DarkSakul

Don't worry Camacho, we'll get your old school Castlevania design for the next game
 

Hmm, is almost as if this game is not a castlevania tribute and even if it were, the artstyle is not a problem.

I know what you mean, and it doesn't change what I said.
You complain that it has "generic" anime look, all while having nostalgia for other "generic"  look you prefer 🤷‍♂️
 
Generic loses all its meaning when it is tossed away as just a all catch umbrella to describe stuff people just don't like.

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Nigga, the only thing I get from your posts is that you
A) Are making some really dumb generalizations about people because they like something you don't.
B) Are getting tilted because a company is creating something on an asthetic you don't like.
C) Have this weird fixation that them making a game in the vein of castlevania extrictly extrictly needs to be like old castlevanias, when 1, no, they don't, and 2, castlevania is a series that has have multiple art directions over the years.
 
Again, is a japanese company doing a japanese aesthetic.
Getting tilted about it is silly.

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Honestly the real problem with POR and and DOS artwork imo is it looks really cheap and low effort. Like I don't mind an anime aesthetic, I even like Kojimas redesign of Simon and she turned him into a bright red haired leather clad pretty boy barbarian, but the artwork for POR and especially DOS looks really cheap and low effort and frankly straight ugly at times. That's my real issue with the artwork for those games. 

$200 sounds about right for a pro controller. That's like the minimum. Competitors price their controllers at $250

I thought it was ridiculous till I got the Xbox Elite controller. I haggled for it so it only cost me the regular price but I woulda paid the full $200 after having used it for a while. The adjustable triggers, swappable stick tops for hight and concave/convex sticks, the buttons feel so nice and snappy. It's a really premium control experience. The texture on the grips of the Elite are so nice. 
 
For Sonys just knowing you can buy a new stick for 20 bucks and slot it into your existing conttoller frame makes it worth it in the long run imo. You'll save overall despite the upfront investment imo. I've had my PS5 controller less then a year and the left stick is already fuckin up. I would rather spend $20 on fixing it then $75 on a whole new controller every 8-9 months. 

That seems real fucked up to me.  Yeah, I'll buy your more expensive controller so when it busts, and it will bust, I can just swap out parts instead of buy a new controller.   No one demands they make a better controller less prone to breaking in some ways.
 
 
Been playing this off and on over the past couple/few months (Days Gone).  Had to start over but its ok I like the game.  I'm really glad some playstation only games are finding their way to PC.  This game is pretty cool so far, that robo dino game with the broad seems real cool and that baby in a jar game was neat.  I'm lookin' forward to Bloodborne.  Now I'll just be hoping that ghost of sushi comes to PC eventually.

Natsuki Chronicles is on sale on PSN for 6 bucks if you have +. Horizontal Shmup made by the same guys who made Eschatos, Ginga Force and the like. 
 
 

Being a huge fan of CV and Inti's gameplay, I'll buy this, but man, I really wish they would drop the anime trope trash. It's not remotely cool, it's just annoying. How many people with nostalgia for 2d Castlevania are going to enjoy loli garbage and irritating voices constantly babbling? 

RSG3 isn't wrong on this.  The games that Inti is known for the most and put them on the map have this aesthetic.  Its been a thing pretty much since they've established themselves.  I had to look up if they did anything prior to Mega Man Zero (2002)  and the first 2 games they put out also have the anime look to them.  I don't think the style is going anywhere for them unless their contracted to do something different.

I imagine the people who have been buying their games for over 20 years now since they've always done "Anime Trope Trash." 
 
Just a hunch Camacho. 

Their 2d gameplay being top shelf is why people like them. I just don't get who they feel the anime trope aesthetic is appealing to- kids generally don't like games like that, and people who really get into lolies and "Moe" are probably more interested in beating off to hentai or the cesspool of porn games on steam. 
 
