FACT: Shmups are one of the only game genres that are for people with jobs>respects your time (most seesions would be 30-45min MAX)>non-stop action>dense gameplayIt's true.People who complain about having no time for games are always the ones playing 100h+ open world games with braindead gameplay.inb4>Yeah bro, I want to stress even more after working>my life is stressful that means I don't have any energy to do anything actually fun on my free timeWho lives like that, like their whole life is>go to work and feel like shit>spend whole night decompressing>rinse and repeat
Cute anime girls owe me sex.
>>739273004Sick fuck.
>>739272894How is it the "only" genre?You also have rhythm games and fighting games that deliver instant dense action on demand and through short bursts.But anyways, I agree. The genres I play changed a lot after I got a girlfriend and started getting more busy with work. You end up focusing on games that you can play in short bursts.
>>739272894So they're the same as gacha and idle games where you do nothing and win.
The same thing applies to all arcade games. The difference being that shmups are for autistics, bmups for depressives, fighters for manic-depressives, and puzzlers for psychos.
>>739272894Is deathsmiles good? The fact that it's a side scroller kind of puts me off
>>739273390It's not for beginners. While it is deceptively easy to clear, the actual fun difficulty in the game where you play it for real is not
>>739272894so do you have a job op?
>>739273905No.
shmups have you constantly doing somethingthe gameplay is guiding your little dude (whatever it is, usually a fighter jet or something) through a field of moving glowing light patterns and hoping you don't get blowed up.weirdly enough entire fanbases sprung up providing lore to shmups which isn't in the games, hinted at anywhere, it's like the entire way they try to claim the lore is accurate is saying "ZUN messaged it to me while he was in a drunken stupor"
>>739274872ZUN wrote books and there's manga though also the games were shipped with txt files that have lore
>>739273390It's outstanding. Enemies attacking from both sides feels super fun. It feels more dynamic than games where enemies mostly come from one direction. Shooting left or right feels natural after a few minutes. Bullets are slower than your average Cave game so you can position yourself near the center of the screen in the middle of the shit. Stages are beautifully designed and often scroll up or down. There's a giant castle with enemies stationed on ramparts and grand staircases and an erupting volcano where you have to descend through tight rock formations with lava and rubble exploding everywhere and a nonstop barrage of enemies.The music and visuals are great. I love the shiny skulls and jewelry that spew out of enemies when you kill them. There's a lot of slowdown (at least on the new port which is supposed to be more accurate, not sure about the older ones) when there's numerous bullets and enemies on the screen which I love and it enables you to weave through crazy patterns sometimes.The game has a fairly normal difficulty curve. It's one of the easier caves but harder than Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu. If you're good you can play the whole game on Rank 3 which activates death mode which is extremely cool and add a whole new dimension and skillset to the game (check out Jaimers' level 3 1CC) as well as an optional extremely difficult EX level before the final stage that also upgrades the final stage to be even harder than the EX level. It also has a cool scoring system if going through the hardest route isn't enough for you. I could see myself putting hundreds of hours into this game.If you like other Cave shmups you'll enjoy deathsmiles unless you just autistically hate horizontal shmups. I've only played Deathsmiles II for a few minutes. It's uglier and generally but has some cool bullet patterns.If you're not on a budget the more expensive Deathsmiles I+II bundle on steam has better input lag and slowdown n some other stuff.
>>739273390The vibe is great but the loli stuff is off-putting, if you can get over that it's a great game, awesome soundtrack
Someone who has a job doesn't spend his time making the same threads over and over again.
Progress with garegga: stage 6 post-fortressI dropped my chain in stage 4 unfortunately, but obviously since it's a practice run that does not matter. I have no idea what the fuck to even do in stage 5 if I don't have medals though, I kinda just flailed around and twiddled my thumbs. Didn't practice anything after fortress yet so I kinda just died shortly after and then after I lost homing it was basically hopeless. I can upload the replay if anyone cares, it's very sloppy but I'll take whatever advice I can get
>>739272894I play mostly rhythm games and there is a huge crossover with shmup fags but they always rub me the wrong way, idk just something a little too autistic. if I had to 1cc a single shmup in my lifetime what should it be? please do not say this loli game
>>739275652Boku no Pico
>>739275652>I play mostly rhythm games and there is a huge crossover with shmup fags but they always rub me the wrong way, idk just something a little too autistic. if I had to 1cc a single shmup in my lifetime what should it be? please do not say this loli gameWhat rhythm games do you like?consult this list and choose based on aesthetics and vibes. https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=56114&sid=dc177f791a6a8d10c1e2bc057eb90af9Mushihimesama original was my first clearThe crossover with rhythm games is touhou, if you only want one the best one to clear of those is touhou8 eternal night
>>739275652batrider
>>739275652>if I had to 1cc a single shmup in my lifetimeThere does not exist such a quintessential gameYou must choose for yourself
>>739275973Isn't it dodonpachi?
>>739275506genres have millions of fans each?
>>739276016Nah and love it but I wouldnt make someone 1cc any of them as if it was some sort of sacred game, some people fucking hate it.
>>739276016It's the granddad of bullet hells in specific, and although it's still good, it is far surpassed by many other games
I started playing R-Type Delta, that modern port, but I don't know, I'm not really a fan of the R-Type style. I don't even feel like going back to the game, and I haven't even played for two hours yet.I also started playing Gunbird 2, and that game is pretty good, but it's really hard. The "Very Easy" difficulty is twice as hard as the "Normal" difficulty in Gunbird 1.
