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Post by Busterific on Apr 30, 2018 13:50:32 GMT -6
My hopes for it being a 'spin-off' would be to explore one or more of the lesser Bloodstained characters which may run before or in tandem with the story line of Bloodstained and be considered canon (as well as possibly having canons in it).
I'm thinking it's going to end up being something in scope similar to Mighty Gunvolt, but with a Bloodstained theme. For what I've played of Mighty Gunvolt, it seems basic in terms of style, enemies, and layout. If it were an NES game back in the day it would have been considered average, or possibly slightly lackluster. It was also on the short side, and overall was an average at best distraction for 30 minutes or so at a time.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 29, 2018 9:07:20 GMT -6
I'm surprised nobody's done one about loot boxes yet. Here's a game breaker that may sound kind of familiar to a degree.
Loot box style chests that give out consumable temporary buffs, but have a small change of giving legendary equipment not available anywhere else in the game*. Loot chest are purchased with 1000 shards a piece, but can also purchasable directly with real money. Purchased shards are random shards of various quality that you would normally be able to obtain by killing enemies with a couple not available outside of purchase for good measure. This randomization works similar to the loot chests themselves.
* The giving out of legendary items is minuscule, but can be controlled by game administrators who give special loot chests to prominent YouTubers to open to make it look like they're more common than they really are.
... I could probably add a lot more detail to this, but hopefully you see where it's going already.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 28, 2018 14:43:53 GMT -6
I wonder how many would be pissed off by. . .
"Classic" Vepar model / skins - $5.00
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Post by Busterific on Apr 28, 2018 9:46:31 GMT -6
I'm not so sure based on the fact that information on this was collected in the recent survey. I'm guessing that they're going to use that as a judge of how many people they're going to piss off by making it non-exclusive versus what the demand for having it non-exclusive is. Although maybe I'm lagging in what I know and they've already finished processing the surveys in which case the decision has probably been made.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 27, 2018 18:36:01 GMT -6
The overall similarities between the Bloodstained quest system and the one in OOE doesn't bother me as much as what they're showing for the actual quests. While they have their place to a degree, I hope the majority of the quests are more involved that just your basic fetch quests, and go murder X number of X type of bad guys.
I'm not sure how I feel about the prequel being changed. I guess I still don't know enough about it to be anything other than indifferent to that bit of news. I think once we find out who the protagonist is going to be and such I'll have a better formed opinion.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 25, 2018 13:08:11 GMT -6
I never used whether a band was Christian or not as a factor to decide whether I liked a band. Usually I don't learn until considerably after the fact whether a band considers itself Christian and have already made up my mind about how I feel about them at that point. If someone came to me and said a band I liked wasn't a real band because it was a Christian band I'd basically tell them that I don't really care and like the band anyway.
Christian movies I tend to be skeptical of though as they have a tendency to have a cringe worthy combination bad acting and a plot that beats you over the head with the fact that it's a Christian movie.
Here's some Iron Maiden, just because it came up here recently.
... and here's a random cover of the same song
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Post by Busterific on Apr 19, 2018 17:19:01 GMT -6
Already filled out the survey, but now that I think about it I should have gone with "vampire pilgrim scuba diver" for the costume question.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 18, 2018 19:02:27 GMT -6
Yngwie nails the neoclassical aspect of the music score, this track in particular has the main riff straight from Dwelling of Doom (Simon's Quest), or maybe the other way around. That being said, some melodic death metal could fit quite nicely in Castlevania, like this record from the american technical/melodic death metal Inferi There's the necessary amount of darkness, but plenty of really grandiose melodies and solos, and also symphonic touches. On another note, I think the last two records from Tribulation would fit really well. They're really different from Inferi, it's relatively soft heavy metal/gothic rock with occult themes, which would already be enough, but the black metal influences add some really eerie atmospheres and so IMO Children of the Night and Down Below are two of the most fitting "metal" albums for the series I can think of right now. I mean, 6:57 sounds straight from "Beginning" (Castlevania III) ! I think the Yngwie song came out several years before Simon's Quest. Personally I think the Inferi song is a bit heavy to fit in with what I would normally consider Castlevania music. The Tribulaiton Down Below album would fit very well with Castlevania music. Now that I've heard it I'd say that's about as close to a Castlevania album as you're going to get in the Metal genre without it specifically being covers of Castlevania music. ... and just to keep things somewhat random, here's Asswolf by Gutalax. For the record, I think I take the Pig Metal stuff even less seriously than music by the Cookie Monster.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 15, 2018 11:58:47 GMT -6
That's tough. The Castlevania music covers such a broad range I'm not sure I could say that a specific band is the most "Castlevania" sounding. For me it would likely end up being something that sounds along the lines of my favorite Castlevania tracks and would more likely be individual tracks rather than a specific band.
