EDF 5 vs 6

[Vengeful Mosquito]

EDF 6 has been out for quite sometime in JP. Has anyone played the game and could compare it to EDF 5?

[cris3f]

Aikido の投稿を引用：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWo3-mvuKV8

I know, IGN. But it's a good overview imo.

The usual below-average review done by someone who doesn't have much of a clue about playing the game.

[ChiefCornFlake]

Having played the Japan version of the game. Its an improvement on 5 in every single way some levels are recycled due to plot reasons but there are a lot of new levels and enemy types.

[iAmTurok]

cris3f の投稿を引用：

Aikido の投稿を引用：

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWo3-mvuKV8

I know, IGN. But it's a good overview imo.

The usual below-average review done by someone who doesn't have much of a clue about playing the game.

Did you even watch the preview? He's definitely familiar with the series. Just because he doesn't sound enthusiastic, doesn't mean he's ignorant. I find it refreshing that he's not fanboying all over.

[Robert F.]

Sonar The Wendigo の投稿を引用：

I'm also curious about this as well
Example, EDF 5 was a Remake of EDF 4.1

EDF5 is more like a reboot of EDF1 for the 2nd time with a similar plotline but with a twist and EDF 4.1 (or EDF 2025) is a sequel finale to EDF 3 (or EDF 2017 and also a reboot).

Sonar The Wendigo の投稿を引用：

So is EDF 6 a remake of EDF 5? Or a Sequel to EDF 5?

It's a sequel.

[cris3f]

iAmTurok の投稿を引用：

Did you even watch the preview? He's definitely familiar with the series. Just because he doesn't sound enthusiastic, doesn't mean he's ignorant. I find it refreshing that he's not fanboying all over.

It would be quite stupid of me to comment without watching it, wouldn't it?

So after "spending plenty of time with a pre-release version":
- the game is 2 years old, even the english version is 4 or 5 months old...
- use Cascade to take down transports? Yes, best weapon in the game anyway.
- using mortar to kill enemies with Fencer at more than close range? Yes, it's the best way to kill them
- a little explanation that the turrets are no longer on the AR but on Ranger could be useful but not
- Wing Divers are a bit weaker than their Godlike EDF 5 Incarnation? Oh boy... Genius. And yes she was much more powerful on EDF 4.1 too, no?
- the AR is with " a new playstyle as a wizard whose only spell is summon drones". Hilarious. He clearly hasn't played with them on hardest or Inferno.
- this makes the AR "much more powerful underground". Hilarious, only to kill himself, as turrets worked a lot better.
- laughs? The humor is mostly gone due to the excellent "story"

The only decent thing on the review is how he talks about the repetition, but confuses by talking about new enemies, which are not on the overwhelming number of repetitions (maybe 2 out of 30).

To finish. He shows no sheer mayhem gameplay. No harder difficulties (I bet he stops at normal). Nothing juicy, just crappy bland basic gameplay.

So yes, an expert, sorry.

I did not comment on the enthusiasm, but it's obvious...

And reviews should not be fanboyism, but present a decent overview and opinion of what they're reviewing. That's not what he did.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

Just to clarify, that video isn't a review. It's a preview describing extremely basic differences between the new game and the last as a very general overview. That's all it's intended to be. That's why I posted it in response to someone asking very fundamental questions about those differences, because it's a decent enough and brief enough to be digestible set of answers of those questions. And the person asking replied saying it answered their questions. Which was the point. As they said, "it basically covered what I was most curious about without being 30 minutes long."

[Vengeful Mosquito]

As long as the new maps are big i dont really care about reused maps.

[Zulban]

Aikido の投稿を引用：

Just to clarify, that video isn't a review. It's a preview describing extremely basic differences between the new game and the last as a very general overview. That's all it's intended to be. That's why I posted it in response to someone asking very fundamental questions about those differences, because it's a decent enough and brief enough to be digestible set of answers of those questions. And the person asking replied saying it answered their questions. Which was the point. As they said, "it basically covered what I was most curious about without being 30 minutes long."

Pretty much exactly this. I just wanted to know whether or not gunship call-ins were still a thing or if the drones were going to replace all the artillery/gunship/laser satellite call-ins. The video clearly said 'you still have gunship call-ins', and that's that.

E: ... and the reason I asked that was because a video I saw had someone using the drones to shoot mortars as if it were an artillery call-in but it looked so laughably lackluster it was essentially useless. They were also using the drones to target a place for them to go out and shoot at. Overally they just seemed like something you'd use when you don't have access to the big guns I.E. underground missions.

[Fireborn]

I'm actually kinda interested in what the translation/localization is like. 3 & 4 were voice acted with the right balance of camp and seriousness in my book, while 5 was pretty poorly voice acted. Far from the worst (Chaos Wars may never be dethroned.) but it was a noticeable step down, especially as the game was much more... intrusive about its story.

On that front, how bad is this one about cutting things short or prolonging them for story beats in the missions? I feel like its one of the major reasons I didn't complete as much of 5 as I did 4/4.1.

[Zulban]

I have not heard all of the voice acting yet, but my impatience had me watching someone playing with Asian release that has English voice acting (which I assume that we'll be getting those dubs for our release). So far, it seems like whenever lines or actors from EDF 5 aren't use the voice has been pretty lackluster/flat. Not all the time though, it almost seems as if the voice directors simply took the first take of a voice line and put it in, and the actors might be getting a bit more comfortable with the roles as the missions go on, but it's hard to say for sure. For many of the returning voice actors they sound like they're using a different microphone or recording setup which is kind've strange but they're still pretty good in terms of the effort they're putting in, at least so far.

[cowbell]

The Asian release has long pauses between lines of dialog. Just like the days of PS games with obvious slowdown. I hope they fixed that.

There are fewer missions that get dragged out with boss fights. It won't be with regular kaiju because they wanted to emphasize them being strong, like Archie.
There are missions where stuff gets cut short because you are not alone in this and the Primers are always a step ahead.

[Honorable_D]

EDF 6 is set 2 years after the events of EDF 5 so you should defs play 5 first.

[Flowers_and_Dreams]

Sonar The Wendigo の投稿を引用：

I'm also curious about this as well
Example, EDF 5 was a Remake of EDF 4.1
So is EDF 6 a remake of EDF 5? Or a Sequel to EDF 5?

EDF 1 and 2 are in the same universe, 3 and 4 are the same story remade, and 5 and 6 are the same story remade yet again. EDF 1 and 2 are Earth fighting Invaders (renamed "Buggernauts" in the west). 3 and 4 are against the Foreigners (renamed "Ravagers" in the west), and 5 and 6 are the war against the Immigrants (renamed"Primers" in all versions after Kotaku complained that it offended the west).

[Bob]

Based on the videos I have seen; if you liked air raider in 5, then you will be disappointed in it for a lot of the game. I am guessing they were desperately trying to undo their "mistake" in regards to their raw DPS previously, but who knows.

Either way, the result is that they are less enjoyable overall. Perhaps still better than in 4.1, but vehicles were also stronger in 4.1, so not sure entirely.

[Vengeful Mosquito]

Less enjoyable? Oh no