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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Castlevania Crypt on June 04, 2012, 05:21:57 PM
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How many video game systems did you buy specifically because of a Castlevania game? This could also count as systems you may have been planning on buying eventually, but purchased much sooner due to a Castlevania game. Here is what I bought because of Castlevania:
Game Boy Advance - I know I would have bought this system anyway because of the Mario games, but once I saw Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance I immediately bought the GBA SP, and it remains one of my favorite systems.
Game Boy Player for Gamecube - I bought this GBA Player specifically to play the GBA Castlevania titles on TV, however I probably would have gotten this eventually.
Nintendo DS - I bought it right when Dawn of Sorrow came out. I still have the same original DS and it works great. It is a little bit larger than what they have out now. I know I would have eventually gotten a DS, but Castlevania is why I bought it so fast. This is also one of my favorite systems.
PlayStation 3 - I bought the PS3 and Lords of Shadow together when LOS was released. I was also happy that it came with a free download of SOTN for the PS3. Even though I have 2 copies of SOTN on PlayStation, I still had to beat it on PS2.
PSP - Bought this system because of Dracula X Chronicles, and I think the PSP is the worst system I ever purchased. I just don't like any of the titles they released for it. After I bought a PSP every time I looked at the games I saw nothing I was interested in. I am more of a retro gamer and am not interested in newer series like Call of Duty, or whatever else PSP was pushing. I was planning on getting Silent Hill: Origins, and the 2 Grand Theft Auto games they made for PSP (Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories) but luckily for me they ported those games to PS2.
I can tell you that from my experience with PSP there is no way I am buying a Vita, unless they make some really, really awesome, exclusive games for Castlevania, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil. I already have a 3DS and bought it because of Mario Kart 7. This was the first time that Castlevania was not released before Mario Kart on a Nintendo handheld.
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Sorry bub. I love Castlevania, but not THAT much. The only system I ever bought exclusively for ONE GAME was my (long since RRoD'd) Xbox 360 Elite way back when Halo 3 was a brand new thing.
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PSP for "The Dracula X Chronicles", though a few other titles came out that made the purchase easier.
The first PSP I got was a model 1000 (Phat) and it was off of a buddy so it was a lot cheaper (and with many many accessories). I promptly had it modded.
When the PSP Slim came out, however, I sold my PSPPhat to my sister and bought the Slim.... which I promptly had modded as well.
The GBA was an odd one: I really got it for F-Zero but CotM was a launch title so it was an easy sway. Also, I didn't have a Gameboy at all so it was a good purchase (though I did have a Super Gameboy peripheral for my SNES, which I used for Metroid II and the GB CV's).
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DS and GB Player for Gamecube.
I think I'm going to give the DS to my significant other when I finish playing all of the DSvanias though. The only other games I've gotten for it are
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ*, Chrono Trigger, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter and FF3. Yeah I know, shameful to have not already played them all but I've only seriously been into gaming 3 or 4 years, and been extremely busy in that same period of time. Like to spread them out and savor them.
*Which is as awesome as it sounds.
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Sorry bub. I love Castlevania, but not THAT much. The only system I ever bought exclusively for ONE GAME was my (long since RRoD'd) Xbox 360 Elite way back when Halo 3 was a brand new thing.
Well the Nintendo handheld systems I would have bought anyway because of Mario Kart and other games. I also remember being excited about Resident Evil: Deadly Silence on the DS. Its just that Castlevania was often a launch title on these systems, so it encouraged me to buy the systems sooner.
Also, I didn't have a Gameboy at all so it was a good purchase (though I did have a Super Gameboy peripheral for my SNES, which I used for Metroid II and the GB CV's).
I also never owned a Game Boy, however I did buy all 3 of the Castlevania Game Boy titles real cheap a few years ago since I can play them on the Gamecube GBA Player. It actually colorizes those games a bit and makes them look a little better.
DS and GBA player for Gamecube.
I think I'm going to give the DS to my significant other when I finish playing all of the DSvanias though. The only other games I've gotten for it are
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ*, Chrono Trigger, Solatorobo: Red the Hunter and FF3.
I have a little over 30 DS games, I found quite a few other titles on it besides Castlevania that I like. 3DS though I only have 3 games, well 4 when Mirror of Fate comes out. I am also waiting for the price to drop a little on Resident Evil: Revelations. Good thing is even if you give your DS away you can still play those games on 3DS if you get one.
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The only system I specifically bought to play a Castelvania Game was a Japanese Sega Saturn, to play NITM. And yes it was worth every penny. :)
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I also never owned a Game Boy, however I did buy all 3 of the Castlevania Game Boy titles real cheap a few years ago since I can play them on the Gamecube GBA Player. It actually colorizes those games a bit and makes them look a little better.
This is true...
However, with the Super Gameboy you could CHOOSE the colors you would want.
I spent quite a few hours setting up the perfect colors for the games I played. Metroid II was particularly awesome-looking, as the atmosphere was mossy and green with a pitch-black background and golden armor Samus.
EDIT: Actually I got a Saturn for NitM as well.
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This is true...
However, with the Super Gameboy you could CHOOSE the colors you would want.
I spent quite a few hours setting up the perfect colors for the games I played. Metroid II was particularly awesome-looking, as the atmosphere was mossy and green with a pitch-black background and golden armor Samus.
I remember having a Super Gameboy back in the SNES days, those were sweet. Some of the games had really awesome borders as well. It was like the precursor to the Gameboy Color. I too spent lots of time perfecting color schemes.
