so, whats the next arcade shooter?

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:57 am

GaijinPunch wrote:http://www.gamengai.com/forum/viewtopic ... 5757#15757

Bah, read that already.

mice · Post by **mice** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:04 am

Mamonoro is as close to Gun.Smoke it gets these days.
High hopes.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:12 am

I have very high hopes for Mamonoro, based on the Gulti logo.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:13 pm

mice wrote:Mamonoro is as close to Gun.Smoke it gets these days.

Or Out Zone?! Awesome!

Post by **spadgy** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:26 pm

spadgy wrote:I can see the Tou-hou analogy holds true from the limited bits I've seen.

Well - LGB has inspired me via PM to look into this a little more, and reminded me how little I know about Touhou, so perhaps I was wrong with that statement, but Mamonoro still doesn't appeal to me too much.

However, with all these things I keep hearing about Out Zone, maybe I need to go and have a look see if I can play that, and then take another look and this newfangled Mamonoro...

EDIT: OK - Out Zone looks awesome - why I've never given it attention I don't know, but my interest in Mamonoro has piqued a little!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:10 pm

Outzone? hah if it is even half as great as outzone itll be a smash hit!

personally i dont see any resemblance between the two...
(spadg, if you dont have it already - BUY OUTZONE NOW!)

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:14 pm

sven666 wrote:Outzone? hah if it is even half as great as outzone itll be a smash hit!

personally i dont see any resemblance between the two...
(spadg, if you dont have it already - BUY OUTZONE NOW!)

Out Zone would have been good if they made it into a proper shmup instead of this shmup/run&gun hybrid.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:35 pm

320x240 wrote:Out Zone would have been good if they made it into a proper shmup instead of this shmup/run&gun hybrid.

No, because then it would have just been another Tatsujin.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:20 am

CIT wrote:
320x240 wrote:Out Zone would have been good if they made it into a proper shmup instead of this shmup/run&gun hybrid.
No, because then it would have just been another Tatsujin.

But a ground based one. I have a special liking for ground based shooters of all kinds, especially the way they let you feel as part of the environment.

clp · Post by **clp** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:45 am

i bloody hope illvelo gets a port theres 5 new videos on youtube of the stages it looks crazy .

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:41 am

.. it looks pretty much exactly like radilgy & kauros to me??

and outzone is perfect as it is, like CIT said, take away the ground element and you have tatsujin, dogyuun, vimana, VV, etc etc..

a little off topic maybe but hows fixeight?, never played it myself, is it worth tracking down?

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:18 pm

Thirding Outzone being perfect the way it is. The scrolling not being fixed also gives you the option of trying to either speed run through the game or letting you milk for extra points along the way, depending on how you feel that day.

All I've heard of FixEight is that it's a big disappointment in comparison, sadly.

yojo! · Post by **yojo!** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:56 pm

Gwyrgyn Blood wrote: All I've heard of FixEight is that it's a big disappointment in comparison, sadly.

Yep, it looks ugly and play like shit; hard to beleive that both games were made by Toaplam.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:25 pm

320x240 wrote:But a ground based one. I have a special liking for ground based shooters of all kinds, especially the way they let you feel as part of the environment.

There is always that letter "C".

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:40 am

LGB wrote:
320x240 wrote:But a ground based one. I have a special liking for ground based shooters of all kinds, especially the way they let you feel as part of the environment.
There is always that letter "C".

Do you mean that letter 'C' which you will accidentaly trip over each time you play?

Of course Fixeight is even worse in this repsect. Cave... eh Toaplan fanboys will call it a feature I guess...

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:09 pm

clp wrote:i bloody hope illvelo gets a port theres 5 new videos on youtube of the stages it looks crazy .

I don't see why it wouldn't receive a port. I suppose MileStone will opt for the Wii, given that they ported their other three shmups to it (unless they have a stack of GD-ROMs hidden in a closet somewhere).

sven666 wrote:.. it looks pretty much exactly like radilgy & kauros to me??

It doesn't look a thing like either one. The only thing I can see that they borrowed was the individual weapon leveling from Karous. The doll system reminds me of the option mechanic from that shooting level in Gunstar Heroes. The bonus stage system looks really obnoxious though, constantly breaking up the levels. I guess you have to trigger all of those bonus levels and be successful in completing them to trigger the TLB (cause the player in those Youtube vids certainly didn't).

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:47 pm

320x240 wrote:Do you mean that letter 'C' which you will accidentaly trip over each time you play?

You said "ground-based shooters".

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:12 pm

Mamonoro looks good and fun. I guess people are just upset that it doesn't match the aesthetic integrity of Cave's 'kong country graphix.

Veracity · Post by **Veracity** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:04 am

A Psyvariar 3 or Homura 2 would be nice. Think I recall mutterings to the effect the former, at least, was in early production, but that was forever ago, so likely either an unfounded rumor, or it's been canned/shelved.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:08 am

JoshF wrote:Mamonoro looks good and fun. I guess people are just upset that it doesn't match the aesthetic integrity of Cave's 'kong country graphix.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:31 am

lol.. i dreamt a new choaniki was announced in this thread for the type-x2

had to check that it wasent really so

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 6:39 am

I dream of a Guwange 2 announcement pretty much every night...and day.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:10 pm

Necronopticous wrote:I dream of a Guwange 2 announcement pretty much every night...and day.

dont you already suck at guwaaang tho?

seriously, anyone heard of anything? strange (and a little worrying) that there isnt a single release in the pipe as far as i know atleast..

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 1:33 pm

I'm in Tokyo now, playing A LOT of games, and the only ones that have sucked so bad that I've actually just walked away from the game before using my credits are this and some shitty light gun duel game. Mamoru-kun reminds me of a cross between Guwange and well, Commando 3, but with totally lame doujinesque graphics and boring level/enemy pattern designs. I wouldn't want to mention OutZone or Gun.Smoke here, they are great games. Shock Troopers.. well they are shit.

And since Chou Aniki was mentioned: There was a small section in Comiket dedicated to Chou Aniki merchandise ;D The legend still lives

Rai82 · Post by **Rai82** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:02 pm

First post here.

I have always been interested in shmups but couldn't find a place to talk, but managed to find this forum through Google.

I wonder what Treasure is doing right now. I thought they working on the spiritual sequel to Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga, and will feature 3d graphics 2d gameplay scrolling shooter way back in 2006. Last I heard, they postponed development of the new game to work on Ikaruga XBLA. So I wonder if the project is back on track. http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3162888

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:40 pm

Welcome. There is a new shooter in production, but according to Treasure it's not a spiritual sequel. And yes, it was stopped temporarily to create Ikaruga 360. Personally, I think they should have done Radiant Silvergun 360, but I digress.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:45 pm

JoshF wrote:Mamonoro looks good and fun. I guess people are just upset that it doesn't match the aesthetic integrity of Cave's 'kong country graphix.

Dude, untextured prerendered sprites >>>>>>>> cartoony polygons.

glitch · Post by **glitch** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:38 am

i bet it will be a while still, but apparently Cave is working on some bunny girl thing.
how much do we know about that?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:48 am

glitch wrote:i bet it will be a while still, but apparently Cave is working on some bunny girl thing.
how much do we know about that?

we dont know shit (might not even be a shmup) aside from the first two characters looking attrocious

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:36 am

I'm in Tokyo now, playing A LOT of games, and the only ones that have sucked so bad that I've actually just walked away from the game before using my credits are this and some shitty light gun duel game.

Whaaaat? 2spicy looks 2 cool.

how much do we know about that?

We know it's the hawtest cave game.