Ever have one of those good/bad shooter days?

[landshark]

Decided to give the Japanese Progear a try today (usually play the US version), and ended up 1CCing it haven't never seen level 5 or the boss before.

Watched some TV and then gave Strikers 1999 a try. Ended up 1 lifeing the first loop, only to lose 3 guys to the easiest of the 2nd loop bosses (on 2-1 none the less). I then died by running into a single solitary bullet making it's way across the screen on 2-2.

Probably should have just called it quits after progear.

[professor ganson]

Probably should have just called it quits after progear.

But then you wouldn't have 1 lifed the first loop of Strikers 1999! I really want to play this game. Just finished a week of playing only Gunbird 2, and now I want to turn to Strikers 1945 II. Only problem is that my PS1 version doesn't have tate, so I'm thinking of getting the PS2 Strikers pack. I'm rambling here: my point is you should feel happy that you were able to play Strikers 1999 and were able to do so really well.

[Edge]

I know exactly what you mean, Landshark.

Some days I try and try and play really crappy and the longer I try the crapier I play. But some days I try and start with a really good run and I am getting better with every new try. Until I break my highscore, now it's time to quit. I never play again when I broke one of my scores. I mean not the same day. Because if I do, I'll end up like one of my bad shmup days. (All luck used up :p)

I always have to wait until the next day to play some shmups again. ^^

I think this is because you get too greedy and try to play too perfect. And then I start quitting after some minor mistakes. I know it's really stupid, but then I think I am going to make one perfect score... offcourse I never do.

[BUHA]

Yup. today I beat two of my old high scores. Tomorrow my ship will probably run into every bullet that comes anywhere near it.

[IlMrm]

I've had days where I only have a couple of good runs in maybe 10-15 runs. The other runs are usually horrific. Those days are the most annoying since I would get discouraged after a few consecutive bad runs and resets, and I am deciding should I stop playing, or continue knowing eventually a good run will come along, but just don't know when.

Then there are those days where almost nothing goes wrong.

[cigsthecat]

Once I start playing Gunbird 2 I have trouble stopping no matter how badly I'm doing. And since I need to have an amazing run to even hope to beat my score I just end up restarting forever.

[DEL]

Landshark - Sounds like you relaxed after the 1LC! I find that you're concentration has to be 'way up there' on most shooters nowadays. If you relax your concentration, your results will generally be terrible.

Anyway, nice double whammy! - Progear and ST199 back to back .

DEL

[landshark]

Landshark - Sounds like you relaxed after the 1LC! I find that you're concentration has to be 'way up there' on most shooters nowadays. If you relax your concentration, your results will generally be terrible.

Anyway, nice double whammy! - Progear and ST199 back to back .

DEL

Yup, pretty sure that's what happened. I got to the last guy of Strikers with 9 bombs in stock. Soooooo, I made the 3rd form a bomb fest I think my guard was down after that. I didn't want to die with 9 bombs as I knew I'd probably punch my TV and then spend the rest of the week wondering why I did that.

Progear was unexpected. But it's amazing how you can go downhill so quickly.

[ArrogantBastard]

Yeah, I do have my good days. Just few moments ago, I just cleared the Normal mode for Armed Police Batrider after playing an intensive round of DoDonPachi.

Sometimes I wonder if playing other bullet-hell games actually brushes up my dodging skills when I play in other games that I'm not familiar with (but played a lot)... It's odd.

[LAshujin]

Today was a really bad Guwange day

[Icarus]

Having a bad gaming night tonight, can't think straight let alone shoot straight.
Time for an early night methinks

[TWITCHDOCTOR]

Same for everything...
Sometimes you just "have it", you're "on"...other days, it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.

[alpha5099]

To preface this, I must tell you: the first time I played DDP, in MAME, I got a No Miss on the first level. The very first time. It took dozens upon dozens of credits to repeat the feat. And I still have barely ever made it past the second boss without either dying or using a bomb.

Anyway, today was a shitty day for DoDonPachi. I must've played at least twenty games, and only two made it to the second level. I was dying on some of the stupidest shit. Never the first bullet, which has happened to me an embarassingly high number of times. But those neon pink bullets, like sirens they drew me to painful and demoralizing deaths. It was bad.

