What are you guys playing at the moment? (MAY '06)

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Wed May 31, 2006 4:02 pm

viper phase 1

i almost got to stage 5

do i get a 1up in this

Sword · Post by **Sword** » Wed May 31, 2006 4:30 pm

Castle of Shikigami 2 - the slow PAL version. And i still can't beat that ratbastard Shintaro. Hell, i'm having problems just reaching him lately.

Warning Forever - Been playing this quite a lot. It's simple, but great fun. I guess i should post in the highscore thread..

non-shmup:
CvS2. Always CvS2.
Vagrant Story.

Eps · Post by **Eps** » Wed May 31, 2006 6:34 pm

Shooting games:
Ikaruga
Zero Gunner 2
Giga Wing
Blazing Star

Non-shooting games:
New Super Mario Bros.
Metroid Prime: Hunters
CRAAAAAAZY TAXIII!!

rolins · Post by **rolins** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:26 pm

PS2:
ESPGaluda
Dodonpachi: DOJ

PC-Engine:
Kyukyoku Tiger

Saturn:
Strikers 1945

ghibli99 · Post by **ghibli99** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:31 pm

Shooters:
Border Down (DC)

Non-shooters:
Brain Age (DS)
New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
beatmania IIDX 11 Red (PS2)

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:32 pm

Espgaluda PCB

Valkyrie profile PS1

Super street fighter turbo killera

soon to start either guwange (again love that game) or ibara PCB

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:35 pm

SAM wrote:Paper Mario, yes that silly RPG with silly story sill characters...

But it atuclly quite fun to play.

yeah paper mario on N64 is ace , not too keen on the GC version tho

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:35 pm

SAM wrote:Paper Mario, yes that silly RPG with silly story sill characters...

But it atuclly quite fun to play.

Believe it or not, if you're talking about the original N64 game, I actually played through it for the first time myself within the past few weeks, completely out of nowhere...great presentation, but oversimplified gameplay and too many tedious sidequests, imo. Also is missing a lot of the humor from the first SMRPG...unfortunate.

As for the topic, I honestly haven't been playing too many shmups recently, as I'm currently hopelessly hooked on Builder's Block...I've come close to finishing Arcade mode in one credit, but there's one lousy stage in Puzzle mode which is driving me absolutely insane...

Varuna · Post by **Varuna** » Wed May 31, 2006 8:37 pm

I'll use Eps's format.

Shooting Games

Ibara - No 1CC yet...
DDP:DOJ - I suck at levels 4 and 5.

Under Defeat - 1CC'd this a couple weeks ago! Haven't done so in the second loop.

Non-Shooting Games

Steambot Chronicles - I didn't like it at first, but this game is getting really good.

...I guess that's it.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:16 pm

Shmups
Gaires Gunbird2

Non Shmup
Resident Evil4 Outrigger

raiden · Post by **raiden** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:26 pm

World of Warcraft

I made a bet before I bought it. I was completely sure to quit after the first month. Now I´m hooked.

LSU · Post by **LSU** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:45 pm

Under Defeat. Constantly.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:52 pm

Finally got beatmania IIDX RED in the mail yesterday but gave it my first run just now.. just about 10 minutes or so, but I'm kind of busy...

Of course, the first song I hit was "Don't be afraid myself". Hotttttttt Japanese girls shaking their stuff

Next up was "Les filles balancent", since I like Orange Lounge stuff, and I had never heard the song before. Finally, my curiosity got the better of me so I had to see what the deal was with "Toxic" (I don't have BMUS).. Full Comboed the 7Keys version on my first try, I'll play the Another later but I'm not wild for the song itself.

Shooter-wise, nothing really. I finally won a MD-JP version of Zero Wing on eBay, so I might have a run through on an emulator while I wait. But even hard mode on MD is easier than the default on the arcade version..

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:58 pm

Check out my signature.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:01 pm

Shooting:
ESPgaluda II until my controller broke, so:
Shikigami no Shiro II (got to 5-1... 1CC not far, but I dont' think I'll bother for now
Under Defeat and Radirgy on the side. Fun games, but hard for me to get into. I'm not used to bombinb so much in UD, and Ridirgy is just weird.

