Revenge of Shooter Games Thread

[Sapz]

Chaining doesn't really start adding a lot to your score until you've gotten your max bomb bonus, which doesn't happen until the very end of stage 2.  It would probably be more useful to grind stages 4/5/6 and learn how to no-miss them consistently.  And it'd probably be more enjoyable too.

And don't worry so much about reaching the second loop, at least not if you actually want to get good at the game and not just savestate Hibachi.  I don't mean to sound offensive (you're probably way better at DDP than me by now), but what's the point of looping if you're still struggling with parts of the first round? :V

Don't worry, it's not offensive in the slightest. You're right, grinding the last two stages (I've got a perfect Stage 4 strat down) would be much more useful in terms of actually bettering my gameplay; what I'm actually after right now is just a quick way to reach the second loop at all... more than anything else, I'm just curious about how far in the game I could really get on one credit. After that, I'll probably get serious about the second loop, at which point mastering the first loop will be essential.

More than that, though... I'm lazy. I'm sure I'll get around to practicing the stages eventually, but... :V

[Bananamatic]

First attempt at streaming, 238 chain. :V
Third attempt, 284.

If you can't do this, I don't know :V
just sweep left right across the screen and watch out for the huge cannons in the middle

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/6582/406n.png
ok now you have no excuses
go loop it

hey

if it's over 400x400 it needs to be thumbnailed, resized or linked


now you know
ok now you have no excuses

~Matsy

[Sapz]

406 hit chain

... D:

The cannon part is one of two sections in the stage that still give me trouble (the other being the part where those green ships fly all over the place and make walls everywhere). I guess I need to practice that part a lot, then... 8.7 million from a single chain. Holy damn.

Having said that, I just did some Stage 5 practice and did my best run by far of the stage yet; ND1B on the stage section and 1DNB on the boss. :V Survival is becoming less of an issue, at least, although I'm confident a few of those dodges were pure luck.

[Bananamatic]

Dangun Feveron

MY EYES

[Aisha]

Each time I play Dangun Feveron, my sinuses get messed up for a bit or I get a headache. I guess CAVE thought it would be a good idea to add an extra layer of difficulty to the game by causing the player real physical discomfort.

So yeah.

I stay away from Dangun Feveron.

[Nat Tea]

Dangun Feveron

MY EYES

I foresee fever in your future.

Spoiler:

Real men use BOMB Type.

[Bananamatic]

It's fucking hard :V

And my eyes still hurt.

[Sapz]

Quite a few attempts later, I've only managed to no death/no bombs that section once, and my chain died around 240ish. :V Having said that, maybe being half asleep had something to do with it... I'll try again tomorrow, I guess.

[Bananamatic]

I was about to resize it :V
And my eyes STILL hurt.

[Azinth]

FUCK

GUWANGE IS THE WORST SHMUP OF ALL TIME

OF ALL TIME

I'm still gonna 1cc it though.

And I got a new score, but it's just a paltry 650k higher.  Nothing to get too excited about.

[Aisha]

FUCK

GUWANGE IS THE WORST SHMUP OF ALL TIME

OF ALL TIME

I'm still gonna 1cc it though.

And I got a new score, but it's just a paltry 650k higher.  Nothing to get too excited about.

Where did you get that Hibachi sprite, by the way?

[Azinth]

Where did you get that Hibachi sprite, by the way?

I found it in a random Google image search actually.  Just type in 'Dodonpachi Hibachi' and go to page 2.

[Bananamatic]

FUCK

GUWANGE IS THE WORST SHMUP OF ALL TIME

OF ALL TIME

I'm still gonna 1cc it though.

And I got a new score, but it's just a paltry 650k higher.  Nothing to get too excited about.

But the boss themes are awesome
:<

[moozooh]

Why are you people still not playing Armed Police Batrider?

[Observer]

Why are you people still not playing Armed Police Batrider?

THIS. THIS!!!! WELCOME TO VIOLENT CITY.

[Matsuri]

Raizing shmups have really grown on me over the past few months.

[BoLaD]

Can anyone tell me why simulation mode in DOJ only lets you play as one shot type and starts you off with no power?
Unless of course you can and I'm not doing something right.

[Matsuri]

Can anyone tell me why simulation mode in DOJ only lets you play as one shot type and starts you off with no power?
Unless of course you can and I'm not doing something right.

You sure aren't. See that big 'Setting' option in the Simulation Menu? All of your answers are there.

[Observer]

Raizing shmups have really grown on me over the past few months.

So if we want to continue talking about Cave-CAVE-CAVE'D we could talk about Ibara?  :V BOOMBA! POWA UP!

By the way, Guwange has the spider kitty (bmeeeowww!) and the deformed baby. The game is untouchable by default, despite its faults.

