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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Strangely enough, Konami hasn't been like other companies in this regard with C&Ding fan games. After all, there's the fan game Castlevania: The Lecarde Chronicles 2, which came out years ago. I need to get back to that one, as it seemed pretty high quality.

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Konami is too "busy" "creating" NFTs to "sell" for the Castlevania 35th anniversary "celebration"

    https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/01/konami-is-celebrating-castlevanias-35th-with-an-nft-auction

    Even better, you don't even really "get" anything
    So, what does your purchase get you? Well, not a great deal, to be honest. You will "own" the NFT, of course, but they're not particularly unique – they're all scenes and audio taken from the games, rather than totally unique content created especially for this auction

    The old adage still applies: Fuck Konami

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I still don't understand NFTs. Probably never will.

    I understand companies trying anything for a profit, and NFTs seem like a low effort way to make some money. The thing I don't understand, is why people buy them. Don't people know that anything digital A) Cannot truly be owned, B) Can be copied / screenshot / archived, C) Only exist as long as the servers are running in the case of video game NFTs.

    You might "own" the "rights" to the NFT Magic Helmet of Doom, Blockchain code 37Bj03wuTT83903r, but as soon as the game servers for that game go down, your "ownership" ceases to be.

    Why are consumers allowing themselves to be scammed?

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  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    SteevL wrote: »
    Strangely enough, Konami hasn't been like other companies in this regard with C&Ding fan games. After all, there's the fan game Castlevania: The Lecarde Chronicles 2, which came out years ago. I need to get back to that one, as it seemed pretty high quality.

    Try to create a pachinko Castlevania and see where that gets you.

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  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I still don't understand NFTs. Probably never will.

    I understand companies trying anything for a profit, and NFTs seem like a low effort way to make some money. The thing I don't understand, is why people buy them. Don't people know that anything digital A) Cannot truly be owned, B) Can be copied / screenshot / archived, C) Only exist as long as the servers are running in the case of video game NFTs.

    You might "own" the "rights" to the NFT Magic Helmet of Doom, Blockchain code 37Bj03wuTT83903r, but as soon as the game servers for that game go down, your "ownership" ceases to be.

    Why are consumers allowing themselves to be scammed?

    Took this day I'm not sure it's not just a bunch of people tossing money in the hopes of striking it rich later at best, money laundering at worst, and not much in-between.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    That fan game looks great, but I really don't dig the idle stances on some of the characters. They're like hand on hips bored to be fighting Dracula's forces?

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I still don't understand NFTs. Probably never will.

    I understand companies trying anything for a profit, and NFTs seem like a low effort way to make some money. The thing I don't understand, is why people buy them. Don't people know that anything digital A) Cannot truly be owned, B) Can be copied / screenshot / archived, C) Only exist as long as the servers are running in the case of video game NFTs.

    You might "own" the "rights" to the NFT Magic Helmet of Doom, Blockchain code 37Bj03wuTT83903r, but as soon as the game servers for that game go down, your "ownership" ceases to be.

    Why are consumers allowing themselves to be scammed?

    There is absolutely no evidence that anybody is actually buying these things.

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  • WordherderWordherder Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I still don't understand NFTs. Probably never will.

    I understand companies trying anything for a profit, and NFTs seem like a low effort way to make some money. The thing I don't understand, is why people buy them. Don't people know that anything digital A) Cannot truly be owned, B) Can be copied / screenshot / archived, C) Only exist as long as the servers are running in the case of video game NFTs.

    You might "own" the "rights" to the NFT Magic Helmet of Doom, Blockchain code 37Bj03wuTT83903r, but as soon as the game servers for that game go down, your "ownership" ceases to be.

    Why are consumers allowing themselves to be scammed?

    There is absolutely no evidence that anybody is actually buying these things.

    True, a number of transactions are people selling NFTs to themselves, but there is some people buying. Not many, though.

    I think the prevailing theory is that the small but very loud NFT market is due to people having a ton of cryptocurrency they can't easily cash out, and so they want to spend them on something. Plus if they're into crypto, they're likely to believe the hype.

