The tan lines makes the speedo oh so funny...

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

Still awaiting my copy after UPS screwed up the delivery - first claiming I had almost £400 ($600) in import fees to pay for it before they would deliver, now that they accept it's only £20 they say my address doesn't exist (Despite leaving me a note about the import tax last week) ¬__¬'

RenRenRen

More proof, were such proof required, that XBOX360s are targeted specifically at thirteen-year-old boys ;)

BritBloke916

Travis Touchdown approves this message.

"moeehhhhhhhh!"

Billkwando

@Kmrd_Kyc: h sht, t's trp!

FlameEye

Bewbs.

Bboboo

There seems to be a manz thrown in those picturz.

Komrade_Kayce

Mine Yoshizaki is a brilliant artist. Also a gentleman and a scholar.

Atheist Jew

American release!, please Konami!

Wargamer234,Sieg Zeon!

@Komrade_Kayce: Actually, I'm a married 32-year-old with a son due soon (we had our 21-week anatomy scan this Monday morning, everything looking good) - but that's not to say that I wouldn't mind being a teenager again. I am a PS3 owner, but "fanboy" is probably a little strong. I find that it's simply the system that best suits someone of my interests (Blu-Ray movies, for example), but I did come very close to picking up a 360 this generation - it's a tough call.

The Japanese obsession with this sort of Manga imagery always bewilders me. If there were pictures of actual women available in the game to perv over then this would have an understandable appeal, but being able to zoom in on a cartoon?

BritBloke916

@Atheist Jew:

Nah, his past comments make him look more like a 4channer or teenager thinking hes cute/clever. You know the type. :P

Methinks he doesnt get that in Japan, this is some run of the mill regular shit kinda *not* targeted at 13 year old boys, but the pervy older crowd.

That said... I own a copy of DoA Xtreme 2, yes. Whats your point? :P

Komrade_Kayce

I so wish this was on the PS3 so I could import it. Damn Microsoft and their retarded region locking.

ramu_chan

@BritBloke916: Why do I sense a "PS3 fanboy" vibe from you?

Atheist Jew

@Rhys: "A sexy cartoon."

Hmm, if you say so. It all reminds me of the conversation in "Red Dwarf" about how Betty Rubble is the most desirable woman that ever lived.

Now Judge Anderson of Psi Division, (from 2000AD magazine) on the other hand - now that was a fine piece of two-dimensional ass. I'll also allow April O'Neill in the original Turtles.

BritBloke916

@Wargamer234,Sieg Zeon!: I really don't think we can count on a NA release, given that Konami US has made some really dumb decisions lately (see: Beat'n Groovy, Rock Revolution). A better question to ask, since KCET still 'gets it': Is the Japanese version region-free? (Not a dumb question, some 360 games don't have region encoding.)

SuvarnmalaAutesion

@Komrade_Kayce: P.S. "4channer"? Not familiar with that one, do tell!

BritBloke916

@BritBloke916: A sexy cartoon.

Rhys

C'moooooon US release!

Kamakazie

@ramu_chan: Correction - it's Konami's retarded region locking. Microsoft do not enforce region locking on Xbox 360, it's up to the developer.

The Droog

@BritBloke916: BritBloke is absolutely right, incidentally. The Xboxes have always been marketed to teenage boys, or adults whose development is arrested at teenage boy level - hence the preponderance of boobs and shooting.

What Komrade_Kayce is neglecting to notice is that the nation of Japan has some SERIOUS cultural sexual hang-ups (probably on par with the U.S.es, which is fitting since we're the cause of it), and describing their sexuality as that of a '13-year-old boy' really isn't missing the mark.

bakana

@FlameEye: Hmmm can I at least get an explanation of why I was the only one that got disemvoweled? I mean, I know I didn't add much to the conversation, but at least I didn't just wrote down "Bewbs".

To be fair, my comment has the same amount amount of intelligent content as the one I replied too and the one on the conversation below.

FlameEye

@optimusprym8:

Oh right it's a side-scrolling shooter. I thought it was just pictures of anime titilation.

optimusprym8

and they wonder why the Japanese games industry is in decline if this is what they call games.

optimusprym8

@FlameEye: Yeah, sometimes what they disemvowel makes no sense.

Although, I do believe they have an extreme hatred of anything 4chan, and some people do believe "It's a trap!" originated out of 4chan when it did not (and no, I'm not talking about the original Star Wars usage either). Little do people know, 4chan has no original content.

Kymeira

@FlameEye:
Sometime i wonder how does this disemvoweled system works, Is it someone who actually reads those comment and decide that its ''innapropriate'' ?

SsLordMagus

@FlameEye: Hmm, I had kept defending Kotaku on the grounds they were avoiding accusations of censorship, because up until now, they had seemed reasonable in their disemvowelments. Now I'm not too sure.

SeraphX2

@BritBloke916: It's not really that tough a call...just own all the hardware available.

