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| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Good Times, Uncooked Steak |
| Epyo 09/03/18 1:18:06 AM #124 | Huh, I never found him cringey, but the opposite! He's delightful and makes me feel safe... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Good Times, Uncooked Steak |
| Epyo 08/21/18 8:33:42 PM #103 | I stared at the poster for 30 minutes --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Good Times, Uncooked Steak |
| Epyo 08/04/18 12:04:16 PM #72 | online coop!! --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Good Times, Uncooked Steak |
| Epyo 07/24/18 12:54:53 AM #43 | noice maybe I can catch up now. just 600 more frieza episodes --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Good Times, Uncooked Steak |
| Epyo 07/23/18 9:42:13 PM #37 | I haven't been listening to all systems goku since I fell waay behind on DBZ, only halfway through frieza or so. Are they not having as much fun and taking a break? --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | are there any food places you go to regularly? |
| Epyo 07/22/18 11:27:01 PM #2 | I go to taco bell about 5 days a week. I've probably had about 60% of the menu. It's a big menu. Current top 5 items (it changes every few months though): 1) Crunchwrap Supreme (all around pretty great) 2) Shredded Chicken Quesarito (best tasting thing, but a lot of calories) 3) Cheesy Gordita Crunch (only item with their amazing "spicy ranch" sauce) 4) Double Decker Taco Supreme (really good side item) 5) Shredded Chicken Burrito (like smaller quesarito, doesn't break the bank on calories) --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | New Crimes of Grindelwald trailer |
| Epyo 07/21/18 3:14:03 PM #8 | Eh, you have a point, but I'd sooner say I'm happy that they're fairly unrelated (than saying the other way). --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | New Crimes of Grindelwald trailer |
| Epyo 07/21/18 3:12:31 PM #7 | Are they really that related? From my memory of the HP series, Grindelwald and Voldemort never met until late book 7... And Voldemort's true intentions were more self-centered I always thought, just seemed to use some of Grindelwald's politics to gain followers quickly...or perhaps to feel like he was carrying out his Slytherin bloodline... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Good Times, Uncooked Steak |
| Epyo 07/19/18 6:55:11 PM #21 | captain toad is amazing but that cursor on the screen looks like a deal breaker --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Jeremy Parish's Top 35 NES games for the 35th Anniversary |
| Epyo 07/18/18 9:50:03 PM #35 | I love these Jeremy Parish lists, especially the risky choices he always puts in. Bubble Bobble at #2 is an awesome choice, yeah, I have to agree, that game freaking rules. CV3 should be higher though. Also I will respect him forever for putting NSMBU at the top of the Mario list, that is the best Mario game. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 07/04/18 10:56:48 PM #191 | yeah i am also watching that and have not seen it --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 07/03/18 12:49:10 AM #181 | I feel like the sword familiar can only be equipped when it is high level or something dumb like that...can't remember... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 07/03/18 12:43:28 AM #179 | In 1997, grinding out the money for a duplicator, and tearing up the game feeling like you're almost cheating, was a hell of a moment. I have a feeling a lot of those dumb one-time-use items are only in the game so that getting the duplicator becomes a fun endgame thing. What a weird, kinda awesome design choice. SotN is dumb, but it is a fun, wild dumb. The shield rod is possibly even more overpowered than that, if you can believe it. The secret of the shield rod is not the weird projectiles it shoots. Instead, you equip shield rod with any shield, and press both attack buttons at the same time (square+circle on a playstation controller, B and X on an xbox controller I suppose). Every shield has a unique effect! Collect all the shields to see all the effects =] Personally, I'm glad they don't explain that shield rod secret in the game anywhere... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/28/18 8:53:01 PM #163 | I think I pretty much exclusively play Portrait as Charlotte now that I think about it!! That's weird. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/28/18 8:43:46 PM #159 | I take back what I just said about Ecclesia being the only challenging combat in a metroidvania, Circle of the Moon is so hard ninkendo posted... But has GOG played Bloodstained Curse of the Moon yet I think so too, as awesome as CV3 is... