Episode 3: At Least It's Not Dragon's Lair We can now make our way to Dracula's castle. There shall be no dilly dallying. We're all gonna be looking at you, John.
To think that after all the shit he had to go through, Spartac would end up keeling over because of a heart attack right at Dracula's very doorstep! I guess this is why his cousin Simon had to take up arms and finish the job.
its a game that requires BALLS OF STEEL to play wait a fucking minute its a fucking pachinko machine disguised like an actual game, LIERS DRAGONS LAIR HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT*the sound of whipping without a cross hair as it coils right back up and the damage zone is fucking tiny*
I always figured with the sequel to Back to the Future. He wanted to help his kids but he couldn't just go to anyone because he couldn't trust anyone else. But he can't just tell Marty to prevent something in the past because such a change so far in the past could have such drastic changes on the future that he probably couldn't predict. That's just what I think.
That dog ghost reminds me of the scene in Return of the Jedi where the prison keeper breaks free of his friends' grasp and runs crying to his dead pet Ranchor. It's so freakin' sad!
I made a joke about that time limit thing with someone dying right at the flagpole of World 1-1 in the original Super Mario Bros! I never would have expected YOU of all people to make that actually happen in THIS of all games!
Because Simon moves so slowly, it is VERY easy to forget this game has a time limit because it is not meant to be fast paced, at least compared to other games.
Let's take a more positive way to look at things, guys : The old man was chained to the mortal world because of his faithful dog. Once you killed it, yes he's depressed but he can go to the afterlife and maybe he'll find his dog there as well !
I think what killed Belmont was that whoever was in there thought he could crack a sneaky one off without anyone noticing and Simon apparently has the nose of a bloodhound, and apparently it was a really eggy one.
Time limits and even lives are just fake ways to make a game harder without actually making it harder, and back in the day games were just made harder to fake being a long game when they're really short otherwise
Oh and all of it originates from trying to take people's money in arcades. Also I wish you could edit comments on mobile so I could just add this to the top comment
+CharacterLimits +CharacterLimits true it is harder to beat a level faster. But the timer isn't so strict that it's hard to beat the level in time in this or say a super Mario level it'll just punish you if you're messing around. The timer doesn't make it hard here it just means you can't hang about. And well if I die at the end of a 15 minute level because the last few minutes are super hard and game over and have to replay back to the end it won't make the end or the way to it any harder. Apart from my possibly being more frustrated and making mistakes which you could argue does make it harder but it's not the level causing the difficulty their it's my attitude
+CharacterLimits I do talk in general a lot in that comment. I think ideally in a game now there's be no lives or game overs or time limits. What there would be is a ranking/reward system whereby the faster you beat a level and the less you die the more you are rewarded, so the choice is your's to play as fast as you can without dying to do better. You won't be forced to replay the level for making a lot of mistakes or not progressing fast enough but you will be chastised for it by getting a bad rank and little reward. You award success not punish failure
time limits can eat shit in under any circumstances but if you want to incorporate lives you need to have some sort of punishment for running out of those lives. restarting an entire World of a Mario game for getting a game over is more punishing than having to restart one level without checkpoint flags taking you back to a certain segment.
I was confused at first too when you died, because you had so much health and then I noticed the time ran out. So remember kids, video games way back then (especially arcade style video games) have time limits.
I understand that Johnny hates not being able to influence jumping in Castlevania but I didnt like that they changed it. Uncontrollable jumps are a castlevania staple. It forces you to be precise and to take your time which is an important part of the gameplay.
Time limit in some games is infuriating, here however I feel it was more "stop delaying the inevitable and jump", kind of a punishment for taking too much time being nervous. Also while lives are generally implemented in a way thats artifical and cheap, I feel they are a feel good way of seeing "fuck yeah flawless" with the 99 count or to actually fear the constant death in an area or spot, a smack on the hand for continuously failing in one area. They are also one of my favourite secrets and justifications for collectibles.
Hate time limits. One of my main problems with 3D World is that false difficulty low time limit thing they took from 3D Land. Hell, that game's problem is that it took all the good things from its predecessor and made them better while also taking all the shitty things and making them worse.
