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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow |OT| The MercurySteam has Vanquished the Horrible Night
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thetrin said:
I'm not for certain, but after beating it on Knight and doing challenges on Squire, I feel like I'm getting less XP.
thetrin said:
Yeah man, I absolutely love Darksiders as well! Demon's Souls I really liked a lot, but again I had things come up and I couldn't keep with it. I guess my lack of desire to go back to it for now is that I'll have to start over. I know I don't really have to, but I like playing games from beginning to end while I'm into them.
brandonh83
Banned
[Nintex] said:
:lol :lol :lol awesome reply.
RavenFox said:
No pics can change what he's talking about. Having seen areas both early and late in action in front of my eyes, he's undoubtedly right. Castlevania has abysmal image quality, jagged edges and nasty, noisy look that undermines all its art direction consistently.
Again, to avoid needless NUH-UH-ing, we're obviously not talking about whether you on a personal basis can overlook these issues. We know, we know... the framerate can be 2fps and the jaggies could cut your eyelids and you'll keep playing, we're just saying the problems are factually there.
SlasherJPC
Banned
So just wondering, why the hell do you think chapter 2 was designed with so many more levels then the rest of the chapters. Just seems a bit odd. Maybe they couldn't figure out a way to split that chapter up and make an additional chapter? Just odd being such a early part of the game with such a huge ammount of levels compared to later.
The Bookerman
Member
How the hell can I find that first
There's no visual hint to where he is?
Chupacabra in the fortress
There's no visual hint to where he is?
The Bookerman
Member
LiK said:
you're not helping.
The Bookerman
Member
Amir0x said:
I'm on a platform where he seems to be... it's a statue though that looks like it? Should I look some more?
Ricker said:
Really, and we have a technical discussion thread for this, but I think Castlevania's graphics are one of the most overrated pieces about the game. It really is a hugely mixed bag. It's got a wide variety of locations, but the quality of the visuals vary equally with locale. Texture quality can be good, or it can be terrible. The entire game is awash with atrocious image quality, just gross looking sloppy noise and jaggies. The framerate is just catastrophically bad.
Yes, the art direction is nice but there is no way the game isn't being held back by what it does wrong. I can articulate why this is quite easily, so while it doesn't impact you (and others here) at the same level, to act shocked that others DO find issue with the games many, many visual flaws is a bit silly.
The Bookerman said:
Did he
steal your gear yet?
Amir0x said:
I absolutely love the look of the game overall, but I agree on a lot of your points. Many textures come across as overly noisy, a lot of ground textures in particular. The biggest offender of being an eyesore to me is the 1 bit alpha mapping used on the low resolution twigs, branches, plants, foliage, etc. It's passable when simply moving around quickly, but there is no doubt if you stop to look at it, or by chance it gets stuck up close in camera view, it's really distracting and not very conducive to a higher grade of image quality.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Amir0x said:
Yeah I just completed that chapter last night. Though got stuck on a part and looked up a guide and was surprised to see the further chapters with alot less levels. Guess it really doesn't matter though depending on the length of the levels.
~Devil Trigger~
In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
wow
second titan is the most unfun thing i do this year, seriously, who approved this shit
second titan is the most unfun thing i do this year, seriously, who approved this shit
~Devil Trigger~ said:
it's just a blatant SotC rip. It requires no skill and virtually no thought. I'm just amused they decided to do this shit more than once in the game. I mean really, one disgustingly obvious homage isn't enough, you need TWO? It's not like they managed to figure out why SotC was actually fun either in the process :lol
thetrin
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~Devil Trigger~ said:
It's terrible because the game does a pretty bad job of eliciting exactly how you get on the boss (and then subsequently avoid its attempts to smack you off its body), especially when what you're SUPPOSED to do is the EXACT opposite of what you did on the last titan.
"Choose your time to strike" is terrible direction. It implies that you have to wait for the titan to stop throwing rocks, and then move into latch onto something that maybe you don't see until you're very close to it. Then you get close and she says "GET AWAY FROM IT GABRIEL!"
