Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

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Ruldra wrote:Play the original and you'll see it for yourself. It should be obvious.
Just tried R-Type III on the SNES and I see what you mean- there it's an exciting and powerful game whilst on the GBA it's more like trying to thread a needle in the dark.
Still I'm going to persist with the GBA version cos there's just something kooooooooooool about playing the original cart on my old DS :D
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Well it's worth mentioning that I'm finally pulling consistent runs to Koryu, so there's something to be said for that. Made myself a savestate and need to just get more comfortable fighting him...anyone have any tips for this guy or is it just straightforward micrododging?

As far as relaxing...I've been playing a lot of Dariusburst SP, that game is way more fun than I expected. I bought it for the classy Taito presentation and pro ZTT soundtrack, but I'm finding it really enjoyable to play.

Aside from that I finished Ys: Oath in Felghana last night, played some more Ghost Trick and picked up RE Revelaitons. Taking a break from playing shmups exclusively should help me chill a bit. I'll still be putting some credits though DDP and DOJ this evening though.
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Aero Fighters Special

I love that it's more difficult than SWS. 2-3x more bullets and they're faster.
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Put a couple credits through APB to make myself feel bad, but I don't think it'll take much to get back up to where I was last time I was playing. After I remembered what my team was I was able to remember my stage 1 route and general strategy...I'd still like to break 5mil in Normal, I'm ashamed to say I don't think I ever have :(

Put a couple credits through DOJ and I feel like chaining is really starting to make a lot more sense...I only have a few remaining gaps in for a stage 1 full chain but need to work on segment consistency in the second half. Did some practice runs against Koryu and I'm understanding his patterns for the most part...Almost 1bombed him my very first try, best so far is 1 bomb 1 miss.

Edit: 13mil going to stage boss, almost 15 into stage 2, new personal best! Also starting to see some new links in stage 2.
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Playing some Seihou Banshiryuu Lunatic

lol, this game is hard XD
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I've been tooling about on a bunch of different games, mostly pcbs I've picked up in the last several months and am only now sitting down to enjoy.

Xexex - lovely, but must the first 2 stages be so damn boring? st2 in particular just seems like a tech exhibition
Sengoku Blade - hagane makes it dragon blaze-ish... so much personality in this game's artwork. though i prefer psikyo's verts as far as bullet patterns go, so far...
Ajax - old school konami, lack of autofire on everything except laser is annoying. 3D stages are annoying

i really need to just pick one game and focus on it. very close to clears on ESPrade, Mushihimesama, and Mushihimesama Futari, but I always lose steam at just this point (ie knowing I can beat it given a good run).
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Galaga... no really :D
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#11 on the DFK 1.5 pal leaderboard
I don't know how to chain stages 3 & 4 lolz

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Still playing R-Type III on GBA- now I understand why everyone says this port is such an abomination. An astonishingly frustrating, discouraging, demoralising, irritating experience. This must be what Drtrouserplank feels like, yet still I keep playing :D
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Mostly just Futari Black Label God Mode. Every once in a while i'll run a credit of DOJ, Ketsui, or DDP Resurrection. But yeah, mostly God Mode.
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Played my first few credits of Futari. Man, it's fucking sublime.
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Holy shit DFK 1.5's PAL leaderboard is terrible. I'm #10 with just the first two stages chained. I'm still practicing st.3, 4 & 5. I guess I should start practicing the loop. lolz
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Restart fever tonight. I'm playing more scrubby than ever before.
Rage quit 1.5 <-> rage quit BL


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I was playing BL Strong pretty much almost every time today, and almost no runs got past stage 1 due to that damn boss. The thing only has 1 hard attack, and it just kept getting me.
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Satazius.

Oh look, I'm in Stage 5! Wait... I'm in a High Speed section! Whew, that wa- DID THAT DOOR CLOSE ON ME!?
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mesh control wrote:Holy shit DFK 1.5's PAL leaderboard is terrible. I'm #10 with just the first two stages chained. I'm still practicing st.3, 4 & 5. I guess I should start practicing the loop. lolz
Death Smiles' NA leaderboard kinda sucks too (last I checked, anyway). There was like, one good replay on the whole thing, so it was hard to ripoff other people's strategies. Some day I'll have to play the JP version.
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AJAX. Three short Falsion-style stages sprinkled on 5 of Kyukyoku Tiger cloneage, with a Namcoesque ground bomb on top. Though Trigon has fancier graphics, I think Konami did a better job aping Toaplan with this game. The yellow side-shooting weapon from KT's actually useful here. I'm hating the stage 6 boss, though.
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Burnt out of playing any version of DFK after cramming for past several days.

