Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

Violent Ken · Post by **Violent Ken** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:15 am

I'm playing Death Smiles and next week, I think the board will leave the cab for being replaced by Mushihime Sama Futari Black Label! ^^

Patrik · Post by **Patrik** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:17 am

Icarus wrote:ポークUP!

what is that on screen can I ask? some new pc schmup?

Geezer · Post by **Geezer** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:24 am

Patrik-That is Muchi Muchi Pork.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:55 pm

Patrik wrote:
Icarus wrote:ポークUP!

what is that on screen can I ask? some new pc schmup?

I think it's Muchi Muchi Pork. Look at the little pig noses. Also the first two characters are repeated twice. Pork up.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:19 pm

After the somewhat positive experience with Bari-Arm, I've been on a Mega-CD kick:

Sol Feace
Yeah... I'm actually going for an SCC here... also, Fuck Level 5! You're lame-ass afterburner burst does not a rear-shot make. Also, the third form of the stage 6 boss can suck a fatty (to hell with those orange wind lasers).

PS. Minzoku calls this the farting shmup.

Silpheed
I still think this game looks beautiful (definitely sounds beautiful). The one thing that continues to make it difficult is the shear speed at which every enemy attacks you (plus last-minute sniping just as an enemy leaves the screen) plus the fact that the only decent weapons of the V-Shot and Phalanx Beam.

Keio Yuugekitai
The cloud-stage (with all the airplanes/jet fighters) is really starting to annoy me. Also, what the hell is the super attack carrier boss (the little whack-a-mole type guy) saying when he pops out?

Dennin Aleste
The blue laser is great... too bad you can't see shit through it (like those sniping gold bullets bullets). The green mech boss (the one who fires sickles and lightning blasts) at the end of stage 5 (I think... fucking Compile stages take 3 years to complete) is currently a thorn in my side.

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:06 am

So I played Giga Wing Generations some more, and I have to say that this PS2 just doesn't feel very polished to me. I'd like to play the arcade version to get a comparison in order to see if it's just this port that rubbed me the wrong way about the game. Aside from that, the music is okay, but I feel "bleh" about the rest of the game.

Border Down is next, I suppose. I could play it just to hear the severely varied soundtrack.

Kiken wrote:fucking Compile stages take 3 years to complete

Aye. It's a blessing and a curse, one of the few faults I can find in most Compile shmups.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:28 am

Day 3, 1st round of playing through the 78-83 arcade shooters. In a hellacious stretch that's really testing my resolve.

Patrik · Post by **Patrik** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:14 am

Yep that was muchi muchi pork, just saw videos. Its not PC shmup as I thought. what a pity.

Played DoDonPachi yesterday at local smupmeet, not a bad game.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:03 pm

Kiken wrote:After the somewhat positive experience with Bari-Arm, I've been on a Mega-CD kick:

Sol Feace
Yeah... I'm actually going for an SCC here... also, Fuck Level 5! You're lame-ass afterburner burst does not a rear-shot make. Also, the third form of the stage 6 boss can suck a fatty (to hell with those orange wind lasers).

PS. Minzoku calls this the farting shmup.

Silpheed
I still think this game looks beautiful (definitely sounds beautiful). The one thing that continues to make it difficult is the shear speed at which every enemy attacks you (plus last-minute sniping just as an enemy leaves the screen) plus the fact that the only decent weapons of the V-Shot and Phalanx Beam.

Keio Yuugekitai
The cloud-stage (with all the airplanes/jet fighters) is really starting to annoy me. Also, what the hell is the super attack carrier boss (the little whack-a-mole type guy) saying when he pops out?

Dennin Aleste
The blue laser is great... too bad you can't see shit through it (like those sniping gold bullets bullets). The green mech boss (the one who fires sickles and lightning blasts) at the end of stage 5 (I think... fucking Compile stages take 3 years to complete) is currently a thorn in my side.

After the somewhat positive experience with Lords of Thunder I thought I might give some more Sega CD a try. Dennin's fun, but I never spent much time on it. Because fucking Compile stages take 3 years to complete!

Still playing DonPachi. Never have I had so much fun with a Cave game or helicopters. Cave chaining is cool too.

I think that's about it right now.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:07 pm

A few hours ago, played Mars Matrix.

Right now, playing LOTS of Giga Wing.
Starting to suck less at it, recently got to the second level with only 1 credit.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:03 am

JUST finished playing Radiant Silvergun (in MAME).

