"Oh man, this is going to be a perfect run!"

[RNGmaster]

We've all thought that at some point or other - doing great at some game that we normally suck at. Then, as we're all thinking about posting our accomplishments here and bragging, everything crumbles around us. Share your darkest shmupping moments here!

I've got one humiliating moment in Dodonpachi to share, and one in Crimzon Clover.

In Dodonpachi, I was shooting through Stage 4, trying out the A-L combination (I generally use C-S). The speed was hard to get used to, and I had crashed into some bullets on Stage 3, managing to perfect the Stage 3 boss and get to Stage 4 on my last remaining life. Now generally, Stage 4 is really tough on me. Those tanks that shoot the spreading pattern tend to wall me really effectively. I managed to dodge everything with only the use of 1 bomb up to the final platform with the boss. Then I got sniped - game over.

I have huge trouble with Crimzon Clover Stage 2, since I tend to mess up scoring on Stage 1 a lot and rage quit. However, on this particular day I had amassed a pretty nice score and made it through to the boss's final pattern (fast streaming) without deaths. Generally, before the boss segues into this pattern, it slams its feet into the wall and releases small sprays of bullets that are easily dodged. Knowing this, I went up to shotgun the boss for score. I was not expecting it to move into the streaming pattern right away, and I instantly died. LOL, failed run.

[Demetori]

Crimzon Clover, Stage 2 right before the mini-boss. I always run myself in to one of those single, by themselves pink bullets... Not the spam from the bigger enemies. I think once I managed to frantically bomb my way through all the big stuff, killed that mid-section mini-boss and got killed by a slow moving blue bullet...

Everytime I ace the first level I get that feeling I'm going to do well, doesn't turn out that way. Crimzon Clover has it in for me.

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On an unrelated note.... I opened my Crimzon Clover this morning and it looks like somebody jumped on my laptop last night and wasted all my points I was saving for Unlimited Mode......

[LtC]

That goddamn BWR stage 4 hell. Funny, I just upped this last night because I felt like I needed to vent this out and laugh at how idiotic mistakes I can make.

It's really tough to recover your consentration after you've been mentally destroyed.

[Sapz]

I had a similar feeling a few days ago in a DOJBL run, with no misses or bombs until the fourth boss, going into it with 100m or so. I then promptly died three times to said boss (including colliding with the little circles with a few hypers active) and didn't make it to the fifth boss at all. Stuff like that happens to me quite a lot, I guess it's a bad idea to get cocky with that crazy game. :V

Seconding LtC's concentration comment; one really annoying/silly mistake usually ends the rest of my run pretty fast regardless of game.

[Demetori]

Ahaha, I do /exactly/ the same things on Blue Wish... I did something similar on Edens, got to the last boss on Hell mode yesterday, no deaths and the first pattern I wiped, lost my concentration after that, demoralized to HELL because of it. And just couldn't see the patterns..

[Plasmo]

Off-Topic:

@ltc
Try to stay at the very bottom for the second attack of the boss and only dodge left and right. It's very easy and you don't have to dodge bullets from the sides and behind like a ninja.

[RNGmaster]

Seconding LtC's concentration comment; one really annoying/silly mistake usually ends the rest of my run pretty fast regardless of game.

Yeah, I hear this a lot. But mistakes are inevitable, so I guess we better just learn to deal with them without having our focus shattered. Keeping low expectations isn't a good idea either, though. I wonder what...

[Observer]

Oh, man, yes! I have so many of these.

Two weeks ago I was aiming to 1cc Kamui once and for all. All goes well until I hit stage 4. I get hit (stupidly) by those ships that rapidly pass by from left/right, someone knocks on my door, I lose most of my shield points and die at the boss. I'm all "ok, I screwed but I still have a life left, I can clear this biatch once and for all!" I reach the final boss, boom, someone enters my room AGAIN, starts talking, "blah blah blah". I'm all "excuse me *points small blue ship getting hammered by guided laser missiles". But no, said person keeps talking. 1 minute later: Game Over. There goes my 1cc, f--- you and thank you very much.