Non-shotting:
Madou Monogatari on the Saturn, for some weird reason.

Cranky · Post by **Cranky** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:13 pm

Shikki 2 and Under Defeat on the DC.
Funny...I've been playing the DC way more than Xbox, PS2 or the Cube in the last two months

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Although that may change when I get Outrun Coast to Coast on the Xbox.

eckart · Post by **eckart** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:22 pm

Played for about 3 mounth DDP3. - I am now near the end of level 4 with a tiny 39 mio score. Boss 1,2 and 3 are not the problem anymore.

Yet, mushihime sama- maniac mode

Raiden, - back on track!

Never_Scurred · Post by **Never_Scurred** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:29 pm

Gradius V
DoDonpachi Dai Ou Jou
Ibara
Ikaruga

Getting my ass kicked in all of 'em.

ghibli99 · Post by **ghibli99** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:59 pm

iatneH wrote:Finally got beatmania IIDX RED in the mail yesterday but gave it my first run just now.. just about 10 minutes or so, but I'm kind of busy...

I really like EVO66, Love Again, and of course, AA.

Don't mean to derail, so...

In addition to the above, I forgot to mention Gradius V, a game I wrote off some time ago, but after being nudged by a bunch of people to give it another try, I'm back into it.

llaoyllakcuf · Post by **llaoyllakcuf** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:12 am

Limbrooke wrote:Raiden 2 mostly.

same here, in addition to some 1943 Kai and Kyukyoku Tiger.

FatCobra · Post by **FatCobra** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:21 am

Nothing really at the moment, although I did just fire up an Axelay ROM if emulation counts.

As far for non-shmups, I've been emulating Earthbound and playing Midnight Club III: DUB Edition Remix on my PS2.

Arcatech · Post by **Arcatech** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:46 am

it's usually Raiden 2 (from project) if anything gets put in at all.

Always the same scenario though... Get to stage 3 with max shot and missile (spread and homing) then get tagged by a random bullet. Happens every time, but for some reason I always go back for more. Masochistic I guess.

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:17 am

Mushihimesama - Maniac

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:10 am

DOJ-PS2 i'm almost at one year playing DOJ..
galuda-PS2 one credit here and there, it's easy to go to that last pattern but that bomb absorption is cheap, no 1CC yet because of it
pulstar-MVS great game that i have for a while, started recently. so far dying at st4

so far i have stopped playing border down (going nowhere at all) and kyukyoku tiger

non shmups:
ninja spirit-PCB jesus this is as hard as i remembered

scrilla4rella · Post by **scrilla4rella** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:31 am

For awhile I was pretty addicted to:
-Batsugun
-Gun Frontier
but then I found my copy of Dodonpachi ( I thought it was lost) and now I can't stop playing that. Before I hooked up my Saturn I was playing UD and Street Fighter Third Strike.

So many shooter... I really should just stick to one and go for the 1CC. The last game I did that on was Ikaruga on Easy (my only 1CC

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SAM · Post by **SAM** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:24 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:Non-shotting:
Madou Monogatari on the Saturn, for some weird reason.

So, why are you playing it?

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:42 pm

raiden wrote:World of Warcraft

I made a bet before I bought it. I was completely sure to quit after the first month. Now I´m hooked.

After all that stuff that I heard about that game, you could as well bet for quitting crack after the first month. Just be sure not to urinate in an empty soda bottle because you`re too hooked to go to the bathroom.

Xexyz · Post by **Xexyz** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:16 pm

<b>Shmups</b>

Ibara (PS2)
Mushihimesama (PS2)
BlaZeon (SNES)

<b>Non-Shmups</b>

New Super mario Bros. (DS)
Final Fight 2 (SNES)
Shatterhand (NES)
Captain America & the Avengers (GEN)

Nau · Post by **Nau** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:14 pm

Soukyugurentai (SAT)
Parodius: Forever with me (SAT)

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:12 pm

ghibli99 wrote:I really like EVO66, Love Again, and of course, AA.

I took another few minutes to try out those exact songs. Love Again and AA indeed are cool songs, I'm not too hot for EVO66 though. I'll be playing Love Again [A] a lot, but I think AA [7K] is out of my ability for a long time...