What are you guys up to, game-wise?

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:01 pm

Half way done with Assassins Creed

Working on Mass Effect

Starting COD4 and DBZ BT3

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:09 am

working my way through Castlevania Symphony of the Night again on 360, plan to pick up Bloodline Chronicles when I eventually cave and get a PSP.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:10 am

Does that version have the extra section available in the Saturn?

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:21 am

the 360 version? no. The PSP version has Maria, I'm not sure about the extra sections though.

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:38 am

I'm playing Soulblazer. Can't believe I missed this game.

COD4 looks awesome, and the campaign plays like a movie. But I can't actually play it for very long, to me it's just great to watch.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:25 am

corronchilejano wrote:Does that version have the extra section available in the Saturn?

None do. IGA hates them.

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:01 pm

whicker wrote:I'm playing Soulblazer. Can't believe I missed this game.

COD4 looks awesome, and the campaign plays like a movie. But I can't actually play it for very long, to me it's just great to watch.

I say, you know you've done something wrong if your game plays like a movie, you should have just made a movie instead.

How exactly? Scripted events everywhere, hyper linear and hours of dialog or just the general feeling?

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:30 pm

Johan_Hanberg wrote:
whicker wrote:I'm playing Soulblazer. Can't believe I missed this game.

COD4 looks awesome, and the campaign plays like a movie. But I can't actually play it for very long, to me it's just great to watch.
I say, you know you've done something wrong if your game plays like a movie, you should have just made a movie instead.

How exactly? Scripted events everywhere, hyper linear and hours of dialog or just the general feeling?

zOMG don't complain about linearity! Games where you have to put ANY thought at all into where to go next, make the peoples CONFUESED!1 That's why every genre is slowly converging into on-rails games.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:39 pm

Every game should be Castlevania 2.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:25 pm

corronchilejano wrote:Every game should be Castlevania 2.

YES

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:44 am

how about someone should remake Castlevania 2.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:48 am

corronchilejano wrote:Every game should be Castlevania: Symphony of The Night.

INDEED

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:22 am

Panzer88 wrote:how about someone should remake Castlevania 2.

Yes, I have always dreamed of a day in which Konami would remake Castlevania 2: SIMON'S QUEST.

I.S.T. wrote:
corronchilejano wrote:Every game should be Castlevania: Symphony of The Night.
INDEED

No, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, while a good game, has been made various times in all the "metroidvanias" for the GBA or DS (Well, I haven't played Dawn of Sorry or Portrait of Ruin, so who knows), Castlevania 2: SIMON'S QUEST is "larger" in the sense that there is a world outside of the mansions, it feels a lot more "open" that the metroidvanias, because even if the castles in the "metroidvanias" are big, they are still inside one castle, while in SIMON'S QUEST you travel around forests, swamps, towns, etc.

A remake or another game in the same vein as SIMON'S QUEST, travelling around towns, following clues, getting to various mansions, would be awesome.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:33 am

Joe Camacho wrote:
Panzer88 wrote:how about someone should remake Castlevania 2.
Yes, I have always dreamed of a day in which Konami would remake Castlevania 2: SIMON'S QUEST.

I.S.T. wrote:
corronchilejano wrote:Every game should be Castlevania: Symphony of The Night.
INDEED
No, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, while a good game, has been made various times in all the "metroidvanias" for the GBA or DS (Well, I haven't played Dawn of Sorry or Portrait of Ruin, so who knows), Castlevania 2: SIMON'S QUEST is "larger" in the sense that there is a world outside of the mansions, it feels a lot more "open" that the metroidvanias, because even if the castles in the "metroidvanias" are big, they are still inside one castle, while in SIMON'S QUEST you travel around forests, swamps, towns, etc.

A remake or another game in the same vein as SIMON'S QUEST, travelling around towns, following clues, getting to various mansions, would be awesome.

