[QWERTY On] Typing of the Dead 2!

ikillkenny

My favorite Dreamcast game is getting a sequel! Sega is making a new Typing of the Dead game, according this announcement posted at Joystiq:

Joystiq wrote:

For anyone who suffered through an old-school typing class, Typing of the Dead was a brilliantly subversive game combining the horror of learning to type with a House of the Dead shooter. There's nothing quite like the first time you play the game and think to yourself that this is the most magnificent piece of edutainment since Number Munchers (please tell us kids still play Number Munchers in school). Anyway, a few days ago Sega announced plans for Typing of the Dead 2 and we couldn't be happier.

According to SegaNerds Typing of the Dead 2 will use the House of the Dead 3 engine. The game will have multiple endings and the difficulty will change based on the player's typing skill. The game will release in Japan this July, but there is no word yet on a North American release. Come on Sega, give the children a game that teaches them how to type in the most violently entertaining way possible. Plus, it would be so cool to kill a boss with a word like antidisestablishmentarianism.

Full article at http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/22/typing-away-the-dead-with-words-again

Hopefully this comes to North America (and to a lesser extent for me, Europe, et al). Playing the Japanese demo of Space Harrier Typing wasn't nearly as fun without all of the wacky words and hilarity of the English version of the original Typing of the Dead.

There is also a trailer at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qd53TH3EO38

I am personally disapointed that there are not Dreamcasts on the backs of the protagonists.



But, hey, if they bring this to North America sans Dreamcasts, I'll live.

Mmmm... Cocks...

SEGA... aims to please fans?

Whatever, I'm happy. But for what, PC?
I still play the hell outta my Dreamcast version, for some reason its become a bit of a party game here....

Klaymen

Man I have never heard of this!

I see that TotD1 eventually made it to PC, I hope the sequel does too, this looks fantastic

astroboy

Holy cow!

If this were to appear on PS3 or Xbox360, it'd be a system seller for me! Hot dog!

Vater5B

This had better not be a lie.

People will die if this is not true

mspencer

Indeed -- I must play this on the 360. Part of the reason is (like many people here) I'm a freakishly fast typist. In 2001 while I was unemployed and looking for a job, I took a typing test at an unemployment center in Omaha. I ended up with a document with the state seal of Nebraska affixed to it which said I type at 102 WPM, or 99 WPM after counting errors.

So I might actually get near the top of the XBL leaderboards on a game once in my life before I die, if this comes to the 360. :-)

(Edit: I probably type slower now. While I was unemployed I was spending tons of time socializing on the Internet, so lots of typing. I don't type as much any more.)

ikillkenny

Vater5B wrote: »

This had better not be a lie.

People will die if this is not true

There's a trailer that appears to be authentic. If someone went through the effort to create two minutes of gameplay for a fraud, I say we deserve to be misled.

cj iwakura

What really irked me about the first TotD was that typing faster actually makes the game harder. I thought it'd be easy since I type at ~90 WPM, but by the final level, I was typing out medical journals.

Either way, if this is based on House of the Dead 3 or 4, it'll be great. Maybe I can finally beat those games. (Typing > shooting).

PC or DC, I'll get it either way.

Vater5B

ikillkenny wrote: »

Vater5B wrote: »

This had better not be a lie.

People will die if this is not true

There's a trailer that appears to be authentic. If someone went through the effort to create two minutes of gameplay for a fraud, I say we deserve to be misled.

...My overly-exuberant self did not see this portion of the OP.

...I digress.

theparttime

god i hope this comes out on the 360 so they fucking finally put a keyboard and mouse on the xbox, then maybe some RTSs.

anyways. this is awesome even if it only comes to pc.

Xagarath

Given that the pc version of the first one has long become stupidly rare (£50, anyone?), this is excellent news.

Carnivore

I still have a copy of the Pc version sitting right infront of me right now.

Jensen

Oh...my....GOD!!!

I'm psyched.

Zephos

i have a copy of the original for the pc.


i highly highly doubt this will be the game to bring keyboard and mouse to the 360. I suppose it could be played with that new keypad thingy, but doubt it will.

