The Castlevania Anniversary Collection is out today. Japanese versions of each game will be patched in a post launch update sometime soon.
It's out in Japan and for Europoors, America gets it in a couple hours. What game are you playing through first when you get it?
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CV1, haven't played it in a while
I don't know. I never played Castlevania before so hopefully I like it.
>not available on eShop to preorder
What the fuck, Nintendo
This, I'm slightly annoyed by it
Gonna get it today after work. I want to finally beat CV1
>imagine being excited for a bunch of old roms and a fucking ebook
A few of these games are better than anything that's released new so far in 2019.
I'm just excited Konami is doing something with the IP again, and we're getting Bloodstained next month too. It's a good time to be a Castlevania fan in general.
>classicvania
yucky. give me metroidvania or don't bother.
I bet your ass most people (read non autistic) won't touch those shit ass games for more than 5 minutes before being bored and moving on to something else.
Project nimbus is releasing today and despite being borderline shovelware, it's already a better deal than this collection, that is if you love gundam and cool ass robots.
>Giving Konami more money to make pachinko machines
Why does everyone act like Metroidvania is the only thing that matters about Castlevania
I'm so fucking sick of that format it's been done to death and only 2-3 out of 7-8 we got of them were good
Alright, so, where's the dump of the official English rom for Kid Dracula so I can emulate it for free?
nah fuck off. metroidvania or nothing.
This. I don't like the classicvania games much.
git gud
cotm is harder than any stinky bumwipe classicvania
i don't see it on Steam
playstationtrophies.org
Crummy trophy list DESU
No plat, no buy
Cotm also has a shit drop system and level design consisting of nothing but zigzag staircases.
Classicvania games are the best in the series and IGA trash plays like bargain bin Metroid.
>needing cards at all
git gud
> level design consisting of nothing but zigzag staircases.
so classicvania?
>cotm
>hard
It was the first Castlevania I ever beat and I haven't managed to beat any of the Classicvanias yet.
I didn't need them just saying the system was shit. Also if they're so similar then you should like classic.
>classic babies mad that their crap is outshined by metroidvania
sotn, dos and aos are peak castlevania.
don't @ me
I like both. Cotm still sucked dick.
@
>official NA release of Kid Dracula
>ebook
Not worth 20 bux I reckon. Everything else is just roms we've been emulating for 20 years.
I just hope they look and run OK. I'm expecting a Mega Man Legacy situation though. I wish Dracula X was in it, fuck everybody I love that game.
I'm not mad at no Plat, but it's shit that there's no variety. If I wanted to beat CV3 with little or no reward I'd just emulate it then have a beer. Fuck.
They fixed MM tho, the first collection is better than the other 3 now, save anywhere you want, no lag and rewind option
Anyone knows if you can select the games region like in other M2 developed releases? Would be great for Castlevania III for example.
After playing Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, I can't say I give too much a shit about non metroidvania Castlevania games. That game is quite literally the perfect difficulty, fun as hell, and not as frustrating as the things in this collection. As much as I loved Bloodlines, that was Sega bias. Konami had Rocket Knight over Castlevania on that system.
Can't you fucking read the OP?
Konami just downloaded an opensource emulator and put some roms on it that they also downloaded from "pirates".
They spent less than 5 minutes on throwing this together, then charging you $20 for it.
Also LMAO at calling downloading 30-year old roms "piracy". These fucking games should be in the fucking public domain already.
Know what they did to Castlevania's original programmers BTW?
"-Because his games never sold that well and Konami was always a profit-minded company, he was demoted to work in a game center, and left very soon after. Apparently this happened to a lot of Konami staff even back then, and many of them went to Square."
That's how much Konami gave a shit about Castlevania even back in the '90s or the 'talent' behind it. I can almost guarantee you that Akamatsu won't be seeing a single cent from this collection's sales, that will all go to some pachinko sales manager over at Konami.
Keep sucking that corporate dick son. Emulating this shit and downloading it is the more ethical option vs. rewarding Konami that did nothing but piss the talent away and reduce them to gym janitors because they didn't appreciate the games or the talent behind it, but they still want to cashgrab off a bunch of nostalgia from a bunch of 30 year old games.
Know why they do these collections every 5 or so odd years or so no matter how dead the franchise is? If you don't use your trademark in about 5 years, you run the real risk of it becoming an invalid trademark. You can't just have a bunch of trademarks around that you never use, that is against trademark laws. So these scummy companies still push out these old cashgrab 'remasters' and 'collections', tell the fans "buy loads and we might give you a new $0 budget sequel". In reality, they don't expect to turn a profit, it's to keep the trademark.
>Konami just downloaded an opensource emulator and put some roms on it that they also downloaded from "pirates".
Konami didn't do shit and that's not M2 modus operandi, do you have any proof of that claim?
Also
>linking to resetgender
Go back and stay.
M2 just rips off the very same opensource emulators and pretends they wrote it all from scratch.
They pretended they 'invented' how to do NAOMI emulation on the Switch at the very same time that a Reicast build with Naomi support was being released for free on jailbroken Switch with Lakka. They don't do anything that opensource emulators haven't already done decades before them.
Digital Eclipse too are a bunch of freeloading parasites that call their MAME fork "proprietary technology".
You fuck off you stupid faggot go kys
what's the point of buying these on PC over emulation?
You first. Classicvanias a shit.
>preordering a digital game
>what's the point of buying these on PC over emulation?
Konami gets to have your money?
Thank you for your support!
I am once again here just for the castlevania full set of games in a dropbox, if someone has the link for the 3.5 version hit me up.
I want Collection 2 with Shanoa game in it!
