Castlevania: Lords of Shadow |OT| The MercurySteam has Vanquished the Horrible Night
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brandonh83
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Fimbulvetr said:
it's all about the presentation! I loved Bayonetta, when I was actually playing it. logical inconsistencies aside, LOS didn't make me want to drown myself in battery acid during the in-betweens :lol
WrenchNinja
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He's a motherfucking Werewolf.thetrin said:
brandonh83
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thetrin said:
I don't know, but I'm glad it didn't get any harder after that. That boss made me question my first playthrough being on Knight, but after that, in comparison everything else was smooth sailing.
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LiK said:
He was pretty hard for where he was in the game. You never really face anyone remotely as hard as him before that. It's a serious difficulty spike. Almost every boss after that is far far easier.
I actually found
Pan
RavenFox said:
Yeah. He easily had the best second phase design out of all the Lords of Shadow.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Crewnh said:
Beat him in about 4 tries on hard... not sure what all the fuss about him being hard is about.
What the fuck is up with double tapping the left stick in this game? I hated it when I had to do it with those wargs, now I get an item I have to double tap to use? 
I can't tap it fast enough or something, I don't get it.
edit: oh, tap as in tilt in some direction. God... damnit. I thought it meant pressing it twice in rapid succession. Game is awesome.
I can't tap it fast enough or something, I don't get it.edit: oh, tap as in tilt in some direction. God... damnit. I thought it meant pressing it twice in rapid succession. Game is awesome.
I'm the idiot that couldn't figure out what to do when Butcher put the pot on his head. Before I get lambasted, I did try merely jump attacking, but it didn't connect properly so I just assumed that wasn't the answer initially.
I eventually started trying every single unlocked ability from the Trigger+jump charge uppercut, to using every fairy magic form, and even trying to grab stuff around the room.
Felt like such an idiot when I finally just jump whipped him again. SMH.
I eventually started trying every single unlocked ability from the Trigger+jump charge uppercut, to using every fairy magic form, and even trying to grab stuff around the room.
Felt like such an idiot when I finally just jump whipped him again. SMH.
I beat him on my first go. Took me very close to dying during several parts of the fight, though.thetrin said:
Dodging, knowing when to attack, blocking at the right time, and having a habit of 'immediately destroying destructable objects in the environment' all come in handy.
TheKaeptain
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He is athetrin said:
werewolf.
they are the strongest of the monsters.
Edit: when I fought
Pan
Fimbulvetr
Member
brandonh83 said:
He said story, not dialogue(which was still cheesy enough to make people not want to listen to Patrick Stewart in LoS).
SlasherJPC
Banned
RavenFox said:
Because I died, but I died on the
ice titan, the rock titan, the crow boss,
rock titan boss, and groups of the bigger werewolves more then him...
My favorite:LiK said:My fave: Hold X, X,X,,X, X and Air X,X, Y
Pwnage
Double tap L-stick, Triangle, Square followed by Triangle, X, X followed by L2+Square fully charged. This three combo sequence brings the pain, especially when infused with shadow magic!
The combat system is ace once your invested enough to know all of the moves. I found it tough to remember everything at first, but once you commit to your full repertoire it's all kinds of awesome!
*Cornell was tough, but I had more trouble with Olrox.
ScrabbleBanshee
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I'm still waiting for some word on the endgame errors and errors causing save file corruption. It's kind of shitty that nobody is speaking out to the public about it to even let us know they're working on it.
For now, I am being paranoid and regularly doing staggered backups on an SD card I threw in the PS3 and an external drive. I've put way too many hours into this for it to go belly up on me... I haven't even gone through to the end yet (on Chapter X now) because I keep taking breaks to go back and find missing/locked out items and do some trials before continuing.
For now, I am being paranoid and regularly doing staggered backups on an SD card I threw in the PS3 and an external drive. I've put way too many hours into this for it to go belly up on me... I haven't even gone through to the end yet (on Chapter X now) because I keep taking breaks to go back and find missing/locked out items and do some trials before continuing.
nacire said:My favorite:
Double tap L-stick, Triangle, Square followed by Triangle, X, X followed by L2+Square fully charged. This three combo sequence brings the pain, especially when infused with shadow magic!
The combat system is ace once your invested enough to know all of the moves. I found it tough to remember everything at first, but once you commit to your full repertoire it's all kinds of awesome!
yea, once you buy all the advanced moves, it's a lot of fun experimenting with the different combos.
ScrabbleBanshee said:
save errors? i must've missed it here. any details? no issues here. 360 btw.
ScrabbleBanshee
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LiK said:
360 version doesn't corrupt the saves, but in some cases people have reported the PS3 version when erroring out corrupts the save file. The same errors "Unhandled Error" exist in the 360 version but the save file there seems to be safe. I think the only spot I've heard of the error occurring is during the last boss fight (of course, right?).