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/28/18 8:39:46 PM #157 | StartTheMachine posted... MegaWentEvil posted... Yeah I looove Rondo, play it once a year or more. I need really interesting combat situations for me to truly love a Castlevania game, and I'd say Rondo is the best sidescroller action game ever, along with having probably top 5 music in the series, and great atmosphere and style (that Death fight is soooo cool IMO). I don't really care that much about exploration or abilities in Castlevania games, so those aren't dealbreakers for me. A flaw in the series that affects a lot of the games, is feeling a little boring at times. For a lot of the metroidvania games, a lot of times it feels like I'm not exploring, I'm not making progress, I'm not having fun fights, I'm just filling in holes in my map. It can feel very rote, especially when replaying. Of the DS games, Dawn feels the most like that, I always feel like I'm entering a room, walking up to each enemy, attacking, walking forward again, not terribly interesting. I'm not sure I can ever play Dawn again because I dread filling in that boring upper-left area, or the boring cave areas (although I do adore that right-most tower area). In Portrait, I really love casting spells as Charlotte, that leads to weird combat that is kinda unlike any other action game. And Ecclesia, I feel like they did a great job on the combat situations in that game, it's one of the only metroidvania games out there that I would call challenging. They're great games though, I think all the games on that list up through Aria I would call "Awesome", and then everything up through 64 I would call "Pretty Good", the others, "kinda bad". --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/27/18 7:57:23 PM #143 | GJ on SotN! Yeah you should go back and re-play DoS now and compare. It's really hard to go back to the GBA games if you've recently played SotN 'cause the graphics/music are such a downgrade, (but the DS games are comparable there, along with the more carefully planned gameplay design). I think my ranking of ones I've played more than 10 minutes of is: Rondo of Blood > SotN > Curse of Darkness > Order of Ecclesia > Portrait of Ruin > Dawn of Sorrow > III > Aria of Sorrow > IV > Lament of Innocence > Chronicles (PSX) > Harmony of Dissonance > Circle of the Moon > CV1 > 64 > Judgment > Adventure Rebirth > Bloodlines > II And if I could include Bloodstained Curse of the Moon I bet it would be third or fourth :thinking_face:... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/27/18 7:44:08 PM #142 | The max percent being 200.6% was the thing I didn't want to say before, but it makes me think the extra squares in the inverted castle's underground caverns map, were a mistake they didn't have time to figure out how to remove (surely the max percent ought to be 200.0%). --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/26/18 11:30:27 PM #132 | Yeaaaah I started to write you a warning about the broken squares that you have to transform into a wolf for. Actually, if I compare the maps, I'm pretty sure that those squares are a glitch they couldn't fix. Because, those squares don't exist in the right-side up map. And just, they only had 2-3 programmers on this game, so... And 1 more reason I won't say yet... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/25/18 1:12:29 AM #115 | IMO, all of the familiars take waaaay too long to get their cool stuff, so long that, familiars are barely part of the game, besides novelty. a cool part of SOTN, is the crazy variety of the stuff they crammed in there, and the worst part of SOTN is how it's all crammed in there not so carefully. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic: One Week until E3 Pressers |
| Epyo 06/24/18 10:56:25 AM #82 | STM maybe what you might be missing is, how excited GB has been about the Switch since it has launched. They can't resist asking "is it coming to switch" every ten minutes. So from that point of view, seeing this press conference, seeing barely anything in it besides Smash, which they don't care about, was a huge disappointment, relatively speaking, compared to Switch's last 12 months. Also Jeff and Brad love to hate on mario party because that's a running gag from their "mario party party" series of videos, where Dan drags them into playing 4-5 hour games of mario party. And, they do take a cynical look at a lot of aspects of gaming, especially prerelease material, but it's kind of their job as critics, to not buy into hype. This is part of the genuineness that is the best part of GB. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/21/18 7:21:28 PM #91 | for organizing your gear, I believe there is a sort button. maybe square on psx? --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/19/18 9:26:47 PM #62 | StartTheMachine posted... So how does experience work in this game exactly? Like for every time you kill an enemy a second time, does the experience gained keep halving or something? That's what it's seeming like to me. I think it's just something like, each enemy type has a level, and the higher level you are compared to that, the less exp you get. If you're way higher level, you'll only get 1 exp. Also YES the cloaks rule. Bring 'em back! --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/18/18 9:40:49 PM #45 | oh man, I'm watching the IGA + double fine "devs play" sotn, and IGA's assistant just randomly pointed at some stained glass in the background and knowingly said "stained glass! can't get enough of that in games" and IGA agreed. This video came out just 3 days before the Kickstarter launched, so I bet it was an inside joke I didn't notice the first time. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/18/18 9:32:21 PM #44 | To be fair to whoever set up the achievements, it's a really well known twist. It's like, FF7 level. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/18/18 8:02:21 PM #36 | StartTheMachine posted... SotN's gameplay is clunky, especially in the interface and some of its mechanics Funny you should mention the interface, because the pause menu was entirely very early placeholder text and graphics and they always meant to replace it but didn't have time. IGA made a rule after that, no placeholders, anything added to the game has to look at least passable. Or something like that. I remember it from the double fine 2 hour "devs play" interview with IGA about SOTN. Uggh I think it's time for me to rewatch that interview it was so good --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Well, Symphony of the Night is pretty fantastic. |
