WARNING! SHMUP PORN!

Pyongyang

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I actually much prefer Sanwa buttons, far more sensitive than the Seimetsu's.

Boo! Hiss!

What you said though sums up why I prefer Seimitsu to Sanwa. In basic gaming terms, for fudging oafs like myself who can't play games at all, over sensitive buttons are a nightmare. From a SHMUP angle though, it can make all the difference between dropping the laser for an alt shot and losing your multiplier and getting a world record Ketsui score (well, one that shows up ondafly anyway ).

Therefore, by the power invested in me by my dog, the influenza I'm currently housing and the belt of scotch I had before bed last night, I declare Sanwa to be inferior to Seimitsu (for my personal choice of course).

Pyongyang

Here's a couple of nice freebies.

http://www.namikaze.org/software/idinaloq/index_e.html

http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/95432-flying-v-test-version

Pyongyang

Grab the Kleenex, here's some REAL SHMUP PORN!

WARNING: These photos are not for the easily excited. Private viewing suggested.

http://ameblo.jp/cave-cs-stg-dev/entry-11225549238.html

Andrew76

Nice. They're about 2k a kit yes?

Pyongyang

Yeah, ¥198,000. Couple of lads on AO have pre-ordered full kits. I'll just wait until July to play it.

Imagine spending ¥198,000 on a Cave kit and you do this to it:



:eek:

Andrew76

Jebus. Next you'll see a youtube vid of some clown smashing the PCB to bits or something.

Andrew76

A rather clever chap has released an arrange mode for Ketsui, looks deadly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJunoyVLChc

Doge

Edit: Stupid piccy never appeared

Pyongyang wrote: »

Grab the Kleenex, here's some REAL SHMUP PORN!

WARNING: These photos are not for the easily excited. Private viewing suggested.

http://ameblo.jp/cave-cs-stg-dev/entry-11225549238.html

If you closely they even provide some kind of pink coloured hygienic wipes,
in case you cream yourself during unboxing:



Those guys at cave have everything covered!

unky chop chop

Guys,
Came across a nice little shooter on XBLA calles Sine Mora.
Pricey at 1200 points but well worth it.
Quality production,graphics and game mechanics.I highly recommend it.

CiDeRmAn

Yeah, we were talking about it here, it's pretty impressive stuff, visuals sometimes make the gameplay hard to follow but it is lovely.

unky chop chop

Yeah the graphics make it hard to see enemies sometimes but tis a great game.
I never heard of it before today..and it came as a nice surprise to play it.

Any other good SHUMPS on the horizon for XBLA?

ondafly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iInHKkQz6U

Pyongyang

ondafly wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iInHKkQz6U

Amazing game! Expensive though for the carnival edition.

Edit: whoops thought that was Nexzr. I have Alzadick Carnival. Its expensive too, but worth every cent.

Steve X2

Been listening to the Darius Gaiden soundtrack all evening while doing a bit of coding and general nerd stuff.
I'm worried, I really like the soundtrack, am I turning into Pyongy :eek:



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Retr0gamer

Steve SI wrote: »

Been listening to the Darius Gaiden soundtrack all evening while doing a bit of coding and general nerd stuff.
I'm worried, I really like the soundtrack, am I turning into Pyongy :eek:

It's not you. Zuntata just plain rock.

Steve X2

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's not you. Zuntata just plain rock.

I've only really just discovered them recently. Of course I've been listening to them for years without knowing it in games etc but only recently have I actively looked for their stuff.

They're pretty damn good all right.

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Pyongyang

Good work SteveSI.

Do yourself a massive favour though and check out the Darius Burst Live at O-East CD/DVD pack, it's absolutely mind-blowing.

Zuntata are just awesome anyway, but it's their work on the Darius series that stands out for me. Nice to see someone else enjoying the majesty of Darius.

CiDeRmAn

Pyongyang Vs Sparks
Darius Vs Boulder Dash......
Kettle Vs Pot

OwaynOTT

I had one of those moments just a while ago, where you realise it was a dream not real life ****e dream as well. I bought a copy of Darius and Gradius and started to play them. Thought Gradius was crap and too easy and was wondering to myself what that retrogamer lad was on about.
That's a sad state of affairs there now. My defends is I fell asleep looking at Saturn games on eBay, so must of came across copies of Darius.

