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« Reply #30 on: February 17, 2007, 11:57:07 PM » |
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Cool site, I haven't seen it before. I'm not that big on shooters, but Raiden II and Varth looks great. I used to play a lot of Gradius and LifeForce/Salamander cuz I had a NES though. I made (half finished) my own static screen shooter (Demon Attack style) called Xixozoriax a while ago, in Atari 2600 style.
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« Reply #31 on: February 18, 2007, 04:17:32 AM » |
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Do I see another Arsecast award coming my way? :D
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« Reply #32 on: February 18, 2007, 10:07:31 AM » |
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How do free-roaming shooters like Bangai-O sit with you?
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« Reply #33 on: February 19, 2007, 12:08:16 AM » |
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I like speed; I like to dodge bullets; I like it when you enter in this zen-like state of mind where you are just staring at your screen, not thinking, nor blinking, just moving at light speed and performing perfectly, and when you are out of it you just wonder how in the hell you did that. I don't consider it a good shooter if I can't meditate while playing it. Any Fuzetsu fans out there? |
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« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2007, 03:14:59 AM » |
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Have you finally got around to playing that now, Anthony?
Is it not the sexxorz? Yup, it's been part of my collection for a while now. Don't have the N64 version yet though. It is indeed the sexxorz. At first it didn't seem to really make sense (is this what I'm supposed to do? Is this right? Is this the gameplay? Hey, I scored negative points!) And then it really, really started to make sense. A very strange and unique sort of sense. |
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« Reply #35 on: February 19, 2007, 03:25:36 AM » |
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I'd have no problem saying that to Gradius V. There's no amount of polish nor superb gameplay that could win me over. I just don't feel comfortable in horizontal scrolling environment. Like holding a spoon in the wrong hand.
GradiusV has bits that go up and down as well as horizontal. Obviously that would be unsatisfactory if you're a horiz-hater but how would you feel about a vertical game that had horiz forced sections? I'm doing a vertical game at the mo and thinking of including such ideas. Seeing as this is my first post, and it's a shmup thread, I'll pimp my shmups: 'troid  and fren-ze  Now it's out of the way, I wont be tempted again. |
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« Reply #36 on: February 19, 2007, 10:18:02 AM » |
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Now it's out of the way, I wont be tempted again.
Mmf, you can't pimp Fren-Ze enough as far as I'm concerned. I still haven't mastered the bastard and I think I must have bought it within about 10 minutes of you posting the link on YakYak! Lovely, lovely but oh so brutal game. |
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« Reply #37 on: February 19, 2007, 03:54:29 PM » |
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Fren-ze is fucking amazing - do not be ashamed to pimp that.
At the same time, something has my blood boiling (which is saying something since I'm anemic and their ain't much to boil...)
On 'Shoot the Core' 'Clean Asia' is not listed as a must have. Why is this? Honestly, I'm just wondering why it wouldn't be from a critic/reviewer stand point...
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« Reply #38 on: February 20, 2007, 03:40:22 AM » |
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Thanks for the fren-ze love chaps!
I havn't managed to get into Clean Asia yet, I found the mechanic really tricky. I was trying the first ship type which is more difficult isn't it?
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« Reply #39 on: February 20, 2007, 12:01:15 PM » |
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Perhaps you could wire up a controller with the sticks rotated around 90 degrees and play it on an upended TV.
How do free-roaming shooters like Bangai-O sit with you?
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« Reply #40 on: February 20, 2007, 01:56:02 PM » |
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Obviously that would be unsatisfactory if you're a horiz-hater but how would you feel about a vertical game that had horiz forced sections? I'm doing a vertical game at the mo and thinking of including such ideas. Why polluting a perfectly neat vertical shooter with disgraceful ho.rizontal sections? Unless of course it would add an interesting enough twist to the gameplay of which I'm not too certain. But then again, maybe it's indeed just my horizontal-hatred speaking  Fren-Ze was really nice, if a tad too bullethellish for my taste. |
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« Reply #41 on: February 20, 2007, 05:30:42 PM » |
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I havn't managed to get into Clean Asia yet, I found the mechanic really tricky. I was trying the first ship type which is more difficult isn't it?
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« Reply #42 on: February 20, 2007, 05:48:57 PM » |
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I really enjoyed Clean Asia for some reason (probably because it's awesome). BTW, here are my Thailand finish times.  Beat that! |
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« Reply #43 on: February 21, 2007, 03:12:18 AM » |
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Three things that are good about horizontal shooters:
1) you can do lots of cool parallax and create a really nice view all the way to the horison.
2) it fits better on standard monitors; this is even more true now that things are going widescreen
3) you get to play with bouncy/gravity-type mechanics.
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« Reply #44 on: February 21, 2007, 08:44:12 AM » |
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I really enjoyed Clean Asia for some reason (probably because it's awesome).
BTW, here are my Thailand finish times.
Beat that!
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