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Vertical / Horizontal PC shooters recommendations.
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Kingston
Arcane
Ahh man, I remember playing Raptor back in the day. That game was goddamned awesome. Had a great soundtrack too.
Vidder
Liturgist
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Try this:
http://www.soldner-x.com/
http://www.soldner-x.com/
Burning Bridges
Enviado de meu SM-G3502T usando Tapatalk
The Rambling Sage
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Well, since some mentioned R-Type and Raptor...
Try Touhou Project. It is one of the best, if not THE best, Doujin Shmup series ever. It is not military, though.
It is a "Danmaku" or "bullet hell" kind of Shmup: Only a very small part of your character, known as a Hitbox, is actually vulnerable and the screen will get literaly buried in enemy bullets through which you need to maneuver your Flying Miko Loli. The scoring system is pretty complex, so you will need to look around the 'net (or ask the comunity) about it once you are able to 1cc the damn thing and want to start playing for score.
Note that all the assets on the main games are done by a single japanese guy, so while some areas really shine (like the music) other areas are really crappy (like the official character art). At least he is getting somewhat better at drawing the girls.
Ah, yes. That's another point you may dislike: EVERYTHING in the Touhou series is a seven-hundred-years-old Loli, from the main characters to the bosses to the normal enemies inhabiting the stages. Every single bloody thing. That means the western Touhou comunity has a greater than normal Girl-To-Guy rate, but also that it has a greater than normal lolicon-to-normal and otaku-to-normal rates.
The games also have an amazing comunity if you are into meeting weird people. The games are being translated by the fans, there are thousands of fan works (from fanfics and fanart to musical arranges and entire games) and from time to time the comunity can get spooky levels of fanatism - The Fallout fanatism in The Codex is nothing in comparison. The comunity is so amazing that if you like the Touhou-verse you will never get bored or find yourself without nothing to do, and some of the "Fan games", Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Touhou Soccer 2 being the main examples, are pretty amazing in their own right.
The following links are some videos of my favorite stages from my favorite Touhou games. Note that the non-boss parts of some videos may be fast-forwarded, since the main attraction are the boss fights.
Imperishable Night, Extra Stage.
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Final Stage.
Perfect Cherry Blossom, Final Boss. Played (abused?) by GIL, one of the better Touhou players ever.
Shoot the Bullet, Stage 10-8.
That's enough. Give them a try, there are demos floating around and neither the Torrents nor the Direct Downloads are hard to find. You can later buy them if you want to support a pretty amazing one-man-developing-team.
And since we are talking Danmaku Shmups, there we go with some other ones you may like:
Exceed 2nd Vampire Rex, Last Stage.
Trouble Witches, Fifth Stage. They are making an English Version of this one, i believe.
Gundemonium Recollection, First Stage. Amazingly dificult game, even in novice mode. Pretty awesome, though.
Gundeadligne, Third Stage. EVIL game. It will make you cry a lot. Made of pure, hot awesome.
Try Touhou Project. It is one of the best, if not THE best, Doujin Shmup series ever. It is not military, though.
It is a "Danmaku" or "bullet hell" kind of Shmup: Only a very small part of your character, known as a Hitbox, is actually vulnerable and the screen will get literaly buried in enemy bullets through which you need to maneuver your Flying Miko Loli. The scoring system is pretty complex, so you will need to look around the 'net (or ask the comunity) about it once you are able to 1cc the damn thing and want to start playing for score.
Note that all the assets on the main games are done by a single japanese guy, so while some areas really shine (like the music) other areas are really crappy (like the official character art). At least he is getting somewhat better at drawing the girls.
Ah, yes. That's another point you may dislike: EVERYTHING in the Touhou series is a seven-hundred-years-old Loli, from the main characters to the bosses to the normal enemies inhabiting the stages. Every single bloody thing. That means the western Touhou comunity has a greater than normal Girl-To-Guy rate, but also that it has a greater than normal lolicon-to-normal and otaku-to-normal rates.
