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Post by Ciel on Jun 18, 2019 13:24:37 GMT -6
Yes you can play it at 4K.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 18, 2019 13:05:22 GMT -6
Improve the price of the game for platforms (Brazil)! In the PC it costs R $ 60,00 reais and in the platforms (digital) R $ 150,00! An absurdity that prevents me from playing on my PS4! And physical media costs absurd $ 220 ~ 250! Please help us! We live in a country full of injustices in which the overwhelming majority of the population receives about R $ 998.00 reais or less to survive in the month (minimum wage). Either, the game costing $ 220 is about 22% of a monthly salary! With rents, food, children, health and everything else! I would not make an appeal here if it were not important! We love the game! As a brazilian, that's just how it is honestly. Console games, even the digital version, are always overpriced no matter what because of taxes and some pricing "standards". I don't think 505 Games can do anything about it, most probably they can't.
I have a most sincere tip for you: abandon console gaming and build yourself a PC for gaming. This country is probably the only place in the world where building a PC for games is actually cheaper than owning a console. You're missing out a lot of Steam and GOG sales my man.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 18, 2019 0:48:17 GMT -6
ciel unfortunately I looked forward to preload because my Internet isn't good in fact, The average download speed is around 500 KBps, 700 if it's a good day, 1 MBps if I'm really really lucky. The game will be unlocked at 17:00 in my area, and I won't even be home by then to initiate the download. What's more, I couldn't play it tonight (and I doubt it would even finish downloading by then). One more day of waiting isn't the worst, but it's disappointing not to be able to play on launch day which I would have loved seeing as I won't even receive my physical copy until God knows when. I know I'll have fun with the game, but this launch is rubbing me the wrong way a bit so I'm not really the happiest about it. Yeah I feel you, with those speeds preload certainly would be ideal.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 18, 2019 0:39:53 GMT -6
Got my keys. Still no preloads though, which is pretty disappointing. If you got it on Steam and your internet is good, preload isn't the best option because it actually takes more time to decrypt than to download the files again.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 17, 2019 22:29:48 GMT -6
Choo choo Hey, you! Yes, YOU! I know from Reddit you have the power to release the game on Steam. Do it. Push that button, you know you want it. Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo it!
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Post by Ciel on Jun 17, 2019 16:36:09 GMT -6
Oooohhh, so they had time to prepare an enhanced Xbox One X version, with HDR and 4K resolution. Now that's interesting, wasn't expecting this to run at 4K on consoles.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 17, 2019 10:30:21 GMT -6
So there was this talk about nudity last week, and good news! Apparently we have nothing to fear: Note: screenshot is not mine Given how this costume was handled the devs certainly didn't care about "west standards" and most likely we aren't going to see not-nudity where ir doesn't make any sense, like in a succubus or something. I'm curious of how Sony greenlighted this lol.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 13, 2019 10:36:27 GMT -6
The art is awesome! But I'm more concerned about clarifying - as a PC physical backer, I'll receive the key on launch day, the physical rewards in August and last of all the physical copy? Did I get that right? Angel-Corlux Last word section of this very update!
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Post by Ciel on Jun 11, 2019 22:22:56 GMT -6
Several people are uploading livestreams at youtube, and that really pisses me off. How the hell did these stores get their stock so early, and just start selling them with no repercussions like this? Two questions I really want answers for. I'm not going to hate on anyone, make childish threats, or other suck kickstarter comments like stupidity, but this really does sting. That's to be expected. Unfortunately (or fortunately in some rare cases) people break the rules all the time. The stores got their stock early because that's just how logistics work. 505 probably has sent the cargo very early to guarantee that everyone has the game ready to sell at launch day without issues. It's better for everyone this way, better safe than sorry. Imagine yourself as a store owner at launch day and you still don't have the game at stock. A lot of customers are going to come only to buy it, and you're forced to say that the cargo is late. You are going to lose those sales (the publisher as well of course) and probably even some of those customers because your store is forever going to be known as "the store that doesn't have the games at launch". It hurts the publisher and the storefront at the same time. That's why they always dispatch everything months in advance just to be sure that everyone get their stock ready.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 7, 2019 15:20:57 GMT -6
Though that could be because I'm a man. Nah, there are plenty of lewd and even +18 artists who are women. Have you ever heard of Sayori, woman lead artist of NekoWorks, an eroge developer responsible for works like Nekopara (if you're going to google it, beware, NSFW images incoming!)? There are plenty of other examples out there. Tsunako is another one, though she only draw lewds, and was lead artist at Compile Heart for a long time (she's still there as a freelancer nowadays), best known for the Neptunia series. Japan is full of examples like these, they're way more open than us when it comes to sexuality (it seems like it, at least). There's even a well known voice actress, Aoi Yuuki, who openly admitted liking shota (again, if you don't know what this is and you're going to google it, BEWARE!) lol.
