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Title: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: DoctaMario on February 24, 2011, 01:27:39 AM
Not which is your favorite, which one do you own for free?

I've one-lifed Castlevania and Simon's Quest, but I feel like I'm the best at DXC/Rondo. I know those games so well that I can see stuff coming before it gets to me. Love that!those games!
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Grim_Creeper on February 24, 2011, 02:03:21 AM
I've zero-hitted all the way through symphony of the night and beaten Lament of innocence in less than four hours. I've also beaten (years ago), Castlevania (just plain old castlevania) in under 50 minutes.

Note - Zero hitted means that except for the hit you take when Death takes all your stuff, (which does use the hit animation and therefore does count as a hit), you take NO DAMAGE AT ALL PERIOD.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Nagumo on February 24, 2011, 02:15:15 AM
I've one lifed Castlevania III in all possible scenarios once. That was pretty insane.   :-X
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on February 24, 2011, 06:39:09 AM
I've 1-Life Completed:
Castlevania
Simon's Quest
Dracula's Curse (with all people including Trevor alone)
Super Castlevania IV
...and I think Bloodlines and DraculaXX once.

Metroidvanias don't count as "1-life" since there's saves & stuff, but I've completed most of them at least at one point, without dying.

There's always some cheapo death in DXC/Rondo somewhere, either 'cuz I forgot how to do something or some random enemy knocks me into a lake, though I may have one-lifed Rondo.
I almost always die at some point in the 64 titles, and I cannot even play the beginning stages of the PS2 titles without randomly save/quitting out of boredom.

I would say the Castlevania game I'm absolutely best at... is Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: danceofgold on February 24, 2011, 06:47:54 AM
omg you people one-life Dracula's Curse...shit...
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Dark Nemesis on February 24, 2011, 07:14:35 AM
I've 1-Life Completed:

Super Castlevania IV
Castlevania Adventure
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: VampirehunterB on February 24, 2011, 07:45:54 AM
best at super Cv IV, vampires kiss and AoS
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Gecko on February 24, 2011, 08:31:55 AM
Castlevania 4 for me. In fact, I love the environments and music so much that I play it(without dying)up until the point where I get to the castle if I feel like chilling out. I don't really have to focus on it up to that point so it's quite therapeutic.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Chernabogue on February 24, 2011, 09:23:17 AM
I finished Portrait of Ruin at 1000%, including having at least one item/weapon/spell/etc. of every genre, mastering every subweapon and completing every guide. Plus making awesome records for the Boss Rush mode.

OoE and DoS were also 100% completed!
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: VeteranVk on February 24, 2011, 11:07:42 AM
I've 1lifed CVIII & CVIV, SotN and HoD (dissonance) the first day it was released. I've done CV as well but I'm not really counting that because of the holy water spam @ Death.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Asgardwolf on February 24, 2011, 12:32:44 PM
Simon's Quest, CVIV, CVLOD, CVLOS and All the metroidvanias, specially SOTN...
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Harrycombs on February 24, 2011, 12:54:45 PM
I think I one-lifed DXC at some time or another, but thats not really anything to brag about. I can reach Dracula in CV1 on one life but I haven't beaten him with it (ironically, letting yourself die against Dracula can actually let you get a significantly higher score by throwing crosses at his fireballs until you run out of hearts, and then kill yourself, you can get 100,000s of points on him alone if you do it enough).
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Munchy on February 24, 2011, 04:39:13 PM
I've 1CC'd Castlevania 1, but haven't been able to in CV4 for some odd reason.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Odile Kuronuma on February 24, 2011, 05:28:43 PM
SOTN. got all items weapons familiars etc . That was on my original save file but i have lost it :(. I also beat the game with Maria on the Saturn port. not a big fan of Richter tbh.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: X on February 24, 2011, 05:56:34 PM
On a good day I can pretty much get through all the classicvania games with little to no trouble at all. On a bad day, I'd curse and swear till I finished them. Ahhh... good times.