+Leopold Litchenstein (SpongeBobfan1.5) Besides the levels with short time limits, I never really notice them because they give you plenty of time. Not sure why they keep using them, its like lives, they're pointless.
CharacterLimits Because it makes having a time limit pointless to begin with. Giving the player 100 seconds is fine for some levels of the game but doing it and then having ways of increasing the time limit by 10 negates having a shorter time limit to begin with.
CharacterLimits I never said it was unfair, and I did explain why I thought it was fake difficulty. There's already a time limit on most levels in most Mario games, but decreasing it moreso in 3D Land and 3D World doesn't really increase the challenge for me. The stage hazards you have to navigate are challenging enough, so taking away time from the player, whether there's ways to increase your time or not, just feels unnecessary for me, and makes me wonder why even add in a limited time. It's more frustrating for me than it is actually difficult.
CharacterLimits It's frustrating because there's no reason for it to be there. I'm not trying to say it's unfair per se, just that it's not what makes the stage difficult; it's not hard if you just take away time that the player had plenty of previously. Now, to justify what I'm saying, take games where you have set pieces (much like one in 3D World in one of its levels) where there's an unseen time limit to get out of the area in x amount of time. That's not just making it difficult because you have a time limit and have to watch said time limit, that's difficulty because you have to reach your destination within an amount of time. This is different in these games' case because they literally show you how much time you have to get to the goal, as well as giving you ways around it, which makes it feel more unnecessary as a mechanic.
+Steven Chung - Top 10 Channel Oh nvm. You ran out of time. Serves me right for commenting before watching the rest of the video. (I need to stop doing that...)
In the second shantae game (the one on dsi ware) there's a house with someone and his dog in it. If you kill the dog you get a sizeable amount of moneys. He also acts sad afterwords.
+FlamenNeos they answered in the comments in another video i forgot which but they said they just waiting for everyones schedule to match up to record and tthat they plan for spring time i believe
"did i run into something?" nah you ran out of something
+iownalx23 Hiyo!
more like SPARDIAC ARREST.
why are you looking at me like that?
I love it when John and Russ do commentaries together. The jokes are just so much more fast paced when they're talking.
+DeanmC261993 We talked a lot of shit in College. We always have stories to share.
2:38 "You can jump off stairs!"
"I can jump off stair -" *CRASH!*
"I said you COULD, not that you SHOULD!"
I noticed the timer ticking down, and I was waiting for the realization to kick in after the death. I was not disappointed.
Ladies and gentlemen! For the first time in SGB history, I think, we have Johnny's answer to dying in World 1-1 and drowning in Angel Island!
+ShadyKnight9 Only now? I messed up plenty of times in this channel.
The Super Gaming Bros. I don't think dying to the time limit in a game was on your resumé until now.
+ShadyKnight9 no IT'S STOOOOOORM EAGLE!!!!!
***** Storm Eagle was BrainScratch, not SGB, so it doesn't count.
+ShadyKnight9 still it was Johnny's biggest fail which does count given Johnny doesn't really fail on SGB that bad
To think that after all the shit he had to go through, Spartac would end up keeling over because of a heart attack right at Dracula's very doorstep!
I guess this is why his cousin Simon had to take up arms and finish the job.
Games with a time limit never made sense to me cause if your character just dies it makes no sense.
+noah2x4 It's like Lives and Scores, a hold over from arcades.
the trail grows cold
Heart attack.
3:12 the timeout made it look like Simon tripped on the steps and died XD
A Dragon's Lair styled Castlevania game...I wonder how that would work out? You know, other than it being a Pachinko machine?
its a game that requires BALLS OF STEEL to play wait a fucking minute its a fucking pachinko machine disguised like an actual game, LIERS
DRAGONS LAIR
HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT*the sound of whipping without a cross hair as it coils right back up and the damage zone is fucking tiny*
Just beat this for the first time and loved it thanks Johnny your reviews made me more interested in the series to try it out
I also beat castlevania 1
I always figured with the sequel to Back to the Future. He wanted to help his kids but he couldn't just go to anyone because he couldn't trust anyone else. But he can't just tell Marty to prevent something in the past because such a change so far in the past could have such drastic changes on the future that he probably couldn't predict. That's just what I think.