>No Vita version
I hate this artist holy shit
Bet your ass they sell each DS game and Requiem (RoB+SOTN) as standalone $20 titles.
CV Collection 2 will be X8600, Chronicles, Dracula X, Adventure Rebirth and the GBA games.
It seems like the most predictable Konami move.
Why is 1GB in size? The games are only a few kb each?
>All these mental gymnastic and "opinions" based on false information just to justify piracy
Just say you're too cheap or poor to pay for it. Piratefags need to stop coming up with convoluted reasoning for not paying for things
Are these actually good? I’ve never played a classicvania besides Rondo, which I really enjoyed
I’ve heard some of the earlier titles are just BS hard
1 is the perfect difficulty, you just gotta get used to how the knockback works and plan your jumps/positioning accordingly.
CV3 is great too but the "BS hard" comes from the janky US version that upped the difficulty with weird changes, play the JP one which will be patched into the Collection relatively soon.
CV4 is piss easy.
And Bloodlines is the hardest because no infinite continues.
does that include the cellphone versions of CV1
all 3 of them
oh and the cellphone versions of Aria and Dawn too
I’m guessing whatever save feature this collection has will alleviate that to an extent?
Honestly giving it some thought, I'm glad they did the first collection of just classicvania. While I adore metroidvanias I also love the classics, having these on my switch is gonna be nice to relax with.
There's some incredibly hard difficulty spikes in some of them (the second to last level of 1 for example) and adventure and NES 2 are actually terrible games. But for the most part I feel like it's challenging without getting TOO BS, just spend enough time with it and learn the controls and you're be golden
They're gonna sell them in pairs.
Aria+Dawn is obvious
then I guess Circle+Harmony/Portrait+Order
achievement fags are cancer.
How do you guys stomach big collections like this? I recently marathoned every classic Megaman game and MMX game and now I'm just completely sick of Megaman.
the way to stomach it would have been to include only the good games and not dogshit like adventure and simon's unfinished game
apropos Megaman, did you know Kid Dracula is a MM clone? and they included it in this collection because fuck having a good game like Rondo or Chronicles, KD is weird and I found it on wikipedia, I must be a truefan if I namedrop it!
(I would have even taken the Snes version of Rondo due to Requiem being a thing, atleast it's interesting)
By not marathoning them??? Jesus Christ user you're not supposed to marathon 18 games in a row. The collections are for booting up when you just feel like playing a specific game.
marathonin isn't even the issue, the fact that the quality curve is so uneven, you peak early then through then peak again after you trudged your way through the dulldrums of the series
and I should get this instead of emulating why?
to play it on the go on your Switch or on a big screen TV.
Portability is a meme and you can play it on a big screen tv already.
there will be no collection with the DS games, you think that new konami will adapt the 2 screens + stylus games? nah,, at best we will get the gba games but theres no way in hell they will include the ds games in any collection
i wouldn't be giving others shit you sure do come across as someone on the spectrum if you think people give a shit about whatever it is you're talking about
there's a trick in it to get essentially infinite continues
guy they made a PSP romhack for Requiem, they'll hack together some shit for the DS games too, hell they cut the stylus shit from Dawn, they make it an objectively better game
other than that, what did the second screen do? house some menus and the map? easy peasy
I just said each one will be a Standalone title priced at $20, which they will justify by implementing either a picture-in-picture mode, or by forcing the game to pause when you swap from playing to viewing the map/status screen.
How's the input lag? The Mega Man and X collections were practically unplayable on switch for me
Castlevania III is the best Castlevania game ever made and if you think otherwise then I'm not sure you should be allowed to have opinions. It does almost everything right
Rondo is best, any other opinion is nostalgiafagging or contrarianism
CV3 is no.6, the list goes
1. Rondo
2. Chronicles
3. Bloodlines
4. IV
5. Rebirth
6. III
7. I
And that's the list of games worth bothering with as far as classic CV is concerned, those are all good games
>Rondo
>some of the blandest, flattest stage design in the franchise
>"the best"
Lol
>And that's the list of games worth bothering with as far as classic CV is concerned
>No Belmont's Revenge
You are a faggot.
It's cool the JP versions are getting put in but what's the differences? Is it really worth mentioning? Honest question as I've no idea.
>flat&bland stage design
>the game with alternate paths that lead to separate bosses and a bunch of hidden areas
>[flat&bland]
>the game with levels like the the waterfall level, the intro carriage and other shit
you could have just said 'I never played it' and not embarrass yourself
In CV3 it makes a big difference, the other games it's mostly minor graphical changes.
embarrassing post
based retard
not only is that not actually true, but rondo also has on average much more engaging enemy design that other castlevanias where even if you're on a flat level it's going to be a completely different experience depending on what they put in front of you.
>Balmont's Vengeance
overrated GB nostalgiafag game, made better due to Adventure 1 being a giant piece of shit it makes it look great in comparison
first 4 levels are alright, nothing memorable, but not garbage like Adv1, then you get to the Castle and it turns into the same exact same garbage as Adv1
skip
Thanks for confirming how much of a faggot you are.
What does it do in CV3?
>>the game with alternate paths that lead to separate bosses and a bunch of hidden areas
cv3 started that though
Is it digital only
>but rondo also has on average much more engaging enemy design
You're thinking of Bloodlines. Or at least I hope you are
Get over yourself. These games have been released like fifty times (okay not Kid Dracula but the rest) already, not to mention being playable in Windows for like a few decades. It doesn't hurt to want a little variety or something extra.
bloodlines is also great, but rondo is a great gamer. sorry you're such a hipster you can't appreciate it.
nobody said it innovated it, just that it has stuff like that, alongside great encounters and set pieces, disproving the whole bland stage design complaint
Nice, a bunch of classic Castlevanias. And The Adventure.