Segata Sanshiro
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Nah, it happened to me and I wasn't anywhere near the end.ScrabbleBanshee said:
Malphas
Cox, prince of lies, says they're working on a patch as we speak and it should be out soon.
ScrabbleBanshee
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Segata Sanshiro said:
Link?
Segata Sanshiro
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From his Twitter, I presume, posted earlier on this very page in this very thread:ScrabbleBanshee said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23829474&postcount=5029
When I was playing the game on normal I wasn't getting any slowdown. Now that I have moved onto the next hardest setting I'm getting huge frame drops and slowdown.
It's either that or now that I've got more combos they are slowing things down.
Does this game run better with an install?
360 version
It's either that or now that I've got more combos they are slowing things down.
Does this game run better with an install?
360 version
Chiggs
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So I decided to keep going after being completely underwhelmed with the first two chapters (certainly not visually).
Very glad I did.
I'm currently on Chapter 5 and the game has really taken off. The framerate seems to be better (slightly), the levels are more interesting (wow @ the Chapter 5 vista), and the story seems to be heading in the right direction (but I think I can guess where it's all going).
The longevity of the game is what's really nice, too...I definitely appreciate the meaty singleplayer experience.
Things that have annoyed/frustrated me so far:
1.) That stupid girl informing me every 3 minutes that I need to find three dark crystals (this while I'm being mauled by 3 giant Lycans--THANKS, SWEETHEART!)
2.) Zobek telling me, rather assertively, that we need to block the holes in the cemetery so the ghouls don't keep coming in, only to act in a nonchalant manner when I ask him to help push the statue. "As you wish," he says as he takes his sweet ass time doing so.
3.) Chupacabras - STUPID. LAME. RETARDED. POINTLESS. DUMB. CRAPPY VOICEWORK. WHY.
4.) Cornell - he's not as bad as everyone makes him out to be, but he's still tough--and at a point in the game that just doesn't make sense.
5.) The second titan fight - it's not hard but the timing on reversing the thrown rock is crap. Don't like it at all.
6. Monster-riding. It's used way too much and it's not that cool.
Very glad I did.
I'm currently on Chapter 5 and the game has really taken off. The framerate seems to be better (slightly), the levels are more interesting (wow @ the Chapter 5 vista), and the story seems to be heading in the right direction (but I think I can guess where it's all going).
The longevity of the game is what's really nice, too...I definitely appreciate the meaty singleplayer experience.
Things that have annoyed/frustrated me so far:
1.) That stupid girl informing me every 3 minutes that I need to find three dark crystals (this while I'm being mauled by 3 giant Lycans--THANKS, SWEETHEART!)
2.) Zobek telling me, rather assertively, that we need to block the holes in the cemetery so the ghouls don't keep coming in, only to act in a nonchalant manner when I ask him to help push the statue. "As you wish," he says as he takes his sweet ass time doing so.
3.) Chupacabras - STUPID. LAME. RETARDED. POINTLESS. DUMB. CRAPPY VOICEWORK. WHY.
4.) Cornell - he's not as bad as everyone makes him out to be, but he's still tough--and at a point in the game that just doesn't make sense.
5.) The second titan fight - it's not hard but the timing on reversing the thrown rock is crap. Don't like it at all.
6. Monster-riding. It's used way too much and it's not that cool.
brandonh83
Banned
100.61% game completion @ 37 hours :lol
Still have several trials and most of the game to do on Paladin. Guess this bitch goes up to 110%
Still have several trials and most of the game to do on Paladin. Guess this bitch goes up to 110%
SlasherJPC
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brandonh83 said:
Is there an in game counter or are you just counting yourself? I ask cause I couldn't find one.
brandonh83
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slasher_thrasher21 said:
The info appears when you idle on your saved data icon from the XMB.
And the
music box
GeorgioCostanzaX
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KdoubleA said:
I can only base this off the demo since I haven't received my copy yet but you're dead on. I'd say it has quite a bit in common with all the Castlevanias prior to Symphony of the Night and I always preferred that style anyway: Dracula X and Super Castlevania IV are tied in my book as my favorites in the series although I do like Symphony and some of the DS entries.
Metroid Vania was getting way too derivative in my opinion.
SlasherJPC
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brandonh83 said:
Thanks Brandon!
God I love this game and I'm still only on Chapter 5... HELL YEAH!!!! Love how everyone says it just gets better and better!
TheKaeptain
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You get a trophy for getting a 110%brandonh83 said:
I just can't make up my mind on which version to get. I was going to get it for PS3 but then I heard about the save corruptions. Then I read about the 360 version and apparently there's a recurring issue about the game freezing for a second every time you kill an enemy. Generally framerate seems to be better on PS3 too. Maybe my best bet is to get it on PS3 and backup after every play session.
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