Is there a reason the genre shifted hard from hori shooters in the '80s to the vert shooters of today? If anything, I would have expected the opposite since a tate setup is easier in a dedicated cabinet.

>>11
My guess would be increased resolution.
Vertical makes a bit more sense for hand eye coordination, but with the small resolution of TVs it was hard to provide enough space in vertical (and make sprites big enough), so they stuck to horizontal.

>>10
That's cool to hear. Didn't know we had other real shmuppers on here. Agreed on your opinion of shmup communities, then can be pretty elitist. Going to be checking out that English version of the new Dangun Feveron port here soon. Cave used to have some iPhone ports which I was surprised to hear were actually good. Looks like they don't work anymore due to lack of maintenance. Never tried a mobile shmup.

>>11
I think it just has more to do with the genre changing than anything. Vertical is simply better when there's lots of bullets.

>>13
Danmaku Unlimited isn't a bad one in the least. Had a good deal of fun with those games, and I'm considering even buying them for PC at one point, since my mid-range phone has issues handling DU3 at times.

I recently picked up Crimzon Clover, along with Darius Burst and DDP Resurrection. I've been stuck on Crimzon a lot, it's a nice little rush of a game, and I can understand now why it has such a great reputation.

R-9 unrelated, but very cool.

I just play Touhou and Galaga. Right now I'm focusing on th5. I play Galaga whenever I go to this one place that has a machine. I got a personal best last time I went, felt good.
Mostly suck at shmups but I like them and want to get better, and branch out.

I watched someone else play it online. It was nice. I think, at least artistically, the game is really amazingly done.

I just wish more people hyping up the new one knew about the first, there's not many people to talk about it with.

I just ordered it, I'll tell you on the 2nd.

I am enjoying it, in a way, though I'll probably never play it

I didn't pick it up because I really did not enjoy the beta. Performance was really poor in the beta; I was not enjoying the mass fog covering every level or the same 4 prefabs copy/pasted all over. Is the final game different?

Xonotic, Red Eclipse, Sauerbraten, SSBM netplay, MUDs, MUCKs (text-only MMOs in a way)

>>1
OP, what games do you play?

>>3
I admit, I'm not a huge gamer. I really only play good-old TF2.

>>4
Oh. That's not open source. But I see.

>>5
Yeah, other than that, I really only play VNs, which don't really count as games. I'm not a gamer.

/a/ has programmed me to just reflexively think:
>streaming

I don't have Steam installed, since I don't care to have the iTunes of gaming: another middleman between me and developers.

Why not just play real table tennis? I'm genuinely curious.

1. I don't have a table in my apartment.

2. I suck at table tennis compared to the characters in the game. I can't hit spin shots and smashes and have extended rallies the way I can in the game, and I don't know any people as good as the AI either. It gives you a tiny taste of world-class table tennis without having to dedicate your life to the sport.

3. Same reason I would play an FPS instead of going out and playing paintball, I suppose. You can enjoy both, but they're two different experiences.

>>3
I see. You're right.

neck yourself loser

about 100 years

>>2
Rude

>>4 over 9000

>Q: What does PU means in my profile?
>A: PU means Power User, you can start, stop any matches, kick anyone even when not host, nobody can kick you. We do not grant Power User to people that ask for Power User. Abuse of this privilege will not be tolerated.

Yeah, the admins sound like a piece of work.

I once made a shmup with a map editor and sprites and all that yadda yadda, but it died in a HDD crash so I can't even find an screenshot. I also made some silly opengl stuff for learning but I don't know if it'll become a game since I don't really know what kind of game to make.

I've been starting various game projects almost my whole life. Never finished one though, I always find some flaw in the concept that would prevent it from ever being a "perfect" game and then I get discouraged.
I may have autism.

>>1
I've been studying Video games design for a 5th year now and I'll be going onto my 6th soon.

It's easy but also hard, many game engines have alot of pre-built packages for you and with a new "Blue print" system sweeping alot of the software its getting easier (Blue prints are pre-built snippets of codes you can drag and drop together in a nice simple way)

You just have to come up with a good idea, fucking you can come up with a good selling app in a 2d game engine if it has a good design to it

>>1
I made a really bad zork/adventure style game once, in some Java class.

I made some games but they were all bad. I've started learning Android development, maybe I can make some games for that and make some money.

can't judge the pricing since it's vapourware, but Serial Experiments Lain seems pretty sick
shame the website's so shit

What do you mean, vapourware? It looks like it was released. And what website are you talking about?

well I guess so, but from what I can tell, it wasn't very popular
I'm talking about the translation hosted at http://laingame.net/, which isn't a patch, but a site that tries to emulate the progression used in the game

Oh, nice. Thanks for the link, it looks pretty cool. I've been meaning to watch the show, so I'll have to try that out afterwards.

alright, good luck figuring it out
basically, you view databases' files with the cancelled Apple "HotSauce" net interface, meant to rival the web that you see through the anime, and you would progressionally unlock pieces of the story and unimportant files
the site does you the "service" of unlocking them all for you, but I just get the feeling that they couldn't figure it all out themselves

LOL OWNED NERDS

Obsoletely hilarious.

HOW CAN ZELDAFAGS EVER RECOVER

Damn you should consider a career as a comedian

I don't care as long as I can play STGs and fightan games