>>739276124based gunbird chadjust started going for the 1cc in 1 yesterday. wonderful game.
>>739276124>but it's really hardUse this route unironicallyhttps://youtu.be/wRnw8BAhZd0
>>739272894for me, it's Windia
>>739275652ZeroRanger
>>739276296>2:36-2:44my nigga really just sits still and wins for 8 seconds
>>739276657gunbird has a lot of blind spot cheese
>>739275920DDR, Taiko, SDVX. obviously heard plenty of touhou but seems like they're kind of unique for shmups in general yeah? actually the beetle one is probably the one I see recommended the most
>>739272894Is this the thread?
It's true that I don't have time for games. But I watch Twitch streams 12h a day.
>>739275652Metal Slug
If you're playing shmups on a telephone, you will never in a trillion years experience the game.
>>739275652Ketsui is widely considered the best shmup of all timeDon’t listen to this guy. Why would you pick western indieslop instead of a cave game if you could only play one game>>739276363
I'm gonna try dipping my toes into Shmups. I've only really played and liked Ikaruga but not enough to replay and git gud.I heard Touhou 6 through 8 were good intros so I got themI wouldn't mind any other reccs
>>739278174Eden's Aegis. It's a free and easy Cave style game.https://xxgameroom.itch.io/edens-aegis
I've beaten Super R-Type on Novice
>>739277347phat(sex)
>>739277063Konami has some good ones like Crisis Force and Nostradamus. They are not world renowned but they are neat.Taiko has Touhou songs and Namco has some shmups but I didnt play them yet. Touhou isn't unique, it's just not arcade. Some people here hate it but I think it's fine. Yeah the beetle one Mushihimesama is good
ok chetty with the dunk and roar
>>739273159Rhythm games are largely only for weebs since it's apparently impossible to revive Guitar Hero worth a damn (Rock Band is SOL because people don't like hanging out in person anymore)Fighting games are also normie Kryptonite since they involve needing to be good and always aiming for improvement
racing is the best arcade genre
shmups are the most nihilistic genre of games
>>739276685It has a lot of precise setups, some being less obvious than others, but it's good to learn about that shit in general
>>739280178Yes. When you really get into one of them even years later it all comes back very quickly.
>>739280527That's not what that means little bro>>739280410Yeah so far it's different from all of the other shmups I played
>>739272894>>respects your time (most sessions would be 30-45min MAX)ERMMMMARINO your hekin WHOLESOME 2nd looperarino?
shooters died for a reason. infinite high skill ceiling makes casuals not play it (no popular streamers will play it because they all suck dick at games.) gen z needs to be told by their favorite streamer or sloptuber what games are good (none of them play shooters because they are bad at games)
>>739280652>Yeah so far it's different from all of the other shmups I playedYou can apply it all in harder shmups, it's kind of a nice intro because the applications are a lot more obvious, like the stage 6 boss has a big intersecting shot that's hard to dodge, and it's pattern changes based upon where I'm standing so its clearly aimed, so what visual indicators do I use to make the start of the pattern easier and more consistent? Can I use the background? Can I line my shot up with something? Stuff like that.
>>739281215your mork sub?
>>739278174batsugun specialalso angel at dusk has the best tutorial i have ever seen
>>739278287>>739281301Noted thanks
>>739281215We get like 50 new shmups a year
Wonder Boy at HEYhttps://www.youtube.com/live/Ii5u2wwAg2I
Rtype 3 remake worth it?
>>739285046Its what Irem fans deserve
>>739272894First of all "shooter" word belongs to FPS Second of all bullet hell and heaven belong to cool indie like Vampire Survivors and enter the gungeonThirdly and mostly dense gameplay doesn't existShmups are irrelevant why did they stop making them after xbox 360 died? I bet that stupid piece of shit microslop supported this dying genre. Thankfully they are dead just like shmup losers are
>>739276124>>739276238Psikyo supremacy.
thank SCIENCE that Konami has M2 so they can get proper gradius strand like type games instead of bad revivals like r-type
>>739274872The hilarious thing is, to spite this anon, the proper(non-fandom) touhou wiki is probably one of the best-documented, best-sourced fan wikis in existence.The benefit of having a primary fanbase composed entirely of severe autistics is they put in the work. Embarassing and humiliating spoutmouth anons is a funny side-benefit.
>>739278287Same devs as Blue Wish Resurrection.
>>739286243God fucking damn, R-Type Final 2/3 was so fucking bad. Final 1 wasn't a masterpiece but at least it was pretty to look at most of the time, had various detailed environments, and was generally pretty fair with a minimal amount of "R-Type bullshit." Final 2 was just eurojank, a failed attempt at what makes R-Type great. The stage designs got more and more basic as the game went on. It's a sad shame when a 30-something year old game is more interesting to look at than a modern game in its same series. Fucking shame.
>>739281130nobody plays the 2nd loop
>>739273390I like it even though I usually hate sidescrollers. It has a lot of effort put into its visual clarity, and the familiar system makes it a lot easier to deal with enemies above and below you compared to most other horizontal shmups. Also the soundtrack is great and the girls are cute.
>>739272894Are shmups still fun if you manage to 1cc them or does each subsequent playthrough play out the same way because you've memorized everything?
>>739289948the hard ones are still ass clenching just from the difficulty alone not even including any high score chaining systems
