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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ugh I thought it ended today and I forgot to spend my last couple days of cc rewards. Oh well.

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  • Shenl742Shenl742 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    LoS had an interesting setup for a sequel, but they probably should've saved it for something other than the first game in a reboot...

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  • McMoogleMcMoogle Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Should've been set in Barkerville.

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    SteevL wrote: »
    I didn't hate LoS2 as much as other people, but it was definitely a bit of a disappointment. And the stealth bits were bad...plus they don't even give you the opportunity to kill those dudes you have to be stealthy around, even by the end of the game!

    Also, it's set in "Castlevania City", which is a level of silliness the LoS series didn't feel like it earned.

    To be clear I didn't hate LoS2, I was just disappointed by it. The fact that it was to such a level that near the end of the game I'd stopped having fun is just one of the things I was disappointed about.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Enlong wrote: »
    Huh. The collection has Castlevania the Adventure, and not The Adventure Rebirth? Missed opportunity to get that game out of the Wii Eshop purgatory it's in.

    None of the Wii shop Konami games have escaped, because Konami, naturally.

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  • rahkeesh2000rahkeesh2000 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I doubt anyone besides Nintendo is going to develop a commercial Wii emulator, so it would come down to actually porting the Rebirth games. Assuming the sources still exist and such.

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  • Capt HowdyCapt Howdy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    The Lords of Shadow soundtrack is phenomenal, one of my favorite PS3 era game scores for sure.

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    And the first LoS2 teaser trailer was pretty badass. Of course, it's just a prerendered video, but it looks and sounds great!
    https://youtu.be/gKsEPoJMuKY

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    SteevL wrote: »
    And the first LoS2 teaser trailer was pretty badass. Of course, it's just a prerendered video, but it looks and sounds great!
    https://youtu.be/gKsEPoJMuKY

    It's shit like that that made me stop believing or watching any CG-based trailers. They're almost never a representation of how the game actually plays. I switched to gameplay trailers only, because we all know that 90% of the time we'll be following behind a character in the 3rd person, so swirling camera bullshit is just there to set a scene and drum up presells using bait-and-switch tactics.

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    SteevL wrote: »
    And the first LoS2 teaser trailer was pretty badass. Of course, it's just a prerendered video, but it looks and sounds great!
    https://youtu.be/gKsEPoJMuKY

    It's shit like that that made me stop believing or watching any CG-based trailers. They're almost never a representation of how the game actually plays. I switched to gameplay trailers only, because we all know that 90% of the time we'll be following behind a character in the 3rd person, so swirling camera bullshit is just there to set a scene and drum up presells using bait-and-switch tactics.

    Oh, no doubt, I generally hate them too and tune out when a company shows something like this as their sole trailer these days.

    But this one was very well crafted and I can appreciate it outside the gaming medium.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Yeah, I can appreciate a CG trailer, but they never sway my purchasing decisions.

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  • DirtyDirty Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I can get hyped by a CG trailer, or even just in-engine cutscenes with no gameplay, provided the dev and/or franchise has a good track record.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I can't believe people still get hyped about cg trailers

    It's not a trailer, it's just a cg movie vaguely related to the game. Didn't we learn from killzone

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  • skeldareskeldare Gresham, ORRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    I can't believe people still get hyped about cg trailers

    It's not a trailer, it's just a cg movie vaguely related to the game. Didn't we learn from killzone

    But then with CG trailers we get things like this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzNNrRj-oc

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    I don’t mind some CG, as long as some actual gameplay is involved. Like that Smash trailer is totally cool with me as a hype/information video.

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  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Depends on the game too. Smash is a known quality now. Even if that trailer was 100% CG, you know what the game is, what the character will probably be like, and whether you want more.

    Your brand new IP I know nothing, yet you still want me to preorder both the game and season pass the second you've announced it? Yeah, gameplay or GTFO.

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  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Depends on the game too. Smash is a known quality now. Even if that trailer was 100% CG, you know what the game is, what the character will probably be like, and whether you want more.

    Your brand new IP I know nothing, yet you still want me to preorder both the game and season pass the second you've announced it? Yeah, gameplay or GTFO.

    Doesn't even have to be a known IP. Elden Ring is a new IP but people had a pretty good idea of what the game would be like after that first trailer just because From was making it.

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  • rahkeesh2000rahkeesh2000 Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Even trusting a known developer is just asking for another Cyberpunk.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    skeldare wrote: »
    I can't believe people still get hyped about cg trailers

    It's not a trailer, it's just a cg movie vaguely related to the game. Didn't we learn from killzone

    But then with CG trailers we get things like this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzNNrRj-oc

    See, that’s a CG trailer that then jumps right into gameplay footage.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Me:

    Hey Konami! Where's the Castlevania DS Collection?!

