Which Shmup Did You Enjoy Most in 2007?

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:07 pm

Muchi Muchi Pork. I got to play it for a couple of days when I went to see oxtsu in Oklahoma City. I had this really killer cold though and couldn't enjoy it properly. I like Ikuo the best (in the blue) <3

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:57 pm

CIT wrote:Best new game - Death Smiles! Just a shame I didn't have more time to play it.

Most played/enjoyed - Played a lot of games from the early 90s this year. Raiden DX, Konami stuff, some early Psikyo, and I got 4 Toaplan PCBs this year (Outzone, Dogyuun, Tatsujin-Oh & Vimana) all of which I love!

Sounds like an awesome year, shmups-wise.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:09 am

um... metal slug x, gradius v, super stardust hd, radirgy, pink sweets, mushi futari, and dai-ou-jou black label.

Kaede · Post by **Kaede** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:39 am

Muchi Muchi Pork for me too. Fantastic game, and the only Raizing style shooter I've ever enjoyed.

HeWhoGoverns · Post by **HeWhoGoverns** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:42 am

Cho Ren Sha, and some Ikaruga. but definitely the Cho Ren Sha. My friend and I are in a scoring competition that was started over the summer, and it's pretty tight competiton. I've had some fast-paced adrenaline rushing moments with cho ren sha. And I haven't even finished it yet.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:42 am

Hmmm, probably ESPgaluda, followed closely by Dodonpachi.

Shion · Post by **Shion** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:59 am

EspGaluda for me too this year, probably because I managed to 1cc it after a bit

Hoping to find the sequel sometime in 2008.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:02 am

I think I played a lot equally: Futari 1.5, DOJ Black & White, and I busted out ESPGaluda II for a good month or so even back in the spring.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:05 am

I've mainly been playing Under Defeat this year, and enjoying it a lot. Also got into Rayforce, Raystorm and Kamui as a result, along with Darius Gaiden. I would love to try Border Down, but I've not had much actual time around my consoles in 2007. Basically I picked up a strong liking for G-Rev and Taito this year. Hopefully in 2008 I'll finally get to put some more time on my PS2 shooters, and shooters in general.

indstr · Post by **indstr** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:15 am

i've only gotten seriously into shmups about 3 months ago, but the ones i've gotten the heaviest into so far have been:

Under Defeat
Dodonpachi
Blue wish resurrection

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:22 am

i play games with utterly broken scoring mechanics

like

warning forever
tumiki fighters

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:18 am

I have played in 2007 mainly 3 shooters:

Tatsujin-Oh
Espgaluda
Raiden Fighters 2

Harlequin · Post by **Harlequin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:58 am

Playing Raiden/2/DX alot and either they are really tough shooters or
i am the worst shmup player in the whole world

Harlequin

Leandro · Post by **Leandro** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:34 am

this year

V-Five md port - cleared
Undeadline md - cleared
Twin Hawk - pending
Truxton - pending

Truxton being the one which I still occasionally play, on fba. Lately I keep messing up before stage 3 boss, losing the life with the stocked bombs from the speed section, thus game overing... I used to get farther

escadrille · Post by **escadrille** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:44 am

Really got into the whole early Cave catalogue (pre Ketsui) this year, but the most enjoyable game for me has been Strikers 1945.

I actually put enough time into it to get somewhere in the neighbourhood of "good."

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:52 am

I'm surprised to see so many people only just getting into the Cave games. I'd assumed everyone was over them from most of the rhetoric on these forums, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

2006 was "recent Cave" year for me. 2007 I went backwards and played a lot of older stuff. Juno First saw a whole lot of play in the beginning of the year. I got back into Contra III on SNES too. I used to be much better at it as a young fella. And of course, DoDonPachi keeps me coming back time and time again.

No new 1CCs for me this year. Far too busy to put any substantial learning time into anything.

woof · Post by **woof** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:22 am

thunder dragon

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:09 pm

Ibara

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:20 pm

Zebra Airforce wrote:Ibara

was the fun in jerking off or listening the soundtracks?

Blue Peace · Post by **Blue Peace** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:35 pm

Psyvariar 2 and of course DDP and DDP DOJ!

Halloween Jack · Post by **Halloween Jack** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:11 pm

Dave_K. wrote:
Ceph wrote:For me it was good old Recca and Nexzr. They just don't make 'em like that anymore. [/url]
They do, its called Pink Sweets! My fav for the year.

Another +1 for Pink Sweets - just acquired the board, and really enjoying it, which is bizarre for someone who generally dislikes cutesy games - maybe the sluts compensate

2007 was a year of Raiden DX, Truxton and Fireshark for me - plenty of fragmented play, but little in the way of achievement

Ketsui PCB went out of the door to a more deserving owner....

Rounded off the year with Daisenpu and Hellfire PCBs to keep the Toaplan flame burning.....

Cheers

HJ

StoofooEsq · Post by **StoofooEsq** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:17 pm

These three, I enjoyed equally.

•Ibara — Blatant fanservice or not, I really can't hate a game with such whorish broads for boss pilots. Might as well keep the same attitude for all the female pilots in Pink Sweets, whenever it gets ported.

•Ikaruga — 2007 was my very first time playing this. I've had a Dreamcast since 2001, but I've never really put any thought about obtaining the game. Naturally, I got my ass kicked, and I still haven't gotten a good grasp of the scoring system since my last play (three months ago). Still, I've been itching to hop back into the game as of late. This and...

•Border Down — Same as above. Playing it once caused me to hunt down the game's soundtrack and anything else Zuntata. I still haven't reached any ending yet, due to my bad habit of temporarily losing interest in a game after little play switching on to something else (also three months since I last played).

Jamz · Post by **Jamz** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:25 pm

Espgaluda II.
My introduction into real arcade gaming, love all of it but it still owns me hard beyond stage 4

.

Blue Wish Ressurrection & Eden´s Edge.
Two _very_ fine freeware shmups from X_X (http://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/x_xgameroom/).
Many similarities with caves masterpieces

.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:55 pm

elfhentaifan wrote:was the fun in jerking off or listening the soundtracks?

The fun part was spending hours trying to devise a dependable scoring strategy to get me through stage two. This is also the last game that was able to bring me into the "flow".

clp · Post by **clp** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:52 pm

i only discovered / got into the shmup genre this year so its been full of discovery , karous had me addicted for a whilst , mars matrix , mushi, bakraid and garegga have been my favs of the year

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:39 pm

Ibara

seattlexc · Post by **seattlexc** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:44 pm

Donpachi - an old favorite of mine

Shy Shark - Have a SS cab, so I put a lot of credits into this earlier this year, I totally own my roommates in this game.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:12 pm

JoshF wrote:Darius Gaiden

SuperGrafx · Post by **SuperGrafx** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:16 pm

Kiken wrote:I spent a hell of a lot of time in 2007 playing Under Defeat, as well as Karous

Same with me.

dolph · Post by **dolph** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:16 pm

Mushihimesama! I 1CCed it. \o/

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