Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

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Futari BL on 360 :D
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Ironclad. The ten dollar version.
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I can't make up my mind!

I'm getting close to a 1cc on Shiki II, but keep getting distracted by other games:
Gradius V
Raiden IV
BWR Plus
Imperishable Night
and still a little Ikaruga here and there

Anyone else have this problem? My attention is way too divided to make serious progress on any of the above games (not a good combination with not having a whole lot of video game time to begin with...)
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Anesthetize wrote:I can't make up my mind!
A great problem! :D
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durias wrote:
Anesthetize wrote:I can't make up my mind!
A great problem! :D
And now I'm making it worse by considering ordering Mushi Futari or Esp II.
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Mamoru-Kun. A lot better than I expected.
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iEspgaluda 2
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Dragoforce wrote:Mamoru-Kun. A lot better than I expected.
Serious? I have yet to try it but I haven't touched it yet since I wasn't really "hyped" for it to begin with.
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Blastwind :D
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Darius 1, Aero Fighters 3.
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Raiden II, Turbo Force, AACR2, and X-Multiply.
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ZOM wrote:
Dragoforce wrote:Mamoru-Kun. A lot better than I expected.
Serious? I have yet to try it but I haven't touched it yet since I wasn't really "hyped" for it to begin with.
I like it a lot, reminds me a lot of KiKi KaiKai with improved everything. Some of the later autoscrolling stages gets quite manic as well.
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Similar situation here.
Played it on saturday at CITs shmeet and it was a lot of fun.
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Detana!! TwinBee & Strikers 1945 2, and losing at both of them
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Dragoforce wrote:
ZOM wrote:
Dragoforce wrote:Mamoru-Kun. A lot better than I expected.
Serious? I have yet to try it but I haven't touched it yet since I wasn't really "hyped" for it to begin with.
I like it a lot, reminds me a lot of KiKi KaiKai with improved everything. Some of the later autoscrolling stages gets quite manic as well.
So it does have autoscrolling later on? Sweet!
Gotta give it a try soon.
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gave Under Defeat a go last night and this morning. God...what a great shmup. Now I'm about to play some Border Down.
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iEspgaluda 2
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Gunbird 2
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Strikers 1945 plus and Alcon are in my cabs at the moment.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
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trying to suck less at galuda 2 360
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I'm, uh, trying to get Hyper Duel to work. Bah.
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Cho Ren Sha, which no longer seems to like Wine [I blame Ubuntu 10.04, it worked fine in 9.04...].

Got to level 3, and I MISSED THE FUCKING 1UP. This distracted me so much that I proceeded to suck ass, despite the fact that I was doing a really smooth run, no miss, mostly full bomb stock, and generally enjoying myself.
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Crimzon Clover demo. Damn, what an awesome game. Starting to consistently get about 12bil out of Stage 1...and I know I can double that shortly once I get a true handle on scoring. Easily as good as ( if not better than ) most commercial shmups out there.
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More Cho Ren Sha, have to play it in MESS. Windows MESS even [in Wine, it runs totally fine BTW], because I cannot for the life of me find a Linux binary.

Got to level 5 [if only because of the massive slowdown, level 4 really runs badly, and it's all because of how slow the original X68000 is]. Died on the boss [which ran full speed, and I wasn't paying attention, and I was out of bombs anyway].

Oh, and I forgot how awesome the music in this was. Like, wow. I love the level 4 song. Level 5 one, not so much.

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And now some Perfect Cherry Blossom [yay Wine, again!].
I'm dieing like a total noob.
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Been playing some Eden's Aegis the last couple of days. Really fun game :) Definitely makes waiting for Mushi Futari to get here a lot easier (ordered it over the weekend).
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esreveR wrote:I'm, uh, trying to get Hyper Duel to work. Bah.
:) Arranged Saturn Mode FTW!...whenever you get it to work, that is.
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Just been playing Reflex, Zen-Ichi and Demonstar Secret Missions 2 on PC.
All great fun!
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Espgaluda II, Mushihime-sama Futari, and DeathSmiles. Yeah, I finally got an Xbox 360. Unfortunately I only have a tiny black and white TV to play on right now. Bummer.

So far I've been enjoying DeathSmiles the most. Probably because it's the easiest of the three, and I kinda suck at shmups. But I think I'm getting close to my first 1CC here.
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Woohoo! Mushi Futari 1.5 just came in, and I finally got to try it out. I've only spent about 45 min. on it so far, but am loving it. Once I get done cooking dinner and eating it, I'll pop it back in for a while this evening.

p.s. How to choose between so many modes??
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Viewpoint. It is... Viewpoint.
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