Daily Check: What shooters are you guys playing ATM?

Piratero · Apr 13, 2007

A couple of my friends were able to play Ibara (on an New Astro City) for the first time. All I had to do was fire up the cab and show them the "Demonscracion" (That's EspGaluda II's Engrish) screen and they were immediately hooked. I'm glad they took a liking to the game even though they died ~20 times.

Circa2113 · Apr 13, 2007

Piratero said:
A couple of my friends were able to play Ibara (on an New Astro City) for the first time. All I had to do was fire up the cab and show them the "Demonscracion" (That's EspGaluda II's Engrish) screen and they were immediately hooked. I'm glad they took a liking to the game even though they died ~20 times.

I have a very hard time getting my friends to play shmups.

They become so intimidated by the first couple of stages, they just give up every time.

I guess starting them out with feveron and raiden fighters may have been a bad idea. :emb:

Tron · Apr 14, 2007

alec said:
Super awsome game. I got the nes cart for like 1.70 shipped a while back, well worth it.

played fever sos today

Got mine from, 16-Bit at his ebay store for only $19.95.

I couldn't pass up a copy cib of it since i like the cover art.

Btw it put's the cover art for the u.s one to shame

Piratero · Apr 14, 2007

Circa2113 said:
I have a very hard time getting my friends to play shmups.

They become so intimidated by the first couple of stages, they just give up every time.

I guess starting them out with feveron and raiden fighters may have been a bad idea.

I'm surprised they enjoyed the game. As they were playing I explained how the whole medal thing works and how it isn't a good idea to have two players playing at the same time.

Yeah, I bet you're having a hard time. Most are 360 fanatics. My brother doesn't like shmups at all. To him, they're very boring... they're not 3D.

Circa2113 · Apr 14, 2007

Piratero said:
I'm surprised they enjoyed the game. As they were playing I explained how the whole medal thing works and how it isn't a good idea to have two players playing at the same time.

Yeah, I bet you're having a hard time. Most are 360 fanatics. My brother doesn't like shmups at all. To him, they're very boring... they're not 3D.

Well, If it isn't dreamcast or better, I rarely have anyone to play with.
I did get one of my cousins into samurai shodown 4 and zupapa!, but outside of that, 2d gaming is dead to my family.

Most wont even touch the game if it is without "teh HD polygons" Honestly though, for shmups this is usually a good thing. 99% of shmups become much less playable with 2 players. (only one I can think of off the top of my head would be stinger for nes)

Piratero · Apr 14, 2007

Circa2113 said:
Well, If it isn't dreamcast or better, I rarely have anyone to play with.
I did get one of my cousins into samurai shodown 4 and zupapa!, but outside of that, 2d gaming is dead to my family.

Most wont even touch the game if it is without "teh HD polygons" Honestly though, for shmups this is usually a good thing. 99% of shmups become much less playable with 2 players. (only one I can think of off the top of my head would be stinger for nes)

Ha! At least your family plays your games! With my brother, the problem is usually that he gets easily frustrated and has to start over.

alec · Apr 14, 2007

Tron 2.0 said:
Got mine from, 16-Bit at his ebay store for only $19.95.

I couldn't pass up a copy cib of it since i like the cover art.

Btw it put's the cover art for the u.s one to shame

yeah, thats sex, but nothing will ever bring shame to the US guardian legend NES cover.

I'd love to get a Famicom system, but buying dupes just to have diff cover art just doesn't sit right w/ me. I may cop out and get a PS2 soon :shame:

on me. Or I may just do the dumb thing and drop a fortune on a circuit board

:esprade:

Circa2113 · Apr 14, 2007

ESPgaluda just showed up and I'm going to play now. :buttrock:

Will post my impressions later.

SSS · Apr 14, 2007

soldier blade wii VC

Circa2113 · Apr 14, 2007

Circa2113 said:
ESPgaluda just showed up and I'm going to play now.

Will post my impressions later.

...and....

It's awesome! Seems a bit easy for a cave shmup, but everything seems so perfectly designed. The gameplay is indepth but not too complicted, the music is top-notch, and the graphics are great.

I'm really happy with this purchase.

BIG · Apr 14, 2007

Circa2113 said:
...and....

It's awesome! Seems a bit easy for a cave shmup, but everything seems so perfectly designed. The gameplay is indepth but not too complicted, the music is top-notch, and the graphics are great.

I'm really happy with this purchase.

Easy?

Are you force-feeding credits?

In other news,I'm playing Judgement Silversword.

The game is pure sex....portable sex.

