Topic: The Classics Poll

[PFG9000]

Please tell me, why is SCVIV considered as a Jewel? Really,I fell like a dumb being the only CV fan who doesnt want SCVIV

Judging by this poll, one would think the burden would be on YOU to prove why SCV4 ISN'T amazing.  But I'll try to be nice.   

The game had absolutely brilliant music, graphics, and effects for its time.  In 1991, we hadn't heard game soundtracks with this kind of instrumental depth, and the idea of a room rotating or twisting around you was just unheard of.  Also, SCV4 took the concept of the earlier CV games and polished it to an amazing degree.  The "tank" controls of the NES CVs were now refined (walking while crouching, changing direction mid-jump, etc.), but also broadened by the 8-way whipping and ring-grabbing abilities. 

Most of all, the game took the macabre setting of CV1 and pushed it to then-unheard-of degrees with its dark tone, visuals, etc.  The color palate and soundchip of the SNES deserve most of the credit for this, as the NES was incapable of this sort of presentation.  The funny thing is that no Castlevania today has matched SCV4 in this category...

I'm not a big fan of labeling everything to death and boiling this sort of argument down to empirical standards.  There's something to be said for the vibe one gets from a game's aesthetic merits, after all.  But if I had to reduce this argument down to it, I'd say SCV4's strong points are a combination of its technological advancement for its time, combined with its impeccable atmosphere.

[PFG9000]

Seriously, how could you like the SCVIV music? for example, Vampire killer us a simple piece of crap.

And then, posts like this make me wonder why I even bother.  How is your argument any different from that annoying kid on the playground shouting, "Seriously, how could you like Pink Floyd?  They suck."

[Dark Nemesis]

And then, posts like this make me wonder why I even bother.

[cecil-kain]

Judging by this poll, one would think the burden would be on YOU to prove why SCV4 ISN'T amazing.

[Ahasverus]

I'm not here to be a troll or a spammer, I just have my opinions, you have yours right? I just wanted an explanation, and you gave it to me, thanks, now, I will replay the game and look at it in a different way, even if I really dislike a lot the VK song of this version, but ok, please, don'tbe bad, I don't want to be bad 

[Ed Oscuro]

MSX and Adventure are on there but not X68000 or Haunted Castle. hokay

[Alutwon]

Chronicles=X68000

All I can say in SCV4's defense is trick manor and treasure room

[cecil-kain]

MSX and Adventure are on there but not X68000 or Haunted Castle. hokay

Castlevania Chronicles -PS1 supercedes the X68000 due to being the domestic release.

[Nazrath]

How is your argument any different from that annoying kid on the playground shouting, "Seriously, how could you like Pink Floyd?

[RichterB]

Agrees.  It's truly amazing that SCV4's presentation easily rivals its modern castleroid brethren over 15 years later. Although that could also become an argument for series stagnation...  I prefer to think that SCV4 was ahead of its time.

Ahead of its time? *Absolutely.* Is there a really good excuse that Nintendo DS, which can run N64 games like Mario 64, cannot surpass SCV4? *Not that I know.*   (I think you may have had it right the first time).

[cecil-kain]

-------------------------POLL UPDATE--------------------------

This poll is now closed.  Please vote on the Castleroid Poll if you have not already done so.

http://castlevania.classicgaming.gamespy.com/forums/index.php?topic=2032.0

The Castleroid Poll will also be closed when it hits 36 votes.