The Shoot-em-up Thread!

IgnisPhaseOne

IgnisPhaseOne

[09] Warrior
THE REAL KIND OF SHOOTER!

DON'T BE FOOLED! Games like Halo and Call of Duty 4 are FAKES! They stole our genre's title, because they are "more popular"!

But the BELIEVERS, we know what's going down...

SHMUPS 4 LIFE!

Discuss.
 
In before obligatory link to Shmups forum!

Heh, shmup. Funny word...I use the term '2d shooter' in a real life conversation, but shmups on the 'net. Anyway, I suck at shmups; bullet hell, old-school memorizers, you name it! Still fun stuff though. I'm surprised I'm still in the top 100 on XBLA for R-Type 1, heh I guess not too many people want to bother with suiciding on stage 7.

So, let's start it off a bit...anyone have a preferred company or style of shooter? Psikyo, Treasure, Cave, Touhou, enemy chaining, medal collecting, bullet reflecting? All of them have their quirks and charms. I think I prefer Taito's stuff, Darius Gaiden and Rayforce had awesome soundtracks and fairly simplistic scoring systems.

Also, here's a bunch of Shmup reviews that you hopefully find entertaining.
 
Ikaruga is probably one of my favorites, even though I'm terrible at it.

Touhou is really pretty. IMO, gameplay suffers, but yeah. It's still fun to play just to have an eyegasm. It also doesn't seem that hard once you've memorized the patterns.

I'm partial to Raiden Fighters Jet since I play that in the college arcade still. They have it, medal collecting/patterns are awesome.

CRS 68k gets a shoutout because it runs on DX4, and can basically be played by any computer ever made...ever.

Warning Forever and Rayhound also get shoutouts because they're free on the internet, and I sunk enough time into those games to be awesome.
 
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