Oh I can't remember where, probably the thread where he was ragging on casuals. I remember him insinuating it on more than one occasion.Cagar wrote: Source?
Great! So what's the problem getting some friends going?I've had a girlfriend for almost 3 years.
Sad.Pallerå wrote:the forums and hoping for someone lonely to read the country tag below your avatar.
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ALso, this is how SKykid usually posts
The thread will not get better than this.Pallerå wrote:I recently moved to an actual cave to experience ketsui to its fullest.
No.O. Van Bruce wrote:so...
- there are people here who lack the means to get friends through shmups. It's mainly due to isolation from the arcade escene.
- That doesn't mean they are socially inept but when you actually try to be good on shmups it takes away a lot of time that could be spend on sociallizing.
- as a result, some of us (including me) feel that being a fan of shmups is a lonely hobby.
Is this true?
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ALso, this is how SKykid usually posts
Pretty much this. If you're doing whatever you're doing alone, then you've got a solitary hobby. Finding others in real life to hang out with who're into the same stuff (shmupmeets, woo) makes a big difference. You can always try to get people interested at a local gaming convention or whatever's in your area by demoing a game or something.Skykid wrote:It doesn't matter what hobby it is, you'd still be lonely because you're lonely people.
hzt once turned up to one of my shmup on wall projector gatherings drinking a bottle of Jack, and at New Years we were playing Leo and assorted PCB's at CHI's place, watching Hokuto no Ken series and drinking enough alcohol to open a distillery. Shmups and partying mix: fact.neorichieb1971 wrote:Yeah well. If you like shmups some part of society must have disowned you, or you disowned society to find your way here. At some point, at some time.
If you suddenly found yourself partying while shmupping, I think you'd find it wasn't for you... perhaps.
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ALso, this is how SKykid usually posts
I feel you Bananaman.Bananamatic wrote:all this talk about shmupmeets makes me depressed
we don't even have anime clubs here
But I don't understand why your entire life needs to revolve around your videogaming preferences. Stop being so insular. I've been to Barcelona, it fucking rules. Go find some dudes, drink a bunch of San Miguel and hit the titty bars.O. Van Bruce wrote:Skykid, you are forgetting one thing.
At least in my case, there is only 2 people I know who want to play shmups seriously near me. One of then is not even in my city and the one near me haven't played one in months...
I do share other hobbies with other people (I mentioned it here in this same thread) but when it comes to shmups, I have no noone (phisically) that likes it. As a result, the only way to share my achievements or do some competition is through the internet.
PD: The situation is so solitary here that I've considered to open an stand in some event to attract people to the genre in my area
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ALso, this is how SKykid usually posts
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Sorry, everyone just sounds so reclusive. In which case I fall back to statement one, shmups are a solitary as anything other 1P geared genre. If you have no one to directly share them with, that's a shame, but life goes on.O. Van Bruce wrote:Skykid...
Who was talking here about "our lives are hollow, we don't have social live"?
we are simply stating the fact that no one (or barely no one) likes shmups in our area. It's difficult to find even serious Touhou players (you'll see lots of cosplayers though
PD: And even though I don't like beer, an Estrella Damm is better than a San Miguel
ChurchOfSolipsism wrote: ALso, this is how SKykid usually posts
This, so much this. I mentioned I go to a group of guys who play fighters in a rented local: I allways start some mushi futari or Akai Katana run there whenever I go and people just watch and doesn't want to play, very sad.casualcoder wrote:I would just like to see atleast one game in which I can fire it up and see others I can either compete against or set challenges in realtime, or just discuss tactics. Something like that.
I didn't know TSS could be played online. Thats interesting.
Nothing compares when you play PoFV versus with your opponent besides you and a bunch of people cheering, or when you are the one cheering your friend. Done that and it's very fun.chum wrote:I don't see the problem, we have such a wonderful community of hard working shmups players and knowledgeable connoisseurs right here. How could you possibly feel lonely. Everytime I log into shmups I feel at home. We are all friends, aren't we?
PoFV is fun to play online.
It just occurred to me. Why don't all of the shmup devs have a central scoreboard that they all post high score info to? IOS has gamecenter or feint or whatever it's called. But why is there no such thing for shmups which is all about high scores? I'm sure if Cave put out a site dedicated to this and had it automatically pull data from its entire game catalogue (that is connected) that it would become quite popular and the de facto standard that other devs end up using for their hiscores. It's just one idea.chum wrote:I don't see the problem, we have such a wonderful community of hard working shmups players and knowledgeable connoisseurs right here. How could you possibly feel lonely. Everytime I log into shmups I feel at home. We are all friends, aren't we?
PoFV is fun to play online.
Twinkle Star Sprites.Cagar wrote:What is TSS?
Well, you also have the 2 Phantasmagoria from Touhou and the Seihou Phantasmagoria.casualcoder wrote:TSS = Twinkle Star Sprites. The only directly competitive shmup that I know of (other than Senko no Ronde). Apparently it's playable online but I haven't seen how so.
This is essentially what RedLynx did with Trials 2 (yeah, it's not a shmup I know, but still - same idea):casualcoder wrote:It just occurred to me. Why don't all of the shmup devs have a central scoreboard that they all post high score info to? IOS has gamecenter or feint or whatever it's called. But why is there no such thing for shmups which is all about high scores? I'm sure if Cave put out a site dedicated to this and had it automatically pull data from its entire game catalogue (that is connected) that it would become quite popular and the de facto standard that other devs end up using for their hiscores. It's just one idea.chum wrote:I don't see the problem, we have such a wonderful community of hard working shmups players and knowledgeable connoisseurs right here. How could you possibly feel lonely. Everytime I log into shmups I feel at home. We are all friends, aren't we?
PoFV is fun to play online.
Yes the social real World arcade environment and lack of it nowadays is the stuff I've been bitching about recently.Shmups, like many arcade games, are designed to be mastered 1 player, so it's always better to take it on alone. The only problem is, arcade games are meant to exist in an arcade environment, which is social. Now they're like fish out of water, and that's the loneliest thing about them.
The only way this paragraph can even begin to make sense is if you had joined these communities in 2012, not 2007 or whenever.Skykid wrote:Shmups, like many arcade games, are designed to be mastered 1 player, so it's always better to take it on alone. The only problem is, arcade games are meant to exist in an arcade environment, which is social. Now they're like fish out of water, and that's the loneliest thing about them.
No. No, it really hasn't.Skykid wrote:Fighting games on your own, now that would be lonely. Online has done wonderful things to save that genre.
fixedCptRansom wrote:LIKE POPCORNS HEADING INTO THE DDP LASER I TELL YOU.
