Gradius Shield Type Census

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:08 am

I choose shield.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:25 am

force field cuz i suck!

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:26 am

Forcefield. Absorbs less bullets, but is also less prone to absorbing those that wouldn't have hurt you anyway. Plus, provides defense from all sides, not just front.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:31 am

moozooh wrote:Forcefield. Absorbs less bullets, but is also less prone to absorbing those that wouldn't have hurt you anyway. Plus, provides defense from all sides, not just front.

Exactly my reasons for preferring that as well.

themachinist · Post by **themachinist** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:15 am

moozooh wrote:Forcefield. Absorbs less bullets, but is also less prone to absorbing those that wouldn't have hurt you anyway. Plus, provides defense from all sides, not just front.

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:21 pm

Reduce is better than either.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:25 pm

smart bomb

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:37 pm

Force Field, because it looks cooler.

Post by **spadgy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:16 pm

Macaw wrote:smart bomb

Brilliant!

I choose force field as I waste shield on stuff that won't even hit me, like others above...

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:07 pm

Probably the nerdiest thread ever made.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:31 pm

MX7 wrote:Probably the nerdiest thread ever made.

Not as nerdy as those where this one dude started to talk about STORYLINES of Gradius or R-Type or whatever it was. That is nerdy and doesn´t even fit into the most un-nerdy videogame genre that exist.

I say un-nerdy because it doesn´t get people to write retarded fanfiction and discuss endlessly about hypothetical battles between ficitional characters, and it also doesn´t involve orcs and nightelves and all this shit. Although games like Mushihime made shmups a lot nerdier than before (not talking about the T&A in itself but the way it makes fans of this game look like premature teenagers), not even counting these ultra-lame witch themes in doujins.

*cough*

Force field, though I thought LIMIT and GUARD in Gaiden were very nifty, too.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:32 pm

Reduce.

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:42 pm

So what would win in a fight? Vic Viper or a Neutronium Golem?

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:25 pm

no item

not really, shield.

elbarto · Post by **elbarto** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:14 pm

Reduce.

Of the two Poll choices - Force Field

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:26 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:Not as nerdy as those where this one dude started to talk about STORYLINES of Gradius or R-Type or whatever it was. That is nerdy and doesn´t even fit into the most un-nerdy videogame genre that exist.

Ha ha, I remember that guy. Haven't seen him for a while

Hardstepah · Post by **Hardstepah** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:06 pm

MathU wrote:Reduce is better than either.

i must agree with you good sir

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:22 pm

I like talking about game storylines. Blame it on a lifetime of reading literature.

Aside from the G3 SNES players with their reduce, everyone's going to say force field. Everyone but me, 'cause I'm a MAN and shield is the manliest power-up there is. The shield is no less than your balls, and by activating it you're putting your balls out there to get wailed on my lasers and missiles and that diamond shit Gradius enemies always shoot. That's hardcore.

320x240 · Post by **320x240** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:08 pm

FrederikJurk wrote:That is nerdy and doesn´t even fit into the most un-nerdy videogame genre that exist.

You can bet your life on the claim that something as redundant as shmups are being played mainly by nerds. The recent rise of the abstract-shooter thing is nerdy as hell. Then there is the whole score-system nerdiness - especially when it comes to Cave games (Let's face it, Cave games are geared towards nerds). Not to mention the heavy-metal guitar riff nerdiness prevalent in many soundtracks.

I see a trend where nerds are taking over the whole shmups business.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:49 pm

you can take liek 10 hits with shield lol

20 hits if you keep it on shield powerup

that is awesome

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:46 pm

MathU wrote:Reduce is better than either.

Beat me to it. Other than that, force field. Unfortunately, force field means nothing when encountering tight spots.

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:18 pm

Force field as others above stated, otherwise reduce, smaller target to hit is always better.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:30 pm

shoe-sama wrote:you can take liek 10 hits with shield lol

20 hits if you keep it on shield powerup

that is awesome

ok actually it takes more hits apparently

awesome

R_Typist · Post by **R_Typist** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:50 am

I choose forcefield for all the aformentioned reasons. Plus who wants a shield that looks like a force-pod that doesn't act like one? The damn thing does not even destroy enemies without depleting its usage...

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:53 am

who cares it takes liek 12 hits or 15 hits or something before vanishing

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:29 am

MX7 wrote:
FrederikJurk wrote:Not as nerdy as those where this one dude started to talk about STORYLINES of Gradius or R-Type or whatever it was. That is nerdy and doesn´t even fit into the most un-nerdy videogame genre that exist.

Ha ha, I remember that guy. Haven't seen him for a while

I'm an old timer, been visiting Shmups for 9 years since Feb '99, my username was Kosh_H. Back then, his username was Rommel (MX7 and frederik may already know what I'm about to talk about) He kept posting these bizzarre threads asking things like "Why do you think the people in Darius couldn't make peace with the aliens?" (seriously, that is an actual example) We mainly ignored him but months later (August '99 IIRC) someone finally made fun of him for the weird posts and he went nuts spamming the message board from top to bottom with NT posts of "Shmups sucks!!!!" ect. This made the board unreadable for at least a week. Akira almost lost it and Malc (still a frequent poster at the time) almost deleted the board. It was just a crummy old unregistered spyware vulnerable BB so there was nothing anyone could do. So I find it eerily amusing whenever I see a Trekkie style "shooter story" speculation topic pop up here now and then.

Anyone else here remember that? I also remember Turbo Ted who would post threads saying he'd snuck into SCEJ HQ and seen Axelay 2 running on the PS2. haha And "Spamperoo Billy" who claimed to enjoy playing RS while dancing to Ricky Martin. lol Sad I remember all this. I have become the historian of insanity for the site.

So anyways....force field all the way for reasons already mentioned.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:38 am

Dylan1CC wrote:my username was Kosh_H

lol wtf there's some guy who goes by Kosheh at some other forum I go to

OT: SNES Gradius III apparently has a "free shield" power up

you can get the 2 shields and position them where you want 'em

HOLY SHIT AWESOME

now I feel like playing that thing

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:48 am

shoe-sama wrote:
Dylan1CC wrote:my username was Kosh_H
lol wtf there's some guy who goes by Kosheh at some other forum I go to

ha Weird. Is it a shooter forum? I don't know about this guy, but in my case it referred to a character from Babylon 5.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:50 am

the forum in my sig lol

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:01 am

hrmm Probably just a coincidence then.

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