-X
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Lisa Fahrenheit on February 25, 2011, 04:54:36 AM
I am just...embarrassingly bad at the earlier games. Even the remakes, like Dracula X Chronicles, hate me so badly. I'm pretty good at Symphony and the Sorrow series (except for that stupid number block room in...was it Dawn?), I was decent at Lament, okay with Curse... Portrait was so fun but it's been so long since I played it that I can't remember how good I was. Harmony of Dissonance beat me up, but I finished and adored it. I'm still stuck in Order of Ecclesia -- I know what I need to do, but I'm too frustrated to actually do it.

I want to go back and beat the earlier games, but they make me want to turn my consoles into confetti D: I don't see how you guys do it.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Kale on February 25, 2011, 05:20:42 AM
ive one life sotn, no saving.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: X on February 25, 2011, 11:28:16 AM
I don't see how you guys do it.

I curse and swear.  ;) But seriously, to some, the games can be a real b***h to get through. Just persevere and you should do fine. You don't have to be a wizzard at it, lord knows I'm not. But just do what you can and try having fun along the way.

-X
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Harrycombs on February 25, 2011, 08:05:47 PM
I want to go back and beat the earlier games, but they make me want to turn my consoles into confetti D: I don't see how you guys do it.

The more you play them, the better you get and the more you appreciate them  ;) Just keep at it and you'll be able to get through them just fine eventually.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Grim_Creeper on February 25, 2011, 08:22:45 PM
Games in that time period had fixed pattern AIs. Take the Mummy men for example. Castlevania 1, third boss.

If you count the number of steps each takes before it launches projectiles, you'll see that the numbers are related. Then you can calculate and predict when the Mummy Men will stop, thus allowing you to dodge when needed and damage when possible.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: GuyStarwind on February 25, 2011, 10:25:16 PM
I'm best at DXC. Weird thing is though it's just the DXC version of Rondo and not the original. I'm also pretty good at CV1.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: X on February 25, 2011, 11:31:00 PM
If you count the number of steps each takes before it launches projectiles, you'll see that the numbers are related. Then you can calculate and predict when the Mummy Men will stop, thus allowing you to dodge when needed and damage when possible.

Or you can just smoke'm using holy water and the triple shot upgrade.  ;)

-X
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Chernabogue on February 26, 2011, 12:17:31 AM
The Creature is the most horrible boss ever, I always lost a lot of lives against him...
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: JR on February 26, 2011, 02:08:49 AM
omg you people one-life Dracula's Curse...shit...

Haha...my thoughts exactly.

I'd call myself competent but not extremely great at CV games. I'd be lucky to beat the original Castlevania in about 70-80 minutes or so. Come to think of it, I think the only games I consistently try to perfect are the Contra games.

But I'd say I'm best at either Bloodlines or LoI, and that's only because I've beaten both on the hardest difficulties, I guess.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: cecil-kain on February 26, 2011, 09:03:06 AM
My God, the E-Penis in this thread is staggering!  I mean, 1-lifing all 4 scenarios of Castlevania 3?  Get real.  How can you enjoy the game if your ego gets deflated by *gasp* getting hit *GASP* dying **GGAAAAASSSSP!**  continuing from game over.  Picture this --insanely anal gamer 1-lifes all the way through Castlevania 3 to the final stage, suddenly they get distracted by an untimely hiccup and bat knocks them off the swinging pendellum into --bottomless DEATH!  Suddenly their 1-life quest is ruined and they wasted a good hour of their life --only to hit the reset button and try again.  I mean, really?  Gaming is supposed to be a leisure activity, not an obsession.  If you're really that obsessive about what you're playing, you need to get a job as a gamer tester --at least you'll be paid for nickling and diming the fuck out of the whole experience.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: crisis on February 26, 2011, 09:48:32 AM
Quote from: cecil-kain
My God, the E-Penis in this thread is staggering!  I mean, 1-lifing all 4 scenarios of Castlevania 3?  Get real.  How can you enjoy the game if your ego gets deflated by *gasp* getting hit *GASP* dying **GGAAAAASSSSP!**  continuing from game over.  Picture this --insanely anal gamer 1-lifes all the way through Castlevania 3 to the final stage, suddenly they get distracted by an untimely hiccup and bat knocks them off the swinging pendellum into --bottomless DEATH!  Suddenly their 1-life quest is ruined and they wasted a good hour of their life --only to hit the reset button and try again.  I mean, really?  Gaming is supposed to be a leisure activity, not an obsession.  If you're really that obsessive about what you're playing, you need to get a job as a gamer tester --at least you'll be paid for nickling and diming the fuck out of the whole experience.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v119/c0mbat/laugh.gif)

