Favorite shoot em' up.

[Souplex]

Ah the Shoot Em' up or Shmup as it came to be known, pure classic reflex testing quater eating co-op fun. Of the Shmups, have hit a low point in the 00s, but they are still more fun than a majority of games coming out today.

What is your favorite Shmup?

Since last time this thread was attempted people somehow thought it was favorite first person shooters, I will provide some example material.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/reviews/5744-Review-R-Type-Dimensions
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24813.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/24813.html

For this thread I am allowing games like contra and metal slug to be Shumps.

 

[oliveira8]

Metal Slug!!!

 

[Souplex]

Last shoot em up game I saw was Painkiller and I don't really remember anything else... I'm not a big fan of that genre, let's just leave it at that.

Did I not just clarify that the Shmup is NOT the FPS?!

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Duke nukem, I've got balls of steal.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

Painkiller. without a doubt

 

[Shadow Law]

The most I ever spent was on the G.I. Joe arcade game. Never got to the end.

 

[Erana]

Either Halo or Halo 3.
And before you attack me, this isn't fangirl rantings. I like Halo for the big environments combined with the tight gameplay. Half Life 2 comes in close behind 'em, but I don't like feeling stressed out by creepy environments and scare-tactic enemies. The flood are really pushing it for me, but considering the brightly lit orange cavern that is the flood lair.... Just plop me in a pretty, snowy canyon or on a tropical island with a sniper rifle and a shotfun* and I'm set.

*Freudian slip, there, but you get the idea.

PS: Please don't really dump me into a snowy canyon or a tropical island with a few guns. I'd get a cold or be sunburnt...

 

[joystickjunki3]

I'm personally gonna base my opinion on real shmups.

It's between Thunder Force V, Lightening Force and R-Type II.

 

[Souplex]

Either Halo or Halo 3.
And before you attack me, this isn't fangirl rantings. I like Halo for the big environments combined with the tight gameplay. Half Life 2 comes in close behind 'em, but I don't like feeling stressed out by creepy environments and scare-tactic enemies. The flood are really pushing it for me, but considering the brightly lit orange cavern that is the flood lair.... Just plop me in a pretty, snowy canyon or on a tropical island with a sniper rifle and a shotfun* and I'm set.

*Freudian slip, there, but you get the idea.

PS: Please don't really dump me into a snowy canyon or a tropical island with a few guns. I'd get a cold or be sunburnt...

The most I ever spent was on the G.I. Joe arcade game. Never got to the end.

Painkiller. without a doubt

There is nothing I hate more than having to repeat myself. SHMUPS NOT FPSES! Eet ees vehereiy seempel!

 

[Fortesque]

Original R-Type on Sega Master System or Metal Slug

 

[LaughingCrazy]

Axelay...
R-Type 3
Ikaruga!

 

[Duh]

Axelay...
R-Type 3
Ikaruga!

Ikaruga FTW
one of my favorite games of all time

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

My main love obviously is Metal Slug, but i'll have to go for The Red Star after that.

I thoroughly enjoyed that game, it was a shoot em up at heart, two lines of dialogue to (barely) explain what's going on, then mass amounts of russian for the rest of the game.

And obviously R-Type, Gradius, Contra and so on get a mention as they were great, but I had a genesis and never had those games back in the day.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

Either Halo or Halo 3.
And before you attack me, this isn't fangirl rantings. I like Halo for the big environments combined with the tight gameplay. Half Life 2 comes in close behind 'em, but I don't like feeling stressed out by creepy environments and scare-tactic enemies. The flood are really pushing it for me, but considering the brightly lit orange cavern that is the flood lair.... Just plop me in a pretty, snowy canyon or on a tropical island with a sniper rifle and a shotfun* and I'm set.

*Freudian slip, there, but you get the idea.

PS: Please don't really dump me into a snowy canyon or a tropical island with a few guns. I'd get a cold or be sunburnt...

The most I ever spent was on the G.I. Joe arcade game. Never got to the end.

Painkiller. without a doubt

There is nothing I hate more than having to repeat myself. SHMUPS NOT FPSES! Eet ees vehereiy seempel!

fine, if you want to by picky, (even though Painkiller is a FPS ShootEmUp, because there's nothing more to it than shooting people up)

i'd say the original Narc in the arcade

 

[GothmogII]

Either Halo or Halo 3.
And before you attack me, this isn't fangirl rantings. I like Halo for the big environments combined with the tight gameplay. Half Life 2 comes in close behind 'em, but I don't like feeling stressed out by creepy environments and scare-tactic enemies. The flood are really pushing it for me, but considering the brightly lit orange cavern that is the flood lair.... Just plop me in a pretty, snowy canyon or on a tropical island with a sniper rifle and a shotfun* and I'm set.

*Freudian slip, there, but you get the idea.

PS: Please don't really dump me into a snowy canyon or a tropical island with a few guns. I'd get a cold or be sunburnt...

The most I ever spent was on the G.I. Joe arcade game. Never got to the end.

Painkiller. without a doubt

There is nothing I hate more than having to repeat myself. SHMUPS NOT FPSES! Eet ees vehereiy seempel!

I would have thought any game with loose structure with regards to plot etc. counts as a shoot em' up? I.e. Painkiller, the original Doom, Serious same etc....that is, all you do in those games if shoot hordes of enemies. Though, I guess you are referring only to the 'scrolling' style shooters? That is, being confined mainly to one direction of progression. Left, right, up, down etc.

Anyway! Hmm, Metal Slug definitely! Contra, Defender, and my favorite...VANGUARD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPxqY5HGzIw&feature=related

 

[fryght]

In no particular order: Gradius series, Mars Matrix, Dodonpachi series, Mushihime series, ESPgaluda series, Giga Wing series, 1945 series, Aerofighters series, Ketsui, Ikaruga, Raptor, Touhou series, Cho Ren Sha, Samidare, Chaos Field, Hitogata Happa, Shikigami no Shiro series, Psyvariar series, Raiden series, Progear no Arashi, Radiant Silvergun...

I probably missed some

 

[joystickjunki3]

In no particular order: Gradius series, Mars Matrix, Dodonpachi series, Mushihime series, ESPgaluda series, Giga Wing series, 1945 series, Aerofighters series, Ketsui, Ikaruga, Raptor, Touhou series, Cho Ren Sha, Samidare, Chaos Field, Hitogata Happa, Shikigami no Shiro series, Psyvariar series...

I probably missed some

Holy shit, you went above and beyond. Clearly you owned a Saturn, AES and Dreamcast. Plus a few cabinets.

 

[damion559]

final fantasy 7 dirge of cerberus (if you can call it a shoot em up)

 

[Souplex]

With all this crayzay "NO FPSses!" ranting I forgot to post my favorite Shmup'

Metal Slug 3 baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqVGdIcs-tA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW-wNgDoaKM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhpLLFMJa50&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzpd9fvit1o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZUFZKVsko&feature=related