A bit of incline (Hydorah)

[catfood]

Time to incline the world of gaming with some oldsk00l horizontal shooter action. Just found about this one in a Romanian gaming mag. It's quite challenging so I thought it might right up the 'dex's alley.

Looks good too:

It's also freeware.

 

[Trash]

Damn, that looks just like the old msx's nemesis games. Neat.

 

[MapMan]

Thanks! My mom will love it!

 

[Vitriol]

Quality game, difficult and unforgiving. Definitely worth a try.

 

[1eyedking]

Looks like crap.

Cortex Command is where it's at.

 

[Lord Rocket]

Jesus fucking Christ

GUYS STONE SOUP IS BETTER THAN EITHER OF THEM!!!!

(NB. have 2d shmups really declined? Maybe a little bit but I think they have been one of the more resilient genres)

 

[Trash]

Game is damn fine. Really looks, plays and feels like the nemisis of old and is also really unforgiving. I love it. Thanks for the recommendation!

 

[BethesdaLove]

On first playthrough managed to the middle of it but used up all save states.
Second playthrough, I went a little insane! in the water cave level. SRSL FUCKUP.
Bro of mine with whom I play Street Fighter beat it...

 

[zeitgeist]

(NB. have 2d shmups really declined? Maybe a little bit but I think they have been one of the more resilient genres)

All I've seen in a very, very long while are Japanese style bullet hell games, which don't really count. There was only one post-Tyrian Western/PC style shootemup that was even remotely decent - Jets&Guns - and that's about it.

 

[Zomg]

Do any of those jap vertical bullet hell shooters have a sprite for your dude that actually represents the area that can hit? Every time I see one you have like some 40x40 pixel ship and only the 4 pixels in the center can actually be hit, just make the ship a 4 pixel box faggot

 

[Lord Rocket]

Western shooters were generally pretty average (with a few notable exceptions) so that's a yes.

 

[Achilles]

Great game.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Do any of those jap vertical bullet hell shooters have a sprite for your dude that actually represents the area that can hit? Every time I see one you have like some 40x40 pixel ship and only the 4 pixels in the center can actually be hit, just make the ship a 4 pixel box faggot

That would make things more difficult, since you'd lose your ship in the bullets more easily when you look away from it.

So unless you can kill a bullet hell shooter on hardmode without using continues, stfu.

 

[Zomg]

I don't wanna, otherwise I totally could I bet :/

Still though they don't even like make the 4 pixel boxes of mattering a different color inside the enormous sprite of seeing in the epilepsy storm

total misrepresentation dude... total

 

[Damned Registrations]

You mean like the burning white dot with a dark red halo in the middle of the character? Yeah that's so hard to spot. You're one of those people that can't find the hockey puck without a highlighter aren't you?

See also: blue gem on a pure white ship in YGS2000, and glowing orbs in dodonpachi.

 

[Grunker]

Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor:_Ca ... he_Shadows

 

[Zomg]

You mean like the burning white dot with a dark red halo in the middle of the character? Yeah that's so hard to spot. You're one of those people that can't find the hockey puck without a highlighter aren't you?

huh, I never saw a gameplay vid for one with a display for the hitbox

fine, tell me which PC-available game is good for a baby's first bullet hell shooter then. I haven't played one since 1942 (or Tyrian but that doesn't count). I will develop a deep shame for sucking at it and come back with a profound respect for your hobby that will prevent me from trying to be a dick about it on the internet unprovoked

 

[Ulminati]

You mean like the burning white dot with a dark red halo in the middle of the character? Yeah that's so hard to spot. You're one of those people that can't find the hockey puck without a highlighter aren't you?

See also: blue gem on a pure white ship in YGS2000, and glowing orbs in dodonpachi.

Needs moar bloom.

Making the screen look like someone vomited sprites all over my monitor does not constitute compelling gameplay.

 

[Zomg]

I've watched videos of them and they don't strike me as mindless, you have to like for example if on a given screen half the shots track your position and half the shots are fixed patterns, you have to move in such a way that the tracking shots and fixed shots still form voids. It's not pure memorization like you might naively expect just from looking at it and remembering old vert shooters

 

[larpingdude18]

Looks like crap.

Cortex Command is where it's at.

LMAO how the fuck can you even compare the two?

 

[BethesdaLove]

Thats how skyway does it...