Shmup Goals 2014 - It's baaack!

[Aquas]

As 2014 turns we must evaluate our inner shmuppy selves and bring STG hype into 2014! Taking the format of last year's thread I return to you these prompts!! 2013 Thread is Here.

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: As the name suggests, post the stuff you're the most proud of here, whether you're an Easy mode survival player or a Lunatic scorerunner. Anything that stands out to you is what you want here, no matter how silly it may be!

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: Did a Power-up carrier pick you off or ram into you and ruin the GOD RUN? Whatever comedies/tragedies pop up most clearly to mind go here! These don't have to be specific occurrences but can be generalities as well in your gaming endeavors.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013: Whether it's a long-time goal achieved by a close friend or a new WR set in one of your favourite games (or both at the same time!), you can post whatever stuff you enjoyed seeing other people do this year here!

Goals for 2014: What do you have your eyes set on achieving next year? List all the clears, scores, and crazy challenges you want to achieve next year here. Be ambitious!

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: The fun one. Throw down the gauntlet and challenge someone else to something! This might be to beat one of your scores, or a race to a certain clear, or whatever you like. Remember to keep it a little friendly, but on the other hand, go totally nuts!

Alternatively if you want to be lazy then just post your goals for the year as usual. Are you ready? Your mission starts now.

[Bananamatic]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: crimzon clover unlimited 1cc w/type I, that was sadly the only noteworthy achievement

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: not being able to clear the 1st loop of ketsui without a miss

Goals for 2014: clear ketsui omote, then score >330m on Ura(and beat Emuser) and clear SDOJ Expert, possibly DOJBL 2-all

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:The Futari Ultra 1.01 clear and 1.5 with abnormal Reco

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Sapz: play ketsui again
Naut: play shmups again

[Icarus]

I don't usually bother with these, but what the hey.

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
• Dodonpachi Saidaioujou X360-L, 51.9bil ALL. #2 on XBLA.
Quite pleased with this, mainly because it's the first game in ages where I actually stuck with it until I exceeded my target and can not improve it further without major changes, rather than putting it down when I got to a somewhat satisfactory level of play. The first step to breaking a very bad habit of being less-focused and somewhat flighty when it comes to games. Other than that, I don't really have much in the way of other notable scoring achievements in 2013, aside from taking the forum's Pink Sweets v1.00 #1 spot in just two weeks back with the game.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
• Not spending enough time tearing apart my favourite games. It took a while getting back into the swing of things as I had spent over a year out not playing anything besides random casual short-duration games, and was only brought back into the fold by Stunfest 2013.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
• T3-神威 making an appearance at the STG cabs at Stunfest 2013 and putting on an unscheduled, unannounced show.
• Watching RSQ destroy Dodonpachi Saidaioujou ver1.5 live.
• Watching Aquas ripping up Batrider, good stuff.

Goals for 2014:
• Getting somewhat decent again at Battle Garegga through regular play.
• Pink Sweets v1.00 Arcade Mode (X360) ALL.
• 30mil in Ibara.
• Whatever else comes to mind once the above list is done, as I'm purposely keeping my list very short and focused this year.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
• Clear Pink Sweets v1.00 at very high/max rank without infinite lives before I do. :3

[Imhotep]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
Cleared 1941: Counter Attack. Although it's a relatively easy clear, I had to chew on it. I'm proud that I didn't stop till I got the clear.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Icarus making progress in Pink Sweets. I'm particularly interested in that game and like to read about it.

Goals for 2014:
Clear Esprade, hopefully early in the year.

[KAI]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
Ibara Letter score with Dyne.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
Not being able to clear AKS in one week.

Goals for 2014:
Fap less, play more. Ibara "D" score, Illvelo TLB.