I notice I desperately suck at it as well.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:15 am

I'm trying to beat Battle Bakraid (normal) right now. I'm terrible at the scoring but I can get to stage 6 pretty much every time.

Its those damn midbosses that get me, particularly the red one that flails about.

grovsnus · Post by **grovsnus** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:51 am

Yesterday I crushed my hiscores in both Garegga and Batsugun. I am very pleased.

worstplayer · Post by **worstplayer** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:31 am

FIL wrote:I'm trying to beat Battle Bakraid (normal) right now. I'm terrible at the scoring but I can get to stage 6 pretty much every time.

Its those damn midbosses that get me, particularly the red one that flails about.

Yea, that one's annoying. But what i really hate is the last boss' machinegun. Unless you can squeeze between streams with sub-pixel precision you MUST bomb. What an asshole.

Anyway, right now i'm playing Cyvern. 2nd stage is longest, most epic boss fight ever. But i can't get past those stupid swarms of bugs in 3rd.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:22 pm

Still playing DonPachi. Helicopters are very fun. Whoever said the helicopter was the worst ship should be shot, even if it is technically true.

rolins wrote:Daioh a vertical shooter by Athena.

Cool vertical shooter that requires 6 buttons. There's one button assigned to 3 types of shots + 3 types of bombs, but each one varies in strength and range. Gameplay is solid and but really it adds nothing new, just think of Shienryu. It's really a short game with 7 stages, the last being a total boss battle out of Nexzr.

Also playing Daioh, which is fun. I'm going to focus on beating the US version before I go to the Japanese version. Which has only TWO buttons, as opposed to the US six. You can only have one weapon at a time. Each weapon still has it's own bomb however.
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Other than shmups, only The King of Fighters 95. Iori had 1211 from the start. And that is cool.

lowemark · Post by **lowemark** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:51 pm

Battle Garegga.
loving it and hating it at the same time..

Kumebahn · Post by **Kumebahn** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:44 pm

Touhou Project 10: Mountain of Faith. Ive been dreaming in bullet patterns now.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:23 pm

Just got off null..k, a shmup I made recently and I can't seem to stop playing.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:25 am

Playing Radio Zonde, level 1 boss is EVIL!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:27 am

Moon Patrol lol

DawnPatrol · Post by **DawnPatrol** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:04 am

R Type Final. 78/101 ships. I lost 30 min when I pulled the power cord out switching from the AV to the Component Cable. This game is sucking my life away.

escadrille · Post by **escadrille** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:20 am

Rob wrote:Moon Patrol lol

I'm waiting for the nex-gen version where you can put spinners, hydros, and bitchin' flame decals on your moon patrol buggy. Let's hear it for Electronic Arts!

Oh, I'm playing Flying Shark. This plane is so slow, but that probably prevents me from getting myself killed more often than it kills me.

MadSteelDarkness · Post by **MadSteelDarkness** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:29 am

Today, Sonic Wings 3.

Lots of Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Wii) for the past week.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 8:15 am

Kamui (PC) (Siterskain)

I had to test my new PS-2 to USB adapter, so I completed it in the process!

PS-2 Joypad rocks for PC shooters!

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:53 am

Rob wrote:Moon Patrol lol

Don't forget to jump. Those three-foot holes will swallow a moon buggie whole...

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:08 am

DoDonPachi. Got up to the 2nd boss, and died VERY stupidly.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:17 am

Samidare

Spazicon · Post by **Spazicon** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:55 pm

Kiken wrote:Bari-Arm...

Ironic that I JUST discovered this awesome game, and you happened to have mentioned it there. Good stuff. Interestingly, one of my favorite anime designer/directors (Masami Obari), did all the various mecha designs for "Bari-Arm" (hence the title, "Bari").

I'm also juggling these games;

Arrow Flash (Genesis)
Armed Police Batrider (Arcade)
Dimahoo (Arcade)

Having too much fun, over here.

I'm not sure, but I think Obari did the mecha designs for Arrow flash too. I'll try and verify this, at some point today.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:01 pm

null1024 wrote:DoDonPachi. Got up to the 2nd boss, and died VERY stupidly.

3rd boss is worse, slightly. In the beginning it's easy though.
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New goals:

-Get 5 mil in DonPachi, at which point I'll probably just stop for a little while.
-Get 10 mil in DoDonPachi. Also get 2 mil in stage 1.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:08 pm

contra 4