Inti isn't the only Japanese developer that does this- look at the change between Dodonpachi and later Cave titles full of panty shot loli characters. I don't get it. Who's playing their specific kind of shmup that gets anything out of that? 
 
Granted, I'm not into anime at all, but to my distant observation in video games over the same period I think sometime changed in anime around 2000. The older stuff seemed more focused on being dark and badass, then things shifted to little girls and characters like Ash Crimson. 

Square ending their support of Chocobo GP after less than a year. Season 5 will be the last season. 
 
 

You sure are speaking for a whoooole lot of other people. 
 
Also Anime has always had that angle you hate, just in the 80s and 90s in the west we focused on importing and bringing over the darker more adult shit, but they've always made stuff aimed primarily at young teens. 
 
Anime is primarily an advertising tool to children to sell Manga and toys and merchandise. And yea it works. Cave games sold better when they took to Anime girl Ecci route. It's why they stuck with it for 15 to 20 years. It's why Dodonpachi leaned into harder and harder with each new game. Their best selling Shmup is Mushihimesama, the one that's name translates to Bug Princess and stars a cute girl riding a horned beetle. There's a reason Espagaluda 1 & 2 have way more moe/cute designs then Esp.Ra.De. it sells better. Japan indulges in this aesthetic, and thats these developers primary revenue source as well as feed back pool from players. I guarantee Cave never once gave a single fuck what us Gaijins thought of their games. 

Imagine complaining because a japanese company does games with a japanese aesthetic 🙄

Whoever keeps buying these games? As mentioned this is a GalGun spinoff. 
 
I mean, I'm not interested in this game. I saw the first trailer and was meh on it. All my Inti-Creates developed games are when they are working for someone else, like the Zero series, the Bloodstained series and maybe a couple others? I do own the Gunvolt 1&2 pack and I think the first Luminous Avenger games but I got them on sale and haven't played either of them to have an actual opinion of them. I do think the art style is kind of cool in a Saturday morning cartoon kind of way but I dunno how annoying anyone is. It's a game for young teens so could go either way. 
 
If this was an actual Castlevania game then yea sure I'd definitely prefer a Conan/Kojima visual style to this, but it's not an actual CV game, or even much of an homage to one so I just don't really care either way man. Plenty of other shit for me to play.
 
On the flipside of my Inti-Creates purchasing habits, I only seem to buy WayForwards original stuff. Scooped up Shante and the 7 Sirens 2 weeks ago and really digging it. They went back to the open world design of Shante 1 and Risky's Revenge instead of the smaller hubs of Pirates Curse and Half Genie Hero. I prefer it personally but that's a personal taste thing both work great. I'm like 3 dungeons in and it's just as fun as the rest of them, at least on the retuned and more difficult normal mode they gave this release on Switch. They've also redone the dance system and its more or specific abilities now while the animan transformations are either quick button presses or context sensetive. Teally speeds up the gameplay honestly. I recommend it if you dig the Shante Games. 

Yea i don't think the FGC has been grass roots for like...almost 15 years now. Not the core community. Sure people still holding turnies in bowling alleys and shit, but thats not what people think of when you say FGC anymore.
There is also nothing wrong with getting paid either. The problem is when getting paid is more important then the health of the community and that was the way forward for Wiz once SF4 popped off. Wasn't about healthy growth anymore, was about siphoning as much money as possible from the scene no matter what.

Yea, i know, I have a lot of issues with Wiz beyond him probably being a pedophile or some shit. Dude sold out his entire community for a Hot Tub. Not gonna sit here and act like Smashers weren't total shit stains about it tho. I do lay majority blame at Wiz's fat fucking feet tho.

They are so grass roots they had to bully their way into Evo, a grass roots but already established event. 

Do any other fighting games have that kind of grassroots, or is Smash the only fighting game that does?

People can say what they want about Smasher being cunts and/or smelly, but their community is a really good example of how grassroots stuff can succeed big time if people are committed to it. Gotta admire the hustle.
 
But yeah, many of them are smelly cunts.