Run & Gun Thread

[Anonymous No.2635456]

Let's talk about some sidescrolling run and gun shooters, /vr/, which ones do you like playing? What ones have you cleared without continues?

Also, go ahead and vote for /vr/'s official best dev:
http://strawpoll.me/5300005


Oh, and check out M2's 3DS release of Gunstar Heroes, it's pretty fucking great.

[Anonymous No.2635470]

I see that the strawpoll mentions Gunforce 2, that's a great game. I like all the vehicles you can use, and the faster pace than Metal Slug.

[Anonymous No.2635480]

metroid series was probably my favorite

[Anonymous No.2635515]

>>2635480
thats a good one. my fave is probably Duck Tales

[Anonymous No.2635523]

>>2635456
Alien Soldier
Contra 3

isn't there a crazy run and gun with zeppelins and weird ass mecha with like this weird WWII era aesthetic

I keep meaning to play that

[Anonymous No.2635558]

>>2635480

Um...

[Anonymous No.2635564]

My favourites are Metal Slug 3, Contra: Hard Corps, Gunstar Heroes and Alien Soldier, or at least those are the ones I play the most. Not exactly original opinions I know, but meh. Does Ranger X count as a RnG?

[Anonymous No.2635580]

>>2635523
>isn't there a crazy run and gun with zeppelins and weird ass mecha with like this weird WWII era aesthetic
Boogie Wings?

[Anonymous No.2635598]

>>2635564
I would count it as one. Those are some of my favorites too, also Sunset Riders.

[Anonymous No.2635608]

>>2635598
Have you played Mystic Warriors? It's similar to Sunset Riders.

[Anonymous No.2635615]

I have very fond memories playing Rapid Reload with a friend as a kid. We never beat it but got pretty far. It's too bad that the few people who know about the game doesn't really like it.

[Anonymous No.2635617]

>>2635564
>Ranger X
Great game, but I always wondered why they gave you a ship but never threw in any shmup levels using it.

[Anonymous No.2635641]

Since SEGA owns the Ranger X IP, should we petition them to make a new one?

[Anonymous No.2635647]

>>2635617

That would have been pretty great, and it's nice to see others here that like the game. I think a lot of people have trouble adapting to the control scheme.

[Anonymous No.2635670]

>>2635608
>It's similar to Sunset Riders.
It's literally Sunset Riders 2: Ninja Storm.

[Anonymous No.2635672]

I'm pretty surprised that nobody posted about the Turrican series. It's not as frantic as Metal Slug or gunforce but the level design is very clever with a ton of secret areas, there's 5 upgradable weapons and nice Giger-esque aesthetics. It started on Amiga but there are 2 awesome Genesis and SNES ports.

[Anonymous No.2635673]

>>2635672
Is there a table comparing the weapons? I was under the impression they all did the same damage.

[Anonymous No.2635680]

I don't know if there's one, but I think they all do the same damage once fully upgraded. But in this game what matters is having the right weapon at the right time.

[Anonymous No.2635682]

>>2635680
Sorry, meant for >>2635673

[Anonymous No.2637018]

Recently discovered Shock Troopers, great fucking game. Shame there isn't many top down games like this other than Mercs.

[Anonymous No.2637076]

>>2637018
That's not a run'n gun, amigo.

[Anonymous No.2637129]

>>2637076

How is it not? It plays exactly like Metal Slug except top down. That's the only difference.

[Anonymous No.2637134]

>>2637129
Because Stone Cold said - -

actually, I guess you're right.

[Anonymous No.2638043]

Played Sunset Riders so much in the arcades. Man I fucking love this game.

[Anonymous No.2638092]

>>2637129
That's a pretty big difference

[Anonymous No.2638097]

>>2638092
for you.

[Anonymous No.2638109]

>>2638092

Not really, you're still dodging bullets while trying to kill everything that moves and memorizing patterns. Even rolling out of the way of bullets could be seen as jumping out of the way despite the game having no gravity.