For example, I think Epica - Cry for the moon would fit into a Castlevania game quite well, but I would not consider the band Epica the most "Castlevania" sounding band out there.
I definitely like the Yngwie Malmsteen stuff and it would be fitting for Castlevania music, but it seems a little heavy on the guitar to be considered the most "Castlevania" sounding band since there's so much Castlevania music that doesn't have a guitar prominently featured in the music.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 14, 2018 18:57:38 GMT -6
that he at least try
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Post by Busterific on Apr 13, 2018 9:00:26 GMT -6
Remember, if you like instrumentals, you can find just about any song out there with the lyrics removed.
And if you happen to be in an old school NES mood, there's likely some good stuff for you too. The better ones have tones included to replace the vocals.
... and if you happen to be in the mood for McDonalds there something out there for you as well, although this does have vocals.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 12, 2018 8:55:03 GMT -6
That's understandable. To me I actually prefer it in a strange way... You see I generally dislike singing and vocalists. Instruments sound so much better than singing. 'cookie monster' vocalists minimize this bother to me because t hat style of singing is often quieter in the end result for the music.. I mean the singer might be shouting or something but in the actual studio they lower the gain of the singer so that they are kinda on the same level as every other individual instrument. Music with NORMAL vocals on the other hand FREQUENTLY have the singer as the forefront of the music. I get where you're coming from here. I often listen to music while working, and lots of times will listen to instrumental stuff as I find the singing/lyrics distracting to a degree depending on what I'm working on.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 10, 2018 13:56:19 GMT -6
Am I dating myself by saying that I prefer older Thrash Metal and Symphonic Metal?
For whatever reason I have difficulty taking bands where the lead singer sounds like the cookie monster seriously.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 5, 2018 9:55:29 GMT -6
That has me really confused. Was that photo released last Sunday?
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Post by Busterific on Apr 4, 2018 18:00:28 GMT -6
... and every once in a while when you go to pick an item up it randomly runs away from you. I think that may have been something the Secret of Mana chests did every now and again too if I'm remembering right.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 3, 2018 19:08:31 GMT -6
I tend to like it when there is a good scattering of loot to pick up. I don't have a real preference regarding pixel art vs 3d rotating pickups as long as the loot doesn't blend into the background too much.
I like the idea of trapped chests, but don't know how well that would fit in with dropped items. I think I prefer the existing loot bags, but if there were chest drops that were somewhat rare in comparison to regular drops it could work.
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Post by Busterific on Apr 3, 2018 12:01:45 GMT -6
The point is digital objects should not be treated like physical objects. And that kickstarter isn't a binding contract. As long as the creators deliver the product, in what ever state that may be, they aren't liable from anything else. If the creator as roguedragon05 said can improve the community experience in any way they can, then a promise that can only damage the experience should not be kept. While this is technically true regarding Kickstarter, going off and doing something other than promised just because you can just seems like giving a big middle finger to those who backed and had a specific set of expectations.
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Post by Busterific on Mar 30, 2018 17:21:09 GMT -6
Make alucart stuff for "everyone" while backers get alucard stuff. See what I did there? I like that idea. Backers get the Iga Boss and Iga Sword-Whip while non backers get the same, but with some terrible pun or other word play with Igas name. I wish I knew enough Japanese to actually put together a terrible pun.
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Post by Busterific on Mar 30, 2018 13:03:59 GMT -6
I find the "its for the greater good" argument to leave a rather sour taste as well even though that will be the overarching reason for why something promised as exclusive will be made public. I think that has something to do with the government around here constantly pushing questionable policies down the peoples throats claiming it's "for the greater good" when said policies may in fact have a negative impact on a surprising number of individuals in the community.
If you're claiming that your not losing anything by others getting the items made public then you're trying to devalue what that exclusivity is worth to some. In effect you're saying we were going to do this, but it should not actually be worth anything to you, so we're not going to do it anymore. I saw a few posts suggesting some alternatives to make up for the loss of exclusivity which is at least admitting that something is being lost by the backers.
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Post by Busterific on Mar 30, 2018 10:42:39 GMT -6
I don't really care whether the content in question is exclusive to backers or not. On the other hand, it does bother me that one thing was promised in the Kickstarter and that is being changed now, regardless of the reason, and whether the issue is being forced by 505 games or not. I tend to have a very low opinion of anyone to says one thing and then does something else.
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