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on 22 March 2014 - 08:29 PM
Indeed. The problem with being dark for the sake of being dark is it leaves no room for contrast or juxtaposition. When dark things happen, the impact is muted. Like blue on black.
But when you have that contrast, that juxtaposition
It can make quite the impact.
Pretty much, if you want to see a dark Zelda then Majora's Mask is hands down the biggest one.
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on 14 March 2014 - 07:38 AM
I miss Ayami Kojima's art the most 
. I felt her art and character design was one of the most important parts of Castlevania. Much like Yoji Shinkawa to Metal gear solid.
Her art is okay, but it just doesn't fit with the material.
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on 13 March 2014 - 08:49 PM
LOVED the first game. Returned the series back to gothic and horror like CV 1-4 and 4 still the best. The SoTN style games were fun but really hated they got away from the gothic horror roots and went glam rock. I still enjoyed them and really enjoyed Curse of Darkness and Lament.
Mirror of Fate was ok but fell short and LOS2 seemed to lost a lot of what made the first so damn good. No it didn;t rip off GOW either as GOW ripped off Lament. Tho yes borrowed from SotC.
Iga ran it dry with that formula and would like to see the series be back to the 8-16 bit era style.
Pretty much my thoughts on the series as a whole. Iga brought way too much anime and Japanization in general to the games. Don't get me wrong, I love Japan and I love anime. But castlevania is based on European mythology and lore, and the series looks amazing when the people making the games fully understand and appreciate that material.
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on 13 March 2014 - 10:46 AM
Actually, it's happening on all versions of the game, so...yeah.
Just one more reason why I'm glad I don't play EA games.
Posted by
on 10 March 2014 - 08:56 PM
I'm done with posting actual opinions on this forum.
No one wants actual discussion, they just want to be jerks. There's no point.
Welcome to the internet, love.
Posted by
on 10 March 2014 - 04:06 PM
So can someone please answer something I've been wondering for a long time. Why is everyone so interested in this game because I just can't see the big deal. Looks like GTA with a hacking gimmick, the graphics look last gen, and it seems to be following all the same traps as every other overrated 'blockbuster' AAA title that's come out in the past several years.
I watch the trailers and all I can think of is 'this would have made an interesting movie'. Seriously seems like another movie game all over again.
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on 10 March 2014 - 06:55 AM
I saw this on reddit like 2 years ago.
I'm totally going to use that gif now.
Posted by
on 09 March 2014 - 01:36 PM
They are not meant to. MGS exists to try and tell one...but it never ends and keeps getting more ridiculous. The series Jumped the shark long ago.
Kinda have to agree. When it sticks to trying to be real world 'authentic' and putting the player in realistic situations then it's awesome. But all that work goes to crap when they start bringing in the crazy stuff. I think the first MGS did it best.
Posted by
on 09 March 2014 - 01:19 PM
No, they dont. Those games you are referring to are manchild games. They target teens, who dont understand what 'adult' is, and 'adults' wwho have yet to grow up and are suffering arrested development, and are going to end up living in a van down by the river.
Real adults have families children and responsibilities, such as playing games that are appropriate for their children to watch and play with them. And as long as they are doing that, might as well be some of the best games ever made.
We already have two identical machines, why do these morons keep wanting everything to be exactly the same?
Because they think the world revolves around them and therefore all video games should be tailored made to their tastes.
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on 08 March 2014 - 05:08 PM
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on 07 March 2014 - 02:33 PM
Nope, sorry Ubi but you're not getting a dime from me. You held back a Wii U game that was already finished last year just to port it. You could have released it but you said you wanted to be 'fair' to everyone and have a simultaneous release. Well where's that attitude now? It's okay to make Wii U owners wait but not the rest? They can take the Wii U version and shove it right up their anal tracks.
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on 07 March 2014 - 12:07 AM
Okay, so I will come back later and gather all the lists I had. But basically - the top ten sales on Sony consoles are not Sony made games. On the SNES going all the way to now, Nintendo made more of the top ten games then third parties. Are you telling me Final Fantasy sucked? Mortal Kombat back on the SNES days? Yes, there are a lot of reasons for games not to sell better than Nintendo games. But third parties aren't going to think their games suck. They are looking at the numbers. And that's it.
So just because they weren't the highest selling games, they didn't sell well at all? Well hell, I guess everything but CoD and Madden suck now. Oh wow, Nintendo made amazing games on their systems, it's almost like they had a significant investment in doing so.
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on 06 March 2014 - 06:29 PM
Oh wow I never watched Hellsing and I thought that was canon before I noticed "abridged" in the title.
That's why I love Team Four Star so much. So SO many abridged makers fall in to making horrible horrible jokes that are completely irrelevant to the material. Not TFS though, they actually take the material from the show and make jokes relevant to the show. You know, like a real parody. Their audio and voice work is also phenomenal. They actually try to sound like the real VAs, and for the most part succeed.
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on 06 March 2014 - 10:17 AM
The first part I've been saying for a long time. It's why making a more powerful console wouldn't help Nintendo. Third party developers know their games don't sell on Nintendo platforms, not since N64 at least. The second part I disagree with. Completely.
