Shmup Goals 2014 - It's baaack!

Blinge · Post by **Blinge** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:48 pm

Yo

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
That's gotta be getting my first 1cc (Progear). having several times where i've been able to enter the "zone" and thoroughly enjoy it, with distractions around me or not.
Ikaruga- normal mode ALL in an actual arcade, making all the fighting game players go O_O at my victory roar..
Meeting the London shmuppers.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
Getting to the end of Gradius V's speed section, thinking i'll grab a speed down so i'm not too fast for the midboss, but forgeting there's two more gates beforehand and slamming into them at my slow speed =[ End of run.
The many times i've reached the end of a manic shooter with a couple lives and assload of bombs.. And have thought "right.. i have to bomb.. yep.. gonna bomb.. just now.. just..FUCK "

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Spadgy's unveiling of Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother and its sweet music.
I think it's Aquas? the STG weekly guy's Gradius 1 commentary was rather amusing

Goals for 2014:
Get more involved with gaming communities.
-Dem 1cc's
- 2-ALL a game, probably DoDonPachi or maybe even buy Ketsui on ps3 and have clearing the Ura loop as a long-term shmup goal (ruin my life)
-Get good enough at Ikaruga scoring to be worthy of running the scoreboard.. =]

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
heh.. for JWS- 1cc a game. Psyvariar or something, you got this, BRO.
-for newish members: stop apologizing for being bad (in your opinion) at shmups..

CtrlPlay · Post by **CtrlPlay** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 12:03 am

My first goal of the new year is going to be getting my ikaruga easy/proto score back over 30mill. Then maybe moving on to a mode I don't have as much experience with.

Post by **spadgy** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:43 am

Blinge wrote: Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Spadgy's unveiling of Twin Eagle: Revenge Joe's Brother and its sweet music.

"Woah woah woah... gonna break you down!.The table will turn around... you'll see!"

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:22 am

Us Twin Eagle fans are a small, secretive group, but that love goes way back. Did you catch this arrange version when trap15 posted it?

Xeno · Post by **Xeno** » Thu Jan 16, 2014 12:08 am

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
DOJ white label 1-all

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
Dying on last boss of Espgaluda II while her having just 1cm on health bar left.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Icarus WR on Saidaioujou, GUS counterstopping/clearing Ultra and appearing on Shooting game weekly.

Goals for 2014:
1cc
Espgaluda II
Ketsuipachi

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Keep playing the games you love and never give up.

Wyrmnus · Post by **Wyrmnus** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:01 am

First PERSONAL SHMUP goal of 2014: To fucking 1CC Ibara. I'm sick of these Yagawa type games. I seriously want to find the bastard myself and strangle him for making such RAGE INDUCING games.

Sinful · Post by **Sinful** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 4:07 pm

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: No missed original Darius 1 AC all top route (figuring out a very consistent method to beat Fatty Gluton with the Lazer was a huge win to me. Rest of game was super easy after that do to upgrading to lazer faster & getting the Wave shot so much sooner).

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: Not beating Darius II AC all top route on normal after putting in over 6o hours of gamerplay (did 1cc it on Easy afterwards. So I feel much better now & actually relieved).

Goals for 2014: ... I don't want to set any goals or pressure. I just want to take things as I go and have fun. ... Would be nice to get into shmups genre just a td bit more, thus making me more dedicated to sticking to one partiular 1cc goal until completion, even if I'm not really into said game that much.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013: I guess Kollision beating Raiden II for PS1? Just seen his run yesturday before bed and scared me away from that game like hell,

lol. Best stick with the first one till 1cc'ed no matter what... and maybe not start Raiden II on Colonel difficulty when I do get to Raiden II? >_>;;

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Kollision to start playing and beating Gradius III AC, my fave shmup ever. If I can make it all the way to the Cube Rush on Normal, it shouldn't be a problem to him at all (and there's the wall trick to pass the Cube Rush). As it's falls victem to memorization like most hori shmups. Thus it's legendary difficulty tale ain't exactly all that, really. Hard, sure, but not like the hardest everybody says. So yeah, Kollision, I've said it.

Eaglet · Post by **Eaglet** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:27 pm

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: Getting the D with Golden Bat in Garegga. Having some fun in Ketsui Omote loop.
Not a good shooting year at all. :/

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: Didn't really play enough STG to have anything worth mentioning...

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013: Gangsta P's Ginga Force WR. chum and Aquas setting new standards for Batrider.
Wasshoi in Europe! Was awesome to bear witness to the conception and realization of this ground breaking project.

BIL wrote:475lbs squat @ 180lbs b/w

That's awesome, man! I'm the same weight but haven't tried maxing more than 380lbs/175kg.

Goals for 2014:
Golden Bat E score.
Batrider Advanced 1CC with an acceptable score.
Futari God 2,5+ bil 1CC
Ketsui - getting further in the second loop

and last but certainly not least - actually playing more.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Play more Garegga!
Would be awesome to have somebody to compete with for the Golden Bat top spot. But it is a stupid challenge when you've got Gain readily available.
I only play GB because i'm too lazy to relearn the game. Also hipster.