OwaynOTT

Have to say the level designs in my Gradius where uber bland. Looked like the inside of a generic space ship all grey metal along top and bottom. That was all. I was able to fly in a straight line in every level.

Steve X2

OwaynOTT wrote: »

I had one of those moments just a while ago, where you realise it was a dream not real life ****e dream as well. I bought a copy of Darius and Gradius and started to play them. Thought Gradius was crap and too easy and was wondering to myself what that retrogamer lad was on about.
That's a sad state of affairs there now. My defends is I fell asleep looking at Saturn games on eBay, so must of came across copies of Darius.

Sounds like an evening in the Pyongy household

Sorry, that was a bad one. I'll give myself an hours ban.

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Pyongyang

Cor blimey guv! Look at this for a bit of SHMUP SMUT! :eek:

Andrew76

Interesting to read his first impressions of it.

First impressions after ten or so credits.

Firstly, it looks horrific The bubblegum style and ridiculously vibrant colour pallet are really gaudy. The soundtrack is equally sickly. A very odd experience in what is otherwise DOJ2. It would probably work better in high res. The inevitable port might make more sense.

Gameplay wise, it's one of Cave's hardest for sure. Shot and Laser modes seem a similar challenge to DOJ so far. Expert ramps things up to somewhere around Ultra difficulty. I really can't see there being a second loop. Expert is it.

The bullet patterns are very reminiscent of the Ketsui/DOJ era, which I love. The patterns are only half the story where difficulty is concerned however, hitboxes seem bigger than anything Cave have done. You don't get away with half as much. Autobomb seems like a must for now.

I'm liking the A ship overall. B seems handy for killing popcorn enemies quickly. C seems too slow. I think A-Laser will be my game,

Chaining isn't very strict. Not entirely sure how to score well though. I've only managed half a billion so far and haven't seen stage four yet (other than to confirm that Ustream freeze was a one off). I need to get my hyper meter up quicker to start milking the crazy sections for gold, I know that much. I don't think my rank has been over 3 yet either!

Overall, it's not love at first sight but it very rarely is. I need to know where the scoring kick is. One thing that's clear, though, Cave have aimed this one firmly at the hardcore, the bubblegum chewing hardcore.

Not love at first sight? Jeebus for the price I would have hoped it would be.

P.S. Commiserations again about the result.

o1s1n

God damn cave PCBs, the one let down I always find about them is that they're so small!

Pyongyang

Just pre-ordered Akai Katana from Shopto. They are giving away a free Akai Katana t-shirt if you pre-order the game there.

Well worth it considering the price official Cave t-shirts go for these days.

Put off pre-ordering the PAL release for ages as I'm going to get the LE NTSC-J edition, but feck it it's worth it for the t-shirt to buy the PAL release too.

blag

Pyongyang wrote: »

Just pre-ordered Akai Katana from Shopto. They are giving away a free Akai Katana t-shirt if you pre-order the game there.

Well worth it considering the price official Cave t-shirts go for these days.

Put off pre-ordering the PAL release for ages as I'm going to get the LE NTSC-J edition, but feck it it's worth it for the t-shirt to buy the PAL release too.

Saw that earlier, hope it's better than the abomination of a shirt I got with one of the SF4 revisions from ShopTo :pac:

johnny_ultimate

Hmm, my months-old Amazon pre-order is probably cheaper.

But Shopto has a t-shirt.

Will laziness prevail over a potentially over/undersized t-shirt?

safetyboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ArvS1T-GdU

15 minutes of sturmwind

CiDeRmAn

Looks nice but, gods, but that guy just won't shut up!
You think he's done, but then he starts talking again!

The game looks pretty good... Ya?

a5y

Pyongyang wrote: »

Cor blimey guv! Look at this for a bit of SHMUP SMUT! :eek:

Check out that typography on that cardboard box.

Its the stuff dreams are made of I tell you.