thread for lawlz but here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jafbKIBUws
and ikuruga before kaz mentions it.
For some reason I hate 3D shmups. Everything just feels fat and not as cool.
Whats a shump?
Star Fox is pretty much the only Smhup I've played. Any good suggestions preferably on the DS or GBA or Wii's VC?
Quote from: KonohaShinobi on January 27, 2008, 01:56:44 PM
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
i laughed at how many times shmup was misspelled in this thread
Quote from: KonohaShinobi on January 27, 2008, 01:56:44 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: Birth Man on January 27, 2008, 02:26:33 PM
i laughed at how many times shmup was misspelled in this thread
Why did you think I asked?
Quote from: Kaz on January 27, 2008, 03:49:35 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: reefer on January 27, 2008, 10:30:41 PM
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.
Quote from: Lawlz on January 27, 2008, 11:28:52 PM
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.
stfu, i never said i didn't like rtype, just liked other games better.
also idk if i even have it faggot
I want some shmups to play on my PSP. I was thinking Gradius Collection but there's also R-Type Delta coming out in a month or so. Those are the only two I know for the PSP, any others?
Also, what are some good Genesis shmups/games? I'm going to get my uncle's Genesis later. caterpie;
Quote from: UnagiPower on January 28, 2008, 09:15:58 AM
Also, what are some good Genesis shmups/games? I'm going to get my uncle's Genesis later. caterpie;
M.U.S.H.A. and Truxton seem to be the favorites. Other popular ones are the Thunder Force games (I have TFII and it's pretty cool but also rather bland and I hear III is better), Gaiares, Sagaia, Super Fantasy Zone, and Space Harrier II.
There's plenty of others, though. The Genesis has a surprisingly large library of shmups that have been mostly forgotten over the years.
Schmups I like:
Ikaruga
Schmups I don't like:
The rest.
Quote from: Kaz on January 28, 2008, 10:35:07 AMSuper Fantasy Zone
i wish american genesi could play import games but they can't
Quote from: C.Mongler on January 28, 2008, 11:37:20 AM
Schmups I like:
Ikaruga
Schmups I don't like:
The rest.
Treasure doesn't make the best shmups and you know it. They just make the most expensive ones.
Also, I want to buy Gradius collection but I can't find it or my PSP anywhere. Also, the first Gradius is utter ass, 2 doesn't seem very good, and I don't know anything about IV but it doesn't seem that great. It seems like it'd only be nice for handheld shmuppage since all systems lack in that genre. :'(
Quote from: Lawlz on January 28, 2008, 01:42:37 PM
i wish american genesi could play import games but they can'tTreasure doesn't make the best shmups and you know it. They just make the most expensive ones.
But still tis the only schmup i like lol
Quote from: C.Mongler on January 28, 2008, 01:44:06 PM
But still tis the only schmup i like lol
Maybe you need to play better games.
Also, I want some shmups but they're usually pretty expensive and collector's like me like to get balls deep in them and take whatever they can find so needless to say that's why I'll never go back to San Francisco and why I have no Genesis shmups.
But I'm probably ordering Biohazard Battle soon.
Quote from: Lawlz on January 28, 2008, 01:45:06 PM
Maybe you need to play better games.
i've played a bunch of schmups and they were all dum
Quote from: C.Mongler on January 28, 2008, 04:29:38 PM
i've played a bunch of schmups and they were all dum
Then why do you like Ikaruga so much?
Quote from: Kaz on January 28, 2008, 04:43:05 PM
Then why do you like Ikaruga so much?
i dunno acutally