amusing Digg staff reactions to Mushihimesama replay

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:26 am

A few weeks old, but might still be of interest to some who haven't seen it...

"Diggnation", the popular internet TV show hosted by web 2.0 site Digg.com, has featured a shmup superplay video on their February 22 show, under the headline Hardest. Video Game Boss. Ever!

If you ever wanted to see an average non-shmupping person's reaction to a Mushihimesama japanese superplay, here you go...

http://revision3.com/diggnation/2007-02-22

Some of their astonished facial expressions, and the comments by co-host Alex are quite entertaining (keep in mind they've had a few beers)...

Alex Albrecht wrote:This doesn't look fun... only stupid people would think this is fun.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:30 am

is that amusing?.. two not-so-bright guys filming themselves while they talk about stuff they download from the internet.

the one guy doesnt even know what an A4 is ffs!?

theyre watching the futari maniac last boss and then TLB from mushi 1 ultra and cant even spot its not the same game?

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:34 am

Awesome! They're using my buddy Kenchan's YouTube vid

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:13 pm

sven666 wrote:the one guy doesnt even know what an A4 is ffs!?

That's Kevin Rose [link to Wikipedia entry]

Arznei · Post by **Arznei** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:22 pm

The video isn't loading at all.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:42 pm

Retarded video, not worth watching.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:23 pm

Don't bother, the flash video file is 84MB, and all you get are comments like "What's the name of that game? Mush... Super Ultra?" "That's what stupid people play for fun" and "No one ever finished this with less than 10 credits".

ahnslaught · Post by **ahnslaught** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:51 pm

Oh come on, I had a good laugh watching these guys' reactions to the game. I actually think this is probably a pretty standard response you'd get from a person who's never played shooters whose first exposure was this game.

Seriously, there are plenty of people who think all games look the same; is it that unreasonable that a person would think a traditional genre like shooters would look awfully similar to one another?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:57 pm

Thunder Force wrote:
That's Kevin Rose [link to Wikipedia entry]

argh, proof that persistence is the only thing needed to become famous on the internet

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:18 pm

They're normal guys. Kind of a normal reaction.

I think they're right though. More work than fun.

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:01 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:They're normal guys. Kind of a normal reaction.

I think they're right though. More work than fun.

Actually, when I first showed DDP Daioujou to a non-shmupping (but long time video gamer) friend of mine, he started laughing when the whole screen filled with bullets

Bullet hell games tend to give laymen sensory overload.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:46 pm

funny you mention that, i showed the daioujou arika replay to my old work colleague who mainly plays neo geo stuff. anyways, i showed the hibachi bit, and he goes: "oh, so it's like ikaruga....?" (he thought the player was absorbing bullets!)

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:55 pm

Funny! Yeah, we've all been playing DOJ wrong all this time: You just need to press the bullet-absorb-button

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:00 pm

you should've seen his face when i told him he wasn't absorbing bullets, but passing between them........!

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:18 pm

Meh, it's a reasonable reaction. After all this is why people play danmaku. Because it's the hardest genre out there. I remember at the Game on exibit in London, I stood as far away from from the screen as possible so everyone could see me playing Warning Forever. I had quite a posse watching me. And me and my girlfriend had an even bigger gang watching us when we were doing an awesome Gradius V two player run. The point is there's a flashy, showman like aspect to manics, and if idiots on some stupid blog site cant fathom the skill needed to play it, it's only human

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:22 pm

I found that really funny-thanks.

It's like geometry wars!!!11!!

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:32 pm

It's really odd that that there have been none of these "shooting games" released between Space Invaders and Geometry Wars.

Balzac · Post by **Balzac** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:17 am

Pretty standard reaction, but the high pitched geek who couldn't go five seconds without a "hilarious" comment made the whole thing painful to watch.

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:03 am

Vokatse wrote:OMG...when I saw a bullet-hell game for the first time, I was amazed at the person's skill, and wanted to try playing one of those games.

It's mainly because the crowd doesn't know that the hitboxes are like 1 pixels and not the whole ship/character/bullet. Green Beret, Transformers, etc. on the Commodore 64 are still harder than DDP: DOJ...

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:41 pm

Shocky wrote:
Vokatse wrote:OMG...when I saw a bullet-hell game for the first time, I was amazed at the person's skill, and wanted to try playing one of those games.
It's mainly because the crowd doesn't know that the hitboxes are like 1 pixels and not the whole ship/character/bullet. Green Beret, Transformers, etc. on the Commodore 64 are still harder than DDP: DOJ...

Signed. I hate it when people say 8 and 16 bit shmups are 'easy'. For me they're really fucking hard, to the point of frustration, something I experience very rarely in manics. Modern shmups are very easy by comparasion. Try comparing Gradius III and V!

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:37 pm

DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:
Shocky wrote:
Vokatse wrote:OMG...when I saw a bullet-hell game for the first time, I was amazed at the person's skill, and wanted to try playing one of those games.
It's mainly because the crowd doesn't know that the hitboxes are like 1 pixels and not the whole ship/character/bullet. Green Beret, Transformers, etc. on the Commodore 64 are still harder than DDP: DOJ...
Signed. I hate it when people say 8 and 16 bit shmups are 'easy'. For me they're really fucking hard, to the point of frustration, something I experience very rarely in manics. Modern shmups are very easy by comparasion. Try comparing Gradius III and V!

They always have a difficult level 3 or 4..

HeLGeN-X · Post by **HeLGeN-X** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:49 pm

Those guys are a bunch of feggles who don't know anything about gaming, that's what makes it funny.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:57 pm

DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:Signed. I hate it when people say 8 and 16 bit shmups are 'easy'. For me they're really fucking hard,

Depends on the game. I've popped in a couple of Caravan games recently, and 1CC'ed them by the end of the day. I owned the ESPGaluda II PCB and it took me 3 weeks.

mrkotfw · Post by **mrkotfw** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:41 pm

Some PC Engine shmups are actually pretty easy. I managed to almost 1cc a game in one try.

EspGaluda II? I can't get past the third stage without dying.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:04 am

"This doesn't look fun."

Your video doesn't look fun as well.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:12 am

My friend showed me this video on his iPod at school. I seem to recall one of the guys making a comment about the game being similar to Bejewled.

OptimusPrimeX · Post by **OptimusPrimeX** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:17 am

The guy on the right, use to work on what is now G4tech TV i'm pretty sure?? He use to be a host on Attack of the Show, but i'm not sure if it was attack of the show that early on?? i think so..

interesting to see him.. i wondered what happened to him.. Anyone rmeember that?

PUHHahahaha i can't get frustrated at them though, i mean what would you expect. The second video they watched made me LOL though hahah..
¯\(°_o)/¯

lawnspic · Post by **lawnspic** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:38 am

Those two meatballs suck ass. Ignorance is truly bliss (meaning that being not so up to date is in, and the people that watch the clip has about as much knowledge as they do regarding their topics). Which i quess is either profitable or what everyone wants to see or both. Sorry just being an MB.

MB= miserable bastard

Update- I'm not so bad now, lol

Monk 0 Nuggets · Post by **Monk 0 Nuggets** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:37 am

oh my.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:05 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
DJ Rectal Prolapse wrote:Signed. I hate it when people say 8 and 16 bit shmups are 'easy'. For me they're really fucking hard,
Depends on the game. I've popped in a couple of Caravan games recently, and 1CC'ed them by the end of the day. I owned the ESPGaluda II PCB and it took me 3 weeks.

I think everyone has there strengths and weaknesses. I can 1cc to level 5 of esp ra.de, but i've never manged to get to level 3 of Salamander without the Konami code. Yup.