Topic: In your honest opinion...

[CVfan13]

In Reply To #28

Woah, you're saying 64 titles might be the BEST?? I love 'em too man, but come one! Even pork is better than them!

[A n t r a x x]

The 64 games had so much potential. You can see the seed of so many great, unique ideas; it's just that they're so often executed so poorly. The garden maze chase is just awful in either version, or either character mode (a shit stain on an otherwise brilliant level); the camera is broken between the games as well.

I think a remake now could really bring its colors forth, but IGA would never do it.

Sorry off-topic.

[CVfan13]

In Reply To #32

Yeah, but Iga is too stupid and in denial that these gemstones even existed.

[Saroor]

I love sotn, but I love SCIV also. I never thought it was much different in difficulty from the first Castlevania. And The second was incredibly easy. Dawn was to me the best Castlevania game after sotn, but not as good. There is just an aura about sotn, all the small details add up to alot. For me its SOTN/SC4,Rondo, and then the first Castlevania. 

[Long John Silver]

In Reply To #28

Woah, you're saying 64 titles might be the BEST?? I love 'em too man, but come one! Even pork is better than them!

blasphemous heretic

[CVfan13]

In Reply To #35

Much as I love Symphony, it's not the best. I'd reserve that for the 64 games or Castlevania IV.

I'm surprised to hear that out of DoctaMario.

[Long John Silver]

In Reply To #36

he's a big n64 games fan, so that's not surprising really.

[Mobius]

Agreed.

[Legion]

Curse of Darkness and Lament of Innocence are my favorites.

All Castlevania games are great except Haunted Castle that was a disaster.

[Gimph]

I hate to break it to you, but Castlevania Legacy of darkness is THE BEST CASTLEVANIA GAME EVER BY A MILE! The game isn't given enough credit for whatever reason, but nonetheless, it's my favorite, and so far, the other Castlevania titles are total failures in comparison!

[Gimph]

blasphemous heretic

Agreed!

[Azmodan]

In Reply To #32

Yeah, but Iga is too stupid and in denial that these gemstones even existed.

It's painful, really, how hard you're trying to be "I hate IGA guys, does that mean I'm cool like you guyz?!"

IGA's said time and time again it's because the directors of those games intended for them to be side-stories. He's complimented them as intriguing in their presentation, plus he has KCEK members on his team.

[Gimph]

Iga is awesome, and though I haven't liked some of his previous games, I still don't go around saying I hate him! If it weren't for him, Castlevania would've died off completely, so you should be thankful that he saved it!

[Lord_an]

Since I've only played a few castlevania games, never the 3D games, I couldn't say wich is the best CV...but i cuold say that my favourite CV is, and always will be Symphony Of The Night, because, It's So simple, but amazing, that is a perfect game, I never get bored playing it, has a lot of things about mythology, ancient histories, symbolisms, and a lot of things that you can learn, I thing is awsome...
anyways, my top 3 would be:

1. SOTN(PSX)
2. AoS(GBA)
3. Castlevania I(Nes)

[Abnormal Freak]

This isn't a definite ranking, but this is kinda how I'd rank some of my more favorite games in the series:

IV
I
Bloodlines
Rondo of Blood
II
III
SOTN

Again, this isn't concrete. I absolutely adore SOTN and have played through it a million times since it first came out, and it's easily, EASILY the best of the Metroidvanias by about a trillion light years, but what can I say, I love (most of) the old stuff more. Though all those games I mentioned are pretty much equal in terms of quality and fun, so don't go thinking I regard it as much lower than the others.

As for the couple hateful comments toward Haunted Castle...I think it's pretty fun. Of course, only if you're playing the easier versions. (The main ROM floating around is disastrously difficult.) Plus, one can't deny how farking awesome the music is.

Only CV games I haven't played are the first two Game Boy ones, which is unfortunate. One of these days...

Oh, and that crummy-looking cellphone game, if that even counts.