TOM-STGT Week 2: RayForce

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:01 pm

Yeah, that's what he means.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:02 pm

Post by **spadgy** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:41 pm

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:Yeah, that's what he means.

I know it sounded a silly question - but I was gutted to submit my score too late last time! Thanks Ozymandiaz1260 and the winged one himself!

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:09 am

Macaw for week 4 can you pick a game that doesn't suck because I have time then.

Week 1 was a good game but unfortunately I didn't have time to play even one credit and I was more willing to play STALKER for my six hours of free time for the week.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:57 am

macaw plz pair me with twiddle for next week

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:16 am

this game is retarded and full of ramming deaths

I refuse to play it any more

died 3 times vs 3rd boss lol

shoe-sama - 4 - 1,109,600

-Bridget- · Post by **-Bridget-** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:48 am

Ooh.

Ok, I like this one. This is really nice.

Though Im not sure exactly where my hitbox is just yet..... I havent had too much time with the game yet, it's late here so I gotta be getting to bed soon....

In my opinion though, this has very interesting design. Nice looking too.

I'll do my best to get a good score up here this time.

Good choice on the game for this week, Macaw.

Question though, is this one perhaps part of a series? This is a game I'd never played before now, so I know absolutely nothing about it. If there's more like it though, I'd like to try them out too.

Helps that I've always been a fan of basically everything Taito has done, too

Shion · Post by **Shion** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:38 pm

-Bridget- wrote: Though Im not sure exactly where my hitbox is just yet.....

Whole darn ship is the hitbox, and it's HUGE.

I like the looks and feel of the game, but the whole scoring is frustrating and slightly retarded. You have to know exactly when and what is going to show up, which makes it very hard to get a nice run on in a week.

I'll be slacking this week too

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:41 pm

-Bridget- wrote:Question though, is this one perhaps part of a series? This is a game I'd never played before now, so I know absolutely nothing about it. If there's more like it though, I'd like to try them out too.

There's Raystorm and Raycrisis as well. Haven't spent enough time with RC to judge it, but RS is good provided you can accept the angled overhead viewpoint. RC and RS both have PS1 ports (JP and US), and RS is on Taito Legends 2 (or one of them... I'm pretty sure it's TL2).

Shion wrote:
-Bridget- wrote: Though Im not sure exactly where my hitbox is just yet.....
Whole darn ship is the hitbox, and it's HUGE.

It's not. It's no Psyvariar 2 pixelbox, but it's not Raiden I's outline contact=death either.

Post by **spadgy** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:29 pm

Shion wrote:I like the looks and feel of the game...

I like the look and feel too. My wife, who was no doubt has been influenced by her love for Wing Commander saw me playing Rayfrce and said something along the lines of 'Amazing! That's how I expect space to look when I visit'.

Not sure when she's visiting space, or if she's taking me, but as compliments for the style of space-themed shmups go I think that's a pretty good one.

The said wife is out raving till 6am tonight, so I'm staying in and trying to get to grips with this game...

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:22 pm

Taito had some of the most talented and creative artist's and directors, for sure.

People like Twiddle cant handle playing games with awesome graphics and atmosphere, and would rather play a game that involves mathematical problem solving.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:00 pm

Which is why you love Dooyong games and Radiant Silvergun.

If a game is shit, sorry, I'm just not going to play it no matter how good it looks. See: first person shooters.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:34 pm

the bosses are kinda cool, but that's about it

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:40 pm

prediction for fourth week shmup: Flying Tiger or R-Shark

I like this game, though; if there are more games like this and Mahou I have no problem.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:57 am

LGB - 755500 - Area 3

Don't get as far, get more points, riiiiight, I get ya.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:51 am

The Coop - 1,554,000 - Stage 5

Post by **spadgy** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:21 pm

Well - I'm out of time as I'm off for the Easter holiday - so here you go...

OTA (Spadgy) - 742,900 - Level 3

Strangley I got that on my first proper session. Since then I've got further, but scored considerably less. I understand the scoring as it's pretty simple, but making level 2 work regularly seems damn hard.

Out of interest, can any one get more than 64,300 points on the very first flurry of little ships and mother ships that opens level one?

EDIT: score formatting

Keade · Post by **Keade** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:43 pm

Is it normal for someone to have several rivals ?

Macaw wrote:Skyrandia VS Aleanil
Keade VS Aleanil

Imhotep · Post by **Imhotep** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:58 pm

Imhotep - Stage 3 - 914'200

I'm not very fond of the gameplay, but graphics and music are outstanding.

There's an obvious lineage from this to Border Down and Under Defeat.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:55 am

Keade wrote:Is it normal for someone to have several rivals ?
Macaw wrote:Skyrandia VS Aleanil
Keade VS Aleanil

Haha, I better fix that.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:56 am

omfg guys i totally beated phat

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:04 am

scores updated

Fu · Post by Fu » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:03 am

I'm first ? Am I dreaming ? Well... It won't last...

Shion · Post by **Shion** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:24 am

Didn't play for more than like 2 hours this week, but ah well. At least I'm not last

Shion - Stage 4 - 1,445,800

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:54 pm

lulz i got to that boss with a shitty score since i didn't know how to kill stg 3 boss
i'd play this more than 10 times if it didn't suck

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:49 pm

The Coop - 1,631,300 - Stage 5

Edit:

The Coop - 1,765,500 - Stage 5

bkk · Post by **bkk** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:26 am

bkk - Area 4 - 1,158,100

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:59 am

ED-057 - Area 5 - 1,753,400

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 5:35 am

Ozymandiaz1260 - 4 - 953,200

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:18 am

Ed Oscuro - 3 - 871,700

In the very early part of this stage, too...survived just a bit in from the spider monster thing