/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4104581
When is it coming out?

>>4104583
NOW

It's already out.

>>4104586
Where can I download it?

>>4104590
Horriblesubs has released it, so you can find it on their site as well as Nyaa.si, Anidex, and Nyaa.Pantsu and presumably any other Nyaa clones.
I'll save you the trouble and post the link.
https://nyaa.si/view/936407

>>4104581
I hope it doesn't suck.

>>4104593
>nyaa.si
>.si

>>4104597
nyaa.se is dead, live with it.
>>4104593
Horriblesubs only uploaded the japanese dub.

>>4104581
It seems pretty good so far.

I mean, it doesn't take a whole lot to be faithful to the source material and make a good story.

>>4104619
>I mean, it doesn't take a whole lot to be faithful to the source material and make a good story.

You wouldn't think so but sooooo many movies based on games fuck that up. Like really bad.

>>4104623
Yeah, because Hollywood doesn't understand video games. They just know how to produce the same garbage that appeals to everyone and is safe.

>>4104630
>appeals to everyone
>garbage
Unless you're saying that garbage is universally appealing you're contradicting yourself

NOT RETRO

Shouldn't Norio Wakamoto be Dracula?

>>4104667
I bet your a blast at parties

>>4104663
I think he's saying the unwashed masses have poor taste, which they 2bh.

>>4104667
ALL CAPS

>>4104670
I tend to not talk about video game movies at parties

>>4104678
That's true, I didn't think of the possibility that he's saying everyone is garbage

In which case, he'd be right

I think I liked it, seemed pretty faithful to the source material, even tho there isn't much.
Didn't like Trevor that much and I'm pretty disappointed about no grant
Was hoping for a longer run too, this should've been a movie instead of 4 episodes

>>4104694
There's a second season... next year.

I wish they had either made a longer season, or just waited and animated the entire run rather than cut off the story halfway before we actually get into Castlevania proper.

Other than that it was pretty good, it was pretty faithful as far as an adaptation could be reasonably expected. I'm hoping that they have game-accurate monsters rather than generic demons in season 2 though.

>>4104697
Maybe could've been a little less quippy, but nothing too offensive.

>>4104681
>I tend to not talk about video game movies at parties
You should give it a shot. Somehow got on the topic of the Mortal Kombat movie once and before you know it we had it playing in the background. Ended up being a really good time. True story.

So wait, original language is english or jap?

>>4104848
English

>>4104850
Thanks, then this shit can fuck off >>4104593

It reminds me of the Devil May Cry anime which was trash but looked great.

How is it?

>>4104869
In my defence I didn't realise it was in Japanese until after I downloaded it, which was after I made the post.

>>4104881
It's pretty good. Not blow-your-pants-off good, but pretty good and faithful enough. Action animation is good, probably could've used more frames in places though. There's one bit that has half as many frames as it needs and stands out badly but as a whole it's pretty good.

>Anime adds an entire subplot of DUDE EVIL CATHOLIC CHURCH that wastes time
>can't go 5 minutes without reminding us that the bishops and priests are selfish and evil
>Game-Trevor is supposed to be a pious Christian warrior wielding a Holy Whip, and Holy Sub-weapons like holy water and a cross
>game starts with Trevor praying at a ruined church before his quest
>Anime-Trevor has made zero reference to his Christian faith or powers

>>4104924
Jap version got deleted before I could download it, seems I'll be watching this in french

>>4104940

Game-Trevor would have out holied the Bishop and showed off his holy powers and told him to buzz off.

>>4104667
>I use words wrong

Going to watch it later tonight. Maybe even play some CV Bloodlines before or after.

>>4104940
Didn't mind the evil church too much since the Belmont's being excommunicated is canon, but I didn't like Trevor going "shit" under his breath and he had an extremely poor introduction, I thought Trevor would've been stoic, heroic and faithful to the cross.
iirc it was the church that came to Trevor for help too, so have the evil church for a bit but also have them reform

>>4104670
I am at retro parties because I keep it FUCKING RETRO YOU DUMB SHIT!

>>4104940
>>Anime adds an entire subplot of DUDE EVIL CATHOLIC CHURCH that wastes time
It's literally a SotN plot point in Alucard's flashback.
They're using SotN Alucard so they included that plotpoint, nothing wrong with it.

>>4105242
>It's literally a SotN plot point in Alucard's flashback.

She got burned as a witch, but they never even specifified if it was because of the Church or if she got lynched. And if they had just left it at Lisa's burning, that would be fine. We got like 30 minutes of EVIL CHURCH doings and fight scenes that were pretty irrelevant in the end.

