Earth Defense Force Series - B-Movies Never Played So Good

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I've been replaying EDF5 with the EDF5.9x mod. It's primarily focused on inferno difficulty. I lost my old save somehow, so I'm just going through the main plot for now.
 


Only 3 days left, soldiers.
The long 2-years wait is reaching its end.

LOWERCASE LETTERS said:
I've been replaying EDF5 with the EDF5.9x mod. It's primarily focused on inferno difficulty. I lost my old save somehow, so I'm just going through the main plot for now.
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I remember trying out this mod a while back, which felt like a chore overall because of levels being made too long (as if cramming 3 regular levels into one) with the modder wanting everything to be epic battles.
 
>remember EDF6 releasing soon on pc
>remember I picked the humblebundle a while back
>remember the japanese banana recommending it
>finally play 5, now giddy for 6

you fuckers did this to me!
 
OK, EDF is 50 or so bigones in Europoor land. It looks pretty much the same as EDF 5. Why upgrade?
 
ZMOT said:
>remember EDF6 releasing soon on pc
>remember I picked the humblebundle a while back
>remember the japanese banana recommending it
>finally play 5, now giddy for 6

you fuckers did this to me!
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The EDF recruitment campaign is working as intended.

CaptainAutism69 said:
OK, EDF is 50 or so bigones in Europoor land. It looks pretty much the same as EDF 5. Why upgrade?
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It's a direct sequel of 5 story-wise, features many new enemies (making this entry the highest amount of varied enemy types, excluding recolors, in the franchise) and more levels than ever, the classes were reworked so they play rather differently, new weapons & vehicles, and many QoL improvements (some of the things I didn't mention in the previous page are the NPCs no longer being a hazard to your own explosive shots or them being able to climb obstacles too).

It is a continuation on improving the same formula which doesn't need to be renovated, as otherwise you get something like Iron Rain.
 
Still need to go back and beat 5. Seems like as good of an excuse as any!
 
ZMOT said:
finally subtitles, so I'm not forced to play like a dub-pleb. also a new game that sells better on that alone even the one from 2019 still holds up ("new good old bad").
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I don't mind the dub but I still wanted subtitles because half the fucking time I was too focused on the action to pay attention to what was being said a lot of the time.
Sometimes it would even drown out the dialogue so being able to actually see what's being said on screen is a big fucking help for understanding objectives and shit.

There were a few times in EDF5 where I would be too focused on fighting to catch the dialogue and then wonder "Okay, what the fuck does it want me to do now?"
 
God, it's only a matter of hours now... I've been waiting so damn long for this game, I've gone and replayed 5 with mods just to keep myself distracted. Any longer and I'll fucking explode from hype lmao.

And of course, I gotta start 6 on Hard, with my brother, as Ranger. Gotta keep up tradition!
 
ZMOT said:
finally subtitles, so I'm not forced to play like a dub-pleb. also a new game that sells better on that alone even the one from 2019 still holds up ("new good old bad").
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The English dub of 5 was pretty bad and generally phoned in, and 6 doesn't seem to get better on that regard from the few videos of the Asian-English release I've seen.
I knew they'd never be able to find an English VA who could match Hiroki Touchi's performance as the Professor, but the quality of the voice work for every character was rather terrible as if the VAs simply didn't give two shits about the project and had zero work ethic. But yeah the subtitles are now present in EDF6 at least, considering the plot takes a higher importance.

Seems like the English dub of EDF 4.1 was lightning caught in a bottle as it was about on par with the OG Japanese.

JongleJingle Returns said:
And of course, I gotta start 6 on Hard, with my brother, as Ranger. Gotta keep up tradition!
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Hard is pretty much the recommended difficulty anyway for the better (and less boring) weapon loot and faster completion rate (as Hard gives also medals for Easy & Normal)

Gender: Xenomorph said:
What's the dal with the voxel game?

That was really bad.
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I thought they were nice crossover spinoffs where you get to fight enemies from various EDF titles at once (WB2 for example introduces the Colonists of EDF5 who are helping out the Hectors of EDF3&4, the Darogas of EDF1&2 and the Beizals of Iron Rain).

Although it handles armor worse than the mainline games, by virtue of the fact there is a ton of characters to choose but only the four members you use in the team gain any armor.
 
japan, I kneel.
sometimes you manage to out-retard the fucking swedes. :story:

epic online services requirement that's nowhere stated on the store page, on top of that forced epic account requirement. it's going over as well as anyone would expect after the helldivers 2 fiasco

BananaSplit² said:
The English dub of 5 was pretty bad and generally phoned in, and 6 doesn't seem to get better on that regard from the few videos of the Asian-English release I've seen.
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it did work in 5 at least, the whole game is pretty camp, the cheesy VA adds to it.
or it's simply cope since I had to use it to know wtf is even going on.
 
I was waiting for 6 to drop before jumping headfirst into the shallow pool that is EDF but then I saw a disturbingly low review value after launch and welp, there goes another one.
 
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