ah. cool. I’m wondering if I should get on that, but I have kinda loaded my plate up already.
-Starhammer-
So here’s some new bullshit that makes me want to slap Cave with my arcade stick. They are re-releasing Dondonpachi Resurrection and Espaluga 2 in HD on the iOS platforms for $13.99 ($10.99 initially). It’s exactly the same as before but a big old premium price so we can rebuy the games for HD graphics. That’s rude as hell when they could just UPGRADE the original releases.
I’m not sure if CAVE can keep playing out their iOS market like this. People will start to go up an arms eventually I’m sure. That stupid micro transaction bullshit they put into deathsmiles where you have to spend money to get the best equipment is pretty tasteless.
Their new game is exclusive to windows phone, at least for now. Not a sound decision, unless Microsoft put them up to it and sweetened the deal.
Anyways, Mushihimesama HD. Supposedly the last 360 game to be released. Pre ordering LE or standard edition will include a DLC code to acquire ver1.5 which was an exclusive mode to arcade pcb.
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that is pretty shitty. :tdown: They could have released on other systems if all they were gonna do is give you the same old same old. I’m guessing there’s no mention of an upgrade DLC coming for either one? C’mon cave. you’re one of the last ones we got left. don’t drop the ball on us!!!
-Starhammer-
No there isn’t an upgrade DLC. For everyone who bought the previous standard def releases are shit out of luck. That would be me!
Got an emulator of Einhander recently. WTF that game is hard. Much harder than I originally remember it being.
my gf bought an ipad recently and i been wanting to try out the cave shooters on it but then i thought to myself…touch controls are probably wack for a shootem up so i didnt bite. i want cave to start releasing on steam ASAP i will buy the whole collection
im outi
Roberth
^ Try their demos out. You might be pleasantly surprised.
I wish I bought that game brand new when I saw it in Bestbuy for 30 bucks. I still am salty about it to this day. 
Sorry to hear that FC. They know we’re trying to get shot out here. What are they doing, playing with themselves?
Heh. It IS hard. you’ll get your memory back soon enough. I still have the disk and I must say, It IS still one of the best here.
-Starhammer-
They are circle jerking with our money. Like I don’t have a problem with the price of shmup ports if they are good solid ports with new features like all the past releases have been. Like Darius Burst is amazing to me for instance. I get that you can make money off of us because getting shot is a niche market but what a big fuck you to the people who already bought the same damn game. It’s not like we got the port 6 years ago and now all of a sudden with have HD capable devices.
I mean seriously, EVERYONE else who makes apps or games for the iOS market simply updated the damn apps. “Oh? So I hear you have a retina display? Here’s updated graphics so you can enjoy it. You’re welcome buddy!”
I’m just going to do the right thing and boycott these re-releases.
I still hate myself for having my cd wallet being stolen back in high school. I had the Einhander soundtrack in there.
I missed this post somehow, but YES!!! I would pay, and snap pictures of whatever chick actually looks decent naked around here if it will make this come true. However it may come to be, I would welcome another chance at twinbee and R-type especially.
-Starhammer-
Irem is inside out retarded for ending R-Type with Final. It’s shmup with man made biological/synthetic baddie that goes through time. How can you NOT keep that going forever. Especially after both Tactics games.
well, at least they aren’t pulling a capcom on us, i would bet that the 1.5 version isn’t on disc if it’s eventually available for DLC.
A-Fuckin-Man. R-type final being…Final? :wtf: Bad call Irem. Your sons and their sons should be playing these when they come out, but they won’t. :sad: The bydo empire should fall, but they should always rise again. What the hell has happened in this world? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t even feel right calling Final a “true” ending. I’m breaking out the asterisks on this one. It feels that suspect to me.
-Starhammer-
It’s not that Final isn’t a bad ending to a series either. I think it was excellent to throw in the kitchen sink even if Delta had better level designs and bosses overall. It was like “Goodbye friends!” and I felt all the love that was jammed inside of it. It was a ‘true’ ending to the series. Just an unnecessary ending is the problem. It also doesn’t help that R-Type is the only one that gets ported/remade consistently. Then maybe R-Type 2, like almost never for 3, and definitely never for Leo and Delta.
Does anyone eve know why Final had to be the last new R-Type shmup? And how did Tactics come about?
Trust me on this. Buy those Cave shooters on the iPad/iPhone. Once you get used to the touch screen controls, they’re actually quite precise.
They are more precise since it’s matching the speed of your finger. It’s the difference between ‘controlling’ the ship and ‘being’ the ship.
I have no real idea about tactics. I think the story behind final being the last one is because the company was supposed to be disbanding. However, later on after R-Type Final, there was this company called Aicom that was said to have gotten some or all of the developers of R-Type, but nothing was ever seen of them either on other systems or in the arcade. A real shame IMO. I keep the hope that there will be more of their work in the future. If not, I have to say that R-Type Final did go out with a bang. I just want more bang, or if nothing else, a damn port to the systems we have now. Maybe we should start a petition to get them ported?
@Dev: NICE!!! :tup: I like that. “Dress in bikini for extra difficulty.” Yeah, I don’t think staring at some skinny ass is gonna be the problem. That’s what the bullets are for.
-Starhammer-
Decided to start getting to shmups more seriously after playing them casually for a long time. First step: throw the LS-32 and Seimitsu buttons I’ve got laying around into one of my extra stick cases.
I can also attest to the quality of the Cave shooters on iOS (especially the HD versions which look amazing) but I can’t help but feel like the touch controls change the game on a pretty fundamental level. It’s now much more trivial to get yourself out of trouble spots than with a stick since you can move as fast as you can drag your finger, and you can move in any weird arc you want. Still great though.