/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10844586
>shitty castlevania show
>rewatching
Anon I was dumb enough to watch it once knowing it was on Netflix but why oh God why would you rewatch it?

>starts the thread by talking about the netflix shit

Thread ruined before it even started, good bye

i never watched the show but after learning they didnt include him i came to the conclusion it couldnt have been that good. all they needed to do for a castlevania 3 adaptation was to AT LEAST feature its 6 characters (including dracula and i guess death) and they couldnt even do that. i dont even love the character but thats apart of the challenge you signed on to deal with by making the show. now this richter one is out and i have little faith

If you pick Eric, you didn't beat the game

>>10844693
i never realized hes not even on the cover

>>10844693
Eric is for breezing through Normal difficulty to unlock Expert, which you then play as John.

>>10844693
Eric deals less damage than Morris, especially when fully upgraded. When you get good at the game he's actually more efficient. Eric is still easier to play especially thanks to his "please give me i-frames" jump, but Morris has his advantages too

>>10844693
Christ that's a good one. Supercastlevania was my go to.

>>10844675
I just wanted some castlevania in my life.

>>10844586
I really like Alucard, flight let's you skip the falling block section and his attack works really well on one of the phases of the final boss.

Does it make sense to play later installments if I haven’t beaten 1 yet? Except for the sotnvanias, I never beaten a single classicvania yet, but I don’t find the motivation of going through the nes classics. Maybe I should skip them and go straight to the snes.

>>10844797
The 1st game is a lot of fun imo, most of it is just knowing enemy attack patterns and which sub weapons to take to the bosses. Once you get that all down you can beat it in 30 minutes to hour. 2nd one isn't worth it imo, it's far to cryptic and not all that great even if you know what to do/following a guide. If you thought the 1st one was hard you probably won't want to play the 3rd one. The classicvania aren't for everyone I'd at least try them to see its a lot different then the one you've beaten.

outside of 2 impossible to figure out moments 2 is pretty great. its a bit unrefined. very ambitious

>>10844775
then download a mod/hack for any castlevania game instead of going gungho banging a crazed street junkie just because you were remembering a hot sex with a college mate.

>>10844775
Konami forgot I guess.

I don't understand Castlevania 3.

SOVL

>>10844768
Eric dealing less damage doesn't mean shit when his attacks have a shorter delay than Morris' whip attacks. Just admit it, picking Eric is like playing the game on easy mode. There's hardly a single advantage that Morris has over Eric.

>>10844814
>If you thought the 1st one was hard you probably won't want to play the 3rd one.
The first one is harder than the third, tho.

>play Castlevania dracula x
>It's good, classic style, no problems, fun game

>Read Nintendo Life review
>Wahhhh dedicated jumps too hard!
>Wahhhh level design too hard
>Wahh why nes castlevania limitations on snes game?!
>Wahhhh no cheesy attacks
>Wahhh whip isn't super powered!!
>Wahhhh pushback on hit
>Wahhhh memorizing rather than reacting to dangers!!!!
>5/10
https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/wiiu-eshop/castlevania_dracula_x_snes

Why do they get shitters to review action games they should stick to turnbased jrpgs

can we talk about how lame the name "castlevania" is yet?

Castlevania games were considered shovelware until SotN saved the franchise.

>>10844586
I finally, FINALLY beat Bloodlines on hard with John, God, I want to die.
Now doing an Eric playthrough on normal, because fuck hard mode.

>>10845406
Youre no just wrong, youre stupid.

>>10845439
No such term existed back then zoomer. Basedmphony of the Night was a gameplay dumbing down casualization that the series never recovered from

>>10844789
And not at all on other phases.

>>10845439
If not trolling, back then CV was seen as a cult series. It was highly regarded but not super massively popular, it was for people "in the know", so to speak.
SOTN received mid reviews upon release, mostly because, in 1997, people just weren't impressed by 2D, period. SOTN was a sleeper hit and people rediscovered it years later. Before that, only Castlevania Dungeon forums cared about it. Similar to EarthBound and Starman.net

>>10845705
anon are you dum castlevania was one of the most popular series on the nintendo

it was literally popular enough they included it in cartoons and other merch

>>10845720
>>10845724
By "in the know" I mean you had to be commited to liking and consuming video games besides Super Mario, sports games and maybe some licensed stuff.
Series like Mega Man and CV were for kids who liked vidya enough to spend their allowance on vidya magazines instead of a ball.

>>10845720
>>10845724
He's either a zoomer or trolling. Castlevania was one of the handful of IPs that Nintendo shilled absolutely everywhere along with Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man, and a few others.

>>10845724
>and then Simon brutally murdered all the bullies at school
You chose the based ending, right? Right?

