>Time stoppers are the fastest thing in fiction
Flash is faster than instantaneous movement.
Why no indie shmups?
Christopher Sullivan
Nicholas Edwards
Or make several overlapping fast attacks with a good flow and some randomization either from bullet trajectory or as a result of boss movement, while keeping good flow and testing different kinds of dodging and reading abilities, you'd know what makes them fun if you played instead of just watching some Touhou replays on youtube.
John Morris
shmups are japanese autism bait, they don't hook western autists unless they are also turboweebs
Josiah Foster
I don't have anything against patterns at all, but I miss stage obstacles. I'm not sure why they fell out of favor.
David Wood
What do stage hazards do that bullet patterns can't do?
Christopher Morris
>No they don't
CAVE told themselves in an interview that designing a boss patterns usually takes 3 weeks of work.
Bentley Brown
Because the games didn't evolve with the times. While bullet hell shmups were adding very dynamic patterns and elaborate scoring systems that really hooked veterans, terrain shooters just stayed the same for the most part very static with simplistic or even broken scoring. Earlier on it was easier to get more casual players invested with nice levels/graphics but once they moved on to 3D console games there needed to be something more. Gradius IV kinda attempted to innovate but it wasn't very popular and had no lasting influence.
Dylan Hill
this, he can win a race before it started
Hudson Cox
We're talking about video games, having different approaches to a single idea is actually a good thing to have. DoDonPachi existing doesn't mean R-Type is redundant.
Cooper Johnson
I mean actual neps, namely