STGT 2008 - Week #1 Voting (Capcom Week)

[Arvandor]

Which version? There appear to be quite a few. I assume the US/JP versions are either fine? They have the same... number after them, as listed at my... source.

Edit: I've downloaded a whole bunch of 'em, including what I'm fairly sure is the main rom (since it's 7+megs), and... It's missing files or something.

[Shatterhand]

Only because at the time I hadn't played it in about nine months and had forgotten how much I hated it. Also, 1943 Kai and Varth are even worse.

Varth doesn't have percentage-based bonuses.

The percentage-based bonus isn't that bad. Well, not that bad after last year Viper Phase 1. I must admit when I first noticed the game had this percentage bonus, I went like "NOOOOOOOOOOO ITS VP1 ALL OVER AGAIN", but it's really not *that* bad.

I voted for 1943Kai, but either Kai or 19xx was good enough for me, both games are pretty good. Varth in the other hand I am not the biggest fan of it.

And I bet the oldschoolers voted for Varth instead of 19xx. Tsc tsc.

[Twiddle]

always rely on shmups forums to pick the shittiest game ever of a list of games that were any good

Lol, sanity prevails

nnnnngh squeezing out an extra 500k points by missing one less enemy

75% game clear rate out of all participants

THIS

IS

SANITY

trolling limiter release

JoshF wrote;

54 people give Namako the freebie.

Varth would have been the freebie.

You guys are disappointing me. Why are you not strategically voting

[Twiddle]

This is how I know Rayforce is totally going to win week 4

at least viper phase 1 was actually hard

[Icarus]

THIS

IS

SPARTAAAAAAAAAAA

Fix'd.

trolling limiter release, Ancient Belka casting circle initiated

You guys are disappointing me. Why are you not strategically voting

You can't "strategically" vote when voting is done privately. :p
Anyway, you should know me by now, I'm happy with any game chosen. And it is always funny listening to people complain about the selection.

[Twiddle]

I love complaining, it gives me a free ticket to insult people

[The Coop]

Only because at the time I hadn't played it in about nine months and had forgotten how much I hated it. Also, 1943 Kai and Varth are even worse.

Varth doesn't have percentage-based bonuses.

The percentage-based bonus isn't that bad. Well, not that bad after last year Viper Phase 1. I must admit when I first noticed the game had this percentage bonus, I went like "NOOOOOOOOOOO ITS VP1 ALL OVER AGAIN", but it's really not *that* bad.

I voted for 1943Kai, but either Kai or 19xx was good enough for me, both games are pretty good. Varth in the other hand I am not the biggest fan of it.

And I bet the oldschoolers voted for Varth instead of 19xx. Tsc tsc.

I know I didn't. I'd rather drill rusty and dull screws into my testicles than play that game for a week straight.

[professor ganson]

I challenge anyone to name a more generic shooter than this. I love Capcom, but there's no charm or style here whatsoever. Just blah. Enjoy!

[bsidwell]

My foolproof strategy this year is to not vote. That way no matter what terrible game we get it isn't my fault.

[Rob]

Really excited to play this game. Good pick!

[Icarus]

My foolproof strategy this year is to not vote. That way no matter what terrible game we get it isn't my fault.

Don't worry. We'll just blame it on you anyway.

[Twiddle]

Really excited to play this game. Good pick!

It's as much a classic as 1942: Joint Strike is.

[Icarus]

I challenge anyone to name a more generic shooter than this.

Strikers 1945.

[Rob]

But the patterns might hit in that game.

[JoshF]

Yeah but you don't have to worry about getting a harder pattern (bullet barf) because you didn't destroy the right turret in time.

[Twiddle]

I take no responsibility for the game lists in week 1-4.

You can all thank Mike for those.

Ps if you think 99% doesn't hurt your score potential very much you are so so wrong. Figure out how the scoring system works to find out why!

[2140.21] <Twiddle-0> i really don't hate 19xx so much but goddamn the potential pisses me off so badly
[2140.22] <Twiddle-0> must
[2140.23] <Twiddle-0> troll
[2140.25] <Twiddle-0> aauuugrrgghhh

[Enhasa]

How can people not know the scoring system? It takes all of 5 minutes to figure out.

Didn't you suggest voting for it too, on our TOP SECRET BASE™?

Shhh you just ruined my TOP SECRET PLAN to fakepost in the general chat STGT thread to mislead Namakoteam spies. SDA WANT PROGEAR

always rely on shmups forums to pick the shittiest game ever of a list of games that were any good

Should have listened to my totally non-facetious suggestion of further cutting the number of game choices each week to 1.

[moozooh]

It would be shitty by default then, so yeah.

[Enhasa]

Seriously though, it's win-win-win.

1) shortlist guy can't complain since he decided all the games, doh
2) people could see the list of games pre-tourney and decide if they even want to play at all, instead of finding out they hate all 5 games (bsidwell) or DDP isn't selected (Prom) or they have sand in their vagina (GP) and wasting everyone's time
3) eliminates these dumb boring in-between voting weeks that make the tourney last forever (2.5 months) instead of barely over a month (5 weeks)

STGT would then have the same ruleset as Macaw-STGT or SDAAT aka paragons of awesome. Oh yeah, if people really want to vote for false sense of empowerment (works for tasvideos lol), there could be a pre-tourney vote for all 5 weeks.


Another great suggestion is sikraiken locking the thread when he posts the vote winner.

[-Bridget-]

Ooh, I like 19XX quite a bit.

Granted, *it* hates *me*, but still, lol.....



Either of the other 2 games woulda been fine with me as well, though Varth's zillion levels woulda been a bit of a strain.


Allright then, guess it's time I get crackin with this one.......

[Ed Oscuro]

I found myself enjoying it despite myself...and the percentage bonus thing isn't as aggravating as I might've thought; I cleared stage 3 with 99% on my run.

[professor ganson]

I challenge anyone to name a more generic shooter than this.

Strikers 1945.

Ha. No, really. This game is so generic they put variables in the title! Note to arcade managers: just fill in the blanks as you wish. They won't know the difference.

[Ozymandiaz1260]

Fuck you people

[MX7]

END OF LEVEL BONERS has ruined pretty much every game that employs it. Turrets are pretty easy to avoid if you just play a second credit and don't get hit by them next time.

[sven666]

I challenge anyone to name a more generic shooter than this.

Strikers 1945.

Ha. No, really.

strikers 1945 II.

[Shatterhand]

I know 99% hurts your score, even more in the long run. (7 100% would probably give you like 2.5 millions more than 7 99%) But is anyone getting 100% at every level, or restarting when failing to get 100%?

99% here is isn't 1/100 of the frustration that was in Viper Phase 1.

[Icarus]

Ha. No, really.

Strikers 1999.

[lewisit]

[I don't want to spam the STGT2008-highscore-thread so I ask my question here]

how do you guys play 19XX (or any other CPS 1&2-game) in Mame - fullscreen (i.e. kinda ugly compressed to 3:4) or w/ black borders?

most of you post highscore-pictures of 19XX that are in the "correct" resolution (224x384) but therefore look badly outstreched - do you actually play this game in that deformed way?

for the round objects in 19XX to appear perfectly round the screen-proportion would have to be 224x336 (in some other CPS 1&2-games 224x320) - can/do you force Mame to put out this resolution(s)?

*still in my first days of discovering the wonders of Mame*

[Shatterhand]

I'm playing on a window. When I tried to go full screen, the monitor went crazy.

[Jockel]

I challenge anyone to name a more generic shooter than this.

Strikers 1945.

Ha. No, really.

Aero Fighters / Sonic Wing series.