/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.452475]

Blast off and strike the evil Bydo Empire? Hell yeah!

[Anonymous No.453639]

Best shoot 'em up of all time. The only flaw with the original R-Type is that it was too perfect for any of the sequels to improve upon.

[Anoymoos No.453675]

One of the first gameboy games that I owned as a child was R-Type DX. I played the SHIT out of it, beat it too many times to even remember
had a blast

and then I discovered that you can also play the original R-type, and R-type II! Well, let's just say that it's still one of my favorite games of all time.

[Anonymous No.453743]

>>453639

Except on the sountrack

[Anonymous No.453762]

>>453743
You sure about that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_MCOF3yGA4

[Anonymous No.454695]

>>453762
Yeah, the soundtrack is also excellent. The high score name entry song is fucking epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY92beTkSlE

[Anonymous No.454725]

>>454695
I also love the music from level 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ZJRtIVkMo

[Anonymous No.454726]

R-Type, R-Type 2, R-Type 3, and R-Type Delta...

It's impressive for a series to retain such a high degree of quality across more than a decade.

The only other shooter series with the same consistent pedigree is Konami.

[[I may love Darius, but the series is extremely hit or miss.]]

As for favorites, I think it's either the first or Delta. Delta is an interesting, atmospheric game, that's like watching a familiar sci-fi movie. It's great.

[Anonymous No.457383]

Despite not having the traditional battleship stage, R-Type III had some of my favorite bosses.

[Anonymous No.459009]

To see this sitting in a dark arcade....

[Anonymous No.459225]

>>454695
Epic is not an adjective, stop it.

[Anonymous No.459720]

Pulstar, on the Neo Geo, is also a wonderful part of the R-Type family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7OQW7B3sXQ

Pulstar was created by members of the Irem R-Type team who went to Aicom, and it is one of the finest Neo titles out there. Those giant claws in the first stage finally snap shut, too!

[Anonymous No.460343]

>R-Type

Still haven't 1cc it. I've got to the second to last level but then I died and started over from the middle checkpoint without all my powerups and stuff. That's one thing that makes the game so hard because when you die you don't just lose all the powerups but you have to redo everything without them.

[Anonymous No.460378]

>>459225
I'm not the one who you're replying to but new words and new meanings for words is happening all the time. Just deal with it.

[Anonymous No.462296]

Terrible music, surprisingly not terrible R-Type ripoff.

[Anonymous No.462319]

>>460343
>Still haven't 1cc it.
Me neither. The part that keeps stopping me is in, I think, level five. Two huge flat jellyfish monsters stretch from the top of the screen to the bottom, and have a ton of health. I can never take them out without exposing myself to another enemy.

[Anonymous No.462697]

>>462319

The stage 5 boss can also ruin your day.

What's funny is that, in Tactics, the Bellmite (R-Type stage 5 boss) is weaker than the Combiler (R-Type stage 4 boss) as a warship.

[Anonymous No.462971]

>>462697
the combiler ain't no joke

[Anonymous No.464405]

>>462971
That boss is as far as I've gotten in R-Type.

Stage 4 is hell enough as it is.

[Anonymous No.464532]

>>464405
In an interview with the R-Type staff, they intentionally made a gigantic spike in difficulty between stages 3 and 4 to generate income for operators.

Tricky devils.

[Anonymous No.464539]

>mankind's own defense system designed to fight against aliens turns against them

Cool game and story. Was one my childhood defining games.

[Anonymous No.465397]

>>464539

The enemy that the Bydo were meant to fight were elaborated upon in R-Type Tactics II.

If you played Final, consider the Shooting Star/Grace Note series of R-Fighters. The standard fighter of this 'Other Civilization' is a Grace Note on fucking steroids (read: much better than its successors), and you fight them right off the bat as the Bydo in Tactics II. It only gets worse from there.

[Anonymous No.465401]

Final is one of the best games made in 10 years and gets so little credit

[Anonymous No.465403]

>>465397

The standard fighter of another civilization is yet another piece of human technology? How does that make sense?

[Anonymous No.465450]

>>465403

>>The standard fighter of another civilization is yet another piece of human technology

I mean stat-wise, sorry. That and it can fucking ram your shit, something that the Pb series (Hakusan, Asanogawa, Kenrokuen) is known for.

[Anonymous No.465945]

[Anonymous No.467771]

[Anonymous No.469029]

SPACE WAS RIPPED BY HATRED AND DESIRE TO COUNTERATTACK AND TAKE REVENGE
http://www.mmcafe.com/nico.html#http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm17847239

[Anonymous No.469046]

>Super R-Type
>No checkpoints

[Anonymous No.469075]

so what is the harder game?

anything Gradius, R-Typer or even fucking Parodius

God, do I hate Parodius for its faggotry sometimes and the aesthetics in R-Type make me sick.