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Post by Ciel on Jun 6, 2019 17:21:30 GMT -6
I really liked the slipcase, I'm a sucker for foil effect on things. I have a question about that same foil effect though, is it embossed or does it sit on the same level as the black part? I'm not sure if "embossed" is the right word for it, but I'm talking about this kind of thing:
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Post by Ciel on Jun 6, 2019 17:03:36 GMT -6
Flying, fat babies with weapons just got more disturbing. That's honestly an awesome idea for a creepy-horror game enemy.
On topic, it's a shame nudity is still a taboo in videogames in the west, given how live action series have full blown nudity and sex scenes, and somehow things are getting worse for japanese games because of some policies recently adopted by Sony PlayStation (which is now an american controlled division, since 2017) and their platform. Regardless, I hope IGA and his team of artists haven't felt the need to tone down nudity to uphold some "west standards" that a group of said "journalists" are trying to force down our throats. This really is a tiresome subject.
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Post by Ciel on May 30, 2019 22:28:48 GMT -6
The lack of respect to one another is making me want to temp ban everyone with a negative post. Like some mom flailing their arm around at the back seat while driving because she doesn't know what kid started it but she's just gonna start smacking. Everyone chill out. With all due respect, Mike, this doesn't help either. browren has basically been on a insult and defamation campaign against 505 in these forums non-stop since the Linux version got cancelled. He's entitled to his opinion, people are entitled to agree or disagree with him - sympathize with him, even - but he's not entitled to hate on 505 non-stop every time there's an update. It's not as if we don't know how he feels, and there are separate threads for that. At the end of the day, he's not here simply share his thoughts on the project - he's in the forums to spread hate on the game, and hopefully sour people on it to undermine its chances of success. This attitude is the ultimate show of disrespect to you and every other backer who's spent time and effort cultivating a positive environment where people can agree to disagree. True, many otherwise respectful members of the community have responded negatively to him, as well - but only because his own hostility to the project. He may not use vulgar language, but calling 505 thieves is not exactly being respectful either. Bottom line, if mods want to ban someone, ban him. There, I said it. It would not be suppressing someone for feeling cheated and expressing it - his conduct has gone far beyond that. There is ample justification to do it if you so choose, on the basis of him showing disrespect to the entire community through his conduct. Now, I'm sure he'll proceed to quote each and every last sentence in this post and go on about how the cheaters are 505 and they're the ones showing disrespect to the customers, etc. I'll ignore him, because what he wants is attention. I suggest everyone ignore him as well. I'm also cognizant that this post might get me in trouble, as well, but I've seen and had enough at this point. Mods need to step up and do their job without trying to be "fair to both sides" - the one that's full of spite and the one that's just looking forward to the game - or I'll gladly leave these forums myself. With all due respect, given how much you contribute to this community, I completely disagree with you.
You see, his complaints and demands are totally legit and valid. Wii U and PS Vita backers received an option to get their money back, why then Linux/Mac backers didn't? Are they somehow inferior to the others? And what's with "middleware problems" with Linux? You certainly know, as much as me and browren given we are all developers, that Linux has an awesome and active developing community that would happily help with whatever problems they were facing. Yet, as stated by browren several times now, they probably didn't even try.
Browren's persistence is not his fault, but 505's. He already tried to contact all social media accounts, Discord and this forum, and to this day he only got radio silence and generic answers. What do you expect him to do now that he tried everything? Giving up, really? He decided to post his complaints on every Kickstarter update thread because it's the most likely place to be read by a 505 staff member. It would be spam should he create a new thread everytime he wants to complain about the same thing after all.
I don't think he has been direspectful at all. Sure, this time around he may have said too much with the "thief" thing, but that isn't a valid reason for a ban (at least in my opinion), a warning sure but a ban would be too much. He's frustrated, it's natural for a frustrated person to be negative. That doesn't mean he is actively trying to sour everyone's else experience. I see that a couple of people are acting like he is doing that, but honestly that's not browren's problem.
