CAVEs next event...

[mrsmiley381]

Progear Pachinko.
Deathsmiles H-Game.
No more shooters.

You know it to be true.

[dcharlie]

http://caveworlden.wordpress.com/

results of last questionnaire are up ....

[Question 27] Tell us which CAVE games you would like to see ported to the iPhone (Multiple selections OK).

Maybe this is the question everyone has on their mind.
Ok, first the Japanese rankings!
1st Dodonpachi Daioujou
2nd Mushihimesama Futari
3rd Ketsui
4th Mushihimesama
5th Dodonpachi
6th Deathsmiles
7th Deathsmiles II
8th ESP Ra.de
9th Akai Katana
10th Espgaluda

Next, the overseas rankings!
1st Mushihimesama Futari
2nd Deathsmiles
3rd Ketsui
4th Dodonpachi
5th Dodonpachi Daioujou
6th Mushihimesama
7th Espgaluda
8th Guwange
9th ESP Ra.de
10th Donpachi

In Japan we had the same results as last time, with Dodonpachi Daioujou on top, and overseas (probably due to the Xbox 360), Mushihimesama Futari at #1. Both overseas and Japanese users picked Ketsui as #3!
Very interesting results for us.

#hubbahubba - surely we'll see the top 3 at some point on the iphone?

[BPzeBanshee]

http://caveworlden.wordpress.com/

results of last questionnaire are up ....

[Question 27] Tell us which CAVE games you would like to see ported to the iPhone (Multiple selections OK).

Maybe this is the question everyone has on their mind.
Ok, first the Japanese rankings!
1st Dodonpachi Daioujou
2nd Mushihimesama Futari
3rd Ketsui
4th Mushihimesama
5th Dodonpachi
6th Deathsmiles
7th Deathsmiles II
8th ESP Ra.de
9th Akai Katana
10th Espgaluda

Next, the overseas rankings!
1st Mushihimesama Futari
2nd Deathsmiles
3rd Ketsui
4th Dodonpachi
5th Dodonpachi Daioujou
6th Mushihimesama
7th Espgaluda
8th Guwange
9th ESP Ra.de
10th Donpachi

In Japan we had the same results as last time, with Dodonpachi Daioujou on top, and overseas (probably due to the Xbox 360), Mushihimesama Futari at #1. Both overseas and Japanese users picked Ketsui as #3!
Very interesting results for us.

#hubbahubba - surely we'll see the top 3 at some point on the iphone?

I can just imagine crappy YouTube videos in about 2 years time tops with stuff like "THE HARDEST VIDEO GAME BOSS EVER NOW ON IPHONE".
Hey, maybe they can use that for product advertising?

[rancor]

After reading the updated message, I'm definitely going to be applying for a job at CAVE during the matsuri. My visa is straight, my Japanese is passable, and I've got my finger on the pulse of the foreign shmup community. Dreams can come true, right?

[moozooh]

Good luck man!

[Drachenherz]

After reading the updated message, I'm definitely going to be applying for a job at CAVE during the matsuri. My visa is straight, my Japanese is passable, and I've got my finger on the pulse of the foreign shmup community. Dreams can come true, right?

I keep my fingers crossed!

[BPzeBanshee]

After reading the updated message, I'm definitely going to be applying for a job at CAVE during the matsuri. My visa is straight, my Japanese is passable, and I've got my finger on the pulse of the foreign shmup community. Dreams can come true, right?

YEAH MAN
If you can get a job in Cave then connections with the customers will be so much easier for them. You should push that point across as a good reason to get in too.

[emphatic]

I hope they continue with the crazy fan service of putting ships/characters of their old games into the new ones. Let's see the DeathSmiles character rooster in ESPGALUDA III. Tyrannosatan turning into a giant cube of "pissing you off-ness" etc.

Also, good luck on that plan, Rancor. This could be you in a couple of years: http://www.cave.co.jp/recruiting/post05 ... index.html

[GaijinPunch]

After reading the updated message, I'm definitely going to be applying for a job at CAVE during the matsuri. My visa is straight, my Japanese is passable, and I've got my finger on the pulse of the foreign shmup community. Dreams can come true, right?

I think you're sorely underestimating the necessity of high level Japanese to work even the most menial of jobs in a Japanese company.

[njiska]

Let's see the DeathSmiles character rooster in ESPGALUDA III.

Ha, ha. Misspellings amuse me so. Giant Hybrid Loli Chicken FTW!

