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burnman
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Post by burnman »

I was wondering, when I see a shmup vid on youtube, what does Loop mean in that context?

Also, does anyone have some really good Gradius hi score vids (i'm talking all of them).

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freddiebamboo
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Post by freddiebamboo »

The loop is when you complete the game and it "loops" back to the start, usually at a higher difficulty. Most Psikyo games and many cave games do this. Gradius loops many times IIRC.

Superplay has loads of Gradius videos here:

http://www.super-play.co.uk/index.php?c ... &gameid=24
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Post by nimitz »

like freddie said. Loop means the second playthrough when you just beat the game. hten loop 2 means 3rd playthrough


and for gradius videos you have 2 very impressive videos by tv1ks here

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tv1ks
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Post by freddiebamboo »

Good lord, I hadn't seen Tviks' R-type 2 video before :shock:

Rather impressive...
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Post by Zebra Airforce »

Check out the glossary
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