Remember that boss fight against armed priests from Castlevania? Me neither.

>>4105251
It's called adding drama to make it worthy of being a movie (it's literally a movie split into episodes, Warren Ellis flat out confirmed they made 3 movies and they're being split into TV format, 4 eps each).
I'm sorry you're too fucking autistic and straight out of /v/ to understand that 1:1 videogame adaptations are terrible.

>>4105253

The subplot ends up being mostly filler and of little consequence. If you cut from Trevor saving Sylpha to them going deeper in the catacombs nothing's really lost. There's lots and lots of things they could have added instead of that subplot.

Like why does Trevor stay in the shed? It's entirely to create conflict and drag out the running time.

>>4105242
No, no it fuckin isn't you dumb summerfaggot.

>>4105264
>No, no it fuckin isn't you dumb summerfaggot.
>I never played SotN: The Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NMPSUTvWSw

>>4105273
Yeah, you never did play SotN you fucking bitch.

>>4104581
If the Warcraft movie can manage to be at best 5 and a half/10(more watchable than pixels, DD the movie, and the SMB movie), then why not an eventual decent if not great Vidya-film adaptation? Its proven to have been done with both novels and comic books, so why not a good one someday in the 2020 or 2030s.

>>4105275
You're brain damaged and I almost feel pity for you.

>>4105279
I'm not the dumb summerfaggot. Go back to /v/ you cretin I will fucking destroy you scum.

>>4105282
You're a sad, sad lonely old virgin.

>>4105286
Says the gaylord making up crap on a retro imageboard. Now go back from whence you came, trouble the soul of my board no more!

>>4105290
>posting factual scenes from a videogame
>making up crap
I can only hope the mods don't take kindly to your stupidity, cherish this (You), it's your last.

>>4105286
>>4105279
>>4105282

>>4105293
You're doing neither and you're lucky the mods are around or else I'd lick your ass into another dimension for posting such inane garbage on this board.

Rate all the NES Castlevania games

>Trevor
Guy seems to be harboring some resentment yet over his whole family being exiled and having to silently listen to trash talk all that time. But yeah, he's supposed to be a stoic, Christian warrior right from the get-go, I can believe that.[/sarcasm]
And honestly, anyone who can claim with a straight face to be Jesus of Nazareth gets a pretty broad pass in my book.
>wasted time on evil church subplot
Because as a whole, it makes sense. Less time could have been spent on exposition, but it could have been worse...we could have spent years watching Lisa and Dracula make snippy google-eyes at each other.
This is expanding on the bare-bones plot we got from CV3. You can like it or leave it, but I'm liking it so far. So what if Trevor's not the Super Saiyan Holy God-tier from the beginning? I thought 4chan as a whole hated white-knights?

Fuck off, /tv/.

Sage.

What other Warren Ellis stuff should I check put? I liked his Moon Knight run but that's my only other experience with his work.

>>4105202
Don't you think if talking about a show that's based on a retro game series was against /vr's rules it would be deleted by now??

Yeah, that's what I thought. Now run along. I think someone might be starting a GBA thread!!1! How do they know it's not retro without you there?!?!

>>4105298
>lick your ass into another dimension

Now im not gay but ill be damned if i didnt want to know what that feels like.

Just finished.

it was alright. The only great thing was the Trevor vs Alucard fight. Everything else was meh. Still good tho.

Wish we had more than 4 half hour episodes. Hopefully we don't have to wait more than a year for the next season. Way too short.

>>4105372
Transmetropolitan is the obvious choice

These 4 episodes left me starving for more

I can't believe Castlevania now has good media that isn't just the video games

Really great show

>>4105372

Nextwave

>>4104940

You know these first episodes is supposed to be a prequel to what happened before Castlevania 3 began? Any kind of character development can still happen. I could imagine Trevor being a very religious person, but not in a very open way. His family being exiled for using dark arts even in the name of God could make him less open about his faith.

not /vr/ fucktards.

>>4105757
>based on a game from 1989
>not /vr/

>>4105302
3>1>2

And I still like 2.

>>4105785
This.

>>4105757
>not /vr/ fucktards
Now wouldn't you think a thread about an animated show based on a /vr game be deleted by now if it wasn't allowed???

Yup, that's what I thought. Now run along. I'm sure some poor anon posted a GBA thread without realizing its not retro!!!1!! You better go tell 'em!!

>>4105780
>>4105853
it's for the greater good. /co/ turned into a cesspit due to comic book to film adaptations. i would hate to see the same thing happen to /vr/.
also last time someone started one of these threads it was deleted.

