Something beautiful

[theMot]

When you leave a shooter for a while, go play something much harder for a couple of months then come back to the previous game and smash your old score on the first credit like it was nothing.

Feels good, feels real good.

[KAI]

Much harder than shmups? explain please.

[theMot]

I was playing DDP Daifukkatsu then went to Ketsui and back Daifukkatsu.

[SePh1r0tH]

I hadn't touched Mushihimesama Futari Black Label in a few months. Been playing a lot of Dodonpachi Daioujou lately. Went back to Futari the other day and had my best run yet. Almost 1 cc'd original Black label (died at the final boss). Not a great accomplishment for most but for me it was!

[Acid King]

I spent the past few days playing Bakraid's Advanced Course and just now went back to Normal Course for a credit. I killed my old Normal Course score and clipped 30 million for the first time.

[Keade]

Today I am too close to my skill ceiling in shmups (and many other genres) to really feel a "general" skill progress - this could happen before but won't today, only proper learning of the specifics of said game (paths, scoring system...) will really help.

I do think putting a game away for a few days (if not weeks) help most of the time, 'though. If I become too obsessive with a game, I can easily get frustrated with not seeing any improvement.

[_rm_]

Last week i experienced just the same with the "return" to Deathsmiles.

[Despatche]

i've been playing raiden recently

i never could figure out the arcade version because i'm a derp, so i went to play project on very easy mode because lol

i kept dying to the dumbest things, in just about every stage; didn't get to the loop once

i go back to the arcade version because i got sick of terrible ps emulation (must have keyboard) and i get all the way to stage 5, when i couldn't even get through stage 2 before