What's a videogame series that you want to get into? For me, the Castlevania series, but I'm afraid I'm not gonna like it.
What's a videogame series that you want to get into? For me, the Castlevania series
What's a videogame series that you want to get into? For me, the Castlevania series, but I'm afraid I'm not gonna like it.
Start with Aria of Sorrow then. All the other games in that image suck.
Frick you b***h Harmony of Dissonance is great
Frick off.
Honestly, even the metroidvania games, for all their reputation of being samey, tend to prioritize things so differently that you'll probably find at least one game you like. Your pic related is a pretty good example of this, because the first two are rather experimental and focus on whip characters, what with being the two first metroidvanias after SoTN. AoS kinda wraps up the ideas of the three games before it and standardizes them. Probably cheaper to get all three here than it is to get any one of them individually, and you could always come back to the ones you don't like later to see if your mind's change.
Circle of the Moon is the most difficult and true to form mix of Symphony style and classical CV. Utterly shit taste you have.
Thay would be Order of Ecclesia though.
Order of Ecclesia doesn't blend the 2 styles well at all though. That's why the exploration part of it is ass. It's also why no one remembers it fondly.
A lot of people remember it fondly. And it's not rare to see it listed as "Best in the series" in some sites, which don't get me wrong, I love the game, but I prefer PoR for the DS trilogy, and Aria is still my favorite.
>It's also why no one remembers it fondly.
It's one of the most praised titles in the series, the frick are you on about?
Ecclesia is the best of the DS games (which are probably better than SotN already). The only metroidvania objectively better that Ecclesia is Aria of Sorrow. Only homosexuals who like ridiculous easier things and don't want to explore different spells/weapons dislike OoE. The games no one remembers fondly are the gameboy game, the advance gam es outside of Aria and the Lord of Shadow shit .
This amount of cope you have to reality. Both DS games and all 3 GBA games are better than Ecclesia.
Weak bait
Dude, I love the GBA trilogy, but putting CotM and HoD above anything post Aria, is already destroying any semblance of argument you had.
Not him but CotM is better than OoE. That's just fact.
I'm not any of those anons but you must be smoking crack if you really think this
Level design alone says otherwise. To many rooms of CotM map are just "Big Square, to many enemies". Also, Glyps>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
. And I insist, I like CotM.
>OoE
>level design
Ah yes, it's so good that they made half of a video game and then just copy+pasted the other half. Yes, so much better than pic related.
You are fricking insane, holy shit.
That level is fricking great. Irritating but great. Dodging all the arrows, medusas, and fireballs. Same with the waterway. Have to constantly be dodging shit.
Pic related and many others are fricking drag to play in original hardware, and you know it. I liked CotM for it's difficulty, but likewise, traveling these maps with the game speed, color scheme, and general combat, could drag far to long.
I love CotM and would put it over Portrait but you're full of shit.
You told them the truth anon and they lashed out at you.
Stop replying to yourself, schizo.
Someone's brain is pretty smooth
It's my favorite CV so you're wrong about people not holding it in high regard.
Assuming you have a Playstation 4 or a PSP emulator, you have three collection, that each one is the quintessential entry point. Anniversary for Classic Retro Games, Advance for a good taste of the Igavania entries (though from the getgo, I warn you that Aria is the most poolish one in the whole packages) and Requiem, which has in exclusive the best examples for both Classic and Igavania with Rondo of Blood and Symphony of the Night (And if you don't have a PS4, you could try emulate Dracula X Chronicles, get both games, and a rather decent Remake of Rondo out of it as well).
Also, as for your question. I am just getting into shooters myself recently, as well as life sims, and I think is time I give Half Life an actual try, and see what all the fuss was about.
I have an xbox series s.
Well, Anniversary or Advance it is. The Rondo and SotN combo is really good due to covering what many believe is the best example of each branch of the series, but still, Anniversary cover for everything you need classicvania, from the most retro and hard if you want to try the very beginning, or more polished and modern entries, like IV and Bloodlines to be safe.
Advance, though I personally really like it's actual three main games (Dracula X being an oddity for me), I fully admit they aren't the best exponent for Igavanias, with the exception of Aria, which is only limited by it's hardware. It is really up there for me, as one of the best in the whole series. Personal opinions aside, these are still simple games, easy to get into, that will give you a solid taste of the other games in this branch of the series.
