/vr/ - Retro Games

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>>6663789
start with the grads

How would you rank the Gradius games, /vr/?

Any good Gradius-style homebrew out there?

>>3362968
>several unskippable cutscenes
>unfitting orchestral, "epic" music
>overpowered options: freeze/directional
>levels that force you to scroll backwards
>can disable checkpoints, a Gradius staple
>too many banally grey mechanical stages
>1x1 hitbox to appease the danmakutards
>less customisation than previous games
>takes 90 minutes just to clear a loop
>a lack of variety in enemy designs

Gradius V... was a fucking mistake.

Discuss 2D scrolling shooter games here.

For bullet hell/Touhou, try this thread on /vg/:
>>>/vg/shmupg
(Mods, please prune genre war shitposts)

Tell us your…
>favorite shmups
>recent acquisitions
>latest accomplishments

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>>2855807

Current events: several shmups on sale on Steam. Triangle Service, Qute, MOSS and more!

New to the genre of shmups? Check out this page:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/shooters/shmups-101-a-beginners-guide-to-2d-shooters

Shmup Collection containing over 9000 MAME romsets:
https://www.mediafire.com/?48812jiax8m1c#nz0227tzb9zor

Decide the greatest shmup developer of all time here:
http://strawpoll.me/4496713

For a realtime chatroom, head over to our #shmups channel:
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rizon.net/?nick=Anon?&theme=cli#shmups

List of the hardest clears, ranked in order of difficulty:
http://www.wikihouse.com/stg/index.php?STG%A5%E9%A5%F3%A5%AF%B0%EC%CD%F7

Video resources that explain superplay recordings:
https://www.youtube.com/user/STGWeekly

Highscore tables for several shmups (can track your own):
http://www.restartsyndrome.com/boardlist.php

Would you like a higher res version?

(Since the post in question has gone somewhere, I will need to restore it fromt he archive. The janitor may have made a mistake. Please read it before deleting.)

Platformers, like single-screen games etc., have mostly disappeared, because platforming is an outdated and currently unnecessary abstraction. It's a genre that has developed due to games being 2-dimensional. When games became increasingly 3D, platforming became unnecessary.

Another example of a genre becoming obsolete is the point-and-click. Today adventure games can have lush graphics and interactivity AND direct controls, so they don't have to rely on text input or point-and-click mechanics.

Just like the abstraction of a seperate battle screen in RPGs is disappearing, and most general so-called "RPG mechanics" are disappearing: modern computers, even dedicated gaming consoles, are capable of much more, so these abstractions, that were so important in the past, are no longer necessary.

Whats the best saturn shoot em up

Hard mode: No Radiant Silvergun

>>1820196

True, shots of the fighter in hangars, being prepared by the technical crew are pretty cool too.
I really dig this kind of artworks, painted sci-fi, "lot of action" or "ready to take off" shots alike.