I'm thinking of taking summer classes as well at a local trade school. Good luck to you.
Yeah, it's a bummer I have to do a summer class, especially since this year was the year I resolved to really get better at the shmup genre, in light of what I had achieved quickly after coming back to shmups last summer, but for my case, there's a class that will be much easier to manage in the summer, and a few of my friends will be in that class (It's a mathematical statistics class), so I guess I'll just have to get that out of the way. Fortunately, it'll end very soon, since a month will pass very quickly, and then I got a two-month off time to go back to focus on shmups, and the rest of the year won't be so busy, so it'll be high tide for me again after June!
Good luck to you too, Mimeslayer!
Sorry, I was confused about the bomb-refill mechanic, not the auto-bomb. In Novice mode I figured out collecting a bomb item completely refills your stock, unlike 360/Arcade mode. It makes me wonder why anyone would choose bomb over strong unless I'm missing something concerning scoring.
Ah, okay. Yeah, I never noticed that, when I first played DDP DFK back in mid-April, that when you pick up a bomb in novice mode, it fills your bomb stock all the way. Hmm, I'm not yet overly familiar with the three shot types yet, and the styles. I know I used Type-B, Strong style for the 1st 1cc I did on novice mode, where I did it in one go, and that one had an auto-bomb mechanic, for when you get hit. I'm not familiar with the bomb style to really say what would be the difference. I'll be playing the game pretty often soon enough, so I'll probably find out myself about that.
I'm surprised; I've heard nothing but negative things about playing shmups with a dualshock. I'm guessing you use the stick and not the D-pad? On PC I personally use a keyboard.
I use the DualShock 3 controller, and it does a pretty good job of what I'd like it to do, to where all the PC games I play really do feel like a proper console shmup game, especially when I hook my laptop up to my samsung TV. It's so awesome! That, and that's what I have on me immediately, as well as one that I know how to hook up to my PC and laptop, along with the appropriate software and devices needed to connect my DS3 to the PC (Better DS3 tool). An arcade stick would be incredible, if I had one, but it'll take a lot of practice to use, no doubt.
I've heard a lot of great things about the Sega Saturn controllers, however, and that many of the best use a Sega Saturn controller to play shmups in-general, including the PC games, so I'm looking into getting one pretty soon, especially since I don't know where my old Sega Saturn is, along with the controllers, and it's been a long time, since I used one of those things, so I'm looking to check into that, and maybe even try to get another Sega Saturn console to go play the shmups associated with that console, since I don't know where my old Sega Saturn console went.
Thanks, I'll look into these.
Yeah, those games are also quite a bit of fun to play, if you can get them! While all of them are great, the ones I'd particularly look into, I'd venture to say, in my opinion, are the Eschatos & Ginga Force Wonder Pack (Two really good games in one, and region-free, it looks like, according to the reviews on it at Amazon, and a couple of sellers on eBay on what they have to say about the Eschatos & Ginga Force Wonder Pack!), Bullet Soul (region-free), and Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets! (region-free)
I browse the shmups forum a little so I knew about Ketsui. I'm debating when to buy that game because despite how brutal it is and despite how little I know about how to play it properly it's aesthetically one of my favorite Cave games. The PS3 also has a couple of good shmups for download, though nothing like what's on the 360. Most of the games are modern twin-stick style or doujin games that are on PC (Gundemonium Series comes to mind).
I should be able to get that one for the PS3 a few months from now, if all goes well. Yeah, that one's got a reputation behind it, but I think, with some good practice in, I think it'll be fine to where you can at least do a 1-loop of that eventually. Every shmup has it's own challenges, I think it's about how you approach them. It looks like a lot of fun, so I'd say, when you get a few more of some other games and when you're able to, I'd go try to get it, indeed!
Yeah, same, many of the games found on the PSN, particularly doujin games, you can find for your PC, indeed. It's a shame Sony didn't really appeal to shmup companies very much, overall (It used to do that to some degree before the days of the PS3, and then, well... yeah), and that Microsoft ended up courting most of them, in a series of odd turn of events.
Makes you wonder what happened, especially given the usual audience associated with the Xbox 360. Well, it is what it is, so yeah.
Incidentally, I actually own a physical copy of the Gundemonium series, it's pretty cool!
I never heard about Caladrius before though. Good game?
It's a new game made by the company MOSS, the same guys who developed Raiden III and Raiden IV. The game looks really nice, and a ton of fun to play, at least from what I've seen on the videos found on YouTube! I'd go check it out, I think you'll like what you see for it!
It actually was released last year for the Xbox 360. Unfortunately, however, that one was region-locked, so most people can't really play that one, if you don't have a Japanese Xbox 360, which makes the revelation of Caladrius Blaze coming region-free for the PS3 later on this year big news!
However, at the moment, no actual release date has been given, except that it will be released sometime on Q3, 2014.
Here's one link that shows the game, for starters:
Caladrius Blaze on play-asia.com:
http://www.play-asia.com/caladrius-blaze-paOS-13-49-en-70-7km5.html
