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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
March 29 2008 18:25 GMT
#21
ikaruga is super badass imo



hey this red chick is way better than the blue chick

but what do i know
Bill307
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada9103 Posts
March 29 2008 18:49 GMT
#22
Personally, one of my favourite shmups to watch is ESPGaluda II. (I'd love to play it too, if that were possible .) Some of the bullet patterns are really mesmerising to look at.

Unfortunately, afaik there's only one correct-aspect-ratio video of ESPGaluda II on Youtube, and I uploaded it =P. This is the 4th boss, played on "overheat mode" (makes the bullets turn red and go faster).



One really cool thing about the ESPGaluda series is that you can collect green gems and use them to either (a) slow the game down at hard parts, and/or (b) get higher scores. If you don't care about score, then you can make the game easier by just saving your gems and using them at the difficult parts only.

I prefer watching the overheat mode videos, though, because I get kind of bored watching the game going in and out of slowdown mode ^^;;. I'll see if I can upload more ESPGaluda II footage to Youtube later.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
March 29 2008 19:01 GMT
#23
that game looks awesome and sounds like anime
cava
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
United States1035 Posts
March 29 2008 19:02 GMT
#24
Mega Man X
cava!
gwho
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States632 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-29 19:11:56
March 29 2008 19:09 GMT
#25
one of the most creative innovations to these type of scrolling shooters is IKARUGA.

The core progressive concept of it is the black and white feature of you and your enemies, which can be against you or help you. you can switch from white to black, and you absorb the same color attacks/particles for charging your power bar for a strong attack. Every enemy can be for you or against you - you just need to be the right color.

There are black enemies and white enemies. while not nearly resemblent of GTA (heh), when you destroy enemies, they blow up into either black or white particles, which you can then get hit by or absorb.


here's a video sample



settings: (all ships shoot their own color, but also emit particles when they blow up, according to difficulty settings) but as a bonus, ships take more damage if you use the opposite color against them.

easy: no ships emit particles when they blow up

normal: only ships of the same color as you emit particles (you can see you can get very strategic and action packed already)

hard: everything you shoot blows up to emit particles according to it's color
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-29 21:35:18
March 29 2008 20:56 GMT
#26





(this is one guy playing both ships)
omgbnetsux
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States3749 Posts
March 29 2008 21:18 GMT
#27
Ikaruga fans: The game is coming out on Xbox live arcade on April 9th.

There is also an awesome looking redo of 1942 in the works for Xbox live arcade also (maybe Playstation Network also, not sure).
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32280 Posts
March 29 2008 21:36 GMT
#28
Sick
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
March 29 2008 22:27 GMT
#29
was gradius 5 any good? Always wanted to play that game.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-29 23:04:09
March 29 2008 23:03 GMT
#30
touhou is not that hard. just concentrate on dodging.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
March 29 2008 23:11 GMT
#31
the best side-scrolling shooter ever is Gunstar Heros on the sega genesis

it is the best fucking game imaginable, something is always blowing up
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
Retsukage
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1002 Posts
March 30 2008 00:07 GMT
#32
I love the touhou games
Shoot the Bullet is the hardest one imo
I got em all :D

also Every Extend is a good game
and one of my favorite games REZ
To change is to improve, to change often is to be perfect - Winston Chruchill
Morzas
Profile Joined August 2005
United States387 Posts
March 30 2008 01:35 GMT
#33
On March 30 2008 07:27 CharlieMurphy wrote:
was gradius 5 any good? Always wanted to play that game.


I think it's better than Gaiden, personally.
What has four wheels and flies? Stephen Hawking on LSD!
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
March 30 2008 02:13 GMT
#34
On March 30 2008 05:56 travis wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToBdzV7w5Pc




(this is one guy playing both ships)


wow...
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
NathanSC
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States620 Posts
March 30 2008 02:28 GMT
#35
Ikaruga is amazing and far from a one-dimensional shooter game.
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
March 30 2008 04:14 GMT
#36
back when i liked playing shmups, ikaruga was my main game of choice i liked it more than others like touhou because of the chain and color system, making it more fun (imo) than just dodging bullets on screen ;o!

i could never figure out the 2nd part to 4-2 but aside from that i did quite well in the game! good to know it's coming to xbox live arcade :O
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
Bill307
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Canada9103 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-03-30 08:43:46
March 30 2008 08:43 GMT
#37
On March 30 2008 11:28 NathanSC wrote:
Ikaruga is amazing and far from a one-dimensional shooter game.

Well of course: it's two-dimensional.

Learning to play Ikaruga (when one of my housemates had it for his Dreamcast) was such a fun experience. I remember there was one day where I practiced chapter 4 for at least 3 hours straight, and afterwards my brain was stuck in Ikaruga Mode for the next 15+ minutes. Like, I was talking on MSN and I couldn't stop categorizing things as red or as blue and keeping track of their locations and movement.
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary26003 Posts
May 06 2008 18:30 GMT
#38
Oh wow I've played the first couple levels, it's my favourite shmup but I suck at them
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
May 06 2008 19:45 GMT
#39
A touhou thread I read (where they were talking about "why the hell did touhou become popular?") mentioned that as far as bullet field type shooters go, Touhou is actually easier than the standard vertical scroll shooters out there. Its popularity is derived more from its graphics, appealing bullet patterns, music, and secondary fan creations such as remixes of the music (soooo many CDs out there), redrawing of the characters by far superior artists, fan novelizations, etc.

In fact tons of pple are "fans" of Touhou without having ever played the game! wtf??

I would have liked to be able to recommend a "more difficult" shooter to you but I am unfortunately a newbie in the genre. The only title that I can even think of is Mushihime.
perisie xx
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
429 Posts
May 06 2008 20:10 GMT
#40
On March 30 2008 08:11 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
the best side-scrolling shooter ever is Gunstar Heros on the sega genesis

it is the best fucking game imaginable, something is always blowing up




LOL awesome i was gonna post this =D i just made my mate download it on Wii
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