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Hmmm...

The ghouls n' ghosts and CV graphics ALMOST fit perfectly. Almost. The boss fight at the end was pretty awesome though. All the blood and junk coming out of it when Richter hits it was cool. But what's up with the Chun Li style finishing move?? That was unexpected.

Wow, and here I thought you would be chomping at the bit to see if Del Duio could somehow incorporate something similar into his projects.  Side-scrolling beatemup's and schmup's have always, to me at least, most properly showcased the point of videogaming.  Why else does one play a game besides to escape their own reality and try to become the best in some alternate universe?  Sure, there are games made purely to be competetive based on skill (think HALO and CoD:MW2), there are games made for eliteists to spend more real money in the virtual world (social crap on facebook), there are games made to bring people together for short bursts of time (mario party comes to mind), and there there are games made just to be fun.

I personally think much could be done with CV as an 'arcade style' side-scroller.  If you think about it though, wasn't that how konami started the franchise?  It has taken many twists turns and facelifts to get where we are now and have words like 'metroidvania' being casually tossed around.  Hell, isn't there some kind of special arcade cabinet where it plays like the old house of the dead games?  And isn't that supposed to be the new stuff?

Who here has ever played the simpsons arcade game?  How about the old x-men cabinet?  Now, imagine if you will having some of the biggest names in castlevania teaming up together, all playable by different people at the same time, and having it play like those games.  IIRC, they were considered to be some of the best at what they did in arcades all over the world.  Sure, I really enjoy games like virtual-on, games where the machine is just a fictitious extention of yourself and how you do things.  But what I am talking about here is prolly one of the best ideas I have had in a long time, and I filter a lot of random BS through this tiny little head of mine.  Maybe some day I will share with you guys, but for now you will just have to take my word for it.

Bottoms line: if I find it to be fun I will play it, if not I go elsewhere.  I want to share my gaming bliss with others.  If I can potentially improve on something, or better yet make my own something for others to enjoy and tinker with, then I'm happy.

How can anyone mention the Simpsons game without mentioning the game that it's basically a clone of? TMNT arcade, man! That game was the shit

kevinski wrote:

I can, however, imagine a Metroidvania playing well with four-player multi-player.

You can? I'd think that'd be a statistical nightmare. RPG, yes. Metroidvania where you can go most anywhere, multiple pathways, various key items / abilites? Sounds very difficult but you should make it!!

Yes but is that D&D a Metroidvania? I remember there being an AWESOME on in the arcades years ago.

Del Duio wrote:

You can? I'd think that'd be a statistical nightmare. RPG, yes. Metroidvania where you can go most anywhere, multiple pathways, various key items / abilites? Sounds very difficult but you should make it!!

Yeah, I can imagine it working very well, especially since a game like that would rely far less on the traditional relics that make any given character type able to double jump, fly around and high jump. It'd require teamwork to see certain areas. I don't foresee myself ever being able to make something along those lines, though. Don't get me wrong: I have some pretty cool ideas for a Castlevania-style game, but I'm certainly willing to set realistic goals for it. XD

kevinski wrote:

Del Duio wrote:

You can? I'd think that'd be a statistical nightmare. RPG, yes. Metroidvania where you can go most anywhere, multiple pathways, various key items / abilites? Sounds very difficult but you should make it!!

Yeah, I can imagine it working very well, especially since a game like that would rely far less on the traditional relics that make any given character type able to double jump, fly around and high jump. It'd require teamwork to see certain areas. I don't foresee myself ever being able to make something along those lines, though. Don't get me wrong: I have some pretty cool ideas for a Castlevania-style game, but I'm certainly willing to set realistic goals for it. XD

If you could get the teamwork part down, how about having it so your guys can pick each other up in a stack like a ladder? Then the guy who makes it at the top could lower a rope down and the other guys could climb up?

Sounds hard to do, but it'd be pretty cool.