Is Ikaruga the ultimate STG game?

>>3220962
No you just haven't played much games of this type.

>>3220962
Is Ikaruga the ultimate shitpost bait?

>>3221002
Pretty much yeah.

Ikar-You-Ga

Ikaruga is the Earthbound of shmups

>>3221116

Spotted the contrarian hipster.

>>3220962
imo yes it's fucking awesome

>shooting game game

>liking Icuckruga

>>3220962
Babby's first shmup

>>3221207
>ShooTing Game

Not retro

No
2hu is

A lot of virgin nerds get mad over it, so yeah why not.

Ikaruga is a meme game, like SFIII Third Strike.

>>3221518

What game isn't a meme game, anyway?

>tfw you realize everything is a meme

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I couldn't find a dedicated STG thread, so I'll borrow this one.

I don't visit here often so I'll be blunt, do you have one of these neat compilation sheets for STG games?

I try to catch-up to the better known series like R-type or gradius. But it seems at every corner I am surprised by a new apparently well known title I never knew existed.

Failing that can you give me your favorite picks? Preferably sci-fi themed, bonus points for giant robots.

Personally I recently tried Strikers 1945, I enjoyed it greatly.

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>>3223682
>Failing that can you give me your favorite picks? Preferably sci-fi themed, bonus points for giant robots.
Hyper Duel

>>3221448
Exactly. Think about it some more.

>>3221116
Except Ikaruga is at least a good game.

>>3223682
My favorite
Aero fighters
Aero fighters 2
Pleasure Hearts

>>3220962
its shit

>>3220962
yes

>>3225048
its not

Cave is harder

>treasure
Throw it in the garbage.

>>3220962
no, its too easy to beat, but pretty good game anyway.

>>3225081
Something a Cubebabby or Steamfag would say

Ikaruga was probably my default but when I played DDP: DOJ it just seemed so to the point kind of simplistically as a STG, that I define that as my go to.

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I've gotta say, after all the STGs i've played Ikaruga is still my favorite. With DDP Daioujou being a close second.

I wouldn't say Ikaruga is the ultimate STG but it's pretty damn good.

>>3220962
>STG
shoo-ting-game

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>>3220962
Not even the best Treasure shmup.

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>>3225852

Not even Treasure's best ShooTing Game.

>>3225856
>Bangai-O
>shmup
I mean, yeah, you shoot things, but then that means DOOM is a shmup.

>>3225856
Not an STG.

https://a.pomf.cat/rprnwy.htm

>>3221520
Games I don't like.

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Always had a soft spot for 8ing/Raizing games.

>>3225968
>liking rank
Are you a masochist?

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I love Ikaruga! Every thread!

>>3223682
Might as well check the other Psikyo games as well while you are at it.

>>3225973
Makes Xevious fun.

That's not Touhou.

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Not retro, but objectively best STG

>>3226863
>poor-man's Cave clone with a shitty lock-on gimmick
>good

>>3226882
>Cave
>good

>shitty lock-on gimmick
>what is RayForce, Soukyugurentai, etc

>>3227009
If you don't like Cave, you shouldn't like Crimzon Clover. There's a part that even copies level design from a Cave game.

>>3227014
>any game with a lot of bullets is aping Cave
Though I agree that the mid of stage 3 is heavily based on Mushi late stage 4.

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>I don't like Ikaruga

>>3220962
It's the tits for sure, but Thunder Force 4 is the stuff of legend.
Also MUSHA and Einhänder.

What the fuck does STG stand for? And Gradius V is objectively better and none of this is retro.

>>3228494
ShooTing Game or Shooting Type Game. Iunno, fucking japs man.

>>3227014
>>3227784
I believe that's called an homage.

>>3228494
shuu tin geemu

>>3229534
Where do we draw the line between homage and lazy plagiarism?

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>>3220962
To plebs, yeah.

>>3229534
Don't get me wrong, I love it, but one man's treasure is another man's trash.