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Gradius 3 is incredibly difficult. Did you play it on that new PS5 Gradius Collection that quietly dropped in August? That has the best version, the arcade version. If not I'd recommend picking that up and playing the other Gradiuses.

If emulating, SNES has Space Megaforce (insanely good shooter), Super R-Type, Axelay, UN Squadron. If you want something super difficult, and I mean ridiculous, there's R-Type III.

Two extremely good and extremely obscure/cult classics that might require a little more effort to get running: Turbografx-16 has Blazing Lazers, PS1 has Gradius Gaiden.

Einhander is the other one on PS1 that I'd recommend. I played the PS2 variants of Gradius and R-Type and don't remember either making any real impact.
I played the SNES version and beat it by heavily using save states and load states lol. nothing special about what I am doing.

I will check those out man. thanks!
 
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Caeden

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SNES shooters were too hard for me. I got R Type 3 with my SNES. Maybe beat 2 levels. Didn’t have the heart to tell my grandmother it was a waste of $40 because I sucked. Badly.

So I’m realizing that I had forgotten how clunky GTA controls can be and 4 has some long ass missions and drives. I’m probably just a shade past half done, but I’m kinda finding it boring?

Goat Simulator has been hilarious. And we’ve been poking that Marvel Cosmic whatever beat em up. I bought the remastered Ghostbusters game for a couple bucks. Kids have liked ghostbusters.
 

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SNES shooters were too hard for me. I got R Type 3 with my SNES. Maybe beat 2 levels. Didn’t have the heart to tell my grandmother it was a waste of $40 because I sucked. Badly.

Naw R-Type 3 was just ridiculous. The first level wasn't bad, pretty standard. Then it just puts the pedal to the medal. Level 2 is super hard but a kid with tenacity could get through it eventually due to the infinite continues and continuing from checkpoints. Good luck getting much further though. Level 4 is where it reaches full ludicrous, with molten metal beams everywhere and having to hide in specific spots to be safe. Level 5 is a boss rush, level 6 is another ludicrous level, and then the final boss is like this ten minute long fight that actually gave me severe hand cramps when I tried to do it later on emulator. Yeah, I had to go back later with save states, don't think I was able to beat the game as a kid. Maybe I did once. I think level 4 was my graveyard.

I used Cyclone Force, the blue one, and I think that was the best. Maybe it wasn't and I was nerfing myself...

Space Megaforce (SNES) and Blazing Lazers (TG16) are the two best shooters I ever played, with probably Axelay in third. They're all much easier than Gradius or R-Type. I think I definitely prefer vertical shooters over horizontal.
 
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Naw R-Type 3 was just ridiculous. The first level wasn't bad, pretty standard. Then it just puts the pedal to the medal. Level 2 is super hard but a kid with tenacity could get through it eventually due to the infinite continues and continuing from checkpoints. Good luck getting much further though. Level 4 is where it reaches full ludicrous, with molten metal beams everywhere and having to hide in specific spots to be safe. Level 5 is a boss rush, level 6 is another ludicrous level, and then the final boss is like this ten minute long fight that actually gave me severe hand cramps when I tried to do it later on emulator. Yeah, I had to go back later with save states, don't think I was able to beat the game as a kid. Maybe I did once. I think level 4 was my graveyard.

I used Cyclone Force, the blue one, and I think that was the best. Maybe it wasn't and I was nerfing myself...

Space Megaforce (SNES) and Blazing Lazers (TG16) are the two best shooters I ever played, with probably Axelay in third. They're all much easier than Gradius or R-Type. I think I definitely prefer vertical shooters over horizontal.
Man, I had R-Type on the Master System. Jesus that was maybe 35 years ago. There used to be an arcade cabinet back then as well. Never played any of the others, but I loved it as a kid.
 

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Just bought this for $4.99 and read good things.

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Just beat gradius 3, a game that I played as a kid but just never beat.

I have been playing through einhander.

This is probably the best space shooter that I have probably ever played so far.

if anyone has some space shootemup reccomendations on retro consoles (up to ps2) I'm all ears. Really never got into this genre.
Darius Twin was great. UN Squadron isn’t space but was fun, and difficult. Worth playing both of them.

If you have MAME, Giga Wing is fantastic. Bullet hell space shooter where a big part of the game is reflecting bullets back at the enemy with a special ability. Really a fun game. Ikaruga was another cool one where you absorb bullets based on their color and your shield.
 
