/vr/ - Retro Games

I can't, it is perfect.

inb4 people saying it's too easy even though it's actually one of the hardest 16-bit CVs, and egoraptor fans parroting his sub-weapon bullshit.

>>3740632
Which 16-bit Castlevanias do you think are easier?

>>3740620
I'll say its the absolute best of the classic style castlevanias. I'd love to see
an all-star collection. Something like "Castlevania: The Belmont Lineage.
Not the best name but you get the idea.

>>3740701
It's only a Castlevania game superficially.

>>3740668
Bloodlines, Rondo, X68000.

XX and Haunted Castle are harder, though.

The bosses are pretty forgettable.

Rondo of Blood is the best classicvania.

>>3740710

So why is Dracula X never spoken of around these parts? Is it really that bad of a port?

>>3740735
>SNES Dracula X
>port
BEST BE BAITING NIGGER

>>3740620
Because these exist:
>Castlevania (NES)
The original. Will always be the standard to be compared to.
>Castlevania III
The true sequel, just like how Super Mario Bros. 3 was to the 1st.
>Rondo of Blood
Considered by many as the greatest Castlevania of all time.
>Castlevania X68000/Chronicles
A competent remake of CV1 that added some nice twists to the formula. Think of it as the REmake of Castlevania.
>Symphony of the Night
Forever changed the Castlevania formula and influenced all of the preceding 2D games.
>Circle of the Moon
The first handheld Metroidvania. A nice hybrid of Classicvania and Metroidvanias.
>Aria of Sorrow
The pinnacle of handheld Metroidvanias. All that came after pale in comparison.

>>3740620
Multiple direction whip =/= Castlevania

Super Castlevania is the easiest of the classic games. X68k, X, and 3 are the hardest games in the series.
Anyone disagree?

>>3740778
68k is pretty easy save for the Medusa and Shewolf bosses desu

>>3740778
>Anyone disagree?
No sir. SCIV is the easiest (or most casual if you want to get into that) of the Classicvanias.

>>3740620
Super Castlevania IV has drab visuals and the weakest soundtrack in the series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUEC1Rcb1TA

Phew.. that was actually pretty easy. What do I win?

>>3740620 (OP)
Super Castlevania IV has drab visuals and the weakest soundtrack in the series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUEC1Rcb1TA [Embed]

Phew.. that was actually pretty easy. What do I win?

>>3740620
Because Rondo of Blood, Symphony of the Night and Bloodlines exist.

>>3740924
>any Metroidvania
>better than even the worst Classicvania
opinion discarded

>>3740929
>I-if I pretend to be enough of a classicvania elitist then maybe no one will notice that someone also pointed out how Sega Genesis has a better Castlevania game than either of the SNES ones.

>>3740632
if it didn't have a password system i think it would be just as difficult as the first entry in the series and without a doubt the most difficult of the 16 bit CVs

>>3740905
>Super Castlevania IV has drab visuals and the weakest soundtrack in the series
This. The game is fine but damn if it looks ugly and the OST sounds like it's trying to make me sleep.

>>3740768
This

>>3740620

It's too easy

>>3740620
It's the best castlevania, i never liked the metroidvanias, i want action not searching around for items and abilities/equipping items.

Thats probably why i liked metroid fusion the most out of the metroid games too.

>>3740768
>Think of it as the REmake of Castlevania.

Except X68K has completely different levels, bosses, etc to the first game. It's not a remake, it's a completely new game with the same Simon story as 1 and IV.

>>3740771

So bloodlines and X68K aren't castlevania either?

>>3740778
Rondo is a lot easier to me.

>>3740905
>not being a fan of the jazzvania ost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzXtYhCoTpM

>>3740768
Castlevania II is better than most of those titles you've just listed. Stop memeing because you heard a few people online say the game is bad.

>>3740620
>>3740632
>>3740701
Samefag

>>3741580
nope, at least >>3740632
isn't samefag, because it was me.

>>3740942
Bloodlines is great, one of the best

>>3740942
Except that's not remotely true. Bloodlines was B-team work with terrible level design, easiest bosses in the series yet, unexcusable slowdown and ugly graphics. Only Segafags claim it's one of the best CV's.

>>3740620
>Sticky movement.
>Bad jump animation.
>Graphics are shitty.
>Main character has sexy legs.
Respectable game otherwise though.

>>3742190
>Main character has sexy legs.

How is that a con?

Also the "graphics are shit" is a new meme? Castlevania IV has one of the best art direction in the series, even some of the spritework was later reused on SOTN.

