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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: Inccubus on July 29, 2013, 06:08:21 PM
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http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/07/nintendo_files_new_eternal_darkness_trademark (http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/07/nintendo_files_new_eternal_darkness_trademark)
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Cool. I would hope for a 1080p download of the game, but...who knows if that'll happen. If it's essentially a port of the GameCube game, I'll just stick to my hard copy since it's already 16:9 progressive scan.
Apparently the Wii U pro controllers don't have any analog shoulder buttons? Kind of shot themselves in the foot there if they're bringing in GameCube downloads, since a number of games used them to good effect.
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I'm still baffled by this games popularity. Why not just read actual Lovecraft? Maybe I'll sell my copy one of these days if I can get a good price for it.
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I'm not baffled at all considering that there is very little actual Lovecraft to read.
Plus I think that sanity system they come up with is freakin' brilliant and if used correctly by the player makes multiple playthroughs of the game very interesting and worth while.
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I'm not baffled at all considering that there is very little actual Lovecraft to read.
Plus I think that sanity system they come up with is freakin' brilliant and if used correctly by the player makes multiple playthroughs of the game very interesting and worth while.
Not really, you just gotta know where to look. http://www.ebay.com/itm/120813966878?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/120813966878?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649) 1000+ pages of pure Lovecraft. I'm reading mine right now! Just be sure it's this 2nd edition you get and not the cheaper earlier one with the gold bookmark, that had hundreds of typographical errors.
And dunno, the ease with which you can manipulate the sanity system seemed to defeat its purpose for me.
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I read everything the man ever wrote years before Eternal Darkness was made. And 1000 isn't all that much. Now if you add in the stories for his mythos by other authors then you have a good chunk more, but I read those already too. So consider the popularity of Eternal Darkness as a sign of it's quality as a Lovecraftian style narrative.
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I'm still hoping on Pious Agustus for Smash bros.
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I'm still hoping on Pious Agustus for Smash bros.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/07/petition_started_to_make_reggie_a_playable_character_in_upcoming_smash_bros_title (http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/07/petition_started_to_make_reggie_a_playable_character_in_upcoming_smash_bros_title)
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Great game. Good gameplay, plus one of the first to do 'target body parts' battle.
Plot is good too, but I really like the gameplay and the graphics.
Plus "The Black Rose":
Crowning Music Of Awesome - "Black Rose" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUw3zpJEozI#)
(almost sounds like the intro to "Angel" because of the instrumentation)
And "The War to End All Wars":
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem Official Soundtrack - A War To End All Wars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfPqTt9UKNE#ws)
"Is this the one who seeks to do Combat... with me...?"
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I read everything the man ever wrote years before Eternal Darkness was made. And 1000 isn't all that much. Now if you add in the stories for his mythos by other authors then you have a good chunk more, but I read those already too. So consider the popularity of Eternal Darkness as a sign of it's quality as a Lovecraftian style narrative.
Yeah there's about 1000 more if you count the work he did "collaboratively" i.e. all the stuff he ghost wrote or largely rewrote. Those were recently collected in some other books to, which I really need to get. Living far from any bookstores all I had for years was the old del rey "Best of H.P. Lovecraft". I lay a lot of the lack of scares and tension I get from Eternal Darkness at the feet of the game's lack of difficulty, but perhaps it's just that I don't find Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos tales that scary, fascinating but not scary. Because the central nihilistic premise, which drives so many of his protagonists mad, that mankind is ultimately small and insignificant in the universe was accepted with a shoulder shrug by me a long time ago.