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:12 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:Us Twin Eagle fans are a small, secretive group, but that love goes way back. Did you catch this arrange version when trap15 posted it?

I somehow missed this. Big ups to the people that put the effort into creating this!

Twin Eagle fans are the shmup community's trend-setting hegemony, however small our clique. Because with our taste, we have to be.

EDIT: And I missed this!

ACSeraph wrote:Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:

・Spadgy defeating my high score in the Caladrius thread

Goals for 2014:

・Defeating Spadgy's high score in the Caladrius thread

I was amazed to top your score! Can't you let a little squirrel enjoy having a rare lead for once?

But sincerely, I think you've ample skill to take it back. If you do, I look forward to seeing your run, because you taught me a great deal of what I know about that game!

xfullmetal17 · Post by **xfullmetal17** » Tue Mar 04, 2014 5:47 pm

Biggest Screw-Up
Double-KO on the last bullet of the last boss of Touhou 10 (and of course it was my last life)

Goals for 2014
1cc all the Touhou on Normal (Hard if I can get past Normal)
Face one of the hidden bosses in Setllavanity

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:43 pm

ACSeraph wrote:
BIL wrote:-make Gun.Smoke ST 4 the nubz
I would definitely be interested in this

Now writing.

Eaglet wrote:That's awesome, man! I'm the same weight but haven't tried maxing more than 380lbs/175kg.

Thanks! I'm trying to hit it before I'm 35 without piling teh pounds back on (31 currently). Recovering fat guy here.

Eaglet · Post by **Eaglet** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 10:29 am

BIL wrote: Thanks! I'm trying to hit it before I'm 35 without piling teh pounds back on (31 currently). Recovering fat guy here.

That makes it even more impressive! How much did you weigh when you were at your "peak"?

From what i've seen myself guys who used to be heavy have an easier time getting fast results in leg exercises (probs since they were used to lugging around a lot of excess weight) as opposed to heavier body weight exercises like pullups and hanging situps. Coincidentally three of my favorite exercises (the Golden Four being Deadlifts, Squats, Pullups and Hanging Situps).

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:05 am

240lbs when behaving myself, a little north of that when not. ^__^ I've been lifting regularly since I was in my mid-twenties but was a bit clueless about basic principles until a few years back. Decided to focus on squats since I enjoy the practicality of them. Was starting to get nasty lower back pain from desk work and the excess weight, cleared right up after I started following a decent lifting plan. Not trying to recreate a Cho Aniki boxart or anything, I just like being able to heft around furniture and CRTs without much trouble!

Eaglet · Post by **Eaglet** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:19 am

Wow! That's a great achievement!
I guess my reasons are a bit similar; started working out because i needed it to get into where i wanted to work (previous job) and because i was tired of myself not physically being the way i felt i should be.
Keeping at it because it's probably my favorite hobby and because i get abstinence worse than a heroin addict if i'm away for it for too long. Them endorphins.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:36 am

I think we have two worthy candidates for next year's 'Shmups Beefcake Calendar'.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:55 am

For that, the forum needs the return of third_strike!

Geist · Post by **Geist** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:58 pm

Goals for 2014:

Enter Ketsui´s Omote Loop / 150 mio HS.

Ibara Letterscore

Eaglet · Post by **Eaglet** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 2:27 pm

BIL wrote:For that, the forum needs the return of third_strike!

Cool!

DanMagoo · Post by **DanMagoo** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:43 pm

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: Getting out of fighting games and into Shmups. Getting off PS3 and getting an Xbox. Tate-ing my TV for the first time ever. My first Stage 1 No Miss on Dodonpachi. My first 1-sissy on 1945 II Monkey (monkey my a55!!)

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: Any single credit run on Raiden 1.

Goals for 2014: 1CC Akai Katana Climax. Try and get my head around Ikaruga beyond Stage 1.

Impressions of a newbie for 2014: This is fun. More fun than trying to learn full HD combos in KOFXIII I can tell you!

Some-Mist · Post by **Some-Mist** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:00 pm

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: Mushihimesama Futari Black Label Maniac 1CC, Armed Police Batrider easy course 1CC, Armed Police Batrider normal course 1cc, Progear 1-ALL

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: I typically don't use guides, and I didn't even realize there was a spare life in Progear until a few days before I cleared the 1st loop. Also didn't even pick up the extra life for my clear. Another huge screw up was that I bought a brand new original Progear board and I planned on giving a buddy I met at last Chicago shmupsmeet my Progear conversion for the price of shipping (he gave me a deal on a full ibara kit). I accidentally sent my dimahoo board for the price of shipping. luckily, we worked it out and I ended up paying for shipping to get my dimahoo board back and then resend the Progear conversion board. I basically lost like $50.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013: I know this is referring to other shmuppers, but I actually got my friends addicted to shmups. That in itself is a huge accomplishment since most of them are typically stubborn.

