/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10923198
When I was a kid I somehow forgot about crouchwalking, probably because it's never really necessary at any other point in the game. I ended up having to do suicide runs when I got to the tunnel of spikes and cursed the developers for putting what seemed like a RNG death machine right before the disappearing bridge (which actually *is* an RNG death machine).

I eventually crouchwalked by accident and realized I was making it 100 times harder than it needed to be. But I had to replay this level so many times when I was still doing it the retardedly difficult way that to this day I can't stand it. I hate everything about this fucking stage

>>10849673
The computer in MK2 cheats like a motherfucker and that's not my opinion, it's a fact

>>10720062
>two sections in particular, those being the Clone War/Ares in GoW I and protect the translator in II.

You're omitting the Theseus fight, which I hated more than any other part of either of those games. That second phase where he goes out of range and just spams icicles at you while summoning minotaurs is complete bullshit on titan mode because the icicles become one-hit kills and with the minotaurs being so tanky and the rolling not being as precise as you might want it feels like it's only a matter of time before one of them gets you because you rolled down-left instead of just down. And it wouldn't piss me off so much except there's no checkpoint so it's back to the very beginning of the fight and you have to spend five minutes grinding him down to half health again so he can one-shout you 45 seconds later. It was a fair fight even on hard mode but pure cheese on Titan just because of the instant kill ability.

What grieves me the most about the one or two absolutely horrendous difficulty spikes per game at the higher difficulties is that overall the max difficulty runs were pretty fun and manageable once you got gud but then you would hit a brick wall that felt like a RNG that landed on "die" 99% of the time and it took all the fun out of it instantly. I beat Ares on God mode but there were multiple occasions when I died and there was literally nothing I could have done about it. Even if you play it perfectly there's like a 30-50% chance he just hits the win button and you just have to replay again and again until you get lucky in addition to being good

I never even bothered with the hardest difficulty in III because I'm pretty fucking sure the final Zeus fight would just be more of that.

>>10422023
The AVGN videos are satirical but a lot of his complaints are valid. Half the shit he screeches about are things we all found infuriating when we first played these games.

That's why so many people find it relatable even if is exaggerated. That pizza being unobtainable *is* complete fucking bullshit and we should be angry about it

>>10421305
I can't do the random battle thing any more. I JUST WANT TO WALK TO ANOTHER PART OF THE MAP LET ME TAKE THREE FUCKING STEPS BETWEEN BATTLES FOR FUCKS SAKE

>>10266124
The MKII AI blatantly cheats. I've beat the game before so it's not impossible but holy fuck does it get cheesy. It's really not fun at all because it's not a skill issue . Sometimes you will just lose because the game decided to hit the win button

>>9804259
The highest difficulty modes in either game were mostly doable but they got extremely cheesy in places because nothing really changed besides you taking massive amounts of damage. Ares was a pure fucking cunt on God mode because you had to chip away at him by playing perfectly for like ten straight minutes while he one-shotted you if you rolled wrong once. And if you got to the clones without a full rage meter to start the fight you might as well not bother.

I beat both games on max difficulty out of principle but I wouldn't really say I enjoyed the experience. It goes from "alright this is a legit challenge" to "fuck whoever designed this bullshit" fairly often.

>>9731552
>they're only unbearably hard on the difficulty you unlock by beating the game

It took me an unfathomable amount of tries to beat Theseus on Titan mode. And the fight itself isn't even that hard, it's the fact that the icicles he spams while on the roof become one-hit kills. You have zero margin for error

1 wasn't super brutal on max difficulty...until you get to the clones. Everything from that point forward is bullshit. The Ares fight seems just plain unfair in places. I beat 1 and 2 on max difficulty and decided 3 could fuck right off, I didn't want to see what sort of bullshit factory Zeus became

>>9693807
Because Castelvania was a Nintendo series first and foremost. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were all on Nintendo consoles. And then arguably the best game in the series is exclusive to not just an NEC console but an NEC console add-on.

And even if you had the thing there was no American version to buy anyway, which sums up NEC's incompetence very nicely. They poached a well-known brand from Nintendo and Sega, wound up with a really cool exclusive and didn't even bother releasing it outside of Japan. Because, you know, nobody bought games in Europe or North America.