Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

[Cellinaire]

Engage to jabberwock and Bloodvane.

And Seihou Banshiryuu + YGS2000 + Strikers 1945-1

[jepjepjep]

I've been playing Fantasy Zone. I'm stuck on the last attack of the last boss. The little bugger gets me every time .

I figured out how to handle that little bugger. Great game.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 11#p780111

[dunpeal2064]

Playing more 19xx
Icarus is nuts.

That I am.

Wow, thank you! So detailed it could be called "19xx for Dummies"

[Marc]

Playing a little Galaga Legions DX. I wrote this off when I first picked it up, which was a tad unfair. It's pretty much to Legions what Pac Man DX was to CE, a far more rigid iteration where score depends on learning the board until you can execute a flawless run. It's perfect five-minute entertainment and I'll probably spend a bit of time with this. Only thing with this, as with Pac Man DX is that once you take a break and forget your routes you're fucked. And it still looks ugly as hell.

[null1024]

DoDonPachi, had some godawful runs today, dying on stupid easy patterns [notably, I died on the first boss every time].

Last run was the best, made it almost to the stage 3 boss and then just hit a bullet for no reason.
It was well away from me, if I stopped moving I'd be fine, and I moved towards it like an idiot. Lost my last life.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Just picked up the Xbox 360 port of Ikaruga, was messing around with Dot Eater ranking for a bit.

Got distracted though by Giga Wing, currently attempting a no-reflect run by using MamePlus to get autofire. Using Isha in the hopes that her slower movement speed will help navigate tougher patterns and can make it up to Stage 4 without bombing so far, but Stage 5 is hell.

[Marc]

Alright, half an hours practice last night saw me to St5 of Futari BL last night. Wasted a life and a bomb on St3 second half and St4 boss, so a bit more training required there before I can start thinking about the clear.

[Eaglet]

Not playing DOJ. Looped it with a shit score, so i'm done with it for now.
Gonna get back to it later to get at least... 500 mil.
Second loop was awesome fun, the little i got to experience of it.

[mesh control]

Fooling around with Galuda 2 still.

120 million meh.
Need to watch some superplays, my stage 2 is horrendous and my stage 3 is sloppy.

[null1024]

Thunder Force 4. Very impressive, but this being my first time playing it, I am dying in the stupidest ways.

[blackoak]

Felt like taking a break from Cyvern after some shit runs. Too demoralized to practice Tatsujin Oh, so I fired up DFK. Got the 1.5 Strong and Bomb 1ccs... quite easy, as reputed. The laser wheels are the biggest wall I think... without them, a straight noob could probably come very close to a blind 1cc. Almost got the Power 1cc too; I think I'll play that mode for awhile, as I like the quick hyper recharging. I wonder if I'll ever get into DFK enough to try scoring in it... it just feels so cluttered.

I started playing Progear (JP) on the new supergun I purchased from RGB, too. Tough! I love games like this though, where the scoring system leads to many "greed induced" deaths...

[Chaos Phoenixma]

Been playing Judgment SilverSword. I'm taking a break from default ship runs at the moment and been running the secret ship on Hard mode.

If the area 29 and area 30 bosses are this bad, do I really want to know what Area 31 Hard looks like? And I almost got to it on a run with this ship just to game over on Divine Flow's final attack.


I really need to try out DoDonPachi II as well, but I haven't got it.

[Kollision]

Finally looped Muchi Muchi Pork 1.01 up to 2-2.
I'll see if I can increase my score, I didn't realize I should've played on Score Attack to have the run uploaded to the leaderboards...

[TrevHead (TVR)]

After over a week away from DFK 1.5 strong C I spent 4 hours playing it and practicing stage 3 for score. Managed to double my highscore to 7bill (in score attack) and make it to the 2nd loop for the first time, which surprised me as I was hemorrhaging autobombs in stage 5 like crazy and didnt know where all the bee were in those stages

[RNGmaster]

Trying to pacifist run Dragon Blaze. I'm not even sure it's physically possible.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

jesus christ even with autobomb enabled and set to easy, Solid State Survivor's TLB is a fucking rapefest

the one wave where it starts spinning around the entire screen firing garbage everywhere while it has a bombshield makes me want to cry

overpowered secret ship with reflector to the rescue

type c is all "lol what bullets" it's awesome and yet retarded

[MrChiggins]

Trying to pacifist run Dragon Blaze. I'm not even sure it's physically possible.