| Epyo 06/18/18 12:41:05 AM #10 | Yeah that means your magic bar reached its max. For the metroidvania-style Castlevania games, I feel like about 50% of fans prefer Symphony, and about 50% would choose one of the GBA/DS games as their favorite. People are pretty split about it! For me, the soundtrack, art, and atmosphere of Symphony are just too good, that's the game I adore the most. But admittedly, the systems and gameplay are not perfectly designed and it makes the difficulty curve not work very well. I think that's the main criticism of Symphony compared to the later games. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Help me get into The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. |
| Epyo 06/16/18 11:01:14 PM #47 | foolm0r0n posted... Epyo posted...For me, all my life I've looked for a game that captures the feeling of being very alone and traversing a huge atmospheric moody landscape, seeing things I want to investigate, and then investigating them without any dumb dialog box or menu telling me to do so, and knowing when I get there I won't be blocked because I'm "not supposed to be here yet", no, I want to investigate it fully. For me, I've never found that game until now. :O :O I haven't tried that series!! But the aesthetic did always look cool... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Help me get into The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. |
| Epyo 06/16/18 10:25:28 PM #36 | BOTW is my 2nd favorite game ever, but it is definitely not for everyone. If you're not enjoying it after a few hours, you're not going to suddenly start. It's trying to be a very specific thing. It has a lot of weird design choices. A lot of those design choices are pretty much bad. But I think they were necessary design choices, to be able to create what they were trying to create: a game of truly self-directed adventure and discovery. It's trying to be a very specific thing, and if you're not a person who's been looking for that very specific type of game, then you're not going to enjoy it. When people point out parts of the game that just plain don't feel great, it's true, they don't feel great. There really isn't much character progression. So if you're looking for that, you'll be disappointed. There aren't dungeons or any typical Zelda stuff really. If you're looking for that, you'll be disappointed. For me, all my life I've looked for a game that captures the feeling of being very alone and traversing a huge atmospheric moody landscape, seeing things I want to investigate, and then investigating them without any dumb dialog box or menu telling me to do so, and knowing when I get there I won't be blocked because I'm "not supposed to be here yet", no, I want to investigate it fully. For me, I've never found that game until now. (Minecraft was close, but the world generation was just too predictable.) (Skyrim was also close but there's too many times where a landmark is useless unless you already have the quest that directs you there.) --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Giant Bomb Topic: One Week until E3 Pressers |
| Epyo 06/13/18 8:39:38 PM #37 | Naah they mostly love nintendo, just not Smash. Zelda was their #2 game of the year last year, and Mario Maker was their #1 game of the year 2015 or whatever year that was --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What's the best 'single' game? |
| Epyo 06/03/18 4:34:23 PM #123 | Ristar --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Just started Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. |
| Epyo 05/28/18 1:56:48 PM #16 | new one --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Just started Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. |
| Epyo 05/27/18 6:12:49 PM #11 | I've already beat it twice. It's soooooooo good! If it were a castlevania I think I would put it 3rd, behind rondo and sotn --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon releases May 24th |
| Epyo 05/12/18 11:39:04 AM #13 | this looks outrageously good and I had no idea it was coming --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Frietza |
| Epyo 05/10/18 8:28:13 PM #99 | jeff doesn't care about spoilers though, typically --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | thirty-one tabletop games, ranked |