The game is balanced completely differently.
*pulls out wallet*
*sees there's no plat*
*puts wallet back into my ass*
if it makes you feel better, it's in the running for being the best out the leftover shitpile, certainly better than CV2 and Haunted Castle
Omg cant you like just turn your brain off???
>Bait didn't reel in enough people so he has to resort to replying to his own post
>justifying piracy
Piracy is the norm, buying needs to be justified
If you buy the European version will it include the censored EU version or the uncensored US version?
Sounds barebones. The X collections are how you do it, and even those could've had more features.
honestly i hated rondo until i learned how to use the backflip (and why it existed). after getting the hang of it it became super fun to try maneuvering around enemies. for those who dont know the backflip gives you extra vertical and horizontal distance
That's right. You can pay to play the same games for little or no reward, just like we've already been doing for 20 years.
Xbox version has weird audio crackling, you also can't remap controls.
From Konami twitter
>The Vampire Hunters are back!!
>The first #Castlevania Anniversary Collection is out today on PlayStation®Store, Xbox Live, Nintendo Switch™ eShop, & Steam/PC for SRP $19.99!
>the first
Incontestable proof there will be another collection later.
i don't know, the fact is they removed the swatzika in one of the kid dracula bosses
Classic Collection 2 with Amigavania roflmao
DOwnloading a 30 year old rom is not piracy dude, it's pathetic ancient dogshit that should no longer have a price and should be in the public domain already.
You paying Konami $20 for this shit means some pachinko sales manager gets his money, the guy who made the actual Castlevania games 30 years ago got laid off 30 years ago already, he ain't getting a cent out of this.
8 more classic games!
Vampire Killer
Snes Rondo
Legends
CV1 on DOS
CV1 on Amiga
CV1 on C64
CV1 on Cellphone Ver.3
Tiger Electronics CV
>Implying they'd put Dracula X instead of just adding Haunted Castle again.
lel
fucking eshop
>buying this on switch
Fucking Kek you deserve to wait faggot
why would you buy it on any other system
What the fuck kind of logic is that? The company still holds rights to the IP and any products made with it and rightfully so. Public Domain doesn't apply for like 70 years after the creation of a work. At 30 years, you'd lose rights to things you created within your lifetime. That's retarded.
The company deserves money for the IP created by its employees under the terms of their employment and, moreover, showing interest in a series like this which seems on the brink of revival seems like it could have a real chance of showing them investing more money in the property is a worthwhile venture.
Never go into business you shortsighted fuck.
Because the switch version doesn’t have kid Dracula?
English Kid Dracula rom when
>Public Domain doesn't apply for like 70 years after the creation of a work. At 30 years, you'd lose rights to things you created within your lifetime.
That's only because Disney fucked up the copyright laws after leeching off public domain to make their fortunes. A Jew profited off public domain, then made sure his own bootleg fanfiction from European tales could not be public domained.
If anybody is retarded, its' your sperg corporate dicksucking ass.
Now go and pay your nippon pachinko overlord $20 for the glorious honor of running an opensource emu with a rom bootlegged from the Internet. I'm sure he will consider making you a great new Castlevania game, lulz. Pathetic sucker.
source for this claim?
Source? I can't find anything.
>The company deserves money for the IP created by its employees under the terms of their employment and, moreover, showing interest in a series like this which seems on the brink of revival seems like it could have a real chance of showing them investing more money in the property is a worthwhile venture.
> On the brink of revival
Lulz, he actually believes this.
Nigga, this is a cashgrab made on a shoestring budget of $2.
At best they might farm it off again to MercurySteam or some other trash Eurojank developer, "aim for a big audience" again, flop miserably, then put it in the freezer again for another 10+ year.
Pathetic suckers like you were made to be milked and fleeced by these pachinko salesmen. Stupid fucking weeb.
Yes it fucking does you retard
WHERE IS IT NINTENDOOOO
>People who play video games are cancer
>Never go into business you shortsighted fuck.
Castlevania is played out ancient garbage that only ageing 30+ year olds care about in this day.
> Never get into business
Said by a weeb sperg, who thinks Konami is making good business moves. If they did, they would have a franchise that isn't dead and actually has people emotionally invested into it.
Bloodborne is the only 3D Castlevania game that isn't halfway dogshit, and it isn't even a Castlevania game or made by Konami. That's how utterly shit Castlevania as a franchise is. It has been dogshit now for over 20+ years. Let it go. Call it a day, get the latest From Soft game and forget about Castlevania ever becoming 'good' again. Those days are long gone, and anybody of any talent has long since left the pachinko building.
PS4 and Xbone versions have super loud beeps and audio crackling, Switch version so far seems fine.
>The company deserves money for the IP created by its employees under the terms of their employment and, moreover, showing interest in a series like this which seems on the brink of revival seems like it could have a real chance of showing them investing more money in the property is a worthwhile venture.
They're never going to invest in a series again that hasn't made them any real money ever since the NES days.
> ""-Because his games never sold that well and Konami was always a profit-minded company, he was demoted to work in a game center, and left very soon after. Apparently this happened to a lot of Konami staff even back then, and many of them went to Square.""
Konami doesn't give a shit about Castlevania. This is old dogshit ancient IP worth to be milked again for a few autists that are willing to buy it, desperately hoping for some new dogshit to be farmed out by MercurySteam.
>Pretty much exclusively Classic Style Castlevania
>Doesn't even have the Rondo of Blood
Also call me when they add Aria and Dawn of Sorrow.
>not playing platformers on a handheld console hybrid
kek
I can't find it on eshop.
Rondo of Blood was in the Requiem Collection recently.
