The shooter games thread returns! The Empire Of Ammo says, EVERYBODY GETS SHOT!

[nikkos010]

NICE!!! Also, i’ve found this:

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Dunno how he can play like that with 5 freaking screens. That game’s got more options than a Kia dealership.

Just found this, http://www.teeworlds.com/
It’s quite addictive and I felt right at home with the quake-like weapons.
Besides, who doesn’t love Kirby?

I highly recommend giving this a shot, the download is ridiculously small (5.5 MB).

Shmups will likely never get the respect and understanding they deserve. :sad:

[FurryCurry]

NICE!!! Also, i’ve found this:

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I suck at maniac shmups but this shit right here… man. This game is tricked the fuck out.

[Dai]

I suck at maniac shmups but this shit right here… man. This game is tricked the fuck out.

They should give you 1000GP just for buying this game.

[Shin_Akuma]

Found this:

eXceed3rd -JADE PENETRATE- BLACK PACKAGE
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This game looks AMAZING!

Download the demo here:
http://www.tennen-sozai.com/eXceed3rd-BP/ex3bp_dl.htm

3 stages available.

Full version (5 stages) to be sold at Comiket 77.

Anxiously awaiting Futari

EDIT: For anyone who has the English version of Castle of Shikigami III, can you change the voices to Japanese, or are you stuck with the crappy English voices?

[Gray_Fox]

I tried gradius and I know hella people like it, but I could never get into it. R-type and ikaruga are the ones for me.

Mushihimesama (sp?) looks pretty rediculous, I wouldn’t mind trying that sometime.

I don’t know if Rez can be construed as a shooter, it sort of is. If it is, I’d say it’s the best shooter game ever made haha. I love rez x.x

[thedude.com]

twinkle star sprites is probably the most addictive shooting game in the world .

[AdverseSolutions]

They should give you 1000GP just for buying this game.

Achievements aren’t that tough really, so they almost are. I imagine most people in this thread could take 800 or so easily. Then add in the Black Label DLC coming at the end of the year and that’s another 100 or so probably easy.

[FurryCurry]

I tried gradius and I know hella people like it, but I could never get into it. R-type and ikaruga are the ones for me.

Mushihimesama (sp?) looks pretty rediculous, I wouldn’t mind trying that sometime.

I don’t know if Rez can be construed as a shooter, it sort of is. If it is, I’d say it’s the best shooter game ever made haha. I love rez x.x

Yeah I’m not a gradius man either. Never got down with the weapon system.

And yes Rez is a shmup. An on rails 3D shmup.

[pimp_bishop_donjon]

I tried gradius and I know hella people like it, but I could never get into it. R-type and ikaruga are the ones for me.

if you haven’t tried gradius gaiden, then give it a shot

[Legendary_Hoamaru]

I want Mushihime…but 70+ is much too steep for me right now.

Ugh, why am I now just finding about Charge attacks in Raiden Fighters?

twinkle star sprites is probably the most addictive shooting game in the world .

I wish this and Phantasmagoria of Flower View would have a scene.

EDIT: For anyone who has the English version of Castle of Shikigami III, can you change the voices to Japanese, or are you stuck with the crappy English voices?

You’re stuck with the English voices from what I remember.

[Shin_Akuma]

So I got this e-mail just a couple of minutes ago, from NCSX.com:

Dear NCS Customer,

Thanks for your recent order for the Mushihimesama Futari Limited Edition. Please note that there is a possibility that we won’t receive enough copies of the game to fill recent orders due to short-shipments from the publisher Cave.

In the event that there is a shortage of the limited edition, would you be interested in switching your order to the regular edition of Mushihimesama Futari? We will begin receiving the game tomorrow and any remaining shipments from Japan will arrive on Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday and we will send you another update on Friday. Thanks for your attention.

Just a heads up for anyone who ordered from there.

You’re stuck with the English voices from what I remember.

Thanks. Damn. I wanted to pick this up but I just cannot bring myself to play a game that has such terrible voice overs.

EDIT: Holy shit! The insanity!

Futari Double-Play.

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As if Single Play isn’t hard enough. :wow: :wtf:

[HardBody]

This thread died as soon as futari 1.5 came out lol. mine is coming in the mail, if any1 got it give me the rundown and review and their thoughts on it please, since no english website will cuz they r scared of doujins!!!

[scum_gale_88]

got some new shooters for my genesis, Vapor Trail and Air Busters. I prefer Vapor Trail a lot more. Ive been weened onto tiny hitboxes, so when I play an older shooter and my whole ship is the hitbox its a real slap in the face!

[OmNiExiZt]

I’m looking for an old arcade game that played similar to Defender but came out in the late 90’s. The graphics of the game looked like something RARE could have done. The 1 and 2 player ships were purple or yellow and the aliens looked like little green dinosaurs or T-Rex’s that attacked the people walking around.

Sometimes there would be a huge ship attacking the planet and you had to try and destroy it rather than a wave of ships. Most of the satages seemed like they were tropical with lots of trees and water. You also had to try and protect the little people or the monsters would eat them.

I’d like to search for screenshots, but without knowing the name of the game or having some kind of complete list makes this nigh impossible.

