Hmmm. I never considered that with the red ship. I guess I’m more partial to the blue ship in Dodonpachi and in other games because blue is my favorite color. Not rational, I know, but I can’t help myself.
You get extends from scoring(long chains, no-miss bonus). When you die, you get a new set of bombs, so if you run out and you have extends, you can kill yourself and get more bombs.
oh my bad I must have misread that.
If you get the 4th stage boss in the right spot when you blow up it’s first phase, you can actually glitch the boss out and keep it on the left side of the stage and it won’t shoot anything at all after that. Check out Prometheus’s replay here:
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I’d probably get killed just trying to freeze that boss.
Just had my best run yet. One credit all the way up to the last boss with one ship left, but I was killed shortly thereafter 
wow thats beastly. good work. I am still struggling with Batrider even though I know the conditions for raising the rank. I am lucky if I can scrape by with a score of 800k (which is REALLY lousy) but for one magical run I earned 2.4mil and its like “damn, what was I doing right!?”, and I haven’t been able to get anywhere near that score.
I bought homefront
Thanks.
The Bats(Armed Police Batrider, Battle Bakraid, and Battle Garegga) are all up there when it comes to difficulty, especially Batrider’s last boss. It’s also not uncommon to struggle after a really good run. After my best run through Espgaluda, my next three runs consisted of deaths in the first stage X(
Just a few more months till iPhone 5! I’ll finally be able to play all those damned Cave shmups.
Looks like Eschatos was been delayed due to the earthquakes/tsunami in Japan. Was coming out 3/24, now it’s TBA. Understandable, but I hope we don’t have to wait too long for it.
Figured it would happen, just preordered it a few days ago.
I’m kind of glad it got delayed. I couldn’t afford it yet. Late April is fine though.
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So nice to see 4 player shmup and it’s made in America and the setting and story are cool. Love it love it love it.
Definitely check out the music. It’s really cool and a nice change from the happy techno/metal techno/jazzy techno that we get all the time.
Hahahaha that shit looks so sweet!
OMFG I’m late but, HARD CORPS IS FUCKING SICK!!!
Definitely one of the most fun shooters I’ve played in ages
Been getting into shooters again lately, some of the good ones i’ve found:
Thunder Force IV/Lightening Force for Sega Genesis
Android Assault for Sega CD
Gradius Collection for PSP
And for PSOne:
Philosoma
Zanac X Zanac
R-Type Delta
Shooter Space Shot
Night Raid
Thunder Force V
Philosoma is pretty darn nice! Excellent graphics by PSOne standards, and actually has a story with cut scenes, as well as changing shooter styles through-out the game(Top-down, side-scroller, star fox’ish, etc).
I want to try Gaia Seed for PSOne as well, but have not been able to find it.
Man where you been?! I need someone to run and gun (or run and slice) with me!
I just don’t have my 360 hooked up normally lol.
I’ll tell you what though, we can play on like anytime wed-fri night. My headset is broke though
Jamestown looks amazing, I actually just heard about it tonight but that video sealed the deal.
Big progress has been made on Batrider. I can make it all the way to the final three bosses on normal mode on one credit (Envy wrecks me every time though). That 1cc is so close I can taste it, then it is on to advanced course!
I agree that it is fun. however, It seems like they’re trying to substitute fast for hard. once you get adjusted to the speed and the individual patterns, it’s on. I’m still gonna buy the extra characters and see if that changes anything. Even though I said it isn’t as tough as I thought it would be, I still have yet to beat the whole game. Of course, that means I just have to climb back in and get shot.
I’m liking the choices of games you have, but there is one that I MUST advise you to get by any means neccesary. That game is Einhander. Even though it is pretty old now, It is the BOMB. Please believe. You’ll thank me when you get it. Look up some gameplay vids online. You won’t regret it.
Keep it going mang. You can get that bastard envy. :tup:
-Starhammer-
I still haven’t beaten HCU in Arcade mode yet. Nor do I have a strong desire to outside of getting achievements because I’ve spent like 25 hours just playing Rising mode with different characters. And for the record, if you buy the DLC characters do it in this tier order.
High: Sayuri
Mid: Leviathan
Low: Harley
Period.
And Einhander is in my top three or five all time favorite shmups. Square is bat shit insane for never taking the series further but at the same time given the way they treat their franchises it’s probably for the best.