most people that make such über-claims are prolly lying their asses off anyway. "i can beat most cv games on 1 life w/o getting hit" yeah ok.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: VeteranVk on February 26, 2011, 09:48:51 AM
Im sure most of you know that the holy water is the most broken weapon in CV1 & 3. Has anybody here ever 1lifed CV1 with out spamming the holy water? I sure as hell can't I mean yeah, I can get through it without it but it usually does take more than 1 life for me.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Nagumo on February 26, 2011, 10:52:30 AM
think I only managed to do that with Castlevania III was because at first I couldn't beat the game without save states. But I didn't want to feel like a total hax. So I decided to only save at the beginning of each stage (in order to keep my sub-weapons and whip upgrades) and said to myself that I had start there again if I died. It's a very good way to practice the stages and learn all the patterns. I kind off build it up from there and then it really isn't that hard.

I'm sorry if that upsets anyone. l-lol   
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Munchy on February 26, 2011, 12:55:37 PM
Im sure most of you know that the holy water is the most broken weapon in CV1 & 3. Has anybody here ever 1lifed CV1 with out spamming the holy water? I sure as hell can't I mean yeah, I can get through it without it but it usually does take more than 1 life for me.

I don't think I've 1 lifed CV1, much less beaten it without the aid of holy water. I know there was one time where I beat Frankenstein pretty flawlessly without the holy water, but Death, man... He's just a jerk if you don't have it.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Jorge D. Fuentes on February 26, 2011, 01:58:50 PM
I wasn't intending to impress... or to come off as Arrogant.
But you do gotta remember, I've been playing Castlevania III since 1990.  That's 20 years of experience with the game (and counting).  Give Trevor his TripleShot HolyWater, give Grant a triple Axe, Sypha uses the Lightning Bolt books (unless you decide to get the FlameTongue Book near the end 'cuz the Lightning Bolts don't seem to like targetting Dracula's Weak Spot), and give Alucard a PocketWatch.

It's toughest to take Alucard's Path, but it's not impossible.
I do get hit, but I seldom die.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Grim_Creeper on February 26, 2011, 02:28:29 PM
My God, the E-Penis in this thread is staggering!  I mean, 1-lifing all 4 scenarios of Castlevania 3?  Get real.  How can you enjoy the game if your ego gets deflated by *gasp* getting hit *GASP* dying **GGAAAAASSSSP!**  continuing from game over.  Picture this --insanely anal gamer 1-lifes all the way through Castlevania 3 to the final stage, suddenly they get distracted by an untimely hiccup and bat knocks them off the swinging pendellum into --bottomless DEATH!  Suddenly their 1-life quest is ruined and they wasted a good hour of their life --only to hit the reset button and try again.  I mean, really?  Gaming is supposed to be a leisure activity, not an obsession.  If you're really that obsessive about what you're playing, you need to get a job as a gamer tester --at least you'll be paid for nickling and diming the fuck out of the whole experience.

I find your comment to be blatantly offensive and clearly meant to be offensive. Gaming for me IS a leisure activity, but when you have had a game for over a decade and have played it off and on over that whole time period, you WILL be -able- to legitimately say what I said and legitimately do what I did. I'm not going to get into an argument with you. I'm simply setting the record straight regarding my skill level. I don't care about you enough to get into an argument with you and I'm not going to. If you decide to be a jerk to me regarding my comment here, I am going to report you. Right then, right there. So count this as a warning.

Your talking to someone who has been playing video games for over 20 years and knows wtf their talking about. If I had it on an emulator on my computer I would record and post the video of me doing what I said I could do. Its not about E-penis. I don't even like e-penis, I'm a guy and I'm not gay. All I did was make a clear statement regarding my skill level in three games.