I feel like the Advance games do more to set themselves apart from each other than the Classic games do anyway. For classic you might as well just play I, III, Bloodlines, and Rondo and call it a day, there's only so many times you can be like 'wow are those medusa heads' 'omg did they just play vampire Killer'
just play the first game, stupid. castlevania on NES. fricking play it.
>I'm afraid I'm not gonna like it.
and how do you figure that?
NES Castlevania isn't the first one.
it literally is, what the frick
Vampire Killer was the earlier of the two initial versions, it just didn't get published until a month later.
so it did come out first, good job moron
>Castlevania (the co-developed NES variant finished later) is the first game.
>Vampire Killer was finished first. It's the first game. The only way Castlevania is "first" is that it got physically shipped earlier due to the pre-digital distribution era process of producing physical games and getting them on shelves. Vampire Killer has the earlier build date and the effective date of physical release in Japan has no bearing on which is first looking backwards from a non-Japanese perspective.
>"So Castlevania was first!!"
Absolute moron.
One time in a figure drawing class i was chatting with the girl sitting next to me and this guy was standing over us trying to correct me on minor details of the movie we were talking about, and that's how you sound right now
>Say Vampire Killer was the first one
>"Uhm, gay, stupid and wrong?"
>Explain in detail since you think I'm full of shit.
>"Wow, okay nerdenheimer, fricking loser"
Just say you refuse to be wrong and leave it at that.
>the release date has no bearing on which is first
I see?
Back when there was no proper "release date" for most games and stores would get copies anywhere from three weeks early to three months late compared to the "correct" date on the regular, yeah. It's like asking if Mario Bros or Duck Hunt came out first. Official dates are basically worthless
But Duck Hunt was out way before Mario, just like how Castlevania was out before Vampire Killer.
My bad for being vague: I meant how both were "launch window" games for NES but which one was "first" is impossible to determine based on when they physically shipped alone. Not the best example.
man i'm glad i don't have autism
>Say fact
>WRONG
>Explain fact
>AUTISM
Would you prefer I just call you a Black person homosexual several times and explain nothing like everyone else on Ganker?
you are factually wrong and the fact you care is why you are an autistic moron. my last reply btw
What did he mean by this
>includes dracua x instead of rondo
>no SOTN
hard pass
thats already in another collection you moronic zoomer
Sony won't let go of those two.
You need another SOTN rerelease?
I missed the part where SOTN was released on PC.
Also, including dracula X instead of the superior rondo version, which was already released on the PCE...
Oh, I forget people actually want PC rereleases. Like I've been emulating for 17 years it never occurs to me that people who have the ability to do so don't do it because they want it to be "official" or whatever.
Again, Rondo (at least the localize port) is a prisoner of Sony's PSP custom emulator. As for Dracula X, some just want to preserve all the games in the franchise, quality aside, so as random as it is to include it on a Advace Collection, is still good to see it getting a re-release. I do think they could at least had included the Japanese version of Rondo like with the VC, but I guess casual fans not in the known would complain about it not being the localize version.
> Again, Rondo (at least the localize port) is a prisoner of Sony's PSP custom emulator
That's where you're wrong kiddo. Not only did M2 make an emulator for the TurboDuo but it also comes with localized Rondo. Rondo is also localized for the Wii so there are two ROMs floating around. The only reason it isn't on other systems is because Sony bank rolled the port and Konami are greedy fricks.
Just download rondo.exe
Kid dracula is a nice spin off of castlevania you should try if you like mega man
I really want to get into Trails but I don't know if I have 700 hours of JRPG dialogue in me just for the payoff of the music and kino story beats
Don't fall for the meme. Sky is just slightly better (much longer) Golden Sun, Crossbell is absolute middle of the road JRPGs, and Coldsteel is 2/10 seasonal haremshit anime tier.
None of them are strong enough mechanically to hold up on their own, very few entries rise above decent in storytelling, and the long term payoff is underwhelming at best and trash at worst.
Castlevania is 1/3 GOAT, 1/3 good but terribly balanced, and 1/3 absolute trash.
Start off with 4. A lot of people say 3, but if you play this, you'll also be playing the original and you'll also wound up getting used to the control scheme and gameplay mechanics much faster and easier.
Then, play 3: Dracula's Curse. Either NES or Mod would do just fine.
Then, watch AVGN's take on Simon's Quest. Doesn't matter if you played it or not, it's basically a prerequisite that you KNOW how bad it is.
Then, play Bloodlines, which is a much more streamlined intake of 4. After that, play Dracula X/Rondo of Blood.
After that, play SOTN.
