This is best week ever material if ever there was any. As you may have read earlier tonight in our community blogs, it was announced at this year's pre-Tokyo Game Show press event that Rez is headed for XBLA early next year. Tentatively titled Rez HD, the game will feature updated HD graphics and 5.1 surround sound. Exciting news, no doubt, but there are those of us who are equally (if not more) excited about the story that this news may have overshadowed.
Not only are we being treated Testuya Mizuguchi's classic gaming zen that many of you might have missed on Dreamcast and PS2, but it was also announced that Treasure's Ikaruga is on the way as well, confirming the rumor we had been hearing a few months ago. I will try my best to refrain from using terms like "impossibly awesome" or "incomprehensibly delicious" and refer you to these videos of the original Dreamcast version to give you an idea of what you're in for. Word is, this one is getting a graphical update, too.
If neither of the above titles is enough to make your pants tight, you can instead look forward to some other Live Arcade-bound games like Every Extend Extra Extreme, Omega Five, Hudson's Exit, or Trigger Heart Exelica. You may also want to see your doctor immediately.
[Via Kotaku and madninja's clog]
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2:54 AM on 09.12.2007
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YAY!!!
Long Christmas Eve is long. (Waiting patiently by Xmas tree.)
Oh well more incentive to buy a 360.
SO EXCITED.
Ikaruga is beyond any and all positive words I could use to describe it.
I can not wait. I hope they do well and it leads to more from the glorious DC back catalogue that so many heathens never played.
My two FAVORITE games from my FAVORITE system are soon to be available on my second FAVORITE system. Seriously, I gotta be fucking dreaming or something.
One thing though......are they only going to be on the Japanese marketplace? I'm tired and may being misreading something and I hope I am, because I desperately need these games. I NEED THEM.
Whatever happened with the rumor where Treasure was going to release the final chapter of the Radiant Silvergun/Ikaruga trilogy on Xbox 360? Could this be a prelude?
When you could be playing the infinitely better Jet Pack Heroes game, Side Arms Hyper Dyne? Or Forgotten Worlds?
Ikaruga however! *breakdances* I've been playing this on my wii recently and it is feckin awesome still. God bless treasure - Dynamite Headdy, Gunstar Heroes and Ikaruga. And you know FOR SURE that the un-named 360 shooter title in development by them is the Ikaruga sequel.
Fuck
Yea
Again.
It's more likely than I thought.
Best news I've heard all millenium.
Glad to see Rez is coming out too seeing as my PS2 decided to stop reading CDROM.
I wish I hadn't just spent £40 getting Rez for the PS2 though :(
YES !!!
TREASURE !!!
I LOVE YOU ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
damn!
i just bought Rez PS2 like 3 months ago!
BUT WHO CARES THAT GAME IS AWESOME!
PLUS NOW IT HAS ACHIEVEMENTS!
I have a feeling there is going to be a lot of competition among the Dtoid crew when it comes down to Ikaruga scores. Geometry Wars who?
I never played Ikaruga but will certainly give it a chance as well just out of thanks for putting Rez on XBLA.
damn I wish I had a 360 now:P
I... I... I.. IKARUGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO FUCKING REFUGE!!!!!!!!!
Thank god I work from home! I would hate to have to leave work to change my pants. (sorry for the double post too excited to get all my thoughts out.)