Regarding your comment, Crises, yes, many people who claim such ARE lying their asses off, BUT, invariably, a small number of people who make those claims make them because they can actually DO it.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Nagumo on February 26, 2011, 02:36:29 PM
I actually don't mind if people feed my massive ego. Why else would I be posting in this thread, yo.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: JiPrime on February 26, 2011, 02:38:23 PM
My God, the E-Penis in this thread is staggering!  I mean, 1-lifing all 4 scenarios of Castlevania 3?  Get real.  How can you enjoy the game if your ego gets deflated by *gasp* getting hit *GASP* dying **GGAAAAASSSSP!**  continuing from game over.  Picture this --insanely anal gamer 1-lifes all the way through Castlevania 3 to the final stage, suddenly they get distracted by an untimely hiccup and bat knocks them off the swinging pendellum into --bottomless DEATH!  Suddenly their 1-life quest is ruined and they wasted a good hour of their life --only to hit the reset button and try again.  I mean, really?  Gaming is supposed to be a leisure activity, not an obsession.  If you're really that obsessive about what you're playing, you need to get a job as a gamer tester --at least you'll be paid for nickling and diming the fuck out of the whole experience.

I can understand where you are coming from, but let's keep it civil here.

I for one, would never understand their obsessiveness over beating the game with self-given handicaps, but ok, if you're having fun with it, there is no problem here.

And this is coming from experience, being a game tester is no joke.

Try playing horribly designed, bug ridden games that are NOT Castlevania without stopping.

It drives you mad to the whole new level.

And back to the topic here: which Castlevania game that I am the best at?

Truthfully, none. There weren't a single Castlevania game that I have beaten without Action Replay.

Inb4 hatred. massive elitism, and e-stones hurled at me from all corners of the web. ;_;
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: A-Yty on February 26, 2011, 03:03:47 PM
I think I'm at my best playing Super Castlevania IV. The controls just feel really smooth and I'm "at home" with the ClassicVania gameplay.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: VeteranVk on February 26, 2011, 03:12:06 PM
Well yeah, Im not trying to brag either, but if you've been playing Castlevania since Konami started grinding them out, you do start looking for ways to challenge yourself. I tend to do this even in a list of modern games, not just Vanias. Maybe not particularly 1 life scenario's but I may limit my use-item capping, neglect to pick up stat-boost items, or limit use of types weaponry. Castlevania happens to be versatile enough that you can play them in any style or which-way you want to. Probably why I keep coming back to them.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: X on February 26, 2011, 03:20:17 PM
Well yeah, Im not trying to brag either, but if you've been playing Castlevania since Konami started grinding them out, you do start looking for ways to challenge yourself.

I did that in SCV4. I played the game from beginning to end with only the leather with. No upgrades. But whenever I did accidentally pick one up, I'd kill myself and just continue on. With just the leather whip, some of the bosses (The Three Fiends) will give you a bit of a beat-down.

-X
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: cecil-kain on February 26, 2011, 03:30:13 PM
I find your comment to be blatantly offensive and clearly meant to be offensive. Gaming for me IS a leisure activity, but when you have had a game for over a decade and have played it off and on over that whole time period, you WILL be -able- to legitimately say what I said and legitimately do what I did. I'm not going to get into an argument with you. I'm simply setting the record straight regarding my skill level. I don't care about you enough to get into an argument with you and I'm not going to. If you decide to be a jerk to me regarding my comment here, I am going to report you. Right then, right there. So count this as a warning.

Your talking to someone who has been playing video games for over 20 years and knows wtf their talking about. If I had it on an emulator on my computer I would record and post the video of me doing what I said I could do. Its not about E-penis. I don't even like e-penis, I'm a guy and I'm not gay. All I did was make a clear statement regarding my skill level in three games.

