Real Men Play Gradius

[ThirdMarioBro]

Shmups for life.

Originally Posted by Aaron Linde

Here's one way of putting it, though it borders a little too closely to that screwy new games journalism way of seeing things for my own comfort: shmups are about as close to purity as games are bound to get, and the opportunity for mastery that they offer is something that I sincerely believe to be exclusive to the genre. Kicking the everloving **** out of a shmup is a completely different sort of experience than pwning n00bs in Halo 2 and, I'd wager, one that marks and sets aside the truly "hardcore" from the rest of us.

Say what you will, but I agree with every word that guy says. We've all become a bunch of pansies.

*crosses legs and waits for Gradius VI.*