/vr/ - Retro Games

>get final and delta because they looked neat
>get my ass kicked in stage 1

>>6590467
They're ok, but Psikyo took the R-Type formula and made it way more enjoyable and exciting.

>>6590534
Uh...huh.

>>6590534
What?

>>6590467
True only because IKARUGA is more a work of art than a mere shmup

Are there any shmups where the bullet patterns are completely random?

>>6590542
If you can't see the parallels in the game design of Psikyo and R-Type, you need to play them more.
Even S. Nakamura, Psikyo's founder, credits R-Type as his biggest inspiration.

>>6590547
It's more like a pretentious puzzle game and not a very good shmup

>>6590549
battle garegga is about as random as you're gonna get as far as retro shumps go

>>6590549
Some Euro-Shmups maybe

>>6590552
Give me one Psykio game that plays like R-Type.

>>6590552
Still sounds like nonsense

>>6590561
>heavy memo-based survival
>extremely reliant on abusing safespots and learning an incredibly static route
>short stages, a loop takes less than 20 mins
>2 loops with the 2nd loop being much harder and different
>charge attacks by holding down the shot button
>a bullet-cancelling pod/shield mechanic
>giant hitboxes, though this isn't really exclusive to R-Type but non-danmaku in general
>limited resources in comparison to other STGs at the time

All staples of R-Type which Psikyo games also share.

Bump

>>6590467
The 3D ps1 game is pretty good, the rest are sort of boring knock offs of gradius.

dat first level song on the SNES version tho

I wouldn't call them Gradius knock offs because the style is so unique to Irem (though a billion shmup devs ripped off R-Type with varying degrees of success). Gradius encourages much more movement around the screen whereas R-Type's levels almost feel like a puzzle game at points (ie "find the solution").

I've never really gotten into the arcade games because I feel they're a little cheap but I really dig Delta and -at moments- Final. The R-Type formula was definitely beautifully represented in their spinoffs Image Fight and X-Multiply though. I enjoy them more than I do R-Type 1 and 2.

>>6590553
Really? I found it to be a more esoteric rhythmictroid silvania boomerang.

>>6593256
Super r-type? Really?!

What about LEO

That's not Darius.

>>6593347
What about Armored Police Unit Gallop?

>>6593603
I like this game more for the graphics than anything else. Hyper-detailed IREM sprites at their peak... but your police car is the size of a fuckin' semi!!

>>6593347
>>6593349

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>>6590534
>turning dumb bait into effort posting
You just trolled yourself

>>6593285
I enjoyed Final immensely. One of the only games I've obsessively unlocked everything for. I know it supposedly not great but I don't see what it's lacking honestly

>>6593327
nah bruh
https://youtu.be/zoGRjih0xcA

>>6590467
you can sit down again retard, with your generic shit game

>>6590549
Touhou
inb4 not retro

>>6597945
Not true but ok

>>6596125
That's just the level 1 music from the first R-Type as played by the SNES dreadful samples.

>>6596187
I'll sit down to play a great game then stand up again

>>6596125
>muffled fart samples
>has slowdown
nah "bruh"

>>6590467
Now I'm in the mood for some R-Type
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9skoVhGg8k

>>6590467
Maybe not the best, but great and I feel its kind of underappreciated. Pretty much everyone answers yes if you ask them if they like R-Type, but almost no one ever answers "R-Type" when you ask for their favorite horizontal shmup.

>>6593256
why are they imagining coffee

>>6595203
I like the unlocking unlocking mechanic that rewards you for playing as ships you wouldn't usually choose. Should be more common.

r-type 2 is better than any Psikyo game

>>6590467
The greatest game in a trash genre is still trash. Sorry bud.

>>6590549
zanac probably

>>6601254
I love seeing people get ~ F I L T E R E D ~ by shmups

>>6601305
They aren't hard, just boring. Sorry you wasted your life playing them.

>>6601306