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Just finished playing Fallout New Vegas with the Viva New Vegas modlist. I have not played this since my original playthrough when it came out 16 years ago and I'd never played any of the DLC's. I didn't care for the movie drive in one nor the casino one (basically where you spend hours of time acquiring gear only for the game to take it from you), but the other ones were well done. Pretty crazy to think when this came out I lived in the Carolinas and this time I see places I used to drive through twice a day for work.

Went Legion this time since I did NCR before. Maybe once in the near future I'll do a Mr. House playthrough.

Amazing time, now I need to let this sink in and think about what to start next.

Edit: Link for Wabajack/Viva New Vegas if anyone wants to try I had all 150 mods running on 7800X3D/7900XTX 64GB 4K w/ no issue except for the lonesome road dlc , it kept bogging down.

 
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Just bought this for $4.99 and read good things.

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I really enjoy the 2d Y's like origin, also there is Y's: Ark of Nephistan(sp?) along with oath that was recommended. Couldn't get into the 3d ones for some reason, but I haven't tried the last 2. Y's Origin is definitely my favorite out of the series.

I think I enjoyed y's 1 and 2 as well but it's been a while and can't remember much about that, they are vastly different then the others. Pretty outdated at this point too.
 
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Caeden

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Playing the red dead redemption 1 remaster or whatever. Fun as fuck but only about 3 hours in.

Also playing the remaster of the PS3/360 era ghostbusters game. One of the few licensed games that is supposed to be good.
 
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I'm trying to play rise of the ronin on PC, barely got started. Made the most ridiculous looking twins I could. So bad I had to stop. Think black man with geisha hair that's green with a beard and moustache to match. Then it turned out it doesn't really matter due to game reasons. But this thing is pretty damn janky. I'm still trying to stop extreme blur which reading up looks like a common problem with AMD cards. I'll give it one more night then I'm out.
 

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played through R-Type 3 since it looked the most badass out of the games reccomended on SNES.

what a brutal fucking game lol. I cant think of a game that utilizes as much of the power and functionality of the SNES console like this game does. It was awesome. I only beat it the one time and didnt go through the second run though because I felt like that was enough.
 

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I'm trying to play rise of the ronin on PC, barely got started. Made the most ridiculous looking twins I could. So bad I had to stop. Think black man with geisha hair that's green with a beard and moustache to match. Then it turned out it doesn't really matter due to game reasons. But this thing is pretty damn janky. I'm still trying to stop extreme blur which reading up looks like a common problem with AMD cards. I'll give it one more night then I'm out.

i have this sealed on ps5 i should open it up sometime

just started mafia old country, really enjoying it a lot so far after being burned out on games for almost a year. simple old style single player game, 20-30 hours it looks like which is perfect
 

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i have this sealed on ps5 i should open it up sometime

just started mafia old country, really enjoying it a lot so far after being burned out on games for almost a year. simple old style single player game, 20-30 hours it looks like which is perfect
Dunno about PS5 but Ronin is janky as fuck. For instance, I know at some point I get a horse, there is a tab for a horse. Then I see a guy who sales horses. I had money so I buy a horse. But I cannot figure out how to get on the damn thing. So I goggle it. Turns out in one of the 1st areas you are supposed to go (which I didn't , I did the usual skyrim thing and wandered around) there is a horse you can get on. AND there is hay in front of the horse you are supposed to look through to get a whistle. I only know that because I watched a YT video on how to change horses. Weird.

I do think I'm going to stick with it. Still janky but it scratches the itch.
 

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So I'm playing a run through Cyberpunk 2077 on my new rig, and it's wonderful with everything on ultra. I never finished the game originally because my computer just wasn't up to snuff.

So I get to admission where I have to try to assassinate a guy, but then I have to follow this criminal Mexican around so we can apologize because he found Jesus.

Lo and behold I'm sitting in a restaurant with him and look over. There's Ilhan Omar and a Jewish guy eating dinner, and she's was giving me the stink eye, but then suddenly a robo tranny sits down next to them, and a black robo tranny came to serve it dinner.
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It's a fucked up play through.
 
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So I'm playing a run through Cyberpunk 2077 on my new rig, and it's wonderful with everything on ultra. I never finished the game originally because my computer just wasn't up to snuff.

So I get to admission where I have to try to assassinate a guy, but then I have to follow this criminal Mexican around so we can apologize because he found Jesus.

Lo and behold I'm sitting in a restaurant with him and look over. There's Ilhan Omar and a Jewish guy eating dinner, and she's was giving me the stink eye, but then suddenly a robo tranny sits down next to them, and a black robo tranny came to serve it dinner.
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It's a fucked up play through.

I really need to get a good PC VR headset, and figure out how to use a VR mod for Cyberpunk (though I think they sued the guy charging for his VR mod for the game)

 
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