Not Castlevania related, but it feels so weird that some of us get to watch this beforw leaving for school.
That dog ghost reminds me of the scene in Return of the Jedi where the prison keeper breaks free of his friends' grasp and runs crying to his dead pet Ranchor. It's so freakin' sad!
I made a joke about that time limit thing with someone dying right at the flagpole of World 1-1 in the original Super Mario Bros! I never would have expected YOU of all people to make that actually happen in THIS of all games!
Because Simon moves so slowly, it is VERY easy to forget this game has a time limit because it is not meant to be fast paced, at least compared to other games.
Strangely I've had the Ballroom Blitz playing in my head for the past few days.
Let's take a more positive way to look at things, guys : The old man was chained to the mortal world because of his faithful dog. Once you killed it, yes he's depressed but he can go to the afterlife and maybe he'll find his dog there as well !
we watch you whip whip we watch you nae nae. Welcome to castlevania where we all get whipped in a good way
I think what killed Belmont was that whoever was in there thought he could crack a sneaky one off without anyone noticing and Simon apparently has the nose of a bloodhound, and apparently it was a really eggy one.
Time limits and even lives are just fake ways to make a game harder without actually making it harder, and back in the day games were just made harder to fake being a long game when they're really short otherwise
If I get a game over and have to replay parts of the game again that doesn't make those sections any harder, it just makes it more tedious for me
Oh and all of it originates from trying to take people's money in arcades. Also I wish you could edit comments on mobile so I could just add this to the top comment
+CharacterLimits +CharacterLimits true it is harder to beat a level faster. But the timer isn't so strict that it's hard to beat the level in time in this or say a super Mario level it'll just punish you if you're messing around. The timer doesn't make it hard here it just means you can't hang about. And well if I die at the end of a 15 minute level because the last few minutes are super hard and game over and have to replay back to the end it won't make the end or the way to it any harder. Apart from my possibly being more frustrated and making mistakes which you could argue does make it harder but it's not the level causing the difficulty their it's my attitude
+CharacterLimits I do talk in general a lot in that comment. I think ideally in a game now there's be no lives or game overs or time limits. What there would be is a ranking/reward system whereby the faster you beat a level and the less you die the more you are rewarded, so the choice is your's to play as fast as you can without dying to do better. You won't be forced to replay the level for making a lot of mistakes or not progressing fast enough but you will be chastised for it by getting a bad rank and little reward. You award success not punish failure
time limits can eat shit in under any circumstances but if you want to incorporate lives you need to have some sort of punishment for running out of those lives.
restarting an entire World of a Mario game for getting a game over is more punishing than having to restart one level without checkpoint flags taking you back to a certain segment.
I was confused at first too when you died, because you had so much health and then I noticed the time ran out. So remember kids, video games way back then (especially arcade style video games) have time limits.
+atemnar yeah I completely forget that time limit was a thing in the past and tbh I'm gladly it's doesn't exist anymore (along with lives system).
Thank God Shovel Knight doesn't have a time limit.
I'm curious when was the kh lets play mean in part 50 Johnny stated that around December or January u guys will be continuing the lets play.
I understand that Johnny hates not being able to influence jumping in Castlevania but I didnt like that they changed it. Uncontrollable jumps are a castlevania staple. It forces you to be precise and to take your time which is an important part of the gameplay.
Time limit in some games is infuriating, here however I feel it was more "stop delaying the inevitable and jump", kind of a punishment for taking too much time being nervous. Also while lives are generally implemented in a way thats artifical and cheap, I feel they are a feel good way of seeing "fuck yeah flawless" with the 99 count or to actually fear the constant death in an area or spot, a smack on the hand for continuously failing in one area. They are also one of my favourite secrets and justifications for collectibles.
Hate time limits. One of my main problems with 3D World is that false difficulty low time limit thing they took from 3D Land. Hell, that game's problem is that it took all the good things from its predecessor and made them better while also taking all the shitty things and making them worse.
