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The only castlevanias I've played are the DS ones. Has SotN held up well? Might play that soon
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YIKES Stay Gooned posted:The only castlevanias I've played are the DS ones. Has SotN held up well? Might play that soon SotN is still really good and my favorite of the modern Castlevania games. 1 and 3 are really epic, 4 is good but somewhat different, and I haven't played the others that much. 2 isn't horrible but even with the romhack that fixes a lot of the bad poo poo it's still not amazing.
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metroidvanias are basically rpgs
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:so... if ISIS captured you & forced you to pick between Metroid or Castlevania.. which would you choose? original castlevania over original metroid, metroid over castlevania if we're talking the whole series
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Jan 24, 2015 21:11
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:so... if ISIS captured you & forced you to pick between Metroid or Castlevania.. which would you choose? metroid ive tried several castlevania games and they feel like a mess in comparison
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Jan 24, 2015 21:14
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YIKES Stay Gooned posted:The only castlevanias I've played are the DS ones. Has SotN held up well? Might play that soon
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conceitedguy posted:Using the word "retard" as an insult is very offensive. This, unironically.
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Jan 24, 2015 21:49
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Morkyz posted:This, unironically. gently caress off retard
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Jan 24, 2015 21:51
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Wootman posted:gently caress off retard 
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Jan 24, 2015 22:06
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:so... if ISIS captured you & forced you to pick between Metroid or Castlevania.. which would you choose? metroid hands down.
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Jan 24, 2015 23:51
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rediscover posted:lmao if there are really people who think dark souls is a metroidvania. from my understanding, a metroidvania is a game about exploring and killing where you start out with very little freedom of movement and lovely weapons and there are lots of areas you cant access, but by the end of the game you're flipping around and grappling and sliding and poo poo all over the place and it feels loving awesome wow, dark souls would be awesome if at the end of it you could be hopping around and zipping across the landscapes like you're the prince of persia on crack instead of just have better weapons.
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Jan 25, 2015 02:18
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AHungryRobot posted:metroid hands down. Either choice would be made hands down
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Jan 25, 2015 02:59
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rogue legacy kinda tries to be one but its not very good at it
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Jan 27, 2015 05:11
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I Said No posted:rogue legacy kinda tries to be one but its not very good at it it's not a metroidvania at all. it's a roguelite/platformer really
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Jan 27, 2015 05:13
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Isn't there an Alien game on the gba thats a metroidvania? is metroidvania a noun
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Jan 27, 2015 10:52
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Actually, stuff in the vein of Mario are the best platformers. See ya later OP.
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Jan 27, 2015 13:39
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Hell I would go so far as to say that SOTN-style Castlevanias are about as crappy as platformers as something with controls that are still good can be.
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Jan 27, 2015 13:42
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Wormskull posted:Actually, stuff in the vein of Mario are the best platformers. See ya later OP. Wormskull posted:Hell I would go so far as to say that SOTN-style Castlevanias are about as crappy as platformers as something with controls that are still good can be. Thank you.
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Jan 27, 2015 15:03
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Wormskull posted:Hell I would go so far as to say that SOTN-style Castlevanias are about as crappy as platformers as something with controls that are still good can be. this sentence makes no drat sense but i'm pretty sure i disagree with it
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Jan 27, 2015 20:15
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rediscover posted:this sentence makes no drat sense but i'm pretty sure i disagree with it Castlevania post-SOTN, decent controls aside, are bad platformers, however good of exploration games or action RPGs or whatever they may be.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:19
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Imagine if SOTN didn't have the RPG elements. You'd rather play Castlevania 1 through 4, guaranteed. The only thing that even redeems the platforming in those games is playing as Richter but you have to unlock him usually, and even then there's Rondo of Blood or, again, the earlier ones are probably better also.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:23
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Yeah, actually the platforming itself is nothing to write home about.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:25
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And don't get me wrong since I think Aria of Sorrow for example is awesome, but there's nothing about traversing geometry in that game that's particularly compelling to me, and even counting the enemies the platforming is so uhhh guided or rigid or whatever, it's designed such that unless your doing something extremely unintentional, you'll be platforming it the same as every other person ever and not because anything is demanding technically.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:31
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Metroid is maybe a little better about it but not by much.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:35
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I never really played a Metroid so I can't comment on that.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:37
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Alucard is Doki Doki Panic backwards.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:38
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Castlevania can have fun platforming but it's mostly more about the enemy placement than anything else.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:39
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They should make a sequel to Zelda II: The Adventure of Link and do it like a metroidzeldavania.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:42
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say castlevania, demand III, and then when they bring you III rant about the differences between the jp and us versions and grant's shank knife v. throwing dagger and the sound chip differences and then run off while they're asleep from boredom
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Jan 28, 2015 03:46
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Blackheart posted:Metroid is maybe a little better about it but not by much. i would say super metroid at least is a good deal more technical than SOTN. mockballing, walljumping, speed booster, morph ball all add a lot to the game. speedruns of that game really show that aspect of it off well.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:58
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Wormskull posted:Imagine if SOTN didn't have the RPG elements. You'd rather play Castlevania 1 through 4, guaranteed. The only thing that even redeems the platforming in those games is playing as Richter but you have to unlock him usually, and even then there's Rondo of Blood or, again, the earlier ones are probably better also. oh totally. SOTN kicks major rear end and is my fav castlevania but not because of the platforming. but also thats like saying 'you wouldnt play minecraft if you couldnt build whatever you want', the rpg elements are sort of the whole point
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Jan 28, 2015 04:07
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YIKES Stay Gooned posted:The only castlevanias I've played are the DS ones. Has SotN held up well? Might play that soon sotn is really fun once you clear it and put in the luck cheat (or i guess download a memory card that already has that stuff unlocked). that way the game is actually sort of hard (at the start) and makes you use stuff like spells and subweapons. if you avoid using stuff like the crissaegrim and ring of varda it says hard throughout.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:08
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Wormskull posted:I never really played a Metroid so I can't comment on that. Have you never played Super Metroid at least? That's surprising.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:24
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rediscover posted:oh totally. SOTN kicks major rear end and is my fav castlevania but not because of the platforming. but also thats like saying 'you wouldnt play minecraft if you couldnt build whatever you want', the rpg elements are sort of the whole point Well the OP says "The best platformers", which if it's including those kinds of Castlevanias, is a huge No.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:25
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conceitedguy posted:Have you never played Super Metroid at least? That's surprising. I played like 5 minutes of it but the thought of backtracking and stuff wore on my senses second by second and I had to stop playing it.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:25
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And yea I know, it's probably a lot like Castlevania so why didn't I. Well, I just wasn't in the mood for that at the time so.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:26
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There's not really much backtracking at all in Super Metroid really.
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Jan 28, 2015 04:29
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conceitedguy posted:There's not really much backtracking at all in Super Metroid really. I think at the time I found it really tedious to have to shoot doors and have to look at doors I knew I would need a different weapon to be able to shoot, and it wasn't the right time for me to play a game like that.
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The original LoK: Soul Reaver was probably my favorite of the Metroidvanias.
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