Hewitson Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Blue's a hell of a lot stronger than red, absolutely no doubt about that. I've never quite been able to decide if I prefer normal missiles or homing missiles. The standard ones are considerably more powerful as you say. I assume most of you guys are playing with some sort of arcade controller? I find the keyboard really difficult to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Progress scores updated Nice score Tav! A new leader going into the last day of play :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taverner Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I assume most of you guys are playing with some sort of arcade controller? I find the keyboard really difficult to use. Upright Mame cabinet here, only way to play arcade ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Mostly dedicated cabs and/or Arcade joystick controllers for the majority of players in the MGL I think. Upright 2-P cabinet myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Brad Posted February 13, 2011 Administrators Share Posted February 13, 2011 288370 Damn frustrating game this. As I said before if you die or use any bombs on the first level you may as well give that game up and start again. Also the homing missiles are shit. I try and max out blue shots and homing missiles but damn the homing missiles bug me. I keep getting taken out by tanks from behind and the homing missiles keep going for forward targets or what I assume are closer rather than the tanks behind me..... really damn annoying. I'd never played this game before now as it was after my time shooter wise. The last shooters I was into were Slap Fight and Terra Cresta. I could get 7-800,000 on Slapfight and Terra Cresta just endlessly loops after a certain point and I think my highest was something like 42 million or something stupid like that. From memory I'd been playing it for about 2-3 hours. The thing with those 2 games is like a lot of shooters back then you could get into a rhythm of movements and shots. I found that you can't do that with Raiden or at least I couldn't.....maybe I'm just getting old LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spl Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 The thing with those 2 games is like a lot of shooters back then you could get into a rhythm of movements and shots. I found that you can't do that with Raiden or at least I couldn't.....maybe I'm just getting old LOL! No - you are totally correct. The ship is very slow compared to the enemy bullets in Raiden so it's basically a complete memorizer. You need to remember where to be and where the enemies are going to come from otherwise it's very hard to survive on just dodging skills/reflexes alone. Nice score Tav, I'm going to bang out a few games shortly. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taverner Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Think i've posted before that this is one of the last games I felt I could pick the pattern of the enemy shots and have fun weaving about. It's anything after Raiden that gets too hetic for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewitson Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Upright Mame cabinet here, only way to play arcade ;) The only way to play arcade is with proper hardware mate :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kane Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 I assume most of you guys are playing with some sort of arcade controller? I find the keyboard really difficult to use. I moved from keyboard to the cabinet today and was doing worse. Cracked open the joystick and adjusted the microswitches and first game after that I doubled my score :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceballs Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 214050 Better sneek my score in here. Man, some massive scores there, nice going guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewitson Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Is it just me, or does the music that plays when it's "Game Over" make everyone pissed off?? Reminds me of the dog that laughs at you on Duck Hunt. Really rubs it in I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spl Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 669,190 669,190 Died at the Stage 4 boss - could've done better if I didn't have a stupid death at the 3rd boss also. I didn't die or bomb until then in this run. :( The extra bonus would've been something like 150,000pts. :( http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g244/spl_photo/games/0005.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 196,720 You guys getting hundreds + hundreds of K's at this must have forearms like popeye.. Great Score SPL :041: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kane Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 214,440 Never got past stage 2, oh so close a couple of times though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Time's Up! Thanks to everyone who played and submitted a score for Raiden. Congratulations to SPL for his maiden MGL victory! *crowd cheers fireworks explode* Good competition around the game this week with two players cracking half a million points. Final results for the Raiden comp are: 1. spl 669,190 = 25 2. Taverner 536,920 = 20 3. Ramere 388,840 = 16 4. Rat 370,340 = 13 5. Dkong 341,120 = 11 6. Brad 288,370 = 10 7. Kane 214,440 = 9 8. Jardine 214,050 = 8 9. Jammasized 196,720 = 7 10. Knight76 177,230 = 6 11. Wingtipvortex 64,710 = 5 12. Dezbaz 4,430 = 4 We're getting to the business end of MGL12, the next 3 games will shake up the top 5 players even more. New game posted LEADERBOARD UPDATED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taverner Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Congrats SPL great score, there's definitely a point where it's worth using a few of those stored bombs to try save that first ship, unfortunately the heads up that you've reached that point is your ship exploding into a million pieces :lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKong Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Wow great scores SPL and Tav, was hoping to get a couple of games in yesterday but was too hung over:lol, been up since 6.30 this morning and did the Hobart cup and now just home so didn't get a last crack:( Don't think I would of cracked 500,000, but was close to the 400,000 I think the better you get at this game the blue fire is a must , as its direct, sure the red covers an area but once you are fine with weaving the bullets it pays to have the direct hard shot especially for the bosses and bigger ships in the screens. So IMO if can't crack 200,000 stick with Red and straight missiles If you have the power go Blue with Homing :) I see another fantastic shooter is up this week :D Edit : and another new winner 9 games 9 winners :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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