Top 5 shooters (or 10...5 of each OK)

[famicommander]

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Sorry, but only like 5 of those count.

Not that I have high expectations from you, but I didn't think you'd take cues from that ignoramus that wrote post #88.

Well, fuck. This random internet dickface doesn't like the same video games as I do.

I think ritualistic suicide is the only option.

 

[andsuchisdeath]

Well, fuck. This random internet dickface doesn't like the same video games as I do.

I think ritualistic suicide is the only option.

How do those KFC mashed potatoes taste?

The street people still taking advantage of you?

Clearly you have no sense of sub genres or street smarts.

EDIT: I won't advocate his suggestion

 

[famicommander]

Get over it.

 

[kuze]

1. Ketsui
2. Espgaluda
3. Ikaruga
4. Dimahoo
5. Zero Gunner 2

 

[2D_mastur]

For those that chose Blazing Star... doesn't the shitty-ass ending make you pissed?

 

[SNKorSWM]

Never did play shooters for the ending.

 

[ebinsugewa]

2. 1943 (NES) - Great port of the arcade game. The attribute system was a nice touch and is what put this port over for me.

Seriously, that port is fucking awesome. Miles better than the 1942 port (fuck you Micronics).

 

[SNKorSWM]

The password system is boss. Can't imagine sitting through the NES port in a single session.

 

[ni-ten]

1. Musha Aleste
2. Guwange
3. Sengoku Ace
4. Truxton 2
5. Sonic Wings 2

 

[oliverclaude]

No rank, I'd love to take any of them on a lonely island...

X-Multiply - very deep atmospheric trip, the video game version of Russells' Altered States. Blew me away then, blows me away now... splendid.

The Great Ragtime Show - wouldn't it be for STGs, Chelnov would stand here. A top5 without DECO? You got to be kiddin' me... this game expands borders and brings some long lost fun into a bullet-dodgers miserable life. For those who like to finally breathe again, ...on very high altitudes, that is .

Viewpoint - a masterpiece and the Neo-Geo game with the most secrets per square pixel. Everything here seems to be the hottest shit: graphics, music, the whole axonometric concept right down to your ships name: Byupo! Kawaii is also the difficulty level, at least if you play for a decent highscore, but that's... another story.

Xexex - same as DECO, no list without a Konami entry, since they literally invented the genre. Here, they re-invent it, and with a blast, I might add. Absolutely gorgeous presentation, damn hard & insatiable.

& ...Zanac - some Compile love was in order and this hardcore classic haunted me in my dreams back in the day. They could as well write it down in their credits: introducing rank. This novelty was a nightmare, but what a sweet one.

The Honorable Mention goes to Souki, an STG where you actually dismiss your main cannon. A bitchslap for any fan of the genre... but as Raizing goes, I gladly hold out my other cheek.

...and since the rail-gate affair needs refreshment, count me in for Thunder Blade, if only for the soundtrack alone. S.S.T. Band at their best .

 

[Kid Panda]

1-5. Pulstar

 

[neo_mao]

for me, my list would always be changing.
regardless though, 3 games will always be in it.

Gates of Thunder
Air Zonk
Deathsmiles

These are my bread and butter. Everything else is just dessert.


heh, all horis...whodathunkit

Hmm, 4 years later and I pretty much feel the same way.

 

[Chempop]

4 years later I think I’m going going strong with yagawa and raizing, screw variety.

1. Dimahoo
2. Batrider
3. Garegga
4. Dodonpachi
5. Ibara

 

[theMot]

Dimahoo that good mate? I have it but im rather shit at it.

Im shit at all shooters though but i just keep buying them. Im having fun though. That is the important thing right?







Right?

 

[ebinsugewa]

Dimahoo that good mate?

nope

 

[Caplet]

Lately:

1) Blazing Star
2) Batsugun
3) rRootage
4) Recca
5) Neo XYX

 

[Chempop]

Im having fun though. That is the important thing right?

Nope.



Everyone here by now knows my elitist stance. If you suck at these games, you are barely scratching the surface of what makes them good in the first place.
Take this example as an anecdote. I know it might sound like I’m measuring my dick, but there is a point I’m trying to make if you have an open mind.