I remember getting the OG NES castlevania remake on a GBA cart years back. Got my shit pushed in after a few stages in. The games are hard as hell. Would rather fire up link to the past for oldass games desu. 2D castlevania games are frustrating unless your some oldschool /vr/ boomer or memesouls masochist.
.... And the collection is dogshit -
- No Button re-mapping
- sound issues
- Menus fucked up
- Lack of save-slots
But MUHHHH M2 MUHHH M2
Pathetic loser weebs, getting fucked up the ass by pachinko salary men.
PT Barnum " a sucker is born every minute"
>a bunch of outdated shit
>no gba games
>no ds games
>no symphony of the night
Why should anyone even bother
Been playing through the GBA and DS games for the first time so I'll probably pick this up at some point, too
>resetera
BEEPS IN CASTLEVANIA 1
BEEPS IN CASTLEVANIA 1
MUH M2 CAN't EVEN DO NES SOUND EMULATION
LMAO
COMMERCIAL EMULATION IS ALWAYS INFERIOR, ALWAYS
>- Lack of save-slots
Don't these games use a password system?
Too bad they never released it on the Switch despite Richter being in fucking Smash Bros.
I already have it but still.
Still doesn't really excuse them for separating these out arbitrarily. Requiem didn't even have Dracula X Chronicles. Despite it being the better version of RoB in my opinion
The collection has save and reload functions which should help with some of the difficulty. Also, the JP versions they're adding later have lower difficulty than their US counterparts.
You may wanna try Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. It's a pretty well balanced CVIII style game with a very reasonable difficulty overall.
You get one save state slot, which is utterly pathetic compared to any open source emulator.
Can pretty much guarantee you latency will be dogshit as usual with these "collections".
Where is the sound popping?
The worst part is that the arcade collection they released earlier had remapable controls complete with a rapid fire feature and a save slot per game.
>using save states
kill yourself
Just in the PS4 and Xbone versions
literally not an argument you fucking retard. Every fucking collection of retro games should have at least 3. What's even worse is like capcom for x collection who give you none.
no physical no buy
requiem didnt have save states, why would you need them? get good
WHERE IS IT!?
REEEEEE
man, when are they going to launch it on PC/switch? what the fuck are they waiting for?
so the switch and steam versions are fine?
how bizarre since those both usually get the worst ports unless its custom made for the platforms.
to be fair both those games have a save system built in so save states are kinda pointless
it does have quick save tho
Holy fucking shit I fucking knew that you were just a shitter who wants an easy time of it. Is this the power of PC ucks? I mean I'm shit at these games but holy fuck play them as they were intended and stop getting babied by fucking save states.
More preload so you don't have to go to the eshop right when it's being released.
Holy shit Nintendo fuck off with these eshop releases. Unless it's first party every other dev gets fucked over by their unpredictable upload times.
> Imagine wanting to be artificially limited when it's technically possible.
>LITERALYY CLASSIC TIMELESS GAMES
>Boot it up
>Stiff controls and jumping
>Only attack with a whip and limited projectiles
Holy fuck is this what boomers unironically consider masterpieces?
I've already played and beaten the game multiple times. I just want to enjoy them without any fucking bullshit anymore. People don't have time anymore to play NES games with bullshit checkpoints.
>imagine being too shit to play the game as it was intended
lol I remember when that gman tard complained about a console shooter having no save states. PC friends are the biggest posers imaginable. They lord over console players yet want things to be as easy as possible.
They're not worth any money anymore yeah.
They were good 30+ years ago.
They should be in the public domain. It's ancient dogshit now.
At least with emulation you can just download this shit. If a company isn't going to play properly by the books, people will take it in their own hands. Fuck Pachinko salarymen.
No they are fucking not, at least not the switch, i'm currently playing the switch collection and the sound in 1 and 3 is full of crackles in the tunes.
Bloodlines sounds ok so far.
Also it already received an update almost as big as the collection itself, no jpn games yet.
>get to Dracula
>can’t land an axe because he keeps flying into me
Fuck this pachinko trash
The metroidvania style games are fun but I vastly prefer classicvania. I wish the two styles could coexist or alternate. Pumped for this collection. I wish it would show up on switch already. I'd like to have it portable. I might give up and get it on ps4 soon.
You sound like one of those tittybabies who want easy modes and homogeneous controls in everything. Taking on and clearing a game on its own terms can be very satisfying.
Steam's database usually updates at 10:00A PDT. So I expect in in about 20 minutes.
No idea about Switch.
>ctrlf pachinko
>9 results
Holy fuck this autist just won't stop
>still not on eShop
Reeeeeeeeeee
He sounds a bit angry.
sounds like this hothead needs to cool off
>remembering the falling blocks level in iii
Is there a video showcasing these sound issues?
I'm curious.
>I need to validate my experience in any way possible, there's no way I can just have personal enjoyment as my reward!
fags
At least achievementfags actually play video games to earn their rewards unlike braindead autists who spend their time complaining about not having any save states on anonymous imageboards.
Bloodlines is also hard to get a hold of officially.
>playing platformers with the joycon analog or joycon dpad
no thanks
Hi there, how's it going over at Konami HQ?
Do you like working as a janitor in the gym?
I think we have a new Barry here folks
Or Blunderfag.
>inb4 a new castlevania comes out and he spends all his time shitting up threads for it
wow user your a big guy, was sperging out on 4channel part of your plan?
It's probably just for the frontend and images they scanned for the digital artbook.
>still not up on steam
As much as it was your plan to be a mindless weeb consumer that consumes every little dogshit pushed out by pachinko salesmen.