It would be interesting to see an MRI or someother neurological activity when playing shmups. As I've been feeling gloomier than usual, my consistency has dropped, alarmingly.

Ibara kuro should be here tomorrow and hopefully is a breath of fresh air, otherwise, I'm gonna call it quits for a while.

Meh, I'm just a poor player.
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mesh control wrote:Burnt out of playing any version of DFK after cramming for past several days.

It would be interesting to see an MRI or someother neurological activity when playing shmups. As I've been feeling gloomier than usual, my consistency has dropped, alarmingly.

Ibara kuro should be here tomorrow and hopefully is a breath of fresh air, otherwise, I'm gonna call it quits for a while.

Meh, I'm just a poor player.
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I work in a hospital and I looked into this, basically as you get further and further into a run your body floods with more and more adrenaline, which is why your hands shake when you're going for a 1cc on a new game and you get near it.

When you get a 1cc that you wanted for ages your brain rushes you with endorphins which hits the adrenaline and causes a chemical imbalance that makes you euphoric.

That's the very basics anyway.

When you get angry the areas of your brain that cause/moderate emotion light up like a christmas tree. Interestingly in people who are sociopathic this almost never happens, that of course being because if you're sociopathic feeling emotion is more difficult. So it's possible from a neurological perspective that SOF-WTN, Yusemi-SWY and Dame K.K. Sinmoon etc. are all borderline sociopathic. Or they all have OCD.
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mesh control wrote:Meh, I'm just a poor player.
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I...I don't know what I'm playing now that I finally cleared RF2! I messed with some Futari last night, stage 3 on God first credit made me feel pretty good but I need to pick something to focus on.

I should probably get a 1.5 Original 1CC out of the way because I still haven't sat down and done it. That shouldn't take much time at all...after that maybe...Muchi Muchi Pork 1-All or FutariBL Maniac? DFKBL was also up for consideration. Open to suggestions here.
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Taking a break from DFK BL to try to get a good Demonic score on GundeadliGne before the Exceed Collection comes out.


Getting hit by Michael 5 times though trying to kill it isn't cool though(hardest boss for Nagi Murakumo easily). I'm going for the all 16 Alter Breaks + All bosses killed run too, but the only alter breaks that even give me trouble are Alterweapon Eclipse and Machina 13.

So many runs ended by Michael today.
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Ok so now I've played a few hours of Futari, I can say that I think it's my favourite Cave game by far. Beautiful visuals, a soundtrack that doesn't get up my nose (best I can hope for with modern shooters), a scoring system that isn't so strict that it ties your entire method if play to it, and a difficulty level that looks just about doable. Getting bummed by the latter half if stage three at present, but can't wait to dive back in. Think this may be my first Cave clear.

Also, what the fuck is original mode all about? I've just cleared that on my second attempt, and didn't have a clue what was going on. And I never thought I'd see something that made Ressurection's firepower look gay.
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... Mars Matrix killed me at Stage 3. :evil:

On an unrelated note: Dimahoo, where scoring will kill me at Stage 2, and Dangun Feveron, or as I like to call it: QUICK, RESCUE ME- DANG IT! SO CLOSE!
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Ibara kuro should be here tomorrow and hopefully is a breath of fresh air, otherwise, I'm gonna call it quits for a while.
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Hahahaha what
I just perfected the entire second half of stage 5 including the boss.
After a good long cagar-style screaming session.

I feel good. Now I just have to actually do that regularly in runs...
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chempop wrote:
Ibara kuro should be here tomorrow and hopefully is a breath of fresh air, otherwise, I'm gonna call it quits for a while.
You weren't the one who paid over $1275 for a loose pcb on eBay were you?!?!
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mesh control wrote:Meh, I'm just a poor player.
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