>>4105539
good stuff

>>4104630
A good Max Payne movie would be safer than the trash they did.

>>4104581

Just finished watching. loved it. Want more.

>>4104630
I'd argue that video games don't make for very good movies, because of the way the stories are told. Even RPGs with long progression and dense stories are difficult to adapt to a 90 minute film. Pacing, cinematography and such are completely alien to each other.

Let's hope they stay true to the source material.

>>4105372
Planetary,The Authority, Thunderbolts.

>>4104940
He did, in the scene with the marketplace, and there was also a nice priest there too. It's just those guys in particular were bad.

Also this has always been a point in the series for fuck's sake. Quit playing the victim all the fucking time nobody needs your persecution complex.

>>4106017
that was a really good scene, i wish trevor acted more like that during the entire thing

>>4104940
>One Bishop and some thugs are cunts so the whole church is evil
>Never mind that priest that stood by them and made the holy water for them to fight the demons

why not watch the whole thing and learn to see the bigger picture before you go fedora tipping

>>4104701
I actually liked the quips. Like when Trevor kneed Alucard in the crotch in their duel.

>Please. This isn't a bar fight. Have some class.

>>4104581
The show definitely captured the falling down through floors well.

>>4105257
okay then, just skip it all then. conflict is what makes things worth watching. That whole thing was to show the village people who their church was. doesn't matter it's not specifically canon.

>>4104581
Animation is weird, but fuck it's good. But it's a prequel. I don't know how they have the balls to call this a "season".

This was pretty good. The writing is servicable, not great but exceeded my expectations. And it looks like animated castlevania should, sort of a mix of Berserk and Vampire Hunter D.

>>4106137
I loved this one line

>>4106137
I loved this one line

What
I thought he said "Just don't fuck up."

I like the idea of making saturday morning cartoons based on /vr/ games but why now? Seems like an idea that's 30 years late.

>>4106619

we're pretty far from Saturday morning

In tone, I mean it's quite literally Saturday morning as I type this.

>>4105785
My man.

>>4106627
>He didn't see the episode of Captain N where Simon Belmont whipped a mans eyeball out.

>>4104581

>Swearing nonstop
>Trevor is a drunk
>His facial hair looks like it was drawn by some teen on Deviant Art
>Some of his expressions do too
>Anti Christian messages throughout almost nonstop (Seriously count the number off times a cross is set on fire, inverted, smashed or taken down over 4 episodes.)
>Priests with knives

This is not the Castlevania I signed up for. It is not /vr/.

>>4106725
>Anti Christian messages throughout almost nonstop
Grow a pair you whiny faggot.

>>4106725

I will still probably watch it though.

Can't wait for the scene where Trevor gets a hot topic shirt with the Belmont crest on it and a fedora

>>4106729

It's non-canon bullshit written to appeal to edgy teens. I'm a grown man and find it distasteful.

>>4106734
My heart bleeds for all of the offended christrians who can't handle a cartoon saying bad things about a fictional church.

>people throwing tantrums over evil church
>trevor asks for "a real priest" in the last episode after denouncing the church guys as self-serving thugs and gets one, thus showing that it clearly wasn't religion = automatically evil, and shows that trevor has obviously worked with non-evil priests before
Too busy being offended to actually pay attention to the show I see.

>>4106734
It's the exact same backstory from SotN, just now shown instead of mentioned, how is it not canon? Continue being a triggered snowflake though.

>>4104608
https://1337x.to/torrent/2303495/HorribleSubs-Castlevania-Season-S01-01-04-720p-Batch-SD/

>>4106758
>>4106760

*Trevor Belmont teleports behind you.

>>4104581

test

>>4106771
>take english show
>dub it
>add subs
>weebs watch this instead of the original

How retarded

>>4106860
To be fair the english VA isn't that good. Don't know how good the Jap VA is though.

>>4106979

I hate dubs, but I liked Trevor's and Dracula's voice a lot.

My only problem with the series so far, is Trevor. They make Trevor hate priests and make him hate religion when in the games the entire Belmont family is religious as fuck and use weapons of the church to fight monsters.

Trevor is nothing like the Konami canon Trevor. This guy is a drunk fucking asshole who's not heroic at all.

>>4106619

This particular project was a passion project by Warren Ellis and some others. Guess they're just fans of the old games.

>>4107218
>>4107205

I agree, I like everything EXCEPT Trevor. Trevor is a quipping Warren Ellis style character.

In Castlevania games, I don't think the church has ever been portrayed in a negative light. Yoko Belnades for instance works for the church if I remember right.