[rancor]

I think you're sorely underestimating the necessity of high level Japanese to work even the most menial of jobs in a Japanese company.

Might I infer from these words of discouragement that you'll be applying too?

Well - the job I'm currently at I'm doing well - In a Japanese office. I also applied for and got an offer from Weather News http://weathernews.com/out in Makuhari (The folks that provide weather information to the Wii, as well as other things.) Had to turn them down because they wanted me to move to Chiba, as well as go through 3 months of unpaid "schooling". And the interview was in Japanese, in an office.

I'm not saying it's likely, but I'm also not saying it's impossible. I'm sure you can agree that stranger things can and do happen. What's the harm in trying?

[dcharlie]

I think you're sorely underestimating the necessity

I think he's underestimating the necessity that he'll be sore

[Lance Boyle]

How would DOJ's tap chaining work on iPhone? Your left thumb would be sore in minutes!

Also, the analog control scheme would completely break the scoring. Instant stage-long chaining.

Ketsui would require three hands.

[emphatic]

Ketsui would require three hands.

Why? If I were to port Ketsui to the iPhone I would just have the player let go of the screen (one tap) and hit it again to switch from full auto to LOCK SHOT. Or have it constantly in LOCK SHOT as the analogue controls will still give you the "upper hand" of moving quick at will and slow when necessary.

[Skykid]

Ok, first the Japanese rankings!
1st Dodonpachi Daioujou

When it comes to games the Japanese can't be faulted for taste, that's for sure.

[Lance Boyle]

Why? If I were to port Ketsui to the iPhone I would just have the player let go of the screen (one tap) and hit it again to switch from full auto to LOCK SHOT. Or have it constantly in LOCK SHOT as the analogue controls will still give you the "upper hand" of moving quick at will and slow when necessary.

How do you cease fire?

Occasionally not shooting is a very important thing in Ketsui.

Or have it constantly in LOCK SHOT

And completely break the scoring?

[GaijinPunch]

Might I infer from these words of discouragement that you'll be applying too?

Hehe. Absolutely not. Not my thing.

I'm not saying it's likely, but I'm also not saying it's impossible. I'm sure you can agree that stranger things can and do happen. What's the harm in trying?

Absolutely none... and that's the right attitude to have. But you just gotta remember that unless they're specifically looking for a whitey, they're going to grill you in the interview... and the cultural barrier will probably fuck you way harder than the language one. There's an interesting thread at JREF with a similar scenario, complete with commentary by a gaijin truck driver in Japan.

[emphatic]

Why? If I were to port Ketsui to the iPhone I would just have the player let go of the screen (one tap) and hit it again to switch from full auto to LOCK SHOT. Or have it constantly in LOCK SHOT as the analogue controls will still give you the "upper hand" of moving quick at will and slow when necessary.

How do you cease fire?

Occasionally not shooting is a very important thing in Ketsui.

Or have it constantly in LOCK SHOT

And completely break the scoring?

LOL iPhone. Of course the scoring system has to be revised. The "constantly in LOCK SHOT" idea combined with a more relaxed and perhaps wholly changed chip deployment could be lots of fun. Just award really aggressive play instead, say point-blanking ANYTHING will give you 5-chips or whatever. Trying to recreate the three button experience on a device that first of all have no digital controls is stupid IMHO. Talk about not using the full potential of the analogue controls.

[Icarus]

When it comes to games the Japanese can't be faulted for taste, that's for sure.

Given how high Futari finished on both tables, I think it'd be the more likely candidate over Daioujou.
Where's MMP? ;_;

[Skykid]

When it comes to games the Japanese can't be faulted for taste, that's for sure.

Given how high Futari finished on both tables, I think it'd be the more likely candidate over Daioujou.

Quiet you!

You and your Futari. That replay I downloaded of yours is still haunting me.

[Icarus]

You and your Futari. That replay I downloaded of yours is still haunting me.

It beckons you to play it and improve your strategies.
It calls you to aim for 300mil.
It wishes to see you 1CC it with a big score.

[Skykid]

You and your Futari. That replay I downloaded of yours is still haunting me.

It beckons you to play it and improve your strategies.
It calls you to aim for 300mil.
It wishes to see you 1CC it with a big score.

Yes, but I'm sick of Futari.
The only thing that pisses me off is how you make the run look so... normal. You bomb, you die, you do most of the stuff I do... you get 300mil+.

...Let's not talk about Futari anymore.