[Pteriforever]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:

--XOP Black Ultra Advanced 1cc
--TW3R WL loop
--Leiria -Stargazer- Normal NM + TLB

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:

--I still suck at panicbombing
--Stage 5 of Starhall is bad and I should feel bad

Goals for 2014:

--one-two 1cc
--Touhou 8 Hard 1cc
--Touhou 11 Hard 1cc
--PatriotDark Normal 1cc
--Leiria -Stargazer- Hard Original 1cc
--PRGT Extra 1cc
--Take 1st place Hopeless score in Re: Lunacy Star
--Never play Ketsui
--Crimson Phoenix NMNB
--Make hopefully two more shmups

Goals for 2014 (Not Bloody Likely category):

--Coerce Crimson Phoenix developer into adding hard mode, then 1cc that
--TW3R WL 2-all
--Stop whining about ChoRenSha

[Aquas]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
• 36 "Million" in Guwange.
• Setting multiple PBs of Ketsui on ookitarepanda's PCB during the Summer and finally crushing 200 Mil on PCB and getting to 2-5 Omote with 216M.
• Western Record run of Eschatos
• Western Record (17 Mil) in Armed Police Batrider because it was my first adventure into Raizing depth and it turned out to be incredibly fun.
• 1cc's with all characters in ESP Galuda II. Such a great game even without crazy scoring.
• 1000+ Subscribers for STG Weekly, we did it!
EDIT: •1cc Dangun Feveron on Kiel's cab, I think this was 2013?

Personal Goofups of 2013:
• Blowing my No-miss clear of Eschatos at the TLB!

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
• Pestro's Ginga Force World Records, for exploring the game deeper than anyone else and for bringing it to that level. A feat not often seen from Westerners.

Goals for 2014:
• 25 Million in Batrider (30M is WR)
• Beating Prometheus' Guwange score (50 Mil) ... Catspider hype lives on!
• Get better at Battle Garegga, already falling in love with it.
• 1cc Dragon Saber (lasting goal from 2013)
• Get around to trying some STG I haven't tried: Star Soldier series, Zanac Neo, Soukigryenhentai, some others.
• 3000 subs for STG Weekly!

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
• 1cc a Gradius game!
• Ratikal beating my Eschatos Original Hard run
• Play more Batrider (I know it sucks it doesn't have a port ... )

[Furry Fox Jet Pilot]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: I 1CC'd Battle Bakraid's Normal Course, considerably improved at Air Gallet and reached the final boss on 1 credit, but ended up dying, made it to stage 5 of Donpachi on 1 credit, and made it to stage 6 of Dodonpachi on 1 credit while scoring 28,798,240 points (I can sense 30mil if I actually try harder).

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: Nothing too serious, just collecting the wrong color weapon in G-Stream G2020/DeltaZeal several times, getting hit once on the first stage of Alltynex Second, and getting rammed by those stupid green rectangle shaped enemies in stage 4 of Donpachi.

Goals for 2014: Perfectly clear Raiden DX's training stage and loop it into novice mission
To break 30mil in Dodonpachi
To reach the second loop of Donpachi
Improve in Ketsui, and at least reach the last boss of loop 1 using 1 credit, and at least break 50mil (My best is around 41mil)
Break 1mil in Strikers 1945 II and reach the second loop (My best is reaching the stage 8 boss and dying quickly)
Try to reach at least 1-8 in Strikers 1945 (Much harder to do than in the second game, my best here is 1-6)
Try to get past 1-6 in Strikers 1999 on 1 credit.
Attempt to 1CC G-Stream G2020/Deltazeal (That damn final stage sending me back to the beginning if I die is annoying.)
To 1CC Alltynex Second on Normal or Hard, then eventually try out suicide bullet mode
To reach the end of RefleX, that game is the longest shmup I've ever played, it's a huge endurance challenge
To 1CC Storm Blade
To improve at Batrider and Gun Frontier
To actually try and enjoy Metal Black and Garegga for what they are.
To 1CC Fighting Hawk

[chempop]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:

Akuu Gallet 1CC (and beating Aquas high score )

