6th Annual Top 25 Shmups of All Time! - RESULTS!
I voted it the same as I did last year, so yeah, what the hell happened.CIT wrote:And no more Raiden DX in the Top 25 - you guys suck!
Not to mention GigaWing beating it. Big time what the fuck right there.
Kamui just edging Gun Frontier is alright. Would've been nice to see it beat out any of the Rays though.
'Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon.'
Hmm, I guess I was just never a Gradius fan. The PSX one did look interesting, though, as well as some of the spin-offs. I really don't understand why people like GV I guess. It just seems like a very slick, technoized, and padded-out sequel to me-- lots of slow boring Cores and cutscenes. Meanwhile, I've been getting into Metal Black latelyRob wrote:There's a shorter answer to why it's not as good as GV.louisg wrote: Border Down is, largely, an homage to [Metal Black]
Humans, think about what you have done
Gradius V is totally not as good as Radiant Silvergun.
It had rank.WarpZone wrote:Where was Battle Garegga in 2004? Every other year it's in the top ten. Huh.
so long and tanks for all the spacefish
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<Megalixir> now that i know garegga is faggot central i can disregard it entirely
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Yeah, this is something I had to think a lot about when voting, too ... Am I voting for the most important games, the most original, the most historically influential, or simply the best overall?spadgy wrote:Looking again at the full list I'm fairly surprised the original Gradius didn't get higher with GV being so popular.
Gradius is by far my favourite hori series, and if I could vote for my top 50 shmups, they'd all probably fit in there. But singling out only 25 titles is difficult and I just couldn't justify including the original, when I thought that several of the sequels had improved on it. I love the feel of the original and it's probably my most played Gradius of all, but I just didn't have room to vote for more than two Gradius games. In the end I voted for what I thought were the best overall, not necessarily the most 'historically important' or influential.
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It had rank only in 2004?Twiddle wrote:It had rank.WarpZone wrote:Where was Battle Garegga in 2004? Every other year it's in the top ten. Huh.
Treasure fans and other people who like "epic" games.spadgy wrote:Looking again at the full list I'm fairly surprised the original Gradius didn't get higher with GV being so popular.
Probably because the original Gradius is kind of worse than Gradius II GnY (on the HM list), Gradius III (which would have been on the HM list if they didn't break it into AC and SNES versions), or Gaiden, which even made it into the top-25. While it was the game that started the series, it hardly had anything to offer compared to the later installments, imo. Hence the reason it was rated lower than most of the other Gradius games out there.spadgy wrote:Looking again at the full list I'm fairly surprised the original Gradius didn't get higher with GV being so popular.
Matskat wrote:This neighborhood USED to be nice...until that family of emulators moved in across the street....
It will be very interesting to see the next year's top-25, which I suppose will include Ketsui thanks to the X360 port, and likely have DOJ's popularity increased even more thanks to the other port. We need more arcade-only games' ports. :(
Matskat wrote:This neighborhood USED to be nice...until that family of emulators moved in across the street....
Shhh.Herr Schatten wrote:It had rank only in 2004?Twiddle wrote:It had rank.WarpZone wrote:Where was Battle Garegga in 2004? Every other year it's in the top ten. Huh.
so long and tanks for all the spacefish
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<Megalixir> now that i know garegga is faggot central i can disregard it entirely
<Megalixir> i'm stuck in a hobby with gays
unban shw
<Megalixir> now that i know garegga is faggot central i can disregard it entirely
<Megalixir> i'm stuck in a hobby with gays
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Mmm..that doesn't really ring true. DDP and Battle Garregga, for instance, are both available for FREE in MAME. So, I don't think it's a matter of GV just being played by more people.jpj wrote:not to burst your bubble, but i think it's just because the game is available in all territories, and is very affordable.
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Layer Section is great. I was just playing that a while back, and made it to the last stage with the 4 credits. That's sad and all, but it's the best i've done. That game is hard.Crisium wrote:I still have to play many of these on the list. Time to get cracking. Or it would be, but I'm having too much fun with Galactic Attack (RayForce) on my Saturn. I can't even finish a playthrough yet, even with the 4 credits, but that's more motivation to play. It's a unique game with the layers and I would have liked it in top 10. Oh well.
And I guess no one shares my love for Chaos Field. Even if it is bosses only.
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