Rez

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http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2002/10/26/sex_in_games_rezvibrator.html (Tenuously Safe For Work)

Confirmed for Xbox 360 Live Arcade. Someone told me 2008 but I haven't seen confirmation on any dates yet.

Q1 2008

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3162732

I miss this. Maybe tissp wants to sell my old copy back to me. Or maybe I'll have to buy a 360.

There's a bunch of new footage up of the HD version...
http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/16808

Looks and sounds good, very much like the originals
Same level on ps2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScUsvQZkTY&feature=related
Dreamcast, I think?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7wpGkAQgE&feature=related

Much like that VC release of Sin and Punishment, I almost want to get a 360 just so I can support this when it comes out.

This had better come out in January dammit!

The one thing I don't quite get about this game is something kind of important... what makes you die? Is it missing a certain number of ships or do certain kinds of ships hit you? Or what? I've played about ten games and cleared a few levels (well the first two in regular mode and the first one a couple times in score attack), but I still haven't really figured out what makes me fail the times I have.

A really cool feature on the 360 version is being able to download the replays from everybody on the leaderboard. Just watching a couple minutes of the person with the high scores game helped my scoring immensely. Also the replay took maybe two seconds to download!

certain ships hit you. some fire missles. junk like that.

also, this has become easier to find used at gamestops. i bought mine a few months ago for $35 used. i'm not sure if i'm gonna purchase the xbla version. although, that replay thing sounds pretty neat.

I love the way this game looks and feels but I have no idea what the hell is going on in it pretty much ever.

my reaction is %10000 identical, especially when I hit the bosses, but I keep playing and enjoying it anyway.

Did they wind up including that feature where you can turn on all your controllers and put them up your butt or whatever? If so, I can't figure out how to turn it on.

it definitely still exists, but i only have one controller so i unno how to do it (although i think one is supposed to go on each foot and another somewhere on your torso)

i just heard how to do it, you need to go into the paus menu once you've actually started playing and set vibration to "on"

And the other controllers just have to be on, not logged in or anything?

He asks strictly for academic purposes.

that's the only hint i heard... i assume you can just turn them on, they shouldn't need to be logged into any user. in fact that'd probably only make it not work... anyway, a bit more research says that you put ONE under your feet, and one on your back/neck, and one in your hands. That's "The Miz Way" to play.

I have tried the Miz Way. I found that trying to rest a 360 controller against the small of my back / on my neck kinda awkward as it is plastic and pointy, and the constant shuffling outweighed the alleged sythesthesia of the whole experience. THey just have to be on, go into the menu, select "Trance Vibration" and set the controllers you're not using to play to "trance mode"

and then put them all up your butt.

ESPECIALLY the one you're using to control the game!

This game is a lot more challenging than I thought it was going to be. I haven't put a ton of time in, but so far I've yet to unlock level 4. I did finally get to the level 3 boss tonight, but damn - it's a long battle especially when you don't know what to do and there's shit flying every which way. One try exhausts me too much to immediately try again and again. It seems like the game gets harder (throws more stuff at you) as you level up your guy too? It's frustrating because I've heard that the game really soars when you reach level 5 anf right now I don't feel like I'll ever be able to get there...

If you're trying to get everything on an 8-chain, stop doing that-- you'll go mental. staccato claps is the way to take shit out when it gets hairy, and NEVER stop moving your cursor. That stuff allowed me to beat the game (albeit not yet on direct assault which is truly BRUTAL). i don't think it throws more at you as you get stronger, so much as it throws more at you when you get further.

also, the level 3 boss is a great place to use your overdrives (particularly in his second phase where he is sending thousands of little robofish at you). but then again, half the magic of the game is figung this stuff out for yourself.

and yeah, level 5 fuckin' RULES.

Finally put in the time to make it to the level 5 boss, though I didn't quite finish the game (either ran out of time or got shot down, I'm not sure), though I think if only I had thirty more seconds I would have been done. That last level is especially exhausting - I need a recharge before trying again.

I must say though, I really love the level four boss the most - giant running man.

Awesome game. I'm looking forward to trying some of the unlock stuff (and unlocking more stuff) - and improving on some time attack scores.

I just ordered this and I can't wait.

love this on xlba

I ordered the old PS2 version off eBay - it's freaking pricey! Even without the vibrating dildo!

so this is some sort of big Tron rip off yeh?

Tracer how much did you pay? I got it on Amazon for just over twenty quid

I can't remember how much I charged tissp for my old copy, back at the top of the thread.

I've checked my email archives. £27, with free P&P.

19.99

I mean that's not bad, but for a four-year-old used game..?

It was going for A LOT more before the updated HD version came out

on amazon it's going for silly prices still from some market place sellers

got this today, was slightly miffed at the battered packaging but hey ho the game still works.

So this is Panzer Dragoon with clever graphics/music interaction. Fun for a short while I guess, can't believe i paid twenty quid for it.

We did tell you to buy 360 instead of a PS3, Ste!

haha, i think i'm getting one as well !

The leaderboards and stuff help make it more addicting (I know I played a lot of score attack trying to top my brother). Also each level is better than the the one before (sort of), but the last level is something way better than everything that came before. Make sure to play through to the final level!

Vib Ribbon is so much better. Why never in USA, Vib Ribbon? I love you so. :(

Holy shit. Between this and Fahrenheit it's like I've now finally played the two games I've always wanted to play without even realizing they existed before. One, all sensation. The other, all angst. Both - fairly easy for the most part! Perfect!

What is the best/cheapest/easiest way to play this game rn? I currently have no consoles (but could borrow something or buy one for cheap, possibly). Is Child of Eden a perfect substitute?

Actually I have a Dreamcast sitting in a box somewhere and I know that it's p easy to burn games for it! I wonder if the Japanese release has enough english text in it?

i didn't like child of eden very much for reasons i don't quite recall right now - the mechanics are pretty much identical (as long as you're not playing the lolkinect version) but i dunno it just didn't gel the way rez did

i really want to play rez infinite on the psvr!

I really like Child of Eden but I can't play it very much or for very long (I have the lolPS Move version) because it's seriously physically exhausting. I break a sweat like I'm playing Just Dance or something.

NO ONE TOLD ME REZ IS COMING BACK

omg and VR

(I'm realizing that my game-related physical exhaustion may say more about my physical fitness than it does about the game itself.)

hey mh, rez is coming back fyi

(I'm realizing that my game-related physical exhaustion may say more about my physical fitness than it does about the game itself.)

same :(

i started playing videogames to avoid physical activity ffs, the last thing i need is the cold implacable eye of a kinect judging me for bumbling my way through disney fantasia: music evolved

and the sneaking suspicion that, somewhere in redmond, microsft employees are watching and laughing at me

playstation vr is going to suck without the more powerful PS4 right?

i think it's got some additional processing power built-in to help it render at the framerates required to stop you barfing all over your couch every time you put it on

i preordered one for some reason but really the only thing i wanna play on it is rez and i dunno if i can justify like a £750 total investment in a rez vr machine

t/s: a city break in barcelona vs a psvr, a copy of rez and a big bag of weed