/vr/ - Retro Games

Retro: tie between Dracula's Curse and Rondo of Blood

Not Retro: Harmony of Dissonance

Vampire Killer for MSX.

Arcadyvania: X68000
Tansakuvania: Spectral Interlude

PC Master Race always wins, baybee.

>>4837158
You posted it.

Probably 3

4 was too easy, x68k and Dracula X were too hard. 2 is horribad, 1 is just okay.

No wonder that Bloodstained spin-off is pretty much just a clone of CV3. Only the very best games get clones.

>>4837158
Harmony of Dissonance or Lament of Innocence

>>4837219
>Lament of Innocence
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>4837201
>Fan game
Nah

>>4837223
Never played this one. How is the platforming?

>>4837158

For the retro games, definitely 3. It has okay difficulty and the different paths give it quite a bit of replay value.

Super Castlevania 4

>When you realize your favorite Classic and Metriod don't have the main character as a Belmont

>>4837297
A fan game that's still better than anything Konami put out that's similar to it.

Spectral Interlude > Simon's Quest > Symphony of the Night

Harmony of Dissonance

>>4837806
Not retro. Will never BE retro.

>>4837812
>Will never BE retro
Only 2 years.

>>4837831
>he unironically thinks games become more retro over time

Can't wait till The Beatles are considered classical music! Only 200 more years to go!

>>4837336
Hardly any at all. Its like God of War without the epic setpieces or environment interaction.

>>4837858
God of War ripped of LoI wholesale. All it added was a context action button for epic ezpz one-hit kills

>>4837158
rondo

t. person who grew up in NES era and despises NES castlevania and considers them inferior to almost every other action game

>>4837846
>he thinks our music will not be considered classical one day
I hate to break it to you, but it's already happening.
Oldies rock stations went from playing ACDC to Stone Temple Pilots.
Most people don't even know who Bill Withers is even though he was one of the most influential musicians of his time.
The changes are happening every day.

>>4837958
Why do you idiots always have such a hard time comprehending the one (1) rule that differentiates us from /v/?
Nothing is stopping you from going to /v/ to talk about post-1999 gaming. We don't measure what is retro by a relative number of years in the past, we measure it against a specific, unchanging point in time, because that's how history works. If we had a WW2 board, does that mean after five years the Korean war is fair game? Of course not.
And those radio stations don't refer to STP as classic rock, they refer to it as alternative, as they always have. They merely changed formats to accomplish this because, and this may surprise you, it gets them more listeners. Radio stations, unlike /vr/, critically rely on having as many consumers as possible. Think out your analogies a little more carefully.

Why is Simon the most well known Belmont when canonically he's only been in two games (not counting ports and remakes)?

>>4838006
Because the character that appears in the first game always sticks with people

>>4838006
Because he's been in the most games.

>1
>MSX game
>Simon's Quest
>Haunted Castle
>Super 4
>X68000 / Chronicles

>>4838012
What part of "not counting ports and remakes" don't you understand? Those are just the first game in different forms.

>>4838019
Because none of the games I listed are ports or remakes, but rather completely unique games, you fool.

>>4838029
Indeed they are, especially IV and Chronicles. Except for Simon's Quest of course.

>>4838037
No, they aren't. Different assets, different level designs, different boss and enemy designs, different music, different controls, and so on. A remake is something that is mostly similar to the original, and none of those games have anything in common other than being a retelling of Simon's story, which doesn't matter in an action game.

>>4838006
Because he was the first one and the face of the series, plus to the less informed it may not even be evident that each classic game has a different guy.

>>4838042

I'm just a stickler for canonicity, especially when story became more important later in the series.

BEAT ME!

>>4837158
IMO, Rondo of Blood for the retro ones

>>4837806
>>4837162
But that's not Aria of Sorrow

>>4838401
Starring a BELMONT.

Can't you read?

>>4837219
LoI's also my favorite; tho it's PS2, and therefore not retro. To my ears, LoI has god-tier music, and I actually unironically like the gameplay. Unpopular opinion, I know, but there it is all the same.

>>4837158
...A BELMONT!?

>>4838437
Its retro enough for me. Its music is god tier even if the gameplay is too off.

>>4837158
My pick is Rondo Of Blood. I like Harmony of Dissonance and I like original Castlevania but my favourite linear game and Belmont game so far is ROB.

I wish Castlevania threads went better and lasted longer.

>>4838407
http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/J :^)

>>4838927
STARRING.

Again, can you read?

>>4838401
>>4838927
Soma is the main character in AoS. Also, not retro.

>>4837158
Dracula's Curse has the most meat and the best overall challenge.
Adventure Rebirth is the best fusion of the GB games with NES map layout.

>>4838927
BTFO :^)

>>4838042
You're an idiot if you dont think the original, IV, and Chronicles have anything in common beyond Simon.

>>4838006
canon doesn't matter when he's been in the most games and was on a cartoon. Plus one the game literally has his name in the title

>>4839170
Not him but, they have as much in common with each other as they do with Castlevania 3.

Chronicles doesn't even play like CV1, has different enemies, different emphasis on platforming, a faster longer whip, and arguably more useful subweapons. Super IV obviously has very little in comparison as well on top of almost every single boss fighting completely differently. They are only surface level similar. They're so far different as to only loosely be able to be called a remake. That surface being that they only contain somebody named Simon and they share the same "story continuity" which amounts to fuck all.

And this is without ignoring games like Vampire Killer or Haunted Castle.Dracula X Chronicles and Dracula X are remakes of Rondo and they attempt to play the same with minimum differences despite differing stage design in the latter.

SuperIV and CV1 don't even attempt to be the same game. You'd have to be insane to suggest otherwise.

>>4839170
they don't. amigavania has more in common with nes cv1 than cv1 does with 4 or x68k ffs. stop being retarded and learn the difference between remake and re-imagining

>>4838927
>>4839167
samefag:p

>>4837469
Yes

>>4837469
No

>>4839179
Minor differences. You're suggesting that the gameplay is radically different and it just isnt. "Its nothing like it because the whip is faster". Lol shut up

>>4837158
Sympathy for the Knight