In this case 30+ y/o ancient roms, and getting all butthurt about it when people point out how retarded it is to waste your money on ancient shit that isn't good anymore and that can already be gotten for over 20+ years for free.
Or Switch...
IT'S UP ON SWITCH!
UNDER GUILTY GEAR!
Eeeeeeeeeyaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!
its up on every Territory but burger land for switch
It's out on switch. Doesn't show up under new releases for me but if you search for it it's there.
Finally. Just gotta make it through work now...
M2 is indeed overrated. Yeah, they ported Gauntlet to the Genesis once and it was a good, but it's pretty obvious they rely on freeware emulators and ROMs too.
What gave this away for me was in the Konami's Arcade Hits compilation on the Nintendo DS. The MAME emulation of the arcade Contra is missing a ROM which results in the enemy patterns during the 3D stages to behave inaccurate. The Nintendo DS port also has this flaw, but the PS4 Arcade Archives port does not.
b.u..u.u...why not on the Switchy Witchy.... it's the porty worty manchiny
Noice, getting both.
The collection is great even retains the originals slowdown. Everything tuns smooth and the colors pop.
The Ebook is really good too, loads of production art I've never seen like maps and stage design layouts.
Vol 2 should be the GBA and DS games with SOTN and Rondo
Vol 3 should be the N64 and PS2 games with PS1 CV chronicles
There won't be a Vol.2 nor Vol. 3. That was just a mistranslation.
You're really underselling what's typical of them and their work wuth sega. Inb4 the autist post the fucked up VR colors. Wow one mistake out of multiple good ports truly a shit company.
Unless this sells. Like, really REALLY well.
>The collection is great even retains the originals slowdown.
Why would you want that? That's a defect if anything.
>2500 ARS
>literally 60 USD
no way, fag
uuuuuuuuuuuuh
I only really see enough material for a Vol. 2 though. They already re-released Rondo and Symphony on PS4, so that leaves us with the SNES version of Dracula X, the MSX2 and X68000 versions of Dracula 1, Legends, the three GBA games and maybe ReBirth.
The 3D and DS games would probably require a bit more effort to port and I doubt there's enough demand for stand-alone remasters of Castlevania 64 or Lament of Innocence.
Curse of Darkness/Lament of Innocence seems like a PS4 only release since all Konami has to do is ask Sony to run their isos through their PS2 emulator and and boom it's done.
I heard that only of one those contain the actual games, the other one is just a gif of igarashi laughing
gotta say I love the UI for this stuff, really damn stylish
What about the PS2 games? And they could definitely do SotN and Rondo again. Say its to make up for Requiem being Sony exclusive last time.
Yeah, I always forget Sony has re-released some of their PS2 games on PS4. But more importantly, do people even like the PS2 Castlevanias? It seems they just kinda came and went. Nobody talks about them the same way people talk about MGS1-3 or Silent Hill 1-4.
The PS2 games are counted among the 3D games. :p
Someone upload the ebook, please.
>he wants to have his reaction times fucked up
>no requiem/anniversary bundle on the ps store
Cmon Konami even Capcom did that with DMC.
what? it's been on Switch store under recent releases since this morning. EU
Konami didn't even do Requiem. It was all Sony.
This, thankfully it isn't like the Requiem one, they should update that one to be like this.
Konami still forced them to use the versions from the PSP remake.
/thread
>/thread your own posts
sad
No. That was Sony.
these games take literally less than an hour to beat you retards
???
imagine liking any of these games
They are still full of bs, like trying to beat Bloodlines on Expert or some of the later stages in 3. There is literal no fucking excuse why every other rom or classic console can have multiple save slots and not this other than being either a fucking retard or lazy.
In castlevania 1 you could get stuck for hours if Death fucks you up the right way and you have to start without having the right weapon and hearts.
u can emulate these games on 2012 phones...?
If you get Holy Water at the beginning and keep it the whole level you can easily brute force the hallway section and instantly kill Death himself, though a first time player obviously won't know that.
zoomer gtfo
I’m insulted they want me to play money for Castlevania the Adventure 1 and not 3 or the wiiware one
3?
I'll be zoom zoomin over the best game
does playing castlevania give anyone else an urge to rewatch the old universal and hammer films?
Sorry I meant Castlevania Legends, the 3rd GB game
When are we getting the Metroidvanias?
Probably next collection if there is one, but it'll probably be the GBA games+Chronicles
Isn't 2 the only poopy one?
I bet half the reason why is because of the ending as to why its not in
The Adventure is pretty awful
The Adventure is even worse. All the others are good.
Or that's its just so obscure. Better this way anyway, finally getting Kid Dracula (NES) is pretty sweet.
Apparently they shipped PRG0 for CV1 which means it crashes all the fuckin time yikes. And people paid money for this lol
20 dollars? I'll give them 4 and some change for it maybe later
Why'd you put Chronicles so high?
Nah, Rondo and Bloodlines are the actual best ones from the classic style.
I assume you mean the X68K game, because Chronicles is a shitty port of it.
>Bloodlines was supposed to have two extra characters, one a shurkin throwing ninja yoko blenades another basic a huge axe armor
no wonder the game was so short.
there's at least 15 devices in my house at this point that can emulate these games, I don't see why I'd want to pay for just straight roms of them without extra features.
Rondo was localized over 10 years ago, we can stop pretending it's the best now.
Oh wow, that's extremely lazy
yeah, the game crashed for me as i landed the final hit on dracula
You can also stop pretending to not being a brainlet. We all know it's a facade.
Does it have at least a save feature, anyone know?
Sorry, 1, 3 and X68000 are far superior games.
What does this mean?
I'm wondering if they have any emulation features at all myself.
Yes. Only one save slot
Nah, also thanks for proving me right.
