STGs with stories

[Lawfer]

What are the STGs with stories? The only two I know of are:

Philosoma and Xyanide.

[PedroMD]

The Alltynex Trilogy. Not only detailed stories, but good stories to boot. And the way the narrative is conveyed through gameplay is something I would very much like to see in other shmups.

[Lawfer]

The Alltynex Trilogy.

Wat? I have them all and there is no story?

[ShmupSamurai]

Radiant Silvergun- the fact it's a psuedo-RPG/Shmup hybrid probley helps too.

The entire TF series- IV and V are possibly the most directly connected.

Mars Matrix- One could almost call this Takumi's one shot at a RSG wannabe, save for a lack of cutscenes and fewer weapons(though I see the "black hole" weapon as a stand in for the Radiant Sword). Though the story its self kinda drops the ball with the end stages, unlike RSG.

Chaos Field- Mostly in the manuel, but it's still there. Three pilots vs plane jumping comisc horrors.

Tyrian 2000- One lone planet miner caught in the middle of a conflict between against one evil ass corporation named MicroSol who has their sights set on glactic domination. Pretty sure that had to be an intentional jab at Microsoft back in the day.

Hellsinker- Pretty deep and grim, but goodluck actually making sense of it.

Gigawing series.

[Mortificator]

Tons of shooters have stories. The only big chunk of story-less shmups is classic Toaplan. And maybe Triangle Service, or at least, I'm not aware of their games having a story.

Next question: what are the STGs with space ships? (I only know Blast Off and StarHawk)

[PedroMD]

Wat? I have them all and there is no story?

Wat? Have you played them? Kamui has short intro and ending sequences and RefleX goes as far as having pages of text before the final stage. Sure, most of the details are on the metaphorical manual, but the Tale is told throughout the three games through recurring characters, locations and music, with importance greater than "hey, let's throw in a nod to the previous game". Individually, each game conveys, maybe not a story, but a narrative, through the progression of stages, in pretty much the way RayForce did. The one which does it best is RefleX. Even if you have no idea what is going on in the war and the place of the game in the trilogy, you can understand the conflict between the three factions from the events in the game.

Besides, probably every shmup has a story of some sort. It's just that here it has more bearing in the game than "scroll up and shoot stuff in different places".

[Squire Grooktook]

I came in here to say Rayforce, but Pedro kinda mentioned it.

But yeah, Rayforce is really good in this regard.

R-Type is great too, lore and atmosphere in that series is pretty good.

[Lord Satori]

Sorta off topic, but I've been meaning to ask, what does STG stand for?

[Oniros]

Sorta off topic, but I've been meaning to ask, what does STG stand for?

ShooTing Game, how people in Japan call shmups.
Also, Cave games do have stories. I like the plot of Ketsui and the Mushihimesama games.

[KAI]

99% of the shmups out there have stories.

[Captain]

another day, another try, but remember: shoot or die!

turrican is totally a shmup guys, it has spaceships.

[Lawfer]

Wat? I have them all and there is no story?

Wat? Have you played them?

Yes of course, I have all of them in their original doujin releases.

99% of the shmups out there have stories.

Like Philosoma or Xyanide? I doubt it. I am talking about stories incorporated in-game, not like Shadow of the Beast where there is a story in the manual, but nothing of the sort in the game.

[GaijinPunch]

Just about anything from the late 80's up. All the Cave games have stories.

[Squire Grooktook]

Like Philosoma or Xyanide? I doubt it. I am talking about stories incorporated in-game, not like Shadow of the Beast where there is a story in the manual, but nothing of the sort in the game.

Depends on what you mean by incorporated into the game. A lot of games provide a pretty good story just with art and music combined to create atmosphere, or through subtle hints.

[Lawfer]

Like Philosoma or Xyanide? I doubt it. I am talking about stories incorporated in-game, not like Shadow of the Beast where there is a story in the manual, but nothing of the sort in the game.

Depends on what you mean by incorporated into the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebaPzYXz7bQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HLVGBlm-sM

[Kollision]

toilet kids
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[broken harbour]

Jamestown has a story, about Steampunk ships travelling to Mars, or ..... something.

It's kind of hard to follow.

[Jaimers]

Twilight Insanity and Twilight Refrain both have dialogue before bosses and between stages where you have to choose between different responses. You have to figure out the mystery yourself before you're allowed access to the true final stage.

Valhellio is literally part shmup and part visual novel.

[KAI]

Steam Hearts (PC-98)
Futa porn=awesome story

[Obiwanshinobi]

probley

Now I'm seriously not sober, but this here deserves to get eternized.

[ciox]

What's fun is the shmups with story I don't usually care for it, the ones with little story I can't get enough and try to get as much juice out of them as possible, devs who make understated settings for their games usually know what they're doing.

[yorgje]

All of the Touhou games have very well-written plots

[PedroMD]

All of the Touhou games have very well-written plots

I was under the impression this was all the story they ever had.

[SuperSoaker360]

I was under the impression this was all the story they ever had.

Well after that, they put their differences aside and get smashed.

[Squire Grooktook]

All of the Touhou games have very well-written plots

I was under the impression this was all the story they ever had.

I think there was also something about a tea party...?

[KAI]

You are not invited to my tea party.
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Makes perfect sense.

[ShmupSamurai]

You are not invited to my tea party.
bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bull
et,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bu
llet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet,bullet.
Makes perfect sense.

Yep. That's tohou in a nutshell.

With all this talk about story, maybe somebody should start a thread where all of us try to see who can come up with the most elaborae excuse plot for blowing sh!t up.....

[Lord Satori]

With all this talk about story, maybe somebody should start a thread where all of us try to see who can come up with the most elaborae excuse plot for blowing sh!t up.....

Your girlfriend just dumped you, so you steal her ship and blow up her military base and shit.

[Furry Fox Jet Pilot]

Ketsui's story is great. It has an interesting World War III scenario that would perhaps make an interesting movie.

[shmuppyLove]

Someone has (had?) it as their signature

WELCOME TO VIOLENT CITY

Actually Batrider does have a pretty detailed story though.

All of the Touhou games have very well-written plots