Any 2008 New Year resolutions shmup-wise?

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:05 pm

Since it's a whole new year, what are your New Year resolutions when it comes to the niche genre known as shmups?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:12 pm

Mars Matrix +1 trillion points, start up the arranged mode for fun. Maybe play a few other games semi-seriously like Batrider and Strikers 99.

Post up a 78-83 countdown thread.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:20 pm

dodonpachi 2-ALL! and then STOP PLAYING DDP GODAMNIT!! I'm dangerously tempted to play some C-S afterwards T.T

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:01 pm

Get my first shmup 1cc.

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:20 pm

Pink Sweets 1cc
I swear to god once this is done im going to sell everything videogame related i have. this is the ultimate and last challenge.

crithit5000 · Post by **crithit5000** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:22 pm

I ended '07 and I'm beginning '08 by taking a long, long break from this genre. I'm content with how I played in 2007, including the three 1cc's I grabbed this year and doing decently in the competitions as well.

For now, I'm currently enjoying playing Street Fighter Alpha 2 online via ggpo.net. When I get back to shooters, I'd like to the 1cc Normal Course on Batrider. Envy is a total cocksuck, though.

Edit: If Plasmo quits video games, I'm going to be a sad, sad person.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:32 pm

DOJ 1CC
and getting half-decent at Futari 1.5 ULTRA, its so fucking ridiculously difficult, ive never played anything even nearly as frustrating.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:53 pm

I plan on making a vertically oriented shmup with solid, chunky graphics and a lot of animation. The game will have a resolution of 640x480 and the playing area will be 480x480. My main aim is to make a game that feels dynamic and alive.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:44 pm

To re-do my gameroom to include a HD flat panel LCD (42 to 50 in.) and one or two tates set up next to it. To this day I've yet to tate any of my shmups.

Lynx Winters · Post by **Lynx Winters** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:55 pm

unsane wrote:Get my first shmup 1cc.

This one. I just need to pick a game and stick with it. I'm leaning towards Galuda, with its built-in safety mechanics, but something like DDP or ESPRaDe also seems like a good pick. Definitely a Cave game, though.

Post by **spadgy** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:28 pm

Picking some games and sticking, rather than jumping from one to another without getting as good as I could at any.

Any maybe jumping from Supergun to Cab...

And getting on the Progear leaderboard here.

Kaede · Post by **Kaede** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:39 pm

Under Defeat 1cc. I'm getting so freaking close.

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:51 pm

Lynx Winters wrote: This one. I just need to pick a game and stick with it. I'm leaning towards Galuda, with its built-in safety mechanics, but something like DDP or ESPRaDe also seems like a good pick. Definitely a Cave game, though.

Galuda 1 is not hard at all to 1cc, so it's a good one to start on. You can pretty much bomb through anything difficult aside from the final form of the final boss, which is actually not that hard once you recognize there's pretty much a safe 'zone' you can hang out in for half the fight.

Personally I'll work on getting the 1cc on Futari Original and Maniac, both of which I'm not that far off from. Maybe I'll slog through Ultra mode enough that I'll get somewhere in that, although not so likely.

Assuming I do that, I'll probably go back and get the 1cc on ESPG2, which I'd been ever so close to doing for a long while.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:52 pm

In 2008 I plan to...

1-play more
2-suck less

djvinc · Post by **djvinc** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:04 pm

Since I just switched to a lousy composite supergun to a beautiful VGA display through a XRGB2, I plan to revisit my favorite shmups and just please my eyes

I also plan to buy Futari 1.5, and play Death Smiles and Dodonpachi Dai Fukkatsu

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:22 pm

i own maybe 30 shmups, and i'd like to get a new high score in each game.

Plasmo wrote:Pink Sweets 1cc
I swear to god once this is done im going to sell everything videogame related i have. this is the ultimate and last challenge.

before the year is out, i'm sure!

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:49 pm

Well i actually dont think ill ever 1cc pink sweets and even then, theres muchi muchi pork which im going to buy sooner or later so im doomed to play shmups for all my life now yay

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:55 pm

Rob wrote: Post up a 78-83 countdown thread.

How about PCE thread?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:50 pm

P_HAT wrote: How about PCE thread?

Magic Engine hates me.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:00 am

Resolutions:

- beat Esprade
- beat Under Defeat

- play more Battle Garegga

- acquire either Ketsui or Death Smiles
- acquire Cotton Boomerang (SS)
- acquire Radilgy (DC)
- acquire a couple more PCE and MD shooters

- sell some shooters I don't need

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:14 am

To not be stupid about it and actually play the shooters I have access to, not so many at once, and not as much. I just got Gekioh. Maybe that'll help somewhat.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:26 am

i ned 2 lurn how 2 dodged bullet

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:54 am

Rob wrote: Post up a 78-83 countdown thread.

Yes!

My goal: get beyond my completely casual gaming habits of late and get serious about STRIKERS 1999.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:17 am

Learn how to use the bomb button.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:50 am

Beat JoshF's darius gaiden score

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:02 am

bash every doujin again

henry dark · Post by **henry dark** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:11 am

1cc espgaludaaaarrrrrrrr

Mega Mudkip · Post by **Mega Mudkip** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:12 am

To 1CC at least one fucking shmup in my life =/

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:20 am

Mega Mudkip wrote:To 1CC at least one fucking shmup in my life =/

Thunder Force V, freerange.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:34 am

I'd like to see some folks on this board nail the AC in Under Defeat.

Well, at the end of last year, I tried to SCC all 6 Mega-CD shmups before the end of the year (I undertook the project in mid November). I missed it by one game (fuck you and your long ass stages Dennin Aleste!).

So my first goal for this year is to SCC Dennin Aleste.

Then I'm going to tackle Recca.