STGT2008 - Week #5 - Progear

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:55 am

Plasmo - TCACTRM - 9,659,350 - 5 - Bolt - Nail - MAME

1up · Post by **1up** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:02 am

1up - Underdogs - 3,360,990 - 4 - Ring - Nail - MAME

firestorm · Post by **firestorm** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:06 am

STG - namakoteam - 34,447,100 - 2-4 - Bolt - Nail - CPS2

should i be happy because of the good score?
or sad, because somone has got the double score in the same stage?

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:44 pm

Icarus - namakoteam - 17,944,430 - 1-ALL - Bolt/Nail - MAME

Whatever.

Danbo · Post by **Danbo** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:12 pm

firestorm wrote:STG - namakoteam - 34,447,100 - 2-4 - Bolt - Nail - CPS2

should i be happy because of the good score?
or sad, because somone has got the double score in the same stage?

Goddamnit I was planning on doing productive things this weekend, i really want top 3 for this game considering it's pretty much my favourite game ever

mikwuyma · Post by **mikwuyma** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:14 pm

Scoreboard updated.

STG: No bomb, No miss the first loop, your score will be up by a lot. If you're already doing that, then practice some scoring routes/tricks from futobishi's run?

KennyMan666 · Post by **KennyMan666** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:54 pm

THIS IS THE SADDEST INCREASE EVER

It started out as a potentially great run. Then I fucked up and died twice on stage two. It was pretty weird from there on.

KennyMan666 - Team Sweden - 3,835,490 - 1-3 - Bolt - Nail - MAME

Danbo · Post by **Danbo** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:25 am

okay i'm not playing this game any more even if i do love it. i have hit so many ceilings (and broke through them) this week it's pretty unimaginable. please please PLEASE nobody upload a better score than this although i get the feeling lots of people are gonna hold back until the last few hours because they're a bunch of cowards or something idk

Danbo Daxter - MANGO SENTINAL - 35,222,920 - 2-5 - Bolt - Chain - MAME

i think something must be seriously wrong with my scoring technique if I can get further than others and get seriously less points for it. i managed to do the first loop with only 1 bomb but after that i tend to just go nuts with them (it's nowhere near familiar territory) so that's probably it. good luck to everyone on this most fateful of weekends

edit : or maybe ring + nail is just particularly good for scoring.

edit2 : does anybody know what it says once you do the first clear? i never bothered to try looping the US romset

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:27 am

Its still waaaaaaaaay down the table, but i'm happy with this run because it really hasn't been a shmup week this week and just getting to stage 3 without losing a life is an achievement compared to how i've been playing these last few days.

FIL - Surreal Space Divers - 5,345,030 - 1-4 - Ring - Rivet - MAME

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:15 am

Gah, I suck.

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:15 am

Danbo Daxter wrote:i think something must be seriously wrong with my scoring technique if I can get further than others and get seriously less points for it. [...]

edit : or maybe ring + nail is just particularly good for scoring.

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this. But Ring and Nail is definitely the best scoring combination. Each 10,000 gems you’ll gain +10 points (times the multiplier if you have it) for every shot that lands and Ring and Nail both use lots of low damage bullets.

You really just need to get your gem count up; this is really significant when doubled for the second loop. Futobishi is obviously some kind of God, but on 2-1 he is getting 1,100 - 1,200 points for each shot that lands and gets 12million for completing the stage.

I was going to write up exactly how the Progear scoring worked but kind of abandoned it since it seems a bit conceited when my own score is rubbish (I can hit 7m on stage 2 now, but I still mess up stage 5 so much I don’t loop...).

viniciusvbf · Post by **viniciusvbf** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:57 am

viniciusvbf - Pelé Shooting Team - 13,356,160 - 1-5 - Bolt - Nail - MAME

FUCKING LAST BOSS I HATE YOU
I WANNA KILL ALL YOUR FAMILY AND RAPE YOUR DAUGHTER

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:54 am

This game is pissing me off now.