>>4107249
Warren Ellis hates religion, he says it all the time and bashes it in comics. I don't care about religion but when you make religious characters like Lisa, the Belmonts and Alucard call religion and the church evil then you've fucked up Castlevania lore. Leon Belmont fought for the crusades and the chruch and sore upon God that he and his family would hunt down dracula for all time.

Where the fucking fuck was Grant?

https://mega.nz/#!BmISlRBJ!oVgQx3uMPXWQaa0VySQoJMLJy-SQ2TCd64PdH2nX7AM

>>4107427
Based anon, thanks.

>>4107249
>In Castlevania games, I don't think the church has ever been portrayed in a negative light.
It has. A lot, actually.

>>4107507
[citation needed]

I only remember Barlowe

After watching it I have to say this has serious potential. The animation could use a good few more frames but this is a very good adaption, though not all that accurate to the source material. It's great in its own right.

>>4107271
You can love God while hating the church. Why do you think Christianity has so many denominations?

>>4106035
trevor literally makes a remark that he hates priests.

not /vr/

>>4107641

NO

FUN

ALLOWED

>>4107354
No one involved in the project thought he would add anything relevant to the plot, so he got axed.

>>4104940
It's not an anime. It's a cartoon.

>>4107354
M-maybe he'll be in S2.

>>4107641
It's literally an adaption of Castlevania 3, you pedophile.

>>4107354
I thought that skinny priest Trevor eyeball'd was going to be Grant.

>>4107678
Fuck off /a/

>>4107705
He's right though, it's an American/Canadian production.

>>4107205
>in the games the entire Belmont family is religious as fuck and use weapons of the church to fight monsters.
>>4107249
Not retro, but Lament of Innocence proves just how wrong both of you are.
>church doesn't give a fuck about monsters, just filthy heathens
>Leon gives up everything to do what's right, INCLUDING not using any weapons from the church, instead using a heretically created whip

>>4107658
If you want fun, go to /v/.

Besides,
>I'm going talk about anime on /vr/. It's OK because it's based on a series with some retro games.
>Somebody doesn't think it should be on /vr/.
>CIRCLE THE WAGONS.

It would be a waste of time to argue reason with you at this point, so I'll leave it at that.

>>4107698
It's a prequel.

>>4104663
No, he is saying that the Hollywood formula is to try to appeal to everyone, and then it fails because it doesn't appeal to everyone.
The idea is that Disney appeals to everyone, so that must be the tried and tested method, when there is no method to copy. Which would also be the reason Adult Swim cartoons are better than a lot of common network shops: It simply can't appeal to everybody, so it needs to do something else

>>4105950
Video games often make good movies, because if surgical precision is applied, you can extract something very basic.

You can often dissect them into very basic structures, ie Dragon Age:
1. Warden recruitment
2. Party recruitment
3. Go to Plot Places
4. Endboss GIGANTIC DEATH DRAGON
5. Short 5 minute ending where they honor the fallen, and the sacrifices made.
And Dragonage has a large multibranching plot. If you do a 10 minute budget for each arc, you can do a 80-120 minute movie, with lots of good scenes.
For simpler videogames, even something like Doom, you got even more time to fill. The core reason Hollywood vidya fails badly, is that nobody wants to do a 1:1 adaption, taking the core elements and doing vague plot adaption with good scene pacing.
What plagues Western Cinema, from the traditions start in the 1920s, is that there is horrid pacing everywhere and little to no focus.
So when somebody gets a script for adaption, they will maybe spend 20-30 minutes of the movie to adopt the source material, with a added 50-80 minutes of dicking around completely.
I.E the last Power Rangers movie.
Or 90% of video game adaptions, even the Doom movie.

>>4106979
>the english VA isn't that good

You're fucking dumb.

>>4107771
The Hollywood formula is meant to appeal to chinks.

Also here's a list of good video game movies
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>>4105257
>The subplot ends up being mostly filler and of little consequence.
And? Its well done.

>>4106619
Because:
1. Netflix doesn't want to appeal to everyone, so they are fine with weird one demographic works. Even if its MARVEL stuff thats horrid
2. Warren Ellis, even if he is a hack, still has good taste
3. Because Netflix has been producing their own content for a small decade now, they are more and more willing to branch out, so everyone involved suddenly get the freedom they need to do such a project
4. Networks licenscing a Japanese IP for a adoption? When Nintendo of America would claim themselves as "negotiates" when they have no competency to even try? And everyone is too shy to hire a gook to translate to his peers, for a small negotiation meeting?
Such things really didn't happen in the late 80s..