I was just thinking, "I wonder if RNGmaster is still playing Dragon Blaze regularly... I should play more."

hahahahaha

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Mwahaha, Solid State Survivor 1cc with Type-B ship (coughautobombscough)! Suck it, damn TLB. Had to play it in a 640x480 window because virtualdub likes to crash any time you record fullscreen. And apparently the sound was fucked up to hell and back in the recording. Damn.

Game seems damn nasty to keep a combo going though, especially with all the pointblanking you need to do.

[RNGmaster]

Trying to pacifist run Dragon Blaze. I'm not even sure it's physically possible.

I was just thinking, "I wonder if RNGmaster is still playing Dragon Blaze regularly... I should play more."

hahahahaha

I stopped for a month, but started to work on it again after I started writing up the ST. I think this is one of those games that I'll never get tired of.

[DrTrouserPlank]

I am playing DFK. It is awesome, just like it's awesome to slam your nuts between two bricks.

[Drachenherz]

I am playing DFK. It is awesome, just like it's awesome to slam your nuts between two bricks.

I do that constantly.
But with rotating lasers instead of bricks. It's awesometastilicious.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

I am playing DFK. It is awesome, just like it's awesome to slam your nuts between two bricks.

Did we really need to know that you're a masochist with a ball crushing fetish?

[dunpeal2064]

I am playing DFK. It is awesome, just like it's awesome to slam your nuts between two bricks.

Oh yay, you found another thread to ruin.

I'm pretty happy with my 19xx score, got into the top 10, which was my goal.

So, now the Cab is rotated, and its time to dive into some Progear action!!

[Marc]

Got the PC hooked up to the main TV and plugged in the X-Arcade tonight just to browse a few things I've never played properly before. Played:

Dragon Blaze, which I hated. The hideous visuals turned me off completely. Plays OK, but nothing that would make me persevere with the horrid graphics.

Cyvern, which seems like a 'best of' of everything doing the rounds at the time. It's also got the weirdest graphics ever, one minute it looks sublime, the next it looks like a shitty uninspired rip of far more accomplished work.

Saint Dragon, which, looking back, the Amiga did a superb job of converting. It's unforgiving, but something about it just clicks with me.

Then I hooked up the 360 and played some DDPR:BL, but it mainly seems to be an exercise in plotting a course between bullet-cancelling enemies, hypering as often as possible, and tolerating a shitty soundtrack. I'm gonna give SlapFight a proper play tomorrow, I used to fucking love that game.

[Drachenherz]

...

Dragon Blaze *snip* The hideous visuals turned me off completely. *snip* horrid graphics *snip*

Wait, what? Seriously? Why, how? I mean, I don't even know how... REALLY? Oh come on, now you're just trolling...

[Marc]

No honest man, they make my eyes hurt. It doesn't help on an emulator though, maybe through some RGB scanlines it would look a ton better, but ATM... urk.

Doesn't help that MAME on my TV looks as though it's splitting verts into four seperate quarters, with slight glitching at each 'divide'. Never seen this happen before, and it's weird.

[Drachenherz]

No honest man, they make my eyes hurt. It doesn't help on an emulator though, maybe through some RGB scanlines it would look a ton better, but ATM... urk.

Doesn't help that MAME on my TV looks as though it's splitting verts into four seperate quarters, with slight glitching at each 'divide'. Never seen this happen before, and it's weird.

Okay, that I can understand.

On my rig, on my lcd with scanlines activated, Dragon Blaze is one of the most beautiful shmups around, which makes me want to get the PCB to play on my cab. Hence my reaction to your post.

[mesh control]

Playing Dragon Blaze. I probably won't play too much of it in the coming weeks. Spring is approaching and I'm horny, leaving no time for games.

[Marc]

Despite my teasing of DFKBL last night, I've had a good hour on it tonight and I have to confess, I think it's awesome. Being able to control rank on the fly is awesome, getting it all pissed off and unleashing the hyper is huge fun, and as a whole with the cancelling and all, it seems to encourage a really frantic, aggressive style of play, of which I approve wholeheartedly. The soundtrack is still dogshit though.

Edited to ask, as it's late, I can't be arsed searching and I've been out of the loop for a while, this mode has something to do with one of the Garrega guys right?

[Zorator]

I am playing DFK. It is awesome, just like it's awesome to slam your nuts between two bricks.

Are there any games that you like and are good at? Why do you keep playing these games if you liken the experience to slamming your nuts between two bricks?

I am playing DFK. It is awesome, just like it's awesome to slam your nuts between two bricks.

I do that constantly.
But with rotating lasers instead of bricks. It's awesometastilicious.

I myself prefer to use two rotating wheels made of rounded bricks to crush my testicles. Best of both worlds.

(As you can see I just really like DTP's imagery and want to repeat it as many times as possible)