[Twinbee]

Landshark - Sounds like you relaxed after the 1LC! I find that you're concentration has to be 'way up there' on most shooters nowadays. If you relax your concentration, your results will generally be terrible.

I second this. Last week, I tried out Lords/Gates of thunder for the first time. Lords routeenly kicked my ass from the getgo, but I got used to it and made great progress once I understood the hitbox on your charecter. Then when I poped in Gates a few hours later, after a break, went strait to stage 7 on the first game, first credit (found a score of hidden 1-ups too, really weird.) I thought perhaps that game was just much easier. A day later, I couldn't even pass stage 3 on one credit!

-edit- even more embarrassing, because on the first game, I didn't realize you could spin your gunpods backwards with a quick double-tap of the button. My first game was entirely forward-fire

[chtimi-CLA]

Once I start playing Gunbird 2 I have trouble stopping no matter how badly I'm doing. And since I need to have an amazing run to even hope to beat my score I just end up restarting forever.

ah, the restart loop and the quest for THE run.
are you still trying to 1cc both loops?

[landshark]

Bitten by Strikers 1999 again tonight. Lost 3 guys to the level 5 boss and then shut it off in frustration.

[MovingTarget]

Do any of you prepare in anyway before playing a shmup? Mentally I mean, I always feel like I'm not quite in the right frame of mind when I start a shmup, only after some skillfull avoiding and no deaths for a couple levels do I feel I'm really getting into it. Do any of you meditate for a minute before starting? It could help

[Randorama]

Personally, i have three modes:

1) Good (even great) start, downward from the first run on.I practice stages a bit and then switch game.
2)Restart mania until i get focused.Typical of days i'm tired/stressed.
3)Bad day. I don't get results at all, or play poorly.

I've developed some consistent good control nowadays, but i like to accuse the game and menace it a bit if i die with stray bullets and various "wtf" stuff.

[Icarus]

Personally, i have three modes:

1) Good (even great) start, downward from the first run on.I practice stages a bit and then switch game.
2)Restart mania until i get focused.Typical of days i'm tired/stressed.
3)Bad day. I don't get results at all, or play poorly.

I've developed some consistent good control nowadays, but i like to accuse the game and menace it a bit if i die with stray bullets and various "wtf" stuff.

I'm having a lot of these at the moment, but in actual credits, and not sessions. Good starts, average middles, crap ends. Or vice versa. If I know I can do a section well, but keep screwing it up, it's restart time. I'm more likely to restart the whole credit the earlier the first dumb mistake happens. It's a habit I need to break, and quickly.

Occasionally I get the near-perfect run. That's near-perfect, as in "wow, I'm doing all right, might get the result I want this time"... and then my ship/character explodes suddenly.

I really need to work on my consistency

[landshark]

Personally, i have three modes:

1) Good (even great) start, downward from the first run on.I practice stages a bit and then switch game.
2)Restart mania until i get focused.Typical of days i'm tired/stressed.
3)Bad day. I don't get results at all, or play poorly.

I've developed some consistent good control nowadays, but i like to accuse the game and menace it a bit if i die with stray bullets and various "wtf" stuff.

I've been having alot of #3's lately.

[Randorama]

Ah, btw, as an overall rule, i tend to suck fiercely on early stages and be extremely good on later ones. Anyone with the same problem?

[ArrogantBastard]

Ah, btw, as an overall rule, i tend to suck fiercely on early stages and be extremely good on later ones. Anyone with the same problem?

Yeah, I do. For example, I'll suck so hard on the first level in Progear, and become marginally better on the next. After that, I start getting really good at it and start scoring a lot of points by "jeweling" the fuck out of the game.

[russ]

This was kind of wierd... about a month ago, I went to the CPL, a big competitive game convention focusing around FPS games where people come from all over the world to compete. Luckily it's in Grapevine, just a few minutes away from where I live, so whenever they have the event my friends and I will attend the massive lan that they throw along with the tournaments.

After getting dominated in counter-strike one day, I decided to fire up Battle Bakraid on mame to calm myself down a bit. Turns out I 1cc normal mode, then thinking something must be wrong, I started it on advanced and 1cc'd that too (I didn't have my usb controller, so this was all with the keyboard). Was pretty surprised and pleased with myself afterward