    To get back on topic, the various NFT attempts by video game companies have been loudly booed so far, so I wouldn't expect it to be a long-term thing.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I still don't understand NFTs. Probably never will.

    I understand companies trying anything for a profit, and NFTs seem like a low effort way to make some money. The thing I don't understand, is why people buy them. Don't people know that anything digital A) Cannot truly be owned, B) Can be copied / screenshot / archived, C) Only exist as long as the servers are running in the case of video game NFTs.

    You might "own" the "rights" to the NFT Magic Helmet of Doom, Blockchain code 37Bj03wuTT83903r, but as soon as the game servers for that game go down, your "ownership" ceases to be.

    Why are consumers allowing themselves to be scammed?

    It's 100% one of those "get rich quick scheme" things. People are dumb and think if they buy these things they will somehow be worth a billion dollars later and they can sell their jpeg to get rich. Meanwhile literally anyone can right click save the thing and also "own" the image. It's beyond stupid but it's just another scam people are falling for.

    Companies are getting into this because it's profitable and they know people are dumb (also they want to seem trendy with the latest fad). This is basically exploitative microtransactions without the stigma that word carries (at least for people who don't already know it's a scam). It lets them up-charge for virtual garbage because "oh it's rare and you own it now!!" The only potential advantage this stuff might have is the trading thing, but I mean, Team Fortress has been doing this NFT-free with hats for decades now...


    As for the fan game, yes it looks pretty good. I agree the character sprites look really weird though - especially the girl. I'm not quite sure why the other sprites look so good but they left the main ones to kinda look like poop :P

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I remember a description of the NFT thing that, while it didn't help me understand how this stuff works exactly, makes me understand the motivation. It's essentially like the fine art trade. In that the actual imagery and product don't matter to the people trading this stuff at high prices. It's more important as a way to trade huge sums of money, with the artwork as a product acting as a middleman to legitimize the transaction. It's money-laundering, basically.

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    The music in that trailer was weird to me. Some of it sounded good, and then suddenly it felt like there was an off note or two which threw me off.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    As for the fangame, one thing I notice is that they've definitely taken inspiration from Curse of the Moon in terms of character switching.

    In the original Dracula's Curse, switching characters was a long animation, with a considerable amount of game pausing to do it. And even in Dawn of Sorrow, there was a bit of time taken as the characters swapped out. This fangame seems to have taken Curse's approach, with the character swapping in immediately with a pretty recognizable flash effect.

    Which, yeah fair enough; for how snappy it is, Bloodstained is in my opinion the best version of that mechanic in the series, with the possible exception of Portrait of Rui-JOHNATHAN! CHARLOTTE!

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited April 12
    I mean Copperfield made the statue of liberty disappear on National Television and no one remembers it because it was an illusion.

    There's a lot of history we've forgotten or chosen to ignore. I absolutely believe that only a bunch of 80s NY Boomers would remember NYE 1985 or whatever year it was.

    Like I get the arguments for the video evidence and stuff, because news crews would have filmed things, but if ghosts stopped after that and the people who founded the place vanished into thin air never to be referenced again, then society is gonna forget about it.

    Hell it kinda seemed like the Ghostbusters had forgotten about it. They were pretty content having moved on.

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Regarding the fangame, my druthers would be that 1999 is a Symphony style game (or Aria style in this case) to pay homage to the games that actually had that storyline. Not just the first games that had nothing to do with it. However, I also understand that this style is dramatically easier to do probably and don't hold it against an unpaid fangame (that will almost certainly never be completed for reasons stated above).

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  • homogenizedhomogenized Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I'll have to concur with @cooljammer00 and place my bets on them not actually making a game and banking on a C&D so don't have to deliver, though can avoid a The Producers situation by claiming they were developing an animation that looks a game all along if the C&D doesn't come.

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  • EnlongEnlong Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Regarding the fangame, my druthers would be that 1999 is a Symphony style game (or Aria style in this case) to pay homage to the games that actually had that storyline. Not just the first games that had nothing to do with it. However, I also understand that this style is dramatically easier to do probably and don't hold it against an unpaid fangame (that will almost certainly never be completed for reasons stated above).

