Props! I haven’t tried to 1CC something in a long while. Sad really.
I’ve started playing this laid back twin stick shooter called Microbot. You are a micro robot inside a human body killing infected micro organisms and other bots. It’s on PSN and XBLA.
congrats on that dude. The empire of ammo salutes you.
-Starhammer-
Dude.
That needs to be our new title “Empire of Ammo: The Shmup Thread”
New on the shooting front…
I just beat Microbot (PSN/XBLA) and man did I enjoy that game. It’s super easy but it’s just too much fun to play (it’s twin stick). All the upgrades and different weapons and the setting (inside the human body) just makes for a fun experience all the way to the end. There is a Challenge mode though where it shouldn’t be as easy so we’ll see. That’s honestly the only downside is how easy it is. But hey, it’s a chill shmup.
There is a new shmup on the Indie Channel! It’s called Vorpol (I think) and it looked cool from the screen shots but EHHHH. The graphics are so lame. It has a cool black and white style with different anime characters to choose from but the actual gameplay graphics are just so lifeless. With so many ways to get shot I don’t see me buying this one even with the 80 point ($1) asking price.
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Just dropping by with two games I think deserve some shine… and that sig from Monte is hilarious son…
I can barely beat stage 2 without continuing half the time. Let’s not even talk about score.
The Empire of Ammo Salutes you
2 straight hours of MAME gaming. Went through Battle Garegga, DonPachi and DonDonPachi. DDP I got 170 combo chain and did some pretty good dodging. Turns out those insane waves of bullets CAN be dodged!
Indeed. That’s why I haven’t changed it. Because three months from now I’ll read it and chuckle.
Oh Galactic-errr-Raystorm or whatever. That’s the first one I ever played and I contend that it is the best graphically. Yeah we got that new HD version but that shit is boring to look at it. This one however, just very pretty scaling sprites all around. Most depth I’ve felt in a strictly 2D game.
Yo guys, [media=youtube]YOEXvfVqkUQ"[/media] recently came out at comiket, go find it! It’s gotta be the prettiest doujin shmup I’ve ever seen.
The new HD versions of Serious Sam are really good looking and I forgot how much fun it is to play the game! It is so epic trying to kill 200+ enemies with a mini-gun lol.
I see what you did there. And yes I will go find this.
I love some Serious Sam too but you know this thread is about shoot em ups and not first person shooters right? I need to ask a mod to change the thread title.
I actually bought Vorpal and beat it with one of the 6 characters. It’s…interesting, but yeah, not worth your time. It’s a boss-rush shmup (like Chaos Field, but not as good), where each boss has 6 or 8 lifebars, and cycles bullet patterns accordingly. The bomb mechanic was kind of neat in that you “earn” bombs by either getting hit, or continuously shooting the boss without dying. And you decide what power level you use the bomb at. But yeah, I’ll be sticking to Score Rush, Crossfire 2, and that rotating one.
ive been playing crimzon clover for about half a day now. im bad at these games but i really want to try to finish this one.
game has 3 buttons (not counting pause): shoot, lock on, and bomb/break mode activate.
shoot - if you need to be told what this does youre in the wrong thread
lock on - your ship has a number of homing laser thingies, holding down the button automatically locks onto N targets in a circle, releasing it releases the lasers. also narrows your normal shot pattern while button is held.
bomb/break activate - in this game you dont get bombs, you get a little meter that fills every time you blow something up; fill it 1/2way and you get to use a bomb, fill it some more to 1x and you get to go into “break mode” for a period of time. “break mode” is your ship going super saiyan (it actually glows yellow and has an aura!); in this mode your shot and laser get much larger and their damage greatly increased. break activation clears the screen like a bomb. if you entered break mode with 2x (max) meter filled, or it fills to 1x during normal break, you get to go into “double break” which is just a stronger break mode (if youre not at a boss you may as well hold down shot and watch the screen clear itself).
for every attempt you make at clearing the game (quitting does not count), you get points, which you use to buy stuff in the shop like the other selectable ship, practice modes for stages youve been to, etc.
thats pretty much all i know about the game, interested to see what you experienced shmup players think about it.
Didn’t know that Hori was considering (they need enough preorders to justify it apparently) making a special edition stick for the impending release of Radiant Silvergun on XBLA. It’s a cool looking stick but not $300 cool.
Crimzon Clover’s Double Break mode is beastly. I’ve never had a HOLY SHIT moment like that in a SHMUP, especially for one that benefits me (as opposed to HOLY SHIT this boss is ridiculous!)
Yostubane didn’t want to be outjuiced by Daifukkatsu’s Hyper Mode. I think he went in the right direction
Did another 1-ALL of Ketsui, beat my old score by about 1mil, but still didn’t quite have it to make it to a second loop. I did remember to save the replay and upload it this time though:
Quite impressed with the way I made it through the Stage 4 boss. Other areas I kinda fumbled on (like the Stage 3 boss, I know I can make the final pattern, but I didn’t want to risk it at that point) that I normally don’t but it all turned out well.
that’s dope. are you running that game on mame or is it a stand alone game that needs to be downloaded?
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Roberth
I am playing the 360 version here (unfortunately, a Japan-region locked disc release), but the game is in MAME now, I would recommend the latest shmupMAME version for running it:
shmups.system11.org - Shmupmame v2.2, lagless Ketsui, Doj and Doj BL
You’ll have to track down the roms yourself though.
I’m honestly starting to feel overwhelmed by the number of ways we can get shot these days. There’s good/excellent shmups coming out like every other week.
Remember when you had to suck dick from the back, import everything, and empty your mother’s savings account for even a decent shmup? Now you can swing two dead possum’s and yer bound to land on a great shmup.
Time for me to write a blog style post about this dilemma.
welp im stuck on stage 3 of crimzon clover 
the good news is i can add around 80-100?billion to my score (in theory) if i go for it, too bad i cant clear the damn thing
next time ill try laming it out by pressing bomb every time it charges or something