After that I decided to switch my schmukmupping "moment" of the day/week to the late night where I know everyone is either asleep or minding their own business. That's how I cleared Crimzon Clover trial and breezed through Stage 3 and had the weirdest, epicus moments trying to get away from the merciless flak.

[Demetori]

Oh, man, yes! I have so many of these.

Two weeks ago I was aiming to 1cc Kamui once and for all. All goes well until I hit stage 4. I get hit (stupidly) by those ships that rapidly pass by from left/right, someone knocks on my door, I lose most of my shield points and die at the boss. I'm all "ok, I screwed but I still have a life left, I can clear this biatch once and for all!" I reach the final boss, boom, someone enters my room AGAIN, starts talking, "blah blah blah". I'm all "excuse me *points small blue ship getting hammered by guided laser missiles". But no, said person keeps talking. 1 minute later: Game Over. There goes my 1cc, f--- you and thank you very much.

After that I decided to switch my schmukmupping "moment" of the day/week to the late night where I know everyone is either asleep or minding their own business. That's how I cleared Crimzon Clover trial and breezed through Stage 3 and had the weirdest, epicus moments trying to get away from the merciless flak.

Grats on the Crimzon Clover clear... I'm still having massive trouble on Stage 2.

[gs68]

Futari Black Label Maniac. Near-1CC. I've yet to even see Stage 4 since.

[captpain]

Recently I've been getting to stage 4 in Dangun Feveron with kitty on one life and losing three before stage 5. I'm close to tearing my hair out at this point but I'm still forcing myself to play. Shmups.

[RNGmaster]

Dodonpachi Stage 3 as A-L. An amazing run so far in terms of score - almost full-chain of Level 2, 1.5 mil by Stage 1 midboss. Then, during the bullet-canceling section, I manage to run into a bullet while madly running about to get enemies off the screen to reduce clutter before the next big ship. Then it happens almost immediately afterwards. I manage to collect myself, but then I die while dismantling the Stage 3 boss. Now, keep in mind I'm great at the Stage 3 boss, and I'm even more consistent on it than on the Stage 2 boss.



Yeah, I should probably stop playing after 2 hours.

[Seahawk]

I was doing absolutely perfect in Gradius III, no deaths for 8 stages, and then Crystal Stage came into my room and started throwing cubes at me and I was totally begging it to stop, but it kept going. I lost all of my lives.

[BryanM]

I have beaten all six of the first stages of Dodonpachi without dying once.

But not all in the same game.

I've come to except I'll never be perfect. This... has led me to never play any more shooters with more than one stage :crossed arms emote:

[NzzpNzzp]

I had the first Tiger Haken run away as soon as it showed up playing Ketsui stage 5 once, that was a fun one. Makes it kinda hard to kill it and get my extra life if it vanishes instantly.
I dunno if that counts, 'cause I wasn't really doing perfectly at all, but still, screw that helicopter.

[Ruldra]

No-missing all stages of Dragon Breed only to lose all my lives on the final boss. He was about to die too.

[Aquas]

As soon as I think "Oh man, this is going to be a perfect run!" in my Futari 1.5 Original runs, then my mind discards a vital dodging sequence (one of many in Stage 5 especially) and I die once, (usually die in Stage 4.)

I get demoralized as my intended scoring run involves not dying untill at least mid stage 5. It doesn't help that I'm trying to use Abnormal Reco at the time, either. Whose fast speed on focus can be especially haphazard.

[Sasupoika]

80 millions after stage 2 in DOJWL.
Die before first big ship enters in stage 3.

[drunkninja24]

This is happening to me a lot in Ketsui lately. I'll do pretty good up through Stage 3 (sometimes no-miss no-bombing up to that point), and then Stage 4 just rapes me and leaves me with something crappy like one life and no bombs by the time I get to Stage 5, which I promptly die in.

[RNGmaster]

More Dodonpachi A-L 1cc madness.

