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The world needs to know what the best shoot-'em-up weapon selection is. You don't want to start playing a shooter and pick the wrong weapon! Your options (and to help you categorize what the weapon you're thinking of is):
Well, which laser is best. The laser or one of the worse options?
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May 5, 2021 00:43
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Flamethrower, duh
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May 5, 2021 02:05
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homing. reported for false or misleading poll, op
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May 5, 2021 05:38
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Metal Slug heavy machine gun. Perfect mix of damage, speed and bigger looking bullets. As far as limited ammo goes it feels like just the right amount to stay “balanced” too. Always a bummer dying when you have one equipped.
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May 5, 2021 06:40
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It's that one from Tyrian that shoots bananas OP
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May 5, 2021 17:39
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Toothpaste laser is up there.
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May 6, 2021 04:13
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Flannelette posted:Toothpaste laser is up there. i knew there had to be more fans of plaque attack
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May 6, 2021 04:25
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It's always the wide beam because nothing can slip through it like they can with gaps in projectile streams and they vomit damage when trained on a single target anyway.swims posted:Metal Slug heavy machine gun. Perfect mix of damage, speed and bigger looking bullets. As far as limited ammo goes it feels like just the right amount to stay “balanced” too. Always a bummer dying when you have one equipped.
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May 7, 2021 17:42
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The shotgun is incredible but the flameshot has best death animations. Drop shot is worst
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May 7, 2021 22:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0vCY3I5yxo&t=128s HOMING LASER
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May 7, 2021 23:46
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The bendy laser from Raiden, but wide if that's not available.
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May 8, 2021 01:24
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The shotgun from FEAR - only the first one though, not the ones from the sequels. Makes a sound like God clearing his throat and makes people fly back ridiculous distances.
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May 8, 2021 01:49
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I've been a fan of the "green" weapon option in Toaplan games lately.
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May 9, 2021 01:03
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Random Stranger posted:Well, which laser is best. The laser or one of the worse options? I’m a fan of spinny things but just because they look neat as opposed to being that useful.
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May 11, 2021 02:09
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Crazy Achmed posted:Did you intentionally leave out “homing” as an option because the dps is usually utter garbage? I though of it, then when making my post it fell out of my head. Obviously that makes it a bad shoot-'em-up weapon.
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May 11, 2021 13:04
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Also the best laser is the death ray from raptor, but probably just because of nostalgia (and my childhood astonishment at seeing a video game laser that was actually hitscan)
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May 12, 2021 04:20
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I've been thinking and yes the purple toothpaste laser at full power in Raiden 2 is great it might be beaten by the full power spread shot machine gun when you put your ship right in front the boss and kill it in 5 seconds.
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May 12, 2021 05:59
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my heart says laser but my brain says wide
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May 13, 2021 00:27
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are you a shmup fox or a hedgehog? is your true challenge a screen filling boss or wave upon wave of screen filling popcorn enemies?
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May 13, 2021 01:06
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A balanced diet is the healthiest. [Edit] actually now I’m having vague memories of reading a preview for a game in the mid-2000s which was just fights against single boss-sized enemies. The gimmick was that it was two-player, but with one player controlling the “boss”, and roles switching each stage. Was this a real thing or am I hallucinating? Crazy Achmed fucked around with this message at 02:13 on May 13, 2021 |
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May 13, 2021 02:10
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I'm going to Nth the votes for the purple homing death beam from the Raiden games (was it called the Plasma beam in one of them?) Sure its DPS was the lowest, but when it locked on to a high HP enemy, and you start moving around the bullets and the beam starts curling around and clearing out the chaff enemies while still doing consistent damage on the big enemy... 
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Jun 4, 2021 14:54
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Everyone that didn't say the spread lightning from Blazing Lasers is wrong
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Jun 9, 2021 22:40
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Silhouette posted:Everyone that didn't say the spread lightning from Blazing Lasers is wrong The choice of a true connoisseur. Runner-up goes to the fully-powered continuous laser from Tyrian, that thing just scythes through everything.
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Jun 13, 2021 17:31
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PsyClops posted:The choice of a true connoisseur. Sure, if by Runner-up you mean uncontestable winner.
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Jun 15, 2021 15:35
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The best shoot-em-up weapon is the charge laser from Gradius III when you've got full rotating options and you just float dreamily through space while anything that gets close to you dies.
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Jun 15, 2021 21:37
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FishMcCool posted:Sure, if by Runner-up you mean uncontestable winner. Zica lasers are a complete trap, though.
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Jun 19, 2021 19:26
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wow that is a powerful giant robo....
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Jun 19, 2021 20:33
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THE BAR posted:Zica lasers are a complete trap, though. They trick you by mentioning it in the lore dumps too. The absolute regrets after I lost my legendary laser to it on my first playthrough....
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Jun 20, 2021 16:16
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THE BAR posted:Zica lasers are a complete trap, though. Only any good in sidekick form and even then, I take Vulcan sidekicks if I have the power for them.
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Jun 20, 2021 16:36
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At least with Vulcans you don't have to feel bad for not using the charged shot.
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Jun 20, 2021 17:08
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There are other sidekicks than Plasma Storm?
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Jun 20, 2021 18:41
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I thought the point of zica lasers was that although they’re not as powerful as continuous, they don’t need the gravitron generator to work properly at full power? All the weird goofy weapons in Tyrian are very charming but so many just aren’t useful or are too expensive/underpowered. Was there ever a point to the thing where you could launch a front docking sidekick and have it slowly return to your ship?
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Jun 21, 2021 02:13
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The worst guns, like the front cannon thing you mention, were all from the 2000 update. That's also where the worst episodes came from, like the finale that had, what, four levels?
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Jun 21, 2021 07:50
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Nah, the goofy weapons were from the 2.0 update that added the 4th episode that had a ton of levels and stopped caring about having a coherent plot halfway through. The 2000 version was the one that added the 5th episode, it had new weapons and ships too but they’re so lacklustre i don’t remember what they are either. I’m not big on Japanese shooters but is there a weapon type similar to the mega cannon? It fires projectiles that travel through enemies, so they do more damage to big things than small ones. Neat idea but in typical Tyrian fashion it’s woefully underpowered.
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Jun 21, 2021 11:20
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Crazy Achmed posted:Nah, the goofy weapons were from the 2.0 update that added the 4th episode that had a ton of levels and stopped caring about having a coherent plot halfway through. The 2000 version was the one that added the 5th episode, it had new weapons and ships too but they’re so lacklustre i don’t remember what they are either. Ah, I didn't play any updates to Tyrian until the 2K version dropped, so for me it went from Episode 3 being the end to complete cacophany.
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Jun 21, 2021 11:26
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Crazy Achmed posted:
IIRC, it's best used like a Force in R-Type: launch the thing into a boss and keep on firing. Doesn't work worth a drat, but I'm pretty sure that's the idea. I love Tyrian but there's just so many useless weapons.
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Jun 23, 2021 01:39
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