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MissaFX

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Best PC-E shooters?
« on: November 30, 2007, 01:17:43 PM »
I was wondering what shooters for the PC-E people love.  The main reason I am interested in a PC-E is for 2-D shooters so it would be wonderful to know which cards to be looking for.  Oh I am mostly interested in card based games, but CD games are fine to include too.

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2007, 01:26:54 PM »
I love all the games in the soldier series. Gunhed, soldierblade, final soldier, superstarsoldier. all good. I also love pc Denjin; one of the best games on the console  8)

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2007, 02:33:39 PM »
CD ranking (which of course are superior over the card shooters :P):
1. gate of thunder
2. seirei senshi spriggan
3. winds of thunder
4. star parodia
5. ginga fukei densetsu sapphire

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1. R-Type
2. super star soldier
3. magical chase
4. gunhed
5. soldier blade
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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2007, 02:48:35 PM »
Space Harrier is a very atypical shooter, but is my favorite. Best game ever (where do you think my avatar came from?)!

Air Zonk (PC Denjin in Japan) is pure bliss. The whole Gunhed/Soldier series is good. My least favorite is Super Star Soldier, try the others first. Download is an good horizontal shooter with an interesting storyline. Psychosis (Paranoia in Japan) is superb. Mr. Heli is an awesome shooter that is more difficult than it's cute-ish overtones let on. Aero Blasters (Air Buster) is good. Everyone enjoys a good run through Darius.

The list goes on and on and on but those are some good carts to get started with.

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2007, 02:54:44 PM »
CD:
Gradius 2
L-Dis
Hellfire S
R-Type Complete
Super Darius 2

Hu-Card:
Gradius
Salamander
Final Soldier
Gunhed/Blazing Lasers
Aero Blasters

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2007, 04:29:44 PM »
Silent Debuggers. :P


Seriously, that game is crack.
But yeah, also TG-16 R-Type is cool, as well as Gradius. I REALLY REALLY want to try Sapphire!

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2007, 04:33:15 PM »
In addition to fine shmups already mentioned:

Dead Moon
Parodius
Raiden

and if you want a polarizing shooter, try Deep Blue.  You'll either love it, or hate it.
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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2007, 04:40:24 PM »
You'll either love it, or hate it.

They said that about Tom Goes To The Mayor, and I used to hate it, but now I like it.

So I'll eventually like Deep Blue?

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2007, 04:51:14 PM »
I don't know what you're talking about, so my answer is yes, no, maybe so.
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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2007, 04:51:46 PM »
Gate of Thunder.
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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2007, 01:34:18 AM »
Detana!! Twin Bee

By far the worst port of this game, but still pretty good. Twin Bee can never be bad.

Also: Beware of Gunhed.

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2007, 04:52:41 AM »
Also: Beware of Gunhed.

What's wrong with Gunhed?
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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #12 on: December 01, 2007, 07:03:48 AM »
Nothing, he's trolling. Gunhed is awesome. Although, some people complain because level 2 is "too long."

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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #13 on: December 01, 2007, 07:26:20 AM »
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What's wrong with Gunhed?

 Nothing. It's a great game and a Compile classic.

 In no particular order:


 Hucards

 1941 - pure fun (SGX system)
 1943 - classic fun
 Aero Blasters - great game and port
 AirZonk - great game
 Aldynes - awesome (SGX system)
 Atomic Robo kid - only decent
 Blazing Lazers / Gunhed - awesome game
 Bouken Danshaku Don - weird difficult fun
 Burning Angels - ... haven't played it, but looks like top view classic fun
 Coryoon  - hardcore cutesy fun, Zonk's engine was based on this game (supposedly)
 Cyber Core - classic and fun
 Diasenpu - decent at best but still some fun.
 Darius Plus - "classic" Darius fun.
 Dead Moon - fun but average. Also - anything that isn't supposed to be there, the aliens put there.
 Deep Blue - masochistic side of you would enjoy it.
 Detana!! Twin Bee - great fun.
 Download - nice game
 Dragon Saber - classic
 Dragon Spirit - pre-classic.
 Fantasy Zone - pre-classic Sega fun
 Final Baster - looks like top-view fun.
 Final Soldier - more Soldier fun.
 Armed F - hard and not fun.
 Gokuraku Chuka Daisen - side view fun
 Gradius - classic fun.
 Heavy Unit - total shit.
 Hana in the sky - ???
 SideArms - great classic fun
 ImageFight - hard kind of fun?
 Kiki Kai Kai - top view like Undeadline - decent I guess
 Kyuukyoku Tiger - Tiger Heli top view action.. that means it's a slooow type of game(think Raiden but slower?).
 Magical Chase - very fun. US version > JP version if you can afford it.
 Metal Stoker - Granada style action!
 Mr. Heli - .... wtf
 Ordyne - cutesy fun, but average at best.
 Override - awesome hucard.
 P-47 -   meh..
 Paranoia/Psychosis - great fun.
 Parodius - sweet game. This is an awesome port. One of the top Hucards next to SF2...
 Power Gate - sucks eggs. Might suck something else, too...
 Psycho Chaser - might be top-view fun - dunno
 Rtype - masochisticly fun, believe me-you-me
 Rabio - Flying rabbit side scrolling shooter. What else to say?
 Raiden - very fun.. if you like this kind of shooter (slow and hard)
 Rock on - crap, total crap.
 Salamander - great classic fun
 Sinistron - hard classic fun
 Tatsujin - super duper hard
 Saint Dragon - arcade port.... never played it
 Super Star Solder - I love this game. It's got its own vibe from the others in the series.
 Soldier Blade - Still the best in the series. More difficult than SSS.
 Terra Cresta II - the sequel!...
 Thunder Blade - ass, total ass.
 Toilet Kids - much fun.. OK, decent at best :P
 Toy Shop Boys - fun little shooter but decent at best
 W-Ring - nice lil' sleeper shooter - lots o' fun. This should have come out state side.
 Xevious - classic.
 