    Meanwhile, on my game shelf:

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    "Are we a joke to you?"

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  • KalnaurKalnaur I See Rain . . . Centralia, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Me:

    Hey Konami! Where's the Castlevania DS Collection?!

    Meanwhile, on my game shelf:

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    "Are we a joke to you?"

    I mean yeah, but you can't play them on the Switch . . . :razz: :wink:

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I have at least 2 of those. And a working 3DS with a DS slot that I can play them in. But yeah... it's not on my Switch or PS5.

    And actually, at this point, with me being older, slower, and worse at video games than I was when those games were new, I need the inevitable assists that M2 has been including in their collections. I need the rewind time feature. I need save states. I need button mapping. Because while I might have been able to clear Portrait and Order back in the day, I probably can't now.

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I just hate playing those games on a small screen. I've used other means to play them on a regular display. It's a bit janky to deal with dual screens this way, but I still prefer it.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I just started the Advance collection and started with Circle of the Moon. Got up to the Zombie Dragons but I think I'm gonna stop playing this one and move on to Harmony. I don't think CotM plays very well at all in 2021. The lack of a back dash, almost no health regen items, and a pretty hard difficulty is making this game way more of a slog than I remember the other ones in the series being, and it just isn't very fun.

    Oh yeah and can't forget about the extremely, insultingly slow walking speed, unless you double tap to run which is awful and feels terrible.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Oh my God Harmony is so much better holy shit

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I think Red Dwarf is kind of dead now.

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  • AlphaRomeroAlphaRomero Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    They just do whatever with it. It's been going almost as long as I've been alive, I'm sure they'll crank something else out.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    It's completely unrealistic, but I wish the Wii U had some sort of DS Player attachment that functioned for DS games like the Game Boy Player does for GBA games. Having your DS collection on the big screen and smaller-but-still-big touch screen would've been neat.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Hit my first big roadblock, with the heavy casters.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Hit my first big roadblock, with the heavy casters.

    When a unit does extreme damage, take advantage of placement order. Enemies attack the most recent thing you set down first. So either set a disposable unit for them to hit on purpose (Gravel) or set your blocking unit with some high defense last (a Defender).

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    emnmnme wrote: »

    This one was on the right track with the title screen but then I think they made the sprites too detailed and action too smooth :P (I'm not super familiar with the 2600 specifically but I get the feeling it's one color too many too)

    That said, this works as primitive Commodore 64 :P

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I'm kinda crossing my fingers for a pause on events. I want some time to grind up mats again. I got all the stuff needed for the next 6* coming out (I assume - it's the next one on the list but who knows if they'll decide to shuffle stuff randomly for global) but I'm sure I'll run out of XP tickets and money because it's so god damn expensive to upgrade :(

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    The level recommendations are either vague suggestions, or I am bad at this game

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    The level recommendations are either vague suggestions, or I am bad at this game

    This game has level recommendations? :P

    I dunno what part you're at right now but I remember like mid-elite 1 being sufficient for most of the content. It might not be for the last chapter or two though, I dunno (by that point I had a ton of e2s already).

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  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    it's important to note that levels reset at promotion (but the stats gained from increased levels just get added onto current stats, promotions just unlock extra skills and talents) so level 40 e1 is not the same as level 40 e0 etc.

    past Ch 2 story you really should have your main operators leveled and promoted to at least e1 or you are going to feel very underpowered

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Commodore 64 games surely looked better than that.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43rb3QOWkhc

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    The level recommendations are either vague suggestions, or I am bad at this game

    With superior strategy, you can win underleveled. If you're struggling on the strategy part (or your units aren't super OP), then leveling will help.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    The level recommendations are either vague suggestions, or I am bad at this game

    With superior strategy, you can win underleveled. If you're struggling on the strategy part (or your units aren't super OP), then leveling will help.

    Yeah, if you're really stumped I think there are f2p (like all 3*/4*) low end guides for literally everything on youtube.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    emnmnme wrote: »
    Commodore 64 games surely looked better than that.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43rb3QOWkhc

    Yeah, I mean like the earlier gen. They definitely could look better but there were plenty of plain ones like that too (i.e. think SMB1 vs SMB3) :P

    Also haha, that looks a lot like DOS Castlevania. I wonder if they are essentially the same. I used to own that one :3

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    I got into it based on the recommendation of an uncle, and ended up watching much of the early series on old/poor stored VHS tapes like 25+ years ago.

    The fact it even shows up to this day is kind of a sign that most of the cast, writers, and crew will need to have shuffled off from this mortal coil to consider it truly gone, and even then I would give fairly balanced odds on someone daring to take up the mantle all the same.

    I mean, I'm pretty old, and the series is only 8 years younger than I am. Literally around a third of a century from when it first started off.

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