Shmup Goals 2015 - The REKT'ining

[Blinge]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2014:
- Ketsui 1-All. Twice on MAME, once on ps3.
- Ikaruga 22 mil. This score was a huge breakthrough for me, the first time I've put so much effort into learning a scoring route.
- Placing joint 5th (I think?) in Wolfman's double elimination tournament with JWS. I had no idea we'd do so well or go on a losers bracket rampage.
- Super Stardust HD 3-ALL. not the most challenging game but it stands out as an achievement for me because of sheer endurance.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2014:
- Not keeping up with Ketsui practice so when Ilyrian and I were taking turns at the game in a December shmupmeet we were both failing and getting irritated..
- unrelated thoughts creeping in and stopping me paying attention to the game.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2014:
- DEL's MMP Manpuku 2-ALL of course. Amazing feat, and it was great to see that progress.
- ACSeraph's Caladrius endeavours
- Jonst getting Ketsui arcade and X-mode clears. Glad I could help mate, thanks for being the shmupsfarm hypeman. haha

Goals for 2015:
- Fucking beat Metal Slug 3 finally and record it.
- Get back into Ikaruga scoring, learn a high scoring route for the whole game.
- Make some headway into Ketsui Omote
- Learn to meditate or some shit

Challenges to other players :
- JWS: put some real work in and get a clear.. You've got Touhou EoSD on easy; ramp it up to normal. Or maybe Sengoku Ace.
- Jonst: Progear! do it!

[Stevens]

Ray series snip

I think my biggest issue with RS is the way your ship kind of drifts. It's a shame too, because I happen to love the stages and most of the bosses. I just can't hang with controls. Maybe it's me?

[soupbones]

2014 screw up: didn't play nearly enough shooters because of other games. My shooter time was actually pathetic.

2014 achievement: 1cc'd DDP Resurrection, nabbed both Armed Police Batrider and Battle Bakraid pcbs


2015 goals: Focus more game time on shooters and fighters, thin out my arcade collection.

[Shepardus]

• Finish clearing all the Extra stages in the Windows Touhou games, meaning Touhou 12, 12.8, and 13. If Touhou 15 comes out this year I'll count that as a stretch goal.
• Progear 1-ALL - Looping the game is a stretch goal for myself.
• Armed Police Batrider Advance 1CC - I've just started trying out solo Shorty-C and this may end up being a lot easier than I thought it would be, so clearing with a mixed team and a letter score is a stretch goal.
• Battle Garegga 1CC - Letter score as a stretch goal.
• Crimzon Clover World Ignition Arcade 1CC - Either Boost or Original, both is a stretch goal.
• R-Type 1CC - Because I feel like I ought to clear a pre-90s classic, and I like R-Type.
• Deathsmiles 1CC (all stages Rank 3, with Canyon stage) - Preferably during October. I've previously gotten a 1CC with 4 stage Rank 3 and no EX stage; I want to get it with the EX stage, but I need to get a lot better at absorbing the suicide bullets.
• Dangun Feveron 1CC
• Cho Ren Sha 2-ALL - See my screw-ups of 2014. Man, multi-loop games really stretch my ability to focus.
• Get off my lazy ass and make a shmup of my own, or at least make significant progress on one.

oh god I forgot about these

I did get the Batrider and Garegga 1CCs, and all the Windows Touhou extra stage clears save Touhou 15, which I haven't bothered with yet. More importantly (to me, at least), I got the Cho Ren Sha 68K 2-ALL. Took me until late this year, but I finally did it, and I even did it two more times later on, one of which was a 4-miss I'm very satisfied with.

I've actually been focusing on Progear and Dangun Feveron lately, though I'm not anywhere near close enough to clearing either in the next two days. I kind of forgot about the R-Type 1CC goal, though Perikles' recent 2-ALLs of R-Types I and II reminded me of that; I might actually get around to that sometime next year. Deathsmiles 1CC with the Canyon stage and all stages rank 3 fell by the wayside as well, though I might actually put some more time into Deathsmiles now that it's getting a legitimate release on PC. I haven't forgotten about CC:WI, though it too is on the backburner at least until I 1-ALL Progear and Ketsui.

and lol that last goal, I keep telling myself I'm going to do that and then when I finally have some free time I just kill time all day.

[Bananamatic]

Goals for 2015: clear sdoj expart and beat hibachi with shot
7t+ in CCWI unlimited with type I
get to Larsa in Futari Ultra

didn't even touch CCWI and sdoj shot but got to larsa with 3,2b and cleared sdoj ex with an overflow, plus now i can clear expert over 50% of the time
it counts i guess

[ProjectAKo]

I must 2-ALL aero fighters 2.

the hell kinda garbage goal was that

Next year: Get near the WR in Kingdom GP???