Finally, do you really think that everyone here can agree to disagree? Two years ago I called this place an "echo-chamber", and I relinquished myself to be a lurker, posting only occasionally. I did this because everytime someone appeared here with a more negative criticism, be it valid or not, he was met with tons of backers downplaying his comment and shooing him away of this forum. It happened last year with that "Graphics Downgrade" thread, where we had to deal with some backers downplaying our complaints by saying "stop complaining guys, the game's still in development, it will be resolved" or "it's only the graphics, who cares about graphics", when at the time the game was only months away of launch. I wonder what would have happened if we have stopped giving feedback at the time, surely WayForward wouldn't have stepped in to fix those damn ugly graphics. And now this is happening, when we have a couple of backers downplaying browren's valid criticism and demanding him to stop everytime he posts something because reasons. This is a discussion forum, and an official one at that, where every opinion and complaint should be heard. You may think one or another is invalid, but sure as hell you don't have the right to shut up someone else.
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Post by Ciel on May 25, 2019 20:29:08 GMT -6
Ai gente bonita, alguma previsão de quando vamos começar a receber as keys ou vai ser só no dia mesmo? Rapaz, pelo o que foi dito no update, o objetivo da 505 Games é fazer com que todos os backers já estejam com os jogos em mãos no dia do lançament. Na minha visão, duvido que isso ocorra para nós brasileiros que deram dinheiro para a edição física. Os Correios com certeza não vão entregar à tempo. Dito isso, acredito que eles vão nos enviar a key para ativação independente da edição física chegar ou não. Eu cheguei a perguntar isso para o Angel Corlux ano passado eu acho, e ele disse que iria verificar isso. Não sei como ficou no final, mas acredito que vão fazer isso que falei sim.
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Post by Ciel on May 25, 2019 12:01:15 GMT -6
I do not. That would be a question best left to Angel or Question if you would like to tag them about it. Well I do want to know about that, as someone who lives in Brazil paying two high abusive import taxes is something I would like to avoid.
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Post by Ciel on Apr 26, 2019 12:23:21 GMT -6
That said, the difference in visual smoothness offered by increasing fps is relatively small; unless you have really good and experienced eyes, you often won't be able to tell if a game's running at 30 fps or 60 fps unless you're looking at the game running on separate monitors side by side. It also helps if the two monitors are of the same make and model, with the same color settings. If these conditions are met, then anyone can tell the difference; otherwise, only people with really good eyes will notice... I just want to comment this point because I disagree wholeheartedly. As someone whose main platform is PC since forever, there's a clear visual difference going from 30 FPS to 60 FPS, the smoothness is there and it shows (and going by the Steam forums, the PC gaming community agrees). You might be correct if we're talking about monitors with Adaptive Sync technology, specially those high-end FreeSync with Low Framerate Compensation and the legit G-Sync ones, because it smoothes out framerate drops (if they stay on the range, that is). I have always wondered how people can say this honestly, when nowadays developers are even starting to put multiple graphic modes (high performance and visual first, generally) on the console version of their games. I don't like using straight-out comparisons because they aren't that good, but this: www.30vs60fps.com/ exists.
Anyway, 30 FPS on Switch was expected, it's a shame but given how a first-party Nintendo game couldn't get it without sacrificing 720p, then it really couldn't be done.
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Post by Ciel on Apr 20, 2019 22:08:31 GMT -6
I'm not sure how to feel about this. It's great to see Castlevania finally getting _something_ after so many years, but on the other hand this is 2019 Konami. Unless they're doing this to gauge public reception to Castlevania for a new console and desktop mainline entry, to me this is nothing but easy cash grab on nostalgia appeal. Konami has to try way harder if they want to fully recover the goodwill of their lost fanbase.
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Post by Ciel on Apr 10, 2019 0:12:02 GMT -6
Important notes:- Daily reminder that Bloodstained: RotN doesn’t need an easy modo. I hope you're joking and just repeating an elitist gamer meme. As long as there's a way to play the game with a higher challenge for me, I couldn't care less if there's an easy mode (and yes I realize this game has two harder modes above Normal). The more options the merrier and if an easy mode could be the difference between someone else being able to experience a game to its fullest and love it all the better. Same thing applies to every freaking videogame out there. Stop gatekeeping your videogames they don't belong to you or me, they belong to everyone. I'm not going to be angry if there's no easy mode but I wont either if there is one. Add it to Sekiro even, see if I care. And neither should you. I don't give a damn about From Software games and the whole mess regarding easy mode on their games, but this right here: is a fallacy and I'll tell you why: games don't and shouldn't need to cater everyone, and neither their creators should feel the need to adapt their creations according to what the crowd X or Y (with both don't being their core audience) wants. We actually have an example right here: there were a lot of people asking for a combo-based gameplay in Bloodstained, which of course makes no sense when it comes to igavania titles, even though such crowd had actually a lot of good arguments as to why that was a good thing to do. Ultimately, how such argument ended? "This is an Igavania game, combo-based gameplay while being a good idea, it doesn't belong to this genre, and we don't want that".
