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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

Armed Police Batrider is sweet! Super Aleste would be on my list if it didn't have so long and boring levels.

My list looks like this, starting from the 10th place going up:


10. Over Horizon
9. Mars Matrix
8. Giga Wing
7. Zero Gunner 2
6. Trigger Heart Exelica
5. Dodonpachi
4. ESP. Ra. De.
3. Mushihimesama
2. Psyvariar 2: The Will to Fabricate
1. Espgaluda

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

Good question. While I don't have a clue, I do remember that I played a shooter, kind of on the abstract side visually, on PC that was basically just a long boss rush that even adapted itself to how the player destroyed the previous boss. So on paper the next boss would be prepared for you if you went about killing it the same way. I didn't really feel any difference when I changed my tactic but at least it was an interesting concept!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

If what Arkhan has posted in this thread is trolling then I don't know what isn't. OK, I have not actively participated in your discussion but it seems a bit like you guys go out of your way to misunderstand him. Should we try and get back to the subject without any further pointless arguments? Or maybe it's just too fun to let it be?

As I said regarding to the question at hand, I like variety and find that I appreciate games in a whole new way if I know about more kinds of games. Someone once told me, when I asked him how he had the patience to play (and beat) countless old arcade games, most of which he really didn't like (he reviewed them all afterwards), that the more you learn and experience in games - the more you appreciate the good aspects of games you try later. It's almost like... you know, that saying, "you can't appreciate the good without the bad".
This together with my fascination for games no matter if they are technically impressive or just addicting in their own simple way makes me play and enjoy PC Engine-shooters.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

I want to go back to the initial question;

I recently got into Sega Saturn, and started collecting shmups for it.
I must say, after playing games like Darius Gaiden, Sōkyūgurentai, Dodonpachi, Batsugun and Battle Garegga, I am having hard going back to the PCE shmups.
They seem dated to me now in terms of presentation and game play. Anyone feel the same?

I don't really feel like the PCE shmups become obsolete because I have played games within the genre on stronger consoles. In the same vein I don't find PS1-games dated just because I play PS2 and PS3 and so on. It's just different, and I love variety.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

What's wrong with female bosses?  They have to be big burly dudes for it to be legit?

euhhh

I like the bosses in the Mushihimesama- and Deathsmiles-games, there's good examples of fun bosses. But then they fuck it up by making the player character a pair of talking tits, more or less.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

I agree to 100%, I really hate the themes in many shooters. I usually try to see beyond that and focus on the fun - but yeah, I can really understand why it becomes a no-no.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

I tried my new PCE-games I got in the mail today and I loved them all! Final Soldier kicks so much ass it's hard to grasp. But mainly, I play Twisted Metal on PS3. I have to write a review ASAP... I'd rather play Final Soldier.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

Doujin bullet hells are the worse, though.

Why?

I haven't played so many, but I love eXceed 3rd Jade Penetrate, Mountain of Faith, The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Perfect Cherry Blossom, Blue Wish Resurrection and Chorensha 68k (those last two are even free to download - hint hint to curious readers). All good fun!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

dumb characters, bland music

This is painfully true! I haven't really found a character I like in the genre but as far as music goes I at least found one game that tickled my balls - Espgaluda! Especially Different Blood ~ Wearing blood from the first stage.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

Well hell, why not delete the hit box all together?  Think of all the fancy bullet patterns - it'll be like the finest lace, only made of bullets!

Woah, that sounds AWESOME! I would love to try a shooter with no hit box. Make the game more of an experience than a highscore chase... Yeah, I have to think further on this.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

i don't say that they're easy, they're just different in play mechnism. but how they have developed, i don't really have to like.

Of course not. I'm not trying to change anyones mind - I'm just saying what I think about the games. It more or less comes down to this - if people like to play bullet hell shooters without any dramatical change or innovation, then they should continue to make them. Like everything else pretty much. But I do wish they would stop making the music on MTV....

