masterfrog wrote:Look up at the forum title... what does it say? It says "development". (...) Let me think... is this forum for people who have played a lot of shmups?
Of course it is. Without having played and analyzed a lot of examples of your genre of choice (you know, to find out what works and what doesn't and why) you can't expect to make a somewhat decent game of any genre. This is doubly true if you aspire to actually transcend genre boundaries.
Otherwise you end up with something like the infamous euroshmups of the 16-bit era, which actually tried to 'enhance' the gameplay in the way you seem to have in mind, for example by adding shops (
Xenon 2, Blood Money) or gving the player a lot of options for customizing his ship (
X-Out), but failed to get the core gameplay right, because their makers weren't actually well-versed in the genre.
You can be sure that the vast majority of developers in this forum are also avid players of shmups.
masterfrog wrote:I wanted to see what you guys would say about shmups being a bad genre...
Erm... why? And what reaction did you expect? You go on a forum for fans of a certain genre, tell them what they like is crap. Did you expect them to say: "Thank you. You're right. We were wrong all the time." Of course they disagree with you to varying degrees.
masterfrog wrote:Shmups are dying, you guys are lame and nobody cares.
Since what you seem to suggest is suicide for fear of death, I'd rather wait for shmups to die of natural causes.
masterfrog wrote:I know you want a flame war sooo bad. You just need it.
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. So far the answers have been quite polite, even surprisingly so if you take your own rather hostile attitude into account.
Xyga wrote:High suspicion now of him being one of us, or some angry returnee who created this account just to fuck with shmupsfarm.
I agree that this is highly likely. I was actually having Icy flashbacks when reading the last few posts. Reading his responses in the other two development threads makes me think differently, though. They seem genuine to me.