Managed to blow through Stage 3 no-deaths for the first time ever. Made it to the boss and go up on it to rack up hits. For some reason, the aura didn't manage to take care of one of the turrets below me, and I instantly died without being able to react. Not that bad, since I tend to die on that stage. Then, of course, I die again to the boss by getting trapped by the blue walls and bombing a quarter-second too late.

Oh, and I fail through Stage 4 and die on the boss' laser phase, which I have completely memorized.

But on the plus side, I do great on Stage 5 and the boss, and I make my personal record with A-L by getting 30 seconds into 1-6.

[Bloodreign]

Last stage, Gradius 1 Saturn version, down to 1 life left, I'm almost to the brain, boy I'm gonna 1 cc this thing today. Time to get into the chamber with the brain and finish this once and for all. HEY WHAT THE? A bullet snipes me from behind on my last life, one of the little duckers decided to send me a send off gift, a shot to the back of my Vic Viper, I'm toast Game Over. Since then I cannot get back to the brain and haven't played the game in a long time.

[powerfuran]

omg so many "this is TEH perfect run" moments since I started enjoy shmupping.... most of the time, these moments actually made me want to drop the game and forget it once for all. It happened, actually.

Dodonpachi, going for the 90 or 100mil mark, saving the multiplier as best as I could up to 2-3 and dying in a very simple section because the C-S was too damn slow for the pattern. Never played DDP seriously again.

Gradius V, towards the end of the fkirst loop, I died because.... well I don't know why, but I was so angry I pulled out the cd from the console, put it on the shelf and that was it.

Blazing Star: this was actually a case of reset/restart paranoia, really. Managed to work out a quite decent path up to stage 5 and after there it was all about survival, but I decided that a non-perfect stage 3 would automatically trigger a reset. I eventually dropped the game.

And the list goes ooooon and oooooon--------

[RNGmaster]

Dodonpachi Stage 4 - getting better at Stage 3 and can no-miss pretty regularly even considering scoring shenanigans. I do a great job on the stage, but I proceed to die on the boss with full bomb stock. Twice. Once during the laser section that I've memorized. Oh, and I bombed through the "big fireballs" on the Stage 5 boss (how do you do those anyways?).

[null1024]

One time, I was playing DDP [ship A-L always!], first 3 stages, no miss [very rare though, I usually miss on Stage 2's boss or somewhere around the end of Stage 3]. The moment the phrase "1CC" enters my head in Stage 4, I start constantly dieing. And then I still suck at the Stage 4 boss... -_-

[CptRansom]

Oh, and I bombed through the "big fireballs" on the Stage 5 boss (how do you do those anyways?).

Stick yourself up its ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtspS9aoLhA

Go to the end, obviously.

[dieKatze88]

my first attempt at one lifeing Gradius 5 on hard ended when I accidentally landed Vic Viper into the closing doors before entering the brain chamber.

I actually cried.

The next day I did it again to knock that one in.

On more than one occasion in Otomedius, I'll make it to the end of the loop on one life, and get killed because I am routinely dumb enough to destroy Odn Core 360 while it is doing its green lasers bit and not dodge.

[MathU]

Didn't we already have this thread?
Sounds like the same thing as that epic failure one.

[RNGmaster]

Stick yourself up its ass.

I know you can do that, but I'm wondering how small the margin of error is. I don't want to collide with the boss itself.

Didn't we already have this thread?
Sounds like the same thing as that epic failure one.

Well, semantically this is different, but it looks to be turning into the same thing. I meant for people to share moments where confidence got them screwed up, but I guess the two overlap. Who cares, though? We haven't heard from that thread in a while, so we need a new one.

[BryanM]

Oh, and I bombed through the "big fireballs" on the Stage 5 boss (how do you do those anyways?).

Play as one of the faster ships or be in the right spot to duck and dodge to begin with. Their hitbox isn't quite as large as the graphic displayed iirc as well.

[CptRansom]

Stick yourself up its ass.

I know you can do that, but I'm wondering how small the margin of error is. I don't want to collide with the boss itself.

It's fairly small, but it's nothing that 20 minutes of save state drilling won't take care of. I did it with C-S if that helps at all. =/