eggandI said:
Any of these shumps support gamepads?
Most shmups on the PC have native gamepad support, yeah, either in DOS games (through DOSBox gamepad emulation) or Windows. For whichever don't use something like xpadder.
It is impossible to praise Tyrian highly enough. It's a huge game, even without taking into account the absurd number of secrets (which run the gamut from levels to graphical settings to fighting game commands for your ship) and alternate modes (and secret alternate modes, one of which is a completely different game). The amount of potential ship builds is staggering and will keep you playing again and again. The music is by Alexander Brandon, living god. And it's funny; interspersed between the bits of the mostly coherent plot are advertisements, contest promotions, public service announcements, travel guides, and all sorts of other bits of fluff the denizens of a future far-off galaxy might find themselves inundated with, all written surprisingly well.
Raptor is good fun. Tyrian can be played forever.
It is possible to praise Tyrian too much, because Raptor is the better game.
Tyrian's good, but I always found it nowhere near as good as Raptor... I always was on the Apogee side of the Apogee-Epic wars. Epic's stuff was great, but Apogee's was even better.
Sure, Tyrian is probably a longer, harder game, but Raptor is just so ridiculously fun that I never cared. First, Raptor has better graphics and art design; Tyrian doesn't even come close really. Both have good music, but Raptor's is better. As for gameplay, Raptor's a bit more approachable I think because it isn't quite as complex in terms of ship customization, but it's still got a good bit of it with all the weapons and armor, and the key fact that you also have to heal your ship and buy/replace shields with that money as well. I still find Raptor an incredibly fun game and play some of it every so often, but Tyrian... haven't played it much in years.
I just played Raptor over, and over, and over instead... I wouldn't be surprised if in my main file I looped it eight or ten times.
Started on Easy, then the difficulty level was increased each time you win until you're on the top setting, and from there it just loops on that.
I just checked, my main Raptor file has $7,355,790. That's quite a lot.
(Anyone else make more than that? I wanted to reach into the 10 million range at one point, but hit a bar where I'd not make more money than I had to spend on shield replacements, so I kind of stalled...)
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