Jedah wrote:I must admit that I was not actually expecting to experience the REAL Ketsui.
With me it's like this (and I know I am the exception): I am patient.
I wasn't when I was younger, playing all ports that came my way, regardless of how inferior they might have been, because the idea of emulation had not yet entered anyone's head.
But now, as long as you are patient, and as long as you live long enough, you are guaranteed to one day be able to play EVERYTHING, PERFECTLY. Now I would understand settling for inferior ports if you had NOTHING ELSE to play in the meantime, but dude. There's like a billion amazing shooters available on MAME, RIGHT NOW. And instead of playing one of them, on a large screen with a good arcade stick, you are happily spoiling all of Ketsui's boss fights for yourself on a tiny LCD with a crappy d-pad. I mean, lol.
I understand the reason for this, of course: pure curiosity. The need to try out the latest thing, to be in the loop, etc. -- to do what everyone else is doing at the same time with them. We all have this to an extent. But it's stupid, and it robs you of (at least some) of the pleasure of playing great games. For shit games it doesn't really matter
how you play them, but great games should be a near-religious experience for those who enjoy them as much as we do.
Take, for example, Death Smiles. I've yet to play it and right now it's my #1 Most Wanted Cave game. If a DS port came out tomorrow and you came in my house at night and glued it into my DS, so that it would be impossible for me to remove it, I would rather destroy my DS than play the damn game. For reals. This still goes even if no one had ever mentioned a 360 port and if I did not have enough money to buy the PCB. Fuck it. I would rather wait 15 years for MAME than play the DS port. Like I said, it's not as if there aren't enough great shooters out there to keep me busy for 15 years.
So! Delete Ketsui ~Shit Label~ from your flash card right now or I am coming to your house to do it for you! :)
(By the way, I've been waiting for you to call me for over a month, you prick.)