I've hardly called you out as a fraud.  I don't know you, so let's accept your credentials at face value.  Fine.  You have bragging rights.  But tell me --where is the love in obsessing over it?  I've probably 1-lifed a few games in my time, but I don't really care to keep track.  Why do you --why would anyone?  This is kind of similar to discussions about the value of trophies/achievements with all these off-the-wall, obsessive little quests that have little or nothing to do with the heart and soul of their games --again these things nickle and dime the whole experience for me.

And, who are you to issue me a warning?
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Grim_Creeper on February 26, 2011, 03:37:04 PM
I'm issuing you a warning because I won't take any lip from anyone and if I see a post directed towards me that clearly violates the rules I WILL and PLAN TO report it.

However. I never said I was obsessive over the game. In fact I state quite clearly that it is a leisure activity for me. However, I'm a bit OCD regarding video games that I really, really like. I must know every secret, must find all items, must do everything possible to do. Part of this stems from my early days of gaming, which were mostly spent playing multi-choice RPGs in which power-leveling and side quests are possible.

It also stems from my need to research what I create, in my time, dungeons and dragons was my number 1 console, and I often played games as 'obsessively' as you say, that is, 'nickle and dimed' them, to do research for campaigns written with or set under similar circumstances, and in some cases, set in the same reality as the game is.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: cecil-kain on February 26, 2011, 04:05:36 PM
I'm issuing you a warning because I won't take any lip from anyone and if I see a post directed towards me that clearly violates the rules I WILL and PLAN TO report it.

However. I never said I was obsessive over the game. In fact I state quite clearly that it is a leisure activity for me. However, I'm a bit OCD regarding video games that I really, really like. I must know every secret, must find all items, must do everything possible to do. Part of this stems from my early days of gaming, which were mostly spent playing multi-choice RPGs in which power-leveling and side quests are possible.

It also stems from my need to research what I create, in my time, dungeons and dragons was my number 1 console, and I often played games as 'obsessively' as you say, that is, 'nickle and dimed' them, to do research for campaigns written with or set under similar circumstances, and in some cases, set in the same reality as the game is.

Thick skin goes a long way, my friend.  Warnings are Mod and Admin territory.  If they find my opinion as targeted or offensive as you do, so be it --I don't run the forum here and I've been around long enough to understand that.  If you have an OCD itch to scratch, be my guest.  But to venture an opinion, there is world of difference between finding secrets (which are clearly designed to be part of the game experience) and playing the game with self-imposed handicaps, Lv99999 power-leveling, glitch hunting, or other fetishes.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Grim_Creeper on February 26, 2011, 06:55:49 PM
I agree with you largely, Cecil-Kain. Though I dispute that Power Leveling is a fetish. A small number of level using games -require- power leveling because you -will not- beat the game without doing it. I'm through talking about it, its off-topic.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: DoctaMario on March 01, 2011, 09:59:19 PM
My God, the E-Penis in this thread is staggering!  I mean, 1-lifing all 4 scenarios of Castlevania 3?  Get real.  How can you enjoy the game if your ego gets deflated by *gasp* getting hit *GASP* dying **GGAAAAASSSSP!**  continuing from game over.  Picture this --insanely anal gamer 1-lifes all the way through Castlevania 3 to the final stage, suddenly they get distracted by an untimely hiccup and bat knocks them off the swinging pendellum into --bottomless DEATH!  Suddenly their 1-life quest is ruined and they wasted a good hour of their life --only to hit the reset button and try again.  I mean, really?  Gaming is supposed to be a leisure activity, not an obsession.  If you're really that obsessive about what you're playing, you need to get a job as a gamer tester --at least you'll be paid for nickling and diming the fuck out of the whole experience.

Y so srs? I dunno about anyone else, but I didn't ever play any of the games planning on one-life-ing them, it just happened.

The point of this thread wasn't really to brag, just to see who's good at what.
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Vampire Killer on March 07, 2011, 04:25:35 AM
I've actual NO-lifed the entire Castlevania series.  That's right!  I've played so much Castlevania over the years that I basically have no life.


ta-da!
Title: Re: Which Castlevania game are you the best at?
Post by: Nagumo on March 07, 2011, 05:00:01 AM
The “Tell-others-they-have-no-life” Thread! - now is your chance to let you feel better about yourself!