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[rockpad]

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wait space ships are flatchest too!!1

[MassPower]

Gameplay is all that matters, I don't care what or who shoots down stuff

[chk]

I like Space Shooters a bit more, given they came before the lolis. I'm more used to control a vehicle than a person

[El_Richardo]

chk, on 03 November 2011 - 09:16 PM, said:

I like Space Shooters a bit more, given they came before the lolis. I'm more used to control a vehicle than a person

This is true. After all, consider what the very first shooter was...

[General_Tobias]

El_Richardo, on 03 November 2011 - 04:20 PM, said:

The entire issue is pretty neutral for me. On the one hand, Touhou is a big part of my gaming today. On the other hand...

YES. and if anyone here owned a TI-83 for higher level math then you gotta remember Phoenix where this: W was your ship.

[andrena]

Something about the lack of hats and hair accessories just doesn't do bullet hell justic. Irony is a beautiful thing.

[Pemblem]

General_Tobias, on 04 November 2011 - 02:54 AM, said:

YES. and if anyone here owned a TI-83 for higher level math then you gotta remember Phoenix where this: W was your ship.

Personally, I prefer loli, but yes.
I fucking LOVE Phoenix!!! That was pretty much my whole senior math class in a nutshell.
What's that Ms. Teacherson? You want my to study my polynomials? Too bad! I'm too busy studying these aliens to death!

[chk]

El_Richardo, on 03 November 2011 - 09:18 PM, said:

This is true. After all, consider what the very first shooter was...

Good old Space Invaders...I should really get my hands on Infinity Gene now that I have a PS3 ~</p>

[Pedro The Hutt]

Isn't Loli a bit of an insulting term? I'm fairly sure that Reimu and Marisa have entered puberty by now. Along with various other shoot'em-up heroes who are not in a ship but neither prepubescent nor female.

That said, if the game is fun I'll play it, then for all I care the thing doing the shooting is a trumpet rapid firing notes.

[General_Tobias]

Pedro The Hutt, on 18 November 2011 - 04:53 PM, said:

Isn't Loli a bit of an insulting term? I'm fairly sure that Reimu and Marisa have entered puberty by now. Along with various other shoot'em-up heroes who are not in a ship but neither prepubescent nor female.

That said, if the game is fun I'll play it, then for all I care the thing doing the shooting is a trumpet rapid firing notes.

Loli means under 18 to me.

[Napalnman1231]

andrena, on 04 November 2011 - 04:19 AM, said:

Something about the lack of hats and hair accessories just doesn't do bullet hell justic. Irony is a beautiful thing.

Bullet hells don't need hat and hair accessories to be difficult, CAVE is an example of it

Pedro The Hutt, on 18 November 2011 - 04:53 PM, said:

Isn't Loli a bit of an insulting term? I'm fairly sure that Reimu and Marisa have entered puberty by now. Along with various other shoot'em-up heroes who are not in a ship but neither prepubescent nor female.

That said, if the game is fun I'll play it, then for all I care the thing doing the shooting is a trumpet rapid firing notes.

Loli means under 18, but I don't think that the Touhou Wiki recall about their ages, that's just Fanon stuff.
Shmup heroes don't necesary have to accomplish any of the conditions that Pemblem mentions on his poll

Mazin, on 02 November 2011 - 03:25 PM, said:

I prefer manly men shooters such as these:



You sick monster!

Heavy Barrel?, I haven't heard of it, but looks fun, I wonder if is like Commando or Gun.Smoke

[Mazin]

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Heavy Barrel?, I haven't heard of it, but looks fun, I wonder if is like Commando or Gun.Smoke

I'd say--and take this with a grain of salt as I'm terrible at these things--it's a mix between Ikari Warriors and Contra (NES versions, at least), but I'd say Gun.Smoke as well. I really like it, but it, along with Galaga, are my first shooter games, so I'm biased.



On an unrelated note, all this talk about shooters makes me wanna hook up my NES and replay them again.

[Pemblem]

Mazin, on 25 November 2011 - 10:32 PM, said:

On an unrelated note, all this talk about shooters makes me wanna hook up my NES and replay them again.

It kinda makes me want to go play my TurboGrafx. It's insane how many shooters there are for that thing.

[Ghalion]

Sorry if people consider this a necro but IMO, if it's on page 1 it's fair game.

Anyway, the player being a vehicle or a loli makes very little difference to me. A shooter is fun or not to me by it's barrages, mechanics, difficulty, and music.

That being said, loli shooters TEND to be more fun to me (though not always) because I prefer danmaku patterns over manic style ones. What I mean is I prefer slower, dense, and mesmerizing over less dense but fast (and proportionately as difficult).

I also find vehicle shooters tend to be "cheap" by trying to kill you with the camera. For example, maybe a boss has a pattern which makes you want to stay in a certain area that you have no way of knowing (without experience) will become a deathtrap due to the boss deciding to slowly merge to that side of the screen. I find loli shooters tend not to do this unless the boss' movement is an obvious attack in of itself, rather than some unfortunate coincidence.

Space shooters do tend to have more fun powerup/weapon systems though.

Stella vanity is a loli shooter I'm really looking forward to playing though because it has pretty danmaku, fun weaponry, and very different playstyles between characters