>>4107783
Exporting to China wasn't even a thing until the 2010s, where they suddenly had currency and a middleclass to be exported to.
So you are missing your argument by more than 4 decades.

>>4107792
Try since the mid 2000s dumbass. Movies like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire made a ton of money in China. Damn is that one of most ignorant and shithead comments I've seen in a long while. China has been fucking movies for a long time.

>>4107798
British Harry Potter, made tons of money in China, long before it was even a thing to consider. If it was truly made to be exported to China, they would basically butcher it.
Your argument needs some rethoric, to present itself, or it sounds like "Oh, they suddenly got free money from export, because its good movies"

On the other end of the scale there is things like the Marvel Movies, where its understood that risks can be taken, because the global marked push will be large enough to counteract the possibility of true fuck ups.

And one more perspective: Hollywood itself is a gigantic field of Nepotistics Jews, who live of the fact the marked has been built for decades. Even throughout Cold War Export creating a marked, where their financial security is garantued regardless of how little risk or creativity is taken.
It has also created a internal economy, where they got "dedicated script writer", who get free purchase of their manuscripts, for no reason other than to create a stockpile of existing writers, as a lipservice to the community in Hollywood.
Its not disgusting, its just not admirable or well done.

>>4107816
I don't consider the Harry Potter movies that great. A lot of parts are easy to tell it was meant to be multi national money flic.

Another huge and made for world wide audience movie is the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

And you had Transformers in 07

Spiderman

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

The list goes on of complete garbage movies made pre 2010 for foreign markets. You're just a fucking idiot it seems. The rest of your post seems to prove that. Marvel didn't take any risk. They played it safe and easy. If they wanted to take a chance they'd show Spider man getting his ass kicked for the whole movie like in the comics. Instead they play up the whole bullshit of him blaming himself for his grandfathers death bullshit.

I know it's summer but damn. We found the nerd cred retard here.

>>4107824
>They played it safe and easy.
By Hollywood standards? I can't think of a Hollywood movie that has 20 straight minutes of action, multiple times.
Its also why the 2 current Wick movies stand out so much: American non Hollywood movies, with partial Hollywood Crew, and entire half hours of action scenes. It also has no drama, or cringe added comedy sections.

Another good example is Equilibrium, which would go towards your point: It would do a lot better in todays marked, rather than in early 2000s, simply because China do love their Gunfu movies.

>>4107854
>cringe
Like I said I'm dealing with someone who's underage. There ain't nothing good released post 9/11. I listed relevant movies not theories. >I can't think of a Hollywood movie that has 20 straight minutes of action, multiple times.
Is this a joke?

See a movie like 2015's Krampus which is easily the best pg13 horror movie released in the last 18 years. And it got annihilated by critics for being too "horrory", not having jump scares, and the ending. The whole last like 30 or 40 mins is real suspense and horror. It's amazing.

>>4107868
>There ain't nothing good released post 9/11.
There ain't nothing good past June 1989, underage newfag.

>>4107871
Sorry kid but the 90s was the last great decade for movies.

>>4107872
The only good part of the 90s, was that USA's cultural victory over the Soviet Union, lead to a era of unprecedented explosive export of American movies, allowing for a completely new marked of risks and actions.
The culture and attitude at the time was horrible, and it make things more shit than they needed to.

Just watched it, was pretty good, can't wait for the next part.

>>4107879
>The culture and attitude at the time was horrible, and it make things more shit than they needed to.
K, sjw.

I'll enjoy my Jurassic Park, Tremors, Terminator 2, Blade, Sleepy Hollow, Die Hard, Star Ship troopers, Fifth element, Pulp Fiction, Home Alone, Braveheart, etc. There's a fuckload of amazing movies.

>>4107892
But you aren't presenting a argument or statement. You are merely saying "there was movie franchises in the 90s", while conveniently forgetting that most was one shots without any follow up.
Or conviniently forgetting to Mention that Terminator is a follow up to a 1984 movie(making it a 80s franchise), Back to the Future III is a super rare trilogy end, and there being little else thats of note.

Meanwhile in Gook land, they had a period of unprecedented wealth, so they made Animu Cinema, except they only made one Movie and never adopted the rest of their series. Often with butchered scripts, even if the art directions was extremely artful.
Europa: GermanFrancland isn't exporting shit, even if both of them has global markeds if they bothered. Alongside several nations speaking their language.
Scandinavia has sole big publisher Egmont doing fuck all, even with their global export network.
Soviet Union is only doing art shit(but they collapse, so yay 20 years of irrelevancy)
Latin movies are irrelevant as fuck, even if they occasionally got Directors like Alejandro Jodorowsky, who failed to get funding for his Cool Scifi Movie, because he asked Hollywood, the only global export of movies willing to fund stuff.

