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  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #104178  by Eric
 Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:11 am
Curse you Microsoft! YOU EVIL temptress!!!!!

Gonna be available on their X-Box Arcade service. I must gets it. >_<

PS, has anyone seen the videos floating around playing it? I swear to god it pains me to see these people play Castlevania so horribley.

 #104179  by Zeus
 Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:38 am
If they can pull this one off well on XBLA, it's huge. If the companies can emulate PS1 games, even earlier ones, that hurts Sony's Playstation download service big time by giving the publishers another place to publish their PS1 games. That was one of the major draws to the PS3 downloading is that you get full PS1 games.

Let me know how well ths plays (after it's been optimized and cleaned up), I'm curious.

 #104242  by Blotus
 Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:03 pm
I'll let you know the day they release it. Now I don't feel like such a loser for having to sell my copy some time ago.

 #104248  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:48 pm
I have it on PSX, fairly good, I rank it about 4th, 5th or 6th in the series:

1) Dracula's Curse
2) Super Castlevania
3) Rondo of Blood (a lot of the real fans rank this as #1, but I feel the difficulty is too easy to justify it, I also didn't find it as fun as 3 or 4, it was more about the flash and music that people rank it so high)
4/5/6) Symphony and the two DS ones; I can't say I like Portrait the best of them yet, but probably in the end I will.
7) Castlevania (I would like to rank it higher, but due to the existence of Super Castlevania it is difficult to)
8. Circle of the Moon
9) Bloodlines
10) Aria

These are all the Castlevania games that I really like. Pretty much any of the top 6 have been called the best of the series, it just depends who you talk to (actually, I have heard people call Bloodlines the best as well).

 #104262  by Flip
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:10 am
SotN is one of my all time fav PS1 games. I had people over one time in college and someone stole it, i had to go buy the crappy greatest hits version... i hate that green border, i want my original!

 #104271  by Zeus
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:47 pm
Black Lotus wrote:I'll let you know the day they release it. Now I don't feel like such a loser for having to sell my copy some time ago.
Oh, you're still a loser for selling it, it's one of the best games of the generation

 #104292  by Blotus
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:48 pm
Sometimes you've gotta sell your own shit to pay for somebody else's fuck-ups.

 #104293  by Eric
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:49 pm
Zeus wrote:
Black Lotus wrote:I'll let you know the day they release it. Now I don't feel like such a loser for having to sell my copy some time ago.
Oh, you're still a loser for selling it, it's one of the best games of the generation
SHUT UP ZEUS! God lol.

 #104307  by Zeus
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 7:38 pm
Black Lotus wrote:Sometimes you've gotta sell your own shit to pay for somebody else's fuck-ups.
SOrry, man, I meant to put a smiley after that. I was at work and was rushed during my lunch. It was really meant as a joke

But I feel your pain. My brother-in-law is a natural colossal fuck-up. My wife and I have to cover his ass all the time.

 #104311  by Blotus
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:07 pm
I know you were, don't sweat it. A couple of years ago my best friend of 15 years became a total emo pussy shut-in and couldn't hold a job. Had to pay the bills myself for a while.

 #104434  by SineSwiper
 Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:03 am
I absolutely love the game. I have to say that I still can't find a good game where you will just sit around to listen to the music. Haven't heard good music like that on any of the other Castlevania games. About the only game in recent history with fantastic music was Zone of the Enders (both games).