Topic: Iga intrigued in bringing Castlevania to 8-bit

[Rugal]

Alright, I'm done <333 

[shelverton.]

Ecclesia I'm not going to be having any part of. Might borrow it from a sorry sap who was foolish enough to buy it, but even $3 on a rental will be too much for it.

And CV64 felt so much better after being tormented by the godawful games that are LOI and COD.

Uhm. You complain people are trolling, but that's exactly what you're doing here. Different rules apply to the mods I presume.

[Alexc2808]

In Reply To #24
You guys are crazy.  How is IGA driving the series into the ground?  Castlevania is literally more successful than it has ever been.  Your opinions on the guy do not change that.

[Thomas Belmont]

Hmmmmm.....Well, let's see. One example is that Dracula is now a Japanese teenager from the future! Iga sucks. He had one great achievement, SotN. Now all he does is make subpar copies. He should have stepped down years ago.

[crisis]

Atleast IGA acknowledges that his 3D games aren't that good, he's determined to make a really fun action game. He knows that he has to improve his games but some of you insist that he doesn't even care

[Thomas Belmont]

In Reply To #35

Well how many fucking chances does he get? And of course nobody is forcing me to buy the games but I still have the right to bitch and complain when I see one of my favorite video game series becoming a shell of what it once was because of one man. Castlevania should be bigger than the God of War and GTA series by now.

[crisis]

Well these games aren't terrible.. Back in 1994, did you really envision Castlevania being the top franchise 10 years in the future? Castlevania never really was a OMG MUST PLAY sleeper hit series (despite what fanboys say).

It seems that nostalgia is the main thing holding you back from enjoying anything. It's not 1989 anymore.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Uhm. You complain people are trolling, but that's exactly what you're doing here. Different rules apply to the mods I presume.

Excuse me, but what?
Technically she's not trolling.

One opinion is saying:
"I don't like these games, they are awful"
(Clara)

while the other is saying:
"If you guys feel this way about things, then you are somehow flawed", which is a flamebait statement because it'll get on the nerves of any whose statement that applies to, without outright calling them names.
(Rugal)

It's a nice way to tiptoe around the rules.

The rules are the same for everyone.
Also, one of these statements jumps the 'Don't be an ass' rule, and the other doesn't.

Let us all not have a cow about it.

EDIT- argh I got caught up in the argument and didn't put what I was going to say in the first place, hah hah.

I'm ALLL FOR another NES-styled Castlevania.  After the numerous rom-hacks I've played since CVIII came out, it'd be nice to see a new entry.  If CV can get into the damned Cellphone market, I don't see why they can't do a new VC title.

Having said that it does seem like Iga waits for successful (or at least 'potentially' successful) ideas to come out before he uses them.  Then he knocks 'em off, sometimes with wonderful results (Symphony).

He is prudent.  I can't really fault him as such, since it is part of the industry.  Still, there is something to be said about having a bit of gravitas and putting out there a product you believe in.

[Alexc2808]

Jorge, Clara was clearly trolling.  She came in and just spouted off about how terrible OoE is going to be in a manner that was obviously intendid as a jab at people looking forward to it.  And rugal isn't really tip-toeing around the rules, he felt she was trolling (I agree) and he said something.  And saying that the same rules apply to moderation on just about any forum is more often than not, ludicrous.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I don't know if I agree with that last statement.  I try to behave the same way I behave in other forums as I behave here, regardless of whether I have semiphenomenal-nearlycosmic-powers here.

Anyway, back on topic:

Castlevania 5 does kinda have a nice ring to it.  However, I wonder if it would keep the oldschool 'difficult to control' scheme of the NES games, or if all of a sudden characters would start having jumping controls similar to those of Grant.

[A n t r a x x]

In Reply To #24
You guys are crazy.

[A n t r a x x]

I wonder where this 8-bit game would fit in the timeline, though, if it were made.

[Alexc2808]

In Reply To #41
I'm not talking about my opinion.  All gba and DS castlevania's sold better than the series has in decades.  It has had more solid, well received games in the last 6 or 7 years then virtually the whole rest of the history combined.

And word on the floor at e3 is not that Judgment is bad.  There are ATLEAST as many people who liked it as those that didn't.  And from what I've seen more people seem to think it is good than bad.  It was still an early build with 3 characters.  It played well, and you can tell by watching the demonstartion during Konami's press conference that there are a lot more combos and attacks than people were using on the e3 floor.

[crisis]

In Reply To #42
It'd be cool if they placed it in the gap between LoI and CVIII. I wanna know the story of the last relevant Belmont BEFORE Trevor

[A n t r a x x]

You can tell it's an average game at this point, and even IGA acknowledged the bad press reception.

Obviously there was more than enough criticism to warrant that.