shumps

[The artist formally known]

thread for lawlz but here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jafbKIBUws

and ikuruga before kaz mentions it.

[ncba93ivyase]

For some reason I hate 3D shmups. Everything just feels fat and not as cool.

[NOA_Haunted]

Whats a shump?

[Feynman]

Whats a shump?

Shoot 'em up.

[NOA_Haunted]

Shoot 'em up.

Oh ok thanks Bassir.

[YPrrrr]

Shoot 'em up.

Shump is a typo

[KonohaShinobi]

Star Fox is pretty much the only Smhup I've played. Any good suggestions preferably on the DS or GBA or Wii's VC?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Star Fox is pretty much the only Smhup I've played. Any good suggestions preferably on the DS or GBA or Wii's VC?

NANOSTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

[mariofreak]

i laughed at how many times shmup was misspelled in this thread

[ncba93ivyase]

Star Fox is pretty much the only Smhup I've played. Any good suggestions preferably on the DS or GBA or Wii's VC?

Axelay, Gradius III, anything on the TG16, and the upcoming Fantasy Zone.

The only DS shmup is Nanostray, and the GBA has like 3 and Iridion 2 is supposedly the best.

[Samus Aran]

Well I haven't really been into the genre very long, but I have a few scrolling shmups that I enjoy.

Gradius III (SNES)
Thunder Force II (Gen)
Ikaruga (GCN)

Though TFII isn't actually all that great, I guess. It switches between bland overhead Xevious-style missions and cool Gradius-style side-scrolling missions.

Ikaruga kicks serious ass, and Gradius III has some flaws (oh god the slowdown) but it's still pretty good overall.

All the other ones I've played I've either emulated or have played on someone else's consoles.

[NOA_Haunted]

i laughed at how many times shmup was misspelled in this thread

Why did you think I asked?

[ncba93ivyase]

Ikaruga kicks serious ass, and Gradius III has some flaws (oh god the slowdown) but it's still pretty good overall.

I actually like slowdown to some degree. Without it, dodging is nigh impossible in most games. If Gradius III had no slowdown, I couldn't have possibly beat it without blatantly cheating.

Axelay has no slowdown at all, but the action isn't nearly as chaotic and you have far greater weapons and the ability to attack anything around you, s it's fine.

the reason why i suck so much at arcade shmups is because you can only fire forward and very few have slowdown and your ship is often so slow that you can't get away from those hugeass bullets :'(

And because some, LIKE GUNBIRD 2, have the hit boxes in some weirdass space, like your head and 2 pixels in front of it.

[The artist formally known]

i dont like that many but i'd like to change that. played a lot of rtype when i was little, the gameboy one really.

[ncba93ivyase]

i dont like that many but i'd like to change that. played a lot of rtype when i was little, the gameboy one really.

I'll take it.

but yeah go for the ones i listed

Also, if you find it, buy Life Force. It's one of the absolute bests.