>>3742196
Because it looks goofy, and I'm not gay.

Art direction isn't graphics.

>>3742198
Graphics are directly connected to art direction.
But different strokes, I guess. Some people might also think the NES castlevania graphics are "bad" because they're older, I dunno.

>>3742135
I'm a sega fan and I have to agree with this guy. I just don't see where its that great.

"Hating good games: The Thread"

I'm in 4chan alright

>>3742230
One good thing I'll say about The New Generation though... it's got the best music in the entire series.

>>3740620
Diagonal whip.

>>3742315
>not liking full control of your whip

>>3742306
I mean, it's got some good tracks, like first level, or versailles, but best in the series? hard to say. I also hate Bloodlines' boss music, it's annoying and repetitive.

>>3740768
Maybe it's because I'm only 25, but I hate all 3 of the nes games. They're too fuckin' hard.

>>3742375
3 has some trolly level designs, but if you can't 1cc the first game, you are just bad at the vidya.

>>3742375
1 is pretty simple other then not abusing death with holy water. If you seriously can't beat 1 you suck at videogames.

>>3742135
>ugly graphics
Ugh, this. It's only a bit better than CV IV. What were they thinking?

>>3742408
I dunno, maybe. At the part before Death, I reloaded a save about a dozen times and only made it through once, and then Death wrecked me.

>>3740620
Exploration

>>3742467
>No risk, no reward: The Experience.

>>3742467

>>3740620

Shitty graphics worse than the first game.

> not so much that the first game had more colors, but that it did a fuckton better job with them than the art style of this piece of crap.

While the mechanics of the game were exceptional, the graphics tank it like an APDS round.

Im sorry, just let this thing burn in its raped iraqi tank depleted uranium fire.

If somebody remade the game with Dracula X graphics it would be almost equal pecking with SOTN.

>>3740768
> Rondo
> greatest
> never fucking heard of it until a year ago

>castlevania 4 has bad graphics

Is this the new hot meme in CV threads?

>>3740905
> those fireballs
> those tiny ass hearts that are hard to see
> why the fuck cant people understand this

>>3742682

>>3742695
>I don't like how the fireballs and hearts look, therefore the graphics in this game are shit

>>3742692

No its just what people are starting to realize now that its being pointed out so often.

> hey wait a minute, the graphics do suck
> NES CV3 was 8bit but it looks so good

> wtf is this childish attempts at pixel art, did the artists for this game NOT work on amiga games or something?

> who taught their artists to fucking draw

Having an expanded selection palette to work from and more animation frames for creatures does not mean you can just be lazy and use little +s for the chain links, draw everything in a washed out manner, and make just about everything look like its made of thin little STICKS

>>3742706
its such a major distraction it ruins everything since these things are so common

> I irk every time I see it

> pic related
> you call this HOLY fucking fire?
> it looks like some tiny campfire a kid would make

besides the graphics are kinda washed out too so even aside from that, the glop doesnt abate

>>3740620
Because 3.

>>3742712
>amiga

You gave yourself away too soon, Australia-kun.
You almost had me, but you had to fuck it up.

Enjoy not getting a discussion out of me because now I now you're 100% baiting.

>>3742692
>CV4 devs think a fucking dancing couple is an intimidating boss fight

>>3742727
Clearly you've never seen a dancing ghost couple IRL, anon.

Also, what was the most goofy, un-castlevania boos fight?
I never got this guy. What is he supposed to be? Just an assemble of gears? The way he moves and the sound effects are more comical than anything else. Maybe it was on purpose.

>>3742737
Forgot pic

>>3742740
I'd be way more scared of an animated assortment of gears built by Nazis than I would some dancers, yeah.

>>3742776
huh, figures.

>>3742786
>this horrifies the Nintendildo

>>3742776
>Australia-kun is afraid of nazis

So... Aus-kun turned out to be a kike? Can't say I'm surprised.

>>3742802
>most efficient mass murderers in history
>not scary

Uh huh.

>>3742808
>muh holocaust

Turn into soap, auster-ken.

>>3742818
>forgetting the billions of slavs they massacred in ww2

>>3742821
>implying the slavs weren't more efficient at killing their own

>>3740620
>Babby's First Classicvania
>good

>>3740768
Best post in the thread

>>3742690
>never fucking heard of it until a year ago
How?

>>3742818
>>>/pol/

>>3740905
That song you posted is awesome. Calm and atmospheric, it really sets a mood.