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Dvader said:

Iga_Bobovic said:

Dvader said:

Yeah you are right all games were platformers back then. Like Double Dragon, Final Fight, Golden Axe and Gunstar Heroes.

I hope you can sense the sarcasm here!

Most of those are beat em ups, not the same family of action that Castlevania comes from. Castlevania is like Mega Man, Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden, you know the type... all of those are action games. If they remade Mega Man into 3D today it wouldnt have a bunch of empty holes of death that you had to avoid, it would be mostly about running around shooting things and will probably have a world full of obstacles that you need to use items to get by, like this Castlevania game.

It looks like what a 3D Castlevania should look like.

 Those games are also action platformers. And yes, why should a 3D Mega Man not have platforming in it? Heck the old Mega Man had more challeging platforming than the Mario series. Why should that change if they turn it into 3D? And did Ninja Gaiden Black not have plenty of platforming also?

Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

I don't know Vader. Yeah most games were a platforming cross back then but that doesn't change the notion that platforming was a huge element.

Look at how Metroid went from 2-D to 3-D, it perfectly captured the gameplay in exploration and platforming and shooting. Remember that Castlevania only had the licence attached to this Lords of Shadow game. They've taken a licence and attached it to God of War basically.

GoW is what a Castlevania game should be, when was it not. Actually it all started with DMC which everyone thought "OMG this is exactly what a Castlevania game should be in 3D". Thats how you do Castlevania style action in 3D. Of course it should have an open castle to explore, and some obstacles along the way like say a clock tower with rotating gears and such. But the core of a Castlevania game is the action. I wouldnt say the same about metroid, I think Metroid leans a lot more to the exploration, moody kind of atmosphere, and I think a balance is needed to capture Metroid and Prime did that. If they made a Castlevania game with the pacing of Metroid Prime it would be a complete disaster. Castlevania is action all the time.

I really dont get what kind of game you want out of Castlevania in 3D.

 Lol, what? Prime is one of the best games ever. How the hell should Castlevania not take inspiration out of it? I means SoTN did the same thing with Super Metroid. Super Metroid had plenty of action also, so did Prime 3. 

Yodariquo said:

You're right.  Castlevania is completely different from Metroid.  Metroid is good.

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Iga_Bobovic said:

gamingeek said:

Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

I don't know Vader. Yeah most games were a platforming cross back then but that doesn't change the notion that platforming was a huge element.

Look at how Metroid went from 2-D to 3-D, it perfectly captured the gameplay in exploration and platforming and shooting. Remember that Castlevania only had the licence attached to this Lords of Shadow game. They've taken a licence and attached it to God of War basically.

GoW is what a Castlevania game should be, when was it not. Actually it all started with DMC which everyone thought "OMG this is exactly what a Castlevania game should be in 3D". Thats how you do Castlevania style action in 3D. Of course it should have an open castle to explore, and some obstacles along the way like say a clock tower with rotating gears and such. But the core of a Castlevania game is the action. I wouldnt say the same about metroid, I think Metroid leans a lot more to the exploration, moody kind of atmosphere, and I think a balance is needed to capture Metroid and Prime did that. If they made a Castlevania game with the pacing of Metroid Prime it would be a complete disaster. Castlevania is action all the time.

I really dont get what kind of game you want out of Castlevania in 3D.

I'm not sure either, just not a DMC clone. It's one of those franchises I would prefer to play in 2-D. Maybe have the same design, but get Vanillaware to do the visuals.

As I said, Lords of Shadow is as much Castlevania as Dinosaur Planet is Starfox adventures. They attached a licence to an unrelated game for sales.

How about Prince of Persia (you know like Sands of time)? It has action, it has platforming, it has action while platforming!

In CV you were always attacking something but generally you were always jumping whilst doing it. So it has to have that kind of feeling for me, a ground based DMC game isn't the sort thing I would expect. A Prince of Persia type game would be better but they would have to have more jumping and less sticking to walls. Sort of like Super mario controls with kick ass combat. It would have to be fluid as hell to capture the CV vibe.

gamingeek said:

Did almost 40 updates today you suckers. Why did no one tell me GC was another E3? I blame the name change. I used to know it as Leipzig.

Iga_Bobovic said:

gamingeek said:

Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

I don't know Vader. Yeah most games were a platforming cross back then but that doesn't change the notion that platforming was a huge element.

Look at how Metroid went from 2-D to 3-D, it perfectly captured the gameplay in exploration and platforming and shooting. Remember that Castlevania only had the licence attached to this Lords of Shadow game. They've taken a licence and attached it to God of War basically.

GoW is what a Castlevania game should be, when was it not. Actually it all started with DMC which everyone thought "OMG this is exactly what a Castlevania game should be in 3D". Thats how you do Castlevania style action in 3D. Of course it should have an open castle to explore, and some obstacles along the way like say a clock tower with rotating gears and such. But the core of a Castlevania game is the action. I wouldnt say the same about metroid, I think Metroid leans a lot more to the exploration, moody kind of atmosphere, and I think a balance is needed to capture Metroid and Prime did that. If they made a Castlevania game with the pacing of Metroid Prime it would be a complete disaster. Castlevania is action all the time.

I really dont get what kind of game you want out of Castlevania in 3D.

I'm not sure either, just not a DMC clone. It's one of those franchises I would prefer to play in 2-D. Maybe have the same design, but get Vanillaware to do the visuals.

As I said, Lords of Shadow is as much Castlevania as Dinosaur Planet is Starfox adventures. They attached a licence to an unrelated game for sales.

How about Prince of Persia (you know like Sands of time)? It has action, it has platforming, it has action while platforming!

In CV you were always attacking something but generally you were always jumping whilst doing it. So it has to have that kind of feeling for me, a ground based DMC game isn't the sort thing I would expect. A Prince of Persia type game would be better but they would have to have more jumping and less sticking to walls. Sort of like Super mario controls with kick ass combat. It would have to be fluid as hell to capture the CV vibe.

Actually that pirate guy Grant could walk on all walls. We can give him that power and have Belmont just jump around.

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