fave megadrive shmup?

[Ikagura Ikagura]

all the shmups in the console don't have any fun scoring mechanic and its basically a worthless feature there. you can only play MD shmups for survival really.

I feel that while a scoreboard is mostly a remnant from the arcade (especially in the 8-bits era) people started to drop any score system around the 16-bits to ultimately no longer have them in 32/64-bits games aside from games that are really arcade-like.

It was cool for a game center but for home it's useless (even more when there's no ram to save them upon turning down the console). At least online superplay are a thing for them.

I know they are not meant to be arcades to compete for score. but that its what I find fun of the genre. short games with allot of score dept, and all the MD games are very long and without any score strategy.

I'd argue that SNES games are more about long adventures whereas MD is closer to arcade.

 

[nexy]

I feel that while a scoreboard is mostly a remnant from the arcade (especially in the 8-bits era) people started to drop any score system around the 16-bits to ultimately no longer have them in 32/64-bits games aside from games that are really arcade-like.

It was cool for a game center but for home it's useless (even more when there's no ram to save them upon turning down the console). At least online superplay are a thing for them.


I'd argue that SNES games are more about long adventures whereas MD is closer to arcade.

yeah, im not comparing with other consoles of the time, all shmups for consoles of the time were like this. I mean long because a shmup of 1 hour its tooo much, the best time for a shmup its 25-35 minutes.

I understand no one wanted a scoring game for consoles, the wanted big games to play for months, so do long difficult games hard in memorization to survive was the way, but I like that extra strategic scoring aspect of the genre.

Just wanted to put another layer to the discussion.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

not seeing a lot of love for sega in this thread, so lets talk games!

what is everyones fave shmup on megadrive?

mine is probs panorama cotton :3

It's Thunder Force IV, but I wanna be different so NUH UH, it's actually uhhhhh Insector X! Yeah, this game I haven't played yet