Beating Ibara in a week, and then clearing it another 4 times while watching others squirm struggling for the clear

1-All Cyvern

1CC Battle Bakraid Advanced Course in a week

Finally Killing Blackheart mk2 once

Most monthy victories on neo-geo STG monthy

Personal Goofups of 2013:

Getting to the final pattern of Guwange over a dozen times and giving up

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:

Softdrink's Ibara 1CC

Goals for 2014:

Give SDOJ another shot and get the clear

Gigawing 1CC on Dreamcast

Having fun playing games I already own, and try not to obsess too much on what to buy next

[Chaos Phoenixma]

outside of actually play shmups, try to pick some games to stick with and try to do decent.

[ebarrett]

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
• Clear Pink Sweets v1.00 at very high/max rank without infinite lives before I do. :3

eeeeeeehhh I'll see what I can do

[Softdrink 117]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
D,5 Ibara 1CC
Lettering in Ibara live at arcade game's shmupmeet, and getting the chance to explain the game in person
Being a guest on STG Weekly four times; I'd love to be on again
Trying (and mostly failing) to promote shooting games at an anime convention. Learned a lot for the coming one in early January
Clearing Ikaruga with 3 stock; I finally feel like I have reached closure with the game
Succeeding at my Touhouthon challenge (clearing 5 Touhou games [IN-UFO] with no prior play in 5 days on Normal)-- not the hardest thing, but it was surprisingly fun to push myself to get through the games so rapidly

Personal Goofups of 2013:
Playing too many different shmups.
Dying while Teresa was in the process of exploding in Ibara
Getting like a dozen game overs on consecutive runs during the last ten seconds of Ikaruga's TLB

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Too many to list. This year has been pretty awesome. Lots of records have been set and broken, STG Weekly has grown and prospered, the community seems to be getting a bit more active (though maybe that's just wishful thinking).

Seeing SDOJ get totally wrecked by Erppo, Icarus, Jaimers, and iconoclast was particularly inspiring though, and got me to give the game a second chance after I had dismissed it altogether.

Goals for 2014:
1CC Ibara as Dyne, then start playing the game for score.

Push further with Mushihime-sama, particularly 1.5 Maniac MAX and vanilla Ultra.
Breaking into the Ketsui Omote loop would be great too. I think I'll also go for SDOJ and Futari God clears.
I'd also like to play and clear more doujins, and I hope to have time to play Raizing more seriously, particularly Bakraid and Dimahoo.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:

Softdrink's Ibara 1CC

Hehe, thanks. You tortured me with how quickly you got your clear.

• 30mil in Ibara.

Icarus, why don't you have any scores on the forum board? If you're shooting for 30m you must be pretty damn good already. You, KAI, and I seem to be the only ones pushing for score right now, and it would be cool (and inspiring) to see your progress.

[Legendary Hoamaru]

Personal Favorite Achievements of 2013:

No clue, this was a bad year for gaming in general due to holding two jobs. I've set some Eschatos PBs, had a cool easy mode run of Judgement Silversword, but not much else.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:

Constantly doing stupid stuff like this when using a stick on my lap: http://www.twitch.tv/legend_hoa/c/3443949 . Also constantly getting killed by items that should be helping me.

Not playing enough in general. Got two jobs earlier in the year and lost a lot of energy adjusting to the schedule so my gaming time took a huge dive. Now that I'm used to it I can play more.

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2013:

The Mushihime Futari Ultra 1.01 clear by SSERESS. Just wow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tz_fViahnA

Goals for 2014:

Play more shmups. Haven't had the time/urge to learn different shmups (again due to jobs) so I've just stuck to what I know. I'm interested in learning more games beyond just getting a quick 1cc.

WR for Eschatos Original Normal and Hard. Pretty positive I can get both of these. Getting it for Hard is going to be tough though. I also want to learn and dedicate to Hardest but the other two come first.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:

More tournaments. I've always felt we could have an STG equivalent to speedrunner's speedrunslive races.

