Shmup Goals 2014 - It's baaack!

[finisherr]

1. I'd like to see Stage 5 in SDOJ by the end of the year and maybe get the 1CC next year. It's gotta be with the following setup:
- Version 1.5
- Laser
- Auto-bomb Off

2. Find more time to play shooters in general.

[Bananamatic]

-Bananamatic getting over his internal struggle

you wot

[saucykobold]

Personal Favorite Achievements of 2013:
• Raiden DX Novice 7 million
• Raiden II 3-ALL

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2013:
• RS' clear of Image Fight's loop 2 Penalty Area
• BOSS-X's totally boss Gradius III optionless 2-ALL. This was actually done at the end of 2012 but it's just so completely boss that I'm compelled to mention it here.
• zil's Gunbird 2 forum record
• x91's and Jaimers' Ketsui Ura runs
• ben.shinobi's 54 mil in Raiden Fighters
• wiNteR's Strikers 1945 II clear
• And too many others to list!

Goals for 2014:
• Score ~2.4 mil in R-Type while getting every speedup, and make a video compilation of loop 2 checkpoint recovery routes
• Get really far in Raiden DX Training

I CHALLENGE YOU
• To try a shmup subgenre that you haven't really explored before!

[Cagar]

-Bananamatic getting over his internal struggle

you wot

"I hate shmups"
"I only play rpgs and cod"
"I don't like shumps stfu"

to vvv

"Ketsui, be my bitch"

[AweOfShe]

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

Which one was it?

It was DFK 360 mode. I still can't do it consistently though, since I still mess up a lot at 2-5. :/

[wnka]

Personal Favorite Achievements of 2013:
• Loaning my Ketsui PCB to an arcade here in Seattle, then doing back-to-back 1-ALLs with the different ship types with people watching and stuff.
• Figuring out a way to stream from my cab.

Personal Goofups of 2013:
• I didn't have much time for playing games in 2013 unfortunately.

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2013:
• STGWeekly. Great work from all involved!
• Icarus' Special Demonstrations videos. Really cool stuff and totally raised the bar for superplay vids.

Goals for 2014:
• 1-ALL Muchi Muchi Pork
• Letter score in Ibara
• Break 1 billion in Futari God Mode, 1CC as stretch goal

[chempop]

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2013:

blackoaks' shmupilations
icarus' special demonstrations
everything shmups at Stunfest

How could I have forgot these!

[Frenetic]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
1st loop clear of Progear.
Making the Mushi Futari Black Label Original scoreboard with a 500 mil+ score with Palm.
Getting a streaming setup going.
Continuing to be able to host shmupmeets http://imgur.com/a/4naB9#0
Presenting the first STG Weekly Live at the Pacific Media Expo convention. (and getting a famous Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 player to try Ketsui!) Also being able to refine and rework the panel for Anime Los Angeles in a week!
STG Weekly growing so much thanks to Aquas, Sodamachine, and the great guest commentators we have from the community. Without you guys it would be nothing.
Putting two of my shmup PCBs on location at a local arcade.
Fixing my Egret 3 (thank you shmupsfarm Hardware subforum)
Non shmup achievements: Going undefeated with Dan playing casual matches at a Street Fighter IV tournament. Meeting a local shmups forum member and becoming good friends with them.

Being married, working a full time job, playing music in a symphonic wind band AND rock band, homebrewing, square dancing, biking, and Euro board gaming makes the F-man a busy guy! I'm glad to have found shmups so I can still play video games when I can.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
Stalling out on Muchi Muchi Pork! I just wasn't able to seal the deal, something I hope I can change this year.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013 (in no particular order):
Everyone's replays we highlighted and all the guest commentators on STGWeekly. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart. Without you STGWeekly could not have grown as much as it has this past year.
jepjepjep's help on a long standing project!
Stunfest really opened my eyes to the possibilities. Just awesome watching the East and West meet.
system11 for continuing to host a great forum
the new server donation drive going so well
pyongyang's Pink Bullets zine
blackoak and his great shmuplations.com
CMoon being a champ and always brewing and bringing good beer to the SoCal Shmupmeets.
arcadegame's shmupmeet
wnka's Northwest STG and shmupmeets at Full Tilt
system11's cool blog and PCB repairs
alamone's hosting shmupmeets in NorCal. The West Coast is the Best Coast!
Gus' counterstop clear of Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 Ultra
Hosting STGWeekly Live with Softdrink/watching him play Ibara live/his D letter score 1cc.
Aquas' many shmup achievements. Really awesome to be able to partner on STGWeekly with ya, buddy!
AKRATEN's 1cc's in Ibara Kuro and MMP.
chempop's 2-2 in Cyvern
Jaimers, iconoclast, PROMETHEUS, Icarus, Erppo, Plasmo, pestro, Eaglet, chumlum, x91, Gus, Cactu, Nereid...you guys rock!
Favorite non shmup achievements: Watching mikehaggar's 2-ALL and then some of US Ghosts and Goblins and his 1LC Daimakaimura. Watching Nereid's IIDX streams.