What? But I thought Castlevania 2 sucked.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:36 am

I loved Castlevania 2 because it was open, huge, and insanely cruel. More games should be like that. Plus, crouching next to a wall for no reason? I want more secrets like those.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:52 am

yeah, some secrets in castlevania games are just crazy, but seriously they've remade Castlevania 1 several times, and now they remade Rondo of Blood. They haven't remade it, but they've ported Symphony of the Night several times, how about they release 2 and 3 again sometime eh? I mean it's about time really.

to be fair though, Vampire Hunter for the MSX2 predates Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest AND Symphony of the Night with it's unique features, if you haven't given it a whirl you should pick it up. The visuals aren't bad but it scrolls

o.n.e..s.c.r.e.e.n..a.t..a..t.i.m.e

it's as annoying as that text is, but a good game otherwise.

right now I'm playing the Sharp X68000 version of Castlevania 1 though and LOVIN' it.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:34 am

Simon's Quest would be infinitely better if the level design didn't SUCK COMPLETE AND TOTAL ASS GOD DAMMIT I DO NOT FIND THROWING HOLY WATER EVERY THREE STEPS TO MAKE SURE I DON'T FALL THROUGH ONE OF SEVENTY-THREE BAJILLION FALSE FLOORS INTO THE WATER/SPIKES/WHATEVER A FUN WAY TO SPEND AN AFTERNOON! AND THIS IS JUST THE FIRST LEVEL ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah.... way too many invisible holes.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:07 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:Simon's Quest would be infinitely better if the level design didn't SUCK COMPLETE AND TOTAL ASS GOD DAMMIT I DO NOT FIND THROWING HOLY WATER EVERY THREE STEPS TO MAKE SURE I DON'T FALL THROUGH ONE OF SEVENTY-THREE BAJILLION FALSE FLOORS INTO THE WATER/SPIKES/WHATEVER A FUN WAY TO SPEND AN AFTERNOON! AND THIS IS JUST THE FIRST LEVEL ARRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yeah.... way too many invisible holes.

The clues sucked ass yes, and also when you stopped leveling because you needed to kill monsters in another location.

All defects aside, I still liked it and a game with the same premise in modern hardware would rock.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:18 am

yeah, they could get rid of the wrinkles and whatnot.

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:25 pm

Actually it's badly translated dialogs made it even more mysterious. People don't like games that take forever because they're hard, they want games that take forever because of HUGE levels.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:43 pm

corronchilejano wrote:Actually it's badly translated dialogs made it even more mysterious. People don't like games that take forever because they're hard, they want games that take forever because of HUGE levels.

That reminds me. on RHDN, people took a look at the game and found out something startling: The translation is accurate. You still get misinformation from people in the japanese version. It's not grammatically worth a shit, but the content in the text is sound... o_O

corronchilejano · Post by **corronchilejano** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:35 pm

A game MADE to not give you a clue? That's true puzzle.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:10 pm

yeah, I figure if American peeps were terrible at localizing (and limited) perhaps the japs could have made typos too.

I can understand people lying too you, but the game should make it somewhat apparent that these people are lairs or whatever, like the junk town in FFVI.

and what they say should actually make sense.

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:58 pm

Anyone ever played 'Golf' on the NES? The game is surprisingly well made for the time despite being very simple (and I'm not a fan of golf in general or anything)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_%28video_game%29

I've got a lucky streak and managed to end with -6 (i.e six shot below the norm)

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:02 am

Panzer88 wrote:yeah, I figure if American peeps were terrible at localizing (and limited) perhaps the japs could have made typos too.

I can understand people lying too you, but the game should make it somewhat apparent that these people are lairs or whatever, like the junk town in FFVI.

and what they say should actually make sense.

In the context of the setting, it makes sense.
Dracula traditionally has human servants working for him.
Castlevania is no different in this regard.

Logically, they'd be running around spreading lies and misinformation to slow down Simon.

Now, from a gameplay point of view, it's unsurprising.
CV2 very cleary hates humanity with a passion.