These are my Shmup confessions...

[Emuser]

I don't like Dodonpachi.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

[Drake]

this is fun

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

[chempop]

Ketsui is overrated.

[Drake]

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Have I then just witnessed a chemically popped duck bill and a trouserplanked drake?

http://youtu.be/Fo4SblJ_SnU

[O. Van Bruce]

ESPRADE ia shit.

Every Gradius can burn in hell for all I care

I have a heavy weakness toward cute 'en ups

Donpachi has a great soundtrack.

Every Yagawa game is 3deep5me atm. the exception y MMP.

The amount of conservadurism and Nostalgia of some users here is incredible.

[Emuser]

Donpachi, Gate of Thunder, and 1944 have awesome music.

I never even liked Ketsui in the 1st place.

[chum]

I don't enjoy Ketsui, but It's not a bad game, just too heavy on the streaming.

To stick to the topic: I confess that... I Couldn't clear stage 1 in Gradius.
Couldn't clear stage 3 in Gradius 3 even after like 2 hours.
It took me probably well over 50 hours of GFW extra gameplay before I realized that there's a timeout phase at the end which is worth more points.
Spent around 50 hours on Guwange without ever getting a decent run.
To this day I still don't know how to dodge Murasa's third non-spell (which is static...) and I have I think around 150 hours logged on UFO.
I tend to have more fun with old, sparse shmups than I do with Cave games.
I've spent 10x more time on Touhou than I have on all other shmups combined because I think it is 10x better.

Yep

[Emuser]

V-V is legitimately a great game.

[Jaimers]

Play Ketsui Ura loop.

Best game Cave ever made.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Even on the first loop it has the most perfected first / base loop difficulty ever made in any video game ever.

[ciox]

Learned to play psyvariar at almost superplayer level over the years, but still haven't 1CC'd playing like that.

[amerrykan]

[amerrykan]

I'm afraid my friends will come over and see anime titties burned into my plasma and laugh at me, so I turn the wallpaper brightness down to 10% on every Cave game, in every mode.

I make sure to run XBMC's ProjectM visualization on that same screen for at least an hour after every session, just to be sure.

I really do these things.

[Jonst]

I think border down is below average...

[Cuilan]

Aside from the Ketsui thing, here are my confessions.

I don't really care much for G.rev's games outside of the Senko no Rondes.
Guwange is by far the worst Cave game I've played.
In my eyes, Deathsmiles and Deathsmiles 2 are Cave's best games.
I think the original Otomedius is one of Konami's best shooters.
I find that playing mostly for survival is boring and shallow.
I think Trouble Witches Neo is the best non-Cave shooter.
I think Raiden Fighters Jet is the best Raiden game by a long shot, and it would have been even better without dumb stuff hidden in the stages like the fairy and the miculs which hurt the game's pacing.
I care far more about Touhou porn than the games themselves.
That said, the Touhous have features that I wish other shooters would copy, like the semi-auto bomb and the item get border.
I think milking, looping, and point-blanking are terrible game design choices that should have been abolished long ago.
I absolutely hate horizontal shooters with invincible/1-hit-kill environmental hazards.
I almost always restart if I mess something up in the first stage, and sometimes stage 2 also.

[emphatic]

I enjoy reading these forums more than actually playing shmups.

[ACSeraph]

I bought all the DLC for Otomedius.

[Grumpius]

Even on the first loop it has the most perfected first / base loop difficulty ever made in any video game ever.

It's cool dude, I love it too ;_;

[Cagar]

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[KAI]

I think the shmup industry is fucked.
I think Hosoe is the best shmup composer ever.
I seriously thing that Ketsui should be adapted into a yaoi OVA.
I talk shit about 2hu but I know the name of every single song from the series.
I almost cry when Milestone's president was arrested.
I almost had an orgasm the first time I played the CV1000 emulation.
"Sometimes" Pinksweets is overrated.
I feel special for playing and liking shmups.

[Wonderbanana]

- I don't like the term 'shmups'
- Toaplan > Cave
- i think SDOJ is meh, DFK isn't much better
- I love Deathsmiles
- Ketsui is fecking awesome, fuck the haters

[guigui]

There's no way I'll ever spend time on a shmup that use modules.

[Jonst]

A couple more...

Metal black is an ugly looking game.
I've only fairly recently learned how to play most of the games I own.
Akai katana is probably my favourite cave game.
Yesterday,I 1cc thunder force 3.
Border down is still a bit rubbish.
My progear board is probably a boot.
I really like radirgy.best version is on the wii.
I still have too many games I've never played.
I collect joysticks but I can't play with them for toffee.
Eschatos is generic and dull as hell.

[Nana]

*I don't "get" Dimahoo
*I hate every single person specifically and individually on shmups farm

[z0mbie90]

STGs SUCKS!!!!!!


Okey Im not serious. But I don't like horis

[amerrykan]

I really think that if we woke up tomorrow and all the stupid scoring/chaining/combo systems, and all the big-titted squeaky-voiced anime girls simply vanished from every game, most of you would eventually forget to come back to the forum.

[IseeThings]

decrypting, figuring out and emulating the new 'for use in Germany' clone of Guardian Storm dumped by System11 was the highlight of my day...