The only ones I care about are 3, Dracula X remake, SOTN and Aria of Sorrow. I think the chances are good for 3 and AOS on Switch, but I highly doubt I'll see the other 2.
The only ones I care about are 3, Dracula X remake, SOTN and Aria of Sorrow. I think the chances are good for 3 and AOS on Switch, but I highly doubt I'll see the other 2.
My top Castlevania games that I want to replay now are Order of Ecclesia, Castlevania 3 on the NES, and Devil May Cry 3.
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I didn't watch the whole video, but I guess some people in the comments section are pissed that they reduced that water boss's breast size and are claiming it's because of "feminazis" or whatever, but I'm happy they altered her appearance. It looked a bit ridiculous in that playable alpha.
Anyway, saw this posted on twitter, completely unrelated to Bloodstained:
XBC2 sold over a million copies, I’m not sure how much actual backlash was felt
Also I searched last night and couldn’t find anything about this? Anyone complaining about it, I mean? So if everything is contained to one YouTube comments feed, I’ll simply stick with the usual “don’t read the comments especially on YouTube, Jesus” policy
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XBC2 sold over a million copies, I’m not sure how much actual backlash was felt
Also I searched last night and couldn’t find anything about this? Anyone complaining about it, I mean? So if everything is contained to one YouTube comments feed, I’ll simply stick with the usual “don’t read the comments especially on YouTube, Jesus” policy
You're not wrong, although you can also often find these people in the Bloodstained kickstarter comments section too. And I suppose I should apply the same "don't read the comments" reasoning to that, I guess, but these are also the people who backed the game. I'll stop posting about fools like them, though; I'm personally pretty happy with the change to that boss's look.
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Always makes you wonder what their logic is.
"Feminazis complained so the company changed it! We're gonna boycott!"
"But what leverage was actually used if you think there's some power cabal?"
"They threatened to boycott it!"
"So you're saying they have bigger consumer power than you since the company is 'siding' with them."
"No we have the bigger power!"
"Then why would the company listen to them?"
"Because they have the power!"
etc
XBC2 sold over a million copies, I’m not sure how much actual backlash was felt
Also I searched last night and couldn’t find anything about this? Anyone complaining about it, I mean? So if everything is contained to one YouTube comments feed, I’ll simply stick with the usual “don’t read the comments especially on YouTube, Jesus” policy
XBC2 is a solid game in spite of those issues, but it definitely hurt sales to some people. On the other hand, it probably increased sales to other groups, so... from a corporate perspective... yeah, doubt any lessons were learned.
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I can't get over how direct Michiru Yamane is with the music in this game, as far as continuing the Castlevania feel. Also, those music tracks that someone linked a couple weeks ago? Some of that (AND MORE) has been on YouTube for almost a couple years now. And to the extent that they have extended versions that run for 30 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2gzAUb8ArU
There's so much Curse of Darkness in that track, I love it.
Edit - WOW, and I stumbled across a couple early MIDI versions of things too.
Semi-topical, on my way home from a friend's last Friday, I was listening to New Retro Wave on YouTube. It was around 1am and I was the only car on the highway in a wooded area. Generally spooky to begin with, but then the song that was playing hit 2:43...
"Feminazis complained so the company changed it! We're gonna boycott!"
"But what leverage was actually used if you think there's some power cabal?"
"They threatened to boycott it!"
"So you're saying they have bigger consumer power than you since the company is 'siding' with them."
"No we have the bigger power!"
"Then why would the company listen to them?"
"Because they have the power!"
etc
That's a common tactic among political movements. Umberto Eco identified it in his essay Ur-Fascism, but I don't think it's unique to fascism. We love our underdog narratives, so if you want to motivate people to take a stand against some imagined enemy, convince them that the enemy is big and faceless and powerful but simultaneously vulnerable to toppling by a sufficiently brave minority.
The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.
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sorry, I got a little serious there.
So, Bloodstained looks pretty cool, guys, mirite?
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Semi-topical, on my way home from a friend's last Friday, I was listening to New Retro Wave on YouTube. It was around 1am and I was the only car on the highway in a wooded area. Generally spooky to begin with, but then the song that was playing hit 2:43...
Gotta love absolutely random appearances of some of your favorite music of all time in the least likely of places.
At first I wondered if that was just a coincidence since it's just the baking melody of the theme, but the guy shows up in the youtube comments and outright confirms it. Cool.
I'm still not sure what to think about the rise of synthwave and 80s nostalgia. I found that style of music super cheesy when I was a kid, but now I've really come around to enjoying it. Not enough to buy any (yet), but I'll happily listen to some when someone posts a youtube clip.
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Surprise Bloodstained update on Kickstarter today!
We just received word from Roberto Piraino, Bloodstained brand manager at 505 Games, that he had an exciting new feature to announce—one that couldn't wait another day! Here he is to tell you everything you need to know:
Hello everyone, today we are proud to announce something truly unique and groundbreaking that no other videogame out there has done…
Players will have the option to mine cryptocurrency while playing Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night!