You may be thinking that I'm stretching a little bit, saying that such a difference on gameplay is just as important as a difficult level, but how much important it is doesn't actually matter. If a team of developers decided that their game should be played using a fixed level of difficulty, so be it. It's their game, they should appeal to their audience, and their audience wants it the way it is, just like we (the core audience of Bloodstained) wanted an igavania title with no combo-based gameplay. It's because of this way of thinking, that games should cater to everyone (which doesn't happens with NO other media), that the western AAA industry is creatively dead.
Just a disclaimer though: I'm not against giving the player the choice of which level of diffilcuty he wants to use, but if the developers didn't included it, then there's a reason as to why such decision was made (and to cater their core audience is a legitimate reason).
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Post by Ciel on Apr 6, 2019 14:34:57 GMT -6
So after searching relentlessly, this finally caught my eye. Seems to be the most recent build. What do you guys think? Pretty snazzy if you ask me! Bloodstained starts at 5:39:00. They FINALLY, FINALLY fixed the lightning! It took them TWO (maybe three) years, TONS of feedback and complaining of people pointing out how bad it was before, and calling in another team to help out, but it's FINALLY done! I may be sounding rude but I'm really glad they heard our feedback and did something about this whole ordeal.
God bless WayForward! I'm really glad they found some really capable people to work on the project. It's a shame they probably don't have a lot of time to work on and the job that was done until now doesn't help, but what WayForward has done so far is amazing.
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Post by Ciel on Feb 14, 2019 13:50:04 GMT -6
HAVE YOU PLAYED HOLLOW KNIGHT? EVERYONE LOVES HOLLOW KNIGHT! HOLLOW KNIGHT. HOLLOW KNIGHT! HOLLOW KNIIIIIIIIGHT! Yeah. Hollow Knight is a thing for some people. I personally don't like it. Do I think Hollow Knight is a terrible game? Nope. It's just not a game for me. Is Bloodstained the most gorgeous game there ever was? Nah. But I didn't want that. I wanted the successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and everything here says I'm getting *more* than that. Shwing! The ONE THING I'm not getting is a nice Alfred from the looks of it. Dammit. I wanted Alfred to be playable and likeable, not a shifty neckbeard who can also turn your internal organs into hot, hot death. Do you see what I did, eru ? I had an opinion and didn't need to belittle others or even any of the games mentioned to make it. I was going to leave this thread alone as asked, but since you summoned me back, sorry mods, delete if you want
Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and most of them stink. From everything we've seen Bloodstained has very low quality textures, unless they have 4k textures hidden for release, that's a fact, not opinion.
High quality textures = good Low quality textures = bad Bloodstained =
Textures alone don't make great looking game, it's combination of them, animations, lightning etc. I'm not saying Hollow knight is best looking metroidvania ever, but it does what it wants extremely well, that trailer is absolutely amazing, everything fits and nothing pops out. Bloodstained trailer is just giant "meh", the only way to improve the experience is to watch it on smallest screen possible, fullscreen on 1440 makes me want to kill myself. Here's cherry picked one
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Feel free to think it's belittling of me to say anyone who thinks that looks good has no taste.
Edit: I dare you to find me something similar in that hollow knight trailer.
As someone who owns a 4K monitor, the youtube video really doesn't help at all with it being 1080p. In-game and in motion it's not THAT bad, although the textures are indeed in the lower quality side and that is unquestionable.
That said, the game really does look a lot better now if compared to how the graphics were on the beta demo. The lightning is improved, game is more colorful and more stylized (must be WayForward's influence, and I'm fine with that) and there is a lot more contrast. At this point I don't think much could be done about the textures so we'll have to live with that, and there's still some problems (like why in the hell almost everything is shining? This seems to be a lightning problem, probably a light source is positioned at the same point of the camera, which in turn would explain the weird miriam's shadow) but overall the game looks more adequate for a almost-final product and I'm kinda okay with out it turned out.
And at last we have a box art! I'm really impressed by Mana's work and how it fits the whole Bloodstained theme. Hyped to see how it will look on a physical box!
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