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NEC PC-Engine/SuperGrafx => PC Engine/SuperGrafx Discussion => Topic started by: spenoza on June 01, 2011, 06:18:24 AM
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I figured I'd expand here on the "favorite soldier weapon" thread.
My favorite weapon setups are:
Gunhed/BL
>Bullets w/ homing missiles - you get 8 instead of 4, and if you grab several homing powerups the missiles get faster
>Ring blaster with Fullfire
>Waves with Fullfire
AeroBlasters
>Red missile - A number of people prefer green because it can loop back, but it has a poor turning radius. Red is stronger and can veer up and down almost instantaneously.
>Six-shot - powerful and easy to hit things with
Nexzr
>Everything
Gate of Thunder
>Earthquake - my favorite weapon by far
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Orange-Orange-Green (or Orange-Green-Green) in Spriggan.
And the CDs in Star Parodier, because they're pretty.
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bubbles.
lots of bubbles.
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Dead Moon:
-Red weapon + spinning shields for most of the game, but green weapon for most bosses... I usually use the Red weapon for the skeleton boss of level 6 (because of the wide spread and high damage rate), then change to the Green weapon right before the final boss (penetration powa!)
Lords Of Thunder:
-Earth Armor for everything but Dezant, Fire Armor for Dezant
Gate Of Thunder:
-Earthquake for 99% of the game; Sonic Boom for the diagonal descent in Crown, Lightning for the back attacks in Base and Crown Core
Sidearms:
-Shotgun for almost the entire game; MBL for the bosses of levels 4, 6, 7, and 8; three-way for the level 9 boss
Blazing Lazers:
-Weapon III + shields
Air Zonk:
-The Cards and the Lightning Bolts
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Now I'm going to have to play through those games again with your favorites to see if I can get any farther in them.
Excellent post, Rover.
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Raiden
>Spread with power missiles
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For me the most fun powerup in any shooter is the red pod of image fight 1 & 2. Its incredibly fun to pull off a deft maneuver and end up with the pods facing exactly the way you want them. Easily my favorite video game powerup of all time.
Image fight series
>red pods with green ring lazer or homing lazer
Cyber core
>red form
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Aldynes - I enjoy watching the kickback of the drone guns when they're on seeker mode.
Super Raiden - Laser and homing missiles.
Dead Moon:
-Red weapon + spinning shields for most of the game...
Ditto. The best.
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I figured I'd expand here on the "favorite soldier weapon" thread.
Nexzr
>Everything
This! :P
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Let's see if I can remember some:
Blazing Lazers- Weapon III + shields or Weapon I full power + Homing Missiles.
Lords of Thunder- Earth Armor for pretty much the entire game...it blows stuff up real good.
Gate of Thunder- Earthquake for the same reason above.
Air Zonk- Playing Cards or Homing Missiles.
Raiden- Laser + homing Missiles.
I'll update some more when I remember them.
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Rise from your grave!
Star Parodier - PC Engine + Homing Missiles + Spinning Controllers
Gradius 2 - Ripple Laser + Missiles that fire up and down + Force Field
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I like the green missile for most parts of Aeroblasters.
I prefer CDs and Pads with a PC Engine in Star Parodier because of the cool factor.
My favorite LoT weapon for looks is Fire, but Earth armor works best. I like to pick random weapons or ones that I think will be least effective to challenge myself.
Parodius: Penguin with Options and Ripple.
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Well, you should change things up in the games, but I love....
RAIDEN: BLUE LAZER + FORWARD MISSILES
TIGER HELI (NES): SIDEWAYS HELI's + Homing Missiles (hahahhahhahah...no, FORWARD EVERYTHING!)
BLAZING LAZERS: Someone said it already...FULLFIRE when it is just a BLUE COMET OF DEATH shooting forward. You can have this with Ring Blaster (BUT IT IS LAME, who needs protection from RingBlaster) so it's way more fun to go 8-WAY PEASHOOTER! FullFire comet still works with this, IIRC.
GRADIUS: LAZERS + DOPPLEGANGERS + 2 SPEEDUPS (typical and lame, but damn, what else was I going to say)
OK I'M TIRED...
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Salamander - straight laser/missile
Psycho Chaser - heat seeking lightning and the 8 way when you're fully powered up