Topic: News: Dave Cox about continuing LoS after 2: My head says no, my heart yes

[Shiroi Koumori]

I suppose Nintendo told Konami to make use of the touchscreen...

That I think is very possible.

They are not impossible, I've  beaten the game in a emulator before, this makes me a ninja or what?

Dude, you got mad mouse skillz! (ﾟД ﾟ )

Is it just me or does Kamen Rider Wizard's magic sequences remind me of something really familiar...
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121024230425/kamenrider/images/4/4f/Icon-wizard.png

[Pfil]

I guess it depends on the mouse, but yes, I guess you are skilled with it

[Lelygax]

Dude, you got mad mouse skillz! (ﾟД ﾟ )

Is it just me or does Kamen Rider Wizard's magic sequences remind me of something really familiar...
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121024230425/kamenrider/images/4/4f/Icon-wizard.png

Im good in using my hands I think xD
Also you like Kamen Rider too? I watched Kamen Rider Black RX dubbed in my childhood, my dad said that I watched Kamen Rider Black too, but I dont remember. I rewatched then with my dad (sad that they only dubbed these AND they simply didn't dubbed Black last episode never) and we watched Kamen Rider Decade too.

I guess it depends on the mouse, but yes, I guess you are skilled with it

Hehe, thanks, I also play everything in my PC using a keyboard, even fighting games, I can even do special attacks in KoF lol

[Shiroi Koumori]

Also you like Kamen Rider too? I watched Kamen Rider Black RX dubbed in my childhood, my dad said that I watched Kamen Rider Black too, but I dont remember. I rewatched then with my dad (sad that they only dubbed these AND they simply didn't dubbed Black last episode never) and we watched Kamen Rider Decade too.

Not that I really like Kamen Rider, they plot is waaaay cheesy (some less than others) in my opinion. But I get to watch some random episodes from time to time. And we are the same with Black as the first Kamen Rider that we saw.

Oh was the Decade series good? I'm asking a friend to download the movie (just because they have all the riders there).

[Lelygax]

Decade is very good, I beg you to dont watch the movie before the series, one of the movies is the end of the series and the another one is a bit more secure but... erm, welll... watch the series, its equal or even better to Black. If after watching it you find that Im wrong, punish me later.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Decade is very good, I beg you to dont watch the movie before the series, one of the movies is the end of the series and the another one is a bit more secure but... erm, welll... watch the series, its equal or even better to Black. If after watching it you find that Im wrong, punish me later.

all right, will do... or perhaps if I am lazy, I'll just read all the episode summaries on wiki.

So before this thread gets hijacked by Kamen Riders, I'll bring it back to Cox.

So he just replied a few minutes ago on twitter that his fave music is the credits.

[Lelygax]

Its hilarious if you read between lines, his favorite part is the end xD

Also if you do that you will not enjoy the episodes, so its better to dont watch them at all than to read summaries, my humble opinion. If you find this conversation enjoyable we can continue it in PMs.

[Sumac]

I hated to do DOS seals on emulator, but I eventually made them all. I play all old (and not so old) console games on the joypad. But for the games like MGS and Hitman I use only keyboard.

About CV Fighting game:

They are optional, you dont need to use them.

I still don't see, why those should have been added at all and why author of this game wanted to spread his time / power on those two. Anyway, I wasn't big fan of this project, so it's not big loss to me.

Character portraits are so important like that? It still in the same continuity, with same kind of enemies. The enemies still retain their abilities as well as the Belmont descendants.

It's not only about portraits. Its about personalities and atmosphere and those were largely demolished in those two entries.

just because it has level-by-level progression and the like, and that automatically makes it closer to the originals than the metroidvanias?

Yes, because exactly that. One of the major differences between classic and metroidvanias was overall gameplay system. LOS returned to the original level by level progression which was absent from metroidvanias. So, yes, naturally it makes it's core closer to the classic games.

I am not arguing for everyone to accept LOS as Castlevania, however, by your own admission:

The elements are there, there's no denying that, you just have to squint your eyes & dig deep to find them, unfortunately.

I didn't need to dig deep to find them, I must say.

and praise LoS for it's extensive combo system and such, when both had the intentions to "keep up with the times?" Castlevania can also exist without QTE prompts, wall-shimmying every 20 feet and wide-range combos that don't do as much damage as they should.

I don't think, that turning Castlevania in RPG / Metroid hybrid was done "to keep it with the time". It was done to make game different, so the sake of being different - an experimental entry, if you want. And it had nothing to do with times, since Castlevania was existing for as much as Metroid did and survived perfectly without it's elements. CV64 should have been the true heir of the Castlevania, but SOTN left to big impression and N64 entries were a bit unpolished and it's all ended in clone festival, that led series to where it is now. As for LOS, yes, it added somethings to cater to the modern gamers, and maybe some of those things weren't very neccessary, but it didn't changed the game just for the sake of changing it. I'll argue, that some of those changes were neccesary to make the game more interesting for the modern day gamers and not just to make an experiment. Note: I am talking only about gameplay here. As for atmosphere - it's in the eyes of the beholder.

ClassicVania platforming was replaced by exploration and all the RPG elements, but the rest (music, look, enemies) stayed the same.
So we had, back then, 2 wonderful types of Castlevania to choose from, and everything was perfect.

Exploration wasn't very interesting to me, since more often then not, there wasn't sense of danger or challenge. It was just: "go around the castle with character who have godlike powers, fight pathetic opposition and see some lame story". Besides, I hate grinding and this idea: "kill the same enemy trillion times to receive rare drop to complete the game for 100%" is awful, IMO.

[crisis]

I didn't need to dig deep to find them, I must say.

there's always exceptions, but the majority of the community here begs to differ it seems.

You don't have to dig deep to find CV elements in games like 8 Eyes, Rygar, etc. But they still have vast differences with traditional CV, like LoS does.

[Lelygax]

And they dont even try to be Castlevania.

[VladCT]

About CV Fighting game:I still don't see, why those should have been added at all and why author of this game wanted to spread his time / power on those two. Anyway, I wasn't big fan of this project, so it's not big loss to me.

I suppose you simply lack the sense of humor then. Or have you forgotten for what occasion they were added?

[Sumac]

I suppose you simply lack the sense of humor then. Or have you forgotten for what occasion they were added?

I do have sense of humor, but I do not appreciate completely random characters in what supposed to be Castlevania game. And I don't now when and why they were added. I just went to the site of the game and saw them in the movelist, after which I decided not to download the new version.

[VladCT]

One hint: April.
That's actually two hints in one, by the way.

[Lelygax]

Thats the 1st hint.

[Neobelmont]

Im good in using my hands I think xD
Also you like Kamen Rider too? I watched Kamen Rider Black RX dubbed in my childhood, my dad said that I watched Kamen Rider Black too, but I dont remember. I rewatched then with my dad (sad that they only dubbed these AND they simply didn't dubbed Black last episode never) and we watched Kamen Rider Decade too.

An other kamen rider fan. My favorites are black RX, Ryuki, and Shin.  Also , Agito and Kugga, Kiva as well, are definitely a-okay in my book. I also Like sentai as well some of the older ones anyway like liveman.