No it isn't. Adventure at least plays like a normal game. And has a great OSt.
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>Only 1 slot
hey, guess I'll stick with emulation. I like having multiple saves for Castlevania 3 for the different choice points and the new game plus with each character setup
just means that its the early version that has crash bugs and they will probably change it for prg1
IMAGINE
paying KONAMI 20 BUCKS for a bunch of roms
do console gamers actually do this?
So for the longest time I thought that theme of simon from Castlevania 4 was vampire killer or Bloody Tears
Switch gamers do.
>Adventure at least plays like a normal game.
And? That's not a merit by itself, especially when the normal game has shitty level design and manages to be sluggish even by Classicvania standards.
> And has a great OSt.
That's true, but so does II.
It does not play like a normal game. No subweapons, and actually LOSING whip power-up when damaged go against the series standards.
At least play the damn game before saying shit like this.
>what is dance of the holy man
That's like the only song in the game that isn't a remix and isn't an atmoshperic background piece.
They literally doubled down on this being "the first" collection via a tweet from today.
I did. It's one of my favorites.
Thought I was the only one. That whole atmosphere just doesn't get done nowadays.
The first game pretty much was a Universal film, complete with those parody credits at the end.
because it's great, in a race between 4, it and Bloodlines for 2nd best, it wins
of course, always referring to it as X68000 makes me feel like a ponce so I just go with Chronicles
do me like me the Kojima art from the PS1 port, not gonna lie, Drac looks fucking cool as fuck
nah, thankfully we have gotten past the whole "nippon only best game" turboautist phase and it's still top pick, and the benefit of that is that there was never any nostalgiafaggotry trying to prop it up, unlike IV, which is good, but goddamn do Snes kiddos big it up like nobodies business
Is it that time?
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Eh, I'd prefer a compilation that has games that haven't been released for the fifth time.
At least the Gameboy versions are something new.
Now get back to us when the GBA, DS, N64, and PS2 games have a compilation.
>Castlevania fan
>Have job
>Willing to part with $20 to buy a collection from a series I enjoy
Must suck being poor
it does
:(
How many other times have you already spent $20+ for the same games?
Wii, 3DS, Wii U, and PSN or XBOX?
>n64&ps2
>Legacy of Darkness
>Lament of Innocence
>Curse of Darkness
dear god no
I'd rather the arcade light gun game
the release seems to have broken audio
still want to payup KONAMI for a bunch of roms?
People who actually have money, that they actually make in some sort of position that they earned themselves, tend to understand that just because you can afford something doesn't mean that it's a good idea to buy it
just got done playing through kid dracula gonna start bloodlines in a few i enjoy the collection
Liar, no1 on Yea Forums plays games.
enjoy user, try 4 after wards, those two and rondo are the pinnacle of the series in their own way.
Do not reply to me with your lies user
I'm holding off until they fix the emulation problems. I'd be happy to show Konami I'm interested in Castlevania stuff that isn't pachinko machines, but I waited on the Mega Man Legacy Collections and I'll wait on this too.
This is true. Look at peoples total playtimes on switch or trophies on ps4 and they rarely touch old games when they buy them. It makes no sense.
i've already played every castlevania game apart from kid dracula and bloodlines that's why i skipped all of the other ones
oh okay, how was chronicles anyway user? still need to do that one, revenge and 2 when it comes to classicvanias.
This would have been great if it had a plat for all games. Oh well, ill still buy it and the other collection that they haven't announced yet
>4
FUCK YOU
chronicles is fun but if you've already played haunted castle i wouldn't recommend spending that much on it
Yeah, which is why I have enough money to buy the things I want, Castlevania Collection included
>kid dracula
>CV game
You're a literal faggot. 64 is underrated.
take a look at this faggot not knowing dracula-kun is canon to what happens to alucard in the far future
what a coinky dink, I also bought the collection just there because I haven't played kid dracula and bloodlines, figured I might as well force myself to play it by dumping money on it
well that and I've been mooching off castlevania roms for years and thought I'd throw them a bone
? Chronicles and Haunted Castle have literally nothing to do with eachother, outside of being a riff on CV1 (much like 4)
also Haunted Castle is giant shitheap, ugly too
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wait does alucard de-age?
Retard. CV2GB is the best game in the series.
If I get this and symphony of the night on the PS4, do I basically have the majority of the series then?
>muh canun CV
>chibi comedy Megaman clone tangentially related spinoff
unironically this. Never played most of these and playing on a portable like the switch is a nice bonus.Hope this is successful enough for Konami to revisit the franchise(if they ever stop being shit) or at the very least give us more collections for Castlevania
majority of the classics
pretty sure they made 6 games for metroidvania
2 3d ones on ps2
chronicles and rebirth of course so more like about half of it.
>stanning for CV Shitocolypse
yowie wowie
The villain from Kid Dracula, Galamoth, pops up in SotN to fight Alucard as a bonus boss.
Fair enough. I missed out on these games, so there's no harm in getting them. Probably a dumb question, but they run at 60 fps right?
you'll have pretty much all the good classicvanias
if you want more metroidvania-style ones following SotN you should look at the GBA/NDS games
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And then again in Jugdment he is the one who sends the Timereaper.
now that's just disingenuous even if you like Adv2: Belmont's Mistranstalted Son's Name
Yeah, but he never appears in that game.
64 translated the NES games perfectly to 3D and was step in right direction. It wasn't anime style shit like the direction they went with starting with Symphony
And in Adventure 1, you don't even know what the Belmont's name is.
How lazy can they be to not add the GB Color versions of CV:TA and CV2:BR?
Isn't this a rom hack?
