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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow |OT| The MercurySteam has Vanquished the Horrible Night
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brandonh83
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jett said:
they're really easy, once you learn the ropes the titan battles are extremely easy and fast to take down. So fast, in fact, the first titan trial is to take it down in one minute and thirty seconds :lol
Combos flow nicely for me. PS3 version, combining the a normal attack combo, ending with the hold square attack, continuing with a few more after that, and maybe a launcher or two.
Gabriel moves fast enough to out run/dodge enemies when surrounded.
When the greater werewolves rear back a little, they ground pound. Either that, or at the end of a 2 swing attack.
Gabriel moves fast enough to out run/dodge enemies when surrounded.
When the greater werewolves rear back a little, they ground pound. Either that, or at the end of a 2 swing attack.
black_vegeta
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Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
Smart guy I see?
I quoted the wrong post, anyways...have your milk n' cookies, then have mommy and daddy tuck you into bed. Sell your copy and never look back scrub.
Fimbulvetr
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Teknoman said:
I think he means it was a badly designed rip-off.
brandonh83
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_tetsuo_ said:
what a horrible night...
SixStringPsycho
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But...but... it says it has been Vanquishedbrandonh83 said:
Fimbulvetr
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d0c_zaius said:
So was the Space Harrier level in Bayonetta, it was preeeeeetty not good though.
ArachosiA 78
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I played up until close to the end of Ch 2 yesterday. Can't wait to get past Ch 2 where the game supposedly gets a lot better, because so far it's just okay. Does not feel like Castlevania to me, but the combat is pretty good. Also, I have not experienced any detectable framerate drops. Apprently I have a magical version or I am blind, but the game looks very smooth to my eyes.
I have my Xbox hooked up via component cables and therefore set at 720p. I wonder if this has any effect on the framerate, because I also didn't notice any major problems with Reach (just a few times in the campaign). I've tried hooking it up with HDMI, but the difference in picture quality was essentialy impossible to see (mayeb because my TV is only "42). So for anyone who is having problems with the framerate, you might want to try switching to component cables...it's just a theory I have, and it's not based on any kind of science, but it's worth a shot if it really bothers you that much.
I have my Xbox hooked up via component cables and therefore set at 720p. I wonder if this has any effect on the framerate, because I also didn't notice any major problems with Reach (just a few times in the campaign). I've tried hooking it up with HDMI, but the difference in picture quality was essentialy impossible to see (mayeb because my TV is only "42). So for anyone who is having problems with the framerate, you might want to try switching to component cables...it's just a theory I have, and it's not based on any kind of science, but it's worth a shot if it really bothers you that much.
Just finished Enslaved, so jumped into this. (Xbox 360 version)
So far so good. Visuals are incredible, no problems with framerate yet (though I'm really early), music and voice acting is great too
Is like a mix of God of War, with Shadow of the Colossus and Van Helsing. :lol
So far so good. Visuals are incredible, no problems with framerate yet (though I'm really early), music and voice acting is great too
Is like a mix of God of War, with Shadow of the Colossus and Van Helsing. :lol
Blast Processing
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Just finished chapter 6 on knight. Save file puts me at almost 14 hours! Are the later chapters about the same length?
iconoclast
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yeah, i just did that (with two seconds to spare). took a while to beat it though since your meters drain so fast on paladin.Papercuts said:
there's another trial afterward where you have to break 100 objects that's giving me some trouble. most i got was 80 something right before the gate you have to crank. anyone got some protips?
edit: got it. didn't realize you could jump over the side and go around instead of cranking the door. invisible walls :|
God fucking damn.
I'll tell you...my experience with the Castlevania series is probably not as deep as most people's. I played Castlevania I, II, and III on NES and Super Castlevania IV and Dracula X on SNES. I also played the steaming pile of shit that was Castlevania 64 and swore off 3D Castlevania games for good. I also got down with Symphony of the Night on XBLA.
When I saw this game was going to be 3D, I wrote it off almost immediately. My friend talked me into watching the trailers and other things prior to release and I ended up preordering (just the regular edition, even though the box art is a turd) and OMFG.
This game is fucking great. I hate God of War and Dante's Inferno/whatever style games, perhaps it's the Castlevania lore that grabs hold of me, but this is fucking excellent. This game rivals Uncharted 2 in graphical beauty in my eyes, and the combos aren't stupidly complex (looking at you, SotN), and the story is GREAT and the narration by Patrick "but I've already seen everything" Stewart is a fucking gold mine.
