Shmup Goals 2013 - Recollection and Resolution

[TrippyCake]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:
Daioujou Black Label 1-ALL
EoSD Lunatic 1-ALL

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
Playing against the final boss(3) of Hellsinker 4 times and never unlock the TLB
Getting into Daioujou White Stage 5 with full livestock and game-overing on the last 5% of the boss while still having a bomb


Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
Futari Ultra 1cc by GUS
DOJ BL 2-ALL by Prometheus

Goals for 2013:
Play more shmups
Clear all Touhou Lunatics
Get some Touhou highscores

[trap15]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:
1cc Mushihimesama
1cc Batrider Normal Course
1-ALL Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu (scrub-tier lol)
2nd place worldwide in Pink Sweets Arrange Score Attack

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
Missing the Skype call for the Batrider STG Weekly I really could have added a lot of commentary on that

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
Azinth's Strikers 1999 2-ALL, Plasmo's Strikers 1945 2-ALL, abschuessig's Homura WR

Goals for 2013:
1-ALL Strikers 1945 II
WR Pink Sweets Arrange Score Attack
1cc Mushihimesama Futari 1.5

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Play more Psikyo
Watch more STG Weekly
Stop whining

[bestcellar]

Who knows what else, so let's start with one goal and see if I can do it. I'm hoping to 1-all Donpachi (JPN) very soon at my local arcade. I've gotten to the 1-5 boss, but not beaten him yet. Hoping to get a solid three hours in with the game tonight. We'll see how close I can get!

[SuperSoaker360]

- Getting the second score extend in MushiFutari Maniac. Yeah, it's not a clear, but seriously, getting that extend takes some dedication.

Glad it's not only me struggling with this.

[RNGmaster]

Personal Favorite Achievements of 2012:
- ESPGaluda Week 7th place :V
- Miscellaneous silly Touhou things
- UFO Lunatic 1cc (1CCd all the other Windows Lunatics but this one felt really satisfying)

Personal Biggest Screw-Ups of 2012:
Uh, probably this.

That or the Progear run I had in front of NTSC-J where I entered the final boss with 4 lives and barely cleared. Yeesh.

Favorite Achievements by Others:
- The Ketsui and DOJ 2-ALLs by Emuser/MMM and Prometheus/Zil. Oh, and Naut's DOJ 2-ALL was this year too, time flies.
- SHIN's recent UFO WR was real inspiring to watch, as was UKT's SA ReimuA WR. Really, any recent Touhou WR aside from TD.
- BOS 2-ALLing Dragon Blaze as Quaid.
- Azinth's S99 western record.
- Multiple Homura WRs from Abscheussig.

Goals for 2013:
- 10 Desires Lunatic No-bomb No-trance 1cc. I'm very close to finishing this.
- Mountain of Faith Lunatic No-bomb 1cc.
- EoSD Lunatic No-bomb 1cc.
- Gunbird 2 1-ALL.
- Dragon Blaze Rob/Sonia 2-ALL. I've been savestating through again trying to see if using anyone but Quaid will remove my trouble spots in the second loop. So far I need to learn 1-6 and 1-7 bosses as Rob.
- Dragon Blaze Quaid western record.
- See if I can beat Jaimers' score at something.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
- People who play mostly arcade games ought to branch out into Touhou a bit more. Likewise, people who mostly play Touhou need to spend some time playing arcade shmups.
Let's let go of our prejudices this new year~
- Play more Dragon Blaze. It is amazing and all the other nice things.

[ebarrett]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: not burning out during STGT

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: failing to clear Pink Sweets - had a full week to play it after STGT and only managed to botch some good runs spectacularly

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Naut DOJBL 2-ALL, TiH HIJACK LOL

Goals for 2013: THE MAN allowing, clear Pink Sweets (while beating EOJ's infinite lives score) then do whatever, maybe some Psikyo 2-ALL

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Bakraid advanced 100M+

[Hagane]

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
- People who play mostly arcade games ought to branch out into Touhou a bit more. Likewise, people who mostly play Touhou need to spend some time playing arcade shmups.
Let's let go of our prejudices this new year~
- Play more Dragon Blaze. It is amazing and all the other nice things.

Yeah, people here should play more Touhou and more Psikyo, in general. So many great games overlooked due to prejudice.

[chum]

Psikyo

Second loops are too freaking hard!

[Softdrink 117]

PERSONAL FAVORITE ACHIEVEMENTS OF 2012
Participating in TRP-STGT for all five weeks
Going to a shmupmeet and having an awesome time
Playing SDOJ and making it to stage four at said shmupmeet
My CAVE 1CCs: AK, DS, Futari 1.5, Futari 1.5BL, DFK 1.5 Strong
Joining this forum after lurking for years
Making it to stage 5 in DOJ WL
Making it to the stage 5 boss of Ketsui about a dozen times...

PERSONAL BIGGEST SCREW UPS OF 2012
...yet somehow managing to not clear Ketsui.
Runner up would be the run where I NMNB'd all the way to the stage four boss of Ketsui, then managed to game over before even reaching the stage 5 midboss.
Alternatively, the time I ran into a stationary bullet.