    Well, to be fair to the classic-style games, Rondo of Blood was kinda where the story started to become more prominent. Its final confrontation with Dracula was where Symphony got that "what is a man" speech from, and it included stuff like alternate endings for Richter's story.

    But the transition from Rondo to Symphony was truly where the story started to kick off in earnest.


    I suppose also they might want to homage Dracula's Curse in particular, because of the team-up nature of the 1999 battle. We know that Julius, the church, the descendants of Belnades, and Alucard all stormed the castle together. Kinda like a massive version of Curse's team-ups.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Before we started the movie, I commented that I really hoped that they brought a CGI Harold Ramis back as a ghost because this is the only movie I can think of where that would make sense and wouldn't feel disrespectful. I was so happy.

    also, the Sigorny Weaver cameo was perfectly timed.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Really, it kind of felt like it was low budget. I like how it played with how Gozer works. She is weakened when she loses a dog. She was made up of multiple spirits.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited April 12
    I feel like the Ghostbusters from a few years ago was trying to capture the wackiness of The Ghostbusters animated series, but this movie actually captured the ingenuity and sincerity of the animated series, (re: the RC trap and gunner seat modifications, etc.)

    (and we don't need to talk about the previous GB movie any further, it was just an observation)

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    The 2016 Ghostbusters had too much improv and not enough writing. Afterlife actually has some good writing.
    I liked the 2016 movie and thought it was a good option to continue the series.

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  • HeirHeir Ausitn, TXRegistered User regular
    edited April 12
    Ok so overall I liked Afterlife...much more so than GB2016. The entire first 4/5ths is charming, feels like it fits within the GB universe, and Phoebe is just great. Paul Rudd wasn't bad either.

    But the moment the OG Ghostbusters show up, it just feels so shoehorned in. The flow of the movie, the energy, everything felt off. Beyond the obvious questions like "Where did they get their gear if Egon took it all?", it felt like they weren't even in the same movie. I really disliked it. If they had shown up and shown a level of gravitas that the scene and other characters were displaying, maybe that would have worked? I get that the OG Ghostbusters were cutups, but when they had to get serious in the original movie, they got serious.

    And I very much disliked how much they used Ghost Egon here. If they had just shown his hand helping Phoebe steady her stream, with her looking up and off camera to him, I think it would have been perfect. Or at the very least, don't have him stand there mutely while all the characters say goodbye to Harold Ramis.

    All in all, I liked it? Most of the movie I found to be genuinely fun, just enough reverent to the original material without going overboard, and the acting was solid (except for Finn Wolfhard's character, who was just kind of there?). But again, the ending almost ruined it for me.


    Also, completely random but JK Simmons played Shandor and Olivia Wilde played Gozer. Neat!

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  • BitTorrent MendezBitTorrent Mendez Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Personally, I'm finding it harder to be disappointed in Konami now, because I never want to imply that I have any positive expectations of Konami these days.

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  • AlphagaiaAlphagaia Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    It looks like it's the other way around, the OGB weren't shoehorned in, it seems they were cut out:

    There is heavy speculation on GBfans that Janine was supposed to be bringing the GB to Summerville. She steals the ESP shock device and brings it to Peter, we see a shot with Peter and Dana with Janine holding the device, the shot with Winston was repurposed as a stinger at the end of the movie and she was cut out of the final battle.

    A bunch of deleted scenes pop up in the 'Summoning the Spirit' special. You can see Janine sitting on the porch during the final battle. There is also a deleted scene where she steals the coin she looks at in Winstons office.

    In short, it seems likely the ending was supposed to make a whole lot more sense, and at least the Winston stinger was supposed to be in the movie and the Dana Peter Stimger had a scene building up to it in the movie itself.

    Here is most of the info:

    Summoning the Spirit special feature
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09SUIRNiaBQ


    -0:55: Bts of mid credit tag, Dana at front door with Janine.

