Topic: Tell me if I am in the minority here

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Seriously think Dark Souls with CV 64/ LOD pacing, with a day/night system. They only need to really improve gameplay and camera, 64 had all the concepts correct, including atmosphere.

Pretty much this. The Souls' games had really impressive atmosphere and coupled with a game that's in essence like CV64/LoD it could very well be a success. However the amount of difficulty in the Souls' games I would not want in CV because that's just not CV. In the classicvania games you could suffer five or six hits before dying. However much further into the game you got, the damage you receive increases to about 4 hits before dying. The difficulty scales up gradually as the game goes on and this works just fine for me. LoS combo moves were the pits and very monotonous. The Tank Enemies only increased the pain of monotony, making it a terrible experience for me. LoI and CoD did have some combo moves however they were sparse and the game was not dependent on them nearly as much as it was in LoS.

[Belmont Stakes]

     Even though I'm poor and my priorities maybe a bit out of whack, you guys have convinced me. I am gonna try the Dark Souls series and if I had a PS4 I would definitely buy Bloodborne.

[zangetsu468]

     Even though I'm poor and my priorities maybe a bit out of whack, you guys have convinced me. I am gonna try the Dark Souls series and if I had a PS4 I would definitely buy Bloodborne.

Bloodborne looks awesome to me, the only thing I dislike about Souls' series in general is that you have to create a character to start with. I'd much rather be given a protagonist even if they have little to no backstory. This is probably a minor quibble, but I prefer story driven through characters. As much as people can bag LOS, Gabriel was a good character imo.

Whatever they do, I really hope they get away from the segregation of combat and exploration/platforming.
That was one of the things I hated most about MoF. It's like the designers thought people couldn't handle both aspects of the game at once.

That game is seriously retarded for one reason: Simon throws an axe and it hits the ceiling.... WTF it's supposed to be 2dvania, what is the point of an axe that doesn't do what it's supposed to, why not just make it a cross??? Sub weapons are just useless, Dracula has 1 form and can be killed by a fake combat cross, the whip covers the entire screen, there's no traditional CV plaforming and enemy placement (the environment goes into arena mode when fighting enemies, why? Why must we fight 1-3 enemies at once which completely slows the games pacing..) you don't even have to touch the game and the camera jerks by itself, all 3 characters play the fucking same.. Trevor's component of the game seems to be the only part they put some kind of architectural effort into. If this were a chinese restaurant it would literally be shitty wok.

I doubt we'll be seeing any CV action until its 30th anniversary, even then it'll be a stretch.

[shelverton.]

For me, MoF is more a Prince of Persia clone than anything, apart from the combat (which, btw, is the worst and most tedious I've ever encountered in a sidescrolling game.) The game looked the part and had some nice environmenrs here and there, but if Konami should ever model a new 3DS Vania after MoF I'd be furious. Looking at the incredibly tight gameplay of the DS trilogy, and then comparing them to the unresponsive and stiff monstrosity that is MoF... it completely blows my mind how this even happened.

[Inccubus]

100% agree. Have the same graphic quality, but dump everything else.
And for gods sakes put in some set pieces to interact with besides switches and ledges.
Oh, and replacing candles and breakable walls with durable barrels was plain stupid.

[zangetsu468]

Oh, and replacing candles and breakable walls with durable barrels was plain stupid.

It's on like effing Donkey Kong... Except it wasn't.
3 years to develop a heap of shit that died in the arse faster than a gay prostitute on the streets of Prague.

I've said what I needed to say. XD