[Anonymous No.2638113]

the best

[Anonymous No.2638118]

>>2638092

well i guess contra 3 and super C are out of the picture since their top down levels make such a difference.

[Anonymous No.2638170]

>>2635456
Can someone tell me how to enjoy these games? I've always love scrolling shmups, but never got very into Metal Slug and such. I got Gunstar Heroes on 3DS last week and have been trying to get into it, ,but it just feel blah.

It seems like no matter what you do there's just a constant stream of enemies that all get blasted away pretty easily, but just keep coming and coming. There doesn't seem to be much ebb and flow to things the way there is in scrolling shmups.

At first I wasn't using the seeker gun because it seemed so cheap, but eventually I switched to it because I was getting bored having to stop and aim around to kill shit every 2 seconds.

Maybe they're just not for me, but any recommendations on how to approach them?

[Anonymous No.2638176]

>>2638170
play expert.
Homming laser becomes useless

[Anonymous No.2638190]

>>2637018
There's also Shock Troopers 2nd Squad on the Neo Geo, but unfortunately it's not nearly as good as the original.

[Anonymous No.2638198]

>>2638176
But I started using the homing laser because I was finding slogging through the enemies dull already. Wouldn't playing on a difficulty up just make what I'm not enjoying even more tedious? Or does it change up the gameplay itself? That could be interesting.

[Anonymous No.2638203]

>>2638198
that makes you play with kicks, slides, throws and bullet absorbing weapons.

[Anonymous No.2638206]

>>2638203
Huh okay, that does sound more interesting. I'll give it a go. I usually love Treasure games, so I was expecting to really like this a lot more than I have so far.

[Anonymous No.2638214]

>>2638206
you know all the moves right ?

[Anonymous No.2638223]

>>2638214
Yup.

[Anonymous No.2638258]

>>2635456
Konami made SO many others. And I think Gunforce was Irem? Also Data East should be on there.

[Anonymous No.2638261]

I had to vote for treasure in the end. They've proved themselves way too many times.

[Anonymous No.2638271]

>>2638170
I like GSH but at points it does feel like you have to inch your way forward through these endless waves of enemies. Contra isn't like that, then again Metal Slug really isn't either iirc.

[Anonymous No.2638283]

>>2638271
Keep in mind it's Treasure's first official game. I like GSH a lot but the game is really all about the boss fights. Sometimes that bothers me about their games because the time spent getting to the bosses feels mediocre in comparison.

[Anonymous No.2638287]

>>2638271
>>2638283
This makes me feel a lot better about my reaction to it. Probably just need to push more aand get so I can get through the stages faster and to the bosses.

[Anonymous No.2638414]

>>2638287
it's funny because I tend to beat bosses extremely fast because close range moves and bullet-absorbing weapons do a ton of damage. Only exceptions are seven force, green and golden silver.
And BTW, another reason to play expert is you actually have to defeat all 7 forms of seven force

[Anonymous No.2638513]

>>2638258
>And I think Gunforce was Irem?
yes, but they were made by the same people that would go on to form Nazca. they also did gallop and in the hunt while at irem

[Anonymous No.2638938]

>>2638113
more like 'the most monotonous'

[Anonymous No.2638948]

>>2638206
> I usually love Treasure games

>played Gunstar Heroes for the first time only recently

wot?

[Anonymous No.2638952]

>>2638283
wot? For me it's all about killing the normal enemies. Learn to throw, bro

[Anonymous No.2638973]

>>2638283
I disagee, Hard Corps feel like that, but Gunstar Heroes has great levels filled with enemies, on top of that it has great bosses. Alien Soldier if more of a boss rush game, but the bosses are so good that it doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.2640025]

>>2637129
it's still a different genre

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/catalog/genre-topdown.htm

[Anonymous No.2640045]

>>2640025
>>2637076
>top-down run n' guns aren't run n' guns because they're top-down
>horizontal shmups aren't shmups because they're horizontal