Nomnomnom. I can't get enough. I'm at Chapter 6, and I don't want it to end. I hope for DLC, but I doubt it will come. But holy ffffuu....I'm sorry, Red Dead Redemption, but get the fuck outta the way. My new GotY has arrived and it's got Belmont all up in it.
I'll tell you...my experience with the Castlevania series is probably not as deep as most people's. I played Castlevania I, II, and III on NES and Super Castlevania IV and Dracula X on SNES. I also played the steaming pile of shit that was Castlevania 64 and swore off 3D Castlevania games for good. I also got down with Symphony of the Night on XBLA.
When I saw this game was going to be 3D, I wrote it off almost immediately. My friend talked me into watching the trailers and other things prior to release and I ended up preordering (just the regular edition, even though the box art is a turd) and OMFG.
This game is fucking great. I hate God of War and Dante's Inferno/whatever style games, perhaps it's the Castlevania lore that grabs hold of me, but this is fucking excellent. This game rivals Uncharted 2 in graphical beauty in my eyes, and the combos aren't stupidly complex (looking at you, SotN), and the story is GREAT and the narration by Patrick "but I've already seen everything" Stewart is a fucking gold mine.
Nomnomnom. I can't get enough. I'm at Chapter 6, and I don't want it to end. I hope for DLC, but I doubt it will come. But holy ffffuu....I'm sorry, Red Dead Redemption, but get the fuck outta the way. My new GotY has arrived and it's got Belmont all up in it.
brandonh83
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andymcc said:
Are you talking about the titan battles? I cannot recall one section of this game having a longer, more drawn out sequence of terribleness than the Space Harrier levels in Bayonetta.
Fimbulvetr
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brandonh83 said:
There was only one Space Harrier level.
ScrabbleBanshee
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Stampy said:
I can see it being more difficult if you don't get most of the life/light/shadow upgrades, then again, if you're playing through on normal or easy, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to get through the game without any of them and I'm sure that some crazy mofo out there is going to record a no upgrades paladin playthrough eventually.
Scythesurge
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I try to pretend those two levels don't exist, but yeah those were really bad levels in an otherwise excellent game.Y2Kev said:
Fimbulvetr
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ezekial45 said:
Make a backup save.
Fimbulvetr
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ezekial45 said:
A flash drive maybe?
brandonh83
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I backed up my save on both an SD card and memory card. No way in hell am I going to redo some of this shit.
Only a few stages to beat on Paladin, and the Platinum is mine!
Only a few stages to beat on Paladin, and the Platinum is mine!
thetrin
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jett said:
You don't have to stop to collect orbs. Just click the corresponding stick once and keep fighting. It's like, half a second. You don't have to hold down the button like in Onimusha.
Blast Processing said:
Afaik, Chapter 2 is the longest one in the game, at 7 levels. The last 3-4 chapters are relatively short. Chapter six isn't necessarily the halfway point.
Fimbulvetr said:
I have a 100GB MyBook attached to my PS3 at all times for exactly this purpose. (also, it was a god send for backing up my PS3 when I changed hard drives)
SlasherJPC
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Horsebite said:
Just gotta say, your mirror my thoughts exactly. My favorite Castlevanias were the originals with IV being my absolute favorite. I enjoyed SOTN and the few that followed in its footsteps on the gba but I started growing extremely tiring of that style. Now this comes out, I'm on chapter 6 as well and Lords of Shadow is ranking up there with my fav and becoming one of my favorite games of all time. Its the game that just keeps on giving, the farther I get the more in love with it I become... Can't wait to play more!
SlasherJPC
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thetrin said:
Nice... well I've thought chapters 3, 4,5, and now 6 have done a good job of still feeling very Castlevania like. The first and second chapters, not so much. So would you say the chapters after 8 seem to go back more towards the feeling of chapters 1 and 2?
â Narayan
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Copy is coming in today. Excitement!
brandonh83
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Platinum'd at 43 hours. 
My game of the gen so far without question, possibly my 2nd favorite game of all time right under Chrono Trigger. High praise, but that's my experience with this title.
My game of the gen so far without question, possibly my 2nd favorite game of all time right under Chrono Trigger. High praise, but that's my experience with this title.
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