/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7800805
>worth learning
only if the games click with you. try for yourself instead of fishing for strangers opinion, esp on a board where most people despise shmups/arcade gaming in general.

>>7800805
So far I really like Battle Garegga but I'm not very good at shmups yet and somehow bad enough to not up the rank that much but still good enough to survive alright (alright compared to other shmups) without consciously doing anything special. Don't know what to make of that.

>>7800838
>rank
>are they badly designed?
Yes, unfortunately

>>7800805
Yes. They are the only shmups with proper depth to them.

the problem is the rank system. it starts too easy, so you wanna get the rank up to make it harder, but then the end-game becomes too difficult and pretty much impossible to 1cc. i'd rather have rank/difficulty that starts higher but has a flatter curve like most other shmups.

also is it just me or is battle garegga really poorly paced? batrider and bakraid are much better in that regard.

>>7801498
low iq take
most shmups have rank btw

>>7801824
the problem is rank because you dont know what to do or do whatever. learn what to do and rank becomes a non issue. clueless people talking out of their asses is funny. you're funny.

GAREGGA Rank is explained in the shmup thread >>>7800821

Considering how incredibly important rank is to the core of the game you would think they would explain how it works and show some kind of meter representing it and an indication of actions that increase or decrease it during gameplay. Instead they didn't even mention the fact that rank exists whatsoever in game let alone any of the intricacies which is completely retarded.

>>7801921
yeah keep repeating the same shit for YEARS that non players from shmupfarm love to spout. meanwhile actual players learn the game and have fun with it. garegga is not that complicated unless you shoot for the WR or something.

Spooky thing is this thread is one guy arguing with himself using vpns

>>7801920
Thanks I'll be there

>>7801914
nope it's truth, even superplayers like kamui can't get consistent clears because the rank becomes too much and makes the game too hard. shit design that was only invented as a way to siphon more quarters from ppl, notice how almost no other shmups follow yagawa's rank system design? because it's garbage.

>>7800805
>best BG player in the world is a troon
That should tell you all you need to know about the game, OP.

Avoid tranmaku, become a based Dad.

>>7801996
Aren't you the guy who claimed to have the Strikers 2 all

>>7801996
Post the evidence

>>7801998
Good eye.

>>7801998
>Strikers
Not Dad enough for me, sorry sweetie.

>>7801931
Oh yeah totally. That's why they had to resort to datamining the fuck out of the game just to understand how the ranking system works. That is a hallmark of good game design right there. Why explain how a game works to the players when you can leave it ambiguous as hell to suck a metric fuckton of quarters out of them.

>>7801910
>most shmups have rank btw
and it's always a bad thing. what's your point?

>>7802161
I tried scoring Ibara, too hard. I tried Batrider too hard. I blame the rng and hitboxes. I tried warriors and for filtered, bad hitboxes me thinks.

What am I doing wrong? Should I pull a synth and fake my achievements?

>>7802023
Tried Daioh is impossible, have 7000 hours logged in intense shmup practice and couldn't beat it after 8 months of play

>>7803335
>7000 hours logged in intense shmup practice
Does this account for dilation breaks?

>>7803337
23,000 ultra mania posts for me. Posting about shmups and the jrpg problem accounts for 90% of 7000 hours of shmup practice.