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I love video games too much for me to ever wait for a Castlevania game to come out to buy it.
There's always been another game that has made me buy the system earlier.
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This is true...
However, with the Super Gameboy you could CHOOSE the colors you would want.
I spent quite a few hours setting up the perfect colors for the games I played. Metroid II was particularly awesome-looking, as the atmosphere was mossy and green with a pitch-black background and golden armor Samus.
Yeah they even used that on the cover of the retail Super Gameboy box.
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For me:
Nintendo DS - Dawn of Sorrow
PSP - Dracula X Chronicles
You could technically count the 360 for LoS, but I had actually bought that for Tales of Vesperia. And then Devil May Cry 4 came out, and then LoS came out (I'm kind of glad I didn't buy the 360 solely for LoS since I didn't really like LoS that much). And I bought my 3DS for Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance quite some time ago. So yeah. The DS and the PSP are really the only systems I bought because of Castlevania games. My DS got plenty of use for other games, but my PSP just sits there as a portable emulator. :P
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I bought a PSP with DXC being my primary motivation, but Portable Ops and Valkyrie Profile also helped.
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None. I HAVE bought systems for Megaman games however.
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just one: GBA for Circle of the Moon. ;D
...Contra 4 convinced me on a DS Lite, though.
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I did buy a DS because of Castlevania, and I'm gonna do the same with 3DS. Other than that I've got tons of consoles and handhelds, but I got all of them for very different reasons. Everything from Zelda, Final Fantasy and Mario, to Shenmue, GTA and Shining Force.
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I remember having a Super Gameboy back in the SNES days, those were sweet. Some of the games had really awesome borders as well. It was like the precursor to the Gameboy Color. I too spent lots of time perfecting color schemes.
Castlevania Legends has a Super Gameboy border. It was a blue castle tower. :D
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Castlevania Legends has a Super Gameboy border. It was a blue castle tower. :D
Yep. And each of the levels was color coded. Except for the secret level that was b/w.
I'd rather they had used the cart space and dev time to improve the graphics overall though, I'd have been perfectly fine using the theater boarder I use on the other GB Castlevania games.
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Someone improved the graphics in a ROM Hack. It was a pretty good job.
It was with the JPN Cart. The ROM Hacker slimmed down Sonia, gave her some armor, and made her use a sword instead of a whip. The enemies look nicer, too.
Castlevania Legends - Sword Hack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrI-EqHV_uU#)
This is just the Sonia graphics hack. I think the enemies improve in stage 2 though.
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Interesting hack, surprised they changed the weapon. I notice the ghost sprite and the whip/sword projectile were upgraded as well. I've always thought the game was ripe for a fan remake/upgrade but alas I do not have the skills, probably no one who is a big enough fan of the game does.
I've felt for a while that the real problem with the game's graphics is one of detail and color in the backgrounds, rather than particular sprites.
If they had been able to make all of those large blank spaces on the walls black rather than white (like they did in a lot of areas in the NES trilogy) it would provoke the proper sense of shadowed night, rather than just empty space. This I think is what causes most of the gripes with the graphics, often attributed to laziness but which I chalk up to lack of time and space. CVA put in so much detail it seemed to slow the game down, BR had a sweet spot of just enough detail, and with Legends they weren't able to devote enough time or space to duplicate BR's graphical feat.
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Not a single one. The 'vania's are great and all, but they've never encouraged a console buy from me due to release dates and chance. Hell, I didn't really get into CV until the GBA, so that rules out a bunch of games right there (I ended up playing a lot of the classics digitally or already had the required hardware).
In the cases where I probably would have purchased a system for a CV, one was already around. My younger brother had a PSP for DXC and my roomate had a PS3 for Lords.
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Mainly DS. I bought some systems for other games (PS2 for Kingdom Hearts fon instance), but I bought CV as well.
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Too many. The franchise is the main reason I bought a Gameboy Advance SP (also so I could have something to take with me on a cycling trip one summer), a DS, and a PSP. So I probably wouldn't be interested in handheld gaming at all if it weren't for CV games.
I also went out and re-purchased an NES, SNES, and Genesis at various times for essentially the same reason; even dug up my old N64 from my parents' house. This was also because of a renewed interest in gaming once I got a PS2, but I might not have gotten back into retro gaming if not for Castlevania.
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i picked up a gba on release for circle of the moon and i snagged a ds a couple of years after release so that i could get dawn of sorrow after a buddy of mine showed me that CV was still going.
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PSP for DXC, thats about it, I stay up to date with most consoles
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In my case, it happened twice. I got the PlayStation for the tag-team of SotN and FF7 (what a way to start my PS1 game library!), and a DS for DoS.
...however, in the case of my GBA, CotM had to wait in line behind the Dragon Warrior 3 remake. That's right...I got a GBA for a GBC game. ;P
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In my case, it happened twice. I got the PlayStation for the tag-team of SotN and FF7 (what a way to start my PS1 game library!), and a DS for DoS.
...however, in the case of my GBA, CotM had to wait in line behind the Dragon Warrior 3 remake. That's right...I got a GBA for a GBC game. ;P
My PS1 library started with Resident Evil, but then I got SOTN and thought the game was just as awesome.
Those Dragon Warrior GBC games are pretty good, so are the SNES remakes of them. I knew about them on GBC, but did not purchase because that system was not backlit, and I was not interested. But those games look great on the Gamecube GBA Player.