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

It's only natural to make the hitbox smaller if the players want more and more intricate bullet patterns.

[General Gaming / Re: Games or series you suck at]

I suck at the genres I don't like. RPG, realistic sport and simulators of different kinds.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

It looks pretty and is relaxing. Like watching a fish tank! ;)

Seriously, they are pretty hard. Have you tried to 1CC Mushihimesama, Espgaluda, Ketsui, Deathsmiles, the Dodonpachi-games or other bullet hells like that? It's not as easy as one might think.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

It's easy to look really awesome if both the ship and the bullet have a small hitbox! Many games with small hitboxes have a little point that glows or changes color when the special weapon is used.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

YES, yes, Yes, YESSSS!!!, ... yes. Play it.

Damn, the software bible tells me it's on disc! I don't have a duo. But... it seems to have been released on PSN as well, maybe I'll check it out there!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

I got these today! I intentionally picked the loose ones, I don't know why but I like them loose. It's like flipping through a pack of hockey cards or something.

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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

Have you tried Gate of Thunder?

I don't... think so. I can't really remember. Should I?

What a strange point of view.

Haha, yes! I think you could say that about most of my opinions. ;)

To the guy who doesn't like horizontal, come on Gradius V was the Shizuoka (iPAD inserted that one )

I actually played Gradius V for quite some time! But I never fell in love with it.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

I'm the opposite on this. The more walls to take damage of, the bigger hitbox, the worse shooter for me. I also like everything about Cave-games except chaining (and as Joe said, the music sucks. But I think most of the video game music sucks) - one of the last thing that makes them interesting to some players. But I just want the core, the "avoid bullets and shoot".

Oh, and the biggest dealbreaker for me in shoot 'em ups - is horizontal. I have to this day not liked a single horizontal shoot 'em up I have ever tried, and I have tried a lot of the popular ones (Border Down, Deathsmiles, R-Type-series, Gradius-series, Einhänder, Darius-series, U.N. Squadron, Thunder Force-series, Progear etc). It's vertical all the way for me.

But I still love the shooters on PCE for some reason, that was even the primary reason for getting a PC Engine in the first place.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PCE shooters have lost their magic for me...]

(worse in the case of bullet hells).

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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: I want to buy a shooting watch!]

I remember trying to inch my way up the leaderboard in the iOS version...it was impossible for me to even touch the top 100 (200?) scores. I don't know how folks did it, touch screen or not. It was uncanny.

A theory: They put their hands on the window of a washing machine at full speed and then place the iPhone/Pod so the finger juuuust reaches it.

[General Gaming / Re: Your favorite non PCE Hudson game]

I liked Calling on the Wii. It was by no means great, but it had a nice thing going now and then.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

100% completed mutant mudds

That's the first game for 3DS I really want and it doesn't even have a release date yet here in Europe. I fucking hate Europe.

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

Farcry 2. I started out hating it and now I'm in love with it.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

I heard about those, they're supposed to be pretty good. At least after the circumstances!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Download]

Download is all about memorization.

Like most of the shoot 'em ups out there. I wonder why I haven't heard of it before, it seems quite nice (looked it up on youtube) and sounds really good. Is it a rare and expensive game perhaps?

[Off-Topic / Re: The Beer Thread]

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Detana!! Twinbee]

I think of it as hassle. I want to focus on what I enjoy most in a shoot 'em up - bullet dodging. I mostly avoid shoot 'em ups with lethal walls as well. (I tend to stick to Caves games, as you might understand from this. )

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: HuCards (loosie as well)]

It does! Thank you!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB: HuCards (loosie as well)]

"Hey you guuuyyyys!"

I'm trying to get a hold of following games:

Final Soldier
Parasol Stars
Skweek
Valkyrie no densetsu

It doesn't matter if they're complete or loose, but they have to be japanese. If you haven't got one of these for sale, what do you reckon is a fair price for them, individually?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: So if you *do* judge a book by it's cover...]