Goals for 2014:
Continue to make my way 1cc'ing shmups in order of difficulty!
Host more shmupmeets.
Host more on STGWeekly.
Get STGWeekly Live panel at Anime Expo.
Get shmup cabinets/pcbs at CAX.
Figure out the magic bullet to get people into shmups hehehehe.
Shmups as a popular eSport. Shmups at a major gaming convention!!!
Get my wife into shmups. (hey, it said to be ambitious!)

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
More people getting streaming setups and be on STGrillz.

Play shmups and spread the love.

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! Mars needs women!

Play Touhou/doujin shmups.

[pollysee]

Personal achievement:
- finally getting back into shooters

Personal goofup:
- not playing regularly enough
- putting a lot of time into Mushi Futari and not getting the clear

Goals for 2014:
- play more often
- clear Mushi Futari 1.5 Original
- stream more often than never (twitch.tv/p0l1cy)
- put a supergun together and maybe get an arcade board

[Grumpius]

Personal Favorite Achievements of 2013:
Clearing Deathsmiles, clearing IOS Mushihimesama

Goals for 2014:
Clear a non-trivial game. Explore more non-CAVE games.

Challenge to everyone else:
Only play shmups whilst facing away from the monitor, using a mirror to see what you're doing. For those playing on cabinets, control everything using your feet.
Hopefully whilst you're all doing that, I'll have time to improve ;^)

[Eno]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013: erm... I think the only one was BWRP Normal 1cc with Guard, which is pretty...
Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: not playing much in the first place

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
Zil's GB2 runs were quite a joy to watch.

Goals for 2014:
- Stop messing around and play more
- BWRP Normal 1cc no guard
- At least reaching Yuyuko consistently on PCB Normal
- Perhaps being able to do GB2 1-4 boss and reach 1-5 boss consistently is not asking much?

[ACSeraph]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:

2013 was the year that saw me jump back into this genre full force with the intention of getting legitimately good.

My first ever 1cc came in April with a true ending clear of Triggerheart Exelica. From that point on there was no turning back; I had gone full shmup.

I practiced the genre over a very wide range of games only to have my proudest achievement of 2013 near the end of the year: after an extremely epic no-miss run of Caladrius AC Arcade Mode, a Japanese guy who had been watching my run came up to me and applauded.


Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:

・Every time I throw my Saturn controller at the TV playing Darius II


Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:

・Spadgy defeating my high score in the Caladrius thread


Goals for 2014:

-All Clear!-

・Defeating Spadgy's high score in the Caladrius thread -clear-
・Taking the #1 spot in the Caladrius thread -not just the thread baby -
・1cc-ing Darius II at Taito Hey! Akihabara -clear-
・Clearing the god damn Moai stage in Gradius 1 -clear-
・Finish writing ST Caladrius -clear-


Challenges to Other Players:

・Learn to clear Darius Gaiden without the autofire cheat! It's totally awesome, you won't regret it!

[Aleksei]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:Pink Sweets Arrange (so fun), and DDP:DFK clear.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013: Not Clearing Futari Original with only seconds to go.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013: Kamui's discovery of the green airplanes that fly off screen for ~80k and her clears at stunfest.

Goals for 2014:Clear Futari original (almost there), Darius Gaiden without autofire, Ginga Force on Hard, Eschatos on Hard, Pink Sweets original clear with or without trick, SDOJ on normal (novice clear only ). Clear Ibara, get more clears!

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
I want to see more girls playing.

EDIT: I did not read the posts before me but now that I have, I see we have some things in common here; 1. more girls 2. gaiden no auto 3. futari clear, what a coincidence!

[CloudyMusic]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
- Cracked the Shmups Forum top 20 for Futari BL Original Reco.
- Cleared Futari BL Maniac at #9.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
- Not playing regularly enough. (I tend to go really hard at it for a couple of months, then take a couple of months off. Probably not great for my consistency.)
- Lots of dumb avoidable deaths due to a hesitation to bomb. I've gotten a little better about it, but still have some work to do.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
- Gus's Ultra counterstop+clear.
- Stunfest.

Goals for 2014:
- Clear Futari God Mode.
- Play more regularly.
- Decide on a secondary game to focus on.
- Try to become able to talk about my personal progress and achievements without having to preface it with "I know I'm awful compared to most of you, but..." every time.

[TheMongoose]

This year I would like to improve my high scores in shmup games even more. Also, I want to try to clear a Touhou game on Lunatic. I hear Perfect Cherry Blossom is one of the easier ones so I will try that.

Games I have in mind to try and improve my scores at:

- Dodonpachi.
- Mountain of Faith Normal mode
- Dodonpachi Daioujou Black Label

Also, 1cc more games!

