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Title: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Emerald Rocker on November 15, 2006, 02:01:08 PM
It's coming!  It's coming!  Sharpen your thumbs!  Get Spriggan now if you don't already have it!

More updates to come shortly.  In the meantime, start hunting down this game and thinking about finding a partner -- we're gonna have ourselves a score-based brawl between PCE-FX's most dynamic duos.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Keranu on November 15, 2006, 02:11:52 PM
Dude don't do partners, that's mega gay.  :-({|=
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: esteban on November 15, 2006, 04:32:57 PM
Dude don't do partners, that's mega gay.  :-({|=
Seriously! Ghost warriors are lone wolves, through and through.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: sunteam_paul on November 16, 2006, 09:39:15 AM
Pity I'm rubbish.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Odonadon on November 16, 2006, 04:09:13 PM
Pity I'm rubbish.

Ditto.

OD
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: sunteam_paul on November 17, 2006, 04:26:33 AM
Pity I'm rubbish.

Ditto.

OD

I bet I'm more rubbish than you.  :dance:
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: runinruder on November 17, 2006, 06:08:05 AM
You two should be partners and SHOCK THE WORLD.

I'll be in this, assuming I can somehow pull myself away from the brilliant Astralius.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Keranu on November 17, 2006, 08:56:42 AM
I recommend that we do Time Trial mode for this since that is, well, designed for scoring contests  :mrgreen: , but Runin and Emerald Rocker don't seem to like that idea for some reason. Also if we do use one player mode, I think it should be one life only.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Emerald Rocker on November 17, 2006, 12:23:16 PM
The time trial is designed for "walk up and play this game NOW" scoring contests.  It doesn't work for an un-monitored contest where people can keep trying again and again for a week, because then everyone ends up with the same score in the end.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Odonadon on November 17, 2006, 03:44:09 PM
Pity I'm rubbish.

Ditto.

OD

I bet I'm more rubbish than you.  :dance:

Now THAT sounds like a challenge :)

OD
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Keranu on November 17, 2006, 04:40:32 PM
The time trial is designed for "walk up and play this game NOW" scoring contests.  It doesn't work for an un-monitored contest where people can keep trying again and again for a week, because then everyone ends up with the same score in the end.

You could say the same thing about single player mode if every one will keep trying like they did in time trial. Time trial mode is designed for contests, so there are lots of ways to find the best methods of getting high score. I'm not sure how well Spriggan's time trial mode is designed, but if it's anything like Soldier Blade's, there is going to be some good competition. In Soldier Blade's time mode, there are tons of little secrets of getting a higher score, check out here (http://nfggames.com/games/SoldierBlade/) for a guide that shows all the tricks. We like to hold these video game tournaments in my house and one time I chose Soldier Blade's 2 minute mode for it and there were some interesting results. I had more experience with the game than everyone else, knew some of the hints and tricks to get a good score, blasted away a bunch of stuff and didn't get hit once, yet a few unexperienced people beat my score and died a bunch of times, one of the people being someone who had no experience with the game at all! So if Spriggan's time mode is similar to Soldier Blade's, I think we will get very mixed results and have a fun time seeing who can manage the highest score. Not only that, but more people might be interested in competiting in this if it was a time trial mode.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Emerald Rocker on November 17, 2006, 05:13:38 PM
That sounds horrible.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Keranu on November 17, 2006, 05:18:54 PM
You're just scared because you know you will loose  :mrgreen: . I don't mind doing single player mode, but I just think it's silly to ignore the trial mode when available since those are designed for contests. Compile may as well have not added that feature then.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Emerald Rocker on November 17, 2006, 05:21:46 PM
Awesome, glad you're in this thing  :D
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Kakizaki on November 17, 2006, 06:05:48 PM
I'm interested in this....provided I can pull myself away from FF XII.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Keranu on November 17, 2006, 06:51:24 PM
Awesome, glad you're in this thing  :D
Yeah I had to download it last night, you know I couldn't leave you guys.  :-({|= Fun game!
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: elnino on November 17, 2006, 09:19:27 PM
The time trial is designed for "walk up and play this game NOW" scoring contests.  It doesn't work for an un-monitored contest where people can keep trying again and again for a week, because then everyone ends up with the same score in the end.

No way this is going to happen! As Keranu has mentioned, it's a carnival game and although I'm not very familiar with the trial mode I'm sure there are many secret things in there to raise your score, as there are in all the carnival games.

It's definitely a cool idea and I hope we will use the score attack for the competition.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Kaminari on November 18, 2006, 05:43:00 AM
Spriggan's Score Attack rules. Next best thing after Ikaruga.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Emerald Rocker on November 18, 2006, 10:46:48 AM
Yeah, we were going to use a combo of arcade mode and score attack to determine who wins.  It's time attack that gets tossed out the window.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Keranu on November 18, 2006, 11:11:52 AM
That sounds great. Now we can list who wins the single player mode, time trial mode, and winner with best overall. Should be fun.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: Emerald Rocker on November 18, 2006, 12:11:57 PM
Score attack mode.  Not time trial mode.  They're different!

The "competition" topic will be posted in about a week.  Now is the time to start locating the game, and start thinking about finding a partner.
Title: Re: The Spriggan Shooting Challenge
Post by: m1savage on November 18, 2006, 04:19:54 PM
Ok, been practicing score attack mode and have learned two things.

1. Score attack mode rocks and would be great for a contest.
2. My reflexes have declined greatly over the years.

Cool idea though!