FAVORITE ACHIEVEMENTS BY OTHERS OF 2012
Too many to list. It's been awesome to feel like a part of a community where players can perform such amazing feats. #1 would be watching and reading about Prometheus' incredible shmup event.

GOALS FOR 2013
1-ALL Ketsui. This should have already happened; it likely will soon.
1CC DFK BL Power
1-ALL DOJ. This may or may not actually happen, but DOJ WL is kind of a 'yardstick' I've used to measure my progress in shmups over the last year and a half. It'd be great to get a clear, especially after seeing stage 5 on one credit.
1CC Ikaruga, and stop sucking at it. Ikaruga means a lot to me; it reintroduced me to shmups, introduced me to scoring, introduced me to my first big shmupping success (making top ten in the Proto/Hard/FC leaderboards), and has been one of the games I come back to again and again. I'm not a great player at the moment, but I have a lot of respect for people who can play it well. It's been almost two years since I've tried playing it seriously, and now that I'm much more developed as a shmupper, I'd like to give it another go.

Play more Radiant Silvergun. I would try to stop sucking at it, but I'm not sure that's ever actually going to happen. XD
Play more Psikyo games
Play more Raiden
Play more Touhou

[Aguraki]

eheh happy someone did the thread I didn´t want to start one as I´m away from shmups for a while and have zero goals.
glgl everyone to destroy your scores and everyone else scores.

ps:I´d like to see someone destroy Donpachi and get +35M score one time please.

[Plasmo]

ps:I´d like to see someone destroy Donpachi and get +35M score one time please.

Challenge accepted!

[Aguraki]

ps:I´d like to see someone destroy Donpachi and get +35M score one time please.

Challenge accepted!

do it!

[Nifty]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:
-18th at STGT and good results in the mini-tourneys
-Continued improving my general skill, to the point that I feel like I could clear a good number of things now if I put the time in
-No actual clears I got stand out personally, but having a Psikyo 1-ALL to my name is nice

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
-Probably should have cleared ESPGaluda and Sengeki Striker, and done better at Garegga

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
-I was very impressed by the four 'perfect' V-Five 2-ALLs managed in only one week

Goals for 2013:
-Get clears more regularly on my own time, especially for some of my favourites
-Go back and improve old scores I'm really not happy with anymore
-Start paying attention to the dev section and maybe check out some more doujin material

[Erppo]

Partly copying from the original thread.

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:
The first thing I honestly thought was simply getting a bit better at shmups overall. I guess stomping the STGT was pretty nice too! I've recently been getting a lot of progress in DFK too but the actual run(s) with the score I'm after had to wait for this year. Still, most of the real work for that was done last year so I guess that counts.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
Not playing enough. Dropping DDP while I was doing pretty well in it.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
Instead of singling out achievments (most stuff has already been mentioned by someone) I will instead just say the whole shmup scene here getting a lot more respectable. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that 2012 was the best year this forum has ever seen, with lots of people getting impressive results in many challenging games.

If I had to mention a name I would say iconoclast, since he has done a lot of really impressive stuff last year in several games.

Goals for 2013:
Continue getting better. Win another STGT with TiH.

I should also go back and clear DDP with a decent score. I was way too close to that last time.

[azinth]

Goals for 2013:
-play less shmups
-get a new Gunbird 2 score (4m hopefully)
-keep reminding Sapz that he needs to beat my S99 score

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
-play more shmups
-shitpost less
-beat my S99 score Sapz!

[saucykobold]

Personal favorite achievements of 2012:
Getting 5.9m in Sexy Parodius took a lot of focused effort and was really satisfying to pull off. Participating in STGT was good fun as always.

Personal biggest screw ups of 2012:
I shouldn't have neglected Raiden DX so much after STGT. Also, I ended up not touching most of the games I mentioned in the 2012 goals thread. Other games just happened to catch my fancy throughout the year!

Goals for 2013:

• Get 7m (or something near enough) in Raiden DX's Novice course
• Get to 3-1 in Training
• Do something cool in an Irem, Konami, Psikyo, or Yang Cheng game

[Captain]

Host shmupmeets.

Play in shmup tournaments.

1cc a game. Then volunteer to become an expert commentator on STG Weekly.

Lend a shmup to a friend.

Hang out in #shmups channel in IRC.

Bring shmups to gaming events, show people how to play, and talk about them.

Hey you girl gamers, play some shmups!

-Check (sort of)
-nope
-half check
-check
-check
-check
-male.

4/6 conditions met.

[blackoak]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012
Probably my Batrider Advanced clear. The Dimahoo 1cc with Birthday was also fun, although not the hardest thing in the world. I felt like I achieved a new personal level of competency this year as a player overall, although I still haven't put up any impressive scores. On the community side, I'm pleased at the amount of translating I was able to share with everyone.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012
Well, my usual pattern continues: get competent at a game enough to understand the scoring and respectably clear it, then lose all interest for the time being. So all my progress in Batrider sort of halted once I got that clear. Same with Air Gallet, where I could see breaking the (paltry) western world record, but I've yet to continue that endeavor. Oh, and fucking up the Dimahoo 1cc for the shmupmeet in socal was pretty embarassing.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012
TBH, I don't really keep track of others' scoring outside of the games I'm immediately playing. But I was very impressed with Prometheus' event and the surprising momentum behind STGW.

