Tell us the daft crap non shmuppers say about the genre

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

i got sacked ... he pretty much got owned in the end.

I'm not exactly sure I follow you...

[Mills]

i got sacked ... he pretty much got owned in the end.

I'm not exactly sure I follow you...

Sorry dude, for my bad english and not checking my edited post lol.

[Davey]

A friend when he saw me playing a shmup:
"You're one of those people who want to express that they're different from others, but they don't know how to show that. So you're playing this."

I've been accused of this myself. I don't think it's true, but I didn't really have a comeback. Saying "no, I just like it" isn't really a convincing argument; it just sounds like admitting defeat.

[The Coop]

A friend when he saw me playing a shmup:
"You're one of those people who want to express that they're different from others, but they don't know how to show that. So you're playing this."

I've been accused of this myself. I don't think it's true, but I didn't really have a comeback. Saying "no, I just like it" isn't really a convincing argument; it just sounds like admitting defeat.

"I play them because the graphics are good, the action's intense, the music is great and it gives me a lot more of a challenge than generic FPS #3,261."

[BIL]

"95% of non-arcade videogames bore the living shit out of me these days" has always sufficed for me. It's true as well!

[TrevHead (TVR)]

A friend when he saw me playing a shmup:
"You're one of those people who want to express that they're different from others, but they don't know how to show that. So you're playing this."

I've been accused of this myself. I don't think it's true, but I didn't really have a comeback. Saying "no, I just like it" isn't really a convincing argument; it just sounds like admitting defeat.

I would hazzard a guess that the ppl accusing you of having some wierd reason as to why your playing shmups are themselves those wierdos wholl only take on a hobby just to advertise just how much a great person he his, aka a posing bastard

[soloista]

Not specifically about shmups, though it could apply I suppose. On a podcast I was listening to the other day, someone was saying that there's two types of games - one is based around the gameplay mechanics and the other is more of a narrative or scenario-driven experience. He then described mechanic-based games as 'casual' games and the latter as 'mature' games.

Isn't that a joke? Mixing up narrative-driven games with non-casual kind of lies about the amount of skill involved to play, right?

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Not specifically about shmups, though it could apply I suppose. On a podcast I was listening to the other day, someone was saying that there's two types of games - one is based around the gameplay mechanics and the other is more of a narrative or scenario-driven experience. He then described mechanic-based games as 'casual' games and the latter as 'mature' games.

Isn't that a joke? Mixing up narrative-driven games with non-casual kind of lies about the amount of skill involved to play, right?

Too many gamers nowadays couldnt give a shit about gameplay and just the story and immersive expierance of the game all they require is some extra busy work to keep their mind active. Pefrably activaties that are extramly repettative once the player has learnt how a perticular game mechanic works (thats why many games dont give all the skills, powers and other game mechaincs from the start of the game and instead trickle feed the player bits at a time to keep the player engaged) Just look at mmorpgs like the hugely popular WOW and all the ratting and grinding thats part of the game.

[Klatrymadon]

A friend when he saw me playing a shmup:
"You're one of those people who want to express that they're different from others, but they don't know how to show that. So you're playing this."

I've been accused of this myself. I don't think it's true, but I didn't really have a comeback. Saying "no, I just like it" isn't really a convincing argument; it just sounds like admitting defeat.

Personally, I'd have been more interested to know why my own friend held me in such low esteem and had become such a presumptuous, arrogant, GCSE psychologist berk, all of a sudden.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

i got sacked ... he pretty much got owned in the end.

I'm not exactly sure I follow you...

Sorry dude, my bad english for checking my edited post lol.

So it was your asshole colleague who got canned in the end? I'M just trying to achieve some kind of closure here...

[Davey]

A friend when he saw me playing a shmup:
"You're one of those people who want to express that they're different from others, but they don't know how to show that. So you're playing this."

I've been accused of this myself. I don't think it's true, but I didn't really have a comeback. Saying "no, I just like it" isn't really a convincing argument; it just sounds like admitting defeat.

Personally, I'd have been more interested to know why my own friend held me in such low esteem and had become such a presumptuous, arrogant, GCSE psychologist berk, all of a sudden.

Because he was probably just returning the favor? We enjoy cutting each other down to size.

[Klatrymadon]

Oh aye, my friends take the piss out of my hobbies all the time, but any suggestion that I play shoot-yer-mums "just to be different" would be excusable only with much pint-buying on their behalf.

[sirmax]

Friend of mine wanted to see the overpriced game I imported.

1st reaction, seeing the menu: "Wtf, japanese?!"
2nd reaction, seeing stage 3: "You're a goddamned freak!" (which I am absolutely not yet)
3rd reacction, seeing the backgroundart at the scorescreen after the last stage: Why is there a naked girl lying on an underaged boy?! (combined with a look that shouts "sicko")

[njiska]

Friend of mine wanted to see the overpriced game I imported.