Beat my Eschatos WRs when I get them. Yes...when...lol.

[Lord Satori]

Goals for 2014
play some shmups

Optional Goals for 2014
1cc a few shmups

Seriously, most of the time all I've been doing is watching replays.

[ratikal]

Personal Favorite Achievements of 2013
TLB Clear of eXceed 3rd whatever label.
SDOJ 14B score

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013
Not playing enough!

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2013
Where to start...

• Aquas - Batrider, Eschatos, and maintaining STGWeekly
• Pestro - Ginga Force WRs
• Iconoclast - WR in SDOJ and scores in other games like Mamoru
• Icarus - 360-L score!
• Erppo - DFK 699B score and Ketsui Omote 2-ALL
• Jaimers - SDOJ Expert 1cc and Batsugun Special counterstop
• Cactu - EoSD LNMNB, always saw you playing this and I'm happy you finally managed to hit this milestone.

Goals for 2014
Just to enjoy more games! I've never managed to keep score goals or whatever.

CHALLENGE TO OTHER PLAYERS
PUSH YOUR SELF TO THE LIMIT AND GO FULL SHMUP!

• Ratikal beating my Eschatos Original Hard run

I'll try!

[Emuser]

This will be a little tough for me since I feel like I've been in and out and missed a whole bunch of random things here and there all over the place.


Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
*Blue Wish Resurrection Hell ALL! Clear with Wish: It took me a really long time to pull this off, and it was extremely rewarding to have successfully cleared with Wish. It took me about 8 months of on and off progress through 2012 and January 2013, thank you Jaimers and Erppo for pointers and not letting me give up like I've tended to do on a lot of things.

*Blue Wish Desperate ALL! Clear with Peace: This was something that resulted in me getting pissed at double KO'ing on the TLB three times before finally clearing. Despite the fact that Peace has no bombs it is still pretty amazing on Desperate other than stage 3, 4, and 5 bosses which are basically guaranteed 1-misses, leaving you with 4 lives against the TLB if all goes well. It is very easy to NM all of the stage portions because of Peace's power in this game.

*Reaching Emperion(stage 5 boss) on Futari Ultra, it's where the game really "begins", but I was amazed at being able to reach this SOB in 2 weeks. Took a break for a little while but I'm back on the Futari Ultra train. You think that I've gotten this far and I must be close to a clear, but I assure you that you have to bring every possible life and bomb to this son of a bitch in order to beat it and Larsa and get the clear. Not even close to pulling that off.


Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
*Not pushing myself hard enough to clear much at Assan Chop's monthly shmupmeets, I haven't played quite as many shmups in 2013 compared to previous years because of new work opportunities.
*Botched DDP run at Chop's July shmupmeet.


Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
*SSRESS clearing Futari Ultra 1.01 and another clearing 1.5 Ultra with Ab.Reco, absolute madness.
*Jaimers joining the Ketsui Ura 2-ALL cool kids club.


Goals for 2014:
*Begin streaming SHMUPs soon hopefully, kicking it off with a Touhou Hard/Lunatic blind runs marathon across EoSD onwards.
*Start playing A-S in DDP, the best I had pulled off was a 300M 2-7 run a few months ago, but I am extremely inconsistent in getting above 100M and can't do chains very well. One reason because I want a really good challenge, and another because I want to see how to truly thrive with A-S since there is absolutely no footage to go off of for learning with it.
*Eventually figure out the last missing points separating me from the Trigon WR.
*Push BWR+ Hell No AG No Wait to its limit.
*Get the Ab.Reco Original score I've been wanting to get for a while now.
*Get 400B in Daifukkatsu
*Clear MoF Lunatic with Marisa A/Marisa C
*Start playing a bunch of random stuff once I get the new computer I'm looking to get.


