Most over-the-top shooter?

gs68 · Post by **gs68** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:50 am

Score: Giga Wing 2
Bullets: Mars Matrix
Weapons: Batsugun, no contest
Scroll speed: Torus Trooper, Zanac
Slowdown: Super R-Type
Mode 7 effects: RayForce/GunLock/Layer Section/Galactic Attack
Alternate names: RayForce/GunLock/Layer Section/Galactic Attack

black mariah · Post by **black mariah** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:59 am

BulletMagnet wrote:COUPLE more shots...there will be a test on this.

I thought it was a FEW more... it's been a few years since I last played it.

WAITASECOND

Isn't it a FEW more shots in DonPachi, and a COUPLE more shots in DDP? that could be the cause of the confusion...

Devilsheep · Post by **Devilsheep** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:03 am

black mariah wrote:
BulletMagnet wrote:COUPLE more shots...there will be a test on this.
I thought it was a FEW more... it's been a few years since I last played it.

WAITASECOND

Isn't it a FEW more shots in DonPachi, and a COUPLE more shots in DDP? that could be the cause of the confusion...

Either way, the guy sounds like he forgot to use Preparation H.

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:09 am

most over-the-top slowdown... LOL, I think Terra Cresta 3D is a contender there, in Super R-Type you at least have to have some enemies or shots on the screen before the framerate drops

I think certain weapon combinations fully powered-up in Tyrian can rival that Batsugun screenshot up top

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:59 pm

For a game from 1986, Zanac had pretty extreme firepower. Can you name another game from that year that has 8 sub weapons that can be powered up multiple times and a main weapon that powers up seperately?

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:22 pm

For over the top weapons, no doubt Batsugun.

But I would like to second Tyrian is a good contender -WIth the right combination of weapons.

X2 on PSX also gives ridiculous amount of power up to your ship in later stages. As you NEVER power down in the game, you NEVER lose a weapon, and new weapons show up at every 2 levels, in the last level you have like 8 full powered up different weapons shooting at the same time.

Very cool to look, but pretty stupid in gameplay terms.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:34 pm

Shatterhand wrote:X2 on PSX also gives ridiculous amount of power up to your ship in later stages. As you NEVER power down in the game, you NEVER lose a weapon, and new weapons show up at every 2 levels, in the last level you have like 8 full powered up different weapons shooting at the same time.

You beat me to it!

I was going to mention X2's absurd firepower as well. It's just that much worse in 2-player. During a 2-player stint with my buddy Colt-Steele, after about level 6 I kept hearing him say: "WHERE THE HELL AM I??!??"

Tony Gradius · Post by **Tony Gradius** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 5:36 pm

The most over the top laserbeam has imo G-Darius, when one of the bosses beams his laser and you counter him with yours it build up the entire screen high. Amazing.