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Lords of Shadow 1 is an unremarkable 3D action game with a lot of reasonably pretty but terribly paced content. Mirror of Fate is LOS combat turned sideways and doesn't really resemble old-school or IGA-style games. Lords of Shadow 2 is a schizophrenic mix of okay parts (anything in the castle or traditional LOS setting) and awful crap (anything in the present-day setting).
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Like I'd straight out cut out half the content of both of the console games. Modern day enemies with guns who can shoot you from across the map are just awful, as is needing meter to even damage some of them.
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Sep 3, 2016 04:42
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I like how they advertised los 2 as the thrilling conclusion even though nothing really seemed to happen
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Sep 3, 2016 04:43
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Uncle Wemus posted:I like how they advertised los 2 as the thrilling conclusion even though nothing really seemed to happen It has the most flaccid ending of nearly any game I can think of. Like NES games with you standing on a cliff with a castle crumbling are more interesting, drac just loving stabs a dude and then heads home.
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Sep 3, 2016 04:47
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AM2R has my favorite ending screen I've seen from a Metroid game I don't even care if I got the worst one. Mom and son 
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Pelican Dunderhead posted:AM2R has my favorite ending screen I've seen from a Metroid game I don't even care if I got the worst one. "See you next mission. WHERE YOU DIE."
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Sep 6, 2016 17:01
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Bloodstained bumped back to 2018 according to the e-mail that just came out. I'm fine with that. The demo was already fine so more time with more devs is not a bad thing. I'm wondering how much the reception of MM9 played into that all the same.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:01
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I don't think anyone was surprised. The amount of extra content they're going to create from Stretch Goals is ridiculous.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:02
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Bloodstained bumped back to 2018 according to the e-mail that just came out. I'm fine with that. The demo was already fine so more time with more devs is not a bad thing. I have imagine watching No Man's Sky being one of the biggest disappointments in modern games helped them as well. Nobody wants to be No Man's Sky or MN9 these days.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:03
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I expected as much. No way this game was gonna be done in 6 more months.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:07
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randombattle posted:I have imagine watching No Man's Sky being one of the biggest disappointments in modern games helped them as well. Nobody wants to be No Man's Sky or MN9 these days. The saving grace being we know that Iga has actually designed good games before opposed to the indie startups and whatever it is Inafune told people he did to get millions of dollars. Iga comes off as too sincere to be trying to trick folks, too.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:07
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I know it was probably just part of the statement, but I couldn't help but chuckle at 'Get it right the first time', as if it were a jab at just how HORRID MN9 turned out. I so loving wish I took the 20 or 30 or however much I put into MN9, and held onto it and put it into Bloodstained. I mean, we got so many loving delays for MN9, with little to be explained save 'Oh, multiplayer is taking time', here, we get a video from IGA right out saying why he wants to hold things back and apologizing right off for this. The difference in quality is just outstanding between the two campaigns.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:08
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I said this in the Kickstarter thread but I'm fine with it. "We're announcing well in advance the game is delayed in order to bring on more development staff and make sure it is up to expectations" is basically the most reasonable possible excuse to delay a game.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:08
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Also iga hasnt announced that they are also going to make a spinoff game and a cartoon.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:26
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CV re-release news: -Super Castlevania 4 came out on the New 3DS VC in NA today -Haunted Castle is coming to PS4 as an Arcade Archives release vaguely CV-related news: -Maldita Castilla EX was officially confirmed for PS4
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Sep 9, 2016 02:43
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I was expecting a delay from the second I saw the KS schedule, so I'm not surprised or disappointed. If the game needs to be delayed, so be it. I've got more than enough to tide me over in the meantime.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:51
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Yeah, no way in hell was it making 2017, especially not with all this console turnover.
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Sep 9, 2016 02:52
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I dunno if I'd actually pay money for Haunted Castle, though the music is nice I guess.
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I'm not mad about the delay but 2018 feels so far away I can't even imagine still being alive when it comes out.
