Best Action Game on the Genesis

[kedawa]

It's still better than the water reflections in Halo 2, which only reflected the sky.

[Frogacuda]

The sun is reflected in that picture.

No, it's not. You're blind. The water line starts below the characters. It's all purple there. If it reflected the sky it would look like this:

[Dyne]

No, it's not. You're blind. The water line starts below the characters. It's all purple there. If it reflected the sky it would look like this:

oh shit.....now you're right. goddamn the crappy Bloodlines graphics.

[Melf]

Also that reflection effect is kind of terrible. It only reflects certain thing, and somehow doesn't reflect the sun. It just looks bizarre.

That's really nitpicking. WHAT ABOUT THE ROTATING DUNGEON IN SCIV THAT HAS NO BACKGROUND!!

[rama]

from what i remember of bloodlines, the colors just seemed to be brighter than what was used in castlevania 4. also, alot of the stages in cv4 were just kinda brown. i like both games, though...but i live cv4 just a little more.

[SpoDaddy]

But also, it's important to remember that Bloodlines came out a good 3 or 4 years after CV4. CV4 is very rough looking too, but it was probably the first 16 bit game many of them had worked on. Bloodlines has no excuse.

Aside from being on 1989 hardware instead of 1991 hardware?

Also that reflection effect is kind of terrible. It only reflects certain thing, and somehow doesn't reflect the sun. It just looks bizarre.

It's that kind of nitpicking that gives the impression you don't want to like Bloodlines. The game had soul and played like pure old school CV.

[Dyne]

Aside from being on 1989 hardware instead of 1991 hardware?

the SNES had a slower cpu even though it was released later. what's your point? i really don't think that span of 2 years had much to do with the designs of the systems.

also they were originally released in '88 and '90.

[SpoDaddy]

the SNES had a slower cpu even though it was released later. what's your point? i really don't think that span of 2 years had much to do with the designs of the systems.

The SNES had a completely gimped CPU, yes, but it also had a much larger color palette and neat stuff like Mode 7 scaling and rotation built into the hardware and an awesome sound chip. Take away CV4's great sound, scaling effects, and more vibrant colors and the comparison becomes ridiculous.

[Frogacuda]

That's really nitpicking. WHAT ABOUT THE ROTATING DUNGEON IN SCIV THAT HAS NO BACKGROUND!!

If you said how awesome the background was in that part, I'd have brought that up, too. It's not nitpicking in response to declaring how awesome the reflection effect was. It was half-assed.

The SNES had a completely gimped CPU, yes, but it also had a much larger color palette and neat stuff like Mode 7 scaling and rotation built into the hardware and an awesome sound chip. Take away CV4's great sound, scaling effects, and more vibrant colors and the comparison becomes ridiculous.

Rondo of Blood is on a system with an even more gimped CPU and the same palette as Genesis. And yet it looks MUCH better than Bloodlines.

[Melf]

The TG can display half its color palate whereas the Genny can only do 64 colors without tricks. Also, wasn't the TG processor more or less the same speed as the Genny's?