What´s your favorite shmup´s ship design ?

[Kobayashi]

What´s your favorite shmup´s ship design ?


Some examples of famous ships:


Vic Viper (Gradius Series)



Silver Hawk (Darius Series)



R9A (R-Type Series)


Ikaruga

[TrevHead (TVR)]

The raystorm ship is my fave followed by the DDP ships (types B, A then C)



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[yosai]

[mesh control]

The Mosquitoes from Mars Matrix due to their evolutions following each level up.

Rynex and the RVR-01 both have a great aggressive design.

[moozooh]

This, probably:

[Obiwanshinobi]

In verticals - Omega Fighter Special:



In horizontals, I guess Vic Viper takes the cake. Also, I like the looks of ships from Thunder Force series better than the gameplay.

[BulletMagnet]

At the request of the OP I'll leave this open for now, but there are already similar topics to this one here and here.

[Kobayashi]

For me, Silver Hawk has a outstanding design and really seems like a Hawk.

It´s my favorite.

[Ed Oscuro]

The boat from Ninja Emaki of course.

Close second to maybe the biplane from Flying Shark / Sky Shark.

[Lavis]

Xexex vessel is kind of neat, but most of the spotlight goes for the Flint.



And idem on the Silver Hawk.

[evil_ash_xero]

Probably the Silver Hawk.

Here's another image, since we can't get enough.



I also have a lot of love for the Rynex.

[shadowbringer]

- Black Heart (because of the sweeping vulcan, perhaps)
- Glow Squid (because of the crazy detachable cockpit and the mechanical arms)

that's all I can remember now.

[Necronopticous]

[sunburstbasser]

The Silver Hawk circa Darius Gaiden. The Burst incarnation has a slightly reshaped nose that I don't like nearly as much.

The P-38 and FW-190. In any game. These are my favorite fighters of WWII, so getting to actually use them in Strikers 1945 or other games always makes me happy.

The R-Gray from Ray Force.

I really like the flying mushroom better known as the Silvergun as well.

[Obiwanshinobi]

I really like the flying mushroom better known as the Silvergun as well.

It's the original Xbox pad. Time travel, don't you know.

[evil_ash_xero]

Hrmm...I thought we were just talking about ships. Unless you mean that broom she rides on.

Characters...well, that's a whole different topic to chew on there...

[CptRansom]

[Gespenst]

Raystorm stuffes and Gun Dogs (Raiden Fighters) planes

ALL Cave (non-human) fighters

RVR-02 Vambrace

[Matsunaga]

[Kobayashi]

New: The Ikaruga ship design:

[Limbrooke]

I also have a lot of love for the Rynex.

That's Rynex-R, not the original Fire Leo 4.

The upgraded original Rynex (Thunder Sword) is a good looking ship.



It looks best during the intro and ending sequences I would say.

[pixeljunkie]

Spriggan and Spriggan Mark 2

Spriggan 1


Mark 2

[evil_ash_xero]

New: The Ikaruga ship design:

Yeah, that's a beautiful ship too.

[mesh control]

Those Spriggan ships remind me of MUSHA.

[pixeljunkie]

Those Spriggan ships remind me of MUSHA.

Same peeps

[TonK]

Hrmm...I thought we were just talking about ships. Unless you mean that broom she rides on.

Characters...well, that's a whole different topic to chew on there...

I think you missed the joke.

[Drum]

The undulating fish thng from Bio Hazard Battle is awesome, but if that doesn't count: Vic Viper and a bunch of the R-Type ships. Flying pancake is damn rad too.

[ZacharyB]

The undulating fish thng from Bio Hazard Battle is awesome

This reminded me of the ship from the Darwin series (Super Real Darwin, Darwin 4078, Darwin 4081). That was a cool concept.

[Square King]

pardon the cliche, but ikaruga's ships are absolutely gorgeous.

oh and squirrelsquid's stuff is breathtaking too. http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... l&start=30

[ROBOTRON]

simple and clean...