Game Discussion of The Week: R-Type series

The first game is the only one I've played through, need to get back into playing more from this series. I did play III(SNES), Delta(I think it was Delta, or maybe it was R-Types hard to remember), and Final a little but never got far into them.

Man, I really want to like horizontal-scrolling shooter, but I absolutely suck in all of them. I mean, I suck at shmups in general, but on vertical ones I can survive much more seconds than on hori ones.

I can't rate this series; it looks awesome, but I'm a shitty player.

The first R-Type I played is Dimensions. I like how they designed it in a way that if you memorize everything that comes in the level, you can get a perfect run. It gives you a nice sense of accomplishment. Plus I appreciate the ability of going back to a 16 bit look along with the modern look. I can tell the game has a lot of fan service, and that's always a good thing.

Shoot 'Em Up is probably my favorite genre after Fighting. We were talking on the PS4 community how we wish we had some of those Xbox shmups exclusives on the PlayStation. We have some, but nothing in comparison to the vast amazing collection of shmups the Microsoft people has access to.

Capcom and SNK had policies that prevented designers to come out because they were afraid other companies would take them.

They were so talented that they didn't want others to harass them with financial offers to switch with other publishers.

I think I mentioned that before, but that's the reason why they couldn't use their real names in the games credits, instead they had to make up random names that only they knew who they represented.

As seen in all the Capcom and SNK fighters of that generation. The same goes with shmups, so the fact the run and gun games had that going too does not surprises me.

Yeah, I really don't remember the games that well myself. I remember liking what I played but not being wowed by it. I do have R-Type Dimensions(bought it on sale for like $3 or something, or maybe even a PS+ freebie I don't remember for sure) maybe I'll give that a spin I have a more current view on it.

Here is proof of what I said. Just look at the programmers: "Knight Rider Gyu", "Señor", "Pon", "Hyper ShinChan", "Hard. Yas", "Team Dirty Beret", etc.. It's just a bunch of made up bushit names. No wonder Kojima is all traumatized for working in that kind of environment.