I love shmups but i absolutely dispise most danmakus.
U.N Squadron (Arcade version), Pop'n Twinbee, Gradius III
Caladrius
1cc-ompleting Gradius 1 (arcade emulation)
Benjamin Clark
Sorry about the fucked up formatting, posting from my phone .
William Smith
Grats, my nigga. Gonna move onto II next or something else?
Jason Mitchell
Who hype for Special Demonstrations #10?
Mason Rivera
Maybe i'll try doing it on Gradius Collection, but i wanna try my luck with R-Type first.
Samuel Jones
all hail our lord and savior xoxak
Dylan Robinson
Will he ever make a new shmup PRO REVIEW, or is he too busy hiking the alps nowadays?
Landon Gonzalez
What do people use to play? O used to just use a Xbox 360 controller, but playing with an arcade stick these days, with sanwa parts. Feels really good
Logan Stewart
Trying the OG Raiden on MAME. Wish it was a little faster, but it's still nice.
Is a fightstick all that much better? I've just been using a controller driver that lets me reduce the deadzones so it's a little more accurate.
Brandon Kelly
You should give Carrier Air Wing a shot. It's a successor to that game.
embed related: track of the OST
Nicholas Garcia
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Matthew Scott
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Jackson Kelly
Not calling them 'Shoot Them Downs'
Levi Brooks
It feels really fun
Sebastian Davis
As someone who doesnt know jackshit about shmups, where should I start? Something that will ease me in preferibly. I own the following consoles so anything on them would be great And a modded Wii as well so
Jackson Kelly
Also does PS2 since its BC
Dylan Phillips
Fugg thats why you dont post from phones
Jordan Thompson
Einhander, Gradius Gaiden, R-Type Delta, Harmful Park, Zanac X, Night Raid
I don't think this got any shmups.
Radiant Silvergun, Soukyugurentai, Thunder Force V, Cotton 2
Giga Wing 2, Chaos Field, pretty much all Naomi ports are worth playing.
Cooper Taylor
Anyone have any tips to get good at games like Raiden or Cho Ren Sha?
David Hill
Cho Ren Sha you can grab all 3 powerup by slipping in the middle of them and you can get the second boss to kill itself with a bit of luck.
Lucas Hall
Learn where the snipe spots are and use vulcan to shotgun bosses.
Joseph Howard
Who made the best shmups and why was it Cave?
Dominic Kelly
I don't know what you mean by snipe spots. Is vulcan the spread gun?
Wyatt Cruz
Vulcan's the blue one
Ethan Torres
Sniper tanks. They are just weak, run of the mill tank enemies, but they are positioned so well that they fucking kill the shit out of you before you ever knew they were there. Toaplan took that concept and turned it into an art form, their shmups were a huge influence on Raiden.
Jonathan Baker
I like the "in-between" style games. Ones that aren't quite classic but not quite bullet hell, like Batsugun and Battle Garegga.
Carson Phillips
Cave is garbage compared to Psikyo.
Jayden Barnes
Raiden 1 was particularly bad about this, especially with the way the screen sway works. By Raiden IV it was a lot better.
Crimzon Clover's another good example
Isaac Barnes
What is the difference between classic shmup and bullet hell. I hear them used interchangeably
Did that artist do porn VNs? and what shmup game is that from?
Logan Sullivan
Shitters 1945 is garbage and you should feel bad
Bullet hell or danmaku (bullet curtain) is when a majority of the screen is taken up by bullets. Danmaku is usually more slowly paced and has much smaller hitboxes so you can weave between the larger bullets. Left is shmup, right is danmaku
Matthew Peterson
how come? I've been trying to get good at that game and can only get to the 3rd stage without loosing all my lives.
Jonathan Hernandez
Yeah, Jun Tsukasa's a hentai artist. Sengoku Blade.
It's decent, their best games imo are Dragon Blaze and Gunbird 2.
Oliver Bailey
Which Steam Heart's do I play for penal pleasure?
Noah Ortiz
PC-98, of course.
Adam Price
Has anyone here tried Caladrius Blaze?
Grayson Lee
Raiden 4 time.
Juan Miller
Anyone played Raiden V for the Xbone? Because the OST kicks ASS.
Grayson Rogers
PC port when? :^)
Josiah Moore
Why are shmup devs so obssesed with XBOX? The 360 also had a LOT of exclusive shmups.
Joshua Perez
Any tips for Darius CS? Best plane to use?
Jacob Adams
are there any ps4 games that i should check out?