Gradius is just about right, I think.

[Anonymous No.469157]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU----

[Anonymous No.469456]

>>469075
I really like Gradius aesthetically. It doesn't take itself too seriously, it's actually a bit goofy, but boy is it fun.

[Anonymous No.469484]

>>469456
This is for you

[Anonymous No.469828]

>>469456
it's too dangerous to go alone. Take this

[Anonymous No.469836]

Is the VC version any good?

[Anonymous No.469897]

>>469157
Cyclone Force all day baby.

[Anonymous No.470656]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLlxGzrRmoA

[Anonymous No.471261]

>>470656

God, I'd love to see the entire soundtrack arranged like that.

[Anonymous No.471793]

>>471261

The guy who did those remixes also did some for the original R-Type and Delta.

[Kasperl No.472542]

>>465403
>>465397
Back on /m/ it's theorized that the "other civilization" is either the future Earth that made the Bydo or what the Bydo were made to fight.

[Kasperl No.472556]

>>471261
>>471793
http://akht.sakura.ne.jp/msc_old_stg.htm

[Anonymous No.472882]

R-Type Final gave me hella manly tears.

[Kasperl No.473078]

>>472882
It also gave me many hours of frustration on R-Type III. Don't get me wrong. I like the game. But it is HARD and I am not a particularly skilled player. I mean level four had a backwards lava maze. BACKWARDS. LAVA. MAZE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITGcUJUHzo

[Anonymous No.473249]

[Anonymous No.473282]

>>465397
Was it really that 'Other Civilization' humanity was at war with in the 25th, I think, century? I always thought the aliens they were fighting then were the Bydo and it's a big time loop. I wish Tactics II would come state side or get a fan translation at least.

[Kasperl No.473320]

>>473282
My understanding is that in the 25th century mankind finds another civilization and they end up going to war. During the war mankind develops the Bydo as a weapon system. Promptly realizing that the Bydo are bad stuff, they throw them into a pocket dimension. In the pocket dimension the Bydo evolve and decide that they really hate mankind and end up tearing open a portal into the 22nd century to tear mankind a new one.

[Anonymous No.473343]

>>473320
Yes and I always thought the Bydo that descended from the ones that ripped into the 22nd century were the "aliens" 25th humankind made the original Bydo to fight against and it all becomes a time loop. I always heard the Bydo were made to fight "Mankind's enemies in the galaxy" and it never got more descriptive that that.

[Kasperl No.473379]

>>473343
Ah. In other words the Bydo become the very thing they were created to destroy due to time travel fun times. Unfortunately they leave it specific enough that in the 26th century they seem to lack anything like the R-Type fighter. Then there's the whole thing that you'd think they'd have access to records of the interplanetary wars the essentially took place for most of the 22nd century. It's a shame Irem decided to get out of the Video Game business 'cause now we may never get the specifics.

[Anonymous No.474721]

>>473379

A pity indeed.

[Anonymous No.475048]

One cup of Bydo fluid, please.

[Anonymous No.475529]

>>473379
>the Bydo become the very thing they were created to destroy due to time travel fun times.

Yeah I was thinking it was the same idea as the Force just pushed to the very extreme, fight fire with fire, etc. Didn't they keep all of it in a container the size of Earth's Moon? One planet sized Force right there.

>Unfortunately they leave it specific enough that in the 26th century they seem to lack anything like the R-Type fighter.

I honestly don't remember that.

>Then there's the whole thing that you'd think they'd have access to records of the interplanetary wars the essentially took place for most of the 22nd century.

How would mankind from the 22nd century find out the origin of the Bydo?

[Anonymous No.476897]

I... I can stay here, right?

[Kasperl No.477463]

>>475529
Yeah the last two remarks don't have anything to stand on now that I think about it.

[Kasperl No.477784]

[Anonymous No.480089]

>>476897

Yes, yes you can.

[Anonymous No.482330]

>>475529

>>How would mankind from the 22nd century find out the origin of the Bydo?

If everyone became Bydo, maybe.

[Kasperl No.483386]

[Anonymous No.484745]

>tfw when you love R-Type but don't know shit about it's lore until reading it on 4chan

I'm a terrible fan for not buying the Tactics games aren't I?

[Anonymous No.485312]

>>484745
Maybe, but then you'd realize you can never fully enjoy the Tactics series, since 2 stayed in Japan.

[Anonymous No.485502]

I've been playing Super R-Type recently and my opinion of it has changed.

I initially started it up and found myself dying a lot to random shit out of nowhere and I found the lack of checkpoints excruciating. It was my first R-Type, and luckily I played the original on MAME before I hastily wrote the series off.

I returned to it recently and I've found myself enjoying it a ton. I even prefer it to R-Type 2 and it's still better than Final.