After that, play the GBA trilogy. If you want, you can also emulate and play Curse of Darkness+Lament of Innocence for the PS2.
After that, play the DS trilogy.
If you have an Xbox 360, play Harmony of Despair. If not, then either play Kid Dracula, Koumajou Densetsu, or congratulations. You have now played the entire Castlevania series. Now go play the mods, tributes, or other installments like Lords of Shadow and the 64 games that nobody mentions or likes.
And, you can also watch the Netflix adaptation. But only for Season 4.
>Watch AVGN
>Instead of doing research and forming your own opinions
I meant that was 10 years ago, buddy.
What?
>If not, then either play Kid Dracula, Koumajou Densetsu, or congratulations.
congratulations?
>Start with 4
>Then 3
>Then watch some frickall nobody to form an opinion for you like a cuck
>Bloodlines is based
>but not before SOTN, you ALWAYS play Rondo before SOTN, it's not even that long, and make sure it's always the PCengine version
>playing GBA is alright
>DS games are alright
>Basado for Harmony of Despair, always good to end your streak there for multiplayer goodness
>Playing LoS? have a nice day, only MIrror of Fate was any good, the 64 games are beyond anything, doubt anyone cares
>watch the netflix adaption? fricking moronic
4/10 list, go frick yourself shitposter, noones falling for your bullshit takes
Is Harmon of DESPAIR worth a play through? To my knowledge they have a knock off version on unity or some shit I never got the chance to play it on console when it released
It's way past its prime on console and the unity version sucks imo. Sign the petition for a PC version.
Dracula X is such a piece of shit ugh
captcha: JANKH lmao
There's two main kinds of the Castlevania series.
There's the original kind, which goes from Castlevania to Dracula X, where the games require slower, more defensive, and deliberate gameplay since there are a lot of hazards and precision is a must when enemies come at you quickly. These are fun when you play honestly without savestates or cheating and you make progress.
The three Castlevanias for the original Gameboy aren't worth playing. Too slow and cramped. Castlevania II is lousy. Also, when you play Castlevania III, play a translated Japanese version because Nintendo of America made the game more difficult for no reason and it sucks. If you can, don't play Dracula X on the SNES, see if you can find a better port of the one released on the X68000 (Japanese computer).
And then there's the modern Castlevania formula, made in response to the classic games being found in the bargain bin by its creator for their short replay value. You move through labrynthine areas and get stronger through leveling up and gaining permanent items that enhance your abilities. So that started with the Playstation game "Symphony of the Night" and went on for almost fifteen years before the series became dormant. The Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS trilogies are absolutely worth playing. You might want to use a strategy guide for Harmony of Dissonance though, or you're going to waste so much time going back and forth trying to find out where to go next.
My personal favorites are Castlevania III, Super Castlevania IV, Castlevania Bloodlines, Dracula X, Symphony of the Night, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, and Order of Ecclesia.
>The three Castlevanias for the original Gameboy aren't worth playing.
Absolute trash taste, especially since you don't mention Adventure Rebirth.
Adventure Rebirth is good, but the game it's based on is slow, slow, slow. It's a miserable experience. The NES ones are also slower, but it's fine because there's more going on.
>Adventure Rebirth is good, but the game it's based on is slow, slow, slow. It's a miserable experience.
What does that have to do with Adventure Rebirth, though? Yeah, the original Adventure wasn't a good game, but Belmont's Revenge was pretty solid. Furthermore, Rebirth is a completely different experience, since it's like Super Castlevania IV in that it's actually a brand new game with new levels despite being based on an existing game.
I actually liked Belmont's Revenge
Are there any advantages to playing this instead of just emulating it?
The X series. Granted it has a mammoth learning curve and I felt like I was still not knowing wtf I was doing after six hours and just stopped at that point.
Damn it's really, REALLY weird when the character moves at a certain speed when walking but goes faster when jumping.
I've made many attempts to get into SMT, I like everything about it conceptually but can't get into it.
To live in such denial, that you need to rationalize that being the minority, means a single anon had to be crazier than you.
Your hands are weak.
Your brain is smooth.
Your gaming sense is dull.
>For me, the Castlevania series, but I'm afraid I'm not gonna like it.
play Symphony of the night first out of all of them
Just play. Pick out one of the classic games and one of the SotN-like games and go to it. I've only beaten Aria of Sorrow from the games in your pic and it's great. I'm playing through Circle of the Moon right now and loving it. Definitely try out SotN at some point. It's such a pretty game and has such good music.