My first Ibara clear (which I consider Yagawa’s easiest game to 1CC), was a low score NO medal-chain run. Basically just saved my hadou cannons for the handful of tricky parts, cleared with a score of around 5 million iirc. By my fifteenth Ibara clear, I was fully medal chaining the entire game, cleared with a Letter score (over 10 Million). A superplayer can double my score, which to me means I’m playing at around 50% ability of what the game offers the player. That first clear of mine, less than half of my personal best, maybe experienced 20-25% of what the game offers. Now think about what someone who struggles to see the second or third boss might be experiencing, may 5% of the game’s design is understood and experienced by such a player. Credit feeding through stages might show a player some stage design, but to actually clear without continuing you must really understand why the stages are designed in such a way in the first place. You have to route, you have to form strats, and have to execute what the developer planned and it takes PRACTICE.

Dimahoo is an elaborate masterpiece that only the very best can fully experience, I BARELY SCRATCH THE SURFACE! On top of THE MOST insane scoring systems which requires the player to know how to obtain 108 unique items, I feel it also has the best art, design, and some of the best music and bosses in the genre.

 

[Chempop]

 

[powerflower]

Metal Black
Gun Frontier
Gradius2+5
Gunhed
Lords/Gate of Thunder
Silpheed (Mega CD)
Pulstar
Border Down

...and of course all that Cave goodness

 

[CORY]

Here's my top 5:

- Cyvern
- Alpha Mission
- U.N. Squadron
- Last Resort
- Ketsui

 

[ebinsugewa]

why do people like metal black? that game is fucking terrible

 

[powerflower]

Funny how viewpoints can be so different.

For me Metal Black is the best shooter ever made. Why?

First of all the soundtrack is godly. Even Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack) from Ex-Taito/Zuntata (now G.Rev) admitted MB is his magnum opus.

Now let's get a little deeper. The presentation and even the story (!) kicks ass. Oh and the intro in stage 3 ( like 20 secs) is unique. That's story telling with blissfull music.

The graphics? Taito F2 Board was such a powerful board. Sorry Neo, nope!

Game system? Simple and btw. introducing the beam ( G-Darius, Border Down) including messing around with bosses beams and stuff.

First shmup with two endings? Did I mention the best soundtrack ever made for a shmup?

I really feel a little bit sorry for you that MB doesn't resonate with you. Anyway, these people were exactly knowing what they were doing

MB is like a perfect sphere, no edges just plain perfect.

Now go figure Gun Frontier

But hey, viewpoints can be different sometimes

Edit: MB should have been Darius3 but they decided to name it MB because of the dark theme this game represents. No big success but pure dedication. Alpha Mission2 is similar in the context "we'll do what we want because that's the right way to express ourselfes" . Killer soundtrack as well.

 

[powerflower]

No rank, I'd love to take any of them on a lonely island...

X-Multiply - very deep atmospheric trip, the video game version of Russells' Altered States. Blew me away then, blows me away now... splendid.

The Great Ragtime Show - wouldn't it be for STGs, Chelnov would stand here. A top5 without DECO? You got to be kiddin' me... this game expands borders and brings some long lost fun into a bullet-dodgers miserable life. For those who like to finally breathe again, ...on very high altitudes, that is .

Viewpoint - a masterpiece and the Neo-Geo game with the most secrets per square pixel. Everything here seems to be the hottest shit: graphics, music, the whole axonometric concept right down to your ships name: Byupo! Kawaii is also the difficulty level, at least if you play for a decent highscore, but that's... another story.

Xexex - same as DECO, no list without a Konami entry, since they literally invented the genre. Here, they re-invent it, and with a blast, I might add. Absolutely gorgeous presentation, damn hard & insatiable.

& ...Zanac - some Compile love was in order and this hardcore classic haunted me in my dreams back in the day. They could as well write it down in their credits: introducing rank. This novelty was a nightmare, but what a sweet one.

The Honorable Mention goes to Souki, an STG where you actually dismiss your main cannon. A bitchslap for any fan of the genre... but as Raizing goes, I gladly hold out my other cheek.

...and since the rail-gate affair needs refreshment, count me in for Thunder Blade, if only for the soundtrack alone. S.S.T. Band at their best .

Check out this interpretation of Thunder Blade... 01:07:20

Nice to hear someone loves XexeX.

 

[plasmapants]

No order .
Cho ren sha 68k
Batrider
Ibara
Kyukyoku tiger
Last battalion

 

[FilthyRear]

Oh, I get it... It's a person...