Just saying: Global franchise export has always been awful, and so has anything of art combined with money. Unprecedented growth allows periods where its less shit: But its still shit, and crippled by the cartels who has managed to acquire their monopoly after decades of hard work.
Videogame publisher isn't that different, or at the least it wasn't until Digital Platformers suddenly allowed non vetted content, so stuff like Shovel Knight & random indieshit can be sorta great.

>>4107205
The backstory of Castlevania 3 had the Belmonts exiled by the Church and they had to literally beg Trevor to save them because they were so full of themselves they couldn't do shit to Dracula and his forces.

You'd have a point if it were any other Belmont as the protagonist, but Trevor in the games, while religious insofar as he believes in God, wouldn't have much love for the actual Church.

>>4107931
Listing examples is to support a claim is a pretty basic way to support an argument... No idea what something being a follow up matters.

What the fuck do I care about the Soviet Union?

>>4107940
>What the fuck do I care about the Soviet Union?
https://youtu.be/kF0gnlJAf5k
https://youtu.be/teIOMLgaoyk
https://youtu.be/NbSX-sDBEVk
They had some good shit, that nobody cares about because they collapsed.
Also they sucked dick about exporting it, so it makes it a even bigger tragedy.

>>4107951
>They had some good shit
Nothing I or anyone should care about.

>>4107956
See? Thats the spirit. You almost sound native

>>4105372
Underrated masterpiece of Ellis writing.

Planetary it's better overall tough.

Also this http://www.freakangels.com/
it's his webcomic.

>>4107958
I really don't know what you're getting at here. The original point was you said movies are made to appeal to everyone and that's just factually false. They're made and have been made for China for a long time. Longer than your 2010s minimum you suggest in another post. Then you said the 90s were shit which I can only assume you're underage or retarded. Idk man.

>>4107962
It's a mix bag, musicals had an universal appeal but they were also an obvious product of american culture.

Grimmdark animation it's also a product of soviet culture, just like anime or perverted french cartoons.

>>4107967
>Grimmdark animation it's also a product of soviet culture
I don't know about that. Grimdark and batshit are two different thing. Anime has been "grimdark" since before grimdark was a thing. Then again the only animation I ever really watch are American, Japanese, or french since everything else tends to be trash.

Netflix has been focusing on animated shows ever since they announced they wanted in on the Jap market. I know China is only recently getting into China so it'll be interesting to see what trash gets thrown on Netflix for that. Hopefully not as bad as the Bollywood spam that comes and goes.

>>4107967
Anime existed before the Soviet union came into being, dummy.

>>4107967
Grimdark is just a sign of folklore adaption, since pre modern cultures had a gigantic focus on grim. That is just to be expected by their harsh lifestyles, and harsh mortality rates.
Meanwhile Anglos and Frenchies didn't carry that as far as their neighbors, and it shows that they don't do grim very well. Or that they don't want to include Grim elements, if their target is the general public. This is even true of Slasher films, even if the core value is shock.

>the Vampire Killer is game-accurate in that monsters fucking explode when hit
I can't believe that they worked in such a standard video game death animation into the adaptation.

>>4107714
Leon left the crusades and he was exiles from the chruch for leaving his post. At the end of the game he swear to God himself that his family will hunt Dracula for all time.

In Castlevania 3, the chruch has to find Trevor and they beg the Belmonts to come back and help fight. He agrees and the Belmonts were allies of the chruch from then on.

The only time the Belmonts had a problem with anyone from a chruch in any game was Graham who was a cult leader pretending to be a priest.

>>4107967
>non-juvenile animation is communist

jeez, the delusion of some people...

>>4108121
Also keep in mind while they were exiled the whole time they still prayed to God and were extremely religious.

In the series Trevor is a drunk asshole loser who can't shut up about the chruch, priests and God and then mocks Jesus. I'm not religious by any means but you can take religion away from Belmonts.

Also where was Grant? I though my he would be the priest with the knife but that guy fucking exploded.

>>4108121
Which proves the points I made:
A) Belmonts and church are not on good terms
B) They did NOT use weapons of the church

>>4108142
>Also keep in mind while they were exiled the whole time they still prayed to God and were extremely religious.
Quite the stretch there from ONE scene. The Belmonts may invoke God and holy power now and again, but that's hardly 'extremely religious'...the Belmonts don't strike me as fanatics, which IS extreme religion.
I'll rewatch the series, but I don't recall Trevor badmouthing God, although if one has a tight sphincter, I can understand that one-liner being interpreted as a slight against Jesus...
Oh, and you might want to read the damn thread next time instead of focusing on what people say that you don't like...Grant's fate has been discussed already.

