You know what's fun sometimes?

[DrTrouserPlank]

There's nothing inherently boring about using save-states/stage select (unless you find the stage itself particularly unappealing). It does however become boring when you are grinding the stage over and over and making no measurable or consistent progress; and that's often what I find.

[TLB]

Rather, the Japanese will credit feed with their own money on bosses and just practice their patterns without shooting. I read this in an SWY interview a while back.

Not only that, but many game centers sell monthly passes, so they don't actually have to shit coins all day to learn.

You geeks who refuse to use savestates and/or credit feed and/or be intelligent or pragmatic in any way would benefit greatly from even such a simple routine as playing the stages while trying to learn them and be cool or whatever, then not shooting the bosses to learn the patterns. Some devs anticipate this and throw ridiculous patterns into some games' bosses once they've been cycling long enough. The exact reasoning behind doing it isn't always certain (or the same), but it produces extreme amounts of lulz, so I appreciate it 100%.

Not trying to offend anyone. Particularly. Them's the breaks.

[Eno]

I always have at least one game sitting by to do something like that.
No savestates, no superplay watching or reading about score mechanics. Just credit feeding, trying to make sense out of the patterns and everything else by myself. Not quite healthy or productive, but quite funny and less stressful than working on score improvements.

[emphatic]

You geeks who refuse to use savestates and/or credit feed and/or be intelligent or pragmatic in any way

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Not trying to offend anyone.

[dunpeal2064]

wait... there are geeks here?

[TrevHead (TVR)]

One thing that I used to do was shy away from is watching replays as Ild rather bumble my own way though. Recently ive stated using them though.

[finisherr]

One day I had epiphany...just play. Shooting is more fun now. I think it's mostly because I have two goals:

1. Enjoy the game as much as possible
2. Try to learn about the game as I'm blowing stuff up and dodging a bunch of absolutely ridiculous shit

Sure, I might run a few parts here and there to get past super rough patches, but all in all, I think I just wanna play. I kinda forgot.



P.S.

I'm not speaking against the use of save states or training modes, or people who use them a lot. If you have serious goals for yourself, get it right? I'm still pretty floored by guys who make those superplays, even if this kind of practice was used. It's kinda like watching skate or snowboard videos. You just think, "WHAAAAAAT?"

[Hagane]

but not only do they not have fun playing

Actually, I have far more fun with savestates than without them, as I can skip the parts that are boring since I have already mastered them and can concentrate on the most fun ones, the hardest spots of the game.

Plus I can get much crazier with savestates since I don't have to worry about having to replay 15 minutes just to try that new bold tactic I've come up with.

[Captain]

here's a fun thing I do.

There's a game called Arrow Flash for the Genesis/Megadrive.

You have 2 options when fully powered up.
Those options follow you while in spaceship mode.

I power up on level 1 and savestate on the START on level 2.

Then I try to kill everything in level 2 using only the options, and not shooting at all.
If I die, I load the savestate that leads to the START of the level.

Took me 6 tries to do it right today!


Any volunteers for trying this?