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Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:06:17 2019 No.6038757 [Reply] [Original]

How do I get into Contra

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:06:55 2019 No.6038758 Insert a coin

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:13:24 2019 No.6038769 >>6038757 find the "going into games" machine

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:16:03 2019 No.6038774 >>6038757 Remember, kid... DON'T GET DEAD.

Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:16:54 2019 No.6038776

You have to play it. Can't go wrong with the first one and Super C on NES, easy and very fun games. Then play 3, if you'll like greater focus on set pieces and bosses move on to Hard Corps and Shattered Soldier. If you want proper, lengthy levels instead then play 4. If you'll want even more platforming after that or are a weeb, play Hard Corps Uprising. If you'll want something that feels like 3 without the top down stages play Rebirth. You also have Operation C which is Super C on the gameboy and Neo Contra which is a top down shooter. Arcade games are janky but more intense and challenging than their NES counterparts. Contra Force might be worth playing overclocked. The rest of the series is cancer, avoid.

Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:25:45 2019 No.6038794

>>6038776
I enjoy 1, but I find there's a lack of visual clarity on projectiles and other hazards in anything after 1. I love other run and gun series (and shmups), but I've never managed to stick with Contra and I feel like I'm missing something that everyone else sees. It seems like they're based purely on memorisation, in which case the fast paced adrenaline aspect isn't there. It's like playing R Type vs a twitchier shmup.

Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:28:41 2019 No.6038803

-Learn to multi-task: avoiding damage, firing at enemies, and advancing. Doing all of those things at the same time is the ideal way to tackle most Contra screens not involving bosses. The first one is the most important part, but you'll need to cultivate the other two as well.

-Unlike in the platform genre, jumping is more of a necessary defensive manoeuvre than something that needs perfect timing and execution to get you from points A to B. Still, get acquainted with jumping: how high it can take you and how it can help you dodging projectiles.

-The crawl stance is there for a reason. Enemies who only shoot at your abdomen can be more easily disposed through shooting while crawling.

-Respawning enemies can be tricky at first. Watch your back if you are advancing slowly.

Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:32:51 2019 No.6038807

>>6038794
The clarity is good in Super C but some other games can get a bit unclear. Just play Hard Corps Uprising, it's a game that lets you go very fast and rewards you for it. Rebirth's twitchy too but suffers from visibility issues. The most twitchy game in the series is actually Super Contra arcade on the hardest setting which turns it into a constant assault of randomized respawning enemies but you have to get over so many flaws to have fun with it that I wouldn't recommend it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:43:30 2019 No.6038831 >>6038757 Play the original Contra game.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:45:48 2019 No.6038837 >>6038757 you don't. go play metal slug.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:47:00 2019 No.6038840 >>6038837 and then there is THIS faggete

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:48:32 2019 No.6038843 >>6038757 You get the game and then play

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:49:01 2019 No.6038846 Press Start.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:53:17 2019 No.6038853 Shattered Soldier sucks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:53:38 2019 No.6038856 >>6038837 based

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 15:54:19 2019 No.6038858 Was that "Dudebro 2"-parody-game evr released?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:14:36 2019 No.6038889 >>6038837 Honestly, yeah. Why play Contra when you can play Metal Slug, Gunstar, Alien Soldier or even Mega Man.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:16:47 2019 No.6038892 >>6038889 Because Super C is more fun than any game in any of those series?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:19:36 2019 No.6038893 >>6038889 >Metal Slug Lacks 60 fps, has worse controls >Gunstar, Alien Soldier Lack good gameplay >Mega Man Not even the same genre you nigger

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:23:57 2019 No.6038901 >>6038893 >alien soldier >lacks good gameplay

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:24:35 2019 No.6038903 >>6038901 That game is absolute dogshit and clearly unfinished, fuck outta here

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:37:38 2019 No.6038923 >>6038903 >Mom, I posted it again!

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:38:17 2019 No.6038924 >>6038901 >flame dash and milk health with counter force to win shit game sempai

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:45:44 2019 No.6038936 >>6038924 actually it's spelled "senpai"

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:51:19 2019 No.6038953 >>6038889 Alien Soldier isn't even close to a run-and-gun. It's really a full-game boss rush with almost nothing in between the bosses.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 16:55:26 2019 No.6038968 File: 355 KB, 630x475, contra-hard-corps.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that time Konami beat Treasure at their own game

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 17:11:46 2019 No.6038985 >>6038757 Play these... Gunstar heroes Metal Slug Contra nes/arcade Super Contra --------------------- Avoid Contra 3 If u really liked gunstar heroes- contra hard corps Contra 4 Ps2 Contra

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 17:14:53 2019 No.6038995 >>6038985 All those games under Avoid are good though. >b-b-but boss rush BAD Git. Gud. Kid.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 17:27:15 2019 No.6039013 >>6038757 Enjoy.... OP.... Get IT on

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 17:29:53 2019 No.6039017 Contra's trash on anything other than the NES. Even the arcade versions of 1/Super suck

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 17:57:27 2019 No.6039049 >>6039017 It's not the only Konami game that was better on NES/Famicom. TwinBee on Famicom was also better than the arcade original.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 18:07:34 2019 No.6039069 >>6039017 I prefer arcade Contras. The stages are more of a drag on the NES.

Anonymous Thu Nov 28 22:00:11 2019 No.6039361

>>6038757
By playing the games.

Here are the ones worth playing:

Contra (NES)
Super C (NES)
Contra III: The Alien Wars (SNES)
Contra: Hard Corps (Genesis)
Operation C (Gameboy) [this isn't on par with the others mentioned above, but I figure it's worth trying at the very least]

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 28 23:40:49 2019 No.6039480 >>6038757 rip your shirt off like Hulk Hogan before playing the game

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 00:23:49 2019 No.6039547 >>6038757 Contra 1 is impossible to beat without the 30 men code

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 00:31:11 2019 No.6039558 >>6039547 get a load of this shitplayer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 29 03:21:26 2019 No.6039802 Watch Rambo than Commando

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 03:48:21 2019 No.6041852 >>6038757 Run to the right Shoot things Try not to die

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 04:13:29 2019 No.6041871 >>6039547 lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 04:24:07 2019 No.6041882 File: 137 KB, 736x1050, 5f07c49008b6778eb2172cbf72fdc4b3--action-game-jungle-theme.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] why can't the game be as good as the art?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 08:52:24 2019 No.6042214 >>6038758 fpbp

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 30 16:54:07 2019 No.6043137 >>6038757 I remember playing something similar in PS1 before, I forgot the name but the only thing I remember is there is a weapon called plama on it I think. No, its not the Appaloosa Contra.

Anonymous Sat Nov 30 21:28:19 2019 No.6043727
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>>6041882
>a game in which a Schwarzenegger analogue and a Rambo analogue do battle with the Alien on the set of Predator
>implying that anything ever could live up to plagiarism on that scale

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