STGT 2008 - Week #1 Voting (Capcom Week)

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:37 pm

Icarus wrote:
professor ganson wrote:Ha. No, really.
Strikers 1999.

Fair enough, I deserve that. Just thinking of graphics: I can play my S. 1999 PCB on an RGB monitor and that allows me to appreciate the game's strengths visually, and I have no 19xx PCB available for comparison. But from what I've seen so far, I have no intention of getting one.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:42 pm

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:Fuck you people

Didn't mean to offend. If people like the game, I'd love to hear about its virtues. I've spent a whole 30 mins. on the game, and am willing to believe there's more to it than meets the eye. I might even spend another 30 mins. on it this evening, even though I'd much rather play Sengoku Ace.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:19 pm

Shatterhand wrote: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%)

I'm pretty sure that should only concern people who can all-clear the game in a week, because otherwise it makes more sense to just try surviving for one more stage rather than start from the beginning after messing up midway through.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:27 pm

moozooh wrote:
Shatterhand wrote: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%)
I'm pretty sure that should only concern people who can all-clear the game in a week, because otherwise it makes more sense to just try surviving for one more stage rather than start from the beginning after messing up midway through.

Surely. THat's why I said 99% here wont hurt you as much as in VP1, and the score system isn't as frustrating. I can see how 99% would hurt your score comparing to 100%, but unless you are going for a top tier score, it shouldn't be a concern indeed. Also, 95% will give you exactly the same as 99%, so it makes it even less frustrating.

Looking by the results from day 1, I think we will see a fair number of 1CCs before the end of the week

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Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:49 pm

professor ganson wrote:
Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:Fuck you people
Didn't mean to offend. If people like the game, I'd love to hear about its virtues. I've spent a whole 30 mins. on the game, and am willing to believe there's more to it than meets the eye. I might even spend another 30 mins. on it this evening, even though I'd much rather play Sengoku Ace.

I wasn't talking about anybody specifically, and I was mostly being silly. It's just that every tournament we have here everybody feels the need to complain about every game, usually even if it's the game they voted for...

Plus, 19xx really is a really fun game. I bet you'd like it if you gave it a real chance. Playing new games is one of my favorite parts about these shmup tournaments

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:02 pm

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:Playing new games is one of my favorite parts about these shmup tournaments :D

Oh, I couldn't agree more.

croikle · Post by **croikle** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:31 pm

Plus, with the voting system, we get 3 new games every 2 weeks!

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:52 pm

professor ganson wrote:I love Capcom, but there's no charm or style here whatsoever. Just blah.

I take it your not a drum/bongo fan?

Seriously, although I can't speak to the depth of play mechanics (haven't had much time on it), I thought the music and visuals were great. To each his own I guess.

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:It's just that every tournament we have here everybody feels the need to complain about every game, usually even if it's the game they voted for...

I think the complaining is part STGT tradition, and the fact that people don't like being told what to do (you must play this game for 1 week!). I'm glad I'm not in it this year, so I can keep a soft spot in my heart for 19XX.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:22 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote: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.

99% is failing.

innerpattern · Post by **innerpattern** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:27 am

"Winners don't use drugs!" -> THANK YOU CAPCOM!!
they really should have stuck to fighters...complain, complain, rabble, rabble, rabble

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:36 am

Rob wrote:
Ed Oscuro wrote: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.
99% is failing.

;(

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:37 am

The problem with the game is not the game itself, it's the people playing it.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:29 am

1,079,900

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:29 am

I WIN!

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:31 am

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:28 am

The Coop wrote:I WIN!

Hey, I see the word "average" in there.

How about you try above average perfect.

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:45 am

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?

I'm sure it depends on the version of MAME, but with Mame32 Plus I just left the display settings on defaults so it comes up rescaled to the proper 3:4 with large black bars on the sides (4:3 monitor). With 4:3 CPS games like Street Fighter II (or if playing a 3:4 game rotated for TATE) it would be rescaled to fill the screen completely.

If you don't like the rescaling (I usually avoid it actually) then you'd need to a pick a suitably weird resolution or adjust the picture size to make it the right shape. Something like 800x480 should work OK for TATE.

The screenshots come out 224x384 despite any of this.

Post by **nZero** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:07 am

sikraiken wrote:I'll be making a thread later tonight with all the reasons people gave for their votes (I won't be putting names, but if you'd like to say "hey, I wrote that," you're more than welcome to).

I'm looking forward to this.

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:26 pm

nZero wrote:
sikraiken wrote:I'll be making a thread later tonight with all the reasons people gave for their votes (I won't be putting names, but if you'd like to say "hey, I wrote that," you're more than welcome to).
I'm looking forward to this.

Yeah, for the people who did do it anyway. : ) I'll definitely do it after I get out of classes today.