[spadgy]

2013 saw one of my favourite places on Earth close it’s doors; namely London’s shmup-friendly arcade Casino. That was horrible. Work also got me silly busy, and I didn’t meet up with enough players post Casino’s closure…

So my main shmup goal for 2014 is to keep the Casino Crew flame burning through meeting up with the regulars from the place in London’s gaming cafe LoadingBar, host shmup mini-meets and my house, and welcome new players to the fold. I also hope to meet yet more players across the globe when work takes me travelling, maybe meet a forum member or two from overseas if they are visiting London, and maybe get involved in a retro gaming event in the UK. Also, getting the UK’s northern shmuppers down (smraedis, Lordstar etc.) would be great (I was rubbish when they came down in 2013). I might even track down mr_m0nks (we know you're out there mate!). Possibly get overseas to Stunfest or something.

So lots of shmupping with people out in the real world.

Oh yeah, and get more 1CCs!

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

That made me think, i'd quite like to get to a meet sometime this year. I'm not far from London. I pretty much suck but it'd be good to see some skilled players in action.

[drunkninja24]

Same as last year, defeat DOOM in Ketsui

[ciox]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
• western record in Battle Bakraid, wouldn't dream of doing this with Garegga or APB

Personal Goofups of 2013:
• lost ground in many games from playing them less, STILL no Psyvariar superplay

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
• too many to count, west scene is definitely still alive

Goals for 2014:
• get at least 50% of the Bakraid WR (~66m)
• make a superplay worth watching, no specific game in mind

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
• Play more Bakraid Advance Course
• Play more Psyvariar Revision

[Ed Oscuro]

actually put raiden fighters aces disc in its appropriate console

[BIL]

-build shelves 4 mah shmupz r@rez
-475lbs squat @ 180lbs b/w
-Holy Diver 1LC
-make Gun.Smoke ST 4 the nubz
-eat mo greenz
-keep pwnin scrubz in OT w/ rest o them elitist prickz

[ACSeraph]

-make Gun.Smoke ST 4 the nubz

I would definitely be interested in this

[BIL]

Haha, thanks for the interest. I might just summon up the energy.

[Kiken]

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2013:
• breaking 8 million with an all clear in XIIZeal and then a week later nailing an all clear in DeltaZeal with a score of 4.6 million (especially after thinking I'd never get past the final boss rush in a single credit).

Personal Goofups of 2013:
• not being able to improve on my older Ikaruga Normal Mode high score
• constantly dieing from stupid death after stupid death after stupid death in Exzeal

Goals for 2014:
• clear the first loop of Ketsui
• break 600 million in Mushi Futari 1.5 Maniac with Ab Parm.

[Ed Oscuro]

-build shelves 4 mah shmupz r@rez
-475lbs squat @ 180lbs b/w
[...]
-eat mo greenz

BEANS power
"The head of intelligence is in serious trouble. Beat down more scrubs!"

[BIL]

Once I finish certain contracts I can't discuss here (ANTI-SCRUB WETWORKS) I'll be promoted by system11 top brass to PFC BEANZU_RIZER

[spadgy]

That made me think, i'd quite like to get to a meet sometime this year. I'm not far from London. I pretty much suck but it'd be good to see some skilled players in action.

Join us someday! The 'Casino Crew' (as the London shmuppers call ourselves) are by no means all high skilled players (there's a couple!), but we're a friendly bunch open to welcoming anyone along who wants to play shmups, talk shmups, and make awful jokes. Pop over to the London thread in the Shmupmeets area and join in the chat. We meet up all the time, and it's a great way to get better at shmups.

(No need to read all but the last few posts. Long story short, we used to meet regularly at London's shmup-freindly arcade Casino, then it closed, and now we meet various different places.)

Join us someday!

And the rest of you get to the Shmupmeets area of this forum and meet with your local players. Best part of the hobby! I've even got to make long, lingering physical contact with Skykid as a result of such efforts. What more could you want!?

So my main shmup goal for 2014 is to keep the Casino Crew flame burning

this one's already going well. Potential great news for London shmuppers brewing.

[Kollision]

Personal Favourite Achievement of 2013:
I just wanted to loop Raiden II and was very happy I did it.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2013:
Repeatedly scoring higher in Cotton 2 while not clearing.
Failing to engage in Shiki 2 before the year ended.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2013:
dat amazing STGweekly stuff, saucy destroying 3 loops of Raiden II, Battletoad's exceptional performance with Romi in Giga Wing 2

Goals for 2014:
I will try my best in Shikigami No Shiro II, Gradius III, Judgement Silversword, Caladrius, Raystorm, DOJ

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
play older games
buy a retail shmup
spread the love

[chempop]

One of my goals is to host a shmup meet, now that I have some cabs I think it would be a lot of fun.
Massachusetts members take note!

[spadgy]

One of my goals is to host a shmup meet, now that I have some cabs I think it would be a lot of fun.
Massachusetts members take note!

Do it!