Why do you suppose people can't make great shmups anymore?

[Despatche]

The Xexex scoring bug has also been recently brought into the light.

Fuck yeah.

Charging into the thread to declare once again that checkpoint milking is the worst thing in all of shmupdom.

No lies detected. Make people no miss games with extensive checkpoint milking.

[jp]

It's like jp never got sent down for being Juggalo

Erm... I certainly hope you're not referring to me, as I've never claimed to be a "juggalo". I listened to horror rap back in my late teens-early 20s, sure, but no face paint or worship of really bad rap acts went along with that.

The main reason I quit coming around often was partly because of the Sony/Cave love (where I view the former as the worst thing to happen to gaming and the latter as one of the worst things to happen to shooters) and because shooters that I liked weren't really getting made anymore, so I didn't have anything to talk about.

I still drop in from time to time though to see what Switch (or God forbid, Xbox) limited editions are coming up that I can waste money on (still have an unopened Saturn Tribute LE (or Famitsu LE or whatever Nin-Nin was selling) since I'd rather just play those games on the Saturn as God intended).

[BIL]

Oh yeah, that was it. Some scary shit yo! Glad you're alive and well!

The main reason I quit coming around often was partly because of the Sony/Cave love (where I view the former as the worst thing to happen to gaming and the latter as one of the worst things to happen to shooters) and because shooters that I liked weren't really getting made anymore, so I didn't have anything to talk about.

Finally, someone else who remembers the unbridled CAVE nutsack riding! Armies of noobs bouncing merrily along, as if they were on a gigantic bristly spacehopper! See Patchy-kun, I bet you thought I was going senile, huh.