Regrading the checkpoints, I actually found myself appreciating them a lot. Checkpoints in the first two games are bloody difficult to recover from, just because of how underpowered you are. I'm looking at stage 4 of the original here, and that's the least of it. In Super, upon death you return to the beginning of the stage, but this gives you a great fighting chance as the enemies start off slow rather than you being dumped in the middle of it. It also feels good to re-try something you had an idea for, like kill something more efficiently with the pod or charge shot. Yeah it takes longer, but I don't mind, the stages are typically short.

I also find the new weapons pretty damn fun, the slow spread weapons and closed ranged explosive take some strategy to use, and work well with the memorisation the level requires.

Also the music is excellent for it's composition and length of the tracks, there is a refreshing lack of gimmickry in the level design and I don't care about the slowdown, it's not Gradius 3 bad.

[Anonymous No.485551]

R-Type Collection needs to be a thing

[Vekter !OIqMj3oAUI No.485635]

>>485551
I just picked up R-Type 3. Is this game supposed to be ball-crunchingly hard?

[Anonymous No.485654]

>>485635
>>485635
Pretty much, yeah. People say it's the slowest in the series, but R-Type as a whole has always been a slow shump.

[Anonymous No.485883]

>>485551
I enjoyed what I played of Dimensions, I need to pick it up now I have another Xbox.

>>485502
Does nobody care about my Super R-Type opinions again?

[Anonymous No.486713]

This game is seriously one of the best games on the PS2.

Why it never gets mentioned by anyone I don't have a fucking clue.

[Anonymous No.486806]

>>486713
It would be if there would have been more emphasis on reducing slowdown and keeping the stage design interesting rather than just filling it with ships.
Don't see the point having 101 playable ships when the game is borderline unplayable.

[Anonymous No.486826]

>>486806
There's so much shit being thrown at you that you're actually relieved there's slowdown.

[Anonymous No.487091]

>>486826

Do you even play shmups? Sounds to me like Final is the only one you've played.

[Anonymous No.488521]

>>484745

Hahahahahahaha

Not really, unless you want to get depressed and terribly buttdevastated.

Despite being turn-based games, they do try to retain the spirit of the shmups they were based on.

[Anonymous No.488551]

Reminder that THIS exists.

[Anonymous No.489478]

>>459225

>Epic is not an adjective, stop it.

Oxford dictionary overrules your decision.

[Kasperl No.491713]

[Anonymous No.491758]

>>465450
>22111275 - 総員集合!.png
I recognize that naming format.

[Anonymous No.491854]

>>491758

Of course you do.

I'm amazed at what kind of fanart pops out of this.

[Anonymous No.491879]

[Anonymous No.491894]

>>485502

>>deutsch

They may as well have called it 'Uber R-Type.'

[Anonymous No.492072]

>be 6 years old
>beat r-type 1 on my master system
>never being able to beat it again

I just don't have the nerves anymore. I also have to do something against my rage quitting behavior. Got my hands on the R-Types collection for the psx, so I guess I have a challange.

[Kasperl No.492809]

[Anonymous No.495870]

I've been playing Star Conflict, and I was reminded of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb9LPuAcfSU

If Irem sent R-Type in this direction instead of the Tactics games, I wonder....

[Anonymous No.495887]

I thought R-Type tactics was pretty fun... Although not as good as the original games.

[Anonymous No.496614]

>>restricted to a single Force
>>restricted to a single Wave Cannon
>>still OP

[Anonymous No.496665]

Best stage 3.

[Vekter !OIqMj3oAUI No.496693]

I still have no fucking clue what I'm doing in this game.

Any tips? (R-Type III)

[Anonymous No.496810]

>>496693
Shoot stuff until it blows up.

If you're on stage two and you've reached that one wall blocking your path with something attached on the other side, charge up your beam to the second level (not hyper). The fully charged beam shot will go through walls and enemies and you're supposed to hit the object on the other side of the wall with it.

[Kasperl No.497272]

[Anonymous No.498663]

>>495887

The vertically-scrolling missions in both games were particularly bonkers. Even those that didn't have water (Bestra, Oberon (pictured in >>488551)) were kinda painful to navigate.

[Kasperl No.499546]

[Anonymous No.503076]

IREM!

Thank God this isn't a VN, otherwise I would've turned into Bydo out of sheer rage.

[Anonymous No.504407]

>>むせる

[Anonymous No.505551]

>>504407
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8hwDQJRU7E

[Anonymous No.505696]

>>486806

>mfw R-Type Final was my introduction to the series.

Trying out all the different ships was a blast, but I really think the game needed more levels. Playing through the same bunch of stages over and over again to unlock all the ships got real old real fast.

[Anonymous No.506613]

>>505551

If I ever get around to it while playing Tactics II, I'll field a force comprised mainly of Scope Ducks, and play a whole mission to that tune.