The games also have an amazing comunity if you are into meeting weird people. The games are being translated by the fans, there are thousands of fan works (from fanfics and fanart to musical arranges and entire games) and from time to time the comunity can get spooky levels of fanatism - The Fallout fanatism in The Codex is nothing in comparison. The comunity is so amazing that if you like the Touhou-verse you will never get bored or find yourself without nothing to do, and some of the "Fan games", Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and Touhou Soccer 2 being the main examples, are pretty amazing in their own right.
The following links are some videos of my favorite stages from my favorite Touhou games. Note that the non-boss parts of some videos may be fast-forwarded, since the main attraction are the boss fights.
Imperishable Night, Extra Stage.
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Final Stage.
Perfect Cherry Blossom, Final Boss. Played (abused?) by GIL, one of the better Touhou players ever.
Shoot the Bullet, Stage 10-8.
That's enough. Give them a try, there are demos floating around and neither the Torrents nor the Direct Downloads are hard to find. You can later buy them if you want to support a pretty amazing one-man-developing-team.
And since we are talking Danmaku Shmups, there we go with some other ones you may like:
Exceed 2nd Vampire Rex, Last Stage.
Trouble Witches, Fifth Stage. They are making an English Version of this one, i believe.
Gundemonium Recollection, First Stage. Amazingly dificult game, even in novice mode. Pretty awesome, though.
Gundeadligne, Third Stage. EVIL game. It will make you cry a lot. Made of pure, hot awesome.
DraQ
Arcane
Tyrian (true vertical scroller).
Turrican 1-2 (get c64 or Amiga emulator).
Another World (not shmup, but hell, try it).
Take No Prisoners - top-down view, running around, shooting things and watching them explode in fountains of gore, not exactly a scroller though).
Also, BloodyPuppy -> illiterate.
Turrican 1-2 (get c64 or Amiga emulator).
Another World (not shmup, but hell, try it).
Take No Prisoners - top-down view, running around, shooting things and watching them explode in fountains of gore, not exactly a scroller though).
Also, BloodyPuppy -> illiterate.
Admiral Rimjob POOBUM
Arcane
Ikaruga, Radiant Silvergun, Einhander. Einhander is PSX, I think the other two can both be found on Arcade. Not really military, but great shmups all.
BloodyPuppy
Scholar
DraQ said:
I just mistook the game he mentioned as that terrible Commandos FPS. How do you not get that?
Applegate's Breasts
Scholar
Smash TV? UN Squadron? Carrier Air Wing? Raiden Fighters? Shadowgrounds?
Dodonpachi on emulator. Everyday Shooter.
Rayhound, Warning Forever.
Esp. Warning Forever.
Dodonpachi on emulator. Everyday Shooter.
Rayhound, Warning Forever.
Esp. Warning Forever.
Korgan
Arbiter
I second Tyrian 2000 and Touhou. The latter is truly insane. I'm playing Imperishable Night on Normal now and there are more bullets on the screen than space between them. Good stuff.
Gerrard
Arcane
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If you also want to try some flash games, try this:
http://www.pixeljam.com/gammabros/
It's goddamn fucking awesome. Great retro-feeling.
http://www.pixeljam.com/gammabros/
It's goddamn fucking awesome. Great retro-feeling.
Demnogonis Saastuttaja
Magister
Metal Slug 3, just because it's so nice to look at.
UN Squadron was very good. I think Cybernator was also a pretty impressive SNES game. Oh, and Doomtroopers : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvq3SZWp ... re=related
Here's Abuse : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj1m6Jt5 ... re=related
If you play Crimsonland, take angry reloader or whatever it was and hold the reload button
UN Squadron was very good. I think Cybernator was also a pretty impressive SNES game. Oh, and Doomtroopers : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvq3SZWp ... re=related
Here's Abuse : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj1m6Jt5 ... re=related
If you play Crimsonland, take angry reloader or whatever it was and hold the reload button
Oh yeah, I forgot that one: Blip & Blop - Balls of Steel.
Cool Metal Slug clone where you have to fight smurfs, carebears, pokemon, lemmings and other cartoons and video games characters. It's free and there is even a two players mode (albeit on the same keyboard, like old time).
Cool Metal Slug clone where you have to fight smurfs, carebears, pokemon, lemmings and other cartoons and video games characters. It's free and there is even a two players mode (albeit on the same keyboard, like old time).
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