Obviously, I still prefer DonPachi's co-pilot and Dangun Feveron's dude. S.O.S, S.O.S!

edit: absolutely offtopic but, Matsuri, your avatar... what is it? I find it familiar for some reason.

[KOA]

Why are you people still not playing Armed Police Batrider?

I am. I've been spazzing over Envy, Sobut, and Blunt in IRC for the past week or so.

[Matsuri]

So if we want to continue talking about Cave-CAVE-CAVE'D we could talk about Ibara?  :V BOOMBA! POWA UP!

By the way, Guwange has the spider kitty (bmeeeowww!) and the deformed baby. The game is untouchable by default, despite its faults.

Obviously, I still prefer DonPachi's co-pilot and Dangun Feveron's dude. S.O.S, S.O.S!

edit: absolutely offtopic but, Matsuri, your avatar... what is it? I find it familiar for some reason.

I can always go for some of Ibara's BOMBA! and POWAAAAA UP!

Oh, and my avatar is Matsuri from Ichigo Mashimaro. (I've only had like 6 different Matsuri avatars since I joined here (and a couple at Shmups forum, for what it's worth.) Surprise?)

Original image:

[shadowbringer]

Why are you people still not playing Armed Police Batrider?

my personal landmarks on this game were reaching Grubby on Special Course (I felt that Black Heart mk II wasn't as dangerous as the first, yet I felt that the first Black Heart in Garegga was more difficult than Batrider's..), and reaching 4,400,000 points on Advanced (died on Bashi mkII, using three blue Car Pets). That was before attempting to make more use of the aura attacks and boss milking, and since I don't know how to do them properly, now I'll restart right after messing up on the first stage.. (so, I won't practice the other stages as often, if I can't get to them)

I still haven't thought of a proper team selection (in the sense of, do other ships have better potential?), so I feel clueless, just like trying to figure scoring in Touhou games (where to graze, when to try to activate borders, etc..).

[Bananamatic]

Obviously, I still prefer DonPachi's co-pilot and Dangun Feveron's dude.

FEEEEEEVERRRRRRRRRR!

[Azinth]

By the way, Guwange has the spider kitty (bmeeeowww!) and the deformed baby. The game is untouchable by default, despite its faults.

Hey, don't forget the stage 4 boss.  It's a frikkin shrine-tank on wheels that fires ofuda cannons at you.  And then when you blow it up it turns out that there's a giant cyclops beast living inside of it.  That is awesome.

And if it wasn't obvious, I was just being facetious in my last post.  I like Guwange a lot.

[BoLaD]

@Matsuri: Wow... why the hell don't I check those things before I post. It'd be nice if Cave would have a practice start like in the Touhou games.

Now, does anyone else have trouble bombing when they are holding down the shoot button? Half my deaths are because I can't bomb fast enough when I'm holding the shoot button. Is it because I'm not using an arcade stick or is it just my hands? =(
Recently, I've been playing a lot of Mushi maniac; it feels like a harder version of arrange; less power at the start of the game, less slowdown, faster bullets and no auto-bombing. It's insane; I've managed to get to the stage 5 mid-boss only once.

[Sapz]

...I just hit the second loop of DDP.



Having said that, it was actually a pretty bad run overall... didn't even beat my high score. I got a 272 hit chain in Stage 2, and then died immediately after that, somehow or other. Perfected Stage 3, but managed to die twice in Stage 4. Did decently enough in Stage 5 and 6 - 1 miss on each. Reached the Stage 6 boss at 1/2 and bombspammed it, clearing with 0/0.

Pretty pleased I actually managed to get as far through 2-1 as I did, seeing as I'd never seen it before. I was not expecting the boss to send such a clusterfuck at me, though. Ah well, progress is progress. Maybe I'll make it a little further next time.

[Bananamatic]

inb4matsuri400x400

Good job. Wish I could decently chain st2 :V

[Matsuri]

@Matsuri: Wow... why the hell don't I check those things before I post. It'd be nice if Cave would have a practice start like in the Touhou games.

Now, does anyone else have trouble bombing when they are holding down the shoot button? Half my deaths are because I can't bomb fast enough when I'm holding the shoot button. Is it because I'm not using an arcade stick or is it just my hands? =(
Recently, I've been playing a lot of Mushi maniac; it feels like a harder version of arrange; less power at the start of the game, less slowdown, faster bullets and no auto-bombing. It's insane; I've managed to get to the stage 5 mid-boss only once.

That's because Arrange is an easier version of Maniac with a TLB. :V

inb4matsuri400x400

Good job. Wish I could decently chain st2 :V

oh you

Seriously though awesome job Sapz, as I already said on MSN

[Aisha]

I seriously had a dream last night that I was playing Futari and DeathSmiles.

It seemed so real too.

D:

[Bananamatic]

I had a dream involving Sapz. Can't remember it though.