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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Akumajou Dracula: The Arcade

« Last post by Abnormal Freak on Yesterday at 11:35:54 AM »

Does FB hotlinking work? I dunno, but I got to play these beauts last weekend and aim to do so again tomorrow.





I'd be super down for playing The Arcade if anybody ever gets it.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Did someone cast Torpor?

« Last post by VladOfWallachia on July 30, 2021, 09:11:32 AM »

I joined these forums only a few years ago, long after Konami abandoned the series, but the reason I started posting here to begin with is because I use to frequent this site a lot as a kid. The turning point for me as a Castlevania fan was when I finally tried Super Castlevania IV for the first time. I loved that game so much I wanted to delve deep into the rest of the series, and this website was the best source of information. I wouldn't post here but I would occasionally lurk, and I do remember seeing how active the community was back in those days. I also remember how frequent page updates were, as new Castlevania games were coming out consistently. This site still remains my favorite source of information on the series, but like everyone has mentioned here, this place was so active because there was so much to look forward to and talk about back in those days.

The same thing happened to one of my other favorite fan sites, Shining Force Central. It was a thriving, active, website with a huge forum community, but pretty much everything went straight downhill as soon as Camelot stopped working with Sega and the Shining series morphed into something completely unrecognizable to the fans of the series. I consider Shining Force II to be my favorite game ever, so I frequented that community very often, and I have a lot of good memories of those times, but Shining Force as I knew it is long dead. I actually tried the demo for Shining Resonance on the Switch and all it did was remind me of how the Shining name has been repurposed to sell games that have zero relation in any way to the classic Shining games.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Did someone cast Torpor?

« Last post by nokundhi on July 30, 2021, 07:41:03 AM »

There's not much to discuss about Castlevania proper other than yet another season of the series. Konami isn't doing much to keep the series relevant these days, which is why you're seeing this influx of indie games that scratch a similar itch like COTM for the classic titles and too many exploration platformers to count.

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Off Topic / I'm actually looking forward to this.

« Last post by X on July 29, 2021, 12:38:00 AM »

After seeing the two official trailers I am actually looking forward to watching the next 'True' installment of Ghostbusters.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZFCF--uRY

Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn2ISYrNmQY

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Did someone cast Torpor?

« Last post by Foffy on July 28, 2021, 06:26:57 PM »

We only had Bloodstained, the Netflix show, and mobile games to keep the deeper vania community active here, so when a sequel to Bloodstained is a way's away, and the mobile vania front appears to be double dead, there's not much to talk about. We'll probably see the Richter Netflix arc before anything else, and we don't got much to go on with that either.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Did someone cast Torpor?

« Last post by X on July 28, 2021, 09:36:48 AM »

I honestly prefer museums over the whole social media mess that is Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Museums like this have a refinement of sorts while the aforementioned social media sites are now a breeding ground of all that human garbage that's been making the rounds lately. Here, things are a lot more controlled and that is a good thing. No real luck with that on other media platforms, and if it is they are not doing a good enough job of it.

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Did someone cast Torpor?

« Last post by AlexCalvo on July 27, 2021, 07:32:55 PM »

Forums are a relic of the earl 2000's internet. I remember when this place was really something to see. I'm talking dozens of posts a day. It's been a long dwindle, but people just prefer Facebook groups, reddit, and twitter these days. This place is almost like a museum.

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Fan Stuff / Re: Carpathian Night - Steam Demo now available!

« Last post by VladOfWallachia on July 27, 2021, 11:31:48 AM »

The Carpathian Night Kickstarter is almost ready to launch! Follow the link below and click on the "Notify Me" button to be reminded when the campaign launches in early August!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cesarhernandez/carpathian-night

This is a huge milestone for us, and this community has helped get us this far! I hope you consider supporting this project to help make it the best Classicvania revival it can possibly be. Together, we can continue the great vampire hunting tradition!

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Did someone cast Torpor?

« Last post by crisis on July 27, 2021, 09:48:48 AM »

Maybe I could write some new fanfics to keep it alive?

Will you include illustrations?

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General Castlevania Discussion / Re: Did someone cast Torpor?

« Last post by Super Waffle on July 26, 2021, 11:03:48 PM »

Maybe I could write some new fanfics to keep it alive?