Re: Best platform for Shmups? Discuss
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 2:44 pm
Sarge wrote:Hey, N64 has Bangai-O, at any rate.
it also has Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth and Dezaemon 3D
Sarge wrote:Hey, N64 has Bangai-O, at any rate.
sevin0seven wrote:Sarge wrote:Hey, N64 has Bangai-O, at any rate.
it also has Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth and Dezaemon 3D
Tanooki wrote:marurun wrote:The modern shooter is about the score challenge and such games tend to follow more the danmaku style. That's not a style I prefer. The Saturn is in that space that straddles the line. I tend to rank the PC Engine and the Saturn both at the top of my preferred shooter platforms, for different reasons. But the Saturn/Playstation era was the end of shooters as far as I am concerned. Sometimes I enjoy newer ones, but more often than not I admire them graphically and then tune out. They're too busy and too distracting. I want a shooter that doesn't aspire to visual overload (which doesn't mean lacking in graphics or audio)
Are you talking about how shooters post 20th century have taken a twist towards what is concerned either a bullethell situation or total pattern based stuff where it's just an eye candy explosion all over requiring rote memorization to survive it? As you put it too busy and too distracting. If so, and that's kind of what you're thinking he prefers, then we're on the same page.
sevin0seven wrote:Sarge wrote:Hey, N64 has Bangai-O, at any rate.
it also has Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth and Dezaemon 3D
marurun wrote:Yeah. Danmaku and Maniac shooters are sometimes considered separate and sometimes the same (this Wikipedia article section lumps them together), but I think they often appeal to similar audiences. Maniac shooters arguably arose in the mid-90s and the Saturn features a number of them. Danmaku tend to be slower and more meticulous, but they still blanket the screen with myriad moving objects, whereas the Maniac shooters simply plaster you with rapidly moving threats until you are paste. The latter is more a natural evolution, arguably, of the genre as it moved to more and more powerful hardware, but I think it also demonstrates a failure to put on the brakes before skidding over the line into masochism.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:Atari 2600 - Space Invaders, Phoenix, Gorf, Demon Attack, River Raid I & II, Vanguard, Super Cobra, Time Pilot, Defender I & II, Asteroids, Atlantis, Cosmic Ark, Gyruss
Love what I've played on PCE & Saturn but I can't afford $400 games.
My interest wanes after the 5th gen. Bullet hell is mediocre.
marurun wrote:That said, the PC Engine has no lack of great arcade shooter ports from all the major developers of the time, including R-Type, Raiden, Tatsujin, Gradius, Darius, and 1943 Kai. No 8 or 16-bit console has as exhaustive a list of arcade ports.
Tanooki wrote:marurun wrote:But those shooters are from a different era than what you seem to prefer.
Are you talking about how shooters post 20th century have taken a twist towards what is concerned either a bullethell situation or total pattern based stuff where it's just an eye candy explosion all over requiring rote memorization to survive it? As you put it too busy and too distracting. If so, and that's kind of what you're thinking he prefers, then we're on the same page.
Tanooki wrote:I prefer the 80s and early-mid 90s shooters that are more console style or arcade of that era. You could react many ways to situations and have some room to breathe too being more strategic in the play, not just playing a memory game.
Dikdikvandik wrote:Darius Burst isn't what I'd call a Danmaku or Bullet Hell. It's hard though VERY VERY HARD. There are some challenges I'm struggling to get through too.
hashiriya1 wrote:Radiant Silvergun is not the holy grail of Saturn shoot-em-ups. It's common and cheap compared to the real holy grails such as HyperDuel, Blast Wind, Steam Hearts, Battle Garegga, and Cotton Boomerang.
Gunstar Green wrote:BoneSnapDeez wrote:Atari 2600 - Space Invaders, Phoenix, Gorf, Demon Attack, River Raid I & II, Vanguard, Super Cobra, Time Pilot, Defender I & II, Asteroids, Atlantis, Cosmic Ark, Gyruss
Don't forget Spider Fighter, Tac-Scan... the list goes on!