AnakinOU

AWESOME. I assume I'm not the only one who bought two DC keyboards for multiplayer action in the first game?

xVladx

cj iwakura wrote: »

What really irked me about the first TotD was that typing faster actually makes the game harder. I thought it'd be easy since I type at ~90 WPM, but by the final level, I was typing out medical journals.

!!!!!

That certainly explains a lot. My typing speed hovers around 90 wpm, too, and I thought that some of the stuff in that last level was just insane. I'm talking "can't humanly type it before you get hit" insane, especially on that last boss. I never knew that the difficulty scaled like that.

Funny thing is, my PC is so out of date that the newest game it can play is Battlefield 1942 (and just barely, I'm talking 800x600, all details turned down), and the first game that's making me really consider upgrading is a typing game.

Well, that and Portal.

Zek

I had one huge pet peeve of Typing of the Dead that really irritated the hell out of me. If you let go of the Shift button before letting go of a letter(as I always do), it counts as pressing the letter again and penalizes you. It was nearly a game breaker before I realized that capitalizing was entirely optional, which it shouldn't be IMHO.

DarkPrimus

Difficulty based on typing skill?

Yeah, I hope so. I cruised through the entire game up until the last level. But then again, I've got like over 120 WPM.

Darmak

This makes me very excited since I really enjoyed the first one. And I'm a total dork who enjoys typing games. :P

seeraphael

This had so better come out for the PC, too. I played the heck out of the PC version back in the day - still pop it in now and then for some good Typing goodness.

Does anyone else remember the hilarious "why you shouldn't look at the keyboard while typing" example the game gives you at the beginning of the optional typing tutorial?

brynstar

This is awesome, between Touch the Dead (which looks cool even though it's not Sega) and this game, looks like those dead guys are going to get...touched and typed at a lot.

Which is pretty cool.

Darmak

seeraphael wrote: »

This had so better come out for the PC, too. I played the heck out of the PC version back in the day - still pop it in now and then for some good Typing goodness.

Does anyone else remember the hilarious "why you shouldn't look at the keyboard while typing" example the game gives you at the beginning of the optional typing tutorial?

That trailer has XP and Vista at the end credits, so I'm assuming it will be for the PC.

BiggNife

The first TTOD was awesome. The chainsaw boss was great because you always had to type a ridiculous nonsensical story.

KNYTE

When you type all day long at work going home and playing a game where the entire point is to type kind of loses its mystique.

ikillkenny

BiggNife wrote: »

The first TTOD was awesome. The chainsaw boss was great because you always had to type a ridiculous nonsensical story.

The best boss was the three-headed monster where you had to answer a question correctly.

By the way, if anyone cares, I made a lame ripoff of this game called Wolf Typing (based on a pre-existing game I already made). You can find it at: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/30335 </self promotion>

cloudeagle

Hahaha, I had forgotten about the insane, rambling stories you had to type to defeat the chainsaw boss. If that kind of hilarity makes it into the sequel, I might just have to upgrade my damn computer.

Machismo

Zephos wrote: »

i have a copy of the original for the pc.


i highly highly doubt this will be the game to bring keyboard and mouse to the 360. I suppose it could be played with that new keypad thingy, but doubt it will.

Any USB keyboard works on the 360. Buy a 10 dollar one at Walmart and you are set.

Tuoma

Yeah whats with people here thinking the 360 doesn't support a keyboard? Didn't you play the phantasy star beta?

And typing to kill zombies? yes please.

fragglefart

WANT!

First one was great.

Couscous

The easy difficulty should have the characters have a Wii on their backs, the medium difficulty should have a 360 on the characters' backs, and a PS3 for the hard mode because it is teh hueg.

Jensen

First I read the Touch the Dead thread, and somebody in there mentioned Typing of the Dead which pretty much required that I go fire up the dreamcast and play. This in turn made me think "Wow, I really wish there was a Typing of the Dead 2" I come back a bit later, see this thread, and joy ensues. Coincidence? Or is someone in the game industry tapped into my brain?