Benjamin Reyes
I enjoy it. If someone has to change the name to shitters, or cuck or fag then that's probably the extent of the argument.
Aiden Cooper
MOSS is just retarded. All the other shmup devs have jumped ship to PC.
Benjamin Richardson
Hardly. Most have jumped ship to Steam, not PC. Please get it right.
Zachary Cook
Well it certainly wasn't that developer which stagnated the entire genre for a decade with their samey bullet hells and fucking awful scoring systems.
Level up.
Alexander Lewis
Thanks for keeping it real
Liam Sanders
Psikyo is probably my second favorite shmup developer. Dragon Blaze is amazing and Gunbird 1 and 2 are really good too. I just really, really love Progear, though.
Grayson Jenkins
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Josiah Gomez
I'm sorry, but don't you mean STDs (Shoot Them Downs)?
Thomas Evans
Why has nobody mentioned The Shooting Game Weekly channel on youtube. It covers thousands of shmups in detail and has a couple video tips on how to get better at shooting
Xavier James
Too much CAVE dicksucking, tbh famalam
Levi Flores
Didn't they cover Time Crisis as well?
Anthony Scott
They don't make episodes very often anymore. Aquas got swept up in the memerunning craze.
Can't wait for more DRM-crippled cancer. Fuck those sellouts.
Nathaniel Davis
To be honest, Degica has already contacted GoG to sell their SHMUPs there, but GoG refuses to do so because apparently they're too obscure. Apparently GoG is stealth updating their games to include a .dll which sends back unencrypted data from your PC (such as your IP address) to GoG servers, so you're gonna get spied on regardless of what you choose.
Anthony Richardson
Once again Degica apologist: GOG does not have a monopoly on DRM-free. If they wanted to do DRM-free they could have and still can remove the cancer over Steam or any other store.
Adam Scott
And everytime we've had this discussion before jewbundle was dismissed because "reasons" then we find out that there isn't a third DRM-free platform that's serious right now.
Ryder Morales
Steam wins again, baybee.
Anti-DRM autists can get fucked.
Gavin Perry
I'm trying to beat Crimzon Clover on Unlimited. It's tough. Really tough. I've been at it for over a year, playing on and off.
Is Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu really coming to Steam? Together with ALL the arrange modes, including the Ketsui one? I really liked what Virt did with the soundtrack to that mode. The music in Daifukkatsu Black Label was really nice, too. I hope this will be my chance to get all that music from the game in high quality.
David Wilson
Daifukkatsu is slated for release around next month. It includes all the DLC for free, including Ketsuipachi and Black Label. Whether the soundtrack is a separate buy, I do not know. Virt's rendition of Interception is one of my favourites, and I can't wait to hear it in-game.
Ayden Hughes
I won't pretend that Steam doesn't share some responsibility for providing their cancer to publishers, but the fact remains that Degica shares responsibility for choosing to use Steam DRM in the first place. You can absolutely release DRM-free over Steam. You can do it on other stores as well. Playism is a great place for PC shmup releases and they do DRM-free too, I just got Mecha Ritz Steel Rondo over it a week ago. Trying to shift all the blame on GOG as if they're the pope of DRM-free makes you sound like a shill.
Henry Fisher
Novice when it comes to this genre. I have Daruisburst on the Vita, and I was looking into the Thunder Force series on the Genesis. Is there anything else I should check out? I'm open to most anything emulatable pre-PS1(although I can play a little bit of PS1 games).
Andrew Collins
What are you interested in exactly? More horizontals? The SNES has some good introductory games as well, such as R-Type III and Phalanx. Gradius III is all right but has an assload of slowdown.
Alexander Garcia
Just one or two other games. Kind of open to anything but bullet hells. Vertical or horizontal is fine. I have the Gradius Collection stowed away on PSP, and I'm willing to look into other games.
Owen Ramirez
Can't go wrong with IREM over MAME.
Isaac Morgan
True but with the number of games with an available DRM-free version that still have DRM on steam I'm inclined to believe it's either something that's not simple to do or that valve incentivize using their default system over what you want in some way (kinda like you can get a free dev kit for PS4 if you release exclusively for PS4). Fuck I totally forgot about them, forget I said anything then they're maybe not the greatest (fuck the customer service) but they don't pull the same shit as GOG and actually care about niche games. Well they're not the pope but they're the biggest DRM-free platform so it makes sense to see them as important in that regard
Oh and might be of interest to people in the thread that Mednafen Saturn apparently runs every exclusive shmups on the system.