Been a while since we'd had one. Tactics Cosmos and the III Dimensions games just came out and Final 2 is getting a new batch of ships
Wait, there's actual mecha (going by what's generally defined as mecha here in /m/) in R-TYPE?
>>23948449There is actually a whole ship line named after Greek myths. That one is Narcissus because it creates decoys of itself. Here we have Hector. The bydo can't have all the giant robots
>>23948449not even ONE. FUCKING. MINUTE. into the game, Jesus fucking Christ...
I actually made a semi choose your own adventure style chatbot recently for R-Type. I wonder if the anon who helped make it with me is around here...
>>23948415I also forgot there was weird little game boy R Type collection that came out too. The III re-release apparently is currently hot garbage from what I hear. And one of the new free ships in Final 2 is another mech ship
>>23948415Tactics had a weird story to it. I really wonder if we're ever going to get more information on the other civilization. The civilization that the humans created baidio replication army to fight.
>>23948510The new collection does continue past 2 but I haven't gotten that far into it. They make you play in order
>>23948449 there's playable mecha, even
neoptolemos just gets the zaku brain joggin for me y'know, just love it
>>23948793It is a cool design
Still lame they locked a ton of shit to the PS5
>>23949588 >that small model kits?
>>23950032Nah you can shrink the player ships and use the models in the weird photo mode thing
i can barely tell how this thing's transformation works
Friendly reminder the Delta has an HD port
>>23951102wasn't it bad?
not delta obviously i mean the quality of the port
Shmups aren't my specialty. I can't beat a single R-Type game but I do like the aesthetics.
>>23952962R Type sort of gets a pass for being a slower paced game. It's more about remembering stage layouts and attack patterns
WHERE IS MY BUMPY TROT 2 NAZCA/GRANZILLA/IREM jr.
>>23954510 what's the gundam-looking thing in the center
>>23954622I want to say the Tabrock
>>23948415Bydo have a much better selection compared to earth forces. Gains are incredibly good in the first game. Doesn't help that earth mecha are super slow.
>>23954659The veritech ships are cool though. Tactics gives them the niche as closer ranger brawlers
>>23954659>First game Are you talking tactics, OG series, or final?
Shouldn't it be called "R-Type III Dimensions"?
>>23954757That niche is already kinda filled by Force type units. >>23954760Tactics. I haven't played Bitter Chocolate so I don't know if it changed anything.
>>23955263Yeah but the force doesn't look as cool
Favorite ship?
>>23961307 if neoptolemos doesn't count... probably strike?
>>23961307R-0 Ragnarok my beloved... Cyclone Force best Force.
>>23961333Yoooo I love that guy. Great design back in the day. Same design philosophy as Metal Storm and the Axelay.
>>23948415Does Final 2 have a proper story or is it just "somehow the Bydo returned"?
>>23961389The game is actually portrayed as a collection of memories and past events. It is not taking place in modern time in that universe.
>>23961418From whose perspective? The Bydo or humanity’s?
>>23961307Pretty much like everything in the roster except some of the bydo ships. They should have blended the biomechanical aspects better than just making a meatball or a frog
>>23962114Humanity. The only time you get Bydo perspective is when you use their progenitors in tactics 2.
>>23963955And what is the Bydo imperative?
>>23964163It's a pretty cool idea. Many years ago there was another civilization seen across the stars and assumed a threat as it defended itself against humanity. To fight this other civilization many many light years away they devised an organism that could replicate humanity and fight in their stead. This was the Bydo. After the other civilization was terminated since the Bydo believed they were human they returned to Earth however they were twisted organisms. Upon their returning to Earth they were seen as humanities enemy and humanity decided to fight against the Bydo, their own creation. Bydo is trying to destroy humanity in turn thinking that humanity is the enemy to their own form of humanity. Does this make any sense?
>>23964367Oh…so Irem ran with the Berserkers concept. Ok.
Those bastards. They nerfed the gains wave attack charge time from one to two. Now I can't spam wave attacks every turn.>>23961307The Patocross. I'm a sucker for ships that can switch to mech form.
Ugh. I forgot you only get one life in R Type Final 2.If you get hit once it will be about a minute before you can get back to gameplay. You slowly watch the game over screen, slowly are asked to save, slowly return to the mission screen, slowly press the mission acceptance button, have to watch the stage intro again. Whose idea was this? Give us more than one ship or a retry button. All the UI is so slow you spend more time in menus than playing the fuckung game. No wonder I uninstalled in years back.
>>23966041Depends on the options
>>23965624good taste
R-Type has all this crazy lore, but it's scattered across a bunch of old untranslated mags and shit...
>>23969072I don't see any options to change it>>23976477Some of it is the game line in super r type the pilots are dismembered and shit and bodies rigged to the seat.
>>23976483It's never mentioned anywhere else, so, it's dubious canon. Plus, we see in later games this isnt the case anyway.
>>23976483It's buried in the difficulty options. I wondered why I had 1 life all of a sudden too. But you can set it to 3
I wonder if R-Type will ever get another game at this point. What else can you even do with it?
>>23978784They could go full 3D and turn it into an arcade flight sim. I don't think they've done that yet.
>>23978813They did that for the PS3 home thing.
>>23978784It's been an uphill fight to get Final 2 and Tactics off the ground. I am happy with what we got considering I thought the series was dead for a decade
>>23976509Oh you have to start a game.1. Start the game so you go to the hangar 2. Select whatever ship you want 3. Select over whatever scenario you want 4. On the difficulty selection screen press L15. Various details about the scenario can modified, however retry count stays set I wonder when they updated this I haven't played final 2 since DLC 3.
>>23976477Yeah, I do wish it was easier to access the lore, from what I've seen it's quite interesting, especially if they could go in more depth on all the different ships they've amassed at this point. I'm not terribly good at these types of games myself but I do find all the ship blurbs I've looked at quite fun.
>>23979426Where do you find information on it. The best I find are those timelines that go over ship development and research stations that find Bydo before the main conflict.
>>23979482Only information I ever found was just stuff from the wiki, and a Japanese wiki that I'm fairly sure was mostly saying the same things, plus a few gameplay related things for the ships. Specifically it was focused on Final 2.
