This is for everyone who played the original Raiden 3....

[SilverTab]

It REALLY sucks that they took away the beloved purple laser and replaced it with this green crap. The purple laser used to lock onto targets automatically and snake around the screen, able to hit multi-part bosses in several places at once!

The green one only follows your controller direction. Kinda pissed that I paid for this now. That purple laser was my favorite weapon I've ever had in a shooter.

[D-Black Catto]

sounds op as ♥♥♥♥

[DokiDokiWangFest]

I dont think raiden 3 ever had the toothpaste laser.
Sure ur not thinking of 2 or dx?

[DarkSamus]

The purple laser is in Raiden 2, Raiden DX and Raiden IV.
I don't think it was ever in Raiden 3 at any stage.

[Chizu?]

Toothpaste Laser was never in 3, its back in 4 though, cause I guess everyone lamented is loss. Cause its awesome.

[General Winter]

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

sounds op as ♥♥♥♥

it has piss poor damage to compensate, though if you can avoid getting killed for longer durations then normal, it pays it self off, try raiden 4

[D-Black Catto]

Originally posted by General Winter:

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

sounds op as ♥♥♥♥

it has piss poor damage to compensate, though if you can avoid getting killed for longer durations then normal, it pays it self off, try raiden 4

I prefer 3 way proton laser

[General Winter]

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

Originally posted by General Winter:

it has piss poor damage to compensate, though if you can avoid getting killed for longer durations then normal, it pays it self off, try raiden 4

I prefer 3 way proton laser

thats why they are options, 1 for each play style

[D-Black Catto]

Originally posted by General Winter:

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

I prefer 3 way proton laser

thats why they are options, 1 for each play style

"options" are in cave games

this is just either or choice. However, no matter how I look at it, the proton laser is superior.

that being said, the green laser in raiden 3 is not so bad either. it has decent firepower, and it goes nicely with radar missile

[General Winter]

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

Originally posted by General Winter:

thats why they are options, 1 for each play style

"options" are in cave games

this is just either or choice. However, no matter how I look at it, the proton laser is superior.

that being said, the green laser in raiden 3 is not so bad either. it has decent firepower, and it goes nicely with radar missile

proton laser is good if you are constantly in front of what you want to hit, which is harder for some then others, the benifit of the purple laser is that you can focus more on not dying instead of that and attacking

while red gives all around damage to hurt everyone and blue is pure concentrated firepower

blue = suprior firepower (hardest, but most rewarding)
red = ♥♥♥♥ all (basic starting point)
purple = oh ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ i don't wanna die, but i need to kill ♥♥♥♥ as well (newbies delight, trade focus on attack in favor of focus of avoiding)
green = never played 3 but from what it sounds, its an infrior purple because it lacks the auto aim and only gains so much firepower compared to its brothers that it pales in comparison, for this red would be better because it hits everything with tremendous firepower in its own respect and the homing missiles to it make focus fire possible while dealing with all enemies on screen in a given time frame

[D-Black Catto]

Originally posted by General Winter:

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

"options" are in cave games

this is just either or choice. However, no matter how I look at it, the proton laser is superior.

that being said, the green laser in raiden 3 is not so bad either. it has decent firepower, and it goes nicely with radar missile

proton laser is good if you are constantly in front of what you want to hit, which is harder for some then others, the benifit of the purple laser is that you can focus more on not dying instead of that and attacking

while red gives all around damage to hurt everyone and blue is pure concentrated firepower

blue = suprior firepower (hardest, but most rewarding)
red = ♥♥♥♥ all (basic starting point)
purple = oh ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ i don't wanna die, but i need to kill ♥♥♥♥ as well (newbies delight, trade focus on attack in favor of focus of avoiding)
green = never played 3 but from what it sounds, its an infrior purple because it lacks the auto aim and only gains so much firepower compared to its brothers that it pales in comparison, for this red would be better because it hits everything with tremendous firepower in its own respect and the homing missiles to it make focus fire possible while dealing with all enemies on screen in a given time frame

don't explain me the basics, also play 3rd one

you can't say whether green laser is better or worse then anything, if you haven't

also, you only have like half hour in raiden iv. I, with my mere 20 hours, and no 1cc am no expert in that game, but even more so, neither are you. Also, did you know, that you can make 3 way laser focus from spread into almost a single line?

[General Winter]

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

Originally posted by General Winter:

proton laser is good if you are constantly in front of what you want to hit, which is harder for some then others, the benifit of the purple laser is that you can focus more on not dying instead of that and attacking

while red gives all around damage to hurt everyone and blue is pure concentrated firepower

blue = suprior firepower (hardest, but most rewarding)
red = ♥♥♥♥ all (basic starting point)
purple = oh ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ i don't wanna die, but i need to kill ♥♥♥♥ as well (newbies delight, trade focus on attack in favor of focus of avoiding)
green = never played 3 but from what it sounds, its an infrior purple because it lacks the auto aim and only gains so much firepower compared to its brothers that it pales in comparison, for this red would be better because it hits everything with tremendous firepower in its own respect and the homing missiles to it make focus fire possible while dealing with all enemies on screen in a given time frame

don't explain me the basics, also play 3rd one

you can't say whether green laser is better or worse then anything, if you haven't

also, you only have like half hour in raiden iv. I, with my mere 20 hours, and no 1cc am no expert in that game, but even more so, neither are you. Also, did you know, that you can make 3 way laser focus from spread into almost a single line?

i played other versions of raiden outside of steam, i only just found out it was on steam recently, please refrain from assuming steam tells you everything about me because it never will

[D-Black Catto]

Originally posted by General Winter:

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

don't explain me the basics, also play 3rd one

you can't say whether green laser is better or worse then anything, if you haven't

also, you only have like half hour in raiden iv. I, with my mere 20 hours, and no 1cc am no expert in that game, but even more so, neither are you. Also, did you know, that you can make 3 way laser focus from spread into almost a single line?

i played other versions of raiden outside of steam, i only just found out it was on steam recently, please refrain from assuming steam tells you everything about me because it never will

noted.

what do you recommend for playing the game? Gamepad, arcade stick, keyboard?

[General Winter]

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

Originally posted by General Winter:

i played other versions of raiden outside of steam, i only just found out it was on steam recently, please refrain from assuming steam tells you everything about me because it never will

noted.

what do you recommend for playing the game? Gamepad, arcade stick, keyboard?

same as any other bullet hell game, whatever you are most comfortable with

[D-Black Catto]

Originally posted by General Winter:

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

noted.

what do you recommend for playing the game? Gamepad, arcade stick, keyboard?

same as any other bullet hell game, whatever you are most comfortable with

yeah, I really don't see much difference between each. There are some games where there are many buttons, and there, gamepad is a better solution, but Raiden with only shot and bomb button is not one of them.

[General Winter]

Originally posted by PuToTyra:

Originally posted by General Winter:

same as any other bullet hell game, whatever you are most comfortable with

yeah, I really don't see much difference between each. There are some games where there are many buttons, and there, gamepad is a better solution, but Raiden with only shot and bomb button is not one of them.

like i said before, its all about comfort, so which ever one you can get the best reflexs off of, but even then the ship doesn't move THAT fast, so to each their own