| Epyo 05/09/18 9:12:48 PM #439 | Ooh for asymmetrical stuff, the first thing that always comes to mind is, Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation, dunno if you've heard of that. It's an outrageously well-designed 2 player game, somewhat like stratego, but a million times better than stratego because it's more interesting and somehow much faster than stratego. Anyway, one player is sauron's side, one player is the fellowship, and both sides have completely different win conditions--fellowship just needs to do whatever it takes to sneak Frodo into the Mordor space (way in the back of the opponent's side), and the other player needs to either kill Frodo OR get 3 pieces into the Shire (way in the back of the fellowship's side). And not only that, but both sides have completely different pieces too, and every piece in the game has a unique ability as well. The fellowship's pieces are good at retreating from bad situations, or sacrificing themselves for benefits. The sauron pieces are ridiculously strong, but the objective is harder. (Unrelatedly, it has what I like to cite as one of the greatest rules in a board game ever: you can only move pieces forward, not sideways or back! You literally can't turtle.) --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Frietza |
| Epyo 05/09/18 8:58:37 PM #87 | have you watched vinnyvania lately --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Is the Master Sword the most iconic video game Weapon? |
| Epyo 04/28/18 6:29:15 PM #34 | I've played through ff7 like 4 times and somehow did not know that was called the buster sword --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Is the Master Sword the most iconic video game Weapon? |
| Epyo 04/28/18 12:01:15 PM #21 | what the heck is the buster sword --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | The Giant Bomb Topic: Frietza |
| Epyo 04/22/18 8:41:20 PM #32 | I like the idea that they might just keep changing how it works over time. Any one formula will get old after a while. I'd be ok if they turned off voting for a month and just did only 100% random quick looks or something. Or some other formula a month later. That's rad. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | What series have you played the most entries of? |
| Epyo 04/17/18 9:52:52 PM #8 | I was really into castlevania as a teen, so I bet it is that: 1, 2, 3, 4, SNES Dracula X, Rondo of Blood, Bloodlines, Chronicles, The Adventure, The Adventure Rebirth, SOTN, COTM, Dissonance, AOS, DOS, POR, OOE, Judgment, 64, LOI, COD, LOS, Mirror of Fate that's 23 I think! but I think I've only beated 18 of those. I should really track down the ones I haven't played, just for bragging rights at least... --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | New Overwatch event. |
| Epyo 04/10/18 11:16:17 PM #68 | Retribution is all right, agreed on it feeling empty and anticlimactic though. I'll keep playing it 'cause it is fun enough. But Uprising and Junkenstein felt a lot more exciting, and I'm pretty sure their designs are just much more interesting. But maybe it's nice that Retribution is really just run forward and shoot stuff, for a change. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | thirty-one tabletop games, ranked |
| Epyo 04/03/18 8:10:09 PM #363 | Yeah Codenames Duet is one of the coops I do like, because, no quarterbacking! --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | thirty-one tabletop games, ranked |
| Epyo 04/02/18 11:03:12 PM #338 | duet >>>>>> other codenames --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | thirty-one tabletop games, ranked |
| Epyo 03/22/18 9:07:04 PM #231 | I also hate pandemic. I feel like pandemic is the most quarterbacky coop I've played. It's easy for someone to start quarterbacking, AND it's also the most effective way to play. This is strictly against what I think board games are for, a playground where you can do whatever strategies and tactics you want, not having to worry about what someone else wants you to do. Haven't played legacy though (although I know it wouldn't be my cup of tea, I only like a game if I can explore it 100s of times, deeper and deeper) --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Giant Bomb 2018: This Website is Very Good |
| Epyo 03/14/18 7:29:59 PM #358 | KingButz posted... The large majority of dbz filler is in the first 100 episodes. Once you get past garlic jr I believe filler becomes much more sparse. that is excellent news --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | Giant Bomb 2018: This Website is Very Good |
| Epyo 03/11/18 9:52:40 PM #350 | Hmm. I have a feeling dragonball kai just skipped like 25+ dbz episodes, judging by the things Dan keeps mentioning on twitter. Gonna take a long time to catch up!! --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| Epyo 03/10/18 5:32:41 PM #459 | When I go back home for various holidays, we usually have 7 people for games, and No Thanks is one of the only games I own that works great with 7 and we all unanimously like it. Nobody's crazy about it, but everyone has a good time and wants to play multiple rounds. We'll usually play a big round of Balderdash, a few rounds of No Thanks, and a finale round of Sushi Go Party. I slightly prefer For Sale over No Thanks, but For Sale only goes up to 6 :( and my brother hates it for some reason. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| Epyo 03/07/18 12:14:40 AM #424 | Lost Legacy: Vorpal Sword is friggin' awesome. That's the one that focuses on gathering information and executing based on what you know. The other Lost Legacies, I am not a fan of. But that one is slightly better than Love Letter in my book. Love Letter is also awesome though, of course. --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| Epyo 03/06/18 8:16:21 PM #421 | Ra is my #2 --- People who don't finish their sentences I'm a Castlevania superfan! Ask me anything! |
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