    -1:07: Bts of final battle, Annie talking to Jason.

    -1:30: Bts of mid credit tag, Dana, Peter, and Janine in room seen in tag

    -1:50: Bts of final battle, Janine on porch of Farmhouse

    One Poster says the following:
    So I believe Janine found the electro-shocker, maybe when she talked to Callie at the Farmhouse, and delivered it Dana as a gift then left and Dana tried it out on Peter in the mid credit tag.

    Wonder why they cut Janine out of the finale. Would have been nice for Janine and Ghost Egon to have a moment, too.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited April 12
    Yeah I think the biggest kick in the ass with this one is it looks like Janine didn't hook up with Egon or Louis

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    I'll have to concur with cooljammer00 and place my bets on them not actually making a game and banking on a C&D so don't have to deliver, though can avoid a The Producers situation by claiming they were developing an animation that looks a game all along if the C&D doesn't come.

    There's a post by one of the people working on the game over at The Castlevania Dungeon and it does sound like a genuine product. It also sounds like this team had been working on another fan project called Umbra of Sorrow for years, but opted to shift gears because Seal of the Eclipse doesn't require as many resources. Both games cover the same time period in the Castlevania timeline. I get the impression that Umbra of Sorrow was intended to be more of a Metroidvania, while Seal of the Eclipse is heavily inspired by Curse of the Moon.

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  • Jealous DevaJealous Deva Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Those NFTs are great.

    Like not only can I own a 30 second clip of some guy playing simon’s quest, but there’s even a disclaimer specifically indicating that no real, actual intellectual property rights are conveyed with the sale.

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  • HiT BiTHiT BiT 🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man's Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Hey, look at this Castlevania III - NES version NFT using Famicon version visuals:
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    That's current Konami for you. Not only scammy but also lazy and incompetent.
    Also, for some reason, I was expecting this to be part of the NTFs.

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Yeah from what I read, even in the realm of NFTs being a scam, these Konami NFTs are even scammier. Like you don't even get anything "unique".

    It's just a tip jar that burns a little bit of the rainforest down.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited April 12
    Also can I just say how awesome it was that Paul Rudd's summer school curriculum was pretty much based off the movie Summer School

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Yeah. Paul Rudd was playing a really shitty teacher.

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    I liked this movie a lot! Some of the references were a little stilted like "are you a God?" but in general it was a blast.

    Paul Rudd referencing Beethoven the dog talking about Cujo was extremely funny

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Two websites up for some free goodies to celebrate the 2nd anniversary.
    Both of them have a Login at the top that should match however you link your account to link the webpage to your in-game account.

    https://2ndanniv.arknights.global/dossolesholiday
    This one you just scroll down to the interviews (two as of now) and pick an option for them to get free stuff.

    https://2ndanniv.arknights.global/preparation
    This one you can come back to daily to open the bags and get points, which you can spend on buying stuff further down the page. And if we get enough daily logins on there, everyone gets free stuff based on the progress bar.

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  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Did Gozer not recognize them? It seemed like it.

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Akroyd drew from certain folklore and old Christian demonology a lot, both of which often have malevolent spirits being extremely procedural. Demons, fey, and a lot of others are bound by rule or ritual and aren't truly possessed of free will.

    Even having been driven back once, Gozer is running the same script, except Egon had figured out how to disrupt it - capture and hold one of the heralds needed to complete the summoning and hold crossed streams against the portal. Part of the ritual is that mortals are insects but Gozer will treat with a local god before going about her intended business.

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  • SchrodingerSchrodinger Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Krathoon wrote: »
    Did Gozer not recognize them? It seemed like it.

    Time has not been good to them.

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  • SchrodingerSchrodinger Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Did they ever say what the main characters last name was?

    At the end, Callie finally embraces the name Spengler. But what were they going by before that?

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited April 12
    Did they ever say what the main characters last name was?

    At the end, Callie finally embraces the name Spengler. But what were they going by before that?

    According to the wiki it's the only last name given for any of them, and while the kids father leaving is mentioned a divorce is not, so presumably it was always Spengler.

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