Challenge to other players:
*Bananamatic: Ketsui Omote 2-ALL: I know you're close to pulling it off, but don't give up.
*Beat Blue Wish on Desperate with one credit.
*Play Kaikan, best PC doujin shmup I ran across in 2013.

[Erppo]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
Even though I technically got my good DFK run in 2013, most of the work for it was done in the previous year so I'm not really counting it here. I haven't really got anything comparable, but I still feel like I've gotten a lot better than I was a year ago so I'm not disappointed in anything. I guess beating another Hibachi (SDOJ) is rather cool.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
I don't know, I guess I could have played Mushi Ultra a bit longer. I played it enough to learn it but too little to get any results.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
I think I said this last time too, but iconoclast continues to be my favourite player of this forum and I really respect the things he has done, breaking SDOJ being the latest. Added respect to everyone else who has helped making the Western shooting game scene a bit more respectable.

Goals for 2014:
Play more shmups and get better at it. Maybe finally learn to play DOJ?

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Learn to play a DDP. Considering they're some of the most popular shmups ever made, it's rather shameful how few people here can play them at all.

Also:

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Sapz: play ketsui again
Naut: play shmups again

[chum]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
Fairy Wars: 110 million on A2 Lunatic, A2 Lunatic No Miss/No Bomb, various decent scores
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 287 million on Normal, 142 million on Easy, Lunatic No Bomb with every shot-type
Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream: 99 million on Lunatic
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 205 million on Lunatic with Komachi, among some other scores
Armed Police Batrider: F,5 (15,5) million with Car-Pet solo, 1cc with every character solo (Advanced Course)

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
Countless 'screw-ups' if you can even call it that against Yumemi, the one who guards 100 mil.
Two potential EoSD Normal 300 mil runs that failed on the stage 6 midboss.
Two or three? Can't really remember potential 92-93 mil runs in GFW Extra that failed on one of the last two spells.
A (in hindsight) pretty hilarious ending of a decent Batrider score run (getting hit by Discharge's laser)
A couple of dropped extends on the Batrider final stage.
Glow Squid timing out on a potential PB run in Battle Garegga, taking away my last two lives (I had never seen what happens when Glow Squid times out before, so it caught me off guard)

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Cactu's EoSD High score and his NMNB run. Watching him has been incredibly motivational and impressive to me.

Goals for 2014:
Overall world record for Fairy Wars
world record for a few other categories
96 million on Extra
No Miss/No Bomb more routes on Lunatic
100 million in PoDD
Clear 2nd loop of Strikers ii
300 million on Normal in EoSD
400 million on Hard
500 million on Lunatic
Complete a score run in PCB, don't know about difficulty
900 million in TD Easy
20 million in Batrider with a team
17 million in Garegga
40 million in Guwange
1cc Gun.Smoke
Counterstop Twin Cobra
clear 2nd loop of Dragon Blaze

Ok that's a lot of goals but I don't doubt that I can get many of them done even if some might drift off the radar

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Play Fairy Wars.

[pestro87]

Thanks a bunch Aquas and ratikal!

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
• Going full shmup with Ginga Force
• Started playing Garegga a bit more seriously
• I felt like my shmup skills improved a lot over the year. I think it's partly due to a lot of crappy 1CCs that I managed to get and partly because I started analyzing how I play shmups.
• Buying an Astro City

Personal Goofups of 2013:
• Getting kicked out of Xbox live and sent back to the main menu after a near perfect run on Chapter 1 in Ginga Force Haven't been able to pull off a run like that since then. Thankfully the score wasn't significantly higher than my current high score on that Chapter.
• Playing Garegga on Trap's PCB after not having played the game in a while and after having a couple of beers and getting Trap to capture the disaster on film, lol. I think that this spurred me to get a decent score Having that said, thanks for bringing the PCB to the shmupmeet, trap. It was awesome to play the PCB again.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
• Watching Aquas get better and better at Batrider and then see that he finally got the western record!
• See the battle of the Pork between awo, DEL and NTSC-J
• Eaglet's D score with Golden Bat in Garegga
• Ratikal's 40mil run on Advance Normal in Eschatos
• x91's 450mil Ketsui URA 2-ALL
• Erppo's Ketsui Omote 2-ALL
• iconoclast's SDOJ WR
• Icarus 51bil SDOJ arrange mode score
• Jaimer's Ketsui URA 2-ALL
• STGWeekly. Many thanks for doing the show!