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RichterIX posted:I'm not mad about the delay but 2018 feels so far away I can't even imagine still being alive when it comes out. Well, if you're going to kill yourself tomorrow, of course you won't be alive then 
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poo poo why did I kickstart all these games
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Map Resolution Questions When playing through most Castlevania games, every certain amount of distance traveled puts you in a new coordinate on the map. This distance is usually more than one screen's worth, in whatever the native resolution of the game is. Does anybody know what these ratios are for say Symphony of the Night or any of the DS titles? As in, the in-game screen resolution for SotN is 256x240 (I think) and let's pretend you uncover another map tile every 384 horizontal pixels or 480 vertical pixels (if you didn't change rooms). Then the ratios would be 1.5x by 2x. Also, does anybody know if these distances are fixed per game or if they're variable per area?
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Sep 12, 2016 23:38
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After paying more attention (to Order of Ecclesia, at least), it looks like each map zone is exactly one screen in dimensions. The crafty thing they do is not set up any non-rectangular collections of zones (rooms) yet still make it feel like you're traversing an adequately dynamic landscape. And I never realized how many times I'd hop up onto a ledge to change rooms just so I'd be vaguely centered in the next area.
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Sep 22, 2016 17:57
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The latest Bloodstained update has some of the games music. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-night/posts/1686739 Listen to this Castlevania-rear end music.
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Black Mage Knight posted:The latest Bloodstained update has some of the games music. God drat that music is awesome.
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Sep 26, 2016 02:50
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Black Mage Knight posted:The latest Bloodstained update has some of the games music. haha that 2nd and 4th track. It's certainly "inspired by" castlevania music alright.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:haha that 2nd and 4th track. It's certainly "inspired by" castlevania music alright. Well, to be fair it is literally the main Igavania composer being told "hey, go make some castlevania rear end music, kthx"
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Am I weird for wishing it'd sound a bit more....I dunno, varied? Like, I've been listening to the SotN soundtrack in the car and that stuff is all over the place, it's great. Whereas Bloodstained mostly just sounds like more of the DS sound hardware. I kinda figured that releasing on more powerful hardware again would help with that, but then again the organ stuff still sounds fantastic so maybe I just need to shut up and wait for the rest of the game to come out and listen then. It's still pretty drat good as it is.
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There was a live-orchestra stretch goal, wasn't there? Best wait for those recordings, I suppose. Vaguely-CV-related news: that KS game Slain! came out on PS4 and Vita last week, apparently. They did manage to turn the PC version into something resembling a game, so maybe give it a look. EDIT; oh, and Maldita Castilla EX passed Greenlight, so you'll soon have another way to pick that up.
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Is Slain! really worth it now? All I ever heard was how bad it was when it was first released.
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Sakurazuka posted:Is Slain! really worth it now? All I ever heard was how bad it was when it was first released. It's pretty decent on PC now that the dude behind it basically overhauled it, but it's worth noting it's not a Metroidvania, more like original Castlevania.
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Sep 26, 2016 12:17
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Happy 30th anniversary, Castlevania.
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Yay, our little baby old enough to be jaded and committing tax fraud or ignoring their insufferable kids!
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Sakurazuka posted:Is Slain! really worth it now? All I ever heard was how bad it was when it was first released. It's pretty good. Gameplay is simple but actually fairly fun now, and the game itself is loving gorgeous. Some of the best sprite art I've seen in a while.
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Bloodstained Update #45 - Oct 5, 2016October Update: IGA finds a publisher posted:We've got news! And we wanted to get this to you as soon as possible, so we're breaking into our usual update schedule to report that:
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505 Games-sama  Also that looked a lot prettier than I remember the demo being, though I guess that's not surprising considering we're still well over a year away from it.
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Doesn't the wording of that imply that they lost their initial publisher? It seems weird because there was always going to be a publisher according to the initial kickstarter but everything is phrased like this agreement just now happened. Like all signs were pointing to Deep Silver, right?
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Phantasium posted:Doesn't the wording of that imply that they lost their initial publisher? It seems weird because there was always going to be a publisher according to the initial kickstarter but everything is phrased like this agreement just now happened. Deep Silver trademarked Bloodstained so yeah that is a little odd.
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Oct 5, 2016 19:00
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Wonder if they got cold feet after MN9's reception?
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ImpAtom posted:Deep Silver trademarked Bloodstained so yeah that is a little odd. Could be deep silver is in deep troubles? When was the last time they published something that did well? Ryse? Risen 3? Gat out of Hell? 2014, early 2015? Anyways 505 seems to have a better track record for published stuff recently. I wonder if it has anything to do with publisher support though.
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