Castlevania Lords Of Shadows appears on Steam Registry
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Snkfanatic
Banned
Oh wow, I will have to get that one. Good news!
If it's done, they should let us download the first game as soon as we pre-order just so we can play it before the second releases.
Madrugador
Member
Always wanted to play this. Great news.
Krusenstern
Banned
Cool if true. I haven't played the game yet, but if this really comes to PC I will sell my PS3 copy and play it with higher resolution and better framerate.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Interesting. I'm always happy to see a Japanese publisher releasing a game on PC, though... yeah, I'm not buying Lords of Shadow.
I'll probably buy it anyway
maniac-kun
Member
This is awesome! Port Symphony of the Night too!
Krusenstern
Banned
Can you explain?
Castlevania was almost ruined with anime shit on the GBA and DS. Thankfully LoS brought back the European feel of the early games.
legacyzero
Banned
I dont think I gave this game a fair chance, so a PC release would be great!
Anime shit on GBA where? The two earlier DS games?
The games were better than LoS was anyway.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
would be funny if the core game goes to 1080p/60 but the cutscenes still remain 720p/24fps video files like the console versions 
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Bitter classicvania fan in the wild, prone to hyperbole and nostalgia, in their natural habitat.
Aria of Sorrow
would be funny if the core game goes to 1080p/60 but the cutscenes still remain 720p/24fps video files like the console versions
Unless they replace it them using actual game's engine... or were the video files straight up CG? I don't know anything about the cut scenes. I've been on a media blackout from this game since I knew Steam would eventually start getting almost every single multiplat the closer it got to dominating the gaming world.
Aria of Sorrow was a game in Japan. The art is far, FAR from anime shit you're talking about.
If you can call copying the same tired formula 3 dozen times better than something relatively new-ish and a LOT more ambitious, then yeah I guess it's "better".
Nope, the art direction was way too far into anime territory for my tastes. Especially the portraits: http://www.inverteddungeon.com/images/screenshots/ariaa.png
But it's a good game. So is Lords of Shadow.
Basically. The Igavanias went nowhere really after the fantastic SotN. I'm glad they found a new direction for the franchise.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
No, it's a common label for games in the registry. Don't read anything into any data you're seeing if you're just looking at this stuff for the first time.
TalesOfWin
Banned
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
well .. in the first game on PS3/360 majority of the cut-scenes were some very well done video files based off the game-engine. That's the reason the game's on two discs on the 360, cause they didn't spare any expense on the videos. About 8GB of videos for a total run time of only 55 minutes. No bandwidth was spared.
Though the videos were encoded at 25FPS (via digital foundry) which.. kinda fell right in with the rest of the game's frame rate (which was also in the same ball park most of the time).
Glass Rebel
Member
"Anime shit" Castlevania started much earlier than the GBA games...
On the GBA it started to bother me with characters such as Soma Cruz, the plot transferred to Japan etc.
My point was: as far as art style and feel goes, LoS is way more in line with the early Classicvanias than the Igavanias after SotN.
TalesOfWin
Banned
Too bad the same thing cannot be said of the gameplay. LoS plays nothing like the earlier castlevanias.
Glass Rebel
Member
True. However, it still plays great and the combat is better and far more varied than in any GoW game (from which it obviously heavily borrows).
TalesOfWin
Banned
It's riddled with stupid QTE's and gaf hates QTEs. I remember James Rolfe shitting on this game.
There's quite a number of people on Gaf who love the game.
The QTEs weren't bothersome at all for me.
1. Actually no, he didn't really shit on it. Hell, he had more negative things to say about Symphony of the Night in his series of Castlevania videos ("too easy", "only set in a castle as opposed to graveyards, forests" etc).
2. He is not exactly into modern games at all. Save for a few casual games on Wii etc.
TalesOfWin
Banned
ice giant is probably the most frustrating boss ever. And the early swamp areas are boring as hell.
I had no problems defeating him. Pretty good boss battle and I enjoyed the swamp area as well. Great atmosphere.
Dude, you need to stop with your exaggerations. Even if you didn't like that boss, there are hundreds of bosses in videogaming that are far worse.
Agreed, but Castlevania has been one of my favorite series since, well, shortly after birth lol(basically as far back as I can remember on CV 2). I enjoyed the console version of this, but on a new rig with high framerate? Sploosh