 
 CDs

 Gate of Thunder - very fun if you're new to it. For us old timers, it got old after the 100th time beating this packin.
 Ai Cho Aniki - pretty fun (unless you're a complete homophobe).
 Avenger - fun but decent at best
 Super AirZonk - fun, but not as spectacular as the prequel. I admit that I haven't beaten this game, so ...
 Cho Aniki - awesome game. Better than the sequel
 Cotton - awesome game. Definitely top choice of SCD or Hucards.
 Daisenpu Custom - more meh...
 Download II - cool/fun but some parts look terrible...
 Final Zone II (US) - a shooter hybrid - fun too. Some of the most bitch-slapping cinemas you'll ever see...
 Forgotten Worlds - flicker, but great port with nice graphics. Lot's of fun. The sound track kicks ass.
 Sapphire - Impressive game, lot's of animation, kick ass sound track, just not as fun as some other shooters after you've played it for a while.
 God Panic - bizarre shooter.
 Gradius 2 - lovely game. Lovely.
 Hawk F-123 - .... looks lame
 Hellfire -  decent at best. Nice cinemas though...
 SideArms Special - more SideArms fun!
 ImageFight II - upgraded hardness
 Kiaiden 00 - kick ass game. Get it. Top Choice PCE game.
 L-Dis - decent at best, cutesy shooter.
 Legion - Oh god....
 Lords of Thunder - Awesome game. Better than GOT, but fantasy setting this time (I would have preferred GOT setting for this game though).
 Macross 2036 - I love this shooter (and no, it's not because I'm biased). Get it.
 Metamor Jupiter - great game. The gfx are of an older style though - strange.
 Mystic Formula - like Undeadline. Decent, but nothing to write to your girl/boy/other friend about.
 Nexzr - great game, hard is a bit of an understatement.
 Psyhic Storm - it's an average game, but still I love it. It's caulk full of funness and great sound track to boot.
 Rayxanber 2 - great game if it wasn't so damn hard (and cheap). I have an invincibility patch for this game...
 Ranxanber 3 - average difficulty, great sound track, nice graphics, fun game. One of my favs...
 R-Type collection - RType in CD with new sound track and cinemas... what else to say?
 Seirei Senshi Spriggan - f*cking kick ass shooter that I could never find/order back in the day. An CD 2.0 game that's more impressive than some CD 3.0 games
 Spriggan Mark 2 - One of my all time favorite shooters. Like Target Earth or Cybernator, but as a shooter. I love this game. (Beat it on the Hard/Super hard settings to get the *real* last boss and better ending).
 Star Parodia - awesome game. Get this game. The Parodius series of Hudson.
 Steam Hearts - it has some nice graphics, but pretty hard and kind of soulless.
 Alzadic - Don't remember much on this one... hehe Alzadick...
 Super Darius - better than the hucard version, baby!
 Super Darius 2 - better than Super Darius, baby!
 Super Raiden - better than hucard version, baby!
 TerraForming - decent game, but not much replay value. The game has some nice graphics, but since it's a cd 2.0 game, it's got a lot of repeatitive tiles through out each stage. Still - nice graphics.
 Sylphia - this is a great game. I love the sound track too. Too bad the price is beyond reason.
 Zero Wing - a CD 2.0 game released in 12/1992. Not very impressive at all.
 
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Re: Best PC-E shooters?
« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2007, 08:52:20 AM »
Nothing, he's trolling. Gunhed is awesome. Although, some people complain because level 2 is "too long."

No. It's a bad game, that's all. Everybody hates it... except you guys.