[Ikazu-san]

Let's see here...

Goals for '15:
1) Stop being lazy
2) Get the hell back into top10 scores of CCWI Unlimited Type III
3) Clear any loop other than 1st in ChoRenSha, bonus points if actial 2ALL

1) Fucks sake!
2) Yee
3) Double Yee

ok

[Icarus]

Goals for 2015
• Keep improving at Garegga through more frequent play, also learning another ship soon
• Finish off routing st6 in Pink Sweets 1.00
• Whatever else comes to mind

1. Errr, oops… >_>

2. Kinda.
- http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/5887821
- http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/5887793
- http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/5887755

3. Well, a lot of stuff finished and unfinished…
- Darius Burst AC: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... vWHkfF8ZhF
- Shooting Skill Test: http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/6714276
- Shooting Skill Test, Recycling Speedrun: http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/6714300
- XIIZEAL: http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/6423268
- Trizeal Remix: http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/6370730
- Battle Bakraid: http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/6589220

I also play riichi mahjong: http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/v/24595343
And rhythm games. >_>

Goals for 2016
- To not make any major gaming targets, and…
- To go with the flow and see what I end up playing.

[CloudyMusic]

Looking at what I posted last year, I think it's clear I need to stop setting concrete goals for myself so far in advance, because while I accomplished some stuff that I feel pretty OK about this year, I put almost no time whatsoever into the games that I actually thought I'd be playing this time last year.

Instead, I learned and played almost nothing but Garegga all year, starting from scratch and steadily refining both my skills at that game, and at shmups in general. I started this year feeling like a fairly poor shmup player, and I'd still say at this point I'm mediocre at best, but now at least I feel like I have the confidence to set more difficult goals for myself; even if they take me a long time, I believe that I'm fundamentally capable, if I put in the proper effort.

Without pretending that I know what I'm going to feel like playing all this coming year, here's what's in my head for "goals" right now:

• Get a C.5 score in Garegga, and clear it. D score is preferable, but let's go one step at a time.
• Start seriously scoring in another game, something out of my comfort zone. Sorta toying around with the idea of DOJ. I'm far from certain yet.

[LordHypnos]

Wow... not even gonna quote myself. I...really dropped the ball this year Didn't even get the Samidare 1LC (also forgot that was a goal).
Well, probably going to set a much more modest set of goals this time around. Probably just Under Defeat and like 1 or 2 other clears.

[EmperorIng]

I only accomplished 1 goal (looping Gradius*), but on the whole this year has been good for the Ing. I've 1CC'd ~appx. dozen shooters, which is the highest volume I have yet achieved playing the genre. Now it doesn't matter that some of them were easy-peasy - there were some Konami games in there too. I gotta be more serious tackling the Taito Ray- games and Souky though. Those games have sat on my shelf uncleared for the longest time.

*though clearing the Raiden rip-off Sand Scorpion for TRP-STGT is kind of like clearing Raiden's non-union Mexican equivalent.

[Stevens]

Wow... not even gonna quote myself. I...really dropped the ball this year Didn't even get the Samidare 1LC (also forgot that was a goal).
Well, probably going to set a much more modest set of goals this time around. Probably just Under Defeat and like 1 or 2 other clears.

I just peeped your list for 2015, it was massive.

Between my skill level, the amount of time I play something seriously, and the times I can't settle on a game to play seriously I average about one clear a season. Rarely more, usually less.

In fact looking at my list the only thing accomplished from when I made the list initially was Mars Matrix - I am going to take a different approach this year.

[Blinge]

Goals for 2015:
- Fucking beat Metal Slug 3 finally and record it.
- Get back into Ikaruga scoring, learn a high scoring route for the whole game.
- Make some headway into Ketsui Omote
- Learn to meditate or some shit

Well 2/4.. not bad.
27mil in Ikaruga is high enough for me at this point.

I've hardly touched Ketsui though! I'll get round to that after I've got the batrider advanced clear. It's proving a real demon.

[pestro87]

Well, I got back into fighting games this year (SF2 Dash and SSF2X to be precise) so that's pretty much all that I played.

• Get a memorable score in Futari God Mode. This will be my main focus during 2015

I ended up getting 4.73bil in God Mode which I'm not happy about at all. Far from a memorable score.

• Keep playing Ginga Force every once in a while

Played a little bit of Ginga Force and discovered some new tricks that allowed me to improve on my Type C score. There's still room for improved thanks to the new tricks that I learned but yeah, got sidetracked by SF2

• Not let Xenoblade X devour the entire year

Didn't even buy it

• Play a little more of DFK BL

Didn't play it at all...

• Host more shmupmeets

Hosted one or two meets, I don't remember...

All in all, epic fail. I currently just want to improve at Dash and SSF2X.