I disagree. Third party games do sell on Nintendo systems, but crap doesn't. And by now, the reputation of third parties have left people suspicious whenever there actually is a third party game that comes out. It's not the gamers' fault that third parties ruined their image to the Nintendo fanbase. People say that Nintendo needs to fix their third party relations, and while in some cases that's quite true, those same third parties need to fix their relations with Nintendo gamers.
Everytime I hear about a third party game actually coming to the Wii U all I can think about is how are they going to screw this one up. It usually comes down to a few ways. The first is that it's a multiplat but there is content taken out or withheld for some strange reason. Is it the consumers' fault the game is like that? Of course not. Is it Nintendo's? No. And yet the developer/publisher expects that game to sell. Nintendo gamers aren't stupid. If they want that game, they're going to get the best version. Despite what most people think, people who do like Nintendo, and want to see third parties thrive on Nintendo systems, are not willing to buy an inferior version of a game. They want to see all versions treated equally.
Another way they often screw this up is by ensuring the Nintendo version runs like crap and/or releasing it after the others. Why should Nintendo fans have to wait? These publishers have no problem with simultaneous releases between the Xbox and Playstation, so why do we get left out in the cold? Once again, people who like Nintendo aren't going to put up with crap, and if they want the game they're going to pick it up on the system that gets it first. Once again, we want to see all versions treated equally.
But enough about multiplats, let's talk about those extremely rare Nintendo 'exclusive' third party titles. These come in two different variety of screw ups. The first is that the game is 'exclusive' only to be almost immediately ported to another system with more content, making that the better version. This usually happens in less than a year. Think about that, less than ONE year. That means at best, that game may get to spend 3-4 months of selling well before everyone learns that they should stay away from the Nintendo version in anticipation for the better deal. The other way it screws up is simply the devs releases a crappy game that at best is a bargain bin item and at worst is insulting to the fanbase. Oh, you're interested in 'X' franchise? Well then here, take an extremely old and cheaply thrown together port, or let's take a franchise and put it on a Nintendo console, but with a completely different genre.
Just to show I'm not pulling Rhetoric out of my ass, here are some real world examples:
-Games with content cut-
-Wii U Call of Duty titles (no dlc)
-Batman Arkham Origins (no online mode)
-Sniper Elite V2 (online, co-op and even more cut)
-I'm pretty sure the AC games had something cut but I'm not sure.
-A later release date-
-Watch Dogs is the most recent example I can think of. (Not only that, we now know that the main team isn't even working on the Wii U version. It's been outsourced to some b-rate developer. Obviously they're only meant to make the game run on the system)
-Exclusives that another system gets a better version-
-Resident Evil 4. The original was released in January of 2005. The PS2 version was announced either in that spring or summer and released in October of the same year. It was known from the beginning that this version had more content.
-Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge. Exact same situation. Updated PS3/360 versions were released in less than a year of the Wii U version. Not only that, the majority of fans were expecting and waiting for it.
-Metal Gear Solid 3D. This was a straight port with practically nothing added to it at full price while an HD collection was coming out around the same time.
-Mass Effect 3. Once again, collection releasing right after it.
-Complete half-assed efforts-
Resident Evil Umbrella/Darkside Chronicles. While the HD twins get full games, the Wii got on-rail shooters. (I personally like these games but, they could have simply remade the older games in their entirety ala RE1 and given us something truly awesome.)
-Dead Space (Wii) Once again, an on rails shooter. EA could have just made a non-HD Dead Space. Nope! Not cheap enough!
-Tales of Symphonia Dawn of a New World. Hey, remember that Tales game everyone loved on the Gamecube? Well let's make a sequel, but let's go really low brow and instead of making a cast of loveable characters, let's just use the enemy models like pokemon for the party. Story? Meh, just whatever.
-Zombi U. I put this on the list with restraint because at times it does look like the game had 'some' effort put in to it. But let's be honest, if this was a game for the Xbox/Playstation it would have had a MUCH higher level of polish. Oh, and an online mode.
So yeah, maybe you're right. Third parties don't sell on Nintendo consoles, but the problem doesn't lie with the gamers. Ironically when third parties actually do put forth an effort, or at the very least treat a multiplat equally, the results are strikingly different. Soul Calibur 2 sold best on the Gamecube, Tales of Symphonia was one of the most well received Tales games in the west, Monster Hunter Tri was the most well received MH game at the time (in fact the series as a whole has done better in the west on Nintendo systems), Professor Layton, Phoenix Wright, Atlus as a whole, and Bayonetta is getting FAR more publicity than it ever did before. Need I go on?
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on 04 March 2014 - 04:06 PM
I was thinking about something Iwata mentioned when they finally brought Earthbound to the west. Specifically he mentioned the feedback from miiverse with all of the people asking for the game here in the west. Now, we may never know how much of a factor that actually made, but we do know that it at least contributed to things.
With the recent talk about Bayonetta and the obvious interest in the first game, I thought it'd be smart if those interested would voice their desire for the game on Miiverse, more specifically the Wonderful 101 miiverse since so far that's the only one that's related to Platinum games.
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