At launch, supported currencies will include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Zcash, with additional currencies possibly being added at a later date. Players will also have the freedom of linking the currency wallet of their choice to the game’s mining function.
The team has been working on this feature for quite some time, and as you can imagine, the challenges have been numerous and daunting, but thanks to a lot of dedication and technical skill it’s become a reality.
At the moment, due to the resources required by modern GPUs for cyptocurrency mining, this feature will only be enabled for copies of Bloodstained on PC that meet certain system requirements, (system requirements TBD as we are still optimizing) but we are also working hard to make this feature a reality for our fans on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch* and Xbox One.
In the meantime, we’re happy to show a sneak peek at how currency mining in Bloodstained will work with a screencap of the menu screen where you’ll be able to select your options for mining currencies:
We look forward to revealing and talking more about this feature and the possibilities it brings in the near future. For example, the team is currently evaluating launching “Igacoin” which will seek to decentralize the experience of dark gothic fantasy monster slaying and empower future fans with direct investment opportunities in the future of Koji Igarashi’s games and his partnership with 505 Games.
As always, we want to thank every single one of our fans for their support and interest, this amazing journey is made possible by all of you!
Roberto Piraino, a.k.a. Angel-Corlux
Bloodstained’s Brand Manager at 505 Games
*Currency mining feature not available for Nintendo Labo.
I have to admit that they got me to say "fuck you" when I first saw the posting on Facebook this morning before I remembered it was April 1st.
I don't think I'll ever experience Dracula X that way.
His personal youtube channel is also worth checking out. He's been focusing on the Game Boy and SNES as of late and intends to make a video for each game released for the system in the order they came out. Here's his video for Castlevania: The Adventure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZvGg6L7u2k
Teenage me would have disagreed with him about it being a bad game, mainly because damnit it was the only Castlevania game I had for the GB and I was going to enjoy it no matter what. Modern me can't enjoy it and will never beat it. I think the furthest I ever got was stage 3, and that was rare. The first stage's music kicks ass, though.
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You could hook up a PSP to TV-out and play the TG16 PC Engine version included in Dracula X Chronicles. While reasonably close, it's not identical as the TV-out from a PSP isn't quite full-screen, it's about 2/3rds
You could hook up a PSP to TV-out and play the TG16 PC Engine version included in Dracula X Chronicles. While reasonably close, it's not identical as the TV-out from a PSP isn't quite full-screen, it's about 2/3rds
I've actually done that, as well as played the game on my Wii. But it's still not the same as playing it on the original console with a CRT.
Although truthfully, they were close enough for me and perfectly enjoyable. Especially the Wii, where it filled up more of the screen.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I just saw this thread and I'm in love!
Give me a couple days to read through it all but please tell me there is some love for Harmony of Despair on the ps3! I haven't played in a long while but I would love to!
Edit: any character any level, doesn't matter!
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I just saw this thread and I'm in love!
Give me a couple days to read through it all but please tell me there is some love for Harmony of Despair on the ps3! I haven't played in a long while but I would love to!
Edit: any character any level, doesn't matter!
I genuinely love HoD, but alas, I only have it on my Xbox 360.
Don't get one on account of me, please! I don't really do multiplayer anymore. But when I did, that game was amazing. I played with a few others from this forum around the time of release. It was relatively easy to get 6 people back then.
I've been like a broken record saying that they need to port it to Steam ever since, but I know that even if it did happen, it probably wouldn't go over very well. Especially if they microtransacted the shit out of it like they did with the 360 version (and they would!).
I stopped getting Live a year or more ago, but I still play Harmony of Despair by myself on my 360 occasionally. I'm only missing one item now (some boots that drop from R. The Count in Ch.10).
The biggest reason I want Konami to stop sucking is so that game gets ported to Steam (and also the other Castlevanias and Silent Hills and such, but mainly that one).
I'd even buy whatever new characters/levels they put out, provided the pricing was comparable to the old structure (which even then was over-priced, but compared to stuff like Street Fighter V costumes and whatnot it seems like a steal...and it's better than loot boxes at least). Albus would be great as a playable character and already has a completed sprite set. There were also voice lines back in the original release indicating Hammer would be playable (though it seems Fuma got released instead).
I just wish they'd make HoD backward compatible for the Xbox One. I'd play it again, I just don't want to grind the subweapons and powers all over again. Those took forever and a day. Come on Konami, you've already allowed SoTN to be backward compatible. It can't be too hard to port HoD too.
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I screwed up the embed somehow on mobile. Anyway it's a wonderful live performance of CV64 intro.
(fixed it for you)
I think I've seen other footage from this same concert on youtube, with Michiru Yamane coming out onstage to play piano and a "Die monster!" bit acted out. Pretty cool.