>Ayami Kojima
>anime
>unironiclly using the phrase "stan"
go back to twitter
Nope, they are part of Konami GB Collection (Vol 1 & 2).
there were versions of Adventure 1&2 in a GBC collection rerelease of GB games that added basic color
pretty sure that was only released in EU, maybe Japan
And also fixed Christopher's name ti its proper spelling: Soleli (not Soleyu).
Christopher's son, I mean.
At least they finally rereleased Bloodlines
What was the point of holding that hostage on the Genesis for that long?
stanning was a term since Dido got put in the trunk zoomer
but you can play those games for free on an emulator with more options available
>Konami is doing something with the IP again
game companies parade around the corpses of dead IPs for a quick profit all the time, konami's not going to bother making a new entry in the series and if they somehow do, it's going to be shit
Bomberman R was a good game
didn't they rerelease it on the Wii eshop?
>pay $20 for shit ports of games I already played
or
>pay $20 for a nice steak that I'll get more enjoyment out of
No.
to be fair it's hard to fuck up bomberman, even act zero has its fans
the wii genesis virtual console collection just was a let down in general
shit you're right, Rondo of Blood was the one that got on the Wii eshop
weird
Does the collection contain any cool bonus stuff? If it's just rom dumps with a menu I'll skip it, but the Mega Man legacy collections had some great extras and challenges.
it has a cool ebook with some cool info (apparently castlevania 1 had a gun subwepon in its planning stages, bloodlines had 4 playable characters excetra)
no challenges tho so maybe wait for a sale or skip it if the bonus material does not interest you
cool, thanks.
shame they don't really go into what the fuck happened with CV2, which is clearly an unfinished game dumped out on shelves
they don't even bring up Vampire Killer on MSX, despite that being the direct gameplay prequel to CV2
CV2 probably got budget dumped.
true, I wish they handled it how they did the section on belmont's revenge, that was really informative
shame that they cut yoko for bloodlines, her gameplay style looked really cool in addition to john and eric
also the interview with the netflix guy was good, seemed like he got the series, which makes me more baffled how season 2 was as shit as it was.
Do you think we'll ever see a 3D castlevania collection? IMO the PS2 games were actually pretty good, and the first N64 game had solid atmosphere even if it was clunky. It might be too hard for them to get the rights to them all since they span Nintendo/Sony consoles.
I fucking wish. I don't care about the haters, I really liked Castlevania 64.
yeah and he looks nothing like he did in KD, it's more a reference than a strict canonical tie
maybe a couple generations down the line when ps2 gets to ps1 levels of emulation
don't see it on this console generation though.
though it would be interesting to see what they do with 64 since the save pack was why those were never released
also yeah the ps2 games get a lot of shit but I like CoD and love Lament of Innocence due to their story and combat systems. shame they never got to refine those in a third game.
The atmosphere in 64 was really special, I loved it too. I didn't play it until around 2012 either so I'm not relying on nostalgia, it's a solid game.
>Castlevania:The Adventure
>Not Castlevania:The Adventure Rebirth
I'm a bit mad
you should be
Post Castlevania music, I want to get hype
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>was arguing with some user that they would have to remix Leon's theme if it was in smash after the track listing during the direct
>turns out I was right
feels good to hunt the night
The steak you will shit out. You could be playing the collection while you do this.
that's just dancing around the fact that you probably have a shitty job and don't actually make that much
So, how's the emu quality?
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BUT BUT BUT MUH M2!!!!!!
ANY OPEN SOURCE NES EMULATOR HAS BETTER SOUND THAN THIS FUCKING DOGSHIT
SO GLAD WE CAN REBUY THESE ANCIENT 30 Y/O ROMS WITH CRAPPY AUDIO UP THE ASS AND NO REMAPPABLE CONTROLS YO
why was saint germain so based?
pretty okay aside from sound issues, even gives you a sorta rewind function via replays
Is there a physical?
What are the issues aside from the high pitch beeps
More notes for your your money. Free content baby!
Oh, yeah, did they take out the swastika from the JP version of Kid Dracula?
too bad the originals better.
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>too bad the originals better
both are going for different tones
the smash bros one sounds bombastic and loud, proud almost
the original was somber and reflective, going into bursts of energy
ones music for a fight, another is to reflect Leon's grief and anger at Walter
The intro sounds like Ghost.
Those vocals are tight
>- sound issues
That's due to the CV1 game revision used, not because of the collection itself.
BEEP
The DS games would require a ton more effort thanks to the touch screen. Sisters mode in PoR wouldn't work on anything but Switch handheld.
You seem new here. What hole did you crawl out of?
When is Bloodstained coming out
Bitch go back to your beep beep NES emu.
Emulation pretty good on the Switch version?
Haunted Castle
X6800
Adventure Rebirth
Legends
SNES Dracula X
Circle of the Moon
Harmony of Dissonance
Aria of Sorrow
Covers 8 more games without needing to break into the 3D ones or the harder to port DS games. Also keeps the PS4 Rondo/Symphony collection exclusive.
>haunted castle
already in the arcade collection
Does it have the option to play the Japanese versions? I don't want to play the inferior version of Castlevania 3.
Fuck man, I really hope they do more collections then. Fuck, a collection of Goemon games or Suikoden would be the tightest shit.
June 18 my dude. Have you not watched the release date trailer?
>the VR autist still at it
Yeah we get it you watch digital foundry instead of actually playing games.
It's coming in a future patch.
Facts don't matter to anyone here
And is in the Arcade Archives selection. I don't think they'd mind putting it in another collection despite how garbage it it. They could sub in Vampire Killer instead.