A real clusterfuck. That cover is way to busy.

Yeah, that's what I like. It's too much going on and everytime I look at it, something new comes to mind. It's like a aquarium, I can't stop looking at it.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: So if you *do* judge a book by it's cover...]

This one is kinda cool.........

That IS kind of cool. It looks like shit at first but then it grows on me. It's so.. weird.

I absolutely LOVE this cover. For real. I like white tidy covers and this just made the top three. One of my previous favorite covers of all time is Suikoden though I haven't actually played the game...

[Off-Topic / Re: Is fast food just a little unhealthy or could it put you in the hospital?]

As have been said. Fast food is not very healthy, but that's it.

But our different food industries are the center of many relevant issues so it makes me wonder what more the "people who doesn't give a fuck", doesn't give a fuck about. I take ignorance as a sign of weakness. Play hard, think hard. Drink hard. Hehe.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Detana!! Twinbee]

pop'n twinbee

Noted!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: So if you *do* judge a book by it's cover...]

I really like this cover.


https://catalog.pcengine-fx.com/#hu1000

It's not spectacular (and thankfully not space related) but it got me curious right from the start.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Detana!! Twinbee]

Personally i cant stand the powerup system. bad enough having a system where you have to avoid powerups... twinbee forces you to shoot them repeatedly as well...

This is exactly why I do not own a single Twinbee-game.

[General Gaming / Re: Pier Solar, finally]

Drink beer instead. That's a one way ticket to happy land!

Edit: You should come, it's very nice here! We have... well, we have beer. And... yeah.

Edit 2: I got it! We also have... oh right, I said beer.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Insanity X.

[Off-Topic / Re: What are you currently listening to?]

whale

whale

What the fuck? Haha, that was pretty surprising to see. Henrik Schyffert (guitar) is a comedian here in Sweden. Had no idea he used to be in a band.

[General Gaming / Re: Pier Solar, finally]

Arkhan: Tell them what you feel man, that's better than to build up anger in a forum far away from the source of the problem.

[General Gaming / Re: Pier Solar, finally]

PS is pretty good.
that said, i have no idea why people want to pay $200+ for it.
honestly, if i was going to spend that kind of money all at once on gaming, I'd net myself a copy of something great, maybe even more than one, perhaps coryoon double dragon ii and spriggan.
ah well, to each their own.

What in the fuckery of ass?! I had no idea it sells for that kind of amounts! :O I paid around $40 (incl shipping) for mine and thought it would only decrease in value.. Maybe I should sell mine and buy something fun instead.

[General Gaming / Re: Pier Solar, finally]

I got stuck on the last boss. As it turns out I grinded too little (who can blame me, it was flat out boring) and then there was no way back - I had to start over from the beginning. Which I sure as pooples didn't, because the game was... well. Pooples. I got my name in the manual though, lucky me......

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

I have been playing a lot of Dig Dug today. Every Dig Dug-day is a good day.

[Off-Topic / Re: my photshopping]

Thanks starfighter, mine was pretty crappy. I picked it up on the net a few years ago, don't remember were.

It seems like Wikipedia!

[Off-Topic / Re: my photshopping]

Dont remember, but here is the blank template for anyone that wants to use it.

Here's a template with better resolution!
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[Off-Topic / Re: Okay, I've had enough! Explain your avatar!]

Mine is a point-item from some shoot 'em up. Think it's Mars Matrix, don't really remember.

[Off-Topic / Re: need a quick mustashe for Movember?...]

The bottom one because Luigi rocks. Fuck you.   

[Off-Topic / Re: What are you currently listening too?]

[Off-Topic / Re: Religion]

People can believe what ever they want as long as they don't expect anyone else to follow their rules.

[Off-Topic / Re: Random Pictures Thread]

Although I am a vegan I still can't resist to smile. I want to say something about how stupid it is, but I guess I have self-distance.