u/Darkhawk2099

while the Steam summer sale is still going, looking for your suggestions for 3D shmups, à la Einhänder or R-Type Final. merci!

looking for suggestions for the most visually impressive shmups of all time. i’m playing mostly on Steam Deck but happy to entertain suggestions across all platforms past and present!

apologies to any Galactus haters, but i’ve really been trying to make a Galactus deck that doesn’t look like a Galactus deck. proud of what i finally pulled off here.

the key to the deck is filling all three lanes with at least one card and then dropping Fastball Special and then Galactus in the same lane on T6.

people just don’t expect Galactus in a lane with a card already in it.

Edit 2: some additional comments on theory:

this deck thrives on a T6 combo of Fastball Special + Galactus. to do that, you need to find ways to discount card costs and also power-up either Galactus or the card that Fastball will destroy. what’s nice about this is even if Galactus is at base power, you might be Fastballing like a 10-power Sera.

Edit: deck code:

# (1) Nico Minoru
# (1) Black Cat
# (2) Adam Warlock
# (2) Fastball Special
# (2) Marrow
# (2) Jeff the Baby Land Shark
# (3) Green Goblin
# (3) Mister Fantastic First Steps
# (4) Shang-Chi
# (4) Gwenpool
# (5) Sera
# (6) Galactus
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and paste it from the deck editing menu in MARVEL SNAP.

so incredibly awkward, and bear in mind these are videos of fake computer women and look disturbingly uncanny valley while in action.

for me it’s Isca. just take my one cube bro, i have better things to do than try to fight an exponentially growing card.

anything else you see and you just instantly nope out?

SD inexplicably added this dumb yellow animated counter at the bottom which you’re now forced to sit through after every match.

it may seem like a small thing, but for a game designed to be played as multiple short matches, it’s just a frustrating and needless delay.

bonus points if it’s in a Galactus lane.

(the covers were confusingly mislabeled “Strangers” but in the interior it’s “Strangeness”)

i’m old enough to remember demo discs, but even since the online generation we’ve had a long tradition of downloadable demos from the PSN store or Wii Shop or whatever.

these days it seems like a rarity to ever get a hands-on before the full release. is there a concrete reason?

took my Shang to a gold split and then never looked back. i have other cards with more Mastery but Shang just accrues boosters like crazy.