[FurryCurry]

Ugh, why am I now just finding about Charge attacks in Raiden Fighters?

Same. I had almost beaten the first one before reading on wikipedia that there were charge moves for the non-Raiden ships.

Guys, do you think Capcom will ever re-release the diamond encrusted platinum medal of a game, 19XX? It’s probably my most favorite top-down shmup of all time.

[scum_gale_88]

I just wish they would start releasing shmup collections. I would kill to get a Cave/Raizing/Toaplan collection

[DeathReaper47]

I’m looking for an old arcade game that played similar to Defender but came out in the late 90’s. The graphics of the game looked like something RARE could have done. The 1 and 2 player ships were purple or yellow and the aliens looked like little green dinosaurs or T-Rex’s that attacked the people walking around.

Sometimes there would be a huge ship attacking the planet and you had to try and destroy it rather than a wave of ships. Most of the satages seemed like they were tropical with lots of trees and water. You also had to try and protect the little people or the monsters would eat them.

I’d like to search for screenshots, but without knowing the name of the game or having some kind of complete list makes this nigh impossible.

Oh! I know this one, I think! Prehistoric Isle 2! My theater used to have that game, it was pretty good.

[FurryCurry]

Guys don’t you think it’s time somebody somewhere really made a shmup designed for consoles?

And I don’t mean a remakes either but something NEW.

The only new shmups we get are of the twin-stick kind and manic shmups from the arcade. Twin-stick games have the advantage of being accessible but don’t have progressive levels and crazy bosses. Manic shmups are hard as hell and really cater to such a niche within a niche.

Plus none of them want to tackle online multiplayer it seems. I mean what, Ikaruga and that one free shmup are the only ones on XBLA with multiplayer? Really? Seriously?

It’s time to update the experience. Create compelling reasons for non-hardcore players besides racking up scores or 1-crediting the game, because those, aren’t.

1. If it’s a top down shooter make it co-op online! Create a ghost tutorial mode! Really teach people how to play them instead of just letting the best of the best have all the fun.

2. If it’s a side-scroller shmup bring back tricky level design and hell, branching paths and GOOD bosses. And if possible within the design, co-op as well.

3. For any style of game, create a simple currency system so we can buy aesthetic changes to our ships/characters. How cool would it have been if Raiden IV let you customize your ship as half as much as you can in racing games like Forza 3 or NFS: Shift? You could use it to buy background art for top down shmups or even buy your way into making the game easier. Imagine a sucky player using the in-game money to max out their power-ups or to cut the boss’s HP in half.

4. Make more DLC and not just shit that is ready before the game comes out. This is something ALL publishers and developers are slacking on in the smaller downloadable game segment. I understand that there may be a 7 level theme for like the main arcade mode. That’s fine. Why not create a 3 level package for like $5 with new material? Side-missions, alternate takes on previous levels, etc. Again, all shmup styles can benefit from this. And once a bunch of DLC has be released a new retail package can be created to get it to those who just don’t go online with their consoles.

I’m not trying rant just to rant. I really mean what I say. It’s like something so hard headed in so many developer/publishers approaches to the shmup genre. I feel like they are just trying to make a quick buck off of me and other games. Leave games like Raiden Fighters Aces to do their jobs instead of creating remakes. Something like R-Type Dimensions shouldn’t have happened. It should have been a damned compilation of R-Type 1, 2, 3, and Leo, with a bonus of Armed Police Unit Gallop. All the 2D classics under one roof. I bet it would have sold more.

/rant

[Starhammer]

I tried gradius and I know hella people like it, but I could never get into it. R-type and ikaruga are the ones for me.

Mushihimesama (sp?) looks pretty rediculous, I wouldn’t mind trying that sometime.

I don’t know if Rez can be construed as a shooter, it sort of is. If it is, I’d say it’s the best shooter game ever made haha. I love rez x.x

Yes, Rez is a shooter and one of my all-time favorites. :tup: I’ll most likely be playing it later on today.

I’m looking for an old arcade game that played similar to Defender but came out in the late 90’s. The graphics of the game looked like something RARE could have done. The 1 and 2 player ships were purple or yellow and the aliens looked like little green dinosaurs or T-Rex’s that attacked the people walking around.

Sometimes there would be a huge ship attacking the planet and you had to try and destroy it rather than a wave of ships. Most of the satages seemed like they were tropical with lots of trees and water. You also had to try and protect the little people or the monsters would eat them.

I’d like to search for screenshots, but without knowing the name of the game or having some kind of complete list makes this nigh impossible.

That sounds like Prehistoric Isle or Pulstar. If those aren’t it let me know.

-Starhammer-

[nikkos010]

/rant

I dunno what to tell you guy, Commercial shmups are made for the arcade scene. Though there’s a few PC shmups, their market is usually the hardcore anyway.

The whole point of the shmup is completion and then high-score. You want to keep the players putting quarters in, so you have to make it hard (or add lolis, but Touhou and DeathSmiles II proved you need good gameplay too)

I don’t really know what else you can put into it besides some FMVs and a bit more storyline. However I dunno if there’s much difference between “shoot things” and “shoot things because they killed my dog” these games were never meant to be deep and philosophically satisfying.