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My spies tell me that Majin (tera...@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
| mrma...@unity.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais) wrote:

| >My spies tell me that Majin (tera...@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
| >| I didn't like Raptor at all...lame graphix, bad weapons, boring
| >| scrolling and enemies with no originality.  Tyrian is much better than
| >| Raptor; the multilayer scrolling is silky smooth and each weapons and
| >| enemies look and acts different.
| >
| >| The problem is that, both Raptor and Tyrian has a huge shield on your
| >| ship and the enemies.  I believe they should be shot down by one
| >| shot(or two).  I prefer 2D shooting games with massive weapons, more
| >| enemies, and weak(or no) shield&armor.
| >
| >If your ship can be killed by just one shot, then giving the opponent
| >bigger weapons doesn't inspire any fear in the player.  I know when I played
| >Raptor, those ships which shoot the lasers and the fireballs always 
| >frightened me more than the other ships -- those shots _HURT_!
| >

| That was the problem with Raptor.  When I said massive weapons, I
| meant the weapons with huge hit radius(or so it seems) or a lot of
| slow ones.

I'll agree, Raptor had too much shielding at the end (I felt kinda
invulnerable...even on the most difficult setting).  Tyrian seems to
have a better balance:  Light shields, but they can recharge.  One hit
can't kill you, but several in quick sucession (or one _large_ hit) can.

And the only way to quickly recharge is to stop shooting.

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|  Mike Marcelais        | mrma...@eos.ncsu.edu      |
|  Moonstone Dragon      | Magic: The Gathering Judge |
|      -==(UDIC)==-      | Author of ChrHack 2.3      |
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