+Leopold Litchenstein (SpongeBobfan1.5) Besides the levels with short time limits, I never really notice them because they give you plenty of time. Not sure why they keep using them, its like lives, they're pointless.
CharacterLimits Because it makes having a time limit pointless to begin with. Giving the player 100 seconds is fine for some levels of the game but doing it and then having ways of increasing the time limit by 10 negates having a shorter time limit to begin with.
CharacterLimits I never said it was unfair, and I did explain why I thought it was fake difficulty. There's already a time limit on most levels in most Mario games, but decreasing it moreso in 3D Land and 3D World doesn't really increase the challenge for me. The stage hazards you have to navigate are challenging enough, so taking away time from the player, whether there's ways to increase your time or not, just feels unnecessary for me, and makes me wonder why even add in a limited time. It's more frustrating for me than it is actually difficult.
CharacterLimits It's frustrating because there's no reason for it to be there. I'm not trying to say it's unfair per se, just that it's not what makes the stage difficult; it's not hard if you just take away time that the player had plenty of previously.
Now, to justify what I'm saying, take games where you have set pieces (much like one in 3D World in one of its levels) where there's an unseen time limit to get out of the area in x amount of time. That's not just making it difficult because you have a time limit and have to watch said time limit, that's difficulty because you have to reach your destination within an amount of time. This is different in these games' case because they literally show you how much time you have to get to the goal, as well as giving you ways around it, which makes it feel more unnecessary as a mechanic.
CharacterLimits Those are fine by me.
Is the ballroom dance boss Simon and Sypha? She's wearing blue and has blonde hair like Sypha and the man's hair looks a lot like Simon's.
@3:11 What the hell!? I call bullsh!t on that death. "What happened?" is right.
+Steven Chung - Top 10 Channel Oh nvm. You ran out of time.
Serves me right for commenting before watching the rest of the video.
(I need to stop doing that...)
10:57
John, you monster! How could you?! You broke the old man's heart! What did the dog ever do to you?!
XD
shantae any one?
Hyper Super Sonic I haven't played any Shantae games, so if there was any resemblance, I wouldn't know.
In the second shantae game (the one on dsi ware) there's a house with someone and his dog in it. If you kill the dog you get a sizeable amount of moneys. He also acts sad afterwords.
+Hyper Super Sonic and somewhere out there, Ted is crying in the corner.
Hyper Super Sonic Thanks for letting me know & DAMN!
Nintendo won't agree with that! XD
can someone tell me which drunken video Mark breaks John's tv? well not break but smack it with a fly swatter
Lost more then the double weapon shot lol, triple weapon shot you didn't even notice :P
They had the grapple hook in Rahman 2, too (damn you wording)
Am I the only one who was losing their mind when Johnny was busy with the whole jumping thing as he was running out of time?
YES! TALK MORE ABOUT RAYMAN. DO A RAYMAN PLAYTHROUGH. You know you want to...~
can we hav more lps with the senator and u john
are you guys planing to return to kh2 after this LP?
hopefully never
+FlamenNeos I believe they plan on playing through Uncharted as well, and THEN going back to it? At least, I think that's what they said.
I hope they play sonic 06 again before they play kh2 again
+FlamenNeos they answered in the comments in another video i forgot which but they said they just waiting for everyones schedule to match up to record and tthat they plan for spring time i believe
+FlamenNeos I think they may be waiting until the summer again.
I never liked having time limits in platforming games
Why are the sprites flickering so much?
+LectricSigma(Σ) Because my Model 1 SNES is old.
+The Super Gaming Bros. Why is Johnny the best RUclips personality in the universe? Serious question.
+Fred “BINGO is My Name-O” Flinstone he is so not he does not even scream at everything and only play indie horror games
He is a RUclips God
+MegaDeathRay10 What's That Got To Do With Anything?
Spartac had a hear attack
Man, Sound effects can be really sucky on SNES.
I really want some to make a somecallmejohnny game with a homage to the grumble grumble want meat from legend of zelda but with sprtac instead.
The glitches are real. LOL
This seems familiar
dude, FUCK both versions of sky sanctuary in sonic generations xD
11:00 you monster
@ 3:15 in the video, you had a time out.