>>4105594
>Second season is about Trevor's restored faith

>>4107675

Well that's ridiculous. He would have climbed on walls and ceilings, allowing the writers to reach plot points that nobody else could get to.

>>4108254

Also they could put in a long story arc involving Trevor walking on gears and fighting a weird giant hunchback thingy and then befriending Grant and then walking on the same gears again (on his way back). He could wrestle with his doubts about God while dealing with the gears. It all fits together.

>>4108142
One of the tropes of the religious warrior is the crisis of faith.

It's a good trope, and makes Trevor seem human.
He'll have his moment where his faith is rekindled.

>>4107771
>Video games often make good movies
No, they most certainly do not.

>>4108606
Yes they do.
They have:
1. Brief plots filled with action. This is true even for convoluted JRPGs
2. They already have designs for everything
3. PS1/N64 generation introduced cinematic cutscenes, meaning there is a standard to surpass
4. Music is already written, and often quite good. Even this is far more true of stuff that predates Next Gen and further beyond 2006, because limitations is often good at enforcing quality

The general reason Vidya adaptions fails, is that:
1. They don't want to adopt the plot, they want to do shitty 1 hour drama versions, and maybe add 15-20 minutes of adapting the stuff that is vital. Recent examples include Assassins Creed movie, where they failed to make about some dude doing parkour and stabbing dudes primarly.
Or they made the Doom movie about shitty Space Marine Drama.
The only stuff thats hard to adapt, is stuff like Minescraper, Mario, and some puzzle games.

>>4108713
>Yes they do.
No. They fucking don't.
Name 10 video game based movies that are even remotely decent.

>>4108718
Start by adressing the argument retard.
Especially since the only good stuff is Jap Vidya movies, because they are straight adaptations.

>>4108718
We don't have good video game movies because of bad writers, bad directors, and in general people who don't want to actually do a proper adaptation beyond the bare necessities.

Don't deliberately misconstrue incompetence as impossibility.

>>4107750
WHOA WATCH THE FUCKING FUCKITY FUCK OUT PEOPLE!! WE GOT A GATEKEEPER HERE!!!

>>4108718
>Name 10 video game based movies that are even remotely decent.

You said "decent" so I'm going to give this a shot.

1) Mortal Kombat
2) Street Fighter w/JCVD
3) Street Fighter the animated movie
4) Resident Evil
5) Resident Evil 2
6) Postal
7) Angry Birds
8) Silent Hill
9) Final Fantasy: Spirits within
10) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

>inb4 Mario
Haven't seen it since the early 90s. Barely remember it.

>>4108823
Most of the Final Fantasy movies are good. The latest: Kingsglaive, was amazing

>>4108823
>3) Street Fighter the animated movie
Anime doesn't count.

I do sort of agree. Resident Evil 1/2 are decent movies. Silent Hill was also pretty good and fairly faithful.

Watched it

Overall it was really good

Half way through it was like they went
>We're so confident we'll have a season 2 let's just tease the main story only to deal with a subplot in the meantime

But it was really cool.
>MFW Simon throws small knives, uses a hatchet and even a giant cross
>MFW the final fight

Also not retro but you guys should check out the Devil May Cry anime. It's aright.

>>4108845
>Silent Hill was also pretty good and fairly faithful.

Shit. Finally someone else who thinks this.

Silent Hill movie is great. If you ask me it's the best vg movie ever, even. Gans was a fan and it shows, he was the one who wanted to make the movie, and struggled to even get the rights from Konami.

The sequel is terrible though.

>>4106759
Its a theme
>Dracula asks his future wife is she has prepared the tools to repel him(she ate garlic recently)
>Trevor spots the city is not using TRUE FAITH to repel the demonspawn
>I NEED A REAL PRIEST!!!
>SALT REPELS DEMONS! SPREAD THE WORD!
Also the bants against Alucard.

>>4109451
Nope. I not even going to start.

ITT: People can't separate having faith and being fallible vs. being an ultrapious douchebag

>>4109451

What I hated the most about the movie was the forced PH appereance and basically switching SH1 monsters to SH2/3's. Also LE EBIL ALESSA. There was never an EVIL ALESSA in the game. Alessa was just a brainfucked psychic whose powers got out of hand when they resonated with the town's gods. They also made Dahlia sympathetic, so fuck them.

