I can assure you that my posts are tempered intersection. You might note that my whole post started with how much I like Pfil. She's a nice girl and a passionate cv fan. I think very highly of her.
With all do respect I find it offensive for Pfil to imply that fans of LOS know nothing about castlevania. THAT is a BS comment to make, and I stand by what I wrote. I couldn't care less to know what information you wish to get out of my posts Intersection.
I can assure you that LOS was made to appeal to CV fans. I experienced a genuine cv out of it and noticed nods to Cv4 as well as other games. You're not going to convince me that LOS was developed without CV fans in mind. That idea is absurd.
And I didn't start the 'I've been here longer than you argument". Pfil said that LOS fans know nothing about older cv games. I was merely citing myself as proof that that statement is false and again, presumptuous.
And just so you know, I am a fan of many IGA games, so please don't assume that I am not simply because I also enjoy LOS.
By going on to a LOS sequel thread, and doing nothing but bash the games, and mock the development team, you are bound to start to annoy some people.
And by the way, I thought about calling myself rude, and then I thought better of it.
*Sigh*
Ordinarily, I'd never get into discussions like this one. Especially on a forum like this, I try to avoid conflict to the best of my abilities -- and I expect others to follow suit... That's probably why I posted in the first place. But, in any case, I shouldn't have. You caught me in a particularly bad mood; I saw red.
Yet some of my remarks still hold true: I may be of of the last to think so nowadays, but I see a difference between "I don't agree at all", or "that's inaccurate", and "there's so much bs in this post". I see a difference between "it lacks foresight" and "it's presumptuous and downright stupid". I see a difference between "that isn't appropriate here" and "that's rude". You probably meant as much, and I must have overreacted; but if I could be allowed to give any advice, I'd ask you to try to avoid unnecessarily inflaming a discussion by keeping your expressions tame. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not trying to impose upon you what I feel you should or shouldn't be writing. Yet I feel that misunderstandings such as these could easily be avoided if we could all avoid making our posts feel more aggressive than they actually are...
But for the moment, act as if I'd never posted beforehand. It doesn't help anything, and I should have realized that.
I'll share a few of my thoughts now, though:
- I still don't think LoS was conceived entirely with classic CV fans in mind. Cox's intentions were far from being a mystery: he had intended, among other things, to bring Castlevania into the mainstream market. And that would involve, he noted,
unconventional choices.
- I'm perfectly convinced that many, long-time fans were brought back to the series with LoS; but you can't deny that many more were attracted to the MercurySteam's new blockbuster reboot without exactly knowing much of the series' heritage. I know there to be many new LoS-crazed fans who don't hold Castlevania's past games in particularly high regard.
But that isn't, of course, true for all of LoS's fans (that'd include me
). Far from it.