Goals for 2014:
• Garegga 1CC and letter score with Golden Bat
• Get a decent score in Futari God Mode
• Improve my Ginga Force scores and maybe stream some of it on twitch
• Buy a new PC so that I can continue with the translations and watch the twitch streams
• Record a safespot compilation video of Ginga Force. There are a couple of hilarious ones and most are ship type specific

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
• Play Ginga Force - Score Attack - Hard and post your scores.

[Tim James]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
Taking the "second step" into shooters. I still believe Jamestown is the best gateway game for typical Western gamers like myself. I played it a few years ago. It was enough that I no longer turned my nose up at this genre. I even set up MAME to credit-feed through some Cave games to look at the sprites. But that first step didn't make me care enough to practice and memorize other shooters.

Recently, thanks to the Groupees doujin bundle, I played eXceed 3rd and KAMUI and enjoyed them. That got me reading shmups forum a little more. I watched the STGWeekly episode on KAMUI. I thought I understood the scoring system before, but hearing it spelled out really made me appreciate it. So I cared a little bit more, but not enough to practice until I could 1CC it.

Next I tried the demo for Crimzon Clover. I was instantly hooked on the visuals and sound. Then I was blown away when I watched a video of the second boss. That was the moment I finally decided to invest some time into a shooter. CC's item shop continues were the perfect motivator for me -- not too easy to credit feed, but not so out of reach that I can't even see the later stages. Which brings me to...

Goals for 2014:
I'd like to 1CC Crimzon Clover on original mode with half an eye toward scoring. I don't know if I'll ever be motivated to play for high scores, but I'd like to get something respectable enough to post to the score thread on this forum. I can't set any goals beyond that because my personal life will be too busy soon.

Challenge to other players:
Play more PC doujin games -- especially ones that are free or easily available through Western digital distribution -- so I can enjoy listening to the conversation. I don't have time to get into all the Cave and console stuff, so that goes in one ear and out the other for me.

[mimiroru]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:

- PoDD chiyuri lunatic 1cc
- saidaioujou arcade clear

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: a few times i died seconds away from a UFO lunatic 1cc.

Goals for 2014:

- get a decent score in saidaioujou arcade
- clear saidaioujou expert, or get to stage 5 at least
- maybe work on PoDD scoring if i feel like it

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:

- iconoclast's sdoj wr with B-L
- Jaimers' sdoj expert clear
- Icarus' sdoj 360 laser score
- SSERESS' sdoj 1.5 wr

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:

play saidaioujou and beat my scores.

[Jonst]

personal favorite achievements of 2013:
mushihimesama hd 1cc (after an age of getting to the end and making stupid mistakes)
espgaluda (see above)
Beating my previous high score on akai katana zetsu/climax mode
other,lesser 1cc's
bagging pcb's i've always wanted...esprade,dangun feveron,progear and batrider

personal biggest screw ups of 2013:
failing to clear,despite being on the final stages,ddpdfk bl,espgaluda 2 bl and numerous others...

favorite achievements of others:
bareknuckleroo-no miss,first loop of progear
kai-1cc all versions of ibara

goals for 2014:
1cc - progear
- batrider
- ddpdfkbl
- espgaluda 2 bl
general all round improvement of shmup skills...

