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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Dark Nemesis on February 24, 2008, 08:46:11 AM
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Now this is how i want to be a true 3D Castlevania game! These pictures are from Dracula Origins. What do you think guys?
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Looks good and all, but it kinda looks, I don't know, cliche Universal Movie-ish maybe?
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In Reply To #1
Backgrounds look very nice and could easily have been a 3D Castlevania. Character models however, are kinda generic and lifeless... Ayami Kojima could fix that though with some androgynous vampire killer fashionista.
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The inside of teh buildings are good, the outside... not so much. The characters are kind of plain but that are good looking.
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it looks as flat and "two dimensional" as curse of darkness though.
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As long as there's some platforming & unique level design then it doesn't matter how the graphics look
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As long as there's some platforming & unique level design then it doesn't matter how the graphics look
This.
As nice and realistic as that shot of that shack's interior is, it looks like the outside is just a run-a-guantlet affair. Invisible walls and all.
I need my 3D Castlevania with some vertical areas.
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O_O That looks AWESOME! Kinda reminds me a bit of those Dracula Resurrection and The Last Sanctuary games for the PSX and PC. What system is this "Dracula Origins" for?
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I'm not moved by the looks of this game. It looks on par with any PS1 game with pre-rendered backgrounds.
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In Reply To #8
It's for PC.
Now for all the others, what i wanted for all of you to see is not the quality of the graphics, but the design of the enviroments. Can you imagine a Castlevania game with these enviroments? Free to move almost anywhere at the game's levels and not some tunel linearly stages! That's what i meant!
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No more CastsleVania in 3D. >_<
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Dunno. Too realistic, too low on fantasy and bloody stuff. Also everything looks like marble, because of the way it reflects light... Don't like the charas either.
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In Reply To #1
Nice. Creepy and gothic. Excellent. Tough, I'd prefer PS3 next-gen graphics.
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As much as I love them, I'd like to see a break from the 2-D CV titles. Of course, they couldn't just crank out another game like LoI or CoD, but if they put a lot of time and effort into it and made it great, yeah, I think the 2D could hit the bench for awhile
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In Reply To #8
It's for PC.
Now for all the others, what i wanted for all of you to see is not the quality of the graphics, but the design of the enviroments. Can you imagine a Castlevania game with these enviroments? Free to move almost anywhere at the game's levels and not some tunel linearly stages! That's what i meant!
I actually don't see how much more free movement this game has(by the pictures posted) OVER that of, say, LoI and CoD. The one shed room with the crates and such is pretty crowded as far as moving space is concerned. The graveyard, from the angle, is shaped like a box room. The only added movement, I would think, is that you can jump atop graves, but that's not much. The other pictures like the exterior foggy shot and the shot of the two characters(vampire and the girl) don't really support the "free movement" bit. They seem to be two scenes that emphesis dramatic atmosphere.
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We all know this scene
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Well check this out. Its from a game called Requiem: Bloodymare its website is http://www.playrequiem.com/
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As soon as I got to that spot and looked out at the distance it reminded me of that scene from CV4. The whole game has a very dark dirty gritty feel very similar to CV and a lot of the landscape looks like it could be from a new CV game. The towns and stuff are all post apoc and literally built with whatever they could find and they look good too but more RE4 than CV.
Anyway how bout a CV that looks like that =D with the full free roaming 3d.
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In Reply To #16
Really cool game!! ;)
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In Reply To #16
Hows about a CV game that looks better than that. Those graphics really don't impress. But the large areas would be nice
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In Reply To #18
no it doesnt look amazing but its a damn lot better than any 3d CV weve got to date.
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Dunno. Too realistic, too low on fantasy and bloody stuff. Also everything looks like marble, because of the way it reflects light... Don't like the charas either.
Realistic 19th Century > Anne Rice threw up all over the place.
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Looks prerendered.
Fancy seeing these folks again! They did a Sherlock Holmes / Cthulhu mythos crossover adventure game in full 3D - so perhaps there's some real time stuff going on here. Certainly the first screenshot reminds me of their Sherlock Holmes game (notice that there's apparently nothing at all outside the walls of that suspiciously well-lit cemetery).
They really need to work on their lighting, and perhaps more interesting architecture + texture work is in order, too.
But the large areas would be nice
It's probably bigger than it looks, but that's not saying much, since they haven't bothered to create convincing backdrops to frame stuff. The courtyard seems to be floating in a featureless void, for instance.
The N64 CVs actually do pretty well for scale.