Topic: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Ultimate Edition announced for PC (August, 2013)

[Pfil]

5) Alternate costumes for Gabriel. At least a Leon, and Trevor from the PS2 titles. Hell, as much as I hate to say it even Judgement's shitty designs might be nice to see.

Is it possible to add Sypha or Shanoa from Judgment?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

And why, I mean, WHY -1 on this comment I made?
Anyone felt offended by this?
I'm part spanish, so I can joke about this.
And I guess everyone knows that with Skycaptain and the Reviewer this is a subject for joking.
Anyway... the -1ers will -1.

Funny, I see a +1, not a -1.

[Pfil]

Funny, I see a +1, not a -1.

It seems someone already fixed it.
Whoever did it, thanks! 

[uzo]

Is it possible to add Sypha or Shanoa from Judgment?

I don't see why not. Good idea, but that will make you want to change the voices

[Maedhros]

Also, seeing them using a whip would be ridiculous.

[Inccubus]

Is it possible to add Sypha or Shanoa from Judgment?

There seems to be a sort of mini trend in the romhacking community right now for swapping out heroes for heroines. Ever since that one dude hacked Donkey Kong so his little girl could play as Pauline there have been quite a few interesting little hacks coming out. So, you never know, someone might just go to the trouble.


Oh! Oh! How has someone not not mentioned this one yet? Replace all the audio files of Zobek droning on about existential nonsense with amusing audio clips of Captain Picard???

[Dominus]

Wa-wa-wait, hold your horses. We don't know yet if the game is gonna be moddable/how moddable is it gonna be. For example: In Resident Evil 4 you can add new models, switch various models of the game and switch animations. But RE5 only has skin mods, game model switching and animation switching. DMC only has skin mods because switching models cause them to be really buggy. Tomb Raider Legend/Anniversary/Underworld only have skin mods and so.

Don't get too excited because you may be let down

[uzo]

It all boils down to how much time the fanbase is willing to put into analyzing the data structures of the game.

If little, no mods, or maybe a music mod.

If a lot, expect custom player models and more.

[Aridale]

thats exactly what I said earlier on but I guess all the wishful hopin is makin ppl ignore it!

uzo replied at the same time:

That also depends on how easy/difficult it is to crack however the stuffs stored in those data structures. That kinda thing drastically limits what can be done. Does anyone know what engine MS used to make it?

[Reinhart77]

ugh, i hate pc games, just because i don't enjoy making modifications to my pc in order to be able to play the latest games.  guess i'll miss out on anything new and interesting that they might add to the game.  oh well.

[Maedhros]

ugh, i hate pc games, just because i don't enjoy making modifications to my pc in order to be able to play the latest games.  guess i'll miss out on anything new and interesting that they might add to the game.  oh well.

My VGA (a GTS 250, from 2008) still play games from 2012. I don't get the best graphics they have, but I can get 60FPS with 720p in most of the games (for example, Sonic Generations). And that's what matters for me.

So, yeah, this is a misconception. You don't need to have the best hardware to play newer games at all, with a medium GPU from 2012 you can play games until 2016~18.

[Flame]

ugh, i hate pc games, just because i don't enjoy making modifications to my pc in order to be able to play the latest games.  guess i'll miss out on anything new and interesting that they might add to the game.  oh well.

Because that's any different than having to buy a new console for new games that run on them?

Also there's always options to lower the settings. And if your PC cannot handle a game even with lowered settings, then you probably should not be PC gaming, or should invest in a better computer.

[SaibotMK]

Looking forward to LoS Ultimate Edition on Steam. I have not owned a console in awhile and at the rate it is going I never plan to.

[DoctaMario]

ugh, i hate pc games, just because i don't enjoy making modifications to my pc in order to be able to play the latest games.  guess i'll miss out on anything new and interesting that they might add to the game.  oh well.

Well it sounds like you won't miss out on anything new. I bought LoS used and bought the DLC but I'll likely buy this again because it'd be nice to have it on PC. I can't imagine this game would call for really high end specs so your PC will probably play it.

My VGA (a GTS 250, from 2008) still play games from 2012. I don't get the best graphics they have, but I can get 60FPS with 720p in most of the games (for example, Sonic Generations). And that's what matters for me.

So, yeah, this is a misconception. You don't need to have the best hardware to play newer games at all, with a medium GPU from 2012 you can play games until 2016~18.

Yeah a lot of PC games are a year or more behind on specs because they figure a lot of people haven't caught up. So if your PC isn't up to date, you can still probably run a lot of current games.

[Pfil]

As much as I complained about the original Lords of Shadow, I'd be willing to 100% it all over again if they add new music, playable characters, costumes and that kind of stuff.

The first thing I would get rid of is the battle music. Let the ambience track keep playing, so we can feel a sense of continuity on the stage, and not that feeling of "now I'm exploring, now I'm fighting, now I'm exploring again".
That became more evident in Mirror of Fate, but it was present in LoS already.