Wacky Scoring Systems

EMS · Post by **EMS** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:34 pm

Experimental and the like? I'm really turned on by them. I'd rather you NOT rank them though.

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:41 pm

DIMAHOO aka GREAT MAHOU DAISAKUSEN

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:10 pm

Battle Bakraid. >_>

Also, Omega Fighter Special (Special version).

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:20 pm

Shippu Mahou daisakusen a.k.a. Kingdom Grandprix

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:43 pm

I love how every reply so far contained a Raizing game.

(And the opening post contained the word "rank", making it even funnier.)

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:48 pm

XII Waggle

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:57 pm

mushihimesama.

bitkid · Post by **bitkid** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:20 am

Brave Blade! Batting around medals to increase their value!

Observer · Post by **Observer** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:53 am

Esp.Ra.De? (the whole charging ray+trying to obtain and maintain 16x multipliers+energy tanks to recharge the ray of doom+cancelling bullets, etc, etc.)

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:59 am

Pretty much any non-chaining Cave scoring system is awesome, I think.

The recent Eden's Aegis PC freeware release has an amazing scoring system too, with bullet canceling, medal chaining, and a counter system. Really very fun.

orange · Post by **orange** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:16 am

chaining

:3

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:10 am

For "conceptual weirdness" it's tough to beat Night Raid (only game I can think of offhand where you can go for a negative score), though the actual "stuff you have to do" to score isn't particularly odd. RSG's scoring system is also kinda weird when you think about it..."only kill those, leave everything else alone!" The pesudo-chaining found in Cotton 2 and Boomerang is also somewhat unusual, imo. Not to mention the "less lives = more points" system found in Under Defeat and...that one obscure arcade shooter.

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:05 am

Thinking of GunNail? GunNail is cool.