Goals for 2013
get shmuplations.com running, clear bakraid advanced and special, clear garegga, contribute to a STGW, more translations...

[Sapz]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Winning STGT 2012 with my teammates, you guys are the best. Didn't really play STGs this year outside of that so that's it.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: I wouldn't call it a screw-up since it was a conscious decision, but I took 2012 as a year off to focus on other stuff so didn't really get anything done.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Nereid's MoF WR, Emuser's Ketsui clear, Naut's DOJBL clear, Azinth's S99 score. There were a huge amount of awesome achievements this year outside of that but if I had to list all of them I'd be here for hours.

Goals for 2013: Reclaim and maintain the S99 top spot. Beyond that, do as many dumb challenges (like Spaghetti laser or Galuda overheat) as possible, not taking stuff seriously is lots of fun. Beyond that, whatever takes my fancy.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Azinth, I'm pretty sure you already know what it is.

[caliburxcm]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012
-Noticing I can still reliably 1cc IN Normal, practically 1-lifing it.
-Reaching Crimzon Clover TLB completely unexpectedly. I thought I hadn't done it, dropped my hands, and as soon as the music started my mind was blown. Of course, it systematically destroyed me.
-Blue Wish Resurrection Normal 1cc on 3rd honest attempt ever.
-Clear up to the final boss of Espgaluda on 1 continue. The only Cave game I can feasibly tackle.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012
-On above instance of the Crimzon Clover TLB: failing my 1cc on the last form of the last boss.
-Failing my 1cc of Touhou SA Normal as Utsuho was exploding for the win.
-Failing my 1cc of Espgaluda on the last form of the last boss. See a pattern here?

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012
Not active enough to know much, but:
DOJBL 2-all by Naut

Goals for 2013
-Play more shmups. Lots more.
-Stop sh*tting the bed on last bosses.

[bestcellar]

Who knows what else, so let's start with one goal and see if I can do it. I'm hoping to 1-all Donpachi (JPN) very soon at my local arcade. I've gotten to the 1-5 boss, but not beaten him yet. Hoping to get a solid three hours in with the game tonight. We'll see how close I can get!

I did it tonight! 9.7 million. Got to 2-2.

[1up]

Goals for 2013:
Get a 1cc in the XBOX 360 Arrange mode of Guwange
Buy Dodonpachi Saidaioujou
1cc Under Defeat

better keep it simple this time

BAM! 1cc in XBOX 360 Arrange mode of Guwange, DONE!! Didn't feel as good as my Deathsmiles 1cc last year, but still good. Time to work on Under Defeat HD

[siddacious]

Personal Favorite Achievements of 2012
Getting married and the awesome Blast City+Espgaluda board that came with it (Thanks Alex!)
Finally making it to (and past) the 2nd extend in Espgaluda,

Goals for 2013
Clear Espgaluda
Break into the top 50 for Espgaluda
Jamestown Divine 1cc with Blackoak and others
Acquire a new pcb

[Drachenherz]

Okay, shmups goal specific, I sucked rather hard 2012. I got about 0 goals... But alas, I had some fulfilment in 2012, as my daughter was born in january 2012.

For 2013, I don't have too many goals shmup-wise:

Sobering up and finally learning to play, so I can:
1cc EspRaDe
Beat Mohs shitty score in Mars Matrix
Get into Hellsinker and/or Akashicverse

And maybe start with the production of a second offspring...

[Deca]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:
I was pretty happy with my performance in STGT overall. Enjoyed finally getting to work on Touhou, a couple Extra clears aren't much but it's a starting point, and I definitely feel I've improved noticeably.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
Nothing specifically stands out, if I remember anything I'll add it. Mad at myself for not clearing Air Gallet during TRP-STGT. Bumping into Youmu more than once might count. I went a couple long stretches without playing much of anything as well.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
Gus clearing Futari Ultra and Emuser clearing Ketsui.

Goals for 2013: It's pathetic that I still haven't cleared the first loop of DOJBL, and mostly due to hardly playing it at all this year. Definitely need to do that, and improving my chaining beyond the first two stages would be nice as well. I'd like to clear at least 2 Lunatics.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Dunpeal - I challenge you to clear the first loop of DOJBL before me (unless you already did and I missed it) and clear a Lunatic of your choosing. I also challenge you to challenge me to something

Obscura - I also want you to get the DOJBL loop before me.

Emuser - Futari Ultra

I welcome (realistic) challenges from anyone, that sort of motivation helps me haha.

[null1024]

Goals for 2013: It's pathetic that I still haven't cleared the first loop of DOJBL, and mostly due to hardly playing it at all this year.

I want to go for the DOJBL first loop clear too. No chance in hell that I'll get it before you though...


Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012
Didn't play nearly enough shmups. Very little reason to have not done so.