Worst shooter ever!

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:05 am

I made the serious mistake of taking a chance on a $50 Guardian Storm pcb and even at $50, it was one of the biggest purchasing mistakes I've ever made. I couldn't even make myself stick with this game long enough to finish it out. It literally stayed in my cabinet for less than 4 hours. Anyone considering this piece of garbage shooter need be warned. STAY AWAY!

BTW, has anyone else played this travesty?

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:14 am

Has nothing to do with your topic, but I Just checked out your website, bullet666.com, and I really dig it, the only thing I was wondering while looking through it was how come you have "High level of difficulty" as a con for every review I looked at?

I guess it depends onthe person, but I look at high level of difficulty not as a con or a pro, just something the game is, especially in a shmup. just my two cents, take it for what its worth.

Great site though.

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:20 am

The pages were templates of each other and I'm still changing each one to fit the game. The page is brand new and I'm still working on getting everything sorted out. I'm like you, the harder the better.

Keep checking back and I should have all the kinks ironed out within the next week or so. I've been busy at work so I haven't had much time to work on it over the past few days.

Shelcoof · Post by **Shelcoof** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:27 pm

I checked your page out too.. it looks pretty good

Browsing through it now

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:14 pm

Serious? Macaw wanted to play this, so it should be good, right?

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:58 pm

I've wanted to have an outlet for my shooter reviews and this page gives me that. Shmups.com is the king of shooter sites and always will be, but I thought my site could be a nice second opinion. I'm trying to cover some reviews that you can't find currently on shmups.com. I dug out my Gizmondo and Jaguar yesterday so I could review a couple of the obscure ones from those systems.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:28 pm

lgb wrote:Serious? Macaw wanted to play this, so it should be good, right?

Nah that was Guardian Force

Also, let's not forget about Guar Force, the Morrowind shooting game!

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:32 pm

lgb wrote:Serious? Macaw wanted to play this, so it should be good, right?

LOL, Macaw likes Eight Forces and Zing Zing Zip.

Also, you might be thinking of Guardian Force instead of Guardian Storm. Guardian Force is a great game. Guardian Storm is a completely awful game made by Koreans, you can check it out as Sen Jin in MAME along with Stagger I/Red Hawk and Twin Action. They are very lazily done, even ripping off music and graphics and attacks off each other. Overall they feel like a broke man's early Psikyo or even more accurately, a broke man's NMK. IIRC Thunder Dragon 1 is not too bad of a comparison.

PS: D-Force is much worse than this game.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:20 pm

RSG review: +1

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:55 pm

Enhasa wrote:Guardian Storm is a completely awful game made by Koreans, you can check it out as Sen Jin in MAME along with Stagger I/Red Hawk and Twin Action.

Oh, that thing. I could never get that working in Mame, so I didn't bother.

corbie · Post by **corbie** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:03 am

If D-Force is worse than Guardian Storm, I shudder even thinking about it. I literally had to make myself stick with it in order to review it. I'm going to rip this game apart. There are very few games that I can't find at least one nice thing to say about it, but this one was garbage. And that soundtrack will haunt me for some time to come.

Oh and ROBOTRON I love your Viewpoint avatar. One of my all-time faves.

Chelnov · Post by **Chelnov** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:07 pm

I hear Deep Blue for TG-16 is pure garbage.

Sturmvogel Prime · Post by **Sturmvogel Prime** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:40 pm

Omega Fighter & Mission XX, pure garbage for the arcade

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:45 pm

Sturmvogel Prime wrote:Omega Fighter & Mission XX, pure garbage for the arcade

Omega Fighter is about twenty billion times better than Galaxian.

Gardia (Sega/Coreland 1986) is rather ugh also.

The console-only shooters mentioned in this thread take the cake though. If you don't have any talent and not enough budget to get a release into the full arcades, why not go for a commercial retail release? :o Worse than the early doujins, which are somewhat filtered by people not sharing crap games.

exquisite_torture · Post by **exquisite_torture** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:46 pm

Silpheed: The Lost Planet.

ForceDevice · Post by **ForceDevice** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:36 am

I played this and it wasn't THAT bad. I mean, it wasn't any good either, but to call it the worst shooter ever is a bit of an overstatement.

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:44 am

Not sure if it's the worst ever, but Rez is one big pile of shit.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:03 am

Hmm... the original Silpheed isn't very good [worst shmup *I've* played at least]... could have been great if the enemy bullets weren't so damned fast you couldn't dodge them, and mitigating that by adding a lifebar...

PS: in before someone says RSG, DoDonPachi, etc.

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:16 am

Curses on those posters that mentioned Omega Fighter and Rez!

J/K

To each his own...

Omega Fighter = Ketsui prototype.

Rez = Unlike anything you have played before.

SKULL FANG on the Saturn was a big steamer IMO.

Kollision · Post by **Kollision** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:14 am

null1024 wrote:Hmm... the original Silpheed isn't very good [worst shmup *I've* played at least]... could have been great if the enemy bullets weren't so damned fast you couldn't dodge them, and mitigating that by adding a lifebar...

Are you serious?
It's one of my favorites ever!

I'll name a very, very, very bad one: Xenon 2.

MadScientist · Post by **MadScientist** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:12 pm

Guardian Storm isn't the worst I've ever played, but it looks and sounds terrible considering when it came out.

Silpheed: The Lost Planet is just a bit dull. Too many gaps in the gameplay where you're doing nothing other than admiring the (admittedly good) graphics.

Sengeki Striker is maybe my least favourite. Partly because I suck at it, but the scoring system is too inconsistent. I understand that you're supposed to shoot down aircraft so that they crash into ground based enemies, but it's pretty impossible to pull that off on a regular basis.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:24 pm

Mission XX isn't at all bad, it's only equipped with a rather steep treshold for "you beginners".

Domino · Post by **Domino** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:09 pm

Omega Fighter, Wolf Fang, and Deep Blue are the shit.

jochen · Post by **jochen** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:02 pm

Earth Defense/ Earth Defend - on the Atari 2600 this might
have been a game with good graphic and sound.

Too bad this game is for the Sega Genesis.

Compared with Earth Defense " Divine Sealing" looks
like a quality shmup .

Jochen.

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