1st reaction, seeing the menu: "Wtf, japanese?!"
2nd reaction, seeing stage 3: "You're a goddamned freak!" (which I am absolutely not yet)
3rd reacction, seeing the backgroundart at the scorescreen after the last stage: Why is there a naked girl lying on an underaged boy?! (combined with a look that shouts "sicko")

What exactly was it?

[sirmax]

Mushi Futari, Novice mode.

[njiska]

Mushi Futari, Novice mode.

Wait, wait wait, They thought you were a freak over stage 3 in Novice Mode? Should have showed them Ver 1.5 Ultra. Going to invite them back once Deathsmiles is over here?

[gs68]

He didn't mistake Palm for a girl, I'll give him that.

[drunkninja24]

Friend of mine wanted to see the overpriced game I imported.

1st reaction, seeing the menu: "Wtf, japanese?!"
2nd reaction, seeing stage 3: "You're a goddamned freak!" (which I am absolutely not yet)
3rd reacction, seeing the backgroundart at the scorescreen after the last stage: Why is there a naked girl lying on an underaged boy?! (combined with a look that shouts "sicko")

Maybe you should ask him why he's paying attention to the images on the scorescreen moreso than the actual game

[MathU]

On a podcast I was listening to the other day, someone was saying that there's two types of games - one is based around the gameplay mechanics and the other is more of a narrative or scenario-driven experience. He then described mechanic-based games as 'casual' games and the latter as 'mature' games.

Isn't that a joke? Mixing up narrative-driven games with non-casual kind of lies about the amount of skill involved to play, right?

I like to think of casual games as those which don't require a large time investment before they can be enjoyed. You can pick up a 2D shooter and play it for 30 minutes, and 9 times out of 10 you have fun the entire time, even when the game is completely new to you. Almost no initial time must be put in to learn the game mechanics or watch a cutscene. In this way 2D shooters are some of the most casual fun around. "Hardcore" is very ambiguous though, and for some that tends to correlate with difficulty.

[Shatterhand]

On a podcast I was listening to the other day, someone was saying that there's two types of games - one is based around the gameplay mechanics and the other is more of a narrative or scenario-driven experience. He then described mechanic-based games as 'casual' games and the latter as 'mature' games.

Isn't that a joke? Mixing up narrative-driven games with non-casual kind of lies about the amount of skill involved to play, right?

I like to think of casual games as those which don't require a large time investment before they can be enjoyed. You can pick up a 2D shooter and play it for 30 minutes, and 9 times out of 10 you have fun the entire time, even when the game is completely new to you. Almost no initial time must be put in to learn the game mechanics or watch a cutscene. In this way 2D shooters are some of the most casual fun around. "Hardcore" is very ambiguous though, and for some that tends to correlate with difficulty.

Thats one (of many reasons) why I love shmups so much these days. If I am tired and want a quick game of something before going to bed, I can play a couple of credits of Dodonpachi and be satisfied. Or I can go to a 2-hour marathon of Espgaluda II trying to 1cc/improve my score and have a blast too.

[sirmax]

Going to invite them back once Deathsmiles is over here?

Nah, they're already thinking that I'm having some kind of strange hentai-fetish. Showing them DS, would be like confirming this. Although I really would like to see their disturbed looks

Maybe you should ask him why he's paying attention to the images on the scorescreen moreso than the actual game

He gets easily distracted by boobs, I guess.

[njiska]

He didn't mistake Palm for a girl, I'll give him that.

Reminds me of a conversation with a friend of mine when I first showed him Mushi Futari.

Jack: I'd totally do the chick on the right
Me: That's a 9 year old boy
Jack: Meh, whatever

*Akward silence*

[Kollision]

If Palm is a boy, why does he sound like a girl when you play with him?

[nash87]

wait, really!? palm is a boy??? I'd much rather cave be straight pedo than, gay pedo. I'd rather them not pedo at all, but that's not going to happen until this dumb trend ends

[Ravid]

child characters != paedophilia

[ncp]

child characters != paedophilia

nonsense, everyone knows you're automatically sexually attracted to whatever you play as, I myself just cannot resist the allure of that sexy blue dodonpachi ship

edit: OR THAT PANZER JAGER OH DEAR

[Kollision]

nonsense, everyone knows you're automatically sexually attracted to whatever you play as

Hahaha
I feel quite relieved now because I only play Mushi Futari with Reco. I love her indeed.

One of my friends came over during the weekend and saw my Reco figurine from the Mushihimesama OST on the top of my shelf. One of the first things he noticed is that she doesn't wear any panties. Fortunately he's into gaming, comics and stuff, or else he would be calling me a pervert, as some other people already have.

[emphatic]

One of the first things he noticed is that she doesn't wear any panties.

What a perv.

[gs68]

If it's androgynous and it's attractive, I stop caring about its gender.