Poll, which STG sub genre is your favorite? PLEASE RE VOTE

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Which do your prefer? 2 votes allowed

Vert Manics, ie Raiden 3, Garegga (Forget about Mars Matrix)
39
19%
Vert Bullet Hell, ie Cave, Touhou, Crimson Clover
95
45%
8/16 bit era Verts, ie Compile, Recca, Xevious, Early Toaplan
14
7%
Proto Shmups, ie Space Invaders, Galaga
5
2%
Classic Horis, Gradius, ie R-type, Cotton
36
17%
Bullet Hell Horizontals, ie Trouble Witches, Sora
6
3%
Euro-Shmups, ie Soldner x2, Raptor, (XOP JK :P)
2
1%
Arena & Twinsticks, ie Geometry wars, Asteroids
5
2%
Overhead Multi Directionals, ie Ikari Warriors, Twinkle Tail, Mercs
2
1%
Other, ie tube and rail
6
3%
 
Total votes: 210

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Rozyrg
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Re: Poll, which STG sub genre is your favorite? PLEASE RE VOTE

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16-bit, upbeat music, checkpoints, fast bullets and lots of cute miniature tanks to smash... all I need. :D

Also, I take it I'm the only one to assume 'classic horis' includes faster paced ones like Thunderforce.
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Post by Dale »

What about arcade verts that aren't one directional or manic in anyway? Most of my fav's fall into this, from the transitional area started by Xevios.

Their is also Isometric shmups like View Point and Zaxxon.

Edit: Theirs also Caravan shmups. I'm guessing Inward moving shmups like Space Harrier don't count or is that what you meant by rails? Or did you mean arcade fps,s? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Edit2:Also don't forget dmups, where you only dodge stuff like Barbie Super model or Sdmk. I hate me too.
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Maybe you don't hate yourslef enough tho.

Where does Jump Bug fit? It's a shooter where you jump but there's no jump button, and there's no running so it's not a run and gun. Re vote pls.
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Drum wrote:yourslef
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