vertical or horizontal.....

kaos · Oct 29, 2003

.....shooters??
which one do u usually prefer?

I prefer vertical at all however this year I'm just playng horizontals....border down, r-type....next ....gradius 5
or Guwange, dodonpachi series and all the Cave stuff

I think horizontal, anyway, could never have deep and the complexity of some title such as Ikaruga or r.silvergun

MegaDrive20XX · Oct 29, 2003

I generally prefer "Vertical" to "Horizontal" SHOOTERS... but the best types are the ones that do both stages, and use some massive SFX to shift from one dimension to the next. The best example of that would be a game like Salamander that's hoizontal, but then goes vertical... however, the transition would be some Faux 3-D effect ala' the background coming towards you in Blazing Star ... but then go into the screen.

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Verbatum · Oct 29, 2003

I like them both equally.

The best Horizontal Shooter:

Winds of Thunder

The Best Vertical:

Guwange

kaos · Oct 29, 2003

Verbatum said:
I like them both equally.

The best Horizontal Shooter:

Winds of Thunder

The Best Vertical:

Guwange

fuck yeah....Guwange rocks......why in the hell, Cave never thought about a port :blow_top:

have you seen some screen of their last one: Espgaluda....great just great

Freelancer · Oct 29, 2003

I love both, but vertical shooters edge out horizontal ones for me ever so slightly!

abdul · Oct 29, 2003

horizontal

i dunno why

but it wins by a small margine

Lagduf · Oct 29, 2003

Vertical, because horizontal shooters just don't feel right.

Sythe · Oct 29, 2003

Vertical all the way

Arcademan · Oct 29, 2003

Make mine vertical :buttrock:

Hmmm...for some reason, that just doesn't sound right

Buro Destruct · Oct 29, 2003

I tend to prefer horizontal over vertical, despite my favoite shooter (Mars Matrix) being veritcal.

dragonwillow · Oct 29, 2003

Vertical... they just feel more "right"...

tsukaesugi · Oct 29, 2003

Lagduf said:
Vertical, because horizontal shooters just don't feel right.

I feel the same way.

Fav shooter? Musha Aleste.

Kid Aphex · Oct 29, 2003

Well, my favorite shooter series is Gradius.
I mean...c'mon, it's GREAT-ius...

anyways, but yeah, I love vertical.
vertical seems faster, more urgent...and just more bombastic to me.

Verbatum · Oct 30, 2003

kaos said:
fuck yeah....Guwange rocks......why in the hell, Cave never thought about a port

have you seen some screen of their last one: Espgaluda....great just great

Waiting for the Jamma board to come out! I also want to pick up Ketsui. That way I'll have an almost complete Cave collection!

Insaneclown · Oct 30, 2003

I prefer both ways!!! Its all good..........shooters rule!

gmw · Oct 30, 2003

Definitely vertical. Currently playing a lot of Strikers 1945+ and Super Aleste (aka Space Megaforce).

Tehcno · Oct 30, 2003

I'm not sure that is a really hard one.
I love Raiden, one of my favorite shotters. 1942, and many of the greats are vertical. But I also love R-Type, Oradine, Life Force so it's really hard to choose.

FormlessOne · Oct 30, 2003

Although I liked Darius Twin alot, I'm gonna hafto go with vertical cuz my favorite games such as Strikers 1945 + and Ikaruga are vertically style. But then again a little horizontal action never hurt anyone.

Bishamon · Oct 30, 2003

Vertical ALL THE WAY!

Raiden series, anything by Raizing/8ing, Truxton, Tiger-Heli, Twin Cobra...

eight one · Oct 30, 2003

Watch it MOVE! (Thanks Click_Stick)

kaos said:
fuck yeah....Guwange rocks......why in the hell, Cave never thought about a port

have you seen some screen of their last one: Espgaluda....great just great

Check this out.

kaos · Oct 30, 2003

Re: Watch it MOVE! (Thanks Click_Stick)

eight one said:
Check this out.

JESUS F. CHRIST!!!!

thanks for the link man....
It's even better of what I thought

but again....why they just ported dodonpachi so far?? :blow_top:

I'd make the craziest shit on the world if I could have on PS2
esp ra.de.
ketsui
guwange
pro gear no arashi

jaydubnb · Oct 30, 2003

I'm a vert man myself. The only hori's that I really dig are the Duo's Thunder games, especially Winds . However I do have a specially place for shooters like Lifeforce and Axelay which alternate between hori and vert.

I think the reason why I love verts so much is because of the birds eye view: i creates a sensation of altitude and being in the sky/space with the ship. Hori's feel more detached...makes me feel more of a spectator than participant.

corbo 2 · Oct 30, 2003

That's quite a hard question to be honest,not sure.But many off many fav shooters are vertical and i play them the most.I love the speed of Vert shooters though,it's like a bombing run heh.

But all my classics are Horizontal like R type,Pulstar and GRADIUS!

Bah i don't know really

Shapermc · Oct 30, 2003

I so knew what this thread was about.

Vert is king, but I perfer not to choose. Anyways Razing/8ing is king and so then in turn Vert...

Ok, but gradius is my fav series... hmmm.

AppleseedCast · Oct 31, 2003

No way I could decide. I think of Ikaruga, Mars Matrix and DonPachi and R-Type, Gradius and XeXeX and there's just no way I could choose... :help:

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