worstplayer wrote:
In shmups, your progression through stage is fixed and you can't go backwards.
And I thought I was having some quality shmup time last night playing Fantasy Zone on PC-Engine.
Anyway I've got this on Dreamcast and it was ok for a quick blast but its higly improbable i ever play it again. Not a very god game in my view either.
Phil, if you like Expendable but want something with a little more...grit, try Contra: Shattered Soldier on PS2. In terms of quality it's probably the exact polar opposite of Expendable - i.e. a really fantastic run & gun game, with some 3D elements.
Hard as nails though so you need to be ready for a challenge.
it290 wrote:I know the engine can support it, but does the actual game use it?
IIRC - Those Expendible PC shots are from a certain Matrox graphics card and it was a special version of the game designed to show it off.
I remember as it nearly caused me to buy one back then....
Phil12 wrote:hey guys. sorry i posted something that wasn't a shmup. Hey can anyone tell me what a shmup really is since this doesn't count?
Generally it's any of those games in Shatterhand's post. However, Expendable could also be considered a shmup, as it has no platforming aspect. Games like expendable are called "arena shooters" and somehow fall into the borderline shooters, like certain run n' gunner games.
To be honest, I think the run n' gun genre is the ultimate shmup genre, because it's a nice cross between a shooter and a platformer. And then you got games like Alien Soldier and certain aspects of other Treasure run n' gunners that make it REALLY seem like a shmup.
Hey, shmup actually works, so I may as well use and abuse it. Not only that, I can piss off anyone who thinks I said "shmuck".
Impossible? I can't believe those words coming from a guy who 1 lifed Xiga. I had it on the DC and found it rather enjoyable although the last boss was a real dissapointment + ending sucked.
Diabollokus wrote:Impossible? I can't believe those words coming from a guy who 1 lifed Xiga. I had it on the DC and found it rather enjoyable although the last boss was a real dissapointment + ending sucked.
Well, to be honest, I haven't played it since 2000. So I was a lot younger and not much of a shmupper last time I did play it.
I found it fairly hard myself. Certainly never cleared the thing on one credit, even if extra lives were fairly easy to come by.
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