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thismeintiel on 03 January 2010
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mushroomboy5 said:
thismeintiel said:
mushroomboy5 said:
demonfox13 said:
 

 

I apologize for that wall of text. Best platforming action/adventure type game ever belongs to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. No doubt Miyamoto is also up there but he has yet to touch the depth offered in even the very first Metal Gear title in the NES with the Outer Heaven conflict. On a side note I enjoyed the first pitfall on the atari 2600 more than I ever enjoyed SMB 1. It wasn't until SMB3 that I was wowed by true innovation. Oh and as a Nintendo loyalist I hope you do realize SMB2 was exactly the same as SMB1 except harder. What americans know as SMB 2 is doki doki panic with Mario skins thrown in for good measure. 

 

Hey, in case you didn't know (and you don't seem to) 'Castlevania Symphony of the Night' was actually a total rip-off of Metroid (though a great game none the less) which is a nintendo franchise!

I would have thought someone who seems to be so knowledgible in the history of video games would know that!

You sure it wasn't just an improved version of the formula of Castlevania 2?  Come on guys.  Nintendo is great.  But not all video game ideas originate from them. 

Nope...am certain...and I thought it was common knowledge that Castlevania:SOTN was heavily modelled on Metroid...(and it also borrowed a few rpg elements as well). Prior to sotn, castlevania was more of a standard sidescolling 2d platformer with less 'adventure game' elements ie hack and slash through level 1, face a boss, go to level 2 etc.

Hey, am not saying nintendo invented every aspect of modern gaming and all of creation since the dawn of time. Trust me, I'm a big castlevania and metroid fan and am not comparing the 2 series in a detrimental way, but a facts a fact. I even remember being excited about SOTN when I read reviews for it (when it FIRST came out in 97, probably before many of you punks were even born) because the reviewers were comparing it to super metroid (favourably, I should add!)

You guys probably don't think Shadow Complex was a Metroid/Castlevania ripoff either...

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Symphony_of_the_Night

 

 

 

 

Previous Castlevanias have no adventure elements?  Have you played Castlevania 2?  I'm going to guess not, if you say there are no adventure elements, and only hack and slash.  I guess I should just say that Metroid is a complete ripoff of older adventure/platformer games, like Pitfall and H.E.R.O.  Like I said before, not all ideas come from the mind of Miyamoto and Nintendo.  If you're going to claim this, then I'd have to say that every game of Nintendo's and Miyamoto's is a ripoff of an Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, or Commodore 64 game.  I mean that is where all gaming and pretty much all gaming genres originate from.