dsheinem wrote:-I think we should plan the whole year in advance now, so that people who want to hunt down/buy games they don't have in advance can do so.
-I think we should just do DoDonPachi with the TR folks December, instead of doing something different (otherwise you may siphon from the pool of players there)
-I think we should consider taking a month or so off when shmups.org has their annual STG competition, since a lot of folks on this site/in this thread get involved in that.
Agreed on all three counts.
So is everyone in agreement that we should do one shmup per dev a month? I think it's a good idea but I hate to miss out on a bunch of good stuff. Can't play everything though, gonna have to wind up picking only 12 games a year anyway.
Well obviously we can't plan out the entire schedule by January, but maybe we should quickly pick a Toaplan game to play next month in the next few days here, and try to iron out the schedule for the rest of the year at the same time.
Here's what I was thinking for another voting system...
Everyone picks 3 Toaplan games and ranks them. After a good chunk of us have done our lists, we'll chalk up a score. The game on the top of your list is worth 3 points, second game is worth 2, last pick is worth 1. We'll play whatever game has the most points. Do a tie-breaker if necessary. If this voting system ends up working well we can use it to decide the rest of the schedule.
Not to ditch your idea EllertMichael, but this seems like it will get the decision made quicker.
Jan: Toaplan
Feb: Compile
Mar: Raizing
April: Cave
May: PC Doujin
June: G-Rev
July: SNK
August: Capcom
September: Taito
October: Treasure
November: Console Doujin
This seems like a good list but the absence of Technosoft, Konami and Hudson make me sad. Perhaps remove console doujin games and/or Cave? I only have a few console doujin games myself, not sure about the rest of you. I'm all for Cave of course but I know not everyone here has a current gen console to play them on, and the PS2 games are extremely expensive. But, if most of you guys have Cave shmups, I'm definitely game. I only have one now but that's going to change soon.
The Technosoft and Hudson shooters are pretty easy though so I can see that being a little boring, they're just so damn good though! Konami seems like a must for the schedule, although we did just do Gradius 3 in TR awhile back, so I dunno.
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g-rev might be tough, their best 2 games are very expensive.
