SOTM March 2023 Vote -

[Atro]

Alright!

Let's pick up a game for March's competion.

Final Soldier - PC Engine / New Gen / Emu

Sengoku Blade - PCB / Saturn / New Gen / Emu

Thunder Force IV - Mega Drive / New Gen / Emu

Blast Wind - Saturn / Emu

Aero Fighters 2 - Neo Geo / New Gen / Emu



Name your poison. Let's fire some bullets!

 

[Tarma]

Blast Wind!!

 

[wataru330]

¡ULTIMATE DESTROYER!

 

[kuze]

Great picks all around

 

[Neodogg]

Surprised they all aren’t Saturn games…

 

[Atro]

So... lookd like we have a draw.

Is it ok if we do both games or shall we do a tie break?

 

[Neodogg]

the one that is on Saturn should be the obvious choice...

 

[Tarma]

So... lookd like we have a draw.

Is it ok if we do both games or shall we do a tie break?

I'll save you the bother - Blast Wind.

 

[Ajax]

Let's do Blast Wind

 

[Neodogg]

the one that is on Saturn should be the obvious choice...

I'll save you the bother - Blast Wind.

Let's do Blast Wind

oddly 3 people who voted for Blast Wind...
I don't see Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings 2 in the history rescently but it feels like we did it not too long ago...maybe because of Special?

 

[Ajax]

Probably

 

[wataru330]

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[gusmoney]

oddly 3 people who voted for Blast Wind...
I don't see Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings 2 in the history rescently but it feels like we did it not too long ago...maybe because of Special?

I swore we played it recently too enough so that I looked at the history for the past few years that you created but it isn't there. So I voted for it and look forward to playing it.

 

[Ajax]

I dropped a cred just now. Weird fucking game. Looking forward to checking it out more.

 

[wataru330]

Aesthetically, It’s a genesis game on steroids, as opposed to a Saturn/ST-V game…and the route gimmick sometimes unfairly kills you…but I love it.

Wish TechnoSoft would’ve done more vertazontal &/or tate games, and wish they would’ve finished this one completely and on time-so it could’ve been an arcade board.

This game will be on the big screen at this weekend’s meet up!!

 

[Tarma]

Aesthetically, It’s a genesis game on steroids, as opposed to a Saturn/ST-V game…and the route gimmick sometimes unfairly kills you…but I love it.

Wish TechnoSoft would’ve done more tate games, and wish they would’ve finished this one completely and on time-so it could’ve been an arcade board.

This game will be on the big screen at this weekend’s meet up!!

It's not actually tate though is it... it's verti-zontal - unless there's a hidden option in the Saturn version I've missed

 

[wataru330]

It's not actually tate though is it... it's verti-zontal - unless there's a hidden option in the Saturn version I've missed

You are absolutely correct; poorly written on my part.

Edit incoming.

 

[Tarma]

Oh man I thought you were gonna reveal some code or something that put it into proper tate!!

Really wish they'd added in a tate mode, most Saturn shmups had the option, although I guess as it never made it to the arcade it was never optomized for this display during development.

 

[Atro]

Blast Wind it is!

 

[opt2not]

Interesting that there was 17 total voters, but we usually get half those numbers actually participating in the SOTM.

 

[gusmoney]

Interesting that there was 17 total voters, but we usually get half those numbers actually participating in the SOTM.

If one votes for a title that loses, is one obligated to play the winning title? We talked about this a bit in this month's SotM thread.

Maybe I don't have access to the other games or they don't appeal to me. Sengoku Blade is a fairly different title than the others posted, maybe I prefer that game style or am biased against it.

I voted for Aero Fighters 2, if that game doesn't win there is a good chance I will not participate. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with doing that.

 

[opt2not]

Naw there's no real obligation to play. It's just a fun shump competition club. But I mean, seems weird to me to participate in the vote then check-out if the outcome isn't what you wanted.
For me, if I can at least run the game, I'll participate as much I can (schedule permitting).
I just feel like if we only play the games we're comfortable with, how are we going to experience other games? Isn't that the point of this SOTM?

 

[Tarma]

Interesting that there was 17 total voters, but we usually get half those numbers actually participating in the SOTM.

Depends on the game and how good people are at it... last month's pick wasn't for me. Never really played Dragon Blaze as I'm not particularly good at Psikyo shmups. The month before when we had Gun Bird 2 - well I have that on DC but I'm shit at it on anything above easy so I wasn't going to bother posting my score.

I'm no hot shot at Blast Wind, but I've been meaning to get better at it, and this gives me some motivation

 

[mmsadda]

I should've flipped my vote to Aero Fighters 2 - I originally had in for that one, but thought Lightening Force would've been cool.

Think I can run Blast Wind. If so, I'm in!

... For me, if I can at least run the game, I'll participate as much I can (schedule permitting).

Yeah, THIS. These are fun. Sometimes I spend several hours running a game over the span of a couple weeks... and some times I make a couple attempts and get busy. No shame in throwing whatever you can do in an attempt or two, if you have the means to play but don't have more time.

 

[ShootTheCore]

I just feel like if we only play the games we're comfortable with, how are we going to experience other games? Isn't that the point of this SOTM?

Agree 100% - I've discovered some fun new games that I wouldn't have known about without SOTM.