Gradius!!!

pintle · Post by **pintle** » 26 May 2007, 21:43

Tyrian wins hands down, but Raptor had a cool easter egg kinda thing, if you installed the shareware distro, and kept it long enough, it started to spawn these nuts gorillas in all the woods, that rapid-fired high damage homing coconuts at you, effectively making it unplayable.
Not as fun and silly as the carrot ship, but still... imo its the kind of care and attention that i feel is missing from a lot of contemporary game developement

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 26 May 2007, 22:18

Banana bomb = win.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 26 May 2007, 23:55

Tyrian puts every other arcade game to shame.

pintle · Post by **pintle** » 27 May 2007, 03:19

1v0ry_k1ng wrote:Tyrian puts every other arcade shooter to shame.

Fixed. Streets of Rage 2 in the arcades pwns all

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 27 May 2007, 03:36

Tyrian and raptor were pretty boring

Life bars :/

zwzsg · Post by **zwzsg** » 28 May 2007, 09:07

pintle wrote:Tyrian wins hands down, but Raptor had a cool easter egg kinda thing

Don't get me started on Tyrian easter eggs. On the easter eggs and hidden bonus count, Tyrian beats any game I ever play.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 28 May 2007, 12:51

I've never heard of Tyrian (2000) other than the name once or twice. It's much better than Raptor.

Anyway from what I've read the first level has three or four secret levels. I've gone to two at least (Jin Roh and some other). And the asteroid route goes through a series of secret levels if you do it right.

Raptor stinks once you have the laser IMO.

Oh yeah, banana bomb + teh juicer ftw.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 28 May 2007, 14:35

DESTRUCT

I think the version I played (4 episodes) had only two secrets for the first level.

I was playing most of the later stages with maxed out lightning (front) and starburst (rear), I think my sidepods were plasma storms most of the time, I always keep at least one of those things around.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 28 May 2007, 14:50

tyrains first level has at least 4 secrets iirc

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 28 May 2007, 17:24

KDR_11k wrote:DESTRUCT

I think the version I played (4 episodes) had only two secrets for the first level.

I was playing most of the later stages with maxed out lightning (front) and starburst (rear), I think my sidepods were plasma storms most of the time, I always keep at least one of those things around.

Tyrian 2000 has 5 episodes and with the patch there's one additional to the three bonus levels in the first level.
edit: 4 episodes, the 5th was made by someone else apparently... gah.

Here's how to get to them and about everything else.
Going to Roh Jin is recommended as you can buy the best shield in the game right before entering the level.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 29 May 2007, 07:42

Did somebody say STREETS OF RAGE!?

zwzsg · Post by **zwzsg** » 29 May 2007, 15:55

Ishach wrote:Tyrian and raptor were pretty boring

Life bars :/

They aren't ultra hard core shmup where mispositionning by a pixel makes you have to restart all, ok. They're more about having fun and enjoying the mindless blasting without having to retry level 1.1 a hundred time. Though if you increase a bit the difficulty setting, ..

rattle wrote:Tyrian 2000 has 5 episodes

I don't like Tyrian 2000, I feel the added episode isn't respectful of the humor, quality, and universe of the original.

I was playing most of the later stages with maxed out lightning (front) and starburst (rear), I think my sidepods were plasma storms most of the time, I always keep at least one of those things around.

I tried once the lightening, but when maxxed they dropped any generator I had found to 0 in one or two seconds. So most of the time, I go laser front (the orange continous one), green wave thing rear, (but set in frontward firing mode), and zicca laser on the sides. But maybe that's more because they have pretty flashy shots than because of their power. I think the small whitish roundish with breads shot, that spread in more horizontal-going shots when hitting, don't remember the name, megapulse or something, I tried once was most powerful front weapon. And I used to have a FrontBlaster, normal or II, instead of dual side zica. I would have liked to have the little ships as sidekick, but sadly they aren't as powerful as some good zicca shot, so I only keep them until I find some better weaponary. But generally, I don't like sidepods with limited ammo.

I think the version I played (4 episodes) had only two secrets for the first level.

Not having found all secrets doesn't mean they are not here. After all, they're secrets!

DESTRUCT

I've spend almost as much time in here than in the rest of tyrian. I love the radar dish thing and its blue shot that go straight and is reflected, I love the red rocket thing and its shots going from the small fast firing to the nuke, and I love the repulsor thing!

RogerN · Post by **RogerN** » 29 May 2007, 19:14

I quite liked the music from Tyrian. It accomplishes a lot with very little. Good video game music is tough to come by :)

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 29 May 2007, 21:10

I go with front either zica or beam laser, rear micro bombs or heavy bombs and sides 2x zica. I have to admit due to the lack of control to the bombs it's difficult to hit something to the sides at times.

Oh, anyone ever finished a level on suicide? Can't kill anything and can't dodge the shots either... so I die like all the time. :(

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 29 May 2007, 22:50

Tyrian was the second computer game I ever played, after Jazz Jackrabbit.

I always like the orange laser in the front, dual zica lasers, a sonic wave (switching between sideways and forward as the situation demands,) and the huge blue laser special ability thing.

I'm gonna have to go get dosbox for this laptop...

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 29 May 2007, 22:52

RogerN wrote:I quite liked the music from Tyrian. It accomplishes a lot with very little. Good video game music is tough to come by :)

Jazz Jackrabbit music > Tyrian music

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 30 May 2007, 01:10

zwzsg wrote:
Ishach wrote:Tyrian and raptor were pretty boring

Life bars :/
They aren't ultra hard core shmup where mispositionning by a pixel makes you have to restart all, ok. They're more about having fun and enjoying the mindless blasting without having to retry level 1.1 a hundred time. Though if you increase a bit the difficulty setting, ..

games arent fun unless they're difficult

zwzsg · Post by **zwzsg** » 30 May 2007, 01:33

Our idea of fun differs. I, for one, am not a masochist.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 30 May 2007, 02:05

I like a challenge.. Zwzsg, do you like cheats.. I hate em unless I already beat the game...

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 30 May 2007, 02:23

That video was sick. First game run I've seen on par with the HL in a half hour spiderwaffle run.

[edit] Now with more video linkage!

Spring RTS Engine

Gradius!!!