Tons of props for the visuals tho.

>>4109923
Even if Trevor was the most devout constantly praying guy on the planet, he'd clearly be a believer in "God helps those who helps themselves" instead of sitting on your ass and declaring yourself holy enough to be immune to demons. Otherwise he'd be out of a job.

>>4107427
Thank you Anon, I hadn't gotten a chance to see it yet.

>>4108718
Resident Evil In Space

>>4110031
Was pretty fun

Needed to use more monsters than those fucking gargoyle things, and needed some music from the games, but otherwise it was pretty good.

>>4108784
>Irony: Coming to your screen this summer

>>4109960
The movie isn't a retelling, it's a reimagination, so of course there are going to be differences.

Look here is the thing, for Silent Hill 2 (the game), the creator of the series left, and the game completely changed the reason for Silent Hill, the monsters, and everything even existing. The worst thing about that being that they tried to make it sense with SH1's vision of things, basically giving 2 different reasons for Silent Hill existing, and some of the sequels like The Room or Origins were a mess because they were trying to go for both explanations at the same time.

When SH2 does that, fans call it a "masterpiece". When the movie has some differences, it's suddenly unaceptable.

As for PH, it makes total sense when you think about it:
PH in SH2: God's executioner.
PH in the movie: God's executioner
PH in Homecoming: God's executioner

and then in SH2 it ALSO represents "James' sexual frustration", but that's like, his second role, behind the fact that the executioner, and only because James interprates the Silent Hill's lore to his 'liking'.

tl;dr there is nothing wrong with PH in the movie. Or is it the simple fact that they re-used him that bothers you? In this case, what about SH2 and all the sequels re-using things like nurses or dogs, etc

>>4109441
>simon

Didn't hate it. A little too fuckin' Ellis-y at times for my taste. And the animation clearly suffers from budget constraints here and there.

>>4107771

Fallout would have made a great movie. I am surprised with post-apoc hysteria that nobody has bothered to make one, or a series.

The whole concept of the "speakers" is stupid, why couldn't Sypha just be a witch? My only real complaint.

>>4112536
Cause she's weak as shit compared to trevor and adrian and useless apart from the lore she's got memorized. Gotta justify her being a party member.

>>4113061
Sypha isn't weak. There are different kinds of strength, like the strength it takes to forgive, and the strength to learn to love again after you've been wronged. The strength it takes to learn to love yourself. In many ways she is the strongest character in Castlevania, if not video game history.

>>4113549

> namefagging
> cringepost
Stop.

>>4113549
>In many ways she is the strongest character in Castlevania, if not video game history

Hmmmm.... HATE to disagree but Reds Mom is easily the strongest. A single female parent raising a child alone and having the strength to let him go to follow his dreams of catching wild animals in little balls after forcing them to fight? So brave.

>>4110705
unironically when I watched the movie in '06 I hadnt played the original game before due to never having a PSX or my computer not being good enough to emulate it yet

so when I got to play the first game I was expecting PH to show up... I thought it would be the first boss, or that it would be waiting in the alley right after I solved the first puzzle (the three keys to unlock that door, just before it turns dark and the music changes)

If I were to consider anyone doing a remake of the first game to some modern standards I think PH would be good to include even though he wasn't in the original. To trip up players and pay homage to this cult icon.

> like the other bosses, a manifestation of alessa's anger, directed against harry because he's trying to prevent alessa becoming whole again, even though he doesn't know that

>>4104581
watched the first episode and I didn't like it. Idk that Dracula is weak as fuck.

>>4111972
It would. Even for a "dicking around the world" gameplay, the core structure is good.

>>4113686
>>4111972

Isn't that technically what "A Boy and his Dog" is?

This NEW ANIME sure is retro.

>>4113824
The only similarities is that the Novella has Nuclear Underground Vaults, and a Wasteland filled with Mutated Horrors.
Its not more similar to Fallout as it is to Nausicaä, and even Nausicaä is not even similar.

>>4113840
It's an adaptation of a retro game.
You retard.
You fucking imbecile.
You little shit.

>>4110031
>>4110037

Fun fact: The original version of the DOOM movie was more faithful to the games (i.e. actually involving demons etc.) but they changed the script at the last minute fearing backlash from religious groups.

>>4109460
>SALT REPELS DEMONS!
Someone call the FGC

>>4107528
Shaft, for one. A few priests were also present at the burning of Alucard's mother in the flashback sequence in Symphony. There's also that cult in Dawn of Sorrow that wants to bring balance to the world by making a new Dracula to be God's enemy.