Typhoon 2001

[Dio]

I doubt it. SG is interesting precisely because it's a bit bonkers and a bit different. It's my job to back all that up with a solid game underneath and that's what I'm doing my best to do.

The perfect way to put it Jeff and exactly what I think we all want (and the far-too-straight-laced games world needs) Llamasoft to be.

Someone go add this quote to his Wikipedia entry right now .

[Bog]

Meh. Sandy smokes da Wiid and posts a bit wildly. Hardly worse than "Bog liquored up on the Internet" really... new day, let it go say I. It's only the bloody internet

[Stone]

SG is interesting precisely because it's a bit bonkers and a bit different.

Please don't remove the NAD GET if MS gives you shit about it being profane. I love that.

Can you check the gamertag playing it against a list of known Llamasofties and include a 'profanity and silliness: on' mode?

I'd pay 1200 points for proper 'my nad exploded!' goodness

Stone

[gilesgoat]

SG is interesting precisely because it's a bit bonkers and a bit different.

Please don't remove the NAD GET if MS gives you shit about it being profane. I love that.

Can you check the gamertag playing it against a list of known Llamasofties and include a 'profanity and silliness: on' mode?

I'd pay 1200 points for proper 'my nad exploded!' goodness

Stone

Actually not.

If we do a thing like that, the sole fact that the program itself would
contain profanity and/or any other thing, even if UNUSED ( but potentially
unlockable by hacking or so ) that makes the rating of the game change.

Rating stuff it's pretty tough and severe so if you want the thing to be
"universal" or suitable for everyone some stuff can't be in at all, not
even in a hidden form.

Now back to work .. so far you can't just now purchase the game yet ..

I have to put that part in yet

[Bog]

OH NOES! Teh dreaded "Hot Cup Of Tea" Mod!!!!

[Dave]

If we do a thing like that, the sole fact that the program itself would
contain profanity and/or any other thing, even if UNUSED ( but potentially
unlockable by hacking or so ) that makes the rating of the game change.

Rats, but completely understandable. Keep up the good work!

[gravy]

A PC version, however, -may- be a different kettle of fish.

[Harlequin]

Hey, sorry all if I pissed anyone off. No offence meant to anyone!!

* Hugs the Penguin

[bcass]

SG is interesting precisely because it's a bit bonkers and a bit different.

Please don't remove the NAD GET if MS gives you shit about it being profane. I love that.

Can you check the gamertag playing it against a list of known Llamasofties and include a 'profanity and silliness: on' mode?

I'd pay 1200 points for proper 'my nad exploded!' goodness

Stone

Actually not.

If we do a thing like that, the sole fact that the program itself would
contain profanity and/or any other thing, even if UNUSED ( but potentially
unlockable by hacking or so ) that makes the rating of the game change.

Rating stuff it's pretty tough and severe so if you want the thing to be
"universal" or suitable for everyone some stuff can't be in at all, not
even in a hidden form.

Now back to work .. so far you can't just now purchase the game yet ..

I have to put that part in yet

Far be it from me to make suggestions, but how about a screen that let's the user edit the various messages (and save them for future use)? Maybe have this feature as an unlockable?

[Spider-Dan]

Not to rerail the topic, but...

I had a chance to play Typhoon 2001 and I was really impressed. It struck me as everything TX3 should have been (with the obvious exception of the missing bonus rounds). I really like its graphical style; as a person who prefers T2K's graphical style over T3K's, Typhoon is pretty much the best looking Tempest-derivative I've seen. The fact that you can use the original Jaguar T2K soundtrack with it (which I greatly prefer to the remixed versions found in every other new-generation Tempest) is the icing on the cake.

In fact, comparing this game to the much-maligned Tsunami 2010, Tsunami seems even less like a T2K/T3K clone and more like an honest-to-goodness remake; Tsunami at least tries a new approach with the multiplier aspect of the gameplay (i.e. "not shooting is its own reward"). In contrast, Typhoon is an unabashed clone... but hey, better to have a T2K clone than Yet Another Mindless FPS, right?

[The Caffeine Kid]

I agree... now, about those nads...

[Firefox]

In contrast, Typhoon is an unabashed clone... but hey, better to have a T2K clone than Yet Another Mindless FPS, right?

Try pressing F3 when you're playing to see why it's not just a clone.

[The Caffeine Kid]

In contrast, Typhoon is an unabashed clone... but hey, better to have a T2K clone than Yet Another Mindless FPS, right?

Try pressing F3 when you're playing to see why it's not just a clone.

Make sure you strap yourself tightly into your chair first. lol

[Firefox]

*bump*

New version out and it's staggeringly good!

http://typhoon.kuto.de/

I especially like the new Superzapper.

[sack]

Actually not.

If we do a thing like that, the sole fact that the program itself would
contain profanity and/or any other thing, even if UNUSED ( but potentially
unlockable by hacking or so ) that makes the rating of the game change.

Rating stuff it's pretty tough and severe so if you want the thing to be
"universal" or suitable for everyone some stuff can't be in at all, not
even in a hidden form.

A thought occurs... in another thread we were passing around the ROM address of a list of obscenities embedded in a games code. Now we all know that obscenity list is used to keep the player names and high score table clean and inoffensive but the fact still remains that the words in question are embedded in the game.

How does the ratings system view that? It strikes me as something where a common sense breakdown could see someone pushing the rating up over a feature designed to keep a game inoffensive.