Just played Steel Empire

[Mark Robert]

I bought this game a week ago and just tried it tonight. I was expecting a fairly decent shmup but was taken aback by how stylistically beautiful this shooter is. :D There is so much detail in this game with the stars being the many huge battleships you do battle with. The game is fairly action-packed with my only major nitpick being that there's frequent slowdown. (a cost for all the graphical magnificence) Overall, though, I'm really surprised how high quality it is. It's times like this I feel sorry for those who don't play retro games because they are missing out on gems like this.

[Melf]

I love the whole steampunk atmosphere Steel Empire has. It's a real underrated gem.

[sketch]

It gets major kudos for creative art direction. It has a nice "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" feel.

[havok666]

The only good game that ever came out of the "Flying Edge" brand. The Japanese version is worth lots of cash (usually goes for $70+).

[otaku]

yes very good game for sure slowdown sucks though makes me want my genny overclocked. This should get rereleased some how. Also why is the JPN version so much? my complete US copy was 5 bucks

[tomaitheous]

Meh- slowdown is slowdown. It doesn't bring down this game at all. Love this game.

[17daysolderthannes]

It gets major kudos for creative art direction. It has a nice "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" feel.

actually, its most closely based on "a trip to the moon," it even has the big ass cannon and the "space ship" from that movie.


Meh- slowdown is slowdown. It doesn't bring down this game at all. Love this game.

Viewpoint could definitely benefit from some overclocking, though. My XBOX Genesis emulator allows you to simulate overclocking and it plays SO much better. Then again, the Playstation version just blows the Neo Geo and Genesis versions away outright.

[Christuserloeser]

The only good game that ever came out of the "Flying Edge" brand. The Japanese version is worth lots of cash (usually goes for $70+).

This is a game by HOT-B (http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Interview:Kimihiro_Endou), Flying Edge got the distribution rights for the US market.

[havok666]

This is a game by HOT-B (http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Interview:Kimihiro_Endou), Flying Edge got the distribution rights for the US market.

I realize that. Flying Edge put the game out, thus being the only good game that came from that brand. Flying Edge never developed any games itself, there games were developed by companies such as Probe and Sculptured Software.

[Tanegashima]

actually, its most closely based on "a trip to the moon," it even has the big ass cannon and the "space ship" from that movie.



Viewpoint could definitely benefit from some overclocking, though. My XBOX Genesis emulator allows you to simulate overclocking and it plays SO much better. Then again, the Playstation version just blows the Neo Geo and Genesis versions away outright.

You're totally wrong, the playstation version is COMPLETELY different from the Neo Geo version and the Neo Geo version of Viewpoint is miles ahead of the crappy ass Playstation version.

The slowdown is absolutely HORRENDOUS in the PSX version (I have both games...) the aiming and steering are also WAYY off in the PSX version.

You should actually play a Neo Geo game on a NEO GEO before you make a statement like that.


Steel Empire is bitchen too...

[havok666]

You're totally wrong, the playstation version is COMPLETELY different from the Neo Geo version and the Neo Geo version of Viewpoint is miles ahead of the crappy ass Playstation version.

The slowdown is absolutely HORRENDOUS in the PSX version (I have both games...) the aiming and steering are also WAYY off in the PSX version.

You should actually play a Neo Geo game on a NEO GEO before you make a statement like that.


Owned.

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[MrMatthews]

I realize that. Flying Edge put the game out, thus being the only good game that came from that brand.

I disagree: Krusty's Super Fun House was quite good.

[havok666]

Yeah, I take that back actually. Super Smash TV was good too.

[Aarzak]

Owned.

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PATRICK CHEWING'D

[Aarzak]

BTW, "Steel Empire" was a featured game on the later episodes of "Nickelodeon Arcade". I think it was played once or twice, the first level that is. That was the first time I ever heard or saw the game, and it looked so interesting that when I discovered emulation I downloaded it. *shrug*

[jesus.arnold]

I realize that. Flying Edge put the game out, thus being the only good game that came from that brand. Flying Edge never developed any games itself, there games were developed by companies such as Probe and Sculptured Software.Does anyone out there like the Simpsons Bart Vs the Space Mutants? I still put it on occasionally though I can't tell if it's nostalgia forcing my hands :lol: You can totally tell that it was an unrelated game that was probably virtually finished and then had the Simpsons characters thrown in afterwards :D

[17daysolderthannes]

You're totally wrong, the playstation version is COMPLETELY different from the Neo Geo version and the Neo Geo version of Viewpoint is miles ahead of the crappy ass Playstation version.

The slowdown is absolutely HORRENDOUS in the PSX version (I have both games...) the aiming and steering are also WAYY off in the PSX version.

You should actually play a Neo Geo game on a NEO GEO before you make a statement like that.


Steel Empire is bitchen too...

what's that I smell? Neo Geo fanboy elitest bullshit? The Playstation version was way better, cry about it. The Neo Geo version is awesome, but the remixed Playstation version is just mind-blowingly amazing. How is the steering and aiming way off? you just suck at it? OK, got it.

[Tanegashima]

You ARE a Neo Geo fanboy, as evidenced by your T-Shirt.

[kool kitty89]

It gets major kudos for creative art direction. It has a nice "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" feel.

actually, its most closely based on "a trip to the moon," it even has the big ass cannon and the "space ship" from that movie.

Definitly a Jules Verne-esque theme.

Now Crimson Skies is very reminiscent of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."

[17daysolderthannes]

You ARE a Neo Geo fanboy, as evidenced by your T-Shirt.

Well, by that logic I'm also a Power Glove, Sega, Klax, Totally Rad, Skate or Die, and prostate exam fanboy as well.


Definitly a Jules Verne-esque theme.

Now Crimson Skies is very reminiscent of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."

+1

[Aarzak]

17days, check my latest thread in the OT board, I wanna confirm if you were a young actor in an anti-bullying commercial I recorded long ago! :D

On-topic, "Steel Empire" received a semi-remake that was released for the Japanese Game Boy Advance some years ago. The graphics were spruced up a bit (more color) and the sound downgraded, but apart from that it was the same game.

And I to am baffled as to why FLYING EDGE of all companies brought the game over to the U.S. I figured it'd be.......Renovation (who brought over "Elemental Master".......three years late) or something. Acclaim did have a couple of shining moments in its history, as they published U.S versions of shmups such as this one, and Taito's "RayForce" (as "Galactic Attack", Sega Saturn) and "Darius Gaiden" (Sega Saturn).

[jerry coeurl]

Darius Gaiden is awesome, I love how you get to choose your path through the game. Galactic Attack is a lot of fun too.

The only other shmup released on the Saturn stateside, as far as I know, is In The Hunt. I own all three of those games, and it's pretty baffling that those titles are all we got considering how well-represented the genre was in Japan.