It feels like every time I check it it's further away
So, do you think they're going to just do another Castlevania collection or rather will be doing them in batches of three? What other collections do you want from Konami? Arcade 2 with games from the 90s?
I can't find any mention online of the PRG0 version having these sound issues prior to today. Just reports of it crashing.
Try not to get your hopes up too much user. You could always play a couple of the 3D castlevanias this month to keep you busy.
A rhythm bundle would be cool, they have a ton of great arcade rhythm games. Beatmania, DDR, Pop n Music.
Holy Hell is Adventure crap.
Its so fucking slow!
Wasn't bloodlines co-op?
Still have both of those lying around somewhere. There's an orange tint in this collection.
It's a bit of a bummer. I don't know how much extra effort it would've taken to put them in as well but it's more than none and that's too much for Konami probably lol.
Honest to god we should be so lucky they included 8 different Castlevania games spanning 4 different consoles, that already sounded like a pipe dream for the Konami of 2019.
no
Do yourself a favor and play Rebirth. It's absolutely nothing like the original.
Right? 8 games is usually a lot of games for a collection outside of Sega. Not even Capcom did that for the Megaman ones.
We could have had the sped up color version instead.
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Oh, I own it. One of my fave Classicvanias.
But damn man, hard to say whats worse: the sluggish movement or forcing you to make pixel perfect jumps with said movement.
I prefer the old linear platformer style of Castlevania games. SOTN was great, but we've had far too many Metroidvania games, particularly from indie developers which don't live up their expectations, I'm sick of the metroidvania genre in general.
I have no idea why Capcom divided their collections in the way they did. Look at the X collection. Part 1 had X1-X4, pretty much agreed to be the four best in the series. Every game in Part 2 was mediocre at best. They must've lost money compared to just throwing all eight games together and selling them for 40.
are they running Adventure through a SNES emulator?
cause there was that thing that you could put into the slot that allowed you to play GB games on a SNES, the emu I've used in the past had it
it would be funny if it turned out they didn't even emulate a GB
>cause there was that thing that you could put into the slot that allowed you to play GB games on a SNES
You mean a Super Game Boy?
Nah, this isn't that.
I have nostalgia for X5 so I bought both collections.
X5 is the best of the second bundle for sure, and I bought them to have them all in one place, but I don't think anyone would say part 2 is worth the same amount of money as part 1 if you compare the quality of each game.
I'm tempted to try it. Just to see to how well Konami did the porting/emulating.
Its pretty impressive with all the screen filters you can choose. Especially the Game Boy ones--you can make them dot matrix and bright green.
I get that RoB and SotN weren't gonna be there because Sony paid for that Requiem compilation, but I'm a little surprised that they didn't put Dracula X/Vampire's Kiss on this.
Well that's kinda nice
Already tried and requested a refund. PC version is quite shitty. There's no kind of options menu that lets you change resolution or screen display(the game starts up in windowed mode, and I had to use alt+enter to get to fullscreen) On top of that, neither my PS4 or Switch Pro controller worked, and I will never play a classic Castlevania with a keyboard.
Just grab some emulators and roms. Fuck Konami and their bullshit. They're not gonna put your money to good use. They're just nickel and diming the nostalgia factor at this point.
>There's no kind of options menu that lets you change resolution or screen display
This is a lie.
>nostalgia
More cashing in on Smash and the Netflix series.
i can emulate all these shit, what's the point?
Same thing, honest. What are Smash and the Netflix show but shallow reminders of how the series was when it was good?
I hate that I can't put the Japan CV3 on my NES Mini, otherwise I'd be hacking that in.
You'd think somebody by now would've made a hack for the US version that puts back in most of what got changed.
How's the quality? Better than the last konami collection? Because if its better than the last collection I might give it the time of day
Did they mix up the terms original and pixel perfect?
Probably because those versions were in an obscure compilation that only came out in Europe. Not even the Japanese Konami GB Collections had GBC support.
I love all Castlevania and I'll be the 1st to say metroidvanias are casual easy mode with no challenge barring some parts of COTM and the lvl 1 challenge for ecclasia. Fuck off with your garbage opinion.
They used the PRG0 version of CV1 which has crashing issues and the NES games have an issue in which a beep can be occasionally heard. Japanese versions will be added in a patch "soon" so hopefully they'll fix these two problems as well.
To add to this user actual metroids are better at that style than iga's games.
>NES games have an issue in which a beep can be occasionally heard.
It's not that severe. Track 2 from CV1 "Stalker" is the only one with beep issues. The beeps play at the exact same time throughout the track. Even when the track is played again in Level 4. There's a single 'instrument' in the song that isn't playing right.
I read some people saying it affected other tracks as well.
The XboxOne version has awful sound pops in Bloodlines and Super. Strnagely that's a platform exclusive bug that isn't happening in the other versions.
I'm having fun playing this collection on PC bros
Why get this when I can emulate?
I like buying collections solely to support Sega, Konami, etc via actually good games
Well that's pretty good then.
Really a shame Sotn didn't get included. But if they make a second collection for the Metroidvanias it's ok.
Does this at least have the better japanese version of castlevania III?
>Japanese versions of each game will be patched in a post launch update sometime soon.
Really? Source? If so it's a day one buy for me. Thank god, I wanted that so much but I was fully expecting Konami to fuck it up.
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have fun user
That's the stuff
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You've had fucking decades to play any of these games, what would preloading them now change? Moreover the file size size for the whole shebang is going to be in the megabytes, it will take seconds-minutes to download. Just go to the eshop and buy it when it comes out, there is literally no reason to preorder it other than to trick yourself into a childlike state of anticipation for a game you in all likelihood are going to play for 10 minutes then drop for the next shiny new thing, as it collects virtual dust in your library.