B-

Circa2113 · Apr 14, 2007

BIG said:
Easy?

Are you force-feeding credits?

In other news,I'm playing Judgement Silversword.

The game is pure sex....portable sex.

B-

No, I never use more than 1 credit... :conf:

It just seemed a lot easier than most cave shmups as I just got it today and I've already made it to well into stage 4. Maybe the difficulty goes up drastically after that?

BIG · Apr 14, 2007

Circa2113 said:
No, I never use more than 1 credit...

It just seemed a lot easier than most cave shmups as I just got it today and I've already made it to well into stage 4. Maybe the difficulty goes up drastically after that?

galuda...

my bad...i thought it was 'rade.

silly me.

:emb:

Circa2113 · Apr 14, 2007

BIG said:
galuda...

my bad...i thought it was 'rade.

silly me.

No problem.

ESPRade is definitely a completely different story. I've played it for months now, and I'm just now consistently making it to stage 5. I completely fall apart when I get there though. :oh_no:

BIG · Apr 14, 2007

Circa2113 said:
No problem.

ESPRade is definitely a completely different story. I've played it for months now, and I'm just now consistently making it to stage 5. I completely fall apart when I get there though.

'rade is sick.

prolly one of my fav shmup of all time.

B-

Circa2113 · Apr 14, 2007

BIG said:
'rade is sick.

prolly one of my fav shmup of all time.

B-

Indeed.

I would probably but it behind dodonpachi, but otherwise, out of what I've played, it is simply one of the best.

Tron · Apr 14, 2007

alec said:
yeah, thats sex, but nothing will ever bring shame to the US guardian legend NES cover.

I'd love to get a Famicom system, but buying dupes just to have diff cover art just doesn't sit right w/ me. I may cop out and get a PS2 soon on me. Or I may just do the dumb thing and drop a fortune on a circuit board

:esprade:

Well you could all ways pickup a converter such as the, Honeybee and use it to play famicom carts on the nes.

I'm famicom only since i sold nes long ago.

Not to mention collecting famicom carts isn't to expensive. Plus... the size of the carts are small and don't take up too much space.

bay · Apr 14, 2007

ketsui is getting killed tonight.

roker · Apr 14, 2007

Ketsui and ESPGaluda II are amazing.

seriously.

I got to play Pink Sweets and Mushi-Futari, but god damn, Ketsui and Galuda II take the fucking cake.

Circa2113 · Apr 14, 2007

roker said:
Ketsui and ESPGaluda II are amazing.

seriously.

I got to play Pink Sweets and Mushi-Futari, but god damn, Ketsui and Galuda II take the fucking cake.

Games mentioned in above post: 4
Games mentioned in the above post that I can afford: 0

:angry:

BIG · Apr 15, 2007

Ketsui is sick, but I wouldn't pay the current market price for it.

Is Futari any diff from Mushi, or is it more of the same ala 'galuda II?

B-

bay · Apr 15, 2007

BIG said:
Ketsui is sick, but I wouldn't pay the current market price for it.

Is Futari any diff from Mushi, or is it more of the same ala 'galuda II?

B-

i feel futari is a different game, tho i've been playing the maniac mode tonight. it has an esp2 scoring feel with gems and multipliers which i dig..... i guess the same reason i like esp2.

roker said:
I got to play Pink Sweets and Mushi-Futari, but god damn, Ketsui and Galuda II take the fucking cake.

once i read up on the futari strat i was really digging the maniac mode dude.

we're running through sweets right now, im getting the hang out of it. time to read up.

Circa2113 · Apr 15, 2007

So, let's say I were to save up my money for any one cave shmup...what would you recommend?

I have Dangun, ESPrade and ESPgaluda so far...

BIG · Apr 15, 2007

Circa2113 said:
So, let's say I were to save up my money for any one cave shmup...what would you recommend?

I have Dangun, ESPrade and ESPgaluda so far...

I'd go with either Guwange or Pro-Gear..but that's just me.

The 'pachis also make good pick ups.

B-

Circa2113 · Apr 15, 2007

BIG said:
I'd go with either Guwange or Pro-Gear..but that's just me.

The 'pachis also make good pick ups.

B-

Dodonpachi is pretty high on my wanted list as it usually goes for less than $200 from most arcade vendors in Japan.

Guwange is nice, I'm just not sure I want to lay down $400 on it. I've played it in mame, and I actually prefer some of the games I have now. Very nice game, I just don't think it is worth what it costs...

I may go for a progear though, I could use some variety. A horizontal manic is a very cool concept as far as I'm concerned.

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