[yorgje]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: Help I can't even remember when 2013 started. I am tempted to say that I LNB'd IN this year but maybe that was last year. I don't play often enough.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: I didn't grind enough.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013: Oh god, too many to recall. I was super hype about a lot of things, but I think the two big ones that I was watching live were Sakurei's IN WR and cactu's EoSD LNN

Goals for 2014: IN WR with border team lunatic! haha...

[trap15]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: Hishouzame 2-ALL and Omega Fighter 1-ALL

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: I didn't meet pretty much any of my goals from last year ;;

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013: There was a lot, but I can't immediately recall any...

Goals for 2014: I want to give Touhou a fair chance, and stop being a hater I figure I've found one that I like, there has to be at least one other non-Phantasmagoria that I like...
Hishouzame 3-ALL and as a stretch goal, marathon!

[Zaarock]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
• Hellsinker 91,074 score with Fossil Maiden (3/4 of WR) and figuring out routes that may beat the WR
• Radiant Silvergun 1cc
• Judgement Silversword 1cc (default-normal & secret-hard)

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
• Been messing around a lot with other games, only got into shmups for a few months

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
• iconoclast taking B-L WR in SDOJ
• Pestro setting Ginga Force WRs
• ben shinobi improving Radiant Silvergun Saturn mode WR
• Community activity around Garegga, Batrider and other yagawa games has been inspiring

Goals for 2014:
• Border Down 1cc
• Akashicverse Akashic mode 1cc
• Ginga Force Hard mode Type-A & B score attack
• Eschatos Hard mode 1cc
• Hellsinker Extra 1 scoring
• Play more horis
• Maybe get better internet so I can stream

[Captain]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
Hellsinker no-miss (you read that right) with a good score, but not one of the best, Akashicverse Akashic 1CC, Cho Ren Sha 1CC with a really good score. (I tend to keep scores to myself unless they're really, REALLY good)

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
Didn't appreciate the pure bullet hells and retro shooters enough. Guess this makes me an ascended casual, with really hard and valid games that aren't really proper shmups.
Also had a certain giant bee left with about 10% hp and promptly lost the game.

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Posting on this forum. Every single post.

Goals for 2014:
Learning to play for scoring better rather than survival.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
No-Miss Hellsinker with anyone.
1CC Hellsinker with Xantez.
Play a shmup in a non-shmup game somehow. Be creative.

[blackoak]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
finishing and building up shmuplations
public 1cc of DOJ at california extreme
1-ALLing most of the Psikyo catalogue, learning why they're great
2p clears of Dodonpachi and Bakraid

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
not making it to enough shmupmeets!

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Aquas & chum taking apart Batrider
STG Weekly
Stunfest

Goals for 2014:
Get back to some earlier Cave games I put aside (MMP, Guwange, Espgaluda II). Attempt a 2-ALL of something. Try a full-stage clear of Batrider Advanced/Special. Clear Brave Blade 2p. Clear a classic Toaplan STG. Translate more stg, arcade, and older console interviews (and promote shmuplations more). Attend more shmupmeets, especially some socal ones...

Challenges to other players/developers:
make a multiplayer shmup that builds on and refines the ideas of Jamestown!

[AweOfShe]

Personal Favourite Achievement of 2013:
Actually 2-All'ing a CAVE game, finally.

Personal Biggest Screw-up of 2013:
Not being able to No Miss Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta. I always get hit on the last boss. :l

Favourite Achievements by Others in 2013:
Seeing iconoclast's SDOJ record was pretty inspiring.

Goals for 2014:
Broaden my shmups horizon further.

[Bananamatic]

Personal Favourite Achievement of 2013:
Actually 2-All'ing a CAVE game, finally.

Which one was it?

[Cagar]

I don't even remember what I've played during this year.
Goals for 2014:
-1.Play More Shmups
-2.Ketsui omote 2-ALL
-3.Make more cagar labels !!!

1. Happened
2. Didn't happen
3. Didn't happen

Holy fuck 2014 went by FAST. It's kinda scary to be honest. ;_;