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My top Castlevania games that I want to replay now are Order of Ecclesia, Castlevania 3 on the NES, and Devil May Cry 3.
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Anyway, saw this posted on twitter, completely unrelated to Bloodstained:
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Also I searched last night and couldn’t find anything about this? Anyone complaining about it, I mean? So if everything is contained to one YouTube comments feed, I’ll simply stick with the usual “don’t read the comments especially on YouTube, Jesus” policy
You're not wrong, although you can also often find these people in the Bloodstained kickstarter comments section too. And I suppose I should apply the same "don't read the comments" reasoning to that, I guess, but these are also the people who backed the game. I'll stop posting about fools like them, though; I'm personally pretty happy with the change to that boss's look.
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"Feminazis complained so the company changed it! We're gonna boycott!"
"But what leverage was actually used if you think there's some power cabal?"
"They threatened to boycott it!"
"So you're saying they have bigger consumer power than you since the company is 'siding' with them."
"No we have the bigger power!"
"Then why would the company listen to them?"
"Because they have the power!"
etc
XBC2 is a solid game in spite of those issues, but it definitely hurt sales to some people. On the other hand, it probably increased sales to other groups, so... from a corporate perspective... yeah, doubt any lessons were learned.
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Accompanying video interviewing a few of the voice actors, including Robbie Belgrade of SotN fame:
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There's so much Curse of Darkness in that track, I love it.
Edit - WOW, and I stumbled across a couple early MIDI versions of things too.
...and all was well and right in the world.
Gotta love absolutely random appearances of some of your favorite music of all time in the least likely of places.
Pretty sure it's Egoraptor. (Arin Hanson of Game Grumps)
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That's a common tactic among political movements. Umberto Eco identified it in his essay Ur-Fascism, but I don't think it's unique to fascism. We love our underdog narratives, so if you want to motivate people to take a stand against some imagined enemy, convince them that the enemy is big and faceless and powerful but simultaneously vulnerable to toppling by a sufficiently brave minority.
...
sorry, I got a little serious there.
So, Bloodstained looks pretty cool, guys, mirite?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
At first I wondered if that was just a coincidence since it's just the baking melody of the theme, but the guy shows up in the youtube comments and outright confirms it. Cool.
I'm still not sure what to think about the rise of synthwave and 80s nostalgia. I found that style of music super cheesy when I was a kid, but now I've really come around to enjoying it. Not enough to buy any (yet), but I'll happily listen to some when someone posts a youtube clip.
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I have to admit that they got me to say "fuck you" when I first saw the posting on Facebook this morning before I remembered it was April 1st.
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I don't think I'll ever experience Dracula X that way.
His personal youtube channel is also worth checking out. He's been focusing on the Game Boy and SNES as of late and intends to make a video for each game released for the system in the order they came out. Here's his video for Castlevania: The Adventure:
Teenage me would have disagreed with him about it being a bad game, mainly because damnit it was the only Castlevania game I had for the GB and I was going to enjoy it no matter what. Modern me can't enjoy it and will never beat it. I think the furthest I ever got was stage 3, and that was rare. The first stage's music kicks ass, though.
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I've actually done that, as well as played the game on my Wii. But it's still not the same as playing it on the original console with a CRT.
Although truthfully, they were close enough for me and perfectly enjoyable. Especially the Wii, where it filled up more of the screen.
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Give me a couple days to read through it all but please tell me there is some love for Harmony of Despair on the ps3! I haven't played in a long while but I would love to!
Edit: any character any level, doesn't matter!
I genuinely love HoD, but alas, I only have it on my Xbox 360.
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Don't get one on account of me, please! I don't really do multiplayer anymore. But when I did, that game was amazing. I played with a few others from this forum around the time of release. It was relatively easy to get 6 people back then.
I've been like a broken record saying that they need to port it to Steam ever since, but I know that even if it did happen, it probably wouldn't go over very well. Especially if they microtransacted the shit out of it like they did with the 360 version (and they would!).
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If they port it to switch i'd be down for it though.
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The biggest reason I want Konami to stop sucking is so that game gets ported to Steam (and also the other Castlevanias and Silent Hills and such, but mainly that one).
I'd even buy whatever new characters/levels they put out, provided the pricing was comparable to the old structure (which even then was over-priced, but compared to stuff like Street Fighter V costumes and whatnot it seems like a steal...and it's better than loot boxes at least). Albus would be great as a playable character and already has a completed sprite set. There were also voice lines back in the original release indicating Hammer would be playable (though it seems Fuma got released instead).
I screwed up the embed somehow on mobile. Anyway it's a wonderful live performance of CV64 intro.
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(fixed it for you)
I think I've seen other footage from this same concert on youtube, with Michiru Yamane coming out onstage to play piano and a "Die monster!" bit acted out. Pretty cool.
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