SFKhoa - TCACTRM - 44,057,240 - 2-2 - Ring - Nail - MAME

Highlights in this run.
1) Managed to do the stupid vacuum technique in Stage 1.
2) Got some nice amount of jewels from stripping down the Stage 1 boss.
3) Got more jewels from attempting to strip down the Stage 3 boss.
4) No-missed, no-bombed the first loop. Again.
5) 2-2 took out ALL my lives because I started to randomly blink like mad.

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 4:58 am

This thread just proves that even people who are scoring well in this game come to hate it.

mikwuyma · Post by **mikwuyma** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:09 am

I suck, though I would have sucked with any of this week's games to be honest.

mikwuyma - sda-a - 11,811,460 - 4 - Bolt - Nail - MAME

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:10 am

The Coop - Team Oldschoolers - 11,259,060 - Stage 5 - Bolt - Nail - MAME

I actually made it through the first three stages without bombing the bosses (died once on stage 2 though), and somehow got through that weird weaving pattern on the last part of the stage 3 boss (I almost felt a touch studly with that one). Got the boss on stage 4 after lucking out a few times with jewel collection along the way, bombed its last part until it died, and made it to that big mech in stage 5 before getting blown out of the sky for the last time.

stanski · Post by **stanski** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:38 am

stanski - SDA-A - 14,349,000 - 1-ALL - Bolt - Nail - MAME

this is my 8th 1-ALL on this game... the first one i got like a year ago but it took me forever to get this score. this game takes way too much technical skill for me in a 1 week period to get the hang of.

mikwuyma · Post by **mikwuyma** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:42 am

Scoreboard updated.

Danbo: Your problem is that you're bombing.

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:02 am

Pretty stupid idea, making players restart on death in the second loop.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:38 am

Aru-san - Team Loser - 6,792,590 - 4 - Bolt - Nail - MAME

I need moar practise.

Danbo · Post by **Danbo** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:26 am

Icarus wrote:Pretty stupid idea, making players restart on death in the second loop.

Well if you die during a boss, you just respawn normally, so...

DMC · Post by **DMC** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:09 am

DMC - Team Sweden - 13,410,740 - 1-ALL - Bolt - Nail - MAME

spineshark · Post by **spineshark** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:25 am

DMC wrote:

This man writes true things (except that bit on the bottom there).

spineshark - SDA-B - 26,662,020 - 2-1 - Bolt - Rivet - MAME

1-miss first loop (embarassingly enough on the mine shaft after I got a nice diamond fountain rolling DAMMMMMMMMMMITTTTTT), liberal use of autofire on bosses where I used to just gun them down as fast as possible, basically an ok run.

Second loop is like Gradius, so basically I never want to play this game again. (And yes this means I was joking about Otomedius) The alternate costumes make it approximately twice as fun which is not a positive comment about which games I would rather play than Progear.

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:26 am

Enhasa wrote:This thread just proves that even people who are scoring well in this game come to hate it.

Well, the scoring system is awesome until you realise all your gem streaming mastery suddenly isn't worth shit if you die or bomb once.

Post by **spadgy** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:21 am

spadgy - Royale - 7,027,690 - 4 - Bolt - Rivet - MAME

Bloody MAME! Down the local arcade they have the US version, where I've got the 1CC a handful of times. Playing the JPN version means using a 13" laptop with horribly flickery movement - so painful to not even make level 5...

Ravid · Post by **Ravid** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 12:13 pm

Icarus wrote:Pretty stupid idea, making players restart on death in the second loop.

This has got to be the only game I've ever played where I died four times in the same spot ON THE SAME RUN

RPT · Post by **RPT** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:10 pm

RPT - VGEvo - 1,225,460 - 2 - Ring - Chain - MAMA

msm · Post by **msm** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:26 pm

msm - Underdogs - 5,076,280 - 4 - Ring - Nail - MAME

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:12 pm

Icarus - namakoteam - 25,234,410 - 2-3 - Bolt - Nail - MAME

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 2:16 pm

Icarus wrote:Pretty stupid idea, making players restart on death in the second loop.

spineshark wrote:Second loop is like Gradius

Wait, you go back to the start of the stage if you die on the second loop? Seriously!?

At some point I was going to practice enough so I could reach 2nd loop, but now I don't have the slightest interest anymore