Sure if you buy them all at the same time it's going to cost over £1000 but if you buy them individually over the course of a couple years there's absolutely no reason you shouldn't be able to own all the available consoles. By doing this you avoid three very undesirable situations:

1. You don't limit your access to games that are made exclusive to specific platforms.
2. You don't generate a bias for your particular platform, since you'll own them all anyway.
3. You don't generate negative opinions of other people, companies etc because they chose differently than you did.

Your comment, while innocent enough, leaned frighteningly close to the sort of generalized statement a fanboy would make. Don't go down that road! There's no turning back.

Congratulations on the kid. Make sure he grows up in a non-discriminatory-gaming-environment.... You'll be benefiting the entire species.

Atheist Jew

@BritBloke916: Google 4chan and/or Encyclopedia Dramatica, afterward you will understand.

shades_of_blue

@SuvarnmalaAutesion: Unfortunately, no.

EldonTLH

I do enjoy zoom

DrHawke

I smell cosplay ideas

animeman59

@Atheist Jew: Geez, no harm meant, 'twas only a friendly jibe - hence the winking smiley at the end of my original post.

As for the possibility of owning all of the hardware, I may yet pick up an XBOX360 at some point - the motherboards will get more and more reliable as they use increasingly smaller nanometre fabrication techniques, whilst simultaneously the regular price drops make them ever more affordable. However, I'm currently building a nice gaming PC to hook up to my TV - and most of the games that I'd consider buying a 360 for are also available on the PC (with the exception of Gears 2, at least for now).

BritBloke916

tits or gtfo

Satan

@undefined: The entire market is geared toward 13 year old boys, and those who are 13 at heart.

Whether you're trolling or not, picking a specific system to target will incite more of these dumb flame wars.

Paul_Is_Drunk

@undefined: @BritBloke916: a troll is a troll.

Vidunder

@optimusprym8: Ssshhh, Milkman will find out about this comment and tear your head off in a fit of rage...

twinturbo2

This is relevent to my interests.

Ryakudatsu

@FlameEye: I know what your post said and I have no idea why it would need to be moderated...unless you did it on purpose.

Adam In Texas

@Atheist Jew: Correct.

Spoony Bard

@FlameEye: I'm not sure why, but I would surmise that the writers are getting tired of hearing that line.

Spoony Bard

I need this game to be my zoom on tits dose right now, Rumble Roses XX doesn´t have the same effect it had XD.

Daisuash

@Atheist Jew: Yep, Yoshizaki´s designs are works of a master, they made me want this game and i don´t even like shmups.

Daisuash

@The Droog: So why almost every game on the 360 is locked? Multiconsoles are locked in 360 and not in PS3? Why is that?

Daisuash

Not a Mine fan, but I wish Sonoda and Jaleco would put out a few more mahjong games... ちゅ~かな雀士 てんほー牌娘 2 or something.

(The gameplay's actually fun! No, really! The "cheat" moves are awesome!)

fuchikoma

@undefined: @BritBloke916: Or 30 year old perverts.

Parkington

I wholeheartedly agree.

DaFox

@Daisuash: As I said it's up to the developer, it's not a requirement for Microsoft Certification to be region locked OR region free. Nearly all Microsoft published games are region free as are Activision ones. There are plenty of lists online that state which X360 games will work on consoles from different territories.

The Droog

Don't need to be unlocked? Lame. Unlocking mediocre gallery pictures is what got me to play through GigaWing 2 20 times over the course of a couple days.

Devdan

@Wargamer234,Sieg Zeon!: I'm all for an American release as long as it's region free. If not then let me make the call for a PAL version too.

@SuvarnmalaAutesion: The Japanese games worth playing are never the region free titles. I've been seriously tempted to pick up a Japanese 360 due to this.

MattB

If this game is successful, I want Konami to put out another Parodius game.

Or maybe a Twinbee game. God I miss Twinbee games (vertical shmups sort of died in the widescreen age... but there's still the DS!).

tokugawa

@BritBloke916: There's a difference between drawn art and photography. People should be able to appreciate both.

Just because some may find these drawn girls nice to look at doesn't mean they don't like to look at "actual women".

But art is art. And it's just as nice to look at drawings. Personally I'm a sucker for drawings and paintings.

tokugawa

Nice...hehehehe...

<<;

*cough* God save the Queen...

...And my sanity...

Mister_CrazyGuy

why do people need crap to unlock in order to play a game? why not just play it because it's a fun game?

anyways, I have the game, and there are a lot of alternate weapons to unlock.

VENOM-ZX

I'll take 10 copies!

Darkbeat

@VENOM-ZX:

It's incentive. I'm not a score attack person. I wish I was, but I'm not. I seldom get better at games, so generally I'd rather move on to another one of my many unplayed games rather than replaying the same one, and not doing any better.

Devdan

I got my copy of this game on the first day ;-p I'm a sucker for shooting games. :)

smbu2000

@Wargamer234,Sieg Zeon!: @Komrade_Kayce: Yeah...how did that happen? :D

bluej33