At that point, you're frustrated because the titan doesn't seem to be doing anything particularly dangerous when you're "close-ish", but will murder you if you're smack dab next to it.
All said and done, the Stone Titan is pretty badly designed.
Amir0x said:
The titans in general suffer from something that SOME of the platforming suffers from: a total inability to communicate direction visually (other than the hamfisted glowing ledges).
i think one think SotC did so amazingly was communicate very clearly, early on, what surfaces you can and cannot hold on to. Granted, it reinforces this over and over again throughout the entire game until it becomes second nature. Not only are titan surfaces not consistent between fights, but you only face them once every 3-4 chapters.
WhenGlix said:Finished Chapter 8 this morning.
Holy hell, this game just keeps getting better and better and better.
Truth time -If I were Gabe might have been too tempted by those tits to kill her
she transformed, I yelled out loud "Oh god, not attracted to you at all now! Very okay with killing you!
thetrin said:
That shit was horrible. Every time I broke a symbol I saw the huge hand coming, climbed back a bit and waited until it smacked down. Saw it glowing, tried grabbing it with the whip... nothing happened. Tried climbing as close as possible and grab it... nothing happened. After a few seconds he swiped me off automatically and I had to climb up again. I never figured that shit out and I was so pissed that I basically had to redo the whole boss after every symbol.
thetrin said:
If they didn't limit the move set to what you should be doing while scaling walls or if they removed the glow on certain ledges then there would be way to much trial and error even for me. I think tightening up the design so that you're move set is never limited but you have a clearer idea of what you should be doing is the right way to go. That being said, I really do enjoy the wall scaling and whip swinging in the game. It's one of my favorite aspects.
nelsonroyale
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Glix said:Finished Chapter 8 this morning.
Holy hell, this game just keeps getting better and better and better.
Truth time -If I were Gabe might have been too tempted by those tits to kill her
When I saw her in the vids I thought she had pretty nerdy nun aesthetic...but in the game she is definitely pleasing to the eye...far more so than his wife actually. But I suppose if you average across both her forms, then his wife definitely takes the cup cake...although not the cup size
RedAssedApe
Banned
I just beat the first Titan on Knight difficulty. Can you actually beat this boss without being smacked off a few times or did I completely miss some visual cue from the second rune on how to avoid his stupid hand? :lol
Fimbulvetr
Member
henhowc said:
Thanks to the camera angles you can actually be smacked off pretty often by the hand. It relies on blatant memorization.
Fimbulvetr
Member
LiK said:
"GIANT HAND FROM OFFSCREEN! Have fun waiting for the slow lumbering giant to get in position so you can finally climb it again. lololol"
How joyous.
Blast Processing
Member
Fimbulvetr said:
I thought those hand attacks were telegraphed fairly obviously by the way the camera shifts before they happen, specifically for the ones on the titan's back and temple.
Fimbulvetr
Member
Blast Processing said:
Some of them, yeah. Others? They somehow managed to make the prompt for a giant attack subtle.
canadian crowe
Member
This game gets amazing at chapter 7. I feel like they could have started it at chapter 6 and the game would have been better off for it.
canadian crowe
Member
I actually liked chapter 2 for some reason. It's just that the first half feels like a lord of the rings game.LiK said:
Fimbulvetr
Member
LiK said:
The titans usually began moving before the camera pans too.
They're just terribly mediocre fights in an otherwise okay game.
SoTC had the benefit of letting you view a colossus' full body unless you were on it, in which case your grip meter was what you should be paying attention to.
canadian crowe
Member
I actually feel like the game didn't do a good enough job telling me my moves. I had
No idea how to do a ground point until chapter 6.
No idea how to do a ground point until chapter 6.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Blast Processing said:
I had no trouble dodging the hands when I was running along the titan's arm but when you're gripping his chest, back, and head, are you supposed to use the same direction+ A button mechanic? Maybe I was confused because there was no explicit screen prompt for this like there was for everything else?
RedAssedApe
Banned
LiK said:
Ah ic. I guess I made it harder than it is. I got smacked off three different times but was able to survive. :lol
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