Goals for 2014: Progear 2-ALL, Battle Garegga 1CC, Mushihimesama Futari Black Label God 1CC

LordHypnos · Post by **LordHypnos** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 2:05 pm

I may come up with others later on, but for now, I'm thinking that my goal for 2014 is to make it to Stage 5 of Mars Matrix. I'm so close, but yet so far, however, 2015 is still a long time from now.

x91 · Post by **x91** » Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:42 am

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:

Ketsui Type-A Ura loop clear with 450mil, Omote loop clear with 389mil
Mushihimesama Futari Black Label Original Palm 2.82bil

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:

Dodonpachi Saidaioujou. Completely lost faith in it after the counterstop was revealed and fell a lot behind.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:

Many impressive feats such as Gus beats 1.5 Ultra with a counterstop score, MrMonkeyMans & Jaimers' Ketsui Ura loop clear, iconoclast's Futari Black Label GOD 1st and SDOJ const, etc. Too many to remember.

Goals for 2014:

Set up a new record for Ketsui Type-A Ura
Get 3bil with Palm in Futari Black Label Original(looks imminent)
Strikers 1945 1cc with Shinden, 1,800,000+

Blinge · Post by **Blinge** » Tue May 13, 2014 7:47 am

ACSeraph wrote: ・Learn to clear Darius Gaiden without the autofire cheat! It's totally awesome, you won't regret it!

wat

you mean change it so its single shot tapping?

I find it hard enough with the defaults! I thought i was getting good real fast at this genre after clearing a couple cave games and some others, and the last tourney.. but its games like Darius and RF that cut me down to size again. i ain't mad tho...

ACSeraph · Post by **ACSeraph** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:13 am

Naw man, it's got autofire by default. There's a cheat in the Saturn version that kicks the rate to zero delay and kind of breaks the game. Makes it way easier than was intended. Obviously going zero delay in MAME has the same effect. So my challenge to everyone is to play using the slower default autofire rate. Basically, you want to be mashing on big enemies and bosses and just holding it down in lighter sections to rest a bit. Once you get used to it and actually learn the boss strategies it actually isn't that hard, and it's not the thumb breaking experience people make it out to be either. Id say you are only mashing maybe 30% of the time.

Squire Grooktook · Post by **Squire Grooktook** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:33 am

ACSeraph wrote:Naw man, it's got autofire by default. There's a cheat in the Saturn version that kicks the rate to zero delay and kind of breaks the game. Makes it way easier than was intended. Obviously going zero delay in MAME has the same effect. So my challenge to everyone is to play using the slower default autofire rate. Basically, you want to be mashing on big enemies and bosses and just holding it down in lighter sections to rest a bit. Once you get used to it and actually learn the boss strategies it actually isn't that hard, and it's not the thumb breaking experience people make it out to be either. Id say you are only mashing maybe 30% of the time.

I 1 life cleared it and IMO you never really have to mash. Got by just fine holding down the button even against the harder bosses. Than again, I'm really, really bad at mashing lol.

ACSeraph · Post by **ACSeraph** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:42 am

Yeah it's totally possible to do it without ever mashing, but you can get in really massive damage on bosses if you do a riding point blank mash festival while bombing.

Squire Grooktook · Post by **Squire Grooktook** » Tue May 13, 2014 8:58 am

Maybe I"ll try that next time. Like I said I'm bad at mashing, so it seemed like I was always getting less damage lol.

LordHypnos · Post by **LordHypnos** » Tue Jun 03, 2014 11:58 pm

LordHypnos wrote:I may come up with others later on, but for now, I'm thinking that my goal for 2014 is to make it to Stage 5 of Mars Matrix. I'm so close, but yet so far, however, 2015 is still a long time from now.

This goal is complete, reassessing it to a Mars Matrix ALL.

Bananamatic · Post by **Bananamatic** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 3:38 am

2014 is almost over, how did you do?

Bananamatic wrote:Goals for 2014 clear ketsui omote

Completed early summer

then score >330m on Ura(and beat Emuser)

Almost done on Omote, missed by less than 2m, never unlocked ura sadly

clear SDOJ Expert

Almost done learning the routes, CCWI screwed up my plans completely

possibly DOJBL 2-all

as above, CCWI stole all the shmup time

could've been worse

LordHypnos · Post by **LordHypnos** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 5:28 am

Ooh, good idea!

LordHypnos wrote:
LordHypnos wrote:I may come up with others later on, but for now, I'm thinking that my goal for 2014 is to make it to Stage 5 of Mars Matrix. I'm so close, but yet so far, however, 2015 is still a long time from now.
This goal is complete, reassessing it to a Mars Matrix ALL.

ALL'd in August or so

I guess I was selling myself short.

As an additional note, I had made some private long term Mars Matrix goals of (1) scoring 1,000,000,000,000+ (the pink digit) in the DC version, (2) getting 3,000,000+ experience, and (3) counterstopping the game in MAME, not really planning on completing them any time soon, and I did, in fact, manage to complete the first of these and get the pink digit with my original clear, so that's pretty sweet ^_^

Not sure when I'll go for the others though. Kind of want a few more legit clears, first.

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