>>10845728
Stop thinking from the perspective of people even having access to nintendo shilling back then. That captain N cartoon was only in USA and only during a short period of time. In my country I only knew the Mario and Zelda cartoons, but even if everyone knew Mario, not many people knew Zelda, even if it was on TV.
Think about it like this, back in the day, the word "gamer" wasn't even vox populi, in fact gamer wasn't even the "official" designated word yet. I mean, people back then didn't even think a word like "gamer" could be used in society, so video game mags made up all sort of tongue in cheek ways to say it: "gamemaniac", "game freak", etc. "Player" was the de facto sober way to say it too, but it was too general, anyone playing a game was a player. But these "freaks", that is people who actually cared enough to go beyond the total most popular, knew about Zelda, Castlevania, etc.
The world was very different back then, remember, no google, no wikipedoa, no YouTube, and magazines costed money.

>>10845726
You're an idiot who wasn't born when these games were popular so please stop saying stupid things pretending you know what you're talking about. It's very embarrassing (for you).

>>10845752
>b-but people who never watched tv, read the news, or went outside didn't know about it!
Moving goalposts much, anon?

>>10845705
>SOTN received mid reviews upon release
This is really the "giveaway" line in this post. It shows the poster has no clue what he's talking about, didn't live the culture, wasn't around to really understand what any of this was about. Instead he fixates on something he thinks he can hold as "objective proof"--game ratings dredged up from old magazines on archive.org--and pretend he somehow has any opinions that need to be taken credibly. It's how these zoomers operate. They need authority to instruct them in all things and they have no capacity for understanding the nuance and spirit of a real culture.

I mean, ffs he's harping about SOTN to fake-pedagogue about Castlevania's popularity like his tiny walnut brain can't comprehend there were like 12 games before that. He simply isn't capable of understanding the span of time involved and how much gaming culture evolved in that time, to him it's all a "before I was born" blink of the eye.

>>10845771
>>10845774
>every kid back in the 80s ans 90s, around the world, watched Captain N and were able to purchase video game magazines
It's ok to be angry, but I doubt you experienced the pre-google world, anon.

>>10845779
SOTN wasn't disliked really, just ignored for the most part.
And remember: no gamer culture, no internet forums, no youtubers, no streamers.
It's a world you can't imagine.

>>10845785
>you think <game> was popular?
>then how come this bushman of the kalahari never heard of it? huh?

>>10845803
Good luck googling about Simon Belmont to know who the fuck he was watching captain N in the 90s

For the love of God why cant videogames be discussed on this God abandoned site without it spiriling on a generational war about "hurr durr muh zoomers", Jesus Christ.

this might shock zoomers who probably don't know what physical stores are, but games that sell well would get more and more prominent shelf space as well as giant features in the weekly ads so even if you didn't own a tv and were homeschooled you would still know what the popular games are

>>10845813
Captain n? No, I never watched Captain nigger. It definitely wasn't popular. Beakmans world was more known than Captain n. That anons just retarded

>>10845194
Had soul the weekend it was released.

Don't feel it anymore but yeah

>>10844814
I had only vague memories of Simon's Quest from my childhood since I only ever watched my friend play it and I assumed it would be kind of a slog when I finally got around to marathoning the series, but in the end I kind of liked it. Nowhere near my favorite and I don't know if I'll replay it anytime soon but I never had that "fuck this sucks I'm wasting my time" feeling.

I'll freely admit I played with a guide and that made the experience much less painful than it might have been but that's honestly the authentic experience. Back in the day everyone had that issue of Nintendo power or at least knew someone who did.

>>10845724
That rug, though

>>10845835
>rug
thats my leg uwu

>MSX2 Vampire Killer

It's shit.

>>10844797
Castlevania 3 is one of the best games in the series while 4 is one of the absolute worst. I'm not even memeing, SNES is a great system but its Konami lineup is fucking pitiful. Castlevania 1 and 3 are both essential even if you don't beat them, if you played all the metroidvanias then there are tons of references you missed. The Japanese version of 3 is significantly easier and more balanced than the US localization, you can play that one if you actually want to *beat* a classicvania. Rondo of Blood is a fine choice as well, just don't play as Maria.

>>10845816
because only a zoomer could cook as facts weird statements about an age they lived through in the craddle at most
>>10845832
>that's honestly the authentic experience.
No it isn't, there is no facepalm big enough to describe the retardness of such notion.

>>10846320
Look, I know some people want to adopt a puritanical " in my day we just ran in circles for four days until we figured out what to do" approach but I was there and I'm telling you, we used the fucking magazines. If you had a subscription the new issue would come in the mail right as the newest game came out. It was intentionally synergistic.

So if you were some 4th grader who just got Castlevania II and the new issue of Nintendo Power with a Castlevania II article arrived, you know what you did? You checked out the maps and tips FIRST so you had some idea what you were doing. We didn't think of it as cheating, Nintendo themselves put the magazine out. They wanted us to know this shit.

Maybe you were too poor to afford them but the average suburban white kid absolutely had the issue next to them and consulted it while playing. What the fuck do you think those magazines were even for

>>10845740
>Calls them Draculas and not vampires
Simon's not too bright.

>>10846320
And you think boomers and milennials are free of sin? Do you think YOUR generation is the good one and everyone else sucks? Breaking news old man, youre not; for every zoomer you complain about I can pin point one boomer doing the exact same shit.
You behave like a toddler while being triple my fucking age.

>>10847207
You must be 18 years old or older to be in this website, reported