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Is Bullet-Hell played out?
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Maybe they should try something new like scrolling backgrounds !
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Perhaps it's the way I'm wired...but I struggle with them and have no patience with them...never have. I find them to be maddening...
Like someone else said...you either love them or hate them...I hate them.
Like someone else said...you either love them or hate them...I hate them.
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SO there's the Cave whores and the Cave haterz, both awful, both in need of a reality check. If you stop the pompous bullshit for a second, cave games are actually really good, well put together, worth every penny on just ports alone. PCBs, well, that's up to you. In my case I love the games enough to justify owning some of them. The rush like explained before is tremendous, one of the best arcade single player experience. Here's the thing though, you don't need to be some douche PCB whore to enjoy the games, the ports are fairly priced and the number of emulated games are pretty staggering, so there's really no need to hate for the sake of hating expensive games.
OP talked about originality, I couldn't disagree more and put into question this person's logic as it's way off the quadrant. Sounds more like someone just being a sour puss over dumb bullshit. Now if you'd make a RPG hate thread then I'd be far more supportive.
OP talked about originality, I couldn't disagree more and put into question this person's logic as it's way off the quadrant. Sounds more like someone just being a sour puss over dumb bullshit. Now if you'd make a RPG hate thread then I'd be far more supportive.
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Totally agree. One of the few genres that has huge replay value. I have a ton of the ports for the 360, and they play great. I added an slg3000 and it looks great too.
One of the things I love about Cave games is that I can put a game away for awhile, and still come back years later and enjoy it like I did when I first got it. I can't say that for most games, even those that hold a lot of nostalgia for me
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They are played out, which is why the companies who make them - don’t any more.
In batrider you can change the color of each type of enemy bullets, circular orbs, line bullets, and destructible bullets.
Default they are all different colors, orange, blue, and pink, but by holding start and pressing left, right, or down, you can actually change them independently. Red, green, purple, orange, yellow, or blue, any combination you want or all the same color if you want to add that extra intensity to the Black Heart mk2 fight and make everything red.
In batrider you can change the color of each type of enemy bullets, circular orbs, line bullets, and destructible bullets.
Default they are all different colors, orange, blue, and pink, but by holding start and pressing left, right, or down, you can actually change them independently. Red, green, purple, orange, yellow, or blue, any combination you want or all the same color if you want to add that extra intensity to the Black Heart mk2 fight and make everything red.
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I like some of the games. Shoot the Bullet was awesome! I'm not camping for teams, nor developers, I just wanna play the games. I do however consider Seibu the best simply 'cause of Raiden, my first shmup, my favorite seibu game is also Viper Phase 1, love it! I really like a lot of shrumps, I wish I could get better at them though, I just need to sit down with them and become more disciplined.
Splitts here would rather play Sol Divide over Donpachi or Dangun Feveron, both extremely toaplan inspired games that can give any not so bullet hell game like psikyo a run for its money. I'm just saying Splitts, you know I love you man!
Splitts here would rather play Sol Divide over Donpachi or Dangun Feveron, both extremely toaplan inspired games that can give any not so bullet hell game like psikyo a run for its money. I'm just saying Splitts, you know I love you man!
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Dittos on pro Cave/Raizing camp.
The first time I cleared Mushihimesama Original, granted not a great feat, I had to take two aspirin and lay down for twenty minutes. What other type of game does that?
And you only get better the more you play, and that skill you develop carries over to the next shooting game you play.
The first time I cleared Mushihimesama Original, granted not a great feat, I had to take two aspirin and lay down for twenty minutes. What other type of game does that?
And you only get better the more you play, and that skill you develop carries over to the next shooting game you play.
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Time to pass on that Mushihimesama PCB to less skilled folks like myself so I can grow like you have Ken!
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OH man, don't fucking die on me when you clear it Ken!
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HAHAH
Also, I don’t play touhou but I’ll admit the people who do at a high level tend to obliterate cave, psikyo, raizing, and other such games while barely breaking a sweat. It makes me a little annoyed, seeing what that keyboard master race is capable of.
Also, I don’t play touhou but I’ll admit the people who do at a high level tend to obliterate cave, psikyo, raizing, and other such games while barely breaking a sweat. It makes me a little annoyed, seeing what that keyboard master race is capable of.
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It's funny you mention Donpachi and Dangun, along with Progear they are the only Cave games I actually love.
I could play Raiden Fighters and Strikers '45 for the rest of my life and never tire of either. My shmup skills are better suited towards 40 fast-as-hell snipey bullets rather than a curtain of 400 pink bullets.
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You're comparing a casual RPG run to a game that's not meant to be played casually. If you were to play a RPG to get the best time and performance, it's a completely different animal.
A 50-hour RPG can become a 4 hour RPG. There's even a leaderboard website for a game like Chrono Trigger: http://chrono.wikidot.com/
Some of the tricks you have to perform to get times that low require really precise inputs and timing, and the amount of stuff you need to practice is staggering.
Anyway, I don't run RPGs in this manner. I'm just saying that if you enjoy this hardcore aspect of bullet-hell shooters, you might enjoy trying to push the limits of other genres as well.
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RPGs...push the limits...lol! Fucken RPGs should be expunged from the video game industry, talk about a shit show genre, hate those mother fuckers to death.
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I wouldn't go that far. I think they have their place, but the idea of a speed run seems odd to me. IMO the whole point of an RPG is to take your time and explore everything.
