Talk about the shooting game genre right now.
SHMUP THREAD
Eli Gutierrez
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Henry Richardson
DOOM and Max Payne are my favorite shooting games.
Asher Turner
I lack discipline I'm never going to 1cc something ever again.
Anthony Young
Thinking of doing a video on Ketsui soon now that Shmupmame is workin right for me. Also just cleared the newish ZeroRanger arrange mode and really liked that
Adam Wright
Who likes Deathsmiles?
Joseph Ward
Playing exceed 3rd right now. Not the shitty steam version, the real one
For some reason stage 3 and 4 are bugged and I can’t pick them in stage select. Anyone else had that issue?
Jack King
Sometimes simple is best.
Cho Ren Sha was what I played the most in the late 90s for shmups.
I competed with a friend for high score.
Got good enough to not die through two clears.
Lucas Stewart
Me love Darius and Thunder Force, yes...
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Camden Hernandez
Deathsmiles is awesome, the scoring system is one of the most unique I've seen in the genre and it's really satisfying to get all of the items flowing out just perfectly. It also has great character design.
Dylan Long
best games:
Ikaruga
death smile
Matthew Gutierrez
My favorite shmup game, not the best, but I'm really fond of it. I wish they would port the sequel to steam soon. I want the extra features the console release has.
Nathan Russell
>Deathsmiles
cute goth cunny
pretty fucking epic
Nicholas Peterson
dariusburst chronicles, too expensive.
Andrew Butler
>I had this pic for years witout knowing they were coming from a game and were not OC.
Well, damn.
Christopher Scott
Hunter Moore
Pulling off a recharge successfully feels great too. Volcano is always fun because most of the stage is just constantly milking points from the rocks. And yes, lovely characters.
That'd be cool. I don't like the second game nearly as much as the first, but I'd still buy a Steam port immediately.
Ethan Torres
Bros, visit HEY Akihabara while you still can.
Aaron Brown
Wrong picture
Brody Nguyen
How do I get LV3 satisfaction in hellsinker?
Kayden Powell
any coomer shmups??
Andrew Johnson
I pre-ordered this at Gametop. Picked up in person. I miss that era.
Henry Harris
play Caladrius Blaze
damaging bosses will strip their clothes off
Jaxson Nguyen
Why? are they closing?
Xavier Adams
>but I'd still buy a Steam port immediately
Doubt we'll ever see any more CAVE games on PC. M2 said they would maybe look into it if they could solve the timing issues they were having on Windows 10 but that was years ago so they've obviously given up.
Noah Martin
Ikaruga art
Justin James
Second easiest 1CC I got
Joseph Morgan
ZeroRanger
Julian Barnes
No but given the climate right now for businesses like arcades it wouldn't be all that surprising for it to happen. Sega 2 just announced they're closing and even if it was mostly just UFO/Crane games it's the sign of the times for arcades. Mikado and Gamenewton are struggling as well. They're only surviving because of fan donations.
Bentley Parker
Play tenta shooter
don't play tenta shooter
Aiden Edwards
I wish it looked like this in game
Noah Morris
Any SHMUP with good story or romance? I need motivation to clear this. Score and waifu only is not enough for me?
Charles Martin
ikaruga actually good? Looks like an old 90's game
Noah Lopez
>degrade your brand by ditching the gritty aesthetic of your games in favor of generic pedo moeshit
>games sell less and less and eventually you have to shut down
Based, fuck Cave and all other Jap devs who did this and paid the price. Should have had the integrity to stick to your own identity rather than mindlessly chasing a retarded niche fad.
Lucas Sanchez
It's good but it has a bad rep because casual shmup players often proclaim it as the greatest shooter of all time even though they've never cleared it.
Owen Adams
It was the most fun I ever had.
Adam Russell
I don't think CAVE shut down. IIRC they doubled down on the cutesy waifu shit and it worked so stopped bothering with arcade games altogether.
Jordan Campbell
Zeroranger have a pretty simple and fun story
>romance
kamui
Dylan Sanchez
Brandon Roberts
Get the entire alltynex trilogy too while you're at it
Connor Moore
They work mainly on a mobage called Gomaotsu now, the last arcade game was SaiDaiOuJou in 2012
The truth is the shoot 'em up market isn't really profitable any more, since interest in arcades has declined and this is where most of the returns from making the games goes. Ports are actually much less profitable, and over the past 20 years we have the hardcore arcade fans who keep dumping in quarters to thank for keeping the scene alive. No one has found a way to make casuals interested in the genre yet, so while we still get new games, there's no major developers left making new games except with R-Type Final II right now.
I wonder if it's even possible to make shoot 'em ups popular again, or if the '90-'05 golden age was more about sheer luck thanks to how the arcade market worked, considering the actual playerbase is still really small.