out to be... further proof that Contra Force is so bad that even when you try to defend it, your subconscious can't not hate it. edit: dang, nice catch.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2010 17:14:16 GMT -5
No, Contra Force sucks.
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Post by Ryu the Grappler on Nov 21, 2010 17:31:08 GMT -5
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Contra Force was great or anything. They obviously gave it the "Contra" name for the localization in hopes that it would sell more copies (be glad that they didn't call it "Contra III" like they were originally planning to), but it had some great ideas that would've worked better if the game was made on a more advanced hardware, like the fact that most of the environment is destroyable and that one stage that took place across several flying planes. But it's easy to spam the first stage and power-up all four characters with their best weapons and power-ups. Beans is also the most useless character in the game (unless you're using him as an A.I. backup).
However, it's far from being the worst Contra game ever made. That dishonor goes to Contra: The Alien Wars on the black and white Game Boy.
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Post by kitten on Nov 21, 2010 19:15:40 GMT -5
I liked Alien Wars on GB. I mean, it was by no means a good game, but it wasn't unplayable and I had fun with it. The music was atrocious, though.
The worst Contra games are easily those PS1 